Investigations of advanced magnetic materials using neutron scattering

A wide class of advanced magnetic materials, such as molecular magnets, magnetic nanoparticles, 1-D and 2-D magnetic materials, high magnetocaloric materials, high magnetoresistive materials, and multiferroic materials by using neutron diffraction, neutron depolarization and polarized neutron small angle scattering techniques has been investigated. A detailed understanding of magnetic correlations in mesoscopic and microscopic length scales in such systems has been achieved. The results of some of these recent investigations, and highlight the usefulness of neutron diffraction, neutron depolarization, and polarized neutron small angle scattering techniques for studying advanced magnetic materials have been presented in this talk. The applied aspects of the derived results have been discussed