Vijaya Kumar
University of Mysore, India
Biography
Vijaya Kumar has his expertise in “Microgravity materials science and conducting experiments using space environment”. His research area includes “Solidification, crystal growth, measurement of thermo-physical properties and conducting experiments using space environment”. He worked at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan and NASA, Tufts University, USA. He has built the container less levitation facility for controlling the atmosphere and also to create a microgravity environment on earth. Using these facilities, he has developed new metastable materials, multiferroic composites, metastable phase diagrams, high refractive index glass and so on.
Abstract
Abstract : Fabrication, optical and thermal properties of glass and crystalline rare-earth aluminates