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Dr. Susan Jacobs
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Fields of Specialisation : Condensed Matter Physics Personal Profile Dr Jacobs is a Senior Lecturer and currently serves as the Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning). She holds a BSc degree (Physics), an MSc
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Fields of Specialisation : Condensed Matter Physics Personal Profile Dr Jacobs is a Senior Lecturer and currently serves as the Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning). She holds a BSc degree (Physics), an MSc degree (Physics), a BEd degree (Science Education) all from University of Kerala, Kerala, India. She obtained a PhD in Physics from the University of Johannesburg (UJ), Johannesburg, South Africa in 2019. She has been lecturing at UJ since 2006. Her doctoral study was based on the physical and magnetic properties of alloys of chromium. She recently joined the Novel Materials Group and her research interest has broadened to include single crystal growth, characterisation and investigation of novel materials. PUBLICATIONS Accredited and Peer Reviewed Journal Articles 1. Effects of Cr doping and size reduction on the structural and magnetic properties of α -CoV2O6 Mulibana, P. Mohanty, A.R.E. Prinsloo, C.J. Sheppard and B.S. Jacobs , Materials Today Communications 39 108920 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtcomm.2024.108920 2. Effects of Cr doping on the magnetic properties of one-dimensional spin chain system α -CoV2O6 Mulibana, P. Mohanty, A. R. E. Prinsloo, C. J. Sheppard and B. S. Jacobs , AIP Advances 13 025023 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000530 3. BaMn2P2: Highest magnetic ordering temperature 122-pnictide compound S. Jacobs and Abhishek Pandey, Physical Review Materials 7 044410 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.044410 4. Structural, electronic and magnetic properties of electron-doped CrAs S. Jacobs and Abhishek Pandey, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 58 171397 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171397 5. Magnetic susceptibility studies of the (Cr84Re16)100− x V x alloy system S. Jacobs , C. J. Sheppard and A. R. E. Prinsloo, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 546 168856 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2021.168856 6. Spin glass effects in the (Cr84Re16)99.6Mn0.4 alloy S. Jacobs , C. J. Sheppard, P. C. de Camargo and A. R. E. Prinsloo, AIP Advances 11 015012 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000126 7. Neutron diffraction study of the Cr84.7Re15.3 alloy S. Jacobs , A. R. E. Prinsloo, A. M. Venter, Z. N. Sentsho, A. J. Studer and C. J. Sheppard, AIP Advances 11 015037 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000132 8. Thermal decomposition of GdCrO4 to GdCrO3: Structure and Magnetism Mohanty, B. S. Jacobs , A. R. E. Prinsloo and C. J. Sheppard, AIP Advances 11 015235 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000187 9. Low temperature and magnetic field behaviour of the (Cr84Re16)89.6V10.4 alloy S. Jacobs , C. J. Sheppard, A. R. E. Prinsloo and L. Lodya, Journal of Applied Physics 115 17E121 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4863169 10. Possible quantum critical behaviour in the (Cr84Re16)100− y V y alloy system S. Jacobs , A. R. E. Prinsloo, C. J. Sheppard and A. M. Strydom, Journal of Applied Physics 113 17E126 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4795313 PUBLICATION LINKS: Google Scholar
