Himanshu Bangar

Research

My work sits at the meeting point of magnetism and materials science. I grow and characterize magnetic thin films and heterostructures, then measure how they convert between spin and charge currents and how spin-orbit torques drive their magnetization. Recent projects cover large spin-to-charge conversion at the interface between 2D transition-metal dichalcogenides and permalloy, the giant spin Hall conductivity of the kagome antiferromagnet Mn₃Sn, and large-area SnS films for spin pumping.

I completed my Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with Prof. Pranaba Kishor Muduli, with a thesis on Magnetization Dynamics in Quantum Materials-Based Heterostructures. I now work in Gothenburg, Sweden, where I have helped organize the Sweden Magnetism Meet 2026 and the Workshop on Altermagnets at Chalmers University of Technology.

• Spintronics
• Magnetization dynamics
• Spin-orbit torques
• Magnetic thin films & multilayers
• 2D materials
• Weyl semimetals
• Altermagnets

Publications

1. Optimization of growth of large-area SnS thin films and heterostructures for spin pumping and spin-orbit torqueFirst author H. Bangar, P. Gupta, S. Dewan, R. Singh, S. Das, P. K. Muduli Physical Review Materials 7, 094406 (2023)
2. Large spin-to-charge conversion at the two-dimensional interface of transition-metal dichalcogenides and permalloyFirst author H. Bangar, A. Kumar, N. Chowdhury, R. Mudgal, P. Gupta, R. S. Yadav, S. Das, P. K. Muduli ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 41598 (2022)
3. Large spin Hall conductivity in epitaxial thin films of kagome antiferromagnet Mn₃Sn at room temperatureFirst author H. Bangar, K. I. A. Khan, A. Kumar, N. Chowdhury, P. K. Muduli, P. K. Muduli Advanced Quantum Technologies 6, 2200115 (2022)
4. Kagome magnets: the emerging materials for spintronic memories N. Chowdhury, K. I. A. Khan, H. Bangar, P. Gupta, R. S. Yadav, R. Agarwal, A. Kumar, P. K. Muduli Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. India Sect. A: Phys. Sci. (2023)
5. Intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in thin films of topological kagome ferromagnet Fe₃Sn₂ K. I. A. Khan, R. S. Yadav, H. Bangar, A. Kumar, N. Chowdhury, P. K. Muduli, P. K. Muduli Nanoscale 14, 8484 (2022)
6. Spin pumping through different spin-orbit coupling interfaces in β-W/interlayer/Co₂FeAl heterostructures S. Hait, S. Husain, H. Bangar, L. Pandey, V. Barwal, N. Kumar, N. K. Gupta, V. Mishra, N. Sharma, P. Gupta, B. S. Yadav, P. K. Muduli, S. Chaudhary ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 14, 37182 (2022)

For the full and current list, see my Google Scholar profile.

Talks & conferences

Organizer

Selected talks

• Nov 2026
  OralMMM 2026 · Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• Sep 2026
  InvitedWorkshop on Altermagnets · Gothenburg, Sweden
• Jun 2026
  OralSweden Magnetism Meet 2026 · Gothenburg, Sweden
• Apr 2026
  OralIEEE INTERMAG 2026 · Manchester, UK
• Aug 2025
  OralJEMS 2025 (Joint European Magnetic Symposia) · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• Jul 2025
  OralSwedish-Korean Orbitronics Workshop 2025 · Gothenburg, Sweden
• Jan 2025
  OralMMM 2025 · New Orleans, USA

Education & honors

• From 2018
  Ph.D. in PhysicsIndian Institute of Technology Delhi · Supervisor: Prof. Pranaba Kishor Muduli
• 2016 – 2018
  M.Sc. Physics, Gold Medalist (1st rank)Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar
• 2013 – 2016
  B.Sc. (Hons.) PhysicsUniversity of Delhi

Awards & grants

Experimental toolkit

• Magnetron sputtering & pulsed laser deposition
• Ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) & spin pumping
• Spin-torque FMR & inverse spin Hall effect
• Second-harmonic Hall & switching measurements
• MOKE magnetometry & microscopy
• AFM / MFM
• Optical & e-beam lithography, Ar-ion milling
• XRD, XRR, Raman, SEM, XPS
• Micromagnetic simulations (MuMax³)

Contact

I'm always glad to talk about collaborations, research positions, or anything spin-related.