Associate Professor Josip Horvat is in the School of Engineering Physics at the
University of Wollongong. He joined the university in 1994 as an Associate Fellow. Prior
to this he was an Assistant Lecturer at University of Zagreb in Croatia. A/Prof
Horvat's research interests include high temperature superconductivity, magnetism
and Tera-Hertz radiation. For further information refer to Dr. Horvat's faculty
page. 

Articles

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Mechanisms of x-ray emission from peeling adhesive tape (with Evan Constable and R. A. Lewis), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)

It has previously been reported that x-rays are emitted when adhesive tape is peeled in...

 

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Synthesis, structural characterization and magnetic properties of iron boride nanoparticles with or without silicon dioxide coating (with Mislav Mustapic, Damir Pajic, Nikolina Novosel, Emil Babic, Kreso Zadro, Marina Cindric, Zeljko Skoko, Mirjana Bijelic, and Andrey Shcherbakov), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)

Nanoparticles of iron boride (Fe2B, Fe2B coated in SiO2, FexCo2−xB coated in SiO2) were synthesized...

 

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Peeling adhesive tape emits electromagnetic radiation at terahertz frequencies (with R. A. Lewis), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2009)

An unusual concept for a simple and inexpensive terahertz source is presented: unpeeling adhesive tape....

 

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Transport and magnetic critical current in superconducting MgB2 wires (with W. K. Yeoh, J. H. Kim, and S. X. Dou), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2008)

Direct comparison of the magnetic and transport critical current density (Jc) for the same pieces...

 

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Effect of Carbon Substitution on the Superconducting Properties of MgB2 Doped With Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Nano Carbon (with W. K. Yeoh, J. H. Kim, X. Xu, and S. X. Dou), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2007)

We have fabricated the multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) and nano-C doped MgB2 bulk and wire...

 

Presentations

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Detection of biochar components for soil fertility using THz-TDS (with E M. Pogson, R A. Lewis, and S D. Joseph), Faculty of Engineering - Papers (2010)

Different forms of biochar can have greatly different properties as fertilisers, yet there is no...