Dr. Josip Horvat is a Senior Lecturer 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. Dr. Horvat's research interests include high temperature superconductivity and Tera-Hertz radiation. For further information refer to Dr. Horvat's faculty page.

Journal Articles

• S. Keshavarzi, J. Horvat, A. V. Pan, M. J. Qin, S. X. Dou, X. Yao, and P. Munroe (2006) An alternative method for determination of the lock-in angle in twinned superconductors
• S. K. Chen, K. S. Tan, B. A. Glowacki, W. K. Yeoh, S. Soltanian, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou (2005) Effect of heating rates on superconducting properties of pure MgB2, carbon nanotube- and nano-SiC-doped in situ MgB2/Fe wires
• J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, and W. K. Yeoh (2005) The relevance of the self-field for the 'peak effect' in the transport Jc(H) of iron-sheathed MgB2 wires
• J. Horvat, W. K. Yeoh, and L. M. Miller (2005) Interaction between superconductor and ferromagnetic domains in iron sheath: Peak effect in MgB2/Fe wires
• W. K. Yeoh, J. Horvat, S. X. Dou, and P. Munroe (2005) Effect of carbon nanotube size on superconductivity properties of MgB/sub 2/
• Y. Zhao, M. Ionescu, M. Roussel, A. V. Pan, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou (2005) Superconducting and Microstructural Properties of Two Types of MgB2 Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition
• J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, A. V. Pan, and X. L. Wang (2004) Superconducting screening on different length scales in high-quality bulk MgB2 superconductor
• J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, and S. X. Dou (2004) Effect of sample size on magnetic Jc for MgB2 superconductor
• M. James, D. Cassidy, K. F. Wilson, J. Horvat, and R. L. Withers (2004) Oxygen Vacancy Ordering and Magnetism in the Rare Earth Stabilised Perovskite Form of “SrCO3-d
• T. M. Silver, J. Horvat, M. Reinhard, P. Yao, S. Keshavarzi, P. Munroe, and S. X. Dou (2004) Uranium Doping and Thermal Neutron Irradiation Flux Pinning Effects in MgB2
• S. X. Dou, J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, M. J. Qin, S. H. Zhou, H. K. Liu, and P. G. Munroe (2003) Transport critical current density in Fe-sheathed nano-SiC doped MgB/sub 2/ wires
• S. X. Dou, A. V. Pan, S. Zhou, M. Ionescu, X. L. Wang, J. Horvat, H. K. Liu, and P. R. Munroe (2003) Superconductivity, critical current density, and flux pinning in MgB2–x(SiC)x/2 superconductor after SiC nanoparticle doping
• S. X. Dou, W. K. Yeoh, J. Horvat, and M. Ionescu (2003) Effect of carbon nanotube doping on critical current density of MgB2 superconductor
• J. Horvat, S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, and S. X. Dou (2003) Magnetic shielding in MgB2/Fe superconducting wires
• S. Li, T. White, K. Laursen, T. T. Tan, C. Q. Sun, Z. L. Dong, Y. Li, S. H. Zho, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou (2003) Intense vortex pinning enhanced by semicrystalline defect traps in self-aligned nanostructured MgB2
• H. K. Liu, Z. M. Zhang, R. Zeng, J. Horvat, and M. Apperley (2003) A comparison of Ag and Ag-alloy sheathed Bi-2223 tapes
• D. G. Marinaro, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou (2003) Effects of fission-fragment damage on vortex dimensionality in silver-sheathed Bi2Sr2Ca2Cu3Ox tapes
• S. Soltanian, X. L. Wang, J. Horvat, M. J. Qin, H. K. Liu, P. R. Munroe, and S. X. Dou (2003) Effect of grain size and doping level of SiC on the superconductivity and critical current density in MgB/sub 2/ superconductor
• K. K. Uprety, J. Horvat, X. L. Wang, G. D. Gu, M. Ionescu, H. K. Liu, S. X. Dou, and E. H. Brandt (2003) Magnetic hysteresis and relaxation in Bi2212 single crystals doped with Fe and Pb
• S. X. Dou, S. Soltanian, J. Horvat, X. L. Wang, S. H. Zhou, M. Ionescu, H. K. Liu, P. Munroe, and M. Tomsic (2002) Enhancement of the critical current density and flux pinning of MgB2 superconductor by nanoparticle SiC doping
• J. Horvat, X. L. Wang, S. Soltanian, and S. X. Dou (2002) Improvement of critical current in MgB2 superconducting wires by a ferromagnetic sheath
• S. Li, O. Prabhakar, T. T. Tan, C. Q. Sun, X. L. Wang, S. Soltanian, J. Horvat, and S. X. Dou (2002) Intrinsic nanostructural domains: Possible origin of weaklinkless superconductivity in the quenched reaction product of Mg and amorphous B
• K. K. Uprety, J. Horvat, X. L. Wang, M. Ionescu, H. K. Liu, S. X. Dou, and E. H. Brandt (2002) Order-disorder transition in Bi2.1Sr1.9CaCu2O8 + delta single crystals doped with Fe and Pb
• D. Marinaro, S. X. Dou, J. Horvat, J. Boldeman, R. Weinstein, and R. Sawh (2001) Effect of uranium doping and thermal neutron irradiation on the flux-pinning of silver-clad Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O tapes
• X. L. Wang, H. K. Liu, S. X. Dou, J. Horvat, D. Millikon, G. Heine, W. Lang, H. M. Luo, and S. Y. Ding (2001) Superconductivity and flux pinning in Y and heavily Pb codoped Bi-2212 single crystals
• X. L. Wang, J. Horvat, H. K. Liu, and S. X. Dou (1998) Thermal activation and ac-field-induced discontinuous domain jumps in perovskite La0.7Ca0.3MnO3
• X. L. Wang, J. Horvat, H. K. Liu, J. N. Li, and S. X. Dou (1997) Anomalous magnetization peak effect in spiral-grown Bi2Sr2CaCu2Oy crystals