“…More recently, the spin-orbit coupling in Ir and magnetic interactions between Co 3d and Ir 5d (spatially extended orbitals) moments have been studied along with spin-state transition between HS/LS-Co 2+ /LS-Ir 4+ to HS-Co 3+ /LS-Ir 5+ in La 2−x Sr x CoIrO 6 systems [34][35][36][37][38]. Also, the effect of small ionic mismatch between B-site cations and mixed valance states in various Co-based double pervoskites A 2 CoBO 6 (A = Sr, Ca, Ba, Y, La and B = Mn, Fe) results in exciting phenomenon like large magnetoresistance, exchange bias, spin-glass, cluster-glass, memory effect, multiferroicity, magnetocaloric, and thermoelectric effects [39][40][41][42][43][44][45], which are crucial for various device applications. The observation of half-metallicity in Sr 2 FeMoO 6 with high ferromagnetic Curie temperature has also opened the possibility of room temperature spintronics [24,46], where the knowledge of degree of disorder is important for high spin polarization.…”