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Solid State PhysicsProceedings of the 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2013

Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India

17-21 December 2013

Editors

Chitra Murli

D. Bhattacharyya

S. C. Gadkari

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

All papers have been peer reviewed.

Sponsoring OrganizationsBoard of Research in Nuclear Sciences

Department ofAtomic EnergyGovernment of India

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Volume 1591 B

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PART B

F. Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

Dynamic fluorescence quenching of quinine sulfate dication by chloride ion in ionic

and neutral micellar environments

Sunita Joshi, Tej Varma Varma Y, and Debi D. Pant 848

Abbe's number and Cauchy's constant of iodine and selenium doped poly (methylmethacrylatc)

and polystyrene compositesSheetal Mehta, Kallol Das, and Jag Mohan Keller 851

One-step synthesis of silicon nanocrystals in a-SiOx matrix at low-temperatureby RF magnetron sputtering

Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das 854

Fabrication of highly transparent diamond-like carbon anti-reflecting coating

for Si solar cell application

Amit Banerjee and Debajyoti Das 856

Study of optical properties of asymmetric bipolar pulse DC magnetron sputtered Ta205 thin fdm

as a function of oxygen content in deposition ambient

S. Maidul Haque, D. D. Shinde, J. S. Misal, D. Bhattacharyya, and N. K. Sahoo 858

Surface studies on aluminized and thermally oxidized superalloy 690 substrates interacted

with simulated nuclear waste and sodium borosilicate melt

C. Yusufali, R. J. Kshirsagar, R. K. Mishra, C. P. Kaushik, P. Sengupta, R. S. Dutta, and G. K. Dey 861

Local elastic modulus of RF sputtered Hf02 thin film by atomic force acoustic microscopy

S. Jena, R. B. Tokas, P. Sarkar, J. S. Misal, K. D. Rao, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 864

Adsorption of reactive dyes on to carbonate substituted nanohydroxyapatite

G. Vasugi, G. Suresh Kumar, and E. K. Girija 867

Structure and composition of zirconium carbide thin-film grown by ion beam sputtering

for optical applications

Amol Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, Rajnish Dhawan, and G. S. Lodha 869

Fabrication of superhydrophobic silver nanorods array substrate using glancing angle deposition

Samir Kumar, Pratibha Goel, Dhruv P. Singh, and J. P. Singh 872

pH dependence of drug-membrane interaction

Uttam Kumar Basak and Alokmay Datta 875

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Role of oxygen mixing percentage on r.f sputtered and microwave annealed crystalline

SrBi4Ti40i5 thin films

A. Rambabu, E. Sivanagi Reddy, and K. C. James Raju 878

Photo-induced wettability of Ti02 film with Au buffer layer

Debarun Dhar Purkayastha, L. D. Varma Sangani, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and V. Madhurima 881

Preparation of Cu-doped nickel oxide thin films and their properties

V. Gowthami, M. Meenakshi, N. Anandhan, and C. Sanjeeviraja 884

Effect of annealing on the optical properties of thin silver films exhibiting surface plasmon

resonance

Aparajita Mandal and Partha Chaudhuri 887

Cleaning of optical surfaces by capacitively coupled RF discharge plasma

P. K. Yadav, M. Kumar, S. K. Rai, J. A. Chakera, C. Mukherjee, M. Nayak, P. A. Naik,

and G. S. Lodha 890

Magnetic properties of Mn2+: PEO+PVP polymer films

K. Naveen Kumar, K. Sivaiah, and S. Buddhudu 893

Growth of vertically aligned a-MoOj nanoflakes by using a facile PVD route

Rabindar K. Sharma and G. B. Reddy 895

Acetone sensor based on zinc oxide hexagonal tubes

Anita Hastir, Onkar Singh, Kanika Anand, and Ravi Chand Singh 898

100 MeV 07+ irradiation induced red shift in the band gaps of 3 wt% 'Li' doped Nb2Os thin film

M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, P. Manimuthu, K. Vijayarangamuthu, K. Asokan,

C. Venkateswaran, and R. Mohan 901

Long-timescale dynamics of thiol capped Au nanoparticle clusters at the air-water interface

Madhumita Choudhuri and Alokmay Datta 904

Effect of valley degeneracy on spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional quantum electron liquidKrishan Kumar, Gurvinder Singh, and R. K. Moudgil 907

Response of nickel surface to pulsed fusion plasma radiations

Ram Niranjan, R. K. Rout, R. Srivastava, Y. Chakravarthy, N. N. Patel, P. Alex,and Satish C. Gupta 910

Electronic structure of Fe3Si on Si(100) substrates

Chhagan Lai, G. Di Santo, M. Caputo, M. Panighel, B. A. Taleatu, A. Goldoni, and I. P. Jain 913

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Secondary electron measurement and XPS characterization of NEG coatingsR. K. Sharma, Atul K. Sinha, Nidhi Gupta, J. Nuwad, Jagannath, S. C. Gadkari, M. R. Singh,andS.K. Gupta 916

Hydrogen removal from e-beam deposited alumina thin films by oxygen ion beam

Arijeet Das, C. Mukharjee, K. Rajiv, Aniruddha Bose, S. D. Singh, D. M. Phase, S. K. Rai,

Tapas Ganguli, S. C. Joshi, and S. K. Deb 919

Structural and optical properties of Ni added ZnO thin films deposited by sol-gel methodR. Murugan, G. Vijayaprasath, T. Mahalingam, N. Anandhan, and G. Ravi 922

NH3 sensor based on CSA doped PANi-Sn02 nanohybridG. D. Khuspe, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, R. N. Mulik, P. R. Godse, Shashwati Sen,and V. B. Patil 925

Resonant x-ray reflectivity study of partial decomposed boron nitride thin films

using Indus-1 synchrotron

Maheswar Nayak and Gyanendra S. Lodha 927

Heterojunction thin films based on multifunctional metal oxides for photovoltaic applicationM. Prabhu, M. Marikkannan, J. Mayandi, N. Soundararajan, and K. Ramachandran 930

Study of photoconductivity in Ni doped CdS thin films prepared by spray pyrolysis techniqueManju Mishra Patidar, Akhil Ajay, Arwa Dewas Wala, Kiran N, Richa Panda, Mohan Gangrade,R. Nath, and V. Ganesan 933

Modified chemical route for deposition of molybdenum disulphide thin films

Akshay N. Vyas and S. D. Sartale 935

H2S sensing properties of R.F. sputtered NiO thin films

Toshi Bagwaiya, C. P. Goyal, Shovit Bhattacharya, N. S. Ramgir, D. Bhattacharya, S. P. Koiry,D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 938

Investigation of variation of energy of laser beam on structural, electrical and optical propertiesof pulsed laser deposited CuO thin films

V. Dahiya, G. Kaur, A. Mitra, and A. Kumar 941

Structural, compositional and morphological studies of thermally evaporated M0O3 thin Alms

R. Senthilkumar and G. Ravi 944

Deposition of optical quality Cu/Ti films

Mitali Swain, Debarati Bhattacharya, and Saibal Basu 946

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Structural transformations in reactively sputtered alumina films

P. Nayar and A. Khanna 948

Effect of discharge current and deposition temperature on roughness and density of NbC films

fabricated by ion beam sputtering technique

Rajnish Dhawan, Sanjay Rai, and G. S. Lodha 951

Structural study of Langmuir liquid crystal monolayer

Ramneek Kaur and K. K. Raina 954

Effect of polymers pore-filling on structural, optical and electrical properties of porous silicon

K. Kulathuraan, P. Jeyakumar, V. Ramadas, and B. Natarajan 957

Study of difference in interfacial reaction at Fe304/ZnO and ZnO/Fe304 heterostructure

using synchrotron radiation

A. D. Wadikar, Ridhi Master, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 960

Structural, optical and electrical properties of CdS-poh aniline Langmuir-Blodgett films

Nayan Mani Das, Dhrubojyoti Roy, M. Gupta, V. Ganesan, and P. S. Gupta 962

InSb thin films grown by electrodeposition

Joginder Singh and P. Rajaram 965

Optical and surface morphology study of zinc phthalocyanine Langmuir Blodgett thin film

Dhrubojyoti Roy, Nayan Mani Das, M. Gupta, V. Ganesan, and P. S. Gupta 968

Study of iron mononitride thin films

Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, D. M. Phase, V. R. Reddy, and Ajay Gupta 970

Surface potential studies of Langmuir monolayers of polyaniline-Ti02 nano-compositeGurpreet Kaur Bhullar and K. K. Raina 972

Morphological characterization of &bgr; phase in poly-(vinylidenefluoride) film preparedby spin cast method

Hitesh Kumar Mehtani, Rishi Kumar, and K. K. Raina 975

Microwave properties of polypyrrole thin film deposited on inorganic substrate

Ninad B. Velhal, Narayan D. Patil, Varsha D. Phadtare, and Vijaya R. Puri 977

Structure and mechanical properties of 3dTM ion doped RF sputtered ZnO thin films on Si (100)M. Venkaiah and R. Singh 980

ZnO/Ag composite nanorod arrays for surface-plasmon-enhanced emission studyAnil Kumar Pal and D. Bharathi Mohan 982

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Installation and commissioning of a large area coating system for neutron and X-ray

optical devices

A. Biswas, Sk. Maidul Haque, J. Misal, K. D. Lagoo, R. D. Veerapur, M. Padmanabhan, R. K. Puri,

R. Sampathkumar, Ajaykumar, Debarati Bhattacharya, D. Bhattacharyya, and N. K. Sahoo 985

Study on higher harmonic suppression using edge filter and polished Si wafer

R. K. Gupta, Amol Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and G. S. Lodha 988

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Mn doped benzimidazole thin films

P. A. Praveen, R. Ramesh Babu, S. P. Prabhakaran, and K. Ramamurthi 991

Influence of Boron doping on the structural, optical and electrical properties of CdO thin films

by spray pyrolysis technique

P. Velusamy, R. Ramesh Babu, and K. Ramamurthi 994

Surface structure and electrical properties of solution processed lanthanum nickelate films

Nirav C. Pandya and U. S. Joshi 997

Evolution of nano-structures of silver due to rapid thermal annealing

Shyamal Mondal and S. R. Bhattacharyya 1000

Structural and optical properties of CdO thin films deposited by RF magnetron sputtering

technique

G. Anil Kumar, M. V. Ramana Reddy, and Katta Narasimha Reddy 1003

Microwave properties of RF- sputtered ZnFe204 thin films

T. Garg, B. N. Sahu, Shiva Prasad, A. R. Kulkarni, and N. Venkataramani 1006

Structural and optical properties of Sni_,Fex02 thin films prepared by flash evaporation

techniqueM. Kuppan, S. Kaleemulla, N. Madhusudhana Rao, N. Sai Krishna, and M. Rigana Begam 1009

Electrochemically deposited nanostructured ZnO thin films for biosensor applications

Hemalata Bhadane, Edmund Samuel, and D. K. Gautam 1012

Scaling behavior studies of Ar+ ion irradiated ripple structured mica surfaces

Amaresh Metya and Debabrata Ghose 1015

Raman spectra of PLD deposited DLC thin films on Si substrate

Indrajeet Kumar and Alika Khare 1018

Structural and electrical properties of sol-gel spin coated indium doped cadmium oxide thin films

R. Rajammal, E. Savarimuthu, and S. Arumugam 1021

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Fabrication of metal dielectric metal multilayer thin film: Color filter

Garima Kedawat, Vipin Kumar Jain, and Y. K. Vijay 1024

Effect of substrate temperature on structural and optical properties of nitrogen doped Sn02 thin

film

Anup Thakur, Varinder Kumar, Se Jun Kang, Ik-Jae Lee, Sanjeev Gautam, K. H. Chae,

and Hyun Joon Shin 1027

Hexagonally ordered nanodots: Result ofsubstrate rotation during oblique incidence low energy

IBS

Debasree Chowdhury and Debabrata Ghose 1030

Preparation and characterization of CsI:Tl thick films on silica glass substrate

Seema Shinde, S. Singh, S. Sen, Chennakesavulu, S. C. Gadkari, and S. K. Gupta 1033

Formation of H-type liquid crystal dimer at air-water interface

C. Karthik, Adbhut Gupta, Aditya Joshi, V. Manjuladevi, Raj Kumar Gupta, Mahesh C. Varia,

and Sandeep Kumar 1036

Structural phase study in un-patterned & patterned PVDF semi-crystalline films

K. Pramod and Ramesh Babu Gangineni 1039

Study of nano imprinting using soft lithography on Krafty glue & PVDF polymer thin films

M. S. Ravi Sankar and Ramesh Babu Gangineni 1042

Glancing angle deposition of Si02 thin film microstructures: Investigations of opticaland morphological properties

R. B. Tokas, S. Jena, P. Sarkar, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 1045

Conducting polymers based counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells

P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,

andS.K. Gupta 1048

Comparative studies of optical & elastic properties of Zr02 thin films prepared under normal

and oblique incidence deposition geometries

P. Sarkar, R. B. Tokas, S. Jena, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 1051

G. Electronic Structures and Phonons

First principles study on electronic structure and elastic properties of LaCd and LaHgHansa Devi, Gitanjali Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal 1054

Phonon softening in (NH4Br)x(KBr),.x mixed crystals

AlpanaTiwari 1057

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Unequal density effect on static structure factor of coupled electron layersL. K. Saini and Mukesh G. Nayak 1060

Ab-initio study of high temperature lattice dynamics of BCC zirconium (P-Zr)

and uranium (y-U)

Partha S. Ghosh, A. Arya, and G. K. Dey 1062

Conformational effect of dicyclo-hexano-18-crown-6 on isotopic fractionation of zinc:

DFT approach

A. Boda, A. K. Singha Deb, Sk. M. Ali, K. T. Shenoy, and S. K. Ghosh 1065

Phonon and magnon scattering of Bi2Fe409 ceramic

Poorva Sharma, Ashwini Kumar, and Dinesh Varshney 1068

High temperature phonon dispersion in graphcnc using classical molecular dynamics

P. Anees, M. C. Valsakumar, and B. K. Panigrahi 1070

Lattice dynamics of proton conductor SrZr03 in orthorhombic phaseAnupam Deep Sharma and M. M. Sinha 1072

Electronic structure of polycrystalline Cd metal using241Am radioisotope

M. S. Dhaka, G. Sharma, M. C. Mishra, and B. K. Sharma 1075

A time-dependent density functional study of photoabsorption in B602 cluster:

Effect of geometry

Dipanwita Mukherjee, Saroj K. Parida, Sridhar Sahu, and Sagar Sharma 1078

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Fe-doped Zn3P2 from first-principles calculations

G. Jaiganesh and S. Mathi Jaya 1081

Ab-initio calculation of ZnGeAs2 semiconductor

S. K. Tripathy and V. Kumar 1084

Electronic study ofAI substituted La0.7Ca0jMnO3 using photoemission spectroscopy

D. M. Phase, Manish Kumar, A. D. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary 1087

Ab-initio study of spinel type CoIn2S4 in PM, FM and AFM regime

Poonam Singh, Monika Sharma, Meena Kumari, and U. P. Verma 1089

Hydrogen storage in LiH: A first principle study

Suman Banger, Vikas Nayak, and U. P. Verma 1092

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Should muffin tin radius vary in different structures of a material?: A case study

Vikas Nayak, Suman Banger, and U. P. Verma 1095

Raman evidence for coupling of superconducting quasi-particles with a phonon and crystal field

excitation in superconductor Ceo.6Y0.4FeAs00.gFo.2

Pradeep Kumar, D. V. S. Muthu, J. Prakash, A. K. Ganguli, and A. K. Sood 1098

Effect of electron-phonon interaction on resistivity of some heavy fermion (HF) systems

J. Sahoo, N. Shadangi, and P. Nayak 1101

First principles electronic band structure and phonon dispersion curves for zinc blend beryllium

chalcogenide

Shweta Dabhi, Venu Mankad, and Prafulla K. Jha 1103

Density functional study of structural and electronic properties of Al„@C6o

Shobhna Dhiman, Ranjan Kumar, and Keya Dharamvir 1106

Ab-initio study of transition metal hydrides

Ramesh Sharma, Seema Shukla, Shalini Dwivedi, and Yamini Sharma 1109

Effect of hydrogenation on magnetic and electronic behaviour of Pr-Ni

Pooja Rana, Sanjay K. Singh, and U. P. Verma 1112

Improvement in elastic properties of CuAlo.4Fe1.6O4 spinel ferrite by rapid thermal cooling

K. B. Modi, S. J. Shah, T. K. Pathak, N. H. Vasoya, V. K. Lakhani, and A. K. Yahya 1115

Elastic properties of sulphur and selenium doped ternary PbTe alloys by first principles

Ashoka Bali, Raju Cherty, and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 1118

Electronic and mechanical properties of Zr2TiAl: A first principles study

P. V. Sreenivasa Reddy and V. Kanchana 1121

Thermal conductivity analysis of lanthanum doped manganites

Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, E. Khan, and Dinesh Varshney 1124

Quantization of P-Fermi Pasta Ulam lattice

Sudhir R. Jain and Rupali L. Sonone 1127

Ab initio study of Fe2MnZ (Al, Si, Ge) Heusler alloy using GGA approximationVivek Kumar Jain, Vishal Jain, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1130

Structural and electronic properties of poly(vinyl alcohol) using density functional theory

Shweta Dabhi and Prafulla K. Jha 1133

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The pinning effect in quantum dots

P. J. Monisha and Soma Mukhopadhyay 1135

Study of structural and electronic properties of Mn304

Ramandeep Kaur, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal 1137

Half metallic ferromagnetism in alkali metal nitrides MN (M = Rb, Cs): A first principles studyA. Murugan, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, M. Santhosh, G. Sudhapriyanga, and S. Kanagaprabha 1140

Experimental and first principle studies on electronic structure of BaTi03Archna Sagdeo, Haranath Ghosh, Aparna Chakrabarti, C. Kamal, Tapas Ganguli, D. M. Phase,andS. KDeb 1142

Metal-insulator transition in NaxW03: Photoemission spectromicroscopy studySanhita Paul, Anirudha Ghosh, and Satyabrata Raj 1145

Structural and Raman scattering study of Ni-doped CoFe204Ashwini Kumar, Mashkoor A. Dar, Poorva Sharma, and Dinesh Varshney 1148

Electronic and magnetic properties of Fe and Mn doped two dimensional hexagonal germaniumsheets

Himadri R. Soni and Prafulla K. Jha 1151

Study of structural, electronic and elastic properties of RPd3 (R = Lu and Sc) compoundsVeena Thakur, Gitanjali Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, and S. P. Sanyal 1153

Electronic structure of ordered double perovskite Ba2CoW06

Rajyavardhan Ray, A. K. Himanshu, Kumar Brajesh, B. K. Choudhary, S. K. Bandyopadhyay,Pintu Sen, Uday Kumar, and T. P. Sinha 1155

Electronic structure of Co-Ni-Ga Heusler alloys studied by resonant photoemissionMadhusmita Baral, Soma Banik, Tapas Ganguli, Aparna Chakrabarti, A. Thamizhavel,Avinash Wadikar, D. M. Phase, and S. K. Deb 1158

Elastic constants and Fermi surface topology change in Calaverite AuTe2: A densityfunctional study

Vijay Kumar Gudelli and V. Kanchana 1161

The self-trapping transition in the non-half-filled strongly correlated extended Holstein-Hubbard

model in two-dimensions

I. V. Sankar and Ashok Chatterjee 1164

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Phase transitions in double perovskite Sr2ScSb06: An Ab-initio study

Rajyavardhan Ray, Ajay K. Himanshu, Kumar Brajesh, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Uday Kumar,

andT. P. Sinha 1167

Excitation energies of molecules within time-independent density functional theory

M. Hemanadhan and Manoj K. Harbola 1170

mBJLDA approach for optical properties of Nowontny-Juza LiMgZ (Z = P, As) compounds

Arvind K. Sharma, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap 1173

Coulomb interaction of acceptors in Cdi.,Mn,Te/CdTe quantum dot

P. Kalpana, A. Merwyn Jasper D. Reuben, P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar 1176

H. Single Crystals

Pure and Nd added NBT-BT single crystals - Growth and their characterization

S. Shanmuga Sundari, K. Baskar, and R. Dhanasekaran 1179

Effect of orientation on deformation behavior of Fe nanowires: A molecular dynamics study

G. Sainath, V. S. Srinivasan, B. K Choudhary, M. D. Mathew, and T. Jayakumar 1182

Thermal and optical properties of new organic nonlinear optical single crystals

Anthoni Praveen Menezes and A. Jayarama 1185

Synthesis, growth, structure determination and optical properties of chalcone derivative

single crystalS. Karthi and E. K. Girija 1188

Numerical modeling of copper single crystal specimens subjected to mechanical loadingat elevated strain rates

Sagar Chandra, V. M. Chavan, M. K. Samal, and R. J. Patel 1191

Dielectric and magnetic investigations of GaFe03 single crystalsB. Srimathy, Indranil Bhaumik, S. Ganesamoorthy, A. K. Karnal, and J. Kumar 1194

Synthesis and crystal structure studies of ethyl 5-methyl-l,

3-diphenyl-l//-pyrazole-4-carboxylateChandra, N. Srikantamurthy, E. A. Jithesh Babu, K. B. Umesha, and M. Mahendra 1197

Structural and spectroscopic studies on calcium succinate single crystalsM. P. Binitha and P. P. Pradyumnan 1200

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Growth and electrical properties on NLO crystal: 4-N,N-dimethylamino

4'-N'-itiethylstilbazolium iodide

M. Krishna Kumar, S. Sudhahar, and R. Mohan Kumar 1203

Synthesis and single crystal x-ray diffraction study of a Schiff base derived

from 4-acylpyrazolone and 2-aminophenol

Naresh Sharma, R. N. Jadeja, Rajni Kant, and Vivek K. Gupta 1206

Thermal decomposition study of Cr0.25Wo.7sSe2 single crystals

D. D. Patel, P. F. Desai, and A. R. Jani 1209

Theoretical study of geometrical and nonlinear optical properties of LHPC1 single crystal

S. Arulmozhi, M. Dinesh Raja, and J. Madhavan 1212

Numerical investigation of dimensionless numbers of Si melt flow in directional solidification

process for PV cells

M. Srinivasan and P. Ramasamy 1214

Growth and characterization of 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzophenone single crystals using vertical

Bridgman technique

K. Aravinth, G. Anandha Babu, and P. Ramasamy 1217

Growth and optical characterizations on 3-aminophenol perchlorate (3-AMPP) crystal

K. Boopathi and P. Ramasamy 1220

Modified Bridgman-Stockbarger growth and characterization of LiInSe2 single crystal

P. Vijayakumar, M. Magesh, A. Arunkumar, G. Anandha Babu, P. Ramasamy, and K. G. M. Nair 1223

Studies on synthesis, growth, structural, optical properties of organic 8-hydroxyquinolinium

succinate single crystals

R. Thirumurugan and K. Anitha 1226

TL and PL studies on cubic fluoroperovskite single crystal (KMgF3: Eu2+, Ce3+)

D. Joseph Daniel, U. Madhusoodanan, O. Annalakshmi, and P. Ramasamy 1228

Investigation on crystalline perfection, mechanical, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties

of L-tartaric acid single crystal

G. Senthil Murugan and P. Ramasamy 1230

Crystal structures of Schiff base derivatives of l-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylidene)thiosemicarbazide

and (ZTJ-jV'-P-nitrobenzylideneJisonicotinohydrazide

C. S. Dileep, L. Mallesh, and M. A. Sridhar 1233

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Magnetic property, Raman spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of Sm3+ in Sm(Br03)3-9H20

J. Mandal, T. Purohit, K. N. Chattopadhyay, M. Ghosh, and P. K. Chakrabarti 1236

Ferromagnetism through Cr doping in topological insulator Bi2Te3

V. K. Maurya and S. Patnaik1239

Effect of impurities on the hardness of alkali halide single crystals

Ashok K. Verma, Chaturbhuj Ojha, and A. K. Shrivastava 1242

Crystal growth, structure analysis and characterisation of 2 - (1,3 - dioxoisoindolin - 2 - yl)

acetic acid single crystal

R. Siva Sankari and Rajesh Narayana Perumal1244

Structure-property-relationship of p-toluidinium tetrachloromercurate(II)

Dinesh, Mukesh Kumar, and S. Dalela 1247

Growth and characterization of lithium yttrium borate single crystals

A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, M. Tyagi, D. G. Desai, Shashwati Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 1250

Band-gap modulation via gallium substitution in cerium doped gadolinium aluminum garnet

using a mixed fuel combustion approachMohit Tyagi, Shreyas S. Pitale, Manoranjan Ghosh, Seema Shinde, and S. C. Gadkari 1253

The effect of deuteration and doping on the phase transition temperature of grown glycine

phosphite single crystals

R. Perumal, A. Lakshmi Chandru, and S. Moorthy Babu 1256

Evaluation of mechanical properties of some glycine complexes

D. Nagaraju, P. V. Raja Shekar, Ch. Sateesh Chandra, K. Kishan Rao, and N. Gopi Krishna 1259

Single crystal growth ofYb doped NaGd(W04)2 and structural and spectroscopic studies

S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, D. G. Desai, B. Tiwari, M. Tyagi, and S. C. Gadkari 1262

I. Transport Properties

Electric modulus and impedance spectroscopy analysis on selenium nanoparticles

at and above room temperature

Subhojyoti Sinha, Sanat Kumar Chatterjee, Jiten Ghosh, and Ajit Kumar Meikap 1265

Effect of top metal contact on the electrical properties of suspended spiral multiwalled carbon

nanotube

Shivani Dhall and Neena Jaggi 1269

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The change in dielectric constant, AC conductivity and optical band gaps of polymer electrolytefilm: Gamma irradiation

S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, C. Sharanappa, V. Mini, K. Archana, Ganesh Sanjeev, 1272

and H. Devendrappa

Conductivity and optical band gaps of polyethylene oxide doped with Li2S04 salt

Sharanappa Chapi, S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, K. Archana, V. Mini, and H. Devendrappa 1275

Effect of gamma ray irradiation on the structural and electrical transport propertiesof PrFe,-xMnx03

Khalid Sultan, M. Ikram, and K. Asokan 1278

Metallic and semiconducting resistivity behavior of La1_xKKMn03 manganitesDinesh Choudhary, E. Khan, and Dinesh Varshney 1281

Tunneling control using classical non-linear oscillator

Susmita Kar and S. P. Bhattacharyya 1283

Ionic, XRD, dielectric and cyclic voltammetry studies on PVdF-co-HFP / MMT clay intercalated

LiN(C2FsS02)2 based composite electrolyte for Li-ion batteries

P. Vickraman, K. Purushothaman, and N. SankaraSubramanian 1286

Structural and dielectric properties of Ba2LaSb06 ceramics

Premlata Kumari, Alo Dutta, S. Prasad, and T. P. Sinha 1289

Interpretation of thermoelectric properties of Cu substituted LaCo03 ceramics

K. K. Choudhary, N. Kaurav, U. Sharma, and S. K. Ghosh 1292

Electronic thermal conductivity of suspended grapheneK. Rizwana Begum and N. S. Sankeshwar 1295

The ground states of Perovskite nickelates: A dynamical mean field approachD. Misra and A. Taraphder 1297

Molecular dynamics simulation studies on ethane and acetylene mixture in CuBTC metal organic

framework

S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 1300

Studies on the dielectric behavior of Cu-doped NdMn03

Malay Udeshi, Savan Katba, Ashish Ravalia, Megha Vagadia, P. S. Solanki, M. J. Keshvani,

C. M. Thaker, N. A. Shah, and D. G. Kuberkar 1303

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Dielectric behavior of nanostructured Yo^Cao.osMnOj: Role of sintering temperature

Zalak Joshi, Davit Dhruv, Sanjay Kansara, Megha Vagadia, Nishant Barot, P. K. Mehta,

P. S. Solanki, D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah 1306

I-V and C-V characteristics of Y0.9sCao.osMn03/Si film

Davit Dhruv, Zalak Joshi, Ashish Ravalia, Sanjay Kansara, D. D. Pandya, P. S. Solanki,

D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah 1309

The electrical transport properties of liquid Rb using pseudopotential theory

A. B. Patel, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, P. R. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 1312

Synthesis and characterization of (3-napthalene sulphonic acid doped poly(o-anisidine)

D. Sangamithirai, V. Narayanan, and A. Stephen 1314

Effect of phonon confinement on lattice thermal conductivity of lead Telluride

quantum well structure

Madhvendra Nath Tripathi 1316

Effect of polarization on dielectric behaviour of PET/0.8PHB polymer liquid crystals

Sridharbabu Yarramaneni, Anu Sharma, and J. K. Quamara 1319

CuAlTc2 under high temperature: An ab initio approach

Monika Sharma, Poonam Singh, Meena Kumari, and U. P. Verma 1321

Dynamics of confined fluid by using memory function approach

Reena Devi, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar 1324

Study of transport properties with reiativistic ponderomotive effect in two-electron

temperature plasma

Sonu Sen, Meenu Asthana Varshney, A. Dubey, and Dinesh Varshney 1327

Structural and dielectric properties of Gd doped bismuth ferrite-lead titanate

N. K. Mohanty, A. K. Behera, S. K. Satpathy, B. Behera, and P. Nayak 1330

Effects of Ni3+ substitution on structural and temperature dependent dielectrical properties

ofNdFeOj

Pawanpreet Kaur, Rabia Pandit, K. K. Sharma, and Ravi Kumar 1333

Thermoelectric properties of Ag added Cao.98La0.o2Mn03

Poonam Khade, Miral Patel, Shovit Bhattacharya, Ranu Bhatt, Ranita Basu, N. Kailash Meshram,

Ajay Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1336

Electrical and optical properties of gadolinium doped bismuth ferrite nanoparticlesA. Mukherjee, M. Banerjee, S. Basu, and M Pal 1339

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Structural and dielectric properties of the lutetium (Lu) and yttrium (Y) doped nickel ferrite

Kodam Ugendar and G. Markandeyulu 1342

On the heat capacity of Ce3Al

Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade,andV. Ganesan 1345

Size-dependent thermopower of nickel nanoparticlesJaiveer Singh, N. Kaurav, and Gunadhor S. Okram 1348

Electron spin resonance studies on reduction process of nitroxyl spin radicals

used in molecular imagingM. Kumara Dhas, A. Jawahar, and A. Milton Franklin Benial 1351

Effect of temperature and pressure on the dynamics of nanoconfincd propane

Siddharth Gautam, Tingting Liu, Gemot Rother, Niina Jalarvo, Eugene Mamontov, Susan Welch,and David Cole 1353

Bulk modulus and specific heat of B-site doped (La0.3Pro.7)o.65Ca0.35Mni.xBx03 (B=Fe, Cr, Ru,

Al, Ga)

Archana Srivastava, Rasna Thakur, and N. K. Gaur 1356

Enhanced electrical transport in ionic liquid dispersed TMAI-PEO solid polymer electrolyteNeha Gupta, Munesh Rathore, Anshuman Dalvi, and Anil Kumar 1358

Molecular dynamics investigation of Na+ in Na2Ni2Te06Kartik Sau and P. Padma Kumar 1361

Nano-/micro metallic wire synthesis on Si substrate and their characterization

Jaskiran Kaur, Harmanmeet Kaur, Surinder Singh, Dinakar Kanjilal, and Shiv Kumar Chakarvarti 1364

Magneto-transport in LaTii.xMnx03/SrTi03 oxide heterostructures

Pramod Kumar, Anjana Dogra, and R. C. Budhani 1367

Transport properties of Ag doped Pr0.67Sri_xAgxMnC>3N. K. Gaur, Renu Choithrani, Masroor A. Bhat, and Rajnish Kurchania 1370

Effect of low energy oxygen ion beam irradiation on ionic conductivity of solid polymer

electrolyte

H. Manjunatha, G. N. Kumaraswamy, and R. Damle 1372

Charge transport in NdNi03 thin films: Effects of mn-doping versus tensile strain

Mahesh Chandra, Fozia Aziz, Rakesh Rana, Ravikiran Late, D. S. Rana, and K. R. Mavani 1375

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Structural and transport studies on LaAli.,Cox03

V. Aswin, Pramod Kumar, Pooja Singh, and Anjana Dogra 1377

Thermoluminescence and dielectric response of gamma irradiated muscovite mica

Sukhnandan Kaur, Surinder Singh, Lakhwant Singh, and S. P. Lochab 1380

Investigation of photoconductivity in Pr-doped ZnS powder prepared by simple heat treatment

technique

Rajneesh K. Srivastava, Smriti Srivastava, Sheo K. Mishra, and R. K. Shukla 1383

Study of electronic transport properties of doped 8AGNR

Uma Shankar Sharma, Anurag Srivastava, and U. P. Verma 1386

Structural and transport properties of PVC blend PEG doped with Mg(C104)2 solid polymer

electrolyte

C. H. Ramesh, M. Jaipal Reddy, J. Siva Kumar, and K. Narasimha Reddy 1389

Anisotropic thermal conductivity and thermopower of In2Te5 single crystal

Anup V. Sanchela, Ajay. D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1392

Structural and magnetization behavior of highly spin polarized Co2CrAl full Heusler alloy

S. N. Saha, J. Panda, and T. K. Nath 1395

Relaxation behavior of oxygen deficient strontium manganite

Namita Pandey and Awalendra Kumar Thakur 1397

Magnetoresistance of bismuth in bulk and thin film forms

S. N. Dange, Ritwik Saha, A. M. Patade, Ajit Mahadkar, Deepa T. Pujara, S. V. Vansutre,

andS. Radha 1400

J. Semiconductor Physics

Photoluminescence study based prediction on visible luminescence from n-Zno/p-GaAs

heterojunction

Nripendra N. Haider, Sanjay K. Jana, Pranab Biswas, P. Banerji, and D. Biswas 1403

Effect of trigonal warping on anomalous Rabi oscillations in graphene bilayer

Vipin Kumar, Enamullah, and Girish S. Setlur 1406

Interband emission energy in wurtzite GaN/Ga0^Al0.2N and ZnOyZno.607Mgo.393O strained

quantum dots

N. S. Minimala and A. John Peter 1408

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Magnetic field induced third order susceptibility of third order harmonic generationin a ZnMgSe strained quantum well

J. Abraham Hudson Mark and A. John Peter 1410

Effective Lande factor in a GaMnAs quantum dot; with the effects of sp-d exchangeon a bound polaron

D. Lalitha and A. John Peter 1412

Pressure dependence of halfmetallic behavior of Co2VZ (Z = Si, Ge)-An ab initio studyK. Seema and Ranjan Kumar 1414

Investigations on Lande factor in a strained GaxIn,_xAs/GaAs quantum dot

N. R. Senthil Kumar and A. John Peter 1417

Temperature dependence of material gain of InGaAsP/InP nano-heterostructure

Rashmi Yadav and P. A. Alvi 1419

A comparative study of structural and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanocrystalsfor photovotaic applications

Anima Ghosh, R. Thangavel, and M. Rajagopalan 1422

Electrical and optical characterization of Pd/ZnO nanorods (NRs) Schottky diodes grown

on n-Si substrates

Divya Somvanshi and S. Jit 1425

Mechanical stiffening and thermal softening of rare earth chalcogenidesS. Shriya, Namita Singh, M. Varshney, and Dinesh Varshney 1428

Growth and electrical transport properties of Cr0jMoo.sSe2 single crystalsP. F. Desai, D. D. Patel, and A. R. Jani 1430

Determination of annealing of temperature Hf02/Si metal-oxide-semiconductor devices

Debaleen Biswas, Sk. Abdul Kader Md. Faruque, and Supratic Chakraborty 1433

Optical properties of (Se80Te20)ioo-xAgx (0 < x < 4) thin films

D. Singh, S. Kumar, S. Sandhu, and R. Thangaraj 1435

Synthesis, morphology and optical properties of GaN and AlGaN semiconductor nanostructures

B. Kuppulingam, Shubra Singh, and K. Baskar 1437

Cu doping: An effective method for improving optoelectronic properties of sprayedSnS thin films

Gisa Grace Ninan, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1440

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Ni, Fe Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by solution combustion method

Poqja Dhiman, Jagdish Chand, S. Verma, Sarveena, and M. Singh 1443

High total dose proton irradiation effects on silicon NPN r/power transistors

M. N. Bharathi, K. C. Praveen, N. Pushpa, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1446

Simplified 2DEG carrier concentration model for composite barrier AIGaN/GaN HEMT

Palash Das and Dhrubes Biswas 1449

Variation of carrier concentration and interface trap density in 8MeV electron irradiated

c-Si solar cells

Sathyanarayana Bhat, Asha Rao, Sheeja Krishnan, Ganesh Sanjeev, and E. P. Suresh 1452

A study on the effect of silver nanofillers in porous silicon

S. Manickam Christopher, K. Gangadevi, K. Ramachandran, and R. Srinivasan 1455

Effect of Al-mole fraction in AlxGai_xN grown by MOCVD

M. Jayasakthi, R. Ramesh, K. Prabakaran, R. Loganathan, B. Kuppulingam, M. Balaji,P. Arivazhagan, S. Sankaranarayanan, Shubra Singh, and K. Baskar 1458

Modeling and simulation of CuIni-xGaxSe2 based thin film solar cell

S. Kumari, P. Singh, R. Gautam, and A. S. Verma 1461

Electronic structure of CdMo04 using Compton scattering techniqueKhushboo Sharma, Jagrati Sahariya, and B. L. Ahuja 1464

Energy loss rate in disordered quantum well

P. Tripathi, S. S. Z. Ashraf, S. T. Hasan, and A. C. Sharma 1467

Fabrication of PANI/ZnO heterojunctionLalit Kumar, Anant Bansal, and S. Annapoomi 1470

Synthesis of Bi2S3 with different sulfur content by conventional high temperature solid state

solvothermal route

S. I. Solanki, I. B. Patel, and N. M. Shah 1473

Structural studies and band gap tuning of Cr doped ZnO nanoparticlesGunjan Srinet, Ravindra Kumar, and Vivek Sajal 1476

Relaxor-Iike dielectric response of spin liquid CuCr02N. Mazumder, U. K. Ghorai, R. Roy, S. Saha, and K. K. Chattopadhyay 1479

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Emission behavior of anionic chalcogen acceptor states in ZnO nanoparticlesS. K. Mandal, N. Mazumder, U. K. Ghorai, S. Saha, and K. K. Chattopadhyay 1482

Optical properties of halide and oxide compounds including the excitonic effects

G. Shwetha and V. Kanchana 1485

Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles by solution based solid state reaction processand its application in dye sensitized solar cell as counter electrode

Krishnaiah Mokurala, Parag Bhargava, and Sudhanshu Mallick 1488

Enhanced UV and suppressed defect related emission in yttrium doped zinc oxide

Vikas Sharma, Parmod Kumar, Geeta Rana, Rishi Vyas, K. Sachdev, Hitendra K. Malik,andK. Asokan 1491

Diffusion thermopower in ZnO nanowires

S. M. Galagali andN. S. Sankeshwar 1493

Optical rectification in a strained GaAsQ_9P0A/GaAs0,JPOA quantum dot: Simultaneous effects

of electric and magnetic fields

Ada Vinolin and A. John Peter 1496

Magnetic behavior in Cr2@Gen (l<n<12) clusters: A density functional investigationKapil Dhaka, Ravi Trivedi, and Debashis Bandyopadhyay 1498

K. Superconductivity, Magnetism and Spintronics

Structural and magnetic stability of Fe2NiSi

Dinesh C. Gupta, Idris Hamid Bhat, and Mamta Chauhan 1501

The XY model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Ransell D'Souza 1503

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in full-Heusler compounds ACaX2 (A = K and Rb; X = N and O)R. Umamaheswari, D. Vijayalakshmi, M. Yogeswari, and G. Kalpana 1506

Structural and electrical transport properties of Lao.gSmo.osKo.i5Mn03 manganitesM. W. Shaikh, I. Mansuri, and Dinesh Varshney 1508

Structural and electronic transport studies of self-doped Pr^MnOsiB manganitesAga Shahee and N. P. Lalla 1510

Role of oxygen vacancies in magnetic properties of LaAKVSrTiOj interface

N. Mohanta and A. Taraphder 1513

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Induced antiferromagnetism in Mn doped BaMgF4

M. Manikandan, A. Muthukumaran, and C. Venkateswaran 1516

The microstuctural, Mossbauer and magnetic properties of MgGdo.1Fe1.9O4 ferrite processed

by solid state reaction technique

Jagdish Chand, Satish Verma, Pooja, Sarveena, and M. Singh 1518

B2+L2i ordering in Co2MnAI Heusler alloy

A. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1521

Proximity effect in cuprate based superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions

P. K. Rout, R. K. Rakshit, and R. C. Budhani 1523

Structural and magnetic properties of Co2Ti,_xFexAl (0 <x < 0.5) alloys

Lakhan Pal, Sachin Gupta, and K. G. Suresh 1526

Effect of grain size on charge and magnetic ordering in Bio.67Cao.33MnC>3

Ramesh Ade and R. Singh 1529

Magnetotransport studies on GdBa2Cu3Oz superconducting film

M. J. Keshvani, Malay Udeshi, Sadaf Jethva, J. S. Rathod, B. T. Savalia, D. Venkateshwarlu,

V. Ganesan, P. S. Solanki, and D. G. Kuberkar 1531

Effect of Co2+ substitution in Mgo.5Zno.5-xCo,Fe204 ferrite nanoparticles: Study of structural,

dielectric and magnetic properties

Mohd Hashim, S. S. Mecna, D. Ravinder, Ravi Kumar, Pramod Bhatt, Shalendra Kumar,

andAlimuddin 1533

Microstructure refinement and enhanced critical current density in binary doped SmFeAsO

superconductorJ. B. Anooja, P. M. Aswathy, Neson Varghese, R. P. Aloysius, and U. Syamaprasad 1536

Field induced phase transition in Smo.sCCai-xSrOo.sMnOj

Sk. Sabyasachi, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 1539

Role of bimodal distribution in tailoring the inter-particle interactions in CU79C021 nanogranular

films

Dinesh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1541

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of disordered Co2FeAl Heusler alloyVishal Jain, Vivek Jain, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1544

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Investigation of magnetic spin glass property in LaOJBio.sMn03 sample using non-linear

AC susceptibility measurements

Punith V. Kumar, M. R. Manju, and Vijaylakshmi Dayal 1546

Tuning electron-electron correlation in noncentrosymmetric superconductor BiPd

Bhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan 1549

Quantification of quantum discord in a antiferromagnetic Heisenberg compound

H. Singh, T. Chakraborty, and C. Mitra 1551

Study of lattice dynamics in yttrium doped NdMn03 using Raman spectroscopy

Ruchika Yadav, Harikrishnan S. Nair, and Suja Elizabeth 1554

The effect of external magnetic field on the Raman peaks in manganites

A. K. Sahu and G. C. Rout 1557

Effects of In3+ substitution on structural properties, cation distribution and Mossbauer spectra

of CoFe204 ferrite

Ravi Kumar, Rabia Pandit, K. K. Sharma, and Pawanpreet Kaur 1560

Room temperature ferromagnetism in Co defused CdTe nanocrystalline thin films

N. Madhusudhana Rao, S. Kaleemulla, and M. Rigana Begam 1562

Study of magnetic susceptibility in some heavy fcrmion (HF) superconductorsN. Shadangi, J. Sahoo, S. Mohanty, and P. Nayak 1564

100 MeV Ni+7 swift heavy ion induced magnetism in cobalt doped ZnO thin films

Sunil Kumar, Ravi Kumar, and D. P. Singh 1566

Violation of Bell's inequality in a spin 1/2 quantum magnet

Tanmoy Chakraborty, Harkirat Singh, and Chiranjib Mitra 1569

Superconductivity in a low carrier density system: A single crystal study of cubic Y3Ru4Ge13

Om Prakash, A. Thamizhavel, A. K. Nigam, and S. Ramakrishnan 1572

Mossbauer spectroscopic study of iron-chelate trammels

Sangita Pal, S. S. Meena, R. S. Ningthoujam, and D. Goswami 1575

Effect of Gd and Zr co-substitution on multiferroic properties of BiFe03

Manisha Arora, Prakash Chandra Sati, and Manoj Kumar 1578

Thermal properties of Ni-substituted LaCo03 perovskite

Rasna Thakur, Rajesh K. Thakur, Archana Srivastava, and N. K. Gaur 1581

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Variation of effective dielectric constant of dilute magnetic dielectrics with magnetic field

Ananya Banerjee and A. Sarkar 1583

Magnetic structure at low temperatures in FeGe2

P. D. Babu, P. K. Mishra, V. Dube, R. Mishra, P. U. Sastry, and G. Ravikumar 1586

Superconductivity in In doped topological crystalline insulator SnTe

V. K. Maurya, Shruti, P. Neha, P. Srivastava, and S. Patnaik 1589

Fabrication and characterization of shunted u-SQUID

Nikhil Kumar, T. Fournier, H. Courtois, and Anjan K. Gupta 1591

Magnetic origin of dielectric transition in BiFeC>3

J. Ray, A. K. Biswal, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 1595

Influence of boron on the microstructural and mechanical properties of Ni53jMn26.oGa20.5 shape

memory alloy

M. Ramudu, A. Satish Kumar, V. Seshubai, and T. Rajasekharan 1598

Evidence of low field magnetoimpedance effect in (111) oriented Fe304 thin films

R. S. Joshi, B. M. Sankarshan, K. Mohan Kant, and P. S. Anil Kumar 1601

First principles DFT study of ferromagnetism in Sn02 induced by doped group 1A and 2A

non-magnetic elements X (X=Li, Na, K, Be, Mg, Ca)

Brahmananda Chakraborty and Lavanya M. Ramaniah 1604

Enhancement of spin polarization via Fermi level tuning in Co2MnSni_xSbx (x = 0, 0.25. 0.5,

0.75,1) Heusler alloys

Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardev S. Saini, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap 1606

In-plane anisotropy in Lao.7Sr0jMn03 (LSMO) patterned thin film

Sourabh Jain, Himanshu Sharma, C. V. Tomy, V. R. Palkar, and A. Tulapurkar 1609

Substitution effect on magnetic and electrical properties of half-Heusler alloy

Ni,-xCoxMn,-yFeySbVarun Kushwaha, Himanshu Sharma, Dinesh Dixit, Ashwin Tulapurkar, and C. V. Tomy 1612

Dual anisotropic character in Fe/Pt multilayer grown on (001) MgO substrate

Himanshu Pandey, R. K. Rakshit, Anurag Gupta, K. K. Maurya, M. K. Dalai, and R. C. Budhani 1615

Single particle spectral function in iron pnictide superconductors within two band model

Luxmi Rani and Ajay 1618

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Specific heat and characteristic ratio of some Fe-based superconductors: A model studyHaranath Ghosh, Smritijit Sen, and Harsh Purwar 1621

Magnetic properties on strained manganite thin film

C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, S. K. Gupta, D. Bhattacharya, S. Basu, and G. Ravikumar 1624

FMR studies and magnetic properties of Mg doped La0.67Ca0.33MnO3

A. Sendil Kumar, K. Ravinder Reddy, and Anil K. Bhatnagar 1627

Signature of Griffith singularity in half doped LaMn0 5Cu0 503A. K. Biswal, J. Ray, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 1630

Effect of synthesis route on the multiferroic properties of single phase BiFeOjPittala Suresh and S. Srinath 1633

Structural transitions in driven vortices of weakly pinned superconductors

M. Suresh Babu and D. Pal 1636

Enhanced room temperature magnetoresistance in p-Lao.vCaojMnOj/SrTiCV/i-Siheterostructure: A possible spintronics application

S. K. Giri, J. Panda, S. K. Hazra, P. T. Das, and T. K. Nath 1639

Anisotropic magnetic properties of Dy6Cr4Al43 single crystal

Arvind Maurya, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar 1642

Study on effect of annealing conditions on structural, magnetic and superconducting propertiesof MgB2 bulk samples

Konduru Phaneendra, K. Asokan, V. P. S. Awana, S. Sreehari Sastry, and D. Kanjilal 1645

Magnetization reversal and giant coercivity in Co(Cr0.7Mno.3)2C>4

R. Padam, R. Kumar, A. K. Grover, and D. Pal 1648

Vortex lattices and their transformations in rectangular antidot arrays

Ajay D. Thakur, S. Ooi, M. Chand, J. Jesudasan, P. Raychaudhuri, and K. Hirata 1651

Critical current density and grain connectivity of Bi-2223 added MgB2 superconductorD. Tripathi and T. K. Dey 1654

Temperature dependent tunneling study of CaFei.96Nio.o4As2 single crystals

Anirban Dutta, A. Thamizhavel, and Anjan K. Gupta 1657

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Cr-doped semiconducting Ge-chalcogenide: Density functional

approachHardev S. Saini, Mukhtiyar Singh, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap 1660

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L. Novel Materials

Electric polarization in ferromagnetic Bii/zAsmMnOj: A first principle study

S. Sheela Sathya, C. Kanagaraj, and N. Basakaran 1663

XPS depth profile study of sprayed CZTS thin films

D. R. Deepu, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1666

Neutron diffraction studies on chemical and magnetic structure of multiferroic PbFeo.67Wo.33O3

Shidaling Matteppanavar, Basavaraj Angadi, and Sudhindra Rayaprol 1669

Photoluminescence properties of NaPbBs09:Dy3+ new material for white light applications

D. Rajesh and Y. C. Ratnakaram1672

The nanosphere driven optical and dielectric changes in ferroelectric liquid crystal

Dharmendra Pratap Singh, S. K. Gupta, Shivani Pandey, Tripti Vimal, A. C. Pandey,

and Rajiv Manohar1674

Structural, morphological and optical investigations on Sm3+ doped gadolinium oxide nanorods

G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan 1677

High value of ferroelectric polarization in BFO nanorods

S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Nabanita Dutta, Subhasis Rana, Pintu Sen, A. K. Himanshu,

and P. K. Chakraborty1680

Rietveld refinement and dielectric studies of Bio.gBaojFeo.95Vo.osO3 ceramic

Priyanka, A. Agarwal, N. Ahlawat, S. Sanghi, and S. Rani 1683

Modification of optoelectronic properties of sprayed CZTS thin films through spray rate

variation

V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1686

Conductivity ofthe nanocomposite ofgraphite and clay at low temperature

Ranjana Goswami 1689

Small angle x-ray scattering study of nano-scale precipitation in Ni5ojTi29.7Hf2o high temperature

shape memory alloy

Meenu Prasher, Debasis Sen, Bikas C. Maji, and Madangopal Krishnan 1691

Electrokinetic properties of PMAA functionalized NiFe204 nanoparticles synthesized by thermal

plasma route

Shivaji V. Bhosale, Pravin Mhaske, N. Kanhe, A. B. Navale, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathe,

and S. K. Bhatt 1694

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Effect of size of silica microspheres on photonic band gap

N. Dhiman, A. Sharma, B. P. Singh, and A. K. Gathania 1696

Oxidation state of manganese in zinc pyrophosphate: Probed by luminescence and EPR studies

Santosh K. Gupta, R. M. Kadam, V. Natarajan, and S. V. Godbole 1699

Structural and dielectric properties of BaBi2Nb209 ceramics

R. Ramaraghavulu and S. Buddhudu 1702

Deposition and characterization of zirconium nitride (ZrN) thin films by reactive magnetron

sputtering with linear gas ion source and bias voltage

A. Kavitha, N. Sankara Subramanian, S. Loganathan, and R. Kannan 1705

Structure and cation binding affinities of cucurbit[6]uril: A DFT study

Vivek Sinha and Mahesh Sundararajan 1708

High temperature XRD of Cu2.iZn0.9SnSe4

Raju Chetty and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 1711

Structural and electronic properties of free standing one-sided and two-sided hydrogenated

silicene: A first principle study

Brij Mohan, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1714

Magnetic properties of Ca doped cobalt ferrite: Compton scattering study

Arvind Sharma, Jagrati Sahariya, H. S. Mund, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and B. L. Ahuja 1717

Growth and characterization of new organic nonlinear optical

crystal (R)-2-cyano-N-(l-phenylethyl) acetamide

B. C. Hemaraju, B. S. Madhukar, D. G. Bhadregowda, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1720

Electrospun nanocomposite fibrous polymer electrolyte for secondary lithium battery

applicationsO. Padmaraj, B. Nageswara Rao, Paramananda Jena, M. Venkateswarlu, and N. Satyanarayana 1723

Synthesis and optical analysis of Cr3+:Zn;Si04 nanocomposites by sol-gel method

B. Chandra Babu, B. H. Rudhramadevi, and S. Buddhudu 1726

Structural and optical properties of B^Mgo.osVi.QsOn-e synthesized via melt quench technique

Sakshi Gupta and K. Singh 1729

First principle study of manganese doped cadmium sulphide sheet

Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1732

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Magnetic properties of Fe doped SmCr03 perovskite

Venugopal Rao Bakshi, Bandi Vittal Prasad, Narsinga Rao Gade, C F Chou,

and Suresh Babu Devarasetty 1735

Arsenic based hexagonal building motifs for inorganic nanomaterials

Debesh Ranjan Roy and Sanjay D Gupta 1738

Tuning of properties of sprayed CuZnS films

M. S. Sreejith, D. R. Deepu, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1741

Structural, optical and dielectric property of Co doped Bi2Fe409

Smita Swain, S. R. Mohapatra, B. Sahoo, and A. K. Singh 1744

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