SOLID STATE PHYSICSProceedings of the 55th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2010

Manipal University, Monipai, India 26 - 30 December 2010

I PART B

EDITORS

Alka B. GargR. Mittal

R. MukhopadhyayBhabha Atomic Research Centre

Mumbai, India

SPONSORED BY

Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

Department of Atomic EnergyGovernment of India

AIPMelville, New York, 2011

American Institute

AIP I CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS I 1349

PART B

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND PHONONS

Electronic and thermal properties of HoSb under pressure: A LSDA+U studyS. Kulshrestha, Pooja Rana, S. K. Singh, and D. C. Gupta 797

Generation of electrical conductivity data of Al using ab-initio molecular dynamicssimulations

Vinayak Mishra and S. Chaturvedi 799

First-principles study of elastic properties of ScX (X= Ag, Cu, Pd, Ru and Rh)

compounds.M. Rajagopalan and M. Sundareswari 801

Rotational tunneling states of NH4+ ions in (NH^Rb^BrP. D. Babu, P.S. Goyal, and F. Juranyi 803

Manifestation Of electron-phonon, -electron, and -magnon resistivity Of

La0.7Cao.25K0.o5Mn03 ManganitesDinesh Varshney, N. Dodiya, and M. W. Shaikh 805

Phonon mediated interaction in the two-dimensional t-J Model

N. S. Mondal and N. K. Ghosh 807

Electronic band dispersion of CeAg2Ge2 studied using angle resolved photoemissionspectroscopy

Soma Banik, Aparna Chakrabarti, S. K. Deb, S. N. Jha, and A. Thamizhavcl 809

Electronic structure of EuCu2Ge2 studied by resonant photoemission spectroscopySoma Banik, S. K. Deb, D. M. Phase, and A. Thamizhavel 811

Oxygen defect related raman modes in (1-x) NBT-xBiCr03 ceramics

Rachna Selvamani, Gurvinderjit Singh, Vasant Sathe, H. S. Patel, and V. S. Tiwari 813

Inelastic neutron scattering and ab-initio calculation of negative thermal expansion in

Ag20M. K. Gupta, R. Mittal, S. Rols, and S. L. Chaplot 815

First principle calculations of structural and electronic properties of CdO under high

pressures

Pooja Rana, S. Kulshrestha, S. K. Singh, and D. C. Gupta 817

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High resolution photoemission study of Cr - A classic SDW-type antiferromagnetic metal

Gancsh Adhikary, R. Bindu, Swapnil Patil, and Kalobaran Maiti 819

Shock wave induced melting of tin: ab-initio studyD. Mukhcrjce, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta 821

First-principles study of structural and electronic properties ofgermaneneHarihar Behcra and Gautam Mukhopadhyay 823

Elastic constants of CaF2 at different temperature

Shcetal Sharma, Ajay S. Verma, and V. K. Jindal 825

First principles calculation of the electronic and magnetic properties of NdCrSb3

Sandecp, M. P. Ghimire, and R. K. Thapa 827

Effect of geometry on metal-insulator transition in a cubical quantum dot

R. Kannan and S. Rajashabala 829

Raman spectral investigations on enhancement of SHG efficiency by thiourea doping in

bis glycine cadmium chloride single crystalsB. Raju, A. Saritha, P. S. R. Prasad, and K. A. Hussain 831

Bulk high temperature superconductors prepared by melt textured growth technique-effect of Y2BaCuOs particle size

M. R. Gonal, R. C. Hubli, and A. K. Tyagi 833

Phonons and thermal parameters of CdO nanoparticlesV. M. Susila, R. N. Mariammal, and K. Ramachandran 835

Surface-bulk differences in the electronic structure of CaFe2As2

Gancsh Adhikary, Deepnarayan Biswas, Nishaina Sahadev, R. Bindu, Neeraj Kumar, A.

Thamizhavcl, S. K. Dhar, and Kalobaran Maiti 837

Signature of chemical potential shift in La0.2Sr0 8Mn03

R. Bindu, Nishaina Sahadev, Ganesh Adhikary, and Kalobaran Maiti 839

Vibrational properties of CuO nanoparticles synthesized by hydrothermal techniqueSoumcc Chakraborty, A. Das, M. Rigana Begum, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi 841

Phonon softening in (ND4I) o.47(KI) 0.53 mixed crystalsAlpana Tivvari and N. K. Gaur 843

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Raman scattering of cadmium oxide: in Bl phase

Velaga Srihari, V. Sridharan, T. R. Ravindran, Sharat Chandra, A. K. Arora, V. S. Sastry,and C. S. Sundar 845

Maxwell Wagner polarization and high dielectric permittivity of charge disproportionate

system La0.5Bao.5Fe03 perovskiteG. Masud, A. Ghosh, and Bijaykrishna Chaudhuri 847

Electronic structure modification of Ni2IvIn1.4Sno.6 upon martensitic phase transition

Sandeep Singh, Ganesh Adhikary, D. Biswas, Kalobaran Maiti, and C. Biswas 849

Enhancement of thermoelectric power factor through modification of electronic structure

in PbTe:Cr

Biplab Paul and P. Banerji 851

Theoretical investigations of electronic properties of Se82„sBi,Tei8 thin fdms

Anup Kumar, P. B. Barman, and Raman Sharma 853

Structural stability and electronic properties of MoP

Premlata Pandit and S. P. Sanyal 855

Phonon dynamics of multiferroics: (Er, Tm) Mn03

Renu Choithrani, Mala N. Rao, S. L. Chaplot, N. K. Gaur, and R. K. Singh 857

Electronic and phonon properties of BaF2 studied by density functional methods

Himadri R. Soni, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Prafulla K. Jha 859

Raman spectroscopic studies of Co-based spinel multiferroic thin films

N. E. Rajeevan, Ravi Kumar, D. K. Shukla, R. J. Choudhary, and P. P. Pradyumnan 861

Structural, electronic and elastic properties of Be2B compoundVenu Mankad, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Prafulla K. Jha 863

High pressure study on the phonon spectra in hafnium nitrides

Sanjay D. Gupta, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Prafulla K. Jha 865

First principles study of electronic and thermal properties of some CdRE intermetallics

Vipul Srivastava, Rakesh Kumar, Kapil Dev, and Sankar P. Sanyal 867

Mechanical properties of some rare earth oxides

Vipul Srivastava, Sanjay Bhajanker, and Sankar P. Sanyal 869

First-principles study of electronic and dielectric properties of polyoxymethyleneH. R. Sreepad, K. P. S. S. Hembram, and Umesh V. Waghmare 871

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Computer simulation of point defects in CoO and NiO

S. D. V. Prasad, Srinivasa Rao, S. J. Babu, N. Radhika, and S. P. Sanyal 873

Study of the vibrational spectra of the mixed crystal ZnS^SejTista Basak, Mala N. Rao, and S. L. Chaplot 875

Encapsulation of Sb in C60 cage

Akshu Pahuja and Sunita Srivastava 877

Far infrared absorption study of BiFe03 and the effects of cobalt dopingHimal Bhatt, B. P. Mandal, M. N. Deo, A. K. Tyagi, and Surinder M. Sharma 879

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Upper critical field of 2H-NbSe2: Effect of Ga - intercalation

I. Naik 883

2D lowest Landau level scaling in FeTe0.sSe0.5

Swati Pandya, L.S. S. Chandra, Siya Sherif, and V. Ganesan 885

Possibility of non Fermi liquid like states co-exists with superconductivity in doubly filled

skutterudites

Vcnkateshwarlu D., Shanmukhrao S., Swati Pandya, L. S. S. Chandra, P. N. Vishwakarma,

Dccpti Jain, Mohan Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 887

Local magnetic behavior of 54Fe in SrFe2As2: Microscopic study by perturbed angulardistribution spectroscopy

S.K Mohanta, S. Layek, Z. Hossain, S.K. Srivastava, and S.N. Mishra 889

Lowering the sintering temperature of MgB2/Fe wires with high transport current bynano Cu doping

Neson Varghesc, K. Vinod, S. Rahul, K. M. Devadas, Syju Thomas, P. M. Aswathy, S.

Pradhan, and U. Syamaprasad 891

Superconductivity in heavily Nd-doped La2Ca!Ba2Cu5Oz systemS. R. Mankadia, S. M. Dalsaniya, G. S. Okram, Pallavi Igalwar, M. R. Gonal, and J. A.

Bhalodia 893

Impact of bending strain on critical current of second generation 344 YBCO high Tccoated conductor

Ananya Kundu, Piyush Raj, and Subrata Pradhan 895

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The crystallographic study of Pr substituted Eu-123 high Tc cuprate superconductorsV. R. Huse, V. D. Mote, K. I. Hasan, B. N. Dole, and S. S. Shah 897

Critical field and critical current density in PrOFe0.9Co0.i As: effect of P substitution

S. Sharma, J. Prakash, G. S. Thakur, A. Bharathi, A. K. Ganguli, and C. S. Sundar 899

Interface superconductivity in La^sNdo^Sro.nCuCVLaj.^Sro.ieCuC^ bilayersP. K. Rout, R. Porwal, and R. C. Budhani 901

Study of thermoelectric power and superconducting gap in CeOo^Fo.iFe^jCOyAsS. J. Singh, J. Prakash, A. K. Ganguli, and S. Patnaik 903

Pr substitution at Y and Ba sites in YBCO (123) systemP. K. Sharma, Sudhish Kumar, S. N. Dolia, and R. K. Singhal 905

Superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric BiPd systemBhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan 907

Nano diamond and nano Si02 - an effective combination to improve the in-field

properties of MgB2 superconductorS. Rahul, Neson Varghese, K. Vinod, K. M. Devadas, Syju Thomas, P. Anecs, M. K.

Chattopadhyay, S. B. Roy, R. P. Aloysius, and U. Syamaprasad 909

Non-linear and unstable flux vortex dynamicsM. N. Kunchur, M. Liang, J. Hua, and Z. Xiao 911

Enhanced superconducting properties of MgB2 by carbon substitution using carbon

containing nano additives

K. M. Devadas, Neson Varghese, K. Vinod, S. Rahul, Syju Thomas, J. B. Anooja, A.

Sundaresan, S. B. Roy, and U. Syamaprasad 913

Fishtail effect due to silver influenced sub-precipitate microstructure in YBCO/Ag

superconducting compositesR. Parthasarathy, N. Devendra Kumar, and V. Seshu Bai 915

Structural and superconducting properties of Ce-based ferropnictidesJ. Prakash, S. J. Singh, S. Patnaik, and A. K. Ganguli 917

Enhanced flux pinning in laser ablated YBCO:BaTi03 nanocomposite thin film

Alok K. Jha, Neeraj Khare, and R. Pinto 919

Interplay of superfluidity and lattice geometry in Bose systems

Apurba Barman and Saurabh Basu 921

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Upper critical field and coherence length of homogenously disordered epitaxial 3-

dimensional NbN films

John Jesudasan, Mintu Mondal, Madhavi Chand, Anand Kamlapure, Sanjeev Kumar,Garima Saraswat, Vivas C. Bagwe, Vikram Tripathi, and Pratap Raychaudhuri 923

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

Temperature dependent switching of magnetoresistance in trilayeredZnO/Lao.7Sro.3Mn03/SrNbo.2Tio.803 device

U. D. Khachar, P. S. Solanki, R. R. Doshi, A. B. Ravalia, B. R. Kataria, M. V. Vagadia, R.

J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase, and D. G. Kuberkar 927

Hot electron energy loss rate in GaN/AlGaN heterosructures

V. S. Katti and S. S. Kubakaddi 929

Comparative study on effects of armchair and zigzag graphene electrodes on ballistic

transport through C

S. K. Ambavale and A. C. Sharma 931

Effect of plasticizer concentration on the conductivity in PAAM: AgN03 solid polymerelectrolytes

Poonam Sharma, D. K. Kanchan, Meenakshi Pant, Nirali Gondaliya, and Manish S.

Jayswal 933

Electrical, magnetic and thermal transport behavior of divalent/tetravalent dopedLaMnOj manganites

Dincsh Varshney, Irfan Mansuri, N. Kaurav, and Y. K. Kuo 935

Shear viscosity coefficient of5d liquid transition metals

P. B. Thakor, Y. A. Sonvane, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 937

SHI induced structural modifications and improved transport in La0,7Ca0.3MnO3/LAOmanganite films

D. D. Pandya, P. S. Solanki, J. H. Markna, C. M. Thaker, Ravi Kumar, D. G. Kuberkar,and N. A. Shah 939

Electrical resistivity and thermopower of La/Nd/PrMn03 manganites: Role of small

polaron conduction

Dincsh Varshney, Poorva Sharma, and I. Mansuri 941

The resistivity of liquid less-simple metals with finite mean free path using effective local

pseudopotentialsM. B. Pathak, P. R. Vyas, N. K. Bhatt, A. R. Jani, and V. B. Gohel 943

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Concentration dependent electrical transport properties of Ni-Cr binary alloysP. H. Suthar, S.G. Khambholja, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 945

Dielectric properties of double perovskite Ho2CuZr06Dev K. Mahato, Alo Dutta, and T. P. Sinha 947

Electron mean free path in PbTe quantum wires

Sitangshu Bhattacharya, Ch. Raju, and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 949

Conductance of OPV with thiol and amine interconnects

BidisaDas 951

Compositional and electrical conductivity of Fe substituted Co4Sb12

Anbalagan R and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 953

A.C. conductivity ofBi2Cuo.1Vo.9O5.35 films for fuel cell applicationR. K. Nimat, S. A. Lokare, and S. H. Pawar 955

Mechanical and electrical characterization of Co film on p-Si (100) substrate

A. Sarkar, R. Adhikari, and A. K. Das 957

Investigations on electrical properties of the CdiZn^S thin films prepared by spray

pyrolysis techniqueY. Raviprakash, Kasturi V. Bangera, and G. K. Shivakumar 959

AC conductivity studies in lithium-borate glass containing gold nanoparticlesY. Shivaprakash and R. V. Anavekar 961

Electronic thermal conductance of grapheneM. D. Kamatagi, R. G Vaidya, N. S. Sankeshwar, and B. G Mulimani 963

Magnetic nanoparticles decorated multiwailed carbon nanotubes dispersed nanofluids

Tessy T. Baby and S. Ramaprabhu 965

Electro-optical switching behavior of a Mott insulator - band insulator interface

A. Rastogi, A. J. Kushwaha, T. Shiyani, A. Gangawar, and R. C. Budhani 967

Transient current behaviour of poly (p-hydroxybenzoic acid-co-ethylene terephthalate)liquid crystal polymers

Sridharbabu Yarramaneni, Anu Sharma, and J. K. Quamara 969

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Mobility studies on nitroxyl radicals using ESR 300 MHz spectrometer

M. K. Dhas, A. M. Benial, and A. Jawahar 971

Effect of cation radius on heat capacity of AGe03 (A=Mg, Ca) perovskitesN. K. Gaur, Atahar Parveen, Archana Srivastava, and Rasna Thakur 973

Specific heat of rare earth orthogallate NdGa03Atahar Parveen, Archana Srivastava, and N. K. Gaur 975

Synthesis, structural and electrical properties of Bi4Ti3Oi2 & Bi3.5Lao.5Ti3Oi2 ferroelectric

ceramics

M. Roy, Indu Bala, S. K. Barbar, S. Jangid, and P. Dave 977

Structure and dielectric study of Ca(Co1/3Nb2/3)03 [CCoN]Bhagwati Bishnoi and P. K. Mehta 979

Transport properties of xAgI-(l-x)LiP03 composite electrolytesD. P. Singh, K. Shahi, and K. K. Kar 981

Dielectric properties of lead monoxide filled unsaturated polyester based polymercomposites

V. Harish, H. G. H. Kumar, and N. Nagaiah 983

Spin fluctuation mechanism to normal state resistivity of iron-based superconductorsLa[Oi.xFxIFeAs

K. K. Choudhary, D. Prasad, N. Kaurav, and Dinesh Varshney 985

Ac conductivity studies of lithium based phospho vanadate glassesK. Nagendra, G. S. Babu, C. N. Reddy, and V. C. V. Gowda 987

Mixed-exchange: Cr & Fe Doped La0.7Cao.3Mn03

Neeraj Kumar, A. Rao, and V, P. S. Awana 989

Study of electrical properties in SHI irradiated 6H-SiC crystals using low temperatureimpedance spectroscopy

E. Viswanathan, R. Murugaraj, S. Selvakumar, D. Kanjilal, and K. Sivaji 991

Comparative study of bi doped Pr0.7Sr03MnO3 & Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 manganiteNeeraj Kumar, A. Rao, and V. P. S. Awana 993

Dynamics of SDS micelles: Neutron scattering studyV. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, G. Verma, P. A. Hassan, V. G. Sakai, and R. Mukhopadhyay 995

Evolution in chain dynamics in sodium dodecyl sulphateS. Mitra, V. K. Sharma, V. G. Sakai, and R. Mukhopadhyay 997

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Electrical transport properties of polyaniline containing HC1, CuCl2 and multiwall

carbon nanotube

A. K. Meikap 999

Dynamics of water confined in synthetic saponite claysS. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, D. Chakrabarty, Miguel A. Vicente, S. Mitra, and R.

Mukhopadhyay 1001

Anomalous seebeck coefficient of the NaxCo02 systemN. Kaurav, K. K. Choudhary, G. S. Okram, and Y. K. Kuo 1003

Disorder induced resistivity changes in Ni2Mni+,Sn1.,

Sandeep Singh and C. Biswas 1005

Swift heavy ion irradiation effects on NPN rf power transistors

N. Pushpa, A. P. G. Prakash, S. K. Gupta, and D. Revannasiddaiah 1007

Study of electrostictive properties of PMMA thin film using corona-poling

D. K. Modak, A. Ghosh, C. H. Wang, and B. K. Chaudhuri 1009

Thermoelectric properties of Ca4Mn3.,NbxOio

S. Bhattacharya, Bharat Singh, S. Rayaprol, A. Singh, R. Basu, M. R. Gonal, N. K. Gaur,

andS. K.Gupta 1011

Electrical conductivity studies of solution combustion synthesized nanocrystallinc

Li2NiZr04 material

Rajesh Cheruku, Lakshmi Vijayan, and G. Govindaraj 1013

Annealing behavior of ion-implanted nitrogen in D9 steel

J. Arunkumar, C. David, K. G. M. Nair, P. Magudapathy, B. K. Panigrahi, and John

Kennedy1015

Magnetoresistance studies on Ga excess Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloy

Sanjay Singh, Rajeev Rawat, and S. R. Barman 1017

Thermoelectric property of cobalt oxide films

T. Ramachandran, N. E. Rajeevan, and P. P. Pradyumnan 1019

Influence of Ti4+ doping on dc conductivity of Mn ferrites

Khalid M. Batoo and M. S. Ansari 1021

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Doping effects towards tuning magneto-elasticity in YMn03

A. K. Singh, S. D. Kaushik, V. Siruguri, and S. Patnaik 1023

Temperature and enhanced adduct mobility on the growth of MMTWNMP single

crystalsR. Srinivasan, C. M. Raghavan, L, Saravanan, R. Jayavel, and K. Baskar 1025

Electronic transport across the bcc Fe(001) interface

S. A. Aravindh, S. M. Jaya, M. C. Valsakumar, and C. S. Sundar 1027

DoS using SCLC measurements in hydrogenated silicon films

Himanshu S. Jha, Purabi Gogoi, Mukesh Singh, and Pratima Agarwal 1029

Ac conductivity and electrical relaxation in ion conducting UUNb^ Zn2.5iP3012 glasses

S. V. Rathan, Aashaq H. Shah, and G. Govindaraj 1031

Structural and electrical properties of rare earth double perovskite oxides Ba2CeM06 (M

= Ta5+ and Nb5+)Chandrahas Bharti and T. P. Sinha 1033

Conductivity studies of PEO based polymer nano-composite electrolyte films

Sangeeta Kishore, Dolly Singh, and N. L. Singh 1035

Synthesis and characterization of cobalt and copper doped BaTi03

A. Mishra and Niyati Mishra 1037

Negative field dependence of mobility in organic thin films

S. R. Mohan, Manoranjan P. Singh, and M. P. Joshi 1039

Structural and impedance studies of Ba(Mn0.5Nbo.5)03

Devang D. Shah and P. K. Mehta 1041

Ordering induced enhancement of charge carrier mobility in CoPc thin films

S. Samanta, A. Singh, Arvind Kumar, A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta, and J. V.

Yakhmi 1043

Temperature dependent anomalous Hall effects in DIMS Zn(Fe,Al)0 epitaxial thin film

S. Chattopadhyay and T. K. Nath 1045

Implication of structural disorder in the charge transport properties of cobalt-

phthalocyanine thin films

A. K. Debnath, A. Kumar, S. Samanta, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta, and J. V.

Yakhmi 1047

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Provskite structure based filler impregnated Pvdf-Hfp micro composites for lithium ionbatteries

P. Vickraman and A. Pandiraj 1049

Thermal conductivity for a linear anharmonic systemRitu Pasrija, Kanika, and Sunita Srivastava 1051

Conductivity studies in PVA-PEO-PEG blended polymer films complexed with silver salt

Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, and Nirali Gondaliya 1053

Studies on the electrical properties of non-linear optical allyl thiourea cadmium chloride

(ATCB)Sreekanth G., Michael Augustine, Santhosh Kumar, S. Chandralingam, Binay Kumar, and

Ginson P. Joseph 1055

Dielectric relaxation in complex perovskite BiFe!.xTbx03Sujoy Saha, Alo Dutta, and T. P. Sinha 1057

Electronic transport properties of layered antiferromagnet CuCrS2Girish C. Tewari, Pavan Kumar, T. S. Tripathi, and A. K. Rastogi 1059

Effect of electric field alignment of MWCNT in PMMA matrix for hydrogen gaspurification

Sumit Kumar, Subodh Srivastava, Shweta Agrawal, Balram Tripathi, and Y. K. Vijay 1061

Effect of HgO addition on the resistivity behaviour of Lao.75Ca0.25iVln03Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, Masroor A. Bhatt, Rajneesh Mohan, Kiran Singh, and N. K.

Gaur 1063

SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS

Double Gaussian distribution of inhomogeneous barrier height in Ru/Pt/n-CaN Schottkybarrier diodes

N. Nanda Kumar Reddy, I. Jyothi, and V. Rajagopal Reddy 1067

Accurate description of electronic band gaps in CdXP2(X = Si, Ge and Sn) ternarypnictide semiconductors

Hardev Singh, Mukhtiyar Singh, and Manish K. Kashyap 1069

On the possibility of solar cell applications of iron pyriteL. Vadkhiya and B. L. Ahuja 1071

Electronic and structural properties of BexZni.xTe (x=0.10,0.48 and 0.90) alloysC. B. Swarnkar, U. Paliwal, and K. B. Joshi 1073

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Ab-initio studies of the properties of super lattice CuAlSe2

Monika Sharma and Udai P. Verma 1075

Deep level transient spectroscopy technique to analyze radiation induced defects in power

transistors

A. P. Gnana Prakash 1077

Blue shift in GaAso.86Po.14/Alo.7Gao.3As near surface quantum well

Suparna Pal, S. D. Singh, S. Porwal, and S. M. Oak 1079

Dual gate thin film transistors based on indium oxide active layers

Dhananjaya Kekuda, K. Mohan Rao, Amita Tolpadi, and C. W. Chu 1081

Positron annihilation spectroscopy in doped p-type ZnO

Sayanee Majumdar and D. Sanyal 1083

Electrical properties of zirconium ditelluride single crystalsD. N. Bhavsar, A. K. Dasadia, B. B. Nariya, M. K. Bhayani, and A. R. Jani 1085

Magnetism in transition metal doped cubic SiC

Padmaja Patnaik, Gautam Mukhopadhyay, and Prabhakar P. Singh 1087

Hall effect, resistivity and thermoelectric power of ZrSTe crystals grown by direct

vapour transport method

A. K. Dasadia, B. B. Nariya, D. N. Bhavsar, and A. R. Jani 1089

Studies of valence band alignment between nitrided GaPN/GaP (111) interface using

x-ray photoelectron spectroscopyShailesh K. Khamari, V. K. Dixit, A. K. Sinha, S. Banik, S. R. Barman, and S. M. Oak 1091

Structure of melt quenched chalcogen rich CuInSeTe

C. Rangasami, Mahaveer K. Jain, and S. Kasiviswanathan 1093

Optical properties of Cr-doped zinc selenide single crystals

B. B. Nariya, A. K. Dasadia, D. N. Bhavsar, and A. R. Jani 1095

Optical absorption in Moo^sWo^Se? single crystals

D. L. Makhija, K. D. Patel, V. M. Pathak, and R. Srivastava 1097

Defect formation in GaN epitaxial layers due to SHI irradiation

Ashish Kumar, D. Kanjilal, V. Kumar, and R. Singh 1099

Intersubband plasmon - phonon coupling in GaAsP/AIGaAs single quantum well: A

Raman spectroscopy studyRahul Aggarwal, Alka Ingale, Suparna Pal, and S. M. Oak 1101

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Formation of a-Fej.4Gao.6O3 alloy and conductivity studyN. Naresh and R. N. Bhowmik 1103

Zinc oxide and iron phthalocyanine (FePc) based hybrid inorganic-organic p-n junctiondiode using heavily doped zinc oxide transparent conducting electrode

Budhi Singh and Subhasis Ghosh 1105

Ac and dielectric behavior of Sb2Te3 single crystalBhakti S. Jariwala, D. V. Shah, S. M. Vyas, and G. R. Pandya 1107

Quantum states probed by temperature dependence capacitance-voltage measurements

for InP/GaAs type-II ultrathin quantum well

S. D. Singh, V. K. Dixit, Shailesh K. Khamari, Tapas Ganguli, and S. M. Oak 1109

Dependence of Schottky barrier height on metal work function

Shammi Verma, D. Kabiraj, T. Kumar, Sandeep Kumar, and D. Kanjilal 1111

Elastic constants of GaxIn,_xAs semiconductor

P. S. Vyas, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 1113

MAGNETISM INCLUDING SPINTRONICS

Magnetism induced by sp dopant in ionic insulator (Li20): A DFT studyR. D. Eithiraj and G. Kalpana 1117

Crystal field studies of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat properties of

geometrically frustrated Gd2Sn207Aksar Ali Biswas, Yatramohan Jana, and Jahangir Alam 1119

Study on the low-temperature properties of pyrochlores Gd2Hf207 and Gd2Zr207, usingcrystal-field theory

Aksar Ali Biswas and Yatramohan Jana 1121

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of Ni2MnSn Heusler alloyH. S. Mund, Alpa Dashora, J. Sahariya, K. C. Bhamu, K. R. Priolkar, Nelson Lobo, M.

Itou, Y. Sakurai, and B. L. Ahuja 1123

Synthesis and characterization of two-leg spin ladder compound Cai.,Co,Cu203

S. Paulraj, C. Sekar, G. Krabbes, B. Buchner, and S. Arumugam 1125

Magnetism in RMg3 (R = La, Ce and Nd) single crystalsPranab Kumar Das, Neeraj Kumar, Ruta Kulkarni, and A. Thamizhavcl 1127

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Magnetic, transport and spectroscopic properties of PrBaCo2Os.35

Shraddha Ganorkar, K. R. Priolkar, P. R. Sarode, A. Banerjee, and V. G. Sathe 1129

Effect of gamma irradiation on the physical properties of nanocrystalline Lio.5Fe2.5O4

Maheshkumar L. Mane, Vinod N. Dhage, P. S. Aghav, M. K. Babrekar, and K. M. Jadhav 1131

Effect of lithium codoping on dual acceptor doped ZnO

R. Kannan, S. Rajagopan, R. Murugaraj, B. Haridass, A. Sivagamasundari, D. Vanitha, V.

Selvarani, K. Oudayakumar, S. Arumugam, and R. M. Radheep 1133

Study of spin-waves in the quasi-2D square-lattice spin-1/2 Heisenberg system

Zn2VO(P04)2

A. K. Bera, S. M. Yusuf, N. S. Kini, I. Mirebeau, and S. Petit 1135

Study of structural and magnetic properties of In3+ substituted Mg-Mn-Ni spinel ferrites

Satish Verma and M. Singh 1137

Effect of transition metal (Fe, Co) doping in NiO nanostructures prepared by a wet

chemical route

A. K. Mishra and D. Das 1139

Study of hyperfine field parameters through Mossbauer transition

Sikander Ali and Mohd Hashim 1141

Dielectric and magnetic behavior of sol-gel grown BiFe03 multiferroic

A. B. Ravalia, M. V. Vagadia, U. D. Khachar, R. R. Doshi, P. S. Solanki, B. T. Savalia, N.

A. Shah, and D. G. Kuberkar 1143

Magnetic behavior of ultrathin gold nanowires using localized basis sets

Arun Kumar, Ashok K. Kaushal, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1145

Structurally influenced magnetic properties in Eu0.5Pr0.5MnO3A. Karmakar, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 1147

On the existence of stoner instability in a semiconductor electron quantum wire

Vinayak Garg and R. K. Moudgil 1149

Study of non-magnetic Al3+ substituted mixed Mg-Mn-Ni ferrites for high frequency

applicationsSatish Verma, Anil Thakur, and M. Singh 1151

High spin polarization and magnetism in NiCrS Heusler compound

Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardev Singh, and Manish K. Kashyap 1153

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Synthesis and characterization of BiMn2Os ceramics

K. S. Kumar, D. P. Joseph, S. P. Raja, P. Manimuthu, and C. Vcnkateswaran 1155

Heat capacity study of magnetic transition in TbTiSi and DyTiSi compoundsPallab Bag, Pallavi Kushwaha, and R. Rawat 1157

Magneto -rheological properties of Mn0.7Zno.3Fe204 nanomagnetic fluid

Kruti Shah, Rucha Desai, and R. V. Upadhyay 1159

2p elements induced half-metallic ferromagnetism in alkaline earth chalcogenidesM. Yogeswari and G. Kalpana 1161

TEM and Mossbauer study of nano sized Fe2MnAl flakes

A. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1163

Characterization and Mossbauer study of Ni0 45Zn0 55Fe204 nanoparticles prepared bynovel precursor method

M. M. Kothawale, R. B. Tangsali, Jaison Joseph, G. K. Naik, J. S. Budkuley, Sher S.

Meena, S. M. Yusuf, and J. V. Yakhmi 1165

Room temperature ferromagnetism in Cu doped ZnO thin fdms

Zaheer A. Khan and Subhasis Ghosh 1167

Magnetic and electric properties of MgGdo.i5Fe1 8504 spinel ferrite

Jagdish Chand, Gagan Kumar, Sangeeta Thakur, S. K. Sharma, and M. Singh 1169

Structural and magnetic properties of TMGe„ (TM=Mn,Co,Ni) for n=l-13

Neha Kapila, Hitesh Sharma, Rajiv Bhandari, and V. K. Jindal 1171

Neutron diffraction investigation of CoxZn1_jFe204 nanoparticlesHarshida Parmar, V. Siruguri, and R. V. Upadhyay 1173

Mossbauer study of Ni, Ni-Co, and Co ferrite nanoparticlesJeevan J. Thomas and Nandakumar Kalarikkal 1175

Magnetism in Zn,.2xMnxCoxO (x = 0.00, 0.01, 0.02, and 0.03) nanostructures

N. Rajkumar and K. Ramachandran 1177

Magnetic behaviour of the orthochromite La0.iGdo.9Cr03Neha Sharma, Bipin K. Srivastava, and Anjali Krishnamurthy 1179

Investigation of the less oxygen deficient SrFe03.8P. Manimuthu, D. P. Joseph, S. P. Raja, M. Kovendhan, and C. Venkatcswaran 1181

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Temperature dependent junction magnetoresistance behavior of LSMO/Zn(Fe,Al)0

heterojunction for spintronicsJ. Panda, S. Chattopadhyay, and T. K. Nath 1183

Phase coexistence in single layered Pr0.22Sr178MnO4S. Chattopadhyay, S. Giri, and S. Majumdar 1185

In-situ magneto-optical Kerr effect for interface magnetism

Dileep Kumar, Sarathlal K. V, Oliva Saldanha, and Ajay Gupta 1187

Magnetic domain nucleation and growth in strained La0.625Cao.375mno3 thin films

Gyancndra Singh, Himanshu Pandey, and R. C. Budhani 1189

Magnetic properties of disordered Fe3AlJ. Nehra, K. Kabra, S. Jani, P. M. Ranjith, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1191

Appearance of ferromagnetism in the antiferromagnetic CuMnSb on Ni substitution

Madhumita Haider, S. M. Yusuf, and A. K. Nigam 1193

Study of complex magnetic phases in LuFe204S. Patankar and A. Banerjee 1195

Hall resistance and XMCD measurements across magnetic compensation in Pr0.sGd0.2AIjPrasanna D. Kulkarni, A. Thamizhavel, T. Nakamura, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1197

Magnetic studies on a new S=l/2 vanadium based (V4+) geometrically frustrated system(BaV3Os)

Tanmoy Chakrabarty and A. V. Mahajan 1199

Magnetization studies in La1.IGdxRh3B2 series

Ulhas Vaidya, A. Thamizhavel, S. K. Dhar, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1201

Grain size dependent magneto-transport in La0.67Sr0.33MnO3I. P. Muthuselvam and R. N. Bhowmik 1203

Structural and bulk magnetic properties of Ni-Co-Zn ferrites

M. S. Khandekar, J. Y. Patil, S. S. Pawar, A. V. Rajgure, and S. S. Suryavanshi 1205

Growth of phase pure Na0.75CoO2 single crystals by traveling solvent floating zone

(TSFZ) method

C. Sekar, P. Kanchana, S. Paulraj, G. Krabbes, and B. Biichner 1207

Magneto-resistive behavior of LaL2SrL5Cao.5MnL99Feo.01O7

Arpita Saxena, Anjali Krishnamurthy, and Bipin K. Srivastava 1209

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Phase coexistence and glassy state in martensetic compound GdCuA. Bhattacharyya, S. Giri, and S. Majumdar 1211

Magnetic properties study of thermal plasma synthesized CoFe204 nanoparticlesAshok B. Nawale, Nilesh S. Kanhe, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathc, and A. K. Das 1213

Transport and magnetic properties of R2Ir3Sns (R = La, Ce, Pr, and Nd) systemN. S. Sangeetha, A. Thamizhavel, Saurabh Basu, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Pal 1215

Repeated magnetic compensation in single crystal of Ndo.sGdo.2Al2 and XMCD evidence

for reversal in orientation of local moments at second transition

Prasanna D. Kulkarni, A. Thamizhavel, K.. Kodama, T. Nakamura, S. Ramakrishnan, and

A. K. Grover 1217

Influence of Mo6+ on magnetic properties of Cu ferrite

B.V. Rao and A.D.P. Rao 1219

Incommensurate magnetic structure of Ca3C01.gFeo.2O6A. Jain and S. M. Yusuf 1221

Magnetic properties of RBaC02.xRu,O5+s (R = Gd, Nd)N. Thirumurugan and A. Bharathi 1223

Low temperature magnetic anomalies in Er5Si3Ni. Mohapatra and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1225

NOVEL MATERIALS

Low temperature neutron diffraction studies on Ca3CoMn06S. Rayaprol, S. D. Kaushik, Ni. Mohapatra, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and E. V.

Sampathkumaran 1229

Large relative cooling power in Dy5Si4:Dy5Si3 compositeS. Shanmukharao Shanmukharao Samatham, Venkateshwarlu D, Swati Pandya, Mohan

Gangrade, L. S. Sharath Chandra, Dcepti Jain, and V. Ganesan 1231

Synthesis and powder x-ray diffraction studies on copper(II) complexes of 4,4'-

diaminodiphenyl sulfone

L. J. Singh, R. K. H. Singh, R. Chitra, and R. R. Choudhury 1233

Novel studies of ferroelectric domain-wall dynamicsJitender Kumar, S. Bhardwaj, and A. M. Awasthi 1235

TSD current spectroscopy of NCO terminated liquid crystalline polyurethaneJ. K. Quamara, Sohan Lai, S. K. Mahana, and Pushkar Raj 1237

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Multiferroic studies on La0.7Bio.3Cr03 perovskite

Aga Shahec, Dhirendra kumar, and N. P. Lalla 1239

Synthesis, growth and characterization of organic NLO crystals of 4-SCH3-4'-

chlorochaleone

E. D. D'Silva and S. M. Dharmaprakash 1241

Structural studies on multiferroic Lai.xBi,Cr03 perovskites

Aga Shahee, Dhirendra Kumar, and N. P. Lalla 1243

Emission properties from ZnO quantum dots dispersed in Si02 matrix

Shrabani Panigrahi and Durga Basak 1245

Effect of Li+-dopant on photoluminescence of Gd203:Eu3+ nanophosphorN. Dhananjaya, H. Nagabhushana, B. M. Nagabhushana, B. Rudraswamy, C. Shivakumara,

and R. P. C. Chakradhar 1247

Magnetic properties of Cd substituted Ni-Cu ferrites

P. B. Belavi, G. N. Chavan, B. K. Bammannavar, L. R. Naik, and R. K. Kornala 1249

Growth and characterization of non-linear optical crystal L-histidine HC1 monohydrate

Soma Adhikari and Tanusree Kar 1251

Heat capacity and magnetocaloric study on Dy5Ge3SiS. S. Samatham, Venkateshwarlu D, Swati Pandya, Mohan Gangrade, L. S. S. Chandra,

Decpti Jain, and V. Ganesan 1253

Growth, microhardness and photoconducting studies on the organometallic complexcrystal ofTMTM

K. Rajarajan, V. Ramesh, and K. S. Kumar 1255

Catalyst effect of fullerene curvature on metal hydrides

Deepak Agnihotri and Hitesh Sharma 1257

Dielectric properties of Pb(In1/2Nb]/2)03-PbTi03 solid solution synthesized by solid state

reaction route

G. Ramesh, G. Aruna, and V. Subramanian 1259

Electrical and nonlinear optical properties of novel organic materials

Y. Narayana and Navin N. Bappalige 1261

Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of (Pr0.7Sro.3Mn03)i.x/NiC\ compositesUtncsh Chand, Kamlesh Yadav, Anurag Gaur, and G. D. Varma 1263

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Organosoluble poly(o-toluidine)Samir K. Siddhanta 1265

Conventional and micro-XRD study of a new ternary zirconium, titanium, aluminum

alloy - Zr2TiAlD. Somadurai, Roberta L. Flemming, and V. S. Sastry 1267

The thermal expansion of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) cathode material-PruiS^MnO,Archana Srivastava and N. K. Gaur 1269

Strongly correlated electron behavior in R2Os3Al9 (R=U, Ce)Neeraj Kumar, Ruta Kulkarni, and S. K. Dhar 1271

Luminescence and optical limiting properties of Sr2Ce04 blue emitterR. Seema, S. S. C. S, Reji Philip, and Nandakumar Kalarikkal 1273

Positron annihilation studies in search of fine precipitates in Fe-9Cr alloysS. H. Babu, R. Rajaraman, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 1275

The open aperture Z-scan studies on biferroic YCr03Shiji Krishnan, Suchand S. C. S., Reji Philip, and Nandakumar Kalarikkal 1277

Czochralski growth of NaY(W04)2 single crystalsR. G. Salunke, S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, D. G. Desai, M. Tyagi, S. W. Gosavi, A. K.

Chauhan, and S. C. Gadkari 1279

Characterization of vacancy defects in carbon ion irradiated graphite using positronsC. V. Anto, J. Arunkumar, R. Rajaraman, K. G. M. Nair, and G. Amarendra 1281

Effect of Dy doping in frustrated multiferroic h -YMn03S. D. Kaushik, A. K. Singh, V. Siruguri, and S. Patnaik 1283

Morphological and optical properties of Wurtzite ZnTe thin films

Sachin D. Kshirsagar, M. G. Krishna, and Surya P. Tewari 1285

Growth and characterization on bimetallic thiyocyanate single crystal of ZnCd(SCN)4T. R. Kumar, M. Vimalan, P.S. S. Kumar, and P. Sagayaraj 1287

Piezoeletric and mechanical properties of non-linear optical manganese mercurythiocyanate (MMTC)

Santhosh K. R, Ignatius Korah, S. Chandralingam, Binay Kumar, Sijosh George, and

Ginson P. Joseph 1289

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Synthesis and characterization of organic NLO compound

Rajesh K. P.C, Ismayil V. Ravindrachary, K. Janardhana, H. R. Manjunath, and Prakash

Karegoudar 1291

Suppression of spin density wave by nickel doping in EuFe2As2

Anupam, P. L. Paulose, and Z. Hossain 1293

Synthesis of Earth-abundant Cu2SnS3 for solar cells

D. Tiwari and T. K. Chaudhuri 1295

Growth and characterization of glycine potassium nitrate NLO crystals

S Tobin, S. G. Bubbly, and S. B. Gudennavar 1297

X-ray diffraction and microhardness studies of tin monoselenide

K. R. Sreedevi, K. A. Chandrasekharan, and A. G. Kunjomana 1299

Synthesis of A1N/A1 polycrystals along with Al nanoparticles using thermal plasma route

Nilesh S. Kanhe, A. B. Nawale, N. V. Kulkarni, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathe, and A. K.

Das 1301

PVdF-clay nanocomposite gel polymer electrolytes for Li-ion batteries

A. Kumar and M. Deka 1303

High pressure in situ micro-Raman spectroscopy of Ge-Sn system synthesized in a laser

heated diamond anvil cell

Y. A. Sorb, N. Subramanian, T. R. Ravindran, and P. C. Sahu 1305

Synthesis, characterization and observation of structural transformation in A1V204

Kalavathi S., B. Thamilarasi, H. K. Sahu, and V. S. Sastry 1307

High pressure high temperature study of B+Sb mixture

N. R. S. Kumar, N. V. C. Shekar, T. R. Ravindran, and P. C. Sahu 1309

Dielectric relaxation of A2ErNbOs (A = Ba2+ and Sr2+)Rajesh Mukherjee, Chandrahas Bharti, and T. P. Sinha 1311

Precursors for carbon nitride synthesisM. Prashantha. E.S.R. Gopal, and K. Ramesh 1313

Thermal and electrical properties of polyaniline-glycine composites

T. Mathavan, S. Umapathy, M. A. Jothirajan, T. S. Vivekanandam, and G. S. Okram 1315

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Blue shifts and refractive index of Rhodamine 6G doped polycarbonateKallol Das, Sheetal Mehta, and Rashmi Singh 1317

Third order optical nonlinearity of a pyrazoline derivative

K. Janardhana, Ismayil V. Ravindrachary, P.C. R. Kumar, Yogisha, Bhoja Poojary, K. B.

Manjunatha, and Ismayil 1319

ESR study of SN doped La2Mn207 synthesized through solid state and wet chemical

reaction routes

Shahid Husain, Irshad A. Bhat, M. W. Khan, and Laila A. Khataby 1321

Growth and characterization of chalcogenide crystals by vapour method

P. M. Reshmi, A. G. Kunjomana, and K. A. Chandrasekharan 1323

Molten-salt synthesis and characterization of L^TisOuS. Sharmila, B. Senthilkumar, and R. K. Selvan 1325

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