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SOLID STATE PHYSICS Kattankulathur, India 19 – 23 December 2011�
EDITORS
R. Mittal A. K. Chauhan
R. Mukhopadhyay
Melville, New York, 2012AIP | CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1447
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1
Preface: Solid State Physics............................................................................................................................................................................... 1
THz LASER using High-Tc Superconductor Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+δ Mesa Structures....................................................................................... 7Kazuo Kadowaki, H. Asai, M. Tsujimoto, K. Delfanazari, R. Nakayama, T. Kitamura, M. Sawamura, K. Ishida, Ch. Watanabe, S. Sekimoto, H. Minami, T. Kashiwagi, M. Tachiki, R. Klemm
Superconductivity of Fe Based Pnictides and Chalcogenides: Material Aspects, Doping Routes, Future Prospects and Challenges .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
V. P. S. Awana, Anuj Kumar, Anand Pal, Shiva Kumar, R. S. Meena, R. Jha, Jagdish Kumar, Bhasker Gahtori, H. Kishan
Evidence for Multiple Nodeless Gaps and Electron-mode Coupling from Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy in the Iron-based Superconductor Ba0.6K0.4Fe2As2 .................................................................................................................................................. 12
Lei Shan, Jing Gong, Yong-Lei Wang, Bing Shen, Cong Ren, Chunhong Li, Hai-Hu Wen, Shiliang Li, Pengcheng Dai
A Fluctuating State and the Critical Behavior of the Depinning Transition in Driven Vortex Matter in Superconductors ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Gorky Shaw, Pabitra Mandal, S. S. Banerjee, A. Niazi, A. K. Rastogi, A. K. Sood, A. Tulapurkar, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover
Condensed Matter Physics at Ultra-low Temperatures ............................................................................................................................... 19S. Ramakrishnan
Chemistry of Molecules to Physics of Materials: A Unified View Through Density Window at Different Length Scales .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 20
Swapan K. Ghosh
Polymer-metal Nanocomposite Thin Films: In Situ Fabrication and Applications.................................................................................. 21T. P. Radhakrishnan
Pressure Induced Metallization and Possible Superconductivity in BaMn2As2 ........................................................................................ 24C. S. Sundar
Magnetisation Reversal Processes in Composite Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Media................................................................. 25Joachim Kohlbrecher
Organic Semiconductors for Nano- and Macro-electronics: Status and Promises ................................................................................... 26D. K. Aswal
Modeling and Visualization of Carrier Motions in Organic Devices by Optical Second Harmonic Generation .................................. 27Mitsumasa Iwamoto
Anistropic Growth and High Performance Organic Thin Film Transistor .............................................................................................. 30Akanksha Sharma, Pramod Kumar, Subhasis Ghosh
From Organic Electronics to Molecular Electronics .................................................................................................................................... 34Amlan J. Pal
Grain Boundary Dynamics in Colloidal Crystals ......................................................................................................................................... 35Hima K. Nagamanasa, Shreyas Gokhale, Rajesh Ganapathy, A. K. Sood
Plasmonic Crystals for Enhancing Optical Properties................................................................................................................................. 36Achanta Venu Gopal, Sachin Kasture, A. S. Vengurlekar, P. Mandal, Amandev Singh, Andrew Ramsay, V. Belotelov, I. A. Akimov, M. Pohl, V. A. Kotov, A. K. Zvezdin
Spontaneous Phase Separation to Antiferromagnetic and Spin-singlet States in the Square-planar Cluster Compound V4S9Br4 Observed by NMR and NQR$ ...................................................................................................................................... 40
H. Nakamura
3d Spin Dynamics in Co-oxypnictides: NMR Investigation......................................................................................................................... 41Kajal Ghoshray
Structural Studies of Some Glass/Glass-Ceramics Sealants Using NMR and XRD ................................................................................. 45G. P. Kothiyal, Madhumita Goswami, Arvind Ananthanarayan, Lionel Montagne
Ion Transport Mechanism in Glasses............................................................................................................................................................. 46Sevi Murugavel
Amorphous Alloys ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 50G. K. Dey
Amorphous Polymorphs .................................................................................................................................................................................. 51A. K. Arora
National Facility for Neutron Beam Research at Trombay......................................................................................................................... 55S. L. Chaplot
Indus Synchrotron Source: A National Facility............................................................................................................................................ 56S. K. Deb
Energetic Ion Beam Based Research Facilities at IUAC Delhi ................................................................................................................... 60D. Kanjilal
Electronic, Wetting, Stability and Magnetic Properties of Graphene ........................................................................................................ 61S. Banerjee, D. Bhattacharya, S. Panigrahi, A. Bhattacharya, M. Sardar, N. Gayathri, A. K. Tyagi, Baldev Raj
Supermagnetism in Discontinuous CoFe/Al2O3 Multilayers ....................................................................................................................... 65Subhankar Bedanta, Wolfgang Kleemann
Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of FeH and CoH ................................................................................................................ 71S. Kanagaprabha, A. T. Asvini Meenaatci, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, K. Iyakutti
High Pressure Structural, Mechanical and Thermal Properties of BaPo Compound ............................................................................. 73Ashok K. Ahirwar, Mahendra Aynyas, S. P. Sanyal
Pressure Induced Structural Evolution of BaLiF3........................................................................................................................................ 75A. K. Mishra, Nandini Garg, S. N. Achary, Surinder M. Sharma
Dielectric Behavior in the Nematic and Isotropic Phases of a Strongly Polar-weakly Polar Binary System ........................................ 77M. Sarvamangala, M. Vijay Kumar, S. M. Khened, D. S. Shankar Rao, S. Krishna Prasad
Dynamics of Pluotinum Dioxide...................................................................................................................................................................... 79Prabhatasree Goel, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot
Fast Ion Conduction and Phonon Instability in Lithium Oxide.................................................................................................................. 81M. K. Gupta, Prabhatasree Goel, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot
Anomalous Field-induced Magnetoresistance Behavior in Pr0.5Sr0.5MnO3 at Low Temperatures ......................................................... 83Dhirendra Kumar, Aga Shahee, Rajeev Rawat, N. P. Lalla
Pressure-induced Structural Transformations in SmS ................................................................................................................................ 85Ritu Dubey, Sadhna Singh, Madhu Sarwan
Pressure Induced Structural and Electronic Properties of Plutonium Monophospide: Ab Initio Calculations ................................... 87Chandrabhan Makode, Vipul Srivastava, Sankar P. Sanyal
Thermodynamics of a Spinless, Extended Falicov-kimball Model on a Triangular Lattice.................................................................... 89Umesh K. Yadav, Monika Dhariwal, T. Maitra, Ishwar Singh
Emergence of U(1) Symmetry in Z(q) Clock Model ..................................................................................................................................... 91Soumyadeep Bhattacharya, Purusattam Ray
Study of Spinless Falicov-kimball Model on a Square Lattice Away from Half-filling............................................................................ 93Monika Dhariwal, Umesh K. Yadav, T. Maitra, Ishwar Singh
High Temperature Structural Phase Transitions in FeAs Based Compounds .......................................................................................... 95S. K. Mishra, R. Mittal, P. U. Sastry, S. L. Chaplot, S. Matsuishi, H. Hosono
Structural Analysis of KH at High Temperature and Pressure.................................................................................................................. 97Vasudev Thakre, Sadhna Singh
Pressure Induced Structural Phase Transition of PrX, PrY (X = S, Se, Te) Chalcogenides and (Y = N, P, As) Pnictides............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 99
Dinesh Varshney, Swarna Shriya, A. Dube, Meenu Varshney
Study of Covalency in Zinc-blend AIAs Under High Pressure .................................................................................................................101Madhu Sarwan, Sadhna Singh, Ritu Dubey
High Pressure Structural Phase Transition and Elastic Properties of Lutetium Chalcogenides ..........................................................103A. K. Sahu, Sankar P. Sanyal
Studies of Pressure Induced Phase Transition in CdAl2Se4 .......................................................................................................................105Poonam Singh, U. P. Verma
Hydroxycarbonated Neodymium Sesquioxide Under Pressure: An Infrared Study..............................................................................107Himal Bhatt, N. Garg, M. N. Deo, K. K. Pandey
Size Effect on the Pressure Induced Structural Phase Transition of the Zinc Sulfide Nanoparticles ..................................................109N. Kaurav, S. Verma, Upendra N. Tripathi, K. K. Choudary
High Pressure X-ray Diffraction Study of URh3 .........................................................................................................................................111B. Shukla, N. V. Chandra Shekar, N. R. Sanjay Kumar, P. Ch Sahu
A Monte Carlo Algorithm for Studying Phase Transition in Systems of Hard Rigid Rods ..................................................................113Joyjit Kundu, R. Rajesh, Deepak Dhar, Jurgen F. Stilck
Theoretical Prediction of Thermal Pressure for Solids..............................................................................................................................115Brijesh K. Pandey, Anjani K. Pandey, Chandra K. Singh
A Correlation Between Structural Distortion and Variation of Tc in Ba1-x/2LaxBi4-x/2Ti4O15..................................................................117M. Arul Asha, M. Veera Gajendra Babu, S. M. Abdul Kader, B. Sundarakannan, V. Srihari, V. Sridharan
Electrical Properties of KTiOPO4 at Low Temperatures ..........................................................................................................................119Jitender Kumar, A. M. Awasthi
Monte Carlo Simulation of an Antiferromagnetic Spin-1/2 Ising System on the Square Lattice .........................................................121S. Sudhagar, N. Baskaran
Reduction in Spall Threshold Due to Non-contact Impact: A Molecular Dynamics Study ...................................................................123S. Rawat, M. Warrier, S. Chaturvedi, V. M. Chavan
First Order Phase Transition in Sm0.53Sr0.47MnO3 Films ...........................................................................................................................125Manoj K. Srivastava, M. P. Singh, Amarjeet Kaur, H. K. Singh
Ab-initio Study of Phase Transition in SmAs Under Pressure..................................................................................................................127Sanjay Kumar Singh, Pooja Rana, Dinesh Chandra Gupta
Phase Transitions of a Single Polyelectrolyte Chain in a Poor Solvent with Multivalent Counterions................................................129Anoop Varghese, Satyavani Vemparala, R. Rajesh
The Role of Steric Effects on High Pressure Crystal Structure of Ho2O3 ................................................................................................131Anthony Arulraj, N. V. Chandra Shekar, P. Ch. Sahu
Infrared Spectroscopic Signatures of Low Temperature Phase Transitions in SrSnO3........................................................................133T. N. Sairam, G. Mangamma
A High Density Perturbation Expansion for the Hard Square Lattice Gas ............................................................................................135Kabir Ramola, Deepak Dhar
High Temperature Phase Transition Studies and Dielectric Properties of Sr2SbMnO6 ........................................................................137K. R. S. Preethi Meher, Pierre-Eymeric Janolin, Nicolas Guiblin, Gadige Paramesh, K. B. R. Varma
Formation of Y-Ti-o Nanoclusters in fcc Fe from Density Functional Theory .......................................................................................139Gurpreet Kaur, D. Murali, B. K. Panigrahi, M. C. Valsakumar
Sharp Metamagnetic and Correlated Electronic Transitions in Manganites: A Systematic Effect of Cation Disorder ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................141
K. R. Mavani, Fozia Aziz, Mahesh Chandra, P. L. Paulose
Wigner Crystallization in Electron-Hole Quantum Bilayers: Mass-Asymmetric Effect .......................................................................143L. K. Saini, Mukesh G. Nayak
Evidence for Ge-C Bond Formation at High P-T Conditions in a Laser Heated Diamond Anvil Cell ................................................145Y. A. Sorb, N. Subramanian, T. R. Ravindran, P. Ch. Sahu
Synthesis and Dielectric Studies of Polyorthotoluidine - Polyacrylamide Conducting Polymer Composites......................................149A. K. Himanshu, S. K. Bandyopadhayay, Rajni Bahuguna, D. K. Ray, T. P. Sinha
Gamma Radiation Induced Degradation in PE-PP Block Copolymer.....................................................................................................151H. R. Ravi, H. R. Sreepad, Khaleel Ahmed, T. N. Govindaiah
Smectic Phases in a Binary Mixture of Two Non-mesogenic Compounds...............................................................................................153T. N. Govindaiah, H. R. Sreepad, H. R. Ravi, Nagappa
Size Dependent Fractal Aggregation Mediated Through Surfactant in Silica Nanoparticle Solution .................................................155Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher
Electronic Spectra and Ultraviolet Stability of Nematic Liquid Crystals: Effect of Solvent and Substituent.....................................157P. Lakshmi Praveen, Durga P. Ojha
Effect of Screening on the Variation of Transmittance with Voltage and Frequency for a Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell......................................................................................................................................................................................................159
Subhojyoti Sinha, Sanat Kumar Chatterjee, Ajit Kumar Meikap
Co-existence of Monomers and Clusters in Concentrated Protein Solutions ..........................................................................................161Akshay J. Chinchalikar, Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, P. Callow, A. G. Wagh
XRD, SEM and EXAFS Investigation of Cobalt (II) Macro Cyclic Complexes......................................................................................163Ashutosh Mishra, Samrath Ninama, Niyati Mishra
Actin-based Motility of Listeria: Right-handed Helical Trajectories.......................................................................................................165Murali Rangarajan
Synthesis and Characterization of Mn-Bi Alloy..........................................................................................................................................167Ashutosh Mishra, Harsha Patil, G. Jain, N. Mishra
Protein Diffusion in Polyelectrolyte Solutions.............................................................................................................................................169Santripti Khandai, Sidhartha S. Jena
A First Principles DFT Study of Novel 1,3,5-triphenyl-2-pyrazolines......................................................................................................171Vipin Kumar, Shyam Kishor, Mukesh Doble, Lavanya M. Ramaniah
K-absorption Spectral Studies of Some Mixed Ligand Copper Complexes Using Synchrotron Radiation.........................................173A. Mishra, N. Parsai, B. D. Shrivastava
Diffusion Studies of FeCl3 Doped Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Films ....................................................................................................................175T. Sheela, V. Ravindrachary, R. F. Bhajantri, Ismayil, Sunil Rathod, S. D. Praveena
Fast Local Dynamics in CTAB Micelles.......................................................................................................................................................177V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, J. Peter Embs, R. Mukhopadhyay
Block Copolymer-dependence on High-yield Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles ......................................................................................179Debes Ray, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher
SANS Study of Lysozyme vs. BSA Protein Adsorption on Silica Nanoparticles .....................................................................................181Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher
Temperature Dependence Electrical Properties of the Cu/PMMA Composites .....................................................................................183Dolly Singh, N. L. Singh
Permeability Studies of Nitroxyl Spin Probes Through Lipid Membranes Using L-band ESR Spectrometer ...................................185A. Milton Franklin Benial, M. Kumara Dhas, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Ken-Ichi Yamada, Fuminori Hyodo, A. Jawahar, Hideo Utsumi
X-ray Investigation of Cross-breed Silk in Cocoon, Yarn and Fabric Forms .........................................................................................187Y. C. Radhalakshmi, Kariappa, G. N. Siddaraju, R. Gopalkrishna, R. Somashekar
Surface Correlation in a Nano-confined DNA Film ...................................................................................................................................189Nupur Biswas, Sreeja Chakraborty, Alokmay Datta, Munna Sarkar, Mrinmay K. Mukhopadhyay, Mrinal K. Bera, Hideki Seto
Material Characteristics of Sea Shell ...........................................................................................................................................................191Aditi Sarkar, Arnab Gangopadhyay, A. Sarkar
Shock Propagation in a Visco-elastic Granular Gas ..................................................................................................................................193Sudhir N. Pathak, Zahera Jabeen, R. Rajesh, P. Ray
Non-equilibrium Work Distributions from Fluctuating Lattice-boltzmann Model ...............................................................................195S. Siva Nasarayya Chari, K. P. N. Murthy
Hydration Studies of Bentonite Clay ............................................................................................................................................................197Reshma R. Desai, J. A. Erwin Desa, V. K. Aswal
Effect of Borax Concentration on the Structure of Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Gels .........................................................................................199Mathias B. Lawrence, J. A. E. Desa, V. K. Aswal
Solvent Effects on the Absorption and Fluorescence Spectra of Quinine Sulphate: Estimation of Ground and Excited-state Dipole Moments.......................................................................................................................................................................201
Sunita Joshi, Debi D. Pant
Dynamics of Kinesin: A Computational Study ...........................................................................................................................................203S. Sumathy, S. V. M. Satyanarayana
Conductivity Study of Chitosan Based Nanocomposites............................................................................................................................205C. Raja Mohan, S. Murugan, K. Jayakumar
Removal of Pb(II) Ions from Aqueous Solution by Using Modified Butea Monosperma Leaf .............................................................207Ashish Sharma, Kushal Joshi, Santosh Mitra, Gireesh Soni, Nitish Gupta
Dissipative Sandpile on Growing Random Graph......................................................................................................................................209Himangsu Bhaumik, S. B. Santra
Molecular Structure, Vibrational Spectroscopic and Homo Lumo Studies of 4-methyl-n-(4-methylphenyl)Benzene Sulfonamide.....................................................................................................................................................................................................211
K. Sarojini, H. Krishnan, Charles C. Kanagam, S. Muthu
Production of Nanocrystalline Copper by Exploding Wire Method ........................................................................................................215Rashmita Das, Basanta K. Das, Rohit Shukla, T. Prabaharan, Anurag Shyam
Synthesis and Characterization of Mn Doped ZnS Nanometer-sized Particles ......................................................................................217V. D. Mote, V. R. Huse, Y. Purushotham, S. S. Shah, B. N. Dole
Cu Nanoparticles Induced Modification in Optical and Structural Properties of PVA.........................................................................219Isha Saini, Jyoti Rozra, Annu Sharma, Pawan K. Sharma, Rajnish Dhiman
Structural and AC Impedance Analysis of LiMVO4 (M = Mn, Ni) Cathode Materials for Lithium Batteries ..................................221D. Prakash, C. Sanjeeviraja
Investigation of Electrical Properties of Ni-Mg Ferrite Nano Particles Using Impedance Spectroscopy ............................................223Mohd. Hashim, Alimuddin, Fouran Singh, E. M. Mohammed, Shalendr Kumar, Ravi Kumar
Effect of Fe Doping on Structural and Optical Properties of CdS Nanoparticles...................................................................................225G. Murali, D. Amaranatha Reddy, B. Poornaparakash, R. P. Vijayalakshmi
Temperature Variation of Optical Parameters in Nc-CdSe Thin Films ..................................................................................................227Kriti Sharma, Alaa S. Al-Kabbi, G. S. S. Saini, S. K. Tripathi
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanoparticles of Prussian Blue Analogue Ni3[Cr(CN)6]2.nH2O .............................................229Pramod Bhatt, Ranu Bhatt, S. M. Yusuf
Synthesis and Raman Studies of Wurtzite CdS Nanosheets......................................................................................................................231Amrita Mandal, Sourish Banerjee, Sandip Dhara, Dipankar Chakravorty
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Nickel Zinc Ferrite Nanoparticles Grown Within Mesoporous Silica Template ......................233Shilpi Banerjee, Dipankar Chakravorty
Rabi Oscillation in Graphene ........................................................................................................................................................................235Enamullah, Girish S. Setlur
Tuning of Optical Properties of PMMA by Incorporating Silver Nanoparticles....................................................................................237Alisha, Jyoti Rozra, Isha Saini, Annu Sharma, Pawan Sharma
Evaporation Induced Self-assembly of Nanoparticles in Realizing Hollow Microcapsules ...................................................................239D. Sen, J. Bahadur, S. Mazumder
Characterization Studies of Plasticized PEO-PMMA Nano-composite Polymer Electrolyte System ..................................................241Poonam Sharma, D. K. Kanchan, Nirali Gondaliya, Meenakshi Pant, Manish S. Jayswal, Prajakta Joge
Size Effect on Stark Signal of CdSe Nano Crystals: A Theoretical Approach ........................................................................................243Amitesh Singh Sisodia, Hemraj Singh Dagar, Namita Sisodia
Interband Emission Energy in a Strained CdxZn1-xO Quantum Dot.....................................................................................................245S. Saravanakumar, A. John Peter
Effect of Al2O3 and PEG on Relaxation Time in PEO-LiCF3SO3 Polymer Electrolytes ........................................................................247Nirali Gondaliya, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, Manish S. Jayswal, Prajakta Joge
Methane Gas Detection in Environment Using Shape Dependent α-MoO3 Nanosensor........................................................................249R. Ajay Rakkesh, A. K. Prasad, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi, S. Balakumar
Optical Properties of Fe-doped SnO2 Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................251S. Sohila, M. Rajalakshmi, C. Muthamizhchelvan, S. Kalavathi
Hydrogen Adsorption/Desorption in Functionalized Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes........................................................................253D. Silambarasan, V. Vasu, V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti
Effect of Mg Doping on Dielectric Properties of CuFe2O4 Nanoparticles ................................................................................................255Kavita Verma, Ashwini Kumar, Dinesh Varshney
Synthesis, Characterization and Luminescence Behaviour of Dumbbell-shaped YVO4: Pr3+ Hierarchical Nanocrystals ....................................................................................................................................................................................................257
J. Thirumalai, R. Chandramohan, G. V. Vijayaraghavan, V. Saaminathan
Evolution of Tetrapod Structure in Sonochemically Synthesized ZnO: B Nanopowders......................................................................259N. R. Panda, B. S. Acharya, P. Nayak
Structural and Optical Properties of Sol-gel Derived Zn1-xMnxO Nanoparticles....................................................................................261Anup K. Ghosh, Shiv Kumar, S. Chatterjee, K. K. Chattopadhyay
Synthesis of Cu-doped ZnO Nanostructure by Thermal Evaporation Method ......................................................................................263A. K. Srivastava, S. K. Rai, P. Mishra, A. Das, T. Ganguly, L. M. Kukreja, S. K. Deb
The Influence of Isochronal Annealing on the Crystallization and Magnetic Properties of Fe40.5Co40.5Nb7B12 Alloy.........................265P. Gupta, T. Ganguli, A. Gupta, A. K. Sinha, S. K. Deb, P. Svec Jr.
Luminescence Studies of Rare-earth Doped and Co-doped Hydroxyapatite ..........................................................................................267G. Vasugi, A. Thamizhavel, E. K. Girija
Effect of Strain on Adsorption of Hydrogen on Graphene: A First-principles Study ............................................................................269V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, H. Mizuseki, Y. Kawazoe
Study the Effect of Annealing in Different Environment on the Optical Properties of β- Ga2O3 Nanostructures..............................271R. Jangir, Tapas Ganguli, S. Porwal, Pragya Tiwari, S. K. Raia, A. K. Srivastav, P. Mondal, S. K. Deb
Strain Tunable Band-gaps of Two-dimensional Hexagonal BN and AIN: An FP-(L)APW+Io Study .................................................273Harihar Behera, Gautam Mukhopadhyay
Synthesis of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Using RF-CCVD and a Bimetallic Catalyst....................................................................275S. Ramakrishnan, E. J. Jelmy, A. Baladandapani, Murali Rangarajan, Nikhil K. Kothurkar
Synthesis and Structural Evolution of ZnO/TiO2 Nanocomposites ..........................................................................................................277Suboohi Shervani, Wasi Khan, M. Chaman, A. H. Naqvi
Synthesis of Optically Transparent Ceramic of CaF2 Doped with Mn and Ce for Thermoluminescent Dosimetry ..........................279Shashwati Sen, S. G. Singh, G. D. Patra, S. Shinde, S. Bhattacharya, S. C. Gadkari
Synthesis of Mesoporous NiO Doped TiO2 Submicrosphere Via Spray Hydrolysis...............................................................................281J. Bahadur, D. Sen, J. Prakash, Ripandeep Singh, B. Paul, S. Mazumder, D. Sathiyamoorthy
Synthesis and Characterization of Multifunctional Fe3O4-ZnO Nanocomposite ....................................................................................283A. Roychowdhury, A. K. Mishra, S. P. Pati, D. Das
Formation of NiSi2 Nanoclusters by Ni Ion Implantation Into Si(100) and the Effect of Preinjection of Si2+ Ions.............................285
B. Sundaravel, S. Kalavathi, P. Santhanaraman, P. V. Satyam, K. G. M. Nair
Nanoindentation Studies on Composites of CuO Nanoparticles-Lithia Silica Nanoglass ......................................................................287Dhriti Ranjan Saha, Partha Hajra, Mykanth Reddy Mada, Philip Boughton, Sri Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar Chakravorty
Size Effects on Structural and Magnetic Properties of CoFe2O4 Nanoparticles Prepared by Co-precipitation Method .............................................................................................................................................................................................................289
K. Praveena, B. Radhika, S. Srintah
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Y3Fe5O12 Using Co-precipitation Method .....................................................291K. Praveena, K. Sadhana, S. Srinath, S. Ramana Murthy
First-principles Study of Exohedral and Substitutional Chemical Functionalization of Graphene .....................................................293K. Iyakutti, V. J. Surya, Y. Kawazoe
Gold Coated ZnO Nanorod Biosensor for Glucose Detection ...................................................................................................................295Anuradha Bhattacharya, Chhavi Jain, V. Padmanapan Rao, S. Banerjee
Structural and Optical Studies of ZnO Nanostructures ............................................................................................................................297M. Najim, V. K. Sharma, G. D. Varma
Growth and Magnetic Properties of Prism Like Triangular Fe3O4 Nanoparticles.................................................................................299R. Ramesh, M. Rajalakshmi, C. Muthamizhchelvan, S. Ponnusamy
Synthesis and Microstructural Investigations on Spray Hydrolyzed Sub-micrometric Titania Particles ...........................................301Ripandeep Singh, D. Sen, J. Bahadur, S. Mazumder
The Effect of Catalyst on Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes: An in Situ TGA Study ...............................................................................303R. Kamalakannan, S. Ilango, M. Kamruddin, A. K. Tyagi
Surface Plasmon Resonance in Gold Nanoparticles ...................................................................................................................................305A. K. Srivastava, Rishikesh Yadev, V. N. Rai, Tapas Ganguly, S. K. Deb
Structural and Electrical Properties of Fe Doped ZnO Nanoparticles Synthesized by Solution Combustion Method......................307Pooja Dhiman, Ritu Rani, M. Singh
Pure LiF Nanophosphors for High Exposures of Gamma-Rays...............................................................................................................309A. K. Sharma, Satinder Kumar, R. Dogra, S. P. Lochab, Ravi Kumar
Hydrothermal Synthesis of Molybdenum Oxide Microbelts .....................................................................................................................311A. Chithambararaj, A. Chandra Bose
Low Temperature Plasma Synthesis of Photoluminescent Nanocrystalline Silicon-nitride ..................................................................313Basudeb Sain, Debajyoti Das
Optical and Electrical Properties of Codoped Nanocrystalline Multiferroic BiFeO3.............................................................................315A. Mukherjee, Sk. M. Houssain, S. Basu, M. Pal
Synthesis of Nanoparticles Ni0.55Zn0.45Fe2O4 by Novel Precursor Method Showing Enhanced Resistivity ..........................................317M. M. Kothawale, R. B. Tangsali, G. K. Naik, J. S. Budkuley, S. S. Meena
Magnetic Properties of Sol-Gel Derived Gd2O3 Nanoparticles .................................................................................................................319R. Ray, Sumita Biswas, S. Das, M. Patra
Iron-manganese Binary Oxide Coated Functionalized Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes for Arsenic Removal ..................................321P. Tamilarasan, S. Ramaprabhu
Presence of Nitrogen Related Complexes in ZnO Synthesized Using EDTA ..........................................................................................323R. Kannan, S. Rajagopa, R. Pugaze, R. Chandrasekar, A. Sivagamasundari, D. Vanidha, A. Arunkumar
Synthesis and Characterization of CdSe/ZnSe Nanorods ..........................................................................................................................325G. Ramalingam, S. Shri Prasad, J. Madhavan
GO and RGO Based FETs Fabricated with Langmuir-blodgett Grown Monolayers............................................................................327V. Divakar Botcha, Gulbagh Singh, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar, R. S. Srinivasa, S. S. Major
Compositional Variation of Magnetic Moments in Fe(1-x)Mx (M=Co/Ni) Nanowires: Ab Initio Study .................................................329S. Assa Aravindh, S. Mathi Jaya, M. C. Valsakumar, C. S Sundar
Study of Strain in Various Phases of Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized Using Simple Ash Supported Method ........................331Anjali Jain Deotale, A. K. Sinha, S. K. Deb, R. V. Nandedkar
Nanocrystalline K2Ca2(SO4)3: Eu for Proton Beam Dosimetry .................................................................................................................333Shaila Bahl, S. P. Lochab, A. Pandey, V. E. Aleynikov, A. Molokanov, Pratik Kumar
Stretching of Short Monatomic Gold Chains-some Model Calculations .................................................................................................335Sumali, Priyanka, Veena Verma, Keya Dharamvir
Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline Fe0.5Ni0.5 Permalloy.................................................................................................................337D. De, S. Majumdar, S. Giri
Solution Combustion Synthesis and Characterization of Nanosized Bismuth Ferrite ...........................................................................339V. Sesha Sai Kumar, K. Venkateswara Rao, T. Krishnaveni, A. Shiva Kishore Goud, P. Ranjith Reddy
Synthesis and Characterization of Sol-gel Derived Cr2O3 Nanoparticles ................................................................................................341Vishal Balouria, A. Singh, A. K. Debnath, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Eosin Yellowish Dye Sensitized TiO2 Solar Cell with PEG/PEO/LiI/I2 As Electrolyte ..........................................................................343S. S. Kanmani, S. Umapathy, K. Ramachandran
Ac Conductivity Studies of Solution Combustion Synthesized Nanocrystalline Li2MgZrO4 Material ................................................345Rajesh Cheruku, Lakshmi Vijayan, G. Govindaraj
Cadmium Diffusion in Nano Cadmium Sulphide .......................................................................................................................................347M. Ragam, N. Sankar, K. Ramachandran
Temperature Dependent Barrier Height of MIS Diode of Al/Al2O3/n-CdSe/CdS/PVA Core/Shell Quantum Dot.............................349Mamta Sharma, S. K. Tripathi
Visible Light Photocatalytic Property of Zn Doped V2O5 Nanoparticles.................................................................................................351R. Suresh, K. Giribabu, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, V. Narayanan
Enhanced Electrical and Dielectric Properties of Graphite Based PVA Nanocomposite at Low Percolation Threshold.........................................................................................................................................................................................................353
D. Bhadra, J. Sannigrahi, S. K. De, B. K. Chaudhuri
On the Surface Magnetism Induced Atypical Ferromagnetic Behavior of Cerium Oxide (CeO2) Nanoparticles ..............................355M. Sakara, S. Arumugam, S. Tripathy, S. Balakumar
Fabrication of Magnetic Nanodot Arrays Using Ultrathin Alumina Membrane (UTAM) ...................................................................357P. Chowdhury, S. Boominatha Sellarajan, M. Krishnan, H. C. Barshilia
Extraordinarily High Ultraviolet Photosensitivity and Sharp Cut Off Wavelength of Hydrothermally Grown Zinc Oxide Nanorods ..............................................................................................................................................................................................359
Sanjit Sarkar, Durga Basak
Enhanced Light Harvesting in Photovoltaics with ZnO Nanorod Arrays ...............................................................................................361Anjana J. Kothari, T. K. Chaudhuri
The Dielectric Properties of Polyindole -Zno Containing LiClO4 Polymer Electrolyte .........................................................................363G. Rajasudha, V. Narayanan, A. Stephen
Nanofibers-NiCo2O4: Fabrication and Li-Storage Properties ...................................................................................................................365Yogesh Sharma, Madhavi Srinivasan
Phthalocyanine based 1D Nanowires for Device Applications ..................................................................................................................367Rajan Saini, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi
Dielectric Properties of Flower-Type ZnO Nanorods and ZnO-SnO2 Nanocomposites ........................................................................369C. Stella, R. N. Mariammal, K. Ramachandran
Energetics of Gold Adatom Adsorption on Graphene ............................................................................................................................... 371Shuchi Gupta, Gagandeep Kaur, Keya Dharamvir
Ambient Dependence of the Phase of Nanowires Grown by Annealing Brass ........................................................................................373Himanshu Srivastava, Tapas Ganguli, Pragya Tiwari, A. K. Srivastava, S. K. Deb
Structural and Dielectric Properties of Ni-Cu-Mg Nanoferrites...............................................................................................................375M. Shahnawaze Ansari, Khalid Mujasam Batoo, Sumaira Mehraj
Preparation, Characterization and Luminescence Properties of Polyaniline-CDS Nanocomposites ...................................................377M. Goswami, R. Ghosh, A. K. Meikap
Hydrothermal Growth of High Surface Area Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell ..........................................379G. Arthi, M. Navaneethan, C. Muthamizhchelvan, Y. Hayakawa, S. Ponnusamy
Formation of Anatase TiO2 Nanospheres by Simple Polymer Gel Technique ........................................................................................381T. Prakash, M. Navaneethan, S. Ponnusamy, Y. Hayakawa, C. Muthamizhchelvan
Magnetoviscous Effect in Thermosensitive Magnetic Fluids.....................................................................................................................383Rucha Desai, R. V. Upadhyay, V. K. Aswal
Experimental Investigation of Thermal Conductivity of Magnetic Nanofluids ......................................................................................385Kinnari Parekh, H. S. Lee
Thermoluminescence of Eu activated LiF nanophosphors........................................................................................................................387Satinder Kumar, A. K. Sharma, S. P. Lochab, Ravi Kumar
Reduction of Graphene Oxide Monolayers Transferred on Si and Ti Substrates by LB Technique ...................................................389Gulbagh Singh, V. Divakar Botcha, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar, R. S. Srinivasa, S. S. Major
ZnO Nanorods/SnO2 Nanoparticles Based Composites: Synthesis and Characterization.....................................................................391R. N. Mariammal, C. Stella, S. S. Kanmani, S. Umapathy, K. Ramachandran
Spray Deposited ZnO: Au Thin Films for Solar Cell Application ............................................................................................................393N. L. Tarwal, N. S. Harale, P. R. Jadhav, P. S. Patil
Magnetic Properties of Carbon Stabilized Multiferroic Bismuth Ferrite Nanoparticles.......................................................................395T. Karan, S. Ram, R. K. Kotnala
Evolution of Structure and Magnetic Properties of Encapsulated Ni from Nanocrystalline Ni-b ........................................................397G. Lal Singh, S. K. Manna, V. Srinivas
Role of SnO2 as a Filler in (PEO)50AgCF3SO3 Nanocomposite Polymer Electrolyte System.................................................................399S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, M. Kumara Vadivel
Ion Beam Induced Effects on the Ferromagnetism in Pd Nanoparticles .................................................................................................401P. K. Kulriya, B. R. Mehta, D. C. Agarwal, Kanika Agarwal, Praveen Kumar, S. M. Shivaprasad, D. K. Avasthi
Optoelectronic Study of CdS Thin Films Ultrasonically Intercalated by Silver Nanoparticles ............................................................403Ketan P. Gattu, Arindam Ghosh, Ramphal Sharma, Anil Ghule
Template Synthesis and Characterizations of Nickel Nanorods ...............................................................................................................405T. Ghosh, B. Satpati
In-situ Electrochemical Fabrication of Porous Organic-inorganic Hybrid Nanocomposites on Stainless Steel for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Application...................................................................................................................................407
P. Muthirulan, N. Kannan, M. Meenakshisundaram
Effect of Silver Doping on the Performance of Electrochemical Supercapacitor ...................................................................................409D. S. Patil, S. A. Pawar, P. S. Patil
Structural and Optical Properties of 2D CuO Nanoleaves ........................................................................................................................411D. Manoj, D. Ranjith Kumar, J. Santhanalakshmi
Magnetic and Dielectric Behavior of Nanostructured (Li0.5Fe0.5)(1-x)ZnxFe2O4(x≤1.0) Spinel Ferrites ..................................................413S. Misra, S. Ram, R. S. Shinde
Nanocrystallite Mg Ferrite LPG, Cl2 and C2H5OH Sensor .......................................................................................................................415Ashok B. Gadkari, Tukaram J. Shinde, Pramod N. Vasambekar
Tailoring the Dimensions of V2O5 Nanoparticles by Surfactant Assisted Non-aqueous Sol-gel Protocol and Characterization .............................................................................................................................................................................................417
A. Venkatesan, N. Krishna Chandar, S. Arjunan, R. Mohan Kumar, R. Jayavel
Electronic, Magnetic and Mechanical Properties of Vanadium-carbon Nanowires...............................................................................419Poorva Singh, Tashi Nautiyal
Vertically Aligned ZnO Nanorod Grown by Hydrothermal Based Chemical Method on Glass Substrate.........................................421R. Srivastava, S. Majumdar, S. Bhunia
Synthesis of Silicon Nanotubes by DC Arc Plasma Method ......................................................................................................................423C. M. Tank, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathe
Magnetic Properties of Ni and Cu-Ni Nanoparticles..................................................................................................................................425B. G. Ganga, P. N. Santhosh, P. John Thomas
Temperature Dependence of Plasmon Enhanced Photoluminescence from Ultra Thin Hybrid Structures of ZnO/Au/Si........................................................................................................................................................................................................427
K. Saravanan, B. K. Panigrahi, R. Krishnan, K. G. M. Nair
Effect of Sn Doping on Morphology and Ethanol Sensing Response of ZnO Nanorods ........................................................................429Onkar Singh, Manmeet Pal Singh, Nipin Kohli, Kanika Anand, Ravi Chand Singh
Structural and Optical Properties of Ag and Co Doped ZnO Nanoparticles ..........................................................................................431B. Sankara Reddy, S. Venkatramana Reddy, R. P. Vijaya Lakshmi
Mechanical Synthesis of Nanostructured Nickel-Zinc Ferrite and Investigation of Magnetic Properties...........................................433K. Radhika, Sk. Mohammad Yasin, N. Harish Kumar
Electrodeposition of V2O5 Nanorods on Current Collector Substrate .....................................................................................................435D. Vasanth Raj, V. Nandhinidevi, D. Mangalaraj, C. Viswanathan
Influence of Polyvinylpyrrolidone on Particle Size of Ni Nanoparticles Preparation ............................................................................437Upendra N. Tripathi, Ajay Soni, V. Ganesan, Gunadhor S. Okram
Structural and Optical Studies of Pd Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles Prepared by Chemical Co-Precipitation Method .............................................................................................................................................................................................................439
Brajesh Nandan, B. Venu Gopal, S. Amirthapandian, Sumita Santra, B. K. Panigrahi, P. Thangadurai
Study of Nanograin Sized Fe-doped ZnO Film As Transducer-capacitance and Humidity Sensing. ..................................................441V. Chaitra, K. S. Shamala, V. Uma
Structural and Optical Studies of Mn Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................443B. Venu Gopal, Brajesh Nandan, S. Amirthapandian, B. K. Panigrahi, P. Thangadurai
Point Defects Aspect of Magnetite Nano Particles As Studied by Mossbauer Spectroscopy .................................................................445L. Herojit Singh, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, C. S. Sundar
Ag Doped Nanotitania for Electrical and Optical Applications ................................................................................................................447A. K. Abdul Gafoor, M. M. Musthafa, P. P. Pradyumnan
Catalysis Free Growth of GaN Nanostructures ..........................................................................................................................................449Prasana Sahoo, S. Dhara, Avinash Patsha, S. Dash, M. Kamruddin, A. K. Tyagi
Electrochromic Properties of Electrodeposited Tungsten Oxide (WO3) Thin Film ...............................................................................451D. S. Dalavi, S. S. Kalagi, S. S. Mali, A. J. More, R. S. Patil, P. S. Patil
A Novel Chemical Synthesis Method of ZnO Platelets............................................................................................................................... 453J. Jadhav, M. Patange, S. Biswas
α-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles Synthesized by a Novel Chemical Method ...........................................................................................................455M. Patange, J. Jadhav, S. Biswas
Growth of Cadmium Oxide Microrod Bundles and Microflakes .............................................................................................................457Raman Srinivasan, Lakshmanan Saravanan, Ramasamy Jayavel
Electrical and Optical Modifications in Polyurethane-CdS Nanocomposites .........................................................................................459Ajay Pal Indolia, M. S. Gaur
Electrical Properties of Fe Doped NiO Thin Films .....................................................................................................................................461Shweta Moghe, A. D. Acharya, Richa Panda, S. B. Shrivastava, Mohan Gangrade, V. Ganesan
Facile Synthesis of Mesoporous CuO Hollow Architecture: An Excellent Field Emitter ......................................................................463S. Das, S. Maiti, K. K. Chattopadhyay
Magnetic Properties of Two Dimensional Nickel Nanowires ....................................................................................................................465Vikas Kashid, Vaishali Shah, H. G. Salunke
Effect of Temperature on Morphology, Growth and Structure of Carbon Nanostructures Grown by Radio Frequency Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition .......................................................................................................................467
B. Purna Chandra Rao, D. John Thiruvadigal
Electron Transport Study of Single Wall Nanotubes Based on Group 14 Elements ..............................................................................469S. Sivasathya, D. John Thiruvadigal
Enhanced Biocidal Activity and Optical Properties of Zinc Oxide Nanoneedles....................................................................................471Meghana Ramani, S. Ponnusamy, C. Muthamizhchelvan
Transition Metal Dimer on Au(111) Surface: A First Principle Study ....................................................................................................473Suman Kalyan Sahoo, Sandeep Nigam, Pranab Sarkar, Chiranjib Majumder
Nanotubes and Nanoballs of Fe2O3: A Comparative Study by Ab Inito Methods ..................................................................................475Sandeep Nigam, Chiranjib Majumder
High-precision Determination of Si-neutron Coherent Scattering Length with a Dual Non-dispersive Sample ................................479Sohrab Abbas, Apoorva G Wagh, H. Lemmel, Thomas Potocar, H. Rauch
Radio Frequency Surface Conductivity Measurement Apparatus for Small Samples ..........................................................................481Jagdish Chandra, Meghmalhar Manekar
GIXRD Measurements at EDXRD Beamline at INDUS-2 Synchrotron..................................................................................................483K. K. Pandey, Dileep Kumar, Abhilash Dwivedi, Ajay Gupta, Surinder M. Sharma
3He Alternative Technologies: 1. Application of Neutron Image Plate Detector for Powder Diffractometry ....................................485A. M. Shaikh, P. S. R. Krishna, A. B. Shinde
A 10 Tesla Table-top Controlled Waveform Magnet .................................................................................................................................487Aditya N. Roy Choudhury, V. Venkataraman
Evaluation of Pelletron Accelerator Facility to Study Radiation Effects on Semiconductor Devices ..................................................489A. P. Gnana Prakash, N. Pushpa, K. C. Praveen, P. S. Naik, D. Revannasiddaiah
Neutron Beam Imaging at Neutron Spectrometers at Dhruva..................................................................................................................491Shraddha S. Desai, Mala N. Rao
Optimization of Drift Bias in an UHV Based Pulsed Positron Beam System ..........................................................................................493C. Varghese Anto, R. Rajaraman, G. Venugopal Rao, S. Abhaya, J. Parimala, G. Amarendra
Limits Imposed by Solenoid Damage on the Maximum Velocity Achieved by an Electromagnetic Coilgun: A Computational Study .....................................................................................................................................................................................495
S. Madhavan, C. D. Sijoy, S. Pahari, S. Chaturvedi
X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of ZnO Nanoparticles ............................................................................................................................497S. Basu, M. Ghosh, A. K. Singh, S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya
Commissioning of a Microprobe-XRF Beamline (BL-16) on Indus-2 Synchrotron Source ..................................................................499M . K. Tiwari, P. Gupta, A. K. Sinha, C. K. Garg, A. K. Singh, S. R. Kane, S. R. Garg, G. S. Lodha
Growth and Characterization of Organic NLO Material..........................................................................................................................501A. Subashini, K. Ramamurthi
Setting up of a MicroKelvin Refrigerator Facility at TIFR.......................................................................................................................503H. R. Naren, R. S. Sannabhadti, Anil Kumar, V. Arolkar, S. Ramakrishnan
X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Doped BaCeO3-BaZrO3 Systems.......................................................................................................505S. Basu, P. Sawant, S. Varma, B. N. Wani, S. R. Bharadwaj, S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya
Application of Multilayer Mirror for Harmonic Analysis in Soft X-ray Region ....................................................................................507Mohammed H. Modi, R. K. Gupta, G. S. Lodha
Growth, Optical and Thermal Properties of Uv Nlo Family Crystal: Ulta..............................................................................................509A. Shihabuddeen Syed, V. Ramesh, A. Subashini, K. Sendil Kumar, K. Rajarajan
A Study on Crystalline Perfection, Optical, Dielectric, Mechanical, Laser Damage Threshold and NLO Properties of Glycine Added Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate Single Crystals ......................................................................................................511
K. Boopathi, P. Rajesh, P. Ramasamy
Analysis of Order Contamination from Toroidal Grating Monochromator of Indus-1 Reflectivity Beamline ..................................513R. K. Gupta, Mohammed H. Modi, G. S. Lodha
Crystal Structure Analysis of Lead Free Ba1-xLax[Ti0.5(Fe0.5Nb0.5)0.5]1-x/4O3 Ceramics..............................................................515Piyush Kumar Patel, Jyoti Rani, K. L. Yadav
Synthesis and Characterization of Quasi One Dimensional Oxide, Ca3CoMnO6 Multiferroic.............................................................517Jyoti Rani, K. L. Yadav, Satya Prakash
Synthesis, Growth and Characterization of L-Phenylalanine-4-nitrophenol (LPNP) Single Crystal ..................................................519M. Rajalakshmi, R. Indirajith, R. Gopalakrishnan
Ferro Fluid Based Optical Fiber Switch ......................................................................................................................................................521S. D. Kemkar, H. S. Mahajan, Milind Vaidya
Synthesis and Characterization of (1-x)ZnO-xMgO Composites .............................................................................................................523Nidhi Adhlakha, K. L. Yadav
Fabrication of Compound Refractive Lens Using Soft and Deep X-ray Lithography Beamline on Indus-2.......................................525V. P. Dhamgaye, G. S. Lodha
Commissioning of Soft and Deep X-ray Lithography Beamline on Indus-2 ...........................................................................................527V. P. Dhamgaye, B. Gowri Sankar, C. K. Garg, G. S. Lodha
Gamma Ray Spectroscopic Analysis of Building Materials Used in Tiruvannamalai, Tamilnadu, India ...........................................529R. Ravisankar, K. Vanasundari, M. Suganya, A. Chandrasekaran, Y. Raghu, S. Sivakumar, P. Vijayagopal, V. Meenakshisundaram
Development of Portable Experimental Set-up for AFM to Work at Cryogenic Temperature ............................................................531D. H. Agarwal, P. M. Bhatt, A. M. Pathan, Hitarthi Patel, U. S. Joshi
Structural Studies of Liquid Rubidium at Various Temperatures Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation Technique ........................................................................................................................................................................................................535
J. K. Baria, A. R. Jivani, P. S. Vyas, A. R. Jani
Optical Properties of Eu2O3 Doped Lead Fluoroborate Glass .................................................................................................................537Akshatha Wagh, K. K. Mahato, R. Lakshmikanth, R. Rajaramakrishna, Sudha D. Kamath
Fragility index of lithium phosphate binary glasses ...................................................................................................................................539Prashant Dabas, K. Hariharan
Thermal Analysis, Spectral Characterization and Refractive Index Studies of Lithium Doped PbO-ZnO-B2O3 Glass .................................................................................................................................................................................................................541
R. Rajaramakrishna, R. Lakshmikantha, R. V. Anavekar
Study of Intermolecular Interaction of Allyl Chloride with Acetone Through Dielectric and Volumetric Properties ......................543Y. S. Sudake, S. P. Kamble, A. P. Maharolkar, S. S. Patil, P. W. Khirade
Optical Properties Study of S40Se60-xSbx Bulk Alloys ..................................................................................................................................545Ramakanta Naik, C. Kumar, R. Ganesan, K. S. Sangunni
Dielectric Study of Te15(Se100-xBix)85 (x=0, 3, 5 at.%) Chalcogenide Glasses ............................................................................................547Kameshwar Kumar, Nagesh Thakur
Optical studies on Eu3+ Doped Boro-tellurite Glasses ................................................................................................................................549K. Maheshvaran, K. Marimuthu
Transport Properties of PbO-P2O5-ZnO-Li2O Glass System ....................................................................................................................551R. Lakshmikantha, R. Rajaramakrishna, N. H. Ayachit, R. V. Anavekar
Magnetic Interactions in Iron Tellurite Glasses..........................................................................................................................................553P. Sandhya Rani, R. Singh
120 MeV Ni Ion Beam Induced Modifications in Poly (Ethylene Terephthalate) Used in Commercial Bottled Water .....................555Vijay Kumar, R. G. Sonkawade, Yasir Ali, A. S. Dhaliwal
Structural Properties of Liquid Lanthanides Using Charge Hard Sphere Reference System ..............................................................557P. B. Thakora, Y. A. Sonvane, H. P. Patel, P. N. Gajjar, A. R. Jani
Photo Induced Effects on the Optical Properties of Sb40Se20S40 Thin Film .........................................................................................559Ramakanta Naik, C. Kumar, Sanjit K. Parida, R. Ganesan
Effect of Sm2O3 Addition on Electrical and Optical Properties of Lithium Borate Glasses ..................................................................561R. S. Gedam, D. D. Ramteke
Raman Study of Glass Transition in Iron Phosphate Glasses ...................................................................................................................563S. Chakraborty, A. K. Arora
Characterization of HPMC/PVP Polymer Blend Films Using WAXS Technique..................................................................................565Y. Prakash, H. Somashekarappa, P. Parameswara, T. Demappa, R. Somashekar
Study of Structural and Optical Properties of Lead Borate Glasses Containing Transition Metal Ion...............................................567Sanjay, A. Kaushik, N. Kishore, A. Agarwal, I. Pal, R. Dhar
Improvement in Hardness of Soda-lime-silica Glass ..................................................................................................................................569Riya Chakraborty, Moumita De, Sudakshina Roy, Arjun Dey, Sampad K. Biswas, Tapas Ranjan Middya, Anoop K. Mukhopadhyay
The Temperature Dependent Collective Dynamics of Liquid Sodium.....................................................................................................571A. B. Patel, S. G. Khambholja, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, P. R. Vyas, A. R. Jani
Structural and Luminescence Studies on Eu3+: B2O3-Li2O-MO-LiF (M=Ba, Bi, Pb and Zn) Glasses .................................................573S. Arunkumar, K. Marimuthu
Effect of V2O5 on SrO-ZnO-B2O3-SiO2 Glass-Ceramics for High Temperature Sealant Application..................................................575Babita Tiwari, S. Bhatacharya, A. Dixit, S. C. Gadkari, G. P. Kothiyal
Effect of Bi2O3 on Dynamics of Li+ Ions in Lithium Phosphate Glasses...................................................................................................577A. Shaw, A. Ghosh
Optical Properties of Dy3+ Doped Bismuth Zinc Borate Glass and Glass Ceramics ..............................................................................579B. Shanmugavelu, V. V. Ravi Kanth Kumar
Luminescence Properties of Sm3+ Impurities in Strontium Lithium Bismuth Borate Glasses..............................................................581D. Rajesh, Y. C. Ratnakaram, M. Seshadri, A. Balakrishna
Thermodynamic Criteria for Bulk Metallic Glass Formation in Zr Rich Quaternary System.............................................................583S. Vincent, B. S. Murty, J. Bhatt
A Study on the Microstructural Parameters of 550 KeV Electron Irradiated Lexan Polymer Films..................................................585K. Hareesh, R. Pramod, V. C. Petwal, Jishnu Dwivedi, Sangappa, Ganesh Sanjeev
Effect of Electron Beam Irradiation on PMMA Films............................................................................................................................... 587Pragya Tiwari, A. K. Srivastava, B. Q. Khattak, Suveer Verma, Anuj Upadhyay, A. K. Sinha, Tapas Ganguli, G. S. Lodha, S. K. Deb
Kinetics of Glass Transition Phenomenon of Amorphous Tin-based Se-Te Semiconducting Alloy .....................................................589Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakura, S. K. Tripathi
Photoluminescence and Refractive Index Behaviour of PMMA-PAni Blends ........................................................................................591A. K. Tomar, Suman Mahendia, Rishi Pal Chahal, Shyam Kumar
Structural Relaxation in Bismuth and Lead Borate Glasses .....................................................................................................................593Anu Bajaj, Atul Khanna
Electrical Conduction in 100 keV Kr+ Ion Implanted Poly (Ethylene Terephthalate) ...........................................................................595P. K. Goyal, V. Kumar, Renu Gupta, S. Mahendia, Anita, S. Kumar
Partial Structure Factors of Compound Forming Na-Pb Binary Liquid Alloy Using Ab-Initio Pseudopotentials ............................597Anil Thakur, Nalini Sharma, P. K. Ahluwalia
Study of Lithium Borosilicotitanate Glasses with LiCl Addition..............................................................................................................599A. V. Deshpande, N. S. Paighan
Electrical Transport and Structural Investigations in Cu2O Substituted AgI-Ag2O-V2O5 Glass-Ceramic Nanocomposites ..............................................................................................................................................................................................601
Neha Gupta, Anshuman Dalvi, Barkha Awasthi, Dinesh Deva
Nonlinear Refraction and Two-photon Absorption in Dense 2Bi2O3-B2O3 Glasses ................................................................................603Gadige Paramesh, K. B. R. Varma
Dielectric Behavior of Ar+ Implanted CR-39 Polymer............................................................................................................................... 605Nidhi Shekhawat, Annu Sharma, Sanjeev Aggarwal, S. K. Deshpande, K. G. M. Nair
Effect of 200 keV Argon Ion Implantation on Refractive Index of Polyethylene Terepthlate (PET) ...................................................607Rajiv Kumar, Mahak Chawla, Rubi, Annu Sharma, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Praveen Kumar, D. Kanjilal
Effect of Cr2O3 on Solubility and Thermo-Physical Properties of BaO-CaO-Al2O3-B2O3-SiO2 Glass System ....................................609M. Goswami, Rakesh Kumar, A. S. Patil, A. K. Sahu, G. P. Kothiyal
Electrical Conduction Behavior of LiNixCo1-xO2 Thin Films.....................................................................................................................613M. C. Rao, Sk. Muntaz Begum, E. Sivanagi Reddy, O. M. Hussain
Substrate Effects on SILAR Route Synthesized CuO Thin Films ............................................................................................................615V. Dhanasekaran, T. Mahalingam, G. Ravi, Jin-Koo Rhee
Conductive and Transparent Undoped ZnO Thin Films Prepared by Thermal Evaporation Method ...............................................617Sowmya Palimar, G. K. Shivakumar, Kasturi V. Bangera
Structural and Morphological Properties of Sputtered NiO Thin Films at Various Sputtering Pressures .........................................619A. Mallikarjuna Reddy, Y. Ashok Kumar Reddy, A. Sivasankar Reddy, P. Sreedhara Reddy
Plasmon-exciton Transition in Cu Thin Films on Iodization ....................................................................................................................621S. Venkateswaran, M. Gnanavel, C. S. Sunandana
Effect of Thickness on the Optical Properties Change in Bi/As2S3 Bilayer Thin Films..........................................................................623Ramakanta Naik, C. Kumar, R. Ganesan, K. S. Sangunni
Influence of Spraying Parameter on Performance of La0.6Sr0.4Co0.2Fe0.8O3 Films for IT-SOFCs .........................................................625A. P. Jamale, A. U. Chavan, S. P. Patila, L. D. Jadhav, C. H. Bhosale
Thickness Dependence Properties of Vacuum Deposited PbSe Thin Films.............................................................................................627V. Arivazhagan, M. Manonmani Parvathi, S. Rajesh
Effect of Annealing Temperature on CdO Thin Films ..............................................................................................................................629T. Mahalingam, V. Dhanasekaran, S. Thanikaikarasan, R. Chandramohan, Jin-Koo Rhee
Effects of Bath Temperature on Electroplated SnSe Thin Films ..............................................................................................................631T. Mahalingam, V. Dhanasekaran, S. Thanikaikarasan, A. Kathalingam, Jin-Koo Rhee
Preparation and Characterization of RF Sputtered Ce-V Mixed Oxide Thin Films .............................................................................633D. Rachel Malini, C. Sanjeeviraja
Conversion of Evaporated In2S3 layers Into In2O3 by Air Annealing.......................................................................................................635G. R. Gopinath, N. Revathi, S. Uthanna, K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy
Improved Electrical Transport Properties in P-type ZnO Film by Rapid Dark Thermal Annealing Process....................................637Tushar Ghosh, Durga Basak
A New Insight Into Interfaces of Immiscible Binary Polymer Blends from the Free Volume Approach ............................................639P. Ramya, D. Meghala, T. Pasang, J. M. Raj, M. N. Chandrashekara, C. Ranganathaiah
Information on Individual Interfaces in Ternary Polymer Blends from Positron Annihilation Lifetime Studies..............................641D. Meghala, P. Ramya, T. Pasang, H. B. Ravikumar, C. Ranganathaiah
The Study of the Mechanical Properties of Au Films by Nanoindentation Techniques.........................................................................643S. A. Mollick, D. Ghose
Effect of Polymer Modification of SiO2 Dielectric on the Performance of Copper Phthalocyanine Based Organic Thin Film Transistor ......................................................................................................................................................................................645
N. Padma, A. K. Chauhan, Shilpa N. Sawant, S. K. Gupta
Characterization of Ni/Al multilayer on Si Substrate by Diffraction and Reflectometry Techniques .................................................647Mitali Swain, Saibal Basu, Debarati Bhattacharya, Mukul Gupta
Growth and Characterization of Cu3SnS4 Thin Films by Spray Pyrolysis ..............................................................................................649U. Chalapathi, Y. B. Kishore Kumar, S. Uthanna, V. Sundara Raja
Velocity Dependence of Coefficient of Friction of Diamond Like Carbon Coatings ..............................................................................651Neha Sharma, Niranjan Kumar, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi
Effect of Mo Doping in CdO Thin Films Prepared by Spray Pyrolysis Technique ................................................................................653R. Kumaravel, K. Ramamurthi
Growth of Different Phases of Yttrium Manganese Oxide Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition....................................................655Manish Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase
The Effect of Surface Modification on the Electronic Properties of ZnO Nanoparticles by Tb ...........................................................657A. Sharma, S. Dhar, B. P. Singh, T. Kundu
Microstructure, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Sprayed ZnCoO Films .....................................................................................659V. Supriya, M. Sugiyama, S. Uthanna, K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy
Effect of Buffer Layer Growth Temperature on Epitaxial GaN Films Deposited by Magnetron Sputtering .....................................661P. Mohanta, D. Singh, R. Kumar, T. Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, S. S. Major
Metal-free Organic Dye for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells .............................................................................................................................663Vibha Saxena, P. Veerender, A. K. Chauhan, P. Jha, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Synthesis and Characterization of CdS-Polyelectrolyte-Bi2S3 Thin Film by SILAR..............................................................................665Dipalee J. Desale, Shaheed Shaikh, Farha Siddiqui, Ravikiran Birajadar Anilghule, Ramphal Sharma
Effect of Aging on ZnO and Nitrogen Doped P-Type ZnO .......................................................................................................................667Sayanee Majumdar, S. Bhunia
Structural, Optical and Transport Properties of 100 MeV Oxygen Ion Irradiated V2O5 Thin Film ...................................................669M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, P. Manimuthu, J. P. Singh, K. Asokan, C. Venkateswaran, R. Mohan
Effect of pH on Electrodeposited ZnO Thin Films .....................................................................................................................................671Priyanka U. Londhe, N. B. Chaure
Thermal Dependence of Optical Properties of Silver Thin Films Studied by Spectroscopic Ellipsometry .........................................673S. Tripura Sundari, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi
VOLUME 2
Effect of Current Induced Charge Order Melting of Pr0.5Ca0.5MnO3 on YBa2Cu3O7 Thin Film..........................................................675
Dipak Kumar Baisnab, T. Geetha Kumary, A. T. Satya, Awadhesh Mani, R. Nithya, L. S. Vaidhyanathan, M. P. Janawadkar, A. Bharathi
Structural Characterization and Electronic Structure of Laser Treated TiN Thin Film ......................................................................677Sheetal Soni, K. G. M. Nair, D. M. Phase, Ratnesh Gupta
Opposite Response of CO for WO3 and Au: WO3 Sensors ........................................................................................................................679Niranjan S. Ramgir, S. Kailasa Ganapati, N. Datta, M. Kaur, A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Study of Local In-homogeneity in Ion Beam Mixing Using SIMS Ion Imaging Techniques .................................................................681Ch. Kishan Singh, S. Ilango, S. Dash, A. K. Tyagi
Highly Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of ZnO Nanorods by Sulphur Treatment ............................................................................683Shrabani Panigrahi, Durga Basak
XPS Studies on In-situ Heating of Ferrites..................................................................................................................................................685Santanu Bera, Vinit K. Mittal, T. Saravanan, S. V. Narasimhan, S. Velmurugan
Measurement of Absolute Diffraction Efficiency of a Variable Line Spaced Grating Using Reflectivity Beamline ..........................687M. Kumar, M. H. Modi, H. Singhal, J. A. Chakera, R. K. Gupta, P. A. Naik, G. S. Lodha, P. D. Gupta
Structural and Optical Studies on In2O3: Cr Thin Films...........................................................................................................................689S. Kaleemulla, N. Madhusudhana Rao, G. Hema Chandra, M. Rigana Begam, M. Shobana
Effect of Ion Beam Energy on Density, Roughness & Uniformity of Co Film Deposited Using Ion Beam Sputtering System ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................691
Rajnish Dhawan, Sanjay Rai, G. S. Lodha
Salt Dependent Structural Changes of Polyelectrolyte Films....................................................................................................................693Tanusree Samanta, M. Mukherjee
Effect of Ultrasonication on Properties of Sequential Layer Deposited Nanocrystalline Silver Thin Films........................................695Ashwini B. Rohom, S. D. Sartale
Studies on Structural & Optical Properties of CdS0.2Se0.8: Ag Nanocomposite Thin Film for Photosensor Application ......................................................................................................................................................................................................697
J. B. Chaudhari, R. S. Patil, I. J. Patil, P. P. Jagtap, Ramphal Sharma
Optical and Electronic Properties of Ti1-x NbxN Thin Films......................................................................................................................699K. Vasu, G. M. Gopikrishnan, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, K. A. Padmanabhan
TSDC Study of Structural Relaxation on PET/PBT Double layered Samples ........................................................................................701R. Garg, R. K. Dubey, J. M. Keller
Nano Structuring of GaAs(100) Surface using Low Energy Ion Irradiation ..........................................................................................703Tanuj Kumar, S. A. Khan, S. Verma, D. Kanjilal
Structural and Transport Properties of La5/8-yPryCa3/8MnO3 (y=0.45) Thin Films.................................................................................705Dileep K. Mishra, R. Rawat, V. G. Sathe
Microhardness Studies and Surface Analysis of 4-ethoxy N-methyl 4-stilbazolium Besylate Single Crystal ......................................707Amirdha Sher Gill, S. Kalainathan
Crystalline Behaviour of SnS Layers Produced by Sulfurization of Sn Films using H2S ......................................................................709K. T. R. Reddy, M. V. Reddy, M. Leach, J. K. Tan, D. Y. Jang, R. W. Miles
Growth Optimization of Sr2CoO4 Thin Films by Pulsed Laser Deposition Technique ..........................................................................711Pankaj K. Pandey, D. M. Phase, R. J. Choudhary
Ag-ZnO Nanorods Having Enhanced Emission and Photocurrent Properties .......................................................................................713Moumita Mahanti, Durga Basak
Crystalline to Amorphous Phase Transition of Tin Oxide Nanocrystals Induced by SHI at Low Temperature................................715Vijay Kumar, Deepti Pratap, Anshul Jain, D. C. Agarwal, I. Sulania, A. Tripathi, R. J. Chaudhary, R. S. Chauhan
Mn Deposition on Ni2MnGa(100) .................................................................................................................................................................717J. Nayak, Abhishek Rai, S. W. D’Souza, M. Maniraj, S. R. Barman
Effect of Oxygen Pressure on Structural and Magnetic Properties of YIG Thin Films.........................................................................719Sadhana Katlakunta, S. R. Murthy
Textured Growth of Co Film on Coo (FCC) Layer; Structural Studies Using EDXRD Beamline at Indus-2 ....................................721Dileep Kumar, P. Patidar, T. Sant, K. K. Pandey, A. Gupta, S. M. Sharma
Transition from a Complex to a Simple Two Dimensional Liquid: Isotherm and Brewster Angle Microscopy Studies ..............................................................................................................................................................................................................723
Madhumita Choudhuri, Alokmay Datta
Negative Differential Resistance in Freestanding Polypyrrole Films Formed by Interface Polymerization .......................................725Purushottam Jha, P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Electrochemical Polymerization of Tetra-(4-Hydroxyphenyl) Porphyrin for Organic Solar Cells ......................................................727P. Veerender, S. P. Koiry, Vibha Saxena, P. Jha, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
A Direct Evidence of Floating-off Mechanism of Ag Surfactant in Cu/Co Multilayers Probed by Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry .........................................................................................................................................................................................729
S. M. Amir, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta
Exchange-correlations in a Dilute Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at Finite Temperature.......................................................731Nisha Bhukal, R. K. Moudgil
Optimization of Ti Addition in Fe for Fe-Ti-N Thin Films........................................................................................................................733Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta, Jochen Stahn, M. Horisberger
Adsorption of Nano-ZrO2 on 304L Stainless Steel in Aqueous Medium..................................................................................................735Nidhi Garg, Vinit K. Mittal, Santanu Bera, S. Velmurugan
Morphology of Size-selected Copper Nanocluster Film .............................................................................................................................737Shyamal Mondal, S. R. Bhattacharyya
Silicon Ion Irradiation Effects on the Magnetic Properties of Ion Beam Synthesized CoPt Phase ......................................................739S. Balaji, S. Amirthapandian, B. K. Panigrahi, G. Mangamma, S. Kalavathi, Ajay Gupta, K. G. M. Nair
Surface Pattern Formation During MeV Energy Ion Beam Irradiation .................................................................................................741S. K. Srivastava, K. G. M. Nair, R. Kamala Kannan, M. Kamruddin, B. K. Panigrahi, A. K. Tyagi
Role of Σ5, (210), [001] CSL Boundary on Displacement Cascade in bcc Fe ..........................................................................................743Prithwish K. Nandi, Manan Dholakia, M. C. Valsakumar
Resistive Switching of Ag/In2O3/Pt Heterostructures for Non Volatile Memory Spplications ..............................................................745Bhaumik V. Mistry, U. S. Joshi, R. Pinto
Effect of Oxidizing Agents in CeO2 Thin Film Formation.........................................................................................................................747S. M. Yadav, S. D. Sartale
Magnetization in MgO based multilayers fabricated by e-beam evaporation ........................................................................................749Jitendra Pal Singh, M. Raju, K. Asokan, Jai Prakash, D. Kabiraj, S. R. Abhilash, Sujeet Chaudhary, D. Kanjilal
Temperature Dependent Structural and Optical Properties of Sol-gel Spin Coated CdO Thin Films ................................................751R. Rajammal, E. Savarimuthu, S. Arumugam
Structural and Electronic Properties of Ag Added Fe3O4 Thin Films......................................................................................................753Ridhi Master, A. D. Wadikar, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase
Reverse Rectification Behavior of NiPc (p-type)/F16CuPc (n-type) Heterojunction ...............................................................................755Arvind Kumar, Soumen Samanta, Ajay Singh, A. K. Debnath, R. Prasad, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Dual Growth Modes in Ion Bombarded Si Surfaces ..................................................................................................................................757Prabhjeet Kaur Dhillon, Subhendu Sarkar
SHI Induced Enhancement in Conductivity of PbTe Thin Film for Thermoelectric Applications ......................................................759Srashti Gupta, D. C. Agarwal, J. P. Singh, S. K. Tripathi, S. Neeleshwar, K. Asokan, B. K. Panigrahi, D. K. Avasthi
Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopic Studies of Low Energy Dynamics in Charge-ordered Eu0.42Sr0.58MnO3 ...............................761Parul Pandey, Rakesh Rana, Nilesh Awari, Abhishek Singh, S. Prabhu, D. S. Rana
Realization of Low Resistive P-ZnO Thin Film by Al-As Codoping ........................................................................................................763L. Balakrishnan, S. Gowrishankar, N. Gopalakrishnan
Effect of Sb Doping on the Properties of SnO2 Thin Films Grown by Spray Pyrolysis.........................................................................765Archana Gupta, P. Rajaram, M. C. Bhatnagar
An Easy Route to Make Superhydrophobic Surface ..................................................................................................................................767Kalpataru Panda, N. Kumar, S. R. Polaki, B. K. Panigrahi
Effect of Substrate Temperature on Microstructure of Epitaxial ZnO Films Grown on Sapphire by Sputtering.............................769D. Singh, R. Kumar, Tapas Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, S. S. Major
Structural, Electrical and Optical Properties of GaP Codoped ZnO Thin Films ...................................................................................771S. Gowrishankar, L. Balakrishnan, N. Gopalakrishnan
Flow Rate Effect on Surface Morphology of Cu Doped CdS Thin Film by Spray Pyrolysis Technique..............................................773Richa Panda, Vandana Rathore, Manoj Rathore, Vilas Shelke, Nitu Badera, Deepti Jain, M. Gangrade, V. Ganesan
Electronic Transport in Au/SrTiO3/Au Tunnel Junctions Grown Using Pulsed Laser Deposition ......................................................775K. Pramod, Ramesh Babu Gangineni
Antireflection Coating on Solar Cell Using ZnO Nanostructure ..............................................................................................................777Anuradha Rai Chowdhury, V. Padmanapan Rao, B. Ghosh, S. Banerjee
Characteristics of HT-LiCoO2 Cathode Films Synthesized by Rf Magnetron Sputtering ....................................................................779P. Jeevan Kumar, K. Jayanth Babu, O. M. Hussain
Reactive Nitrogen Sputtering of Fe, Al and Fe(Al).....................................................................................................................................781Rachana Gupta, Mukul Gupta, Akhil Tayal, Ajay Gupta
Propagation Characteristics at Ga-Si Interface: a Phase-plane Analysis ................................................................................................783Shivangi Bissa, Preeti Naruka, M. S. Shekhawata, A. K. Nagar
Strain and Mosaic Deformation in Laser Irradiated Silicon .....................................................................................................................785Mukul Gupta, V. Arora, S. Bagchi, Ajay Gupta, J. A. Chakera, P. A. Naik, P. Chaddah, P. D. Gupta
Magnetization Studies of Dy/Fe Multilayers ...............................................................................................................................................787A. V. Nande, S. S. Das, M. Senthil Kumar
Thermal Instability of DLC Film Surface Morphology - An AFM Study ...............................................................................................789R. Maheswaran, D. John Thiruvadigal, C. Gopalakrishnan
Radiation Induced Changes in Electronic and Dielectric Properties of Polyoxymethylene ..................................................................793H. R. Sreepad, H. R. Ravi, Khaleel Ahmed, Umesh V. Waghmare
First-principles Study of Structure and Properties of the Cyclic Pentamer of Formaldehyde .............................................................795H. R. Sreepad, H. R. Ravi, K. P. S. S. Hembram, Umesh V. Waghmare
Determination of Energy Bands in Solids Using Unitary Representation of Su(1,1) Lie Algebra ........................................................797Subha Gaurab Roy, Nirmal Kumar Sarkar, Ramendu Bhattacharjee
Structural Electronic and Phonon Properties of Some Transition Metal Aluminides ...........................................................................799Bushra Fatima, Premlata Pandit, Sankar P. Sanyal
Phonon Dynamics of Neptunium Chalcogenides ........................................................................................................................................801Mahendra Aynyas, Aditi Rukmangad, Balwant S. Arya, Sankar P. Sanyal
On Dynamic and Elastic Stability of Group IIIB Metal Carbides: Ab-initio Calculations ...................................................................803B. D. Sahoo, D. Mukherjee, K. D. Joshi, Satish C. Gupta
Ab-initio Study of Co-doped Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons ...................................................................................................................805Neeraj K. Jaiswal, Pankaj Srivastava
Electronic Structure of a Superconducting Boride, ZrB12 .........................................................................................................................807Sangeeta Thakur, Deep Narayan Biswas, Nishaina Sahadev, Geetha Balakrishnan, Kalobaran Maiti
Theoretical Study of Electronic and Elastic Properties of Li(Mg, Zn)N Alloy .......................................................................................809M. Rajagopalan, S. Ramasubramanian, J. Kumar
Electronic Structure of HoB4: A Photoelectron Spectroscopic Study ......................................................................................................811Kalobaran Maiti, Deep Narayan Biswas, Nishaina Sahadev, Ganesh Adhikary, Geetha Balakrishnan
Anharmonicity of Raman Modes of Bi12SiO20 .............................................................................................................................................813Nilesh P. Salke, Rekha Rao
Influence of A- Site Doping on Structural Properties of Bi0.95Pr0.05FeO3 Multiferroics .........................................................................815Dinesh Varshney, Poorva Sharma, Ashwini Kumar
Inelastic Neutron Scattering Measurements and Lattice Dynamics of ZnS1-xSex.................................................................................817Tista Basak, Mala N. Rao, A. K. Rajarajan, S. L. Chaplot
Electronic Structure of Ni2MnSn: Experiment and Theory ......................................................................................................................819M. Maniraj, S. W. D'Souza, S. Majumdar, A. Chakrabarti, S. R. Barman
Structural Properties of Intermetallic Li-Be Compound...........................................................................................................................821K. L. Galav, U. Paliwal, K. B. Joshi
Synthesis and Raman Spectroscopic Studies of NaZr2(PO4)3 ....................................................................................................................823K. Kamali, T. R. Ravindran, V. Sridharan, R. Nithya
Effect of Impurity on Electron-phonon Interaction in Some Alloyed Heavy Fermion (HF) Systems ..................................................825S. Mohanty, J. Sahoo, P. Nayak
Effect of Doping on Phonon Properties of UxLa1-xS Compounds ..............................................................................................................827B. S. Arya, Ashok K. Ahirwar, Mahendra Aynyas, Sankar P. Sanyal
The Electronic, Magnetic and Thermal Properties of Actinide Monocarbides: A First Principles Study...........................................829Pooja Soni, Gitanjali Pagare, M. Rajagopalan, Sankar P. Sanyal
Electronic and Optical Properties of Free Standing Pt Nanowires Using Localized Basis Sets ............................................................831Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia
Strong Nd4f Hybridization Effect in Ge Doped Nd2PdSi3 .........................................................................................................................833Tathamay Basu, Sangeeta Thakur, Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, Ganesh Adhikary, K. Mukherjee, E. V. Sampathkumaran, Kalobaran Maiti
Density Functional Study of the Spinel Compound Mn3O4 and Doped System Zn0.5Mn2.5O4 ...............................................................835Ramandeep, Tulika Maitra, Tashi Nautiyal
Unoccupied Electronic Structure of Graphite Probed by ARPES ...........................................................................................................837S. K. Mahatha, Krishnakumar S. R. Menon
First Principles Calculation of Phase Diagrams of V-Nb, V-Ta and Nb-Ta Alloys ................................................................................839C. Ravi, B. K. Panigrahi, M. C. Valsakumar, A. Van De Walle
High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy - A Case Study of MgB2 ......................................................................................841Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, K. Srinivas, P. Manfrinetti, A. Palenzona, Kalobaran Maiti
Electronic Structure and Ground State Properties of A4[Cu4O4] (A=Li, Na, K and Rb): A First Principle Study ..........................843R. Umamaheswari, M. Yogeswari, G. Kalpana
Lattice Dynamics and Elastic Properties of MoP .......................................................................................................................................845Premlata Pandit, Sankar P. Sanyal
Lattice Dynamics of (ND4I)x(KI)1-x Mixed Crystals ....................................................................................................................................847Alpana Tiwari, N. K. Gaur
FP-LAPW + lo Calculations for the Structural, Electronic, Optical and Mechanical Properties of ZnX (X = S, Se and Te) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................849
Sheetal Sharma, A. S. Verma, B. K. Sarkar, V. K. Jindal
Gigantic Density of States in 1.22nm Nanocrystalline Nickel....................................................................................................................851Sourav Das, R. Rawat, N. P. Lalla, G. S. Okram
Nonlocal Exchange Correlation Pressure Corrected Thermal Properties of UO2 Within LDA+U Approach....................................853Puspamitra Panigrahi, Gurpreet Kaur, M. C. Valsakumar
Raman & Infrared Study of Bi Filled Co4Sb12 ............................................................................................................................................855Krushna Kumari Raut, Ashoka Bali, Ramesh Chandra Mallik
High Pressure Phase Transition and Superconductivity in Transition Metal Nitride HfN and ZrN: An Ab-initio Study ................................................................................................................................................................................................................859
A. T. Asvini Meenaatci, S. Kanaga Prabha, R. Rajeswara Palanichamy, K. Iyakutti
Spectral Weight Below Tc at Energies Larger Than the Gap Amplitude in Hole-doped Cuprates ......................................................861Ajay Pratap Singh Gahlot, Partha Goswami
Pressure Induced Superconductivity in Transition Metal Trihydrides: An Ab-initio Study ................................................................863S. Kanagaprabha, A. T. Asvini Meenaatci, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, K. Iyakutti
Increase of Effective Exchange Energy Due to Phonon Mediated Interaction in the Extended t-J Model..........................................865N. S. Mondal, N. K. Ghosh
Fabrication of DC Sputtered NbN Thick Film with High Upper Critical Field of Above 400 kOe......................................................867Rajveer Jha, Anuj Kumar, V. P. S. Awana
Control of Interstitial Fe and Its Impact on Superconductivity of FeTe1/2Se1/2 .......................................................................................869V. P. S. Awana, Anuj Kumar, Anand Pal
Establishment of 37 Channel SQUID System for Magnetocardiography................................................................................................871C. Parasakthi, Rajesh Patel, S. Sengottuvel, N. Mariyappa, K. Gireesan, M. P. Janawadkar, T. S. Radhakrishnan
High Field Transport and Magnetic Properties of RECo(P/As)O ............................................................................................................873Anand Pal, S. S. Mehdi, Mushahid Husain, V. P. S. Awana
Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in the Non-Oxide Perovskite MgCNi3.....................................................................................875Anuj Kumar, Rajveer Jha, R. P. Tandon, V. P. S. Awana
Magnetization and NMR Studies in SmFeAsO0.86F0.14................................................................................................................................877Amitabha Ghoshray, Mayukh Majumder, Asok Poddar, Chandan Mazumdar, Kajal Ghoshray, David Berardan
Study of Single Crystal CuxBi2Se3 Topological Superconductor...............................................................................................................879Bhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ramakrishnan
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Iron Based Superconductor Fe0.99Se0.5Te0.5 ...............................................................................881T. Satya Krishna, A. K. Bhatnagar
Centre Seeded Infiltration and Growth Process for Fabrication of Large Grain Bulk YBCO/Ag Superconducting Composites ......................................................................................................................................................................................................883
R. Parthasarathy, V. Seshubai
Evidence of 3D Fluctuations in Magnetization of BaFe1.25Ru0.75As2 Single Crystal ................................................................................885Shilpam Sharma, K. Vinod, C. S. Sundar, A. Bharathi
Superconductivity in Cu0.08TiSe2...................................................................................................................................................................887D. Venkateshwarlu, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, Mohan Gangrade, V. Ganesan
Phase Diagram of Ru Doped BaFe2As2 ........................................................................................................................................................889K. Vinod, Shilpam Sharma, A. T. Satya, C. S. Sundar, A. Bharathi
Improving Noise Performance of the SQUID in Presence of High Resistive Signal Leads....................................................................891N. Mariyappa, C. Parasakthi, S. Sengottuvel, Rajesh Patel, K. Gireesan, T. S. Radhakrishnan, M. P. Janawadkar, C. S. Sundar
Ab Initio Study of Magnetism in FeSe and FeTe ........................................................................................................................................893Jagdish Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, S. Auluck, V. P. S Awana
Effect of Ni, Fe Intercalation on the Superconducting Properties of ZrTe3 ............................................................................................895C. S. Yadav, P. L. Paulose
Pinning Mechanism in Iron Chalcogenide Superconductor FeSe0.5Te0.5 ..............................................................................................897Ajay D. Thakur, Anil K. Yadav, P. Das, C. V. Tomy, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover
Counter Magnetization of SmCo5 Permanent Magnet by YBCO/Ag Composite Bulk Superconductor - A Competing Interaction Picture .....................................................................................................................................................................899
R. Parthasarathy, M. M. Lakshmi, V. Seshubai
Dirac Cone States in Ru Doped BaFe2As2 As Observed by Magneto Resistance Measurements .........................................................901A. T. Satya, K. Vinod, Shilpam Sharma, C. S. Sundar, A. Bharathi
Surface Superconductivity, Metastability Effects and Paramagnetic Magnetization in Niobium Sphere...........................................903Ulhas Vaidya, P. D. Kulkarni, H. Takeya, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover
Study of Upper Critical Field in 1111-Ferropnictide Superconductors ...................................................................................................905S. J. Singh, J. Prakash, V. K. Maurya, A. K. Ganguli, S. Patnaik
Role of Excess Cr at Fe Site in FeCrxSe and FeCrxSe0.5Te0.5......................................................................................................................907Anil K. Yadav, Ajay D. Thakur, C. V. Tomy
Multi-quanta Vortex States, Crossover to Abrikosov's Lattice and Peak Effect Phenomenon in Ca3Ir4Sn13 .....................................909Santosh Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Ravi Singh, A. Thamizhavel, C. V. Tomy, A. K. Grover
Study of Superconducting Properties in Melt Textured YBCO Samples ................................................................................................911M. R. Gonal, K. G. Bhushan, S. Ramanathan, R. C. Hubli, A. K. Tyagi, G. P. Kothiyal
Atomic Transport Properties of 3d Liquid Transition Metals ..................................................................................................................915P. B. Thakor, Y. A. Sonvane, A. R. Jani
Electronic Transport Properties of Some Liquid Semiconductor ............................................................................................................917Y. A. Sonvane, P. B. Thakor, A. R. Jani
Large MR and ER at Room Temperature in Manganite Based Heterostructure ..................................................................................919Uma Khachar, P. S. Solanki, M. J. Keshvani, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase, D. G. Kuberkar
Dielectric Behaviour of PLD grown BiFeO3 Multiferroic Thin Films......................................................................................................921Ashish Ravalia, Megha Vagadia, N. A. Shah, D. D. Pandya, Devang D. Shah, P. K. Mehta, D. G. Kuberkar
Enhancement of Figure of Merit in Asymmetrically Coupled Double Quantum Dot System...............................................................923Gagan Rajput, A. Dixit, K. C. Sharma
The Thermal Expansion of Orthogallate LaGaO3......................................................................................................................................925N. K. Gaur, Atahar Parveen, Masroor Ahmad Bhat
Low Temperature Relaxation Properties of SHI Irradiated N-doped 6H-SiC .......................................................................................927E. Viswanathan, R. Murugaraj, S. Selvakumar, S. Sankar, D. Kanjilal, K. Sivaji
Metal - Insulator Transition Upon Ni Substitution in Fe1-xNixSb2 Kondo Insulating System................................................................929J. Janaki, Awadhesh Mani, A. T. Satya, T. Geetha Kumary, S. Kalavathi, A. Bharathi
Anomalous Transport Properties of SrTi(1-x)FexO3±δ (0≤x≤1.0) .................................................................................................................931Arijit Ghosh, D. K. Modak, Md. G. Masud, B. K. Chaudhuri
Evolution of Temperature Dependent Properties of Oriented YBaCo4O7 Thin Films...........................................................................933R. Nithya, S. Tripura Sundari, T. Geetha Kumary, Sharat Chandra, Awadhesh Mani, S. Dash, V. Sankara Sastry
Dynamics of Water in Mg2+/Al3+/Si4+ Saponite Clay ...................................................................................................................................935S. Mitra, S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, P. Maheshwari, D. Chakrabarty, M. A. Vicente, J. Peter Embs, R. Mukhopadhyay
Studies on Nonlinear Electrical Transport and Magnetoresistance in Co/CoO Core-shell Nanostructure.........................................937A. Sarkar, N. Behera, R. Adhikari, A. K. Das
Terminal Group Effect of Electrode-molecule Interface on Electron Transport ...................................................................................939C. Peferencial Kala, D. John Thiruvadigal, P. Aruna Priya
Performance Characteristics of Diphenyl Amine Doped PMMA/PVDF Blended Polymer Electrolyte in a Nanocrystalline Dye-sensitized Solar Cell ...................................................................................................................................................941
S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, S. Amudha, P. Maruthamuthu
Fabrication of a Solid State Power Source for Ambient Conditions Using Solid Electrolyte System (SbI3)0.3-(Ag2CrO4)0.7 .....................................................................................................................................................................................................943
S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, S. Sarojini
Lattice Thermal Conductivity of Graphene ................................................................................................................................................945M. D. Kamatagi, A. S. Nissimagoudar, N. S. Sankeshwar, B. G. Mulimani
Polar-optical-phonon-limited Electron Mobility in GaN/AlGaN Heterojunctions .................................................................................947K. Begum Rizwana, N. S. Sankeshwar
Dynamics of Water in Prussian Blue Analogue Cu0.75Mn0.75[Fe(CN)6] 7H2O ..........................................................................................949V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, Amit Kumar, S. M. Yusuf, F. Juranyi, R. Mukhopadhyay
Diffusion of Acetylene Inside the Cu-BTC Metal Organic Framework...................................................................................................951S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, R. Mukhopadhyay
Anomalous Transport Properties of Graphene Oxide Magnetic Ferrite Nanocomposites ....................................................................953Jhuma Sannigrahi, D. Bhadra, Md. G. Masud, B. K. Chaudhuri
Structural and Transport Properties of Yb Substituted YBaCo4O7.........................................................................................................955Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, N. K. Gaur, S. Rayaprol
Explanation of Thermoelectric Power of La0.67Ba0.33MnO3 Manganites: Phonon-Scattering Mechanism...........................................957Dinesh Varshney, Dinesh Choudhary, M. W. Shaikh, I. Mansuri
Explanation of Metallic and Semiconducting Temperature Dependent Resistivity of La0.91Rb0.06Mn0.94O3 Manganites ......................................................................................................................................................................................................959
Dinesh Varshney, Neha Dodiya, I. Mansuri, Poorva Sharma
Characterization of SDC-Al2O3 Solid Electrolyte .......................................................................................................................................961S. Ramesh, K. C. James Raju, C. Vishnuvardhan Reddy
Metal-semiconductor Transition and Ferroelectricity in Charge Ordered La0.5Ba0.5FeO3 Perovskite ................................................963Md. G. Masud, Arijit Ghosh, Jhuma Sannigrahi, B. K. Chaudhuri
Structural, Thermal Studies and Ionic Conductivity of Doped Polymer Electrolytes ...........................................................................965Subramanya Kilarkaje, S. Raghu, H. Devendrappa
AC Conductivity and Dielectric Relaxation of Polymer Complexes.........................................................................................................967S. Raghu, Subramanya Kilarkaje, V. Manjunatha, H. Devendrappa
AC Conductivity and Electrochemical Studies of PVA/PEG Based Polymer Blend Electrolyte Films................................................969Anji Reddy Polu, Ranveer Kumar, Harsha Dehariya
Proton Conducting Polymer Electrolytes Based on KH2PO4 Doped PVA .............................................................................................971Md Jamal Uddin, S. C. Sarkar, B. K. Chaudhuri
Electron-impurity Scattering Rate in Doped Bilayer Graphene...............................................................................................................973Digish K. Patel, A. C. Sharma
Structural and Electrical Properties of NdCo1-xNixO3 ................................................................................................................................975Vinod Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Ravi Kumar
Improvement of Rubrene Thin Film Transistor with Self Assembled Monolayer of Octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS)......................977S. Sinha, C. -H. Wang, A. K. M. Maidul Islam, Y. -W. Yang, M. Mukherjee
Giant Enhancement of Magnetoresistance of Nanocrystalline La0.45Ca0.55MnO3....................................................................................979Kalipada Das, Tapas Samanta, A. Poddar, I. Das
Giant Hall Resistivity at Low Magnetic Fields in Nanocrystalline Ni50Mn32Sn18 Heusler Alloy ...........................................................981A. A. Prasanna, S. Ram, D. Das
Magnetotransport Studies on Polycrystalline MnSi ...................................................................................................................................983S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade, V. Ganesan
Transport Study on 20% Co Doped FeSi in Zero Field .............................................................................................................................985S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade, V. Ganesan
Electrical Transport Properties Study of Mo0.6W0.4Se2 Single Crystals ...................................................................................................987Sunil Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, J. P. Tailor, M. D. Chaudhary, Pallavi N. Sakaria
Low Temperature Specific Heat of Perovskite LaCoO3 ............................................................................................................................989Rasna Thakur, Archana Srivastava, Rajesh K. Thakur, N. K. Gaur
Structural and Thermal Investigations on BiI3-Ag2SO4 Mixed System ....................................................................................................991S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, Ayesha Saleem
Ionic Transport Studies of PVP: KBrO4 Complexed Polymer Electrolyte Films ...................................................................................993M. Ravi, S. Bhavani, K. Kiran Kumar, A. K. Sharma, V. V. R. Narasimha Rao
Growth and Decay of Current Signal in Poled Guest/Host Nonlinear Optical Polymer Film ..............................................................995D. K. Modak, Md. G. Masud, C. H. Wang, B. K. Chaudhuri
Structural and Dielectric Properties of Bi2Sn2-xTixO7 Pyrochlore.............................................................................................................997Indu Bala, M. Roy, S. K. Barbar, S. Sahu
Dielectric Response in Multiferroic Bi0.3Ba0.15Pb0.15FeO3 ...........................................................................................................................999K. Dey, S. Majumdar, S. Giri
Electrical and Thermal Transport Properties of Co-doped Ru1-xCox Sr2Eu1.5Ce0.5Cu2O10-δ Magnetic Superconductors ...........................................................................................................................................................................................1001
S. Bhardwaj, A. M. Awasthi
Room Temperature Thermoelectric Material Fe(Sb1-xSex)2 ....................................................................................................................1003Anup Sanchela, Ajay D. Thakur, C. V. Tomy
XRD and FTIR Studies on a New Solid Electrolyte System Containing Ag3PO4 and SbI3..................................................................1005S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, R. Sarumathi
Coexistence of Charge Density Wave and Antiferromagnetism in Er2Ir3Si3.........................................................................................1007R. Padam, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ravi, S. Ramakrishnan, D. Pal
Transport Behavior of GdBaCo2-xFexO5.5+δ................................................................................................................................................1009P. Yasodha, N. Thirumurugan, A. Bharathi, V. Sridharan, C. S. Sundar
Computation of Thermal Conductivity: A Nonequilibrium Approach .................................................................................................1011P. Anees, K. Gururaj, M. C. Valsakumar
The Effect of Strontium Doping on the Structural and Magnetic Transition of YMnO3 ....................................................................1013Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, A. M. Awasthi, V. Ganesan, N. K. Gaur
Enhancement in Power Factor Values of Sn Substituted Fe2 VAl Heusler Alloys................................................................................1015Ch. Venkatesh, V. Srinivas, V. V. Rao
Structural and Electrical Studies of Ba(Fe0.25Gd0.25Nb0.5)O3....................................................................................................................1017Devang D. Shah, P. K. Mehta
Modification in Transport Properties of NdNiO3 Thin Films by Substrate Induced Strain ...............................................................1019Yogesh Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, Ravi Kumar
Thermoelectric Properties of AgCrSe2.......................................................................................................................................................1021S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, R. Bhatt, A. Singh, S. Sen, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Thermoelectric Properties of Transition Metal Intercalated Layered TiSe2.........................................................................................1023R. Bhatt, R. Basu, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singh, S. Sen, G. S. Okram, V. Ganesan, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Transport Properties of Ar-Al Plasma at 1 Atmosphere .........................................................................................................................1025Nilesh S. Kanhe, A. K. Tak, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathe, A. K. Das
Improved Thermoelectric Properties of PbTe0.5Se0.5 ................................................................................................................................1027Ranita Basu, S. Bhattacharya, R. Bhatt, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, S. K. Gupta
Electron Beam Induced Structural Transitions in Polyaniline-dodecatungstophosphoric Acid Composite .....................................1031P. Chithra Lekha, E. Subramanian, Ganesh Sanjeev, D. Pathinettam Padiyan
Evolution of Palladium Related Defects in Silicon....................................................................................................................................1033R. Dogra, A. K. Sharma, A. P. Byrne, M. C. Ridgway
Radiative Recombination Life Time of an Exciton Confined in a Strained Wide Band Gap Quantum Dot.....................................1035M. Revathi, A. John Peter
Structural Properties of MgxCd1-xO Alloys................................................................................................................................................1037U. Paliwal, T. Bredow, K. B. Joshi
Cu2SnS3 as a Potential Absorber for Thin Film Solar Cells ....................................................................................................................1039Devendra Tiwari, T. K. Chaudhuri, T. Shripathi, U. Deshpande
Certain Elastic Properties of BAs1-xPx Semiconductors ...........................................................................................................................1041P. S. Vyas, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, A. R. Jani
The Influence of 175 MeV Ni13+ Ion and Co-60 Gamma Irradiation Effects on Subthreshold Characteristics of N-Channel Depletion MOSFETs.....................................................................................................................................................................1043
N. Pushpa, K. C. Praveen, A. P. Gnana Prakash, P. S. Naik, S. K. Gupta, D. Revannasiddaiah
Growth Improvement and Characterization of AgGaSe2 Chalcopyrite Single Crystals Using Bridgman Technique.....................1045G. Anandha Babu, R. Subramaniyan Raja, P. Ramasamy, N. Karunagaran
Optical and Magnetic Studies of Zn1-2yNiyCoyO (y ≤ 0.05) Degenerate Semi-Magnetic Semiconductor ............................................1047Subhash Thota, Jitendra Kumar
Electronic Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoribbons .................................................................................................................1049A. S. Nissimagoudar, M. D. Kamatagi, N. S. Sankeshwar
Formation of β-FeSi2 by Ion Implantation of 90 keV Fe10+ Ions on N-type Silicon ...............................................................................1051P. V. Rajesh, S. P. Pati, J. B. M. Krishna, B. Ghosh, D. Das
Electronic Spin Detection and Measurement of Spin Lifetime in Bulk GaAs at Room Temperature Using a Highly Sensitive Radio Frequency Coil ..................................................................................................................................................................1053
Chinkhanlun Guite, V. Venkataraman
Dynamic Deformation Potential Electron-phonon Interaction in Disordered Quantum Well............................................................1055P. Tripathi, S. T. Hasan, S. S. Z. Ashraf, A. C. Sharma
A Comparison of Inverse Spin Hall Spectra in Pt/III-V Hybrid Structures .........................................................................................1057Shailesh K. Khamari, V. K. Dixit
Ag Induced Photo-generated Charge Trapping in Nanostructured CdS/Cu2S Thin Film for Photovoltaic Applications...................................................................................................................................................................................................1059
Vidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, Ramphal Sharma
Raman and Photoluminescence Studies of Semiconductor Quantum Well Microtube .......................................................................1061S. Saravanan, M. Silambarasan, Deepak Ranjan Nayak
Growth and Thermal Properties of GeSePb0.4 Single Crystals ...............................................................................................................1063G. K. Solanki, K. D. Patel, N. N. Gosai, Ruchita R. Patel
Preparation and Characterization of Solar Cell of a Novel Configuration ITO/n-OVC/p-CIS/In .....................................................1065R. Geethu, S. Dhanya, Rajani Jacob, P. V. Sreenivasan, T. Shripathi, Rachel Reena Philip
Growth and Study of CuIn1-xAlxSe2 Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications ....................................................................................1067Dhananjaya Kekuda, J. Nagaraju, S. B. Krupanidhi
Study of Electrochemically Prepared CuInSe2 Thin Films......................................................................................................................1069Vishakha N. Dhanwate, N. B. Chaure
Photoelectrochemical Properties of Chemosynthesized CdS Thin Film ................................................................................................1071S. B. Pawar, S. A. Pawar, P. N. Bhosale, P. S. Patil
Characterization of CuInTe2 Thin Films Deposited by Electrochemical Technique............................................................................1073Neelima A. Patil, Manorama Lakhe, N. B. Chaure
Effect of Mn Doping on Structural and Optical Properties of Zn1-xMnxO Thin Films ........................................................................1075R. Karmakar, S. K. Neogi, S. Bandyopadhyay, Aritra Banerjee
The Structural and Electronic Properties of HfO2 ...................................................................................................................................1077Kumari Seema, Ranjan Kumar
Properties of Cd1-x CaxO Disordered Alloy................................................................................................................................................1079Sharat Chandra, V. Srihari, V. Sridharan
Development of Sb2Te3 Films for Low-Resistance Contact to CdS/CdTe Solar Cells ..........................................................................1081Shivaji M. Sonawane, N. B. Chaure
Annealing Effect on the Optical and Electrical Properties of ZnO Thin Film Grown on InP Substrate...........................................1083K. Ghosh, S. Majumdar, S. Bhunia
Effect of 100MeV Oxygen Ion Irradiation on silicon NPN Power Transistor .......................................................................................1085M. Vinay Kumar, K. S. Krishnakumar, C. M. Dinesh, S. Krishnaveni, Ramani
Electronic and Optical Properties of AgMX2 (M= Al, Ga, In; X= S, Se, Te) .........................................................................................1087V. Jayalakshmi, S. Mageswari, B. Palanivel
Optical Properties of GaN Nanopillars Fabricated using ICPRIE Technique......................................................................................1089H. P. Bhasker, P. Ghosh, A. Ghosh, A. Mukherjee, B. P. Singh, S. Dhar
Growth of Germanium Single Crystals by Czochralski technique.........................................................................................................1091S. G. Singh, D. G. Desai, A. K. Singh, S. Sen, S. C. Gadkari, S. K. Gupta
CuInSe2 Thin Films by Non-aqueous Electrodeposition ..........................................................................................................................1093N. B. Chaure
Observation of Spin Glass-like Behavior in Fine Particles of Nd2PdSi3 .................................................................................................1097K. Mukherjee, Tathamoy Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, E. V. Sampathkumaran
Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Nanosized Mg0.2Mn0.5Ni0.3AlyFe2-yO4 Ferrites...........................................................................1099Satish Verma, Jagdish Chand, Pawan Kumar, M. Singh
Doping Effects of Cr in Cluster Glass La0.5Sr0.5CoO3 ...............................................................................................................................1101B. Roy, S. Das
Inter Particle Interaction in Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 Prepared by Self Combustion Method............................................................................1103V. D. Sudheesh, A. Vinesh, N. Lakshmi, K. Venugopalan
Magnetic Field Induced Transition in Ni50Mn35In15 .................................................................................................................................1105Archana Lakhani, A. Banerjee, P. Chaddah
Mössbauer and Magnetization Studies of the Quaternary Heusler Alloy Fe2-xCoxMnAl.....................................................................1107A. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, K. Venugopalan
Coexistence of Long-range and Short-range Magnetic Ordering in the Frustrated Antiferromagnet Ca3Co2O6 ............................1109Anil Jain, S. M. Yusuf
Effect of Atomic Disorder on Half-metallic Ferromagnetism in Fe3-xCrxSi (x= 0, 0.25, 0.75, 1) Heusler Alloys ...............................1111Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardev Singh, Manish K. Kashyap
Occurrence of Magneto-elastic Coupling Across the Metal-insulator Transition in LaMnO3±δ .........................................................1113Aga Shahee, Dhirendra Kumar, N. P. Lalla
Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties of Rare Earth Intermetallic Compound DyCoNi ..............................................................1115Rajib Mondal, J. Arout Chelvane, R. Nirmala
Preparation and Characterization of Charge Ordered Nd0.8Na0.2MnO3 Thin Film .............................................................................1117A. Nandy, Tribedi Bora, B. Samantaray, R. K. Bhuyan, D. Pamu, S. Ravi
Preparation and Characterization of Nd0.8K0.15MnO3 Thin Film ...........................................................................................................1119Tribedi Bora, A. Nandy, B. Samantaray, R. K. Bhuyan, D. Pamu, S. Ravi
Structural Properties and Electrical Resistivity Behaviour of Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 Manganites.................................................................1121Dinesh Varshney, Mohammed Wasim Shaikh, I. Mansuri, A. Yogi
Structure and Electrical Resistivity Behavior of Barium Doped LaMnO3 Manganite ........................................................................1123Dinesh Varshney, Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, A. Yogi
Synthesis and Study of Bi0.9Tb0.1Fe0.9Mn0.1O3 Ceramics...........................................................................................................................1125K. Saravana Kumar, C. Venkateswaran
Multiferroic Properties of (y) Ni0.65Cd0.3Cu0.05Fe2O4 + (1-y) BaTiO3 Particulate Composites .............................................................1127P. B. Belavi, L. R. Naik, G. N. Chavan
Synthesis and Magnetic Properties of MnFe2O4 Nanoparticles ..............................................................................................................1129G. Thirupathi, S. Saipriya, R. Singh
Study of Structural, Magnetic and Electric Properties of Bi0.6-xNdxCa0.4MnO3 (0.0≤x≤0.6) Perovskite Manganites........................1131Kamlesh Yadav, M. P. Singh, H. K. Singh, F. S. Razavi, G. D. Varma
Ground State Study of Spin-1/2 Falicov-Kimball Model on a Triangular Lattice................................................................................1133Umesh K. Yadav, Sant Kumar, T. Maitra, Ishwar Singh
Evidence of Exchange Bias in Fe/Co3O4 Nanocomposites........................................................................................................................1135S. P. Pati, A. Roychowdhury, S. Kumar, D. Das
Structure-Property Correlations in La1-xNaxMnO3 Manganites ............................................................................................................1137N. A. Shah, D. D. Pandya, C. M. Thaker, Sanjay Kansara, P. S. Solanki, C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, S. Rayaprol, D. G. Kuberkar
Effect of Carbon Tailoring on Magnetic Properties of Mn3GaC ............................................................................................................1139E. Dias, K. R. Priolkar, A. K. Nigam
Effect of Rare Earth Size on Structural, Magnetic and Transport Properties of RBaCo2O5.5 ............................................................1141Shraddha Ganorkar, K. R. Priolkar, P. R. Sarode, A. Banerjee
Electron Spin Resonance and Magnetization Studies of Sol-Gel Synthesized Bi0.4Ca0.6MnO3 ............................................................1143Ramesh Ade, Joji Kurian, D. Vijayan, R. Singh
Study of Entanglement in a Quantum Antiferromagnet .........................................................................................................................1145Tanmoy Chakraborty, Diptaranjan Das, Harkirat Singh, Tamal K. Sen, Swadhin K. Mandal, Chiranjib Mitra
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal (Co, Ni and Fe) Doped SnO2 Nanoparticles .............................................1147Aditya Sharma, Mayora Varshney, K. D. Verma, Ravi Kumar
Magnetic Ordering in La-substituted BiFeO3-PbTiO3.............................................................................................................................1149K. K. Mishra, A. T. Sathya, A. Bharathi, A. K. Arora
Study of Magnetoresistance in Rh-doped FePt .........................................................................................................................................1151Pallab Bag, R. Rawat
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of NdVSb3: A First Principles Study ............................................................................................1153Sandeep, M. P. Ghimire, D. P. Rai, A. Shankar, A. K. Mohanty, Arthur Ernst, D. Deka, A. Rahman, R. K. Thapa
First-principles Calculations of Ferromagnetism in ZnO Co-doped with Cobalt and Nitrogen.........................................................1155M. Rajagopalan, S. Ramasubramanian, J. Kumar
Magnetic Behavior of Nano-Crystalline Ruthenium Perovskites, CaRuO3 and SrRuO3 .....................................................................1157K. K. Iyer, Niharika Mohapatra, E. V. Sampathkumaran
Thermodynamics of Calcium Doped Perovskite Materials .....................................................................................................................1159Renu Choithrani, N. K. Gaur
Large Magnetoresistance in Ni-Mn-In Alloy.............................................................................................................................................1161S. Chatterjee, S. Majumdar, V. Koledov
Effective Anisotropy Field Distribution of Soft Magnetic Nanocrystalline Fe84Zr3.5Nb3.5B8Cu1 Ribbons..........................................1163S. S. Modak, F. Mazaleyrat, M. Lo Bue, L. K. Varga, S. N. Kane
Magnetoresistance and Magnetocaloric Effect in Er5Si3..........................................................................................................................1165Niharika Mohapatra, K. Mukherjee, K. K. Iyer, E. V. Sampathkumaran
Structural and Magnetic Studies of Sr1.5Pr0.5CoO4 ...................................................................................................................................1167S. Patankar, A. Banerjee
Large Pyramid Shaped Single Crystals of BiFeO3 by Solvothermal Synthesis Method ......................................................................1169D. Sornadurai, T. R. Ravindran, V. Thomas Paul, V. Sankara Sastry
Anisotropic Spin-Fluctuations in SmCoPO: 31P NMR Study ..................................................................................................................1171M. Majumder, K. Ghoshray, A. Ghoshray, A. Pal, V. P. S. Awana
Magnetic Refrigerant Properties of Ni50Mn37-xFexSn13 Alloy at Low Magnetic Fields .........................................................................1173Rahul Das, A. Perumal, A. Srinivasan
Tuning Magnetism in Semiconducting Cadmium Chalcogenides Via Cr-doping ................................................................................1175Hardev S. Saini, Mukhtiyar Singh, Sarvesh Kumar, Manish K. Kashyap
Study of Magneto Resistance Effects in Bi Doped Pr0.7-xSr0.3MnO3 at Pr Site .......................................................................................1177Mamatha D. Daivajna, Geetha, Ashok Rao
Crossover from Antiferromagnetic to Ferromagnetic State in the Semi Heusler Alloys Cu1-xNixMnSb............................................1179Madhumita Halder, S. M. Yusuf
Coexistence of Antiferromagnetic and Ferromagnetic Order in NdCuAl Intermetallic .....................................................................1181P. K. Mishra, V. Dube, A. K. Rajarajan, G. Ravikumar, C. L. Prajapat, P. U. Sastry
Effect of Fast Neutron Irradiation on the Magneto-dynamics of the Metamagnetic Transition in Ce(Fe0.96Ru0.04)2 ........................1183C. L. Prajapat, V. Dube, A. K. Rajarajan, S. V. Thakare, K. C. Jagadeesan, P. L. Paulose, P. K. Mishra, M. R. Singh, S. K. Gupta, G. Ravikumar
Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Magnetocaloric Behavior in HoRu2Si2 ......................................................................1185Tapas Paramanik, Kalipada Das, Tapas Samanta, I. Das
Theoretical Investigation of Hyperfine Field Parameters Through Mossbauer Gamma Ray ............................................................1187Sikander Ali, Mohd Hashim
Electronic Properties of Fe2Cr1-xVxAl Heusler Alloys ..............................................................................................................................1189Ritwik Saha, V. Srinivas, Ch. Venkatesh, S. K. Srivastava
The Effect of Bi Doping on ESR of La0.7-xBixCa0.3MnO3 ..........................................................................................................................1191D. Vijayan, Joji Kurian, R. Singh
Evidence of Re-entrant Spin Glass Phase in Nd5Ge3 ................................................................................................................................1193Bibekananda Maji, K. G. Suresh, A. K. Nigam
Role of Milling Time for Ferromagnetic Mn Doped ZnO Samples ........................................................................................................1195S. Chattopadhyay, R. Karmakara, S. K. Neogi, A. Banerjee, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. D. Mukadam, S. M. Yusuf
Half-Metallic Ferromagnetism in MgS0.875X0.125 (X = C, Si, Ge and Sn): A First Principle Approach ...............................................1197M. Yogeswari, R. Umamaheswari, G. Kalpana
Effect of Ni2+ Ion on the Structural, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Cobalt Ferrites ..............................................................1199V. Pazhanivelu, R. Murugaraj
Magnetic Properties of GdTxSn (T = Fe, Ni) Compounds ........................................................................................................................1201Krishanu Ghosh, R. Ranganathan, Chandan Mazumdar, S. Mukherjee
Magnetic Glass like Arrest in Ca Doped GdBaCo2O5.53 ...........................................................................................................................1203N. Thirumurugan, E. P. Amaladass, C. S. Sundar, A. Bharathi
Multiferroic Lu3Fe5O12 for Magneto-Dielectric Applications..................................................................................................................1205P. Manimuthu, M. Manikandan, M. Malar Selvi, C. Venkateswaran
Crystal-field Interaction in Frustrated Spin-glass Pyrochlore Tb2Nb2O7 Revisited: Estimation of Exchange Interaction .....................................................................................................................................................................................................1207
Yatramohan Jana, Partha Das, Aksar Ali Biswas, Jahangir Alam
Study of the Magnetorheology of Bimodal Magnetite Suspension .........................................................................................................1209Kruti Shah, R. V. Upadhyay, V. K. Aswal
Structural, Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Mg Doped La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Manganites ..............................................................1211K. Ravinder Reddy, Anil K. Bhatnagar, Mohan Dasari
Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Full Heusler Alloy Co2FeGe............................................................................................................1213K. Ramesh Kumar, B. Venkateswarlu, P. D. Babu, N. Harish Kumar
Unusual Magnetoresistive Behavior of Epitaxial Zn(Fe, Al)o Dilute Magnetic Semiconducting Thin Film .....................................1215S. Chattopadhyay, T. K. Nath
Structural and Magnetic Properties of Barium Hexaferrrite Prepared Through Sol-Gel Auto Combustion Technique ......................................................................................................................................................................................................1217
M. D. P. M. Gazzali, A. Paul Blessington Selvadurai, V. Anbarasu, C. Murugesan, G Chandrasekaran
The Optical and Electronic Transport Properties of SrSn0.95Fe0.05O3 Films ..........................................................................................1219G. Prathiba, S. Venkatesh, N. Harish Kumar
Evidence of Spin Glass Like Ordering and Electronic Phase Arrest in Pr3+ Doped Sm0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Bulk Manganites ...................1221S. K. Giri, J. Panda, T. K. Nath
Spin Susceptibility of a Symmetric Electron Bilayer................................................................................................................................1223Krishan Kumar, R. K. Moudgil
Effect on Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties with Ge Substitution in Ni-Mn-Sb Heusler Alloys............................................1225Roshnee Sahoo, Ajaya K. Nayak, K. G. Suresh, A. K. Nigam
Magnetoresistance of Ni Nanoparticles Embedded in Tin Matrix/p-Si Heterostructure for Spintronics..........................................1227J. Panda, S. Chattopadhyay, T. K. Nath
Full Potential Density Functional Study of Structural, Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Hg1-xMnxTe....................................1229Sonu Sharma, Nisha Devi, P. Rajaram, U. P. Verma
Destruction of Ferromagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO upon Annealing: Role of Oxygen Vacancy .........................................................1231B. Ghosh, M. Sardar, S. Banerjee
Emergence of Long Range Magnetic Interaction Upon Reduction of Graphene Oxide ......................................................................1233J. Kaur, A. Rai Chowdhury, A. Bhattacharya, B. Ghosh, M. Sardar, S. Banerjee
Magnetocaloric Effect in Double Pervoskite La2CoMnO6 .......................................................................................................................1235J. Krishnamurthy, A. Venimadhav
Magnetic Properties of La2NiMnO6 Nanoparticles ..................................................................................................................................1237K. Devi Chandrsekhar, A. K. Das, A. Venimadhav
Unusual Magnetodielectric Response in La2CoMnO6 Nanoparticles .....................................................................................................1239J. Krishnamurthy, A. Venimadhav
Mössbauer Effect in Tetragonal SrFeO3-δ..................................................................................................................................................1241A. Sendilkumar, V. R. Reddy, M. Manivel Raja, P. D. Babu, A. Gupta, S. Srinath
Effect of Co-Zr Doping in the M-Type Barium Hexaferrite BaCoxZrxFe(12-2x)O19: A Mössbauer Spectroscopic Study ...................1243S. K. Chawla, R. K. Mudsainiyan, S. S. Meena, S. M. Yusuf, N. Singh
Mössbauer Spectroscopic Study of Heat-Treated (Ni0.5Zn0.5)Fe2O4 Nanoparticles...............................................................................1245S. S. Meena, Srinivas Ch., V. Sudarsan, B. V. Tirupanyam, K. R. Rao, D. L. Sastry, S. M. Yusuf
Magnetism in Tetragonal and Cubic Phase of FePt .................................................................................................................................1247J. Majeed, O. D. Jayakumar, H. G. Salunke, A. K. Tyagi
Specific Heat and Thermal Expansion of Magnetocaloric Perovskite-La1-xAgxMnO3 .........................................................................1251Archana Srivastava, N. K. Gaur
Energy Transfer and Lasing Properties of Nd: Cr: YAG Transparent Laser Ceramics at Different Cr Concentration................................................................................................................................................................................................1253
P. Samuel, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, Ken Ichi Ueda
Unidirectional Growth, Rocking Curve, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of LPHCL Single Crystals ..............................1255P. Ramesh Kumar, R. Gunaseelan, A. Antony Raj, S. Selvakumar, P. Sagayaraj
The Effect of 100 MeV Oxygen Ion on Electrical and Optical Properties of Nonlinear Optical L-alanine Sodium Nitrate Single Crystals .................................................................................................................................................................................1257
M. A. Ahlam, A. P. Gnana Prakash
Investigation on the Growth, Structural and Optical Properties of DASC Crystal: A Potential THz Emitter ................................1259R. Gunaseelan, S. Selvakumar, Tina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, P. Sagayaraj
Nonlinear Optical Studies of a Novel Pyrazoline ......................................................................................................................................1261K. Janardhana, V. Ravindrachary, P. C. Rajesh Kumar, G. Umesh, K. B. Manjunatha, Ismayil
Vibrational and Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Study on Hydroxyethylammonium Picrate (HEAP) Single Crystals ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................1263
N. Sudharsana, R. Nagalakshmi, V. Krishnakumar, A. Sharma, R. Fausto, T. N. Guru Row, Rumpa Pal
Structural and Impedance Studies of Doped LLT Materials for Electrolytes of Lithium-Ion Batteries ...........................................1265K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah, P. S. V. Subba Rao
Effect of Additives on Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Semi Organic Non Linear Material-γ-Glycine ..............................1267M. N. Ravishankar, R. Chandramani, A. P. Gnana Prakash
Electronic Structure and Optical Conductivity of Two Dimensional (2D) MoS2: Pseudopotential DFT Versus Full Potential Calculations ..................................................................................................................................................................................1269
Ashok Kumar, Jagdish Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia
Synthesis, Thermal and Nonlinear Optical Characterization of L-Arginine Semi-Oxalate Single Crystals .....................................1271P. Vasudevan, S. Gokulraj, S. Sankar
Structural, Functional and Optical Studies on the Amino Acid Doped Glycine Crystal .....................................................................1273M. R. Manikandan, T. Mahalingam, G. Ravi
Line Profile Analysis and Low Temperature AC Susceptibility of Cu-Zn Ferrites .............................................................................1275Ashok R. Lamani, H. S. Jayanna, G. D. Prasanna
Noble Metal Ions Incorporated in Lattice Points of Perovskites - Water Gas Shift Activity of BaCe1-xPtxO3-d ................................1277C. P. Jijil, A. K. Rajarajan, R. Nandini Devi
Graphene Based Polyurethane Material: As Highly Pressure Sensitive Composite ............................................................................1279R. M. Hodlur, M. K. Rabinal
Electro-Caloric Effect in PLZT (8/65/35) Ceramic...................................................................................................................................1281Rachna Selvamani, Gurvinderjit Singh, V. S. Tiwari
Methyltrimethoxysilane Based Flexible Silica Aerogels for Oil Absorption Applications...................................................................1283Mahendra S. Kavale, D. B. Mahadik, V. G. Parale, A. Venkateswara Rao, P. B. Wagh, S. C. Gupta
Structural and Mechanical Studies of Cadmium Manganese Thiocyanate Crystal .............................................................................1285M. R. Manikandan, G. Vijayaprasath, G. Anandha Babu, G. Bhagavannarayan, N. Vijayan, G. Ravi
Experimental Investigations on the Synthesis, Growth and Characterization of MCCTC Single Crystals ......................................1287V. Ramesh, K. Sendil Kumar, A. Subashini, A. Shihabuddeen, K. Jaganathan, K. Rajarajan
Self-Catalyzed Anisotropic Growth of GaN Spirals .................................................................................................................................1289Avinash Patsha, Prasana Sahoo, S. Dhara, A. K. Tyagi
Growth of Propyl-p-hydroxybenzoate Single Crystals and Its Characterizations ...............................................................................1291N. Karunagaran, P. Ramasamy
Growth, Structural and Thermal Analysis of DSSS Single Crystals ......................................................................................................1293M. Antony Arockiaraj, Tina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, P. Sagayaraj
Fabrication of SiC/Al2O3 CMCs & Their Physical Properties ................................................................................................................1295S. Santhosh Kumar, M. Devaiah, T. Rajasekharan
Synthesis, Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of N-(3-Nitrophenyl) Acetamide (3NAA) ...................................................1297S. Prathap, J. Madhavan
Doping Induced Modification in Polyhedral Tilt in Hexagonal Ho1-xYxMnO3 ......................................................................................1299S. D. Kaushik, S. Rayaprol
Theoretical Study of Ni2MnGa Heusler Alloy ...........................................................................................................................................1301R. Shanmuga Sundari, Manickam Mahendran
Magnetic, Mossbauer and Ferroelectric Study of Magneto-Electric Ga2-xFexO3 (x=1.0, 1.1 & 1.2)....................................................1303Kavita Sharma, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Ajay Gupta, A. Banerjee
Growth and Characterization Studies of Sodium Di(L-Malato) Borate Bulk Single Crystal: a Promising Nonlinear Optical Material............................................................................................................................................................................................1305
A. Senthil, M. Loganayaki, M. Lenin, P. Ramasamy
Real Space Analysis of Compton Profile of Heusler Alloy Ni2TiAl ........................................................................................................1307Jagrati Sahariya, H. S. Mund, B. L. Ahuja
Highly Flexible Poly (Vinyldine Fluoride)/Bismuth Iron Oxide Multiferroic Polymer Nanocomposites ..........................................1309T. Prabhakaran, J. Hemalatha
Crystal Growth and Characterization of Novel Nonlinear Optical Crystal: L-Threonine Formate. .................................................1311Hanumantharao Redrothu, S. Kalainathan, G. Bhagavannarayana
Growth, Spectral and Crystallization Perfection Studies of Semi Organic Non Linear Optical Crystal - L-Alanine Lithium Chloride ..........................................................................................................................................................................................1313
Hanumantharao Redrothu, S. Kalainathan, G. Bhagavannarayana
Effect of Displacement Damage on the Stability of Oxide Nanoparticles in Model ODS Alloys: Tem Studies .................................1315Sumita Santra, S. Balaji, B. K. Panigrahi, Yves Serruys, C. Robertson, Alamo Ana, C. S. Sundar
Synthesis & Structural Studies of New Thermoelectric Perovskite Material........................................................................................1317T. Ramachandran, N. E. Rajeevan, P. P. Pradyumnan
Structural and Magnetic Study of La Doped Multiferroic BiFeO3 ........................................................................................................1319Deepti Kothari, Sanjay Upadhya, Carlo Meneghini, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Guiliana Aquilanti, Ajay Gupta
Annealing Effects in Eurofer-97 Steel As Studied by Mossbauer Spectroscopy ...................................................................................1321L. Herojit Singh, S. Hari Babu, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, C. S. Sundar
Multiferroicity in Double Perovskite Y2CoMnO6 .....................................................................................................................................1323G. Sharma, J. Saha, S. Patnaik
Synthesis and Characterization of Ni2+: Zn2SiO4 Nano Phospshor by Sol-Gel Method .......................................................................1325B. Chandra Babu, S. Buddhudu
Investigations on Polyaniline-histidine Composites..................................................................................................................................1327T. Mathavan, S. Umapathy, I. Suganya, M. A. Jothirajan
Studies on Novel Co-crystal of 2, 6-Diaminopyridinium 4-Nitrophenolate 4-Nitrophenol. .................................................................1329M. Rajaboopathi, V. Krishnakumar
Synthesis and Characterization of Poly (N-Methylaniline) Microfibrillar Structure ..........................................................................1331T. Mathavan, K. Gangadevi, B. Hanitha, S. Umapathy, S. Rajakarthihan, M. A. Jothirajan
Structural and Magneto-Electric Properties of Bi0.4La0.6Fe0.8Mn0.2O3 Ceramics ..................................................................................1333S. P. Keerthana, M. Muneeswaran, P. Jegatheesan, N. V. Giridharan
Comparison of Optical Properties of Pure and Doped Lithium Tetraborate Single Crystals and Glasses .......................................1335G. D. Patra, A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, M. Tyagi, S. Sen, B. Tiwari, S. C. Gadkari
Growth and Luminescence Properties of Ce Doped Li6Gd(BO3)3 Single Crystals ...............................................................................1337A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, Mohit Tyagi, D. G. Desai, S. Sen, S. C. Gadkari
Growth of Preferred Oriented Ba0.5Sr0.5TiO3 Films on Amorphous Substrates by RF Sputtering ....................................................1339S. Ramakanth, K. C. James Raju
Synthesis and Piezoelectric Properties of PLZT Ceramics......................................................................................................................1341D. V. Bavbande, Rakesh Kumar, V. H. Bafna, Dhirendra Mohan, G. P. Kothiyal
Linear and NLO Properties of an Organic Single Crystal ......................................................................................................................1343P. C. Rajesh Kumara, V. Ravindrachary, K. Janardhana, Boja Poojary, K. B. Manjunath, G. Umesh
X-Ray Study of Fe1-xCrx Alloys Prepared by Mechanical Alloying ........................................................................................................1345L. Jithender, N. Gopi Krishna
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