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SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Proceedings of the 57th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2012
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India 3-7 December 2012
Solid State Physics (India) Vol. 57 (2012)
EDITORS
A. K. Chauhan
Chitra Murli
S. CGadkariBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India
AM papers have been peer reviewed.
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
Department of Atomic EnergyGovernment of India
AIPMelville, New York, 2013
Amencan lnstrtuteA)p ( QQ^jpERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1 1512
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1512
Solid State Physics (India) Vol. 57 (2012)Proceedings of the 57th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium
Table of Contents
Preface: Solid State Physics SymposiumA. K. Chauhan, Chitra Murli, and S. C. Gadkari
Committees
INVITED TALKS
Connecting jamming and depinning transitions
C. Reichhardt, Z. Nussinov, and C. J. Olson Rcichhardt 7
Vibrational properties of zincblende structured ternary alloysMala N. Rao
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Interesting spectral evolution in Fe-based superconductorsKalobaran Maiti, Gancsh Adhikary, Nishaina Sahadcv, Deep Narayan Biswas, R. Hindu,N. Kumar, C. S. Yadav, A. Thamizhavel, S. K. Dhar, and P. L. Paulosc 15
The vortex explosion transition
M. N. Kunchur, M. Liang, and A. Gurcvich19
Unidirectional crystallization of charged colloids
Junpei Yamanaka and Akiko Toyotama 22
Magnetic Compton scattering: A reliable probe to investigate magnetic propertiesB. L. Ahuja 26
Development of magnetoresistive thin film sensor for magnetic field sensing applicationsP. Chowdhury 30
Core/shell nano-structuring of metal oxide semiconductors and their photocatalytic studies
S. Balakumar and R. Ajay Rakkcsh 34
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CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
A. PHASE TRANSITIONS
Studies on melt-quenched AglnSbTe system
C. Rangasami, Mahavccr K. Jain, and S. Kasiviswanathan 38
High-pressure electrical resistivity studies on FeSe2 and FeTe2
G. Parthasarathy, D. K. Sharma, Y. K. Sharma, and Usha Chandra 40
Investigation of dielectric and structural behaviour of lead free (Ba,_xCax)(Zr0.05^0.95)03
ceramics
Kamal Jain, Gurvindcrjit Singh, G. K. Upadhyaya, and V. S. Tiwari 42
Influence of anthracene doping on the order-disorder phase transition in phenanthrene
Rajul Ranjan Choudhury, R. Chitra, Lata Panickcr, and V. B. Jayakrishnan 44
Study of structural phase transition and optical properties in BiFe03-BiMn03 thin fdms
V. Annapu Rcddy and R. Nath 46
HCP to omega martensitic phase transformation pathway in pure Zr
Partha S. Ghosh, A. Arya, and G. K. Dey 48
Pressure induced phase transition in NaNb03
S. K. Mishra, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, and Thomas Hansen 50
Liquid-vapor phase diagram of metals using EAM potential
Chandrani Bhattacharya 52
Role of amphiphilic molecule on liquid crystal phases
Kaustabh Dan, Madhusudan Roy, and Alokmay Datta 54
Stabilisation of SrAI204 hexagonal phase at RT in ZnO-SrAl204 nanocomposite
V. P. Singh, S. B. Rai, H. Mishra, and Chandana Rath 56
Effect of site selective Ti substitution on the melting point of CuTi alloys
Karabi Ghosh and Manoranjan Ghosh 58
Temperature dependent structural studies of multiferroic La0.7Bi0.3CrO3 perovskites
Aga Shahcc and N. P. Lalla 60
Dielectric and ferroelectric studies on lead free piezoelectric KNN ceramics
P. Mahcsh, Ajeet Kumar, A. R. James, and D. Pamu 62
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Structural and elastic properties of ZrxNb|_,C alloy
Purvee Bhardwaj, Faisal Sharccf, Madhu Sarwan, V. Thakrc, and Sadhna Singh 64
Structural properties of TiN and TiO at high temperature and pressure
Vasudev Thakre, Sadhna Singh, Purvcc Bhardwaj, and Faisal Shared' 66
Effect of high pressure on the structure of LuN
Sanjay K. Singh, P. Rana, V. Nayak, and U. P. Vcmia 68
High pressure study of Mgi-xSrxO solid solution
Mamta Chauhan and Dincsh C. Gupta 70
Structural behaviour and thermo-physical properties of PrTe: A model study
M. Faisal Sharcef, Madhu Singh, V. Abdul shukoor, and Sadhna Singh 72
FTIR, dielectric and impedance spectroscopic studies on Bi3.25Lao.75Ti3.,iZr«0|2(x=O.I, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7
and 1)
N. Thirumal Reddy, N. V. Prasad, G. S. Kumar, and G. Prasad 74
Structural refinement and observation of enhanced magnetic properties of La doped BiFeO,
Pittala Surcsh and S. Srinath 76
High pressure phase transformation in uranium carbide: A first principle study
B. D. Sahoo, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta 78
First-principles investigations of equation of states and phase transitions in PaN under pressure
P. Modak and Ashok K. Verma 80
Electronic structure, charge and orbital order and metal-insulator transition in nickclatcs
D. Misra and A. Taraphdcr 82
Activation of slip systems and shape changes during deformation of single crystal copper: A
molecular dynamics study
S. Rawat, V. M. Chavan, M. Warricr, S. Chaturvcdi, S. Sharma, and R. J. Patcl 84
Ab-initio investigations of RTc to PmTm transition in /?A103 (La, Pr and Nd) pcrovskites under
pressure
Ashok K. Vcrma and P. Modak 86
High pressure structural investigations of copper metaborate (CuB204)
Pallavi S. Malavi, S. Karmakar, and Surindcr M. Sharma 88
Memory effect in SrRu(,.x)O3(0.01<x<0.07)
Chanchal Sow, D Samal, A. K. Bcra, S. M. Yusuf, and P. S. Anil Kumar W)
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Synthesis and structural characterization of highly tetragonal (l-x)Bi(Zn|/2Ti|/2)-xPbTi03
piezoceramics
Jyoti Sharma, Rishikcsh Pandcy, and Akhilesh Kumar Singh 92
Dielectric studies of the blue phase-Ill liquid crystal
Manoj Marik, B. K. Chaudhuri, and D. Jana 94
Magnetic anomalies in specific heat and dielectric properties of multiferroic GdMn03
Puncct Negi, Hcmaunt Kumar, H. M. Agrawal, and R. C. Srivastava 96
Antiferromagnetic order in systems with doublet Stot = 1/2 ground states
Sambuddha Sanyal, Argha Banerjec, Kcdar Damlc, and Anders W. Sandvik 98
High pressure behavior of BiMn205
K. K. Pandcy, H. K. Poswal, Ravi Kumar, and Surinder M. Sharma 100
Delineating overlapping structural and magnetic phase transformations in a Fe-5.93at% Ni alloy
A. Vcrma, Jung B. Singh, M. Sundararaman, and J. K. Chakravartty 102
Enhanced incompressibility in iron doped nano particles of indium sesquioxide under high
pressure
Nandini Garg, K. K. Pandey, A. K. Mishra, Anshu Singhal, and Surinder M. Sharma 104
Raman spectroscopic studies on TaV05
Nilcsh P. Salke, Rekha Rao, Jinxia Deng, and Xianran Xing 106
Structural behaviour of Mg, Al and Si doped niobium oxynitrides under high pressures
Bharat Bhooshan Sharma, H. K. Poswal, Surinder M. Sharma, J. V. Yakhmi, Y. Ohashi,
andS. Kikkawa 108
B. SOFT CONDENSED MATTER INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
First principles DFT study of weak C-H...O bonds in crystalline amino acids under pressure-
alanine
Lavanya M. Ramaniah, C. Kamal, and S. K. Sikka 110
Dynamical motion in SDBS micelles
V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 112
Optical and thermal properties of a lyotropic micellar nematic phase
T. N. Govindaiah, H. R. Srcepad, P. M. Sathyanarayana, J. Mahdeva, and Nagappa 114
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Role of valence plasmons in transmission of photons through mica membrane in energy range10-40eV
P. K. Yadav, Shailendra Kumar, R. K. Gupta, M. H. Modi, Pragya Tiwari, (i. S. I.odha,
and S. K. Deb
Structure of micelles in re-entrant phase of SDS/A1(NO-0;, solutions
Raisa Nadaf, Mahcsh Ijjada, Janaky Narayanan, Binoj Kutty, V. K. Aswal, Jaycsh R. Bellare,and P. S. Goyal
Surface properties of rhodamine B doped poly (vinyl) alcohol films studied using XPS and AFM
J. Tripathi, S. Tripathi, J. M. Keller, K. Das, and T. Shripathi
Nano-Bioglass (NBG) for bone regeneration applications-Preparation and its characterization
D. Durgalakshmi and S. Balakumar
Probing interaction of charged nanoparticles with uncharged micelles
Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrccher
Free volume dependent fluorescence property of PMIV1A composite: Positron annihilation studie
V. Ravindrachary, S. D. Pravccna, R. F. Bhajantri, Ismayil, and Vincent Crasta
Free volume related electrical properties of sodium alginate/Li004 solid polyectrolyteS. D. Pravccna, V. Ravindrachary, R. F. Bhajantri, and Ismayil
Study of interaction of ZnO nanoparticles with human serum albumin using fluorescence
spectroscopy
A. Bhogalc, N. Patcl, J. Mariam, P. M. Dongrc, A. Miotello, and D. C. Kothari
Permeability studies of redox-sensitive nitroxyl radicals through bilayer lipid membranesM. Kumara Dhas, A. Milton Franklin Bcnial, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Kcn-ichi Yamada,
Fuminori Hyodo, A. Jawahar, and Hideo Utsumi
Probing the microstructure of hydrogels using fluorescence recovery after photoblcaching
Santripti Khandai, Ronald A. Sicgcl, and Sidhartha S. Jena
Structural refinement analysis of bulk Zn-ferrite obtained from sintering of its nanoparticlesG. Thirupathi and R. Singh
Two dimensional mixtures at water surface
Madhumita Choudhuri and Alokmay Datta
Bidirectional transport of motor-driven cargoes in cell: A random walk with memory
Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan
"Coffee-ring" patterns of polymer droplets
Nupur Biswas and Alokmay Datta
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Force induced melting of DNA hairpin: A Monte Carlo studyM. Suman Kalyan and K. P. N. Murthy 144
Phase transitions in methyl parben doped dipalmitoyl phosphatidylethanolamine vesiclesLata Panicker 146
A simple route to silver/polyaniline nanocompositeJavcd R. Mondal and S. Bhattacharya 148
Surfactant-monomer interactions: Towards oxidative surface polymerization of transparentconducting polymers
Smita Mukhcrjee, Anshu Kumar, Bikash K. Sikder, and Anil Kumar 150
Tuning of adsorption vs. depletion interaction in nanoparticle-polymer system
Sugam Kumar, A. J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, and R. Schweins 152
Structure and interaction in liquid-liquid phase transition of silica nanoparticles in aqueous
electrolyte solution
A. J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. G. Wagh 154
Physical understanding of pore formation on supported lipid bilayer by bacterial toxins
R. Bhattacharya, A. Agrawal, K. G. Ayappa, S. S. Visweswariah, and J. K. Basu 156
Preparation and introduction of CdSe quantum dots in a 5CB twisted nematic liquid crystal cell:
Observation of ordered array of nanostructures
Subhojyoti Sinha, Sanat Kumar Chatterjee, Jiten Ghosh, and Ajit Kumar Meikap 158
Role of electrostatic interaction on surfactant induced protein unfoldingSumit, Sugam Kumar, and V. K. Aswal 160
Computationally efficient algorithm in cluster geometry optimizationKanchan Sarkar and S. P. Bhattacharyya 162
Yielding behavior of dense microgel glassesR. G. Joshi, B. V. R. Tata, and D. Karthickeyan 164
Synthesis and characterization of metal oxide-polyaniline emeraldine salt based nanocompositeK. Siva Kumar, B. Kavitha, K. Prabakar, D. Srinivasu, Ch. Srinivas, and N. Narsimlu 166
Protonated water under hydrophobic nanoconfinement: An ab initio studyM. K. Tripathy, K. R. S. Chandrakumar, and S. K. Ghosh 168
Dielectric and electric modulus study of PPy/Ti02/CNT/SLS composite with temperatureD. C. Tiwari, Priyanka Atri, and Rishi Sharma 170
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Thermal properties of conformational!} modified arachidic acid crystals from different solvents
Debarati Bhattacharya, L. Panickcr, R. Chitra, G. Abraham, and S. Basu 172
Synthesis and dielectric studies of polyorthotoluidine-polyvinyl pyrrolidone conducting polymercomposites
A. K. Himanshu, Rajni Bahuguna, D. K. Ray, S. K. Bandyopadyayay, and T. P. Sinha 174
C. NANO-MATERIALS
Particle distribution of nanocrystalline copper produced by exploding wire method
Rashmita Das, Basanta Kumar Das, and Anurag Shyam 176
N0 acceptor enhanced RTFM in nitrogen doped ZnO synthesized by ammonialysisN. Sivagami, D. Vanidha, A . Arunkumar, A. Sivagamasundari Mahcswarikuppaiyandi,Nareddula Dastagiri Rcddy, S. Rajagopan, and R. Kannan 17S
Grain growth kinetics and its effect on instrumented indentation response to nanocrystalline Ni
Arnomitra Chatterjee, Garima Sharma, and J. K. Chakravartty 180
Enhanced multiferroic properties in scandium doped Bi2Fe404
Dimple P. Dutta and A. K. Tyagi 1K2
CaMo04:Tb@Fe304 hybrid nanoparticles for luminescence and hyperthermia applicationsA. K. Parchur, N. Kaurav, A. A. Ansari, A. I. Prasad, R. S. Ningthoujam, and S. B. Rai 1X4
Structural and optical studies on Mg doped CdS nanoparticles by simple co-precipitation method
G. Giribabu, D. Amaranatha Reddy, G. Murali, and R. P. Vijayalakshmi 1X6
Crystallographic, FTIR and optical property studies on Co doped ZnS nanometer-sized crystalsV. D. Mote, V. R. Huse, and B. N. Dole 1XX
Electronic and optical properties of free standing Au nanowires using density functional theoryAnil Thakur, Arun Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 190
Band gap engineering in nano structured graphane by applying elastic strain
Naveen Kumar, Jyoti Dhar Sharma, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 192
Structural and electrochemical studies of LiNio.2Coo.8VO4 cathode material for lithium batteries
D. Prakash and C. Sanjeeviraja 194
Superparamagnetism in nanocrystalline CePd3: Bulk magnetization and TDPAC studies
S. N. Mishra, S. K. Mohanta, S. M. Davanc, K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 196
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Nanoindentation studies of nickel zinc ferrite embedded mesoporous silica template
S. Bancrjec, P. Hajra, M. R. Mada, S. Bandopadhyay, and D. Chakravorty 198
Tuning the optical properties in nanocrystaliine Zn doped CdSe thin films by light soaking
Kriti Sharma, Alaa S. Al-Kabbi, G. S. S. Saini, and S. K. Tripathi 200
Photoluminescence spectra of InAs quantum dots embedded in GaAs heterostructure
Rahul M. Makhijani, S. Chakrabarti, and Vijay A. Singh 202
Observation of excitation wavelength dependent photoluminescence from ZnO nanoparticles
embedded in mesoporous silica
K. Sowri Babu, A. R. C. Rcddy, Ch. Sujatha, K. V. G. Reddy, and N. K. Mishra 204
Single molecule detection using SERS study in PVP functionalized Ag nanoparticlesParul Garg and S. Dhara 206
Electrical characterization of dye sensitized nano solar cell using natural pomegranate juice as
photosensitizer
U. Adithi, Sara Thomas, V. Uma, and N. Pradeep 208
Surfactant doped silica aerogels dried at supercritical pressure
V. G. Parale, D. B. Mahadik, M. S. Kavale, A. Venkateswara Rao, R. S. Vhatkar, P. B. Wagh,and Satish C. Gupta 210
Photoluminescence study of p-Ga203 nanostructures under different oxygen pressure conditions
R. Jangir, S. Porwal, Pragya Tiwari, S. K. Rai, Puspen Mondal, Tapas Ganguli, S. M. Oak,
and S. K. Deb 212
Electronic transport, ac-susceptibility, and magnetotransport studies of Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3
manganite nanoparticles
Proloy T. Das, J. Panda, A. Taraphder, and T. K. Nath 214
Structural, Raman spectroscopy and dielectric relaxation study of nanoceramics NdFe03Sadhan Chanda, Indrani Das, Sujoy Saha, and T. P. Sinha 216
Probing the plasmonic response of an isolated Au nanorod using cathodoluminescence
Pabitra Das, Suraj Kumar Karmakar, and Tapas Kumar Chini 218
Role of Co doping on structural and morphological properties of SnO nanoparticleG. Vijayaprasath, G. Ravi, M. Arivanandhan, and Y. Hayakawa 220
Exchange bias effect in nanocrystaliine Co@Co304D. Dc. S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 222
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Determination of density of states using constant photocurrent method in nc-CdSe:Sn thin films
Jagdish Kaur and S. K. Tripathi 224
Wet chemical synthesis of Ag nano wires for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
D. Rajesh, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and C. S. Sunandana 226
Manifestation of weak ferromagnetism and photocatalytic activity in bismuth ferrite
nanoparticles
M. Sakar, S. Balakumar, P. Saravanan, and S. N. Jaisankar 228
Synthesis, characterisation and counterion dependent mesoscopic modifications of ionomcr
nanocomposites having different dimensional silver nanostructures
Sabyasachi Patra, Debasis Sen, Chhavi Agarwal, Ashok K. Pandcy, S. Mazumdcr, and A. Goswami 230
Gold nanostars reshaping and plasmon tuning mechanism
Abhitosh Kedia and P. Senthil Kumar 232
A simple novel method of developing BFO nanostructures
N. Dutta, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, P. Sen, A. K. Himanshu, P. Y. Naviraj, R. Mcnon,
P. K. Mukhopadhyay, and P. Ray 234
Economic approach for fabricating nontoxic Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films for solar cell
applicationsRenuka Digraskar, Swapnali Dhanayat, Ketan Gattu, Sandccp Mahajan, Deepak Upadhye,Anil Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 236
Studies on nitrogen doped ZnO nanorods synthesized through sonochemical route
N. R. Panda, B. S. Acharya, and P. Nayak 238
Enhanced electrical conductivity and reduced defect emissions of ZnO:Mo nanowire array films
Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam 240
Synthesis and structural properties of pure and co-doped (Cu, Ag) ZnO nanoparticles
B. Sankara Reddy, S. Vcnkatramana Rcddy, and N. Koteeswara Rcddy 242
Structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Ni2+ substituted cobalt nanoferrite using sol-gel
method
A. Paul Blessington Selvadurai, P. M. Md.Gazzali, C. Murugascn, V. Pazhanivelu, R. Murugaraj,
and G. Chandrasekaran 244
Magnetic-fluorescent nanocomposite: A case study on Fe30,»/ZnS
A. Roychowdhury, S. P. Pati, S. Kumar, and D. Das 246
Luminescence and electrical behavior of lead molybdate nanoparticles
B. P. Singh, A. K. Parchur, S. B. Rai, and P. Singh 248
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Synthesis and photoluminescence study of flower-like hydroxyapatite nanostructure for bioprobe
applications
G. Suresh Kumar, E. K. Girija, and A. Thamizhavel
Metal-dielectric composite for dispersion free opticsM. Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra, A. R. Ganesan, and S. Kasiviswanathan
Effects of Cr-doping on structural and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticlesShiv Kumar, S. Chattcrjee, and Anup K. Ghosh
Effect of size on the exciton-phonon coupling strength in ZnO nanoparticlesA. Sharma, S. Dhar, and B. P. Singh
Size dependent absorption kinetics of sedimenting nanoparticles
Manoranjan Ghosh, Karabi Ghosh, Seema Shinde, and S. C. Gadkari
Synthesis and characterization of nano Co06Feo.4S2
Pooja Sharma and N. Razia
Study of B and N doped graphene by varying dopant positions
Pooja Rani and V. K. Jindal
Effect on magnetic properties of germanium encapsulated C60 fullerene
Nibras Mossa Umran and Ranjan Kumar
Growth of germanium nanowires by electron beam evaporationR. Rakesh Kumar, K. Narasimha Rao, and A. R. Phani
Growth of Ti02 nanoparticles under heat treatment
J. Bahadur, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, P. U. Sastry, and B. Paul
Optical studies of ZnO nanoparticles and 1-D nanofibers
O. Padmaraj, B. Nageswara Rao, M. Venkateswarlu, and N. Satyanarayana
A new type of exchange bias effect in oxidized Ni3Al compacted nanoparticlesM Umasankar, S. P. Mathew, S. N. Kaul, M. Ames, and R. Birringer
Synthesis of phase pure BiDy03 and its structural characterization
S. lyyapushpam, S. T. Nishanthi, and D. Pathincttam Padiyan
Photoluminescence and optical absorption of LiF.Eu phosphorsA. K. Sharma, Satinder Kumar, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar
Indium assisted growth of GaN nanowires at low temperaturesKishorc K. Madapu, S. Dhara, S. Amirthapandian, and Ramanathaswamy Pandian
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Visible light photocatalytic degradation of 4-chlorophenol using vanadium and nitrogen
co-doped Ti02
R. Jaiswal, N. Patcl, D. C. Kothari, and A. Miotcllo 280
A comparative study of transition metal doped tubular gold cages:M@Au24 (M = Au, Cu, Ag)
Sumali, Priyanka, and Kcya Dharamvir 282
Co-B nanoparticles supported over FSM type mesoporous silica: An efficient nanocatalyst for
hydrogen production by hydrolysis of ammonia borane
S. Gupta, N. Patel, R. Fernandcs, D. C. Kothari, and A. Miotcllo 284
The effect of annealing on the structural and magnetic properties of zinc substitutes Ni-fcrrite
nanocrystals
Chaturbhuj Ojha, A. K. Verma, and A. K. Shrivastava 286
Evolution of silver/gold triangular nanoframes from prismatic silver/gold core/shell
nanostructures and their SERS properties
P. Parthiban, M. Sakar, and S. Balakumar 288
Adsorption of Eu atom at the Ti02 anatase (101) and rutile (110) surfaces
Sandeep Nigam, Suman Kalyan Sahoo, Pranab Sarkar, and Chiranjib Majumdcr 290
DFT study of H20 adsorption on Ti02 (110) and Sn02 (110) surfaces
Suman Kalyan Sahoo, Sandeep Nigam, Pranab Sarkar, and Chiranjib Majumdcr 292
Ammonia sensing properties of silver nanocomposite with polypyrrole
N. S. Karmakar, D. C. Kothari, and N. V. Bhat 294
Synthesis, characterization and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline nickel
Sourav Das, N. P. Lalla, and G. S. Okram 296
Adsorption over polyacrylonitrile based carbon monoliths
Mahasweta Nandi, Arghya Dutta, Astam Kumar Patra, Asim Bhaumik, and Hiroshi Uyama 298
Interaction of nitrogen molecule with graphene
Babita Rani, V. K. Jindal, and Keya Dharamvir 300
Magnetic properties of Ni(OH)2 nanostructures
B. Gokul and R. Sathyamoorthy 302
The transport behavior of graphene quantum dots
Hemen Kalita, V. Harikrishnan, and M. Aslam 304
In-situ study of the growth of CuO nanowires by energy dispersive X-ray diffraction
Himanshu Srivastava, Tapas Ganguli, S. K. Deb, Tushar Sant, Himanshu Poswal,
and S. M. Sharma 306
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Electronic properties of anodic bonded graphene
Dccpika, Adrian Balan, Abhay Shukla, Escoffier Walter, and Rakesh Kumar 308
Structural, optical and antibacterial studies on Zn, vMnxS nanomaterials
M. Elango, E. M. Rajesh, R. Rajendran, and M. Thamilselvan 310
Enhanced photocatalytic performance of ZnO-reduced graphene oxide hybrid synthesized via
ultrasonic probe-assisted study
A. Prakash, N. K. Sahu, and D. Bahadur 312
Dielectric properties of Mn0.5Zno.5Fe204 ferrite nanoparticlesC. Murugesan, P. M. Md Gazzali, B. Sathyamoorthy, and G. Chandrasekaran 314
Observation of Coulomb blockade and Coulomb staircase in a lateral metal nanostructure
Sourabh Barua, Rohan Poojary, and K. P. Rajeev 316
Surface controlled magnetic properties of Fe304 nanoparticlesJcotikanta Mohapatra, Arijit Mitra, D. Bahadur, and M. Aslam 318
Synthesis and characterization of Ti02 and Ag/Ti02 nanostructure
Swati Gahlot, Amit Kumar Thakur, Vaibhav Kulshrestha, and V. K. Shahi 320
Partial inversion in nano zinc ferrite as studied using Mdssbauer spectroscopyL. Hcrojit Singh, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 322
Magnetic core shell nanostructures with plasmonic propertiesHimanshu Tyagi and M. Aslam 324
Morphology controlled synthesis of ZnO nanostructures through a mild-thermal decompositionShripal Singh, Jcotikanta Mohapatra, A. Mitra, Ajay Kushwaha, and M. Aslam 326
Impedance and modulus spectroscopy analysis of Mn0.5Zno.5Fe204 nanoparticlesH. Aircddy, U. Bidayat, and A. K. Das 328
Electrical and magnetic properties of sol-gel synthesized nanocrystalline Li2Ni1-xMgxTi04materials
Rajesh Chcruku, G. Govindaraj, and Lakshmi Vijayan 330
Structural morphological and optoelectronic study of titania and gold doped titania
nanoparticles grown by sol-gel technique
Yogcsh A. Jadhav, Ketan P. Gattu, Anil Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 332
Kelvin probe studies of H2S exposed CuO:ZnO nanowires random networks
Niyanta Datta, Niranjan Ramgir, Manmeet Kaur, Kailasa Ganpathi, A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal,and S. K. Gupta 334
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Cathodoluminescence properties of p-Ga203 nanowires grown using CVD techniqueSudheer Kumar, C. Tcssarek, S. Christiansen, and R. Singh 336
Structural and Mossbauer spectroscopic studies of heat-treated Ni„Zn|_xFe204 ferritc
nanoparticles
Ch. Srinivas, S. S. Meena, B. V. Tirupanyam, D. L. Sastry, and S. M. Yusuf 338
Effect of dopant concentration on photoluminescence properties of Gd203:Eu:<+T. Selvalakshmi and A. Chandra Bose 340
Influence of cobalt doping on the structural and optical properties of ZnS nanoparticlesB. Poornaprakash, D. Amaranatha Reddy, G. Murali, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, and B. K. Rcddy 342
First principles study of hydrogen storage in SWCNT functionalized with MgH2R. Lavanya, K. Iyakutti, V. J. Surya, V. Vasu, and Y. Kawazoc 344
Probing gas response of pure and Au modified ZnO nanowires network using work function
measurements
Preetam K. Sharma, Niranjan S. Ramgir, N. Datta, M. Kaur, C. P. Goyal, S. Kailasaganapathi,A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 346
A novel one-step synthesis of highly fluorescent CdSe QD's of tunable light emission by aqueous
route
R. M. Hodlur and M. K. Rabinal 34S
Optical studies of reduced graphene oxide thin films
Kanika Anand, Nipin Kohli, Onkar Singh, Anita Hastir, and Ravi Chand Singh 350
Study of magnetization dynamics in electrodeposited magnetic nanostructures
Sachin Pathak and Manish Sharma 352
Enrichment of magnetic alignment stimulated by y-radiation in core-shell type nanoparticle
Mn-Zn ferrite
P. P. Naik, R. B. Tangsali, B. Sonayc, and S. Sugur 354
TL kinetics study of LiF nanophosphors for high exposures of gamma-rays
A. K. Sharma, Ankush Vij, Satindcr Kumar, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar 356
Quantum interference effects and high magnetoresistance in textured Ni nanodots embedded in
TiN matrix
J. Panda and T. K. Nath 35X
Fermi velocity modulation in graphene by strain engineering
Harihar Behcra and Gautam Mukhopadhyay 360
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Ordering of FeCo nanocrystalline phase in FeCoNbB alloy: An anomalous diffraction studyP. Gupta, Tapas Ganguli, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, P. Svec Jr., and S. K. Deb 362
Nanostructured zinc oxide as a prospective room temperature thermoelectric material
Pawan Kumar, M. Kar, Anup V. Sanchela, C. V. Tomy, and Ajay D. Thakur 364
Electrochemical capacitance properties of Mn304 nanoparticles via energy efficient thermolysisArijit Mitra, Jeotikanta Mohapatra, Balakrishna Ananthoju, and M. Aslam 366
Chunk-shaped ZnO nanoparticles for ethanol sensing
R. N. Mariammal, C. Stella, and K. Ramachandran 368
Mn02 nanotube-Pt/graphene mixture as an ORR catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel
cell
P. Divya and S. Ramaprabhu 370
Antibacterial efficacy of silver nanoparticles against Escherichia coli
Rani M. Pattabi, G. Arun Kumar Thilipan, Vinayachandra Bhat, K. R. Sridhar,
and Manjunatha Pattabi 372
Application of multiwalled carbon nanotubes-graphene hybrid nanocomposite for nonenzymatic
H202 biosensor
Pranati Nayak, P. N. Santhosh, and S. Ramaprabhu 374
Structural phase analysis of nanocrystalline Mg:Zr02
S. Senthilkumaran, A. Ahamed Fazil, S. Kannan, and P. Thangadurai 376
Electronic structure and electron energy loss spectra of armchair and zigzag edged buckled
silicene nano-ribbons
Brij Mohan, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 378
Synthesis of embedded titanium dioxide nanoparticles by oxygen ion implantation in titanium
films
Dcepti. A. Rukade, C. A. Desai, Nilesh Kulkarni, L. C. Tribedi, and Varsha Bhattacharyya 380
Effect of calcination temperature on structural and magnetic properties of nanocrystallinemagnesium ferrite powders
T. P. Sumangala, C. Mahcnder, N. Venkataramani, and S. Prasad 382
STM observation of surface transfer doping mechanism in 3 keV nitrogen ion implanted UNCDfilms
B. Sundaravel, Kalpataru Panda, R. Dhandapani, B. K. Panigrahi, K. G. M. Nair, and I-Nan Lin 384
Synthesis, characterization and ion conductivity study of nanocrystalline LiNaS04K. N. Ganesha and G. Govindaraj 386
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Synthesis and characterization of ZnS thin films deposited by CBD and UCBD techniquesSachin V. Mukhamale and N. B. Chaurc 388
Effect of tautomerism on Au-6-mercaptopurine nanocluster stabilityNeda Rashidpour, Vikas Kashid, and Vaishali Shah 390
Al3+ doped V2Os nanostructure: Synthesis and structural, morphological and optical
characterization
A. Venkatesan, N. Krishna Chandar, M. Krishna Kumar, S. Arjunan, R. Mohan Kumar,
and R. Jayavel 392
Ag+I2 ion induced modifications of structural and optical properties of ZnO-PMMA
nanocomposite films
Sarla Sharma, Rishi Vyas, and Y. K. Vijay 394
Electronic structure investigations in conductance across porphyrin-fullercne molecular
junctions
Vikas Kashid, H. G. Salunke, and Vaishali Shah 396
CaSn(OH)6 cubes: Synthesis and photoluminescence studies
D. K. Patel, J. Nuwad, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, and S. K. Kulshrcshtha 398
Synthesis of reduced graphene oxide and its electrochemical sensing of 4-nitrophenolK. Giribabu, R. Suresh, R. Manigandan, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 400
Electrochemical sensing property of Mn doped Fe304 nanoparticles
R. Suresh, K. Giribabu, R. Manigandan, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 402
Microwave accelerated one-minute synthesis of luminescent ZnO quantum dots
Adersh Asok, A. R. Kulkarni, and Mayuri N. Gandhi 404
Interaction of carboplatin with SWCNT (10,10): A first principles study
V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, H. Mizuseki, and Y. Kawazoc 406
Nanocrystalline Ni-Al ferrites for high frequency applications
T. Ramesh, S. Bharadwaj, R. S. Shinde, and S. R. Murthy 408
Effect of Ga-doped ZnO seed layer thickness on the morphology and optical properties of ZnO
nanorods
R. Nandi, D. Singh, P. Joshi, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 410
Impedance spectroscopy of Sni_xCd,02 nanoparticles
Sumaira Mchraj and Alimuddin 412
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Investigations on chemosynthesized CdSe microclusters
Sachin A. Pawar, S. B. Pawar, A. S. Kamble, D. S. Patil, P. N. Bhosale, and P. S. Patil 414
Enhancement of nonlinear optical absorption in copper decorated a-Fe2Oi nanoparticlesManas Ranjan Parida and C. Vijayan 416
Enhanced magnetism in ball milled Cu:Ti02
K. Bagani, M. K. Ray, B. Ghosh, N. Gayathri, M. Sardar, and S. Banerjee 418
Micromagnetic study of magnetization reversal and dipolar interactions in NiFe nano disks
Janaki Shcth, D. Venkateswarlu, and P. S. Anil Kumar 420
Ion beam synthesis of Au nanoparticles embedded nano-composite glassRanjana S. Varma, D. C. Kothari, Ravi Kumar, P. Kumar, S. S. Santra, and R. G. Thomas 422
Application of silica nanoparticles for increased silica availability in maize
R. Suriyaprabha, G. Karunakaran, R. Yuvakkumar, P. Prabu, V. Rajendran, and N. Kannan 424
Thermoluminescent response of rare earth doped nanocrystalline Ba0.97Cao.ojS04Shaila Bahl, S. P. Lochab, Anant Pandey, and Pratik Kumar 426
Structural and ac electrical properties of LiCoP04 synthesised by template free hydrothermalapproach
Lakshmi Vijayan, Rajesh Cheruku, and G. Govindaraj 428
Nano Ag-doped ZnO particles magnetic, optical and structural studies
A. H. Shah, E. Manikandan, M. Basheer Ahmed, and M. Irdosh 430
Development of high strength hydroxyapatite for bone tissue regeneration using nanobioactive
glass composites
Pragya Shrivastava, Sridhar Dalai, Prerna Sudera, Santosh Param Sivam, S. Vijayalakshmi,and Pratibha Sharma
432
Electron beam assisted synthesis of cadmium selenide nanomaterials
M. C. Rath, A. Guleria, S. Singh, A. K. Singh, S. Adhikari, and S. K. Sarkar 434
Effect of shield gas on the size distribution of aluminum nanoparticles synthesized in thermal
plasma reactor
Vijaykumar B. Varma, Chiti M. Tank, Amiya Nandi, Arti Pant, Hima Prashant, R. K. Pandey,A. K. Das, S. V. Bhoraskar, and V. L. Mathc 436
Synthesis and electrical properties of Cu-doped tin oxide nanowires
Anima Johari, Manish Sharma, and M. C. Bhatnagar 438
Nanomagnetic chelators for removal of toxic metal ions
Sarika Singh, K. C. Barick, and D. Bahadur 440
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Effect of nucleation and growth temperatures on the synthesis of monodispcrsc silver
nanoparticles
Chandni, O. F. Fandey, and Bhupcndra Chudasama 442
175 MeV Au+I3 ion irradiation induced structural and morphological modifications in zinc oxide
thin films
Devendra Singh, Aditya Sharma, Mayora Varshncy, Shalcndra Kumar, and K. D. Verma 444
Effect of particle size on the thermoluminescence properties of Ba(l.97Ca0 0,SO4:CuRenuka Bokolia and P. D. Saharc 446
Preparation and characterization of Eu3+ doped ln203 nanoparticlesKanica Anand, Digvijay Singh, Sandeep Kumar, and R. Thangaraj 448
Study of the antibacterial activity of ZnO nanoparticles
Arjuman Surti, S. Radha, and S. S. Garjc 450
D. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES
Development of neutron tomography and phase contrast imaging techniqueY. S. Kashyap, Ashish Agrawal, P. S. Sarkar, Mayank Shukla, and Amar Sinha 452
Elemental and isotopic analysis of inorganic salts by laser desorption ionization mass
spectrometry
T. Jayasekharan and N. K. Sahoo 454
Design and development of low cost thermoelectric power setup in the temperature range of
30 - 320 K up to a magnetic field of 8 T
S. K. Giri, S. K. Hazra, and T. K. Nath 456
Study of aging of nuclear detector based on n-silicon/copper phthalocyaninc hctcrojunctionA. Ray and S. K. Gupta 458
Comparative study of ionization chamber detectors vis-a-vis a CCD detector for dispersive XAS
measurement in transmission geometryA. K. Poswal, A. Agrawal, D. Bhattachryya, S. N. Jha, and N. K. Sahoo 460
Structural and optical properties of Pr doped BiFe03 multiferroic ceramics
Vikash Singh, Subhash, R. K. Dwivcdi, and Manoj Kumar 462
Defect analysis of CZTS thin films using photoluminescence technique
N. Poornima, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 464
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Ambipolar copper phthalocyanine heterojunction field effect transistors based organic inverter
Sarita Yadav and Subhasis Ghosh 466
ZnO based organic-inorganic hybrid p-n junction diode
Budhi Singh and Subhasis Ghosh 468
Study of nonlinear refraction of organic dye by Z-scan technique using He-Ne laser
S. Medhekar, R. Kumar, S. Mukherjec, and R. K. Choubey 470
Local structure investigation of Eu doped SrSn03 samples surrounding Sr site
S. Basu, D. K. Patel, V. Sudarsan, S. K. Kulshreshtha, S. N. Jha, and D. Bhattacharyya 472
Development of Nd-YAG laser heated diamond anvil cell facility and HPHT synthesis of WGe2
N. R. Sanjay Kumar, N. V. Chandra Shekar, and P. Ch. Sahu 474
X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) studies on Sb-doped Bi2U06 at Bi and U edgesA. K. Yadav, N. L. Misra, Sangita Dhara, Rohan Phatak, A. K. Poswal, S. N. Jha,
and D. Bhattacharyya 476
Tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum thin film as ETL in efficient green phosphorescent OLEDs
K. Thangaraju, Yun-Hi Kim, and Soon-Ki Kwon 478
Comparison of spectral performance of Hf02/Si02 and Ti02/Si02 based high reflecting mirrors
S. Maidul Haque, P. R. Sagdeo, D. Bhattacharya, D. D. Shinde, J. S. Misal, Nisha Prasad,
and N. K. Sahoo 480
Neutron imaging experiments at E-12 beam-line of CIRUS
Ashish Agrawal, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, P. S. Sarkar, and Amar Sinha 482
Doping of graphene during chemical exfoliation
Pawan Kumar Srivastava, Premlata Yadav, and Subhasis Ghosh 484
On experimental realisation of a plane wave of neutrons
Sohrab Abbas and Apoorva G. Wagh 486
Detection of very low concentration of water in ethanol by using NASICON probeParul Yadav and M. C. Bhatnagar 488
Density and thermal expansion of 7010 and 7017 wrought aluminum alloys by gamma ray
attenuation techniqueK. Gopal Kishan Rao, K. Narender, A. S. Madhusudhan Rao, and N. Gopi Krishna 490
Comparison study of LDMOS and VDMOS technologies for RF power amplifiersB. V. Ramarao, J. K. Mishra, Manjiri Pandc, P. Singh, G. Kumar, and J. Mukherjee 492
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Inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching of Ill-nitride semiconductors
A. P. Shah, M. R. Laskar, A. A. Rahman, M. R. Gokhalc, and A. Bhattacharya 494
Developing high aspect ratio comb-drive using synchrotron radiation at Indus-2
Rahul Shukla, V. K. Jain, V. P. Dhamgayc, and G. S. Lodha 496
Analysis of soft x-ray/Vl)V transmission characteristics of Si and Al filters
Aby Joseph, Mohammed H. Modi, Amol Singh, R. K. Gupta, and G. S. Lodha 498
CSA doped polypyrrole-zinc oxide thin film sensor
M. A. Chougule, D. M. Jundale, B. T. Raut, Shashwati Sen, and V. B. Pati! 500
Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on conductivity and relaxation time in
PVA-PEO-EC-LiCF3S03 blends
Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, Manish Jayswal, Nirali Gondaliya,and D. K. Awasthi 502
Development of Fe203 sensor for N02 detection
S. R. Nalage, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, S. G. Pawar, Shashwati Sen, and V. B. Patil 504
Effect of EC & LiCFjSOj on conductivity and relaxation in PVA-PEO blends
Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, and Nirali Gondaliya 506
Composition and optical microstructure of good gray cast iron
Nithyadevi Duraisamy and V. Veeravazhuthi 508
Development of wide band complex permeability measurement set-up
Manjeet Ahlawat and R. S. Shinde 510
Study of structural disorder in Pb(Mg,/3Nb2/3)03
Ashok Bhakar, S. M. Gupta, Tapas Ganguli, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, A. Upadhyay, S. K. Deb,
and P. K.Gupta 512
Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of KNN synthesized using colloidal coating approach
Rajan Singh, Ajit. R. Kulkarni, and C. S. Harendranath 514
Study of electrochemical reduced graphene oxide and Mn02 heterostructurc for supercapacitor
application
S. K. Jana, V. P. Rao, and S. Banerjce 516
Study of oxide etching for MOSFET-based MEMS-bio sensor
Vikas Sharma, K. Sachdcv, and V. K. Khanna 518
Dielectric constant microscopy for biological materials
A. V. Valavade, D. C. Kothari, and C. Lobbc 520
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UV detector based on polycrystalline diamond films
K. G. Girija and J. Nuwad 522
10B thin film based position sensitive neutron detector
Shraddha S. Dcsai and Shylaja Devan 524
Neutron diffraction measurements of dislocation density in copper crystals deformed at high
strain rate
Mala N. Rao, S. Rawat, S. Sharma, V. M. Chavan, R. J. Patel, and S. L. Chaplot 526
Characterization of pulsed (plasma focus) neutron source with image plate and application to
neutron radiography
Sanjay Andola, Ram Niranjan, A. M. Shaikh, R. K. Rout, T. C. Kaushik, and S. C. Gupta 528
E. LIQUIDS, GLASSES AND AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS
Optical properties and Judd-Ofelt analysis of Nd3+ ions in lead-zinc-phosphate glasses
R. Lakshmikantha, N. H. Ayachit, and R. V. Anavekar 530
Microstructural and electrical properties of CoCl2 doped HPMC/PVP polymer blend films
H. Somashekarappa, Y. Prakash, Mahadevaiah, K. Hemalatha, and R. Somashekar 532
Photo induced effects in Bi/As2Se3 bilayer thin films
Ramakanta Naik, E. M. Vinod, C. Kumar, R. Ganesan, and K. S. Sangunni 534
Photo-degradation of Lexan polycarbonate studied using positron lifetime spectroscopy
K. Harecsh, A. K. Pandey, D. Meghala, C. Ranganathaiah, and Ganesh Sanjeev 536
Magnetic studies of silico-phosphate glass-ceramics containing Ag and iron oxide
K Sharma, C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, and G. P. Kothiyal 538
Variation of Mott parameters by chemical modification of (In50Se5o)9oMi0 (M = Ag and Bi) thin
films
Shikha Gupta, Falah I. Mustafa, N. Goyal, and S. K. Tripathi 540
Kinetics of amorphous-crystallization transformation of Se8g-xTe15Snx (jc = 2, 4 and 6) alloys
under non-isothermal conditions using Matusita's approach
Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakur, and S. K. Tripathi 542
Structural and ionic conductivity behavior in hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) polymer
films complexed with sodium iodide (Nal)
N. Sandhya Rani, J. Sannappa, T. Demappa, and Mahadevaiah 544
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Nonlinear optical properties of IV-V-VI chalcogenide glasses
Neha Sharrna, Sunanda Sharda, Vincct Sharma, and Pankaj Sharma 546
Effect of Zr02 on solubility and thermo-physical properties of CaO-Al20,-Si02 glass system
Madhumita Goswami, Aparna Patil, and G. P. Kothiyal 548
Er3+-doped strontium lithium bismuth borate glasses for broadband 1.5 um emission - optical
propertiesD. Rajesh, A. Balakrishna, and Y. C. Ratnakaram 550
Effect of Zn incorporation on the optical properties of thin films of SeX5 re|5 glassy alloy
S. Shukla and S. Kumar 552
Structural relaxation at glass transition temperature in Li20-B20, glassy ionic system
Munesh Rathore and Anshuman Dalvi 554
Time evolution of photo-generated defect states in a-Se thin films
Rituraj Sharma, Pritam Khan, S. Binu, and K. V. Adarsh 556
Nanosecond light induced transient absorption in a-Ge5AsMSe65 thin films
Pritam Khan, Rituraj Sharma, and K. V. Adarsh 558
Effect of heat treatment on green luminescence broadening of Er-doped ZnO-PbO tellurite glass
ceramics
Raj Kumar Ramamoorthy, Anil K. Bhatnagar, M. Mattarclli, and M. Montagna 560
Transport of polar and non-polar solvents through a carbon nanotubc
Manish Chopra, Rohan Phatak, and N. Choudhury 562
Synthesis and structural studies of praseodymium doped silver borate glasses
G. V. Jagadeesha Gowda and B. Eraiah 564
Physical, optical and structural properties of xNa2O-(50-x)Bi2O3-10ZnO-40B2O, glasses
Sajjan Dahiya, A. S. Maan, R. Punia, R. S. Kundu, and S. Murugavcl 566
Synthesis and structural studies of multi-component strontium zinc silicate glass-ceramics
Babita Tiwari, M. Pandey, S. C. Gadkari, and G. P. Kothiyal 568
Quantum and classical molecular dynamics simulations of liquid methane
Y. Pathania and P. K. Ahluwalia 570
Analysis of ion dynamics on Na2NbZnP3Ol2 glass using anomalous relaxation function
N. S. Krishna Kumar, G. Govindaraj, and S. Vinoth Rathan 572
Anomalous Brillouin shift in lead-tellurite glass above glass transition
S. Chakraborty, A. K. Arora, V. Sivasubramanian, and P. S. R. Krishna 574
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MN rule in a-Si:H alloys
Himanshu Gupta, L. P. Purohit, F. S. Gill, and R. Kumar 576
Electrical and optical properties of ferric doped PVA-PVP-PPy composite films
Ravikumar V. Patil, M. R. Ranganath, and Blaise Lobo 578
Effect of ZnO on the physical and optical properties of tellurite base glassesSunil Dhankhar, R. S. Kundu, Rajesh Punia, Meenakshi, and Nawal Kishore 580
Magnetic and thermal properties of the ground state GdNi
Pooja Rana, S. K. Singh, V. Nayak, and U. P. Verma 582
Influence of an ionic liquid on the conduction characteristics of lithium niobophosphate glassPrashant Dabas and K. Hariharan 584
Effect of alkali treatment on the physical and surface properties of Indian hemp fibers
Sangappa, B. Lakshmeesha Rao, S. Asha, and R. Somashekar 586
Effect of ZnO nanoparticles on structural and mechanical properties of HPMC polymer films
B. Lakshmeesha Rao, Mahadeviah, S. Asha, R. Somashekar, and Sangappa 588
Comparison of orders, structures and anomalies of water: A molecular dynamics simulation
study
Dibyendu Bandyopadhyay, Sadhana Mohan, Swapan K. Ghosh, and Niharendu Choudhury 590
Structural and electronic transport properties of compound forming HgPb liquid alloy usingab-initio pseudopotential
Nalini Sharma, Anil Thakur, and P. K. Ahluwalia 592
Ab-initio study of liquid systems: Concentration dependence of electrical resistivity of binaryliquid alloy Rbl-xCsx
Anil Thakur, Nalini Sharma, Surjeet Chandel, and P. K. Ahluwalia 594
Investigation of DC electrical conductivity of chalcogenide glassesSanjay, N. Kishore, R. S. Kundu, A. Agarwal, and S. Dhankhar 596
Structural and physical properties of vanadium doped copper bismuth borate glassesR. L. Dhiman, Vircnder Singh Kundu, Susheel Arora, and A. S. Maan 598
Effect of La20_n on the electrical conductivity and thermal properties of proton conducting glassesS. R. Tiplc and V. K. Deshpande 600
Luminescence, electrical and magnetic studies of Mn2+:Li20-LiF-B203-CdO glassesV. Naresh and S. Buddhudu 602
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Structural, dielectric and AC conductivity properties of Co2+ doped mixed alkali zinc borate
glasses
B. J. Madhu, Syed Asma Banu, G. A. Harshitha, T. M. Shilpa, and B. Shruthi 604
Solvent primitive model study of structure of colloidal solution in highly charge asymmetricelectrolytes
Brindaban Modak, Chandra N. Patra, and Swapan K. Ghosh 606
Silver doped nanobioactive glass particles for bone implant applicationsM. Prabhu, K. Kavitha, G. Karunakaran, P. Manivasakan, and V. Rajcndran 608
Spectroscopic studies of pure and malachite green sensitized polyvinyl carbazolc III ins
Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, and P. K. Kharc 610
Optical and microhardness measurement of lead silicate
Rashmi M. Jogad, Rakesh Kumar, P. S. R. Krishna, M. S. Jogad, G. P. Kothiyal, and R. D. Malhad 612
Spectroscopy of Nd3+ in two different glassy networks: Phosphate and silicate
P. Nandi, M. Goswami, M. N. Deo, V. Sudarsan, and G. P. Kothiyal 614
Acoustical and thermal conductivity studies on CuO/DEA-benzene hybrid nanofluids
B. Rohini, M. Gopalakrishnan, R. Kiruba, T. Mahalingam, and A Kingson Solomon Jccvaraj 616
Mixed alkali effect in glasses containing Mn02M. Sudhakara Reddy, Asha Rajiv, V. C. Vccranna Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. Narayana
Reddy 618
Reitveld refinement study of PLZT ceramics
Rakesh Kumar, D. V. Bavbandc, R. Mishra, V. H. Bafna, D. Mohan, and G. P. Kothiyal 620
F. SURFACES, INTERFACES AND THIN FILMS
Optical properties change of Gei2.5Sb25Se62.5 thin films by laser irradiation
Ramakanta Naik, E. M. Vinod, C. Kumar, and R. Ganesan 622
Fabrication of electrospun poly (methyl methacrylate) nanofiber membranes
M. Sethupathy, V. Sethuraman, and P. Manisankar 624
Improved optical and electrical properties of 200 MeV Agl5+ irradiated 3 wt% 'Li' doped Mo(),
thin film
M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, P. Manimuthu, S. Sambasivam, J. P. Singh, K. Asokan,
C. Venkatcswaran, and R. Mohan 626
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Optical properties of (Sn02/Cu-Zn ferrite) multilayers
S. Saipriya and R. Singh 628
Enhanced soft magnetic properties in stress free amorphous FeTaC/Ta multilayer thin films
Akhilesh Kr. Singh and A. Perumal 630
Optical constants and thickness determination of thin films using envelope method and inverse
synthesis method: A comparative study
S. Jena, R. B. Tokas, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 632
Growth and electrical transport study in pulsed laser deposited Sr2Co04 thin film on (001) MgO
substrate
Pankaj K. Pandey, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 634
Dispersion parameters and optical band gap in Se8o.5Bi|.5Tei8-ySby amorphous thin films
Anup Kumar, Pawan Hcera, P. B. Barman, and Raman Sharma 636
A comparative study of photoconductivity in LaTi03/SrTi03 and LaA103/SrTi03 2-DEG
heterostructures
A. Rastogi, Z. Hossain, and R. C. Budhani 638
Structural and electrical properties of pure and Cu doped NiO films deposited at various oxygen
partial pressures
Y. Ashok Kumar Reddy, A. Mallikarjuna Reddy, A. Sivasankar Reddy, and P. Sreedhara Reddy 640
Conductive atomic force microscopy study of local electronic transport in ZnTe thin films
Sachin D. Kshirsagar, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and Surya P. Tewari 642
Preferred C-axis oriented photoluminescent ZnO thin films prepared by RF magnetron
sputtering
Praloy Mondal and Dcbajyoti Das 644
Wide band gap nanocrystalline silicon carbide thin films prepared by ICP-CVD
Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das 646
Room temperature ethanol sensing property of cubic nanostructure tungsten oxide (W03)R. Scnthilkumar, G. Ravi, C. Sanjeeviraja, M. Arivanandhan, and Y. Hayakawa 648
Annealing effect of double dip coated ZnAl204 thin films
R. Chandramohan, V. Dhanasekaran, K. Sundaram, and T. Mahalingam 650
Mn doped nanostucture ZnO thin film for photo sensor and gas sensor application
Sandip V. Mahajan, Deepak S. Upadhye, Shahid U. Shaikh, Ravikiran B. Birajadar,Farha Y. Siddiqui, Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 652
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Preparation and characterization of Fe-Si-B thin films
M. Satalkar, S. N. Kane, A. Pasko, A. Apolinario, C. T. Sousa, J. Ventura, J. J. Belo,
J. M. Teixeira, J. P. Araujo, F. Mazalcyrat, and E. Fleury 654
Effect of substrate on magnetic properties of La2/jSri/3IV1n01 films
C. L. Prajapat, D. Bhattacharya, R. B. Tokas, B. K. Roul, M. R. Singh, P. K. Mishra, S. Basu,
S. K. Gupta, and G. Ravikumar 656
Stability of UV exposed RR-P3BT films by spectroscopic ellipsometry
Mangesh S. Diware, J. S. Byun, S. Y. Hwang, T. J. Kim, and Y. D. Kim 658
Crystal structure and magnetic properties of Zn0.9Cu0.iOy rf-sputtered thin films
M. Venkaiah, U Kumar Kiran, and R. Singh 660
Preparation and characterization of lead doped zinc oxide thin films
I. Inigo Valan, V. Gokulakrishnan, A. Stephen, and K. Ramamurthi 662
Raman spectral study of electrochemically synthesized aupolyaniline composite
Vijay Kumar, Yasir Ali, R. G. Sonkawade, and A. S. Dhaliwal 664
Influence of Fe layer thickness on the structure and magnetic properties of Si/Fe multilayers
S. S. Das and M. Senthil Kumar 666
Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured ZnS thin film
T. A. Safeera, K. J. Anju, P. J. Joffy, and E. I. Anila 668
The metastable nature of Langmuir monolayers: An attempt towards quantification
Uttam Kumar Basak and Alokmay Datta 670
Structural and photoluminescence properties of ZnO/PS heterojunctionKavu Kulathuraan and Balan Natarajan 672
Fabrication of high quality nanocrystalline Cd,i_x)ZnxS thin films for optoelectronic applicationsUrvashi Verma, Vikas Thakur, P. Rajaram, and A. K. Shrivastava 674
Improvement of room temperature ppb level Cl2 sensing characteristics of copper
phthalocyanine film
Rajan Saini, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and D. K. Aswal 676
Thermal diffusion in Ni/Al multilayer
M. Swain, D. Bhattacharya, S. Singh, M. Gupta, and S. Basu 678
High resolution TOF - SIMS depth profiling of nano-film multilayersK. G. Bhushan, R. Mukundhan, and S. K. Gupta 680
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Aging and annealing effects on properties of Ag-N dual-acceptor doped ZnO thin films
R. Swapna, R. Amiruddin, and M. C. Santhosh Kumar 682
In-situ TEM studies on grain growth and glassy transition in nanoscale MgF2/Cu/Si structure
Puspcn Mondal, Mahendra Babu, C. Mukhcrjee, Rajiv Kamparath, and A. K. Srivastava 684
Crystalline silicon growth in nickel/a-silicon bilayer
Md Ahamad Mohiddon, K. Lakshun Naidu, G. Dalba, F. Rocca, and M. Ghanashyam Krishna 686
Dependence of optical properties of chemical bath deposited SnS2 films on deposition time
G. Sreedevi and K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy 688
Hydrogen implantation-induced layer transfer of silicon using direct wafer bondingU. Dadwal, S. Chandra, P. Kumar, D. Kanjilal, and R. Singh 690
Frequency dependent FMR studies on pulsed laser ablated YIG films deposited on (111) GGGsubstrate
B. Bhoi, N. Venkataramani, R. P. R. C. Aiyar, Shiva Prasad, Mikhail Kostylev, and R. L. Stamps 692
Spin enhancement and band gap opening of ferrimagnetic graphene on fcc-Co(lll) surface upon
hydrogenation
Niharika Joshi, Indu Kaul, Nirmalya Ballav, and Prasenjit Ghosh 694
XPS study of 2H-TPP at Fe/Si(lll) system
Chhagan Lai, I. P. Jain, G. Di Santo, M. Caputo, M. Panighel, B. A. Taleatu, and A. Goldoni 696
Vapor-liquid-solid growth of GaN nanowires by reactive sputtering of GaAs
P. Mohanta, P. Chaturvedi, S. S. Major, and R. S. Srinivasa 698
Construction of concentration density profile across the interface in SAN/EVA immiscible blend
from positron lifetime parameters
P. Ramya, D. Meghala, T. Pasang, and C. Ranganathaiah 700
Effect of ammonia plasma treatment on graphene oxide LB monolayersGulbagh Singh, V. Divakar Botcha, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar,R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 702
Improvement in open circuit voltage of MEHPPV:FeS2 nanoparticle based organic inorganichybrid solar cell
Animcsh Layek, Somnath Middya, and Partha Pratim Ray 704
Structural and optical properties of electrochemically grown highly crystalline Cu2ZnSnS4(CZTS) thin films
Balakrishna Ananthoju, Ajay Kushwaha, Farjana J. Sonia, and M. Aslam 706
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Effect of subphase pH on Langmuir-Blodgett deposition of graphene oxide monolayers on Si
and Si02/Si substrates
V. Divakar Botcha, Gulbagh Singh, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar,
R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 708
Fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) thin film as transparent conductive oxide (I CO) for photovoltaic
applications
Anusha Muthukumar, Germain Rcy, Gael Giusti, Vincent Consonni, lislellc Appcrt, llerve
Roussel, Arivuoli Dakshnamoorthy, and Daniel Bcllet 710
Role of oxygen annealing on charge order and insulator metal transition in l>rll.5(tCa(i.42Mn(), thin
films
Vasudha Agarwal and H. K. Singh 712
Manifestation of surface and interface properties of Ag overlayer on Si (111)
A. H. M. Abdul Wasey, R. Batabyal, B. N. Dev, and G. P. Das 714
FTIR study of thin film of uracil on silanised glass substrate using attenuated total reflection
(ATR)
Naveen Kumar, Susy Thomas, and R. J. Kshirsagar 716
Effect of oxide insertion layer on resistance switching properties of copper phthalocyanineNikhil G. Joshi, Nirav C. Pandya, and U. S. Joshi 718
Study of GaFe03 thin films prepared by PLD
Kavita Sharma, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Ajay Gupta, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase, A. Banerjee,and V. Ganesan 720
Impact of quenched disorder on magnetotransport properties in Ndo ^^Sm.Srn ^lVInO^ thin films
Manoj K. Srivastava, Amarjeet Kaur, and H. K. Singh 722
Fourier transform infrared study of pulsed laser deposited Fe304 thin films grown on different
substrates
Ridhi Master, D. M. Phase, R. J. Choudhary, U. P. Deshpandc, and T. Shripathi 724
Preparation and characterization of Cd203 thin films by RF magnetron sputtering
Manjunatha Pattabi and G. Arun Kumar Thilipan 726
SERS study of Pd-CTAB interactions in monolayer film
A. Das, K. Priya Madhuri, Sonu Mewada, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi 728
Effect of annealing on structure and magneto-transport properties of Fe/Au multilayerSurendra Singh, Saibal Basu, C. L. Prajapat, and M. Gupta 730
Emission properties of Ag@Si02/ZnO nanorods' heterostructure
Moumita Mahanti and Durga Basak 732
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Exchange coupled Co-ferrite/Zn-ferrite bilayer
Subasa C. Sahoo, Baidyanath Sahu, Murtaza Bohra, N. Venkataramani, Shiva Prasad,
and R. Krishnan 734
Crystalline SrBi4Ti4Oi5 thin films on amorphous substrates sputtered by rf sputtering
A. Rambabu and K. C. James Raju 736
Anomalous X-ray scattering study of quantum dots embedded in MBE grown silicon/germanium
multilayers
Manjula Sharma, Milan K. Sanyal, and Mrinmay K. Mukhopadhyay 738
Early stage fractal growth in thin films below the percolation limit
R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, Debolina Das, and B. N. Dev 740
Impact of fringing field on the C-V characterization of Hf02 high-K dielectric MOS (p)
capacitors fabricated through atomic layer deposition
Savita Maurya, B. R. Singh, and M. Radhakrishna 742
Structural characterization of polyelectrolyte thin film prepared under applied electric potential
Tanusrcc Samanta and M. Mukherjee 744
Growth and morphology of rubrene thin films on hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates
S. Sinha, C.-H. Wang, A. K. M. Maidul Islam, Y.-W. Yang, and M. Mukherjee 746
Simultaneous growth of sub-nanometer deep vacancy island and epitaxial silicide islands on Si
(111)
J. C. Mahato, Debolina Das, R. Batabyal, and B. N. Dev 748
The electrochemical performance of Sn02 film incorporated with Ru02
S. N. Pusawale, P. R. Deshmukh, and C. D. Lokhande 750
Effect of post-deposition treatment on energy conversion efficiency of nanostructured CdS/Cu2Sthin films
Vidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, and Ramphal Sharma 752
Study of percolation behavior in semiconducting La0.95MnO3/polyvinylidene fluoride
nanocomposites
K. Devi Chandrasckhar, P. M. Manjunatha, N. Vijay Prakash Chaudhary, and A. Venimadhav 754
Oxygen partial pressure influenced structural and optical properties of DC magnetron sputteredZr02 films
P. Kondaiah, V. Madhavi, and S. Uthanna 756
Electrochemical properties of magnetron sputtered W03 thin films
V. Madhavi, P. Kondaiah, O. M. Hussain, and S. Uthanna 758
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A novel high transmittance red color filter: ZnS and Ag multilayer
Garima Kedawat, Vipin Kumar Jain, Subodh Srivastava, and Y. K. Vijay 760
Growth temperature effect on a-Si:H thin films studied by constant photocurrent method
N. A. Wadibhasme and R. O. Dusanc 762
Influence of RF power on magnetron sputtered AZO films
Mohit Agarwal, Pankaj Modi, and R. O. Dusanc 764
Optimization of manganites thin film for electric field and strain control
Himanshu Sharma, Sourabh Jain, D. Dixit, C. V. Tomy, and A. Tulapurkar 766
Characterization of Ni/Zr system by x-ray reflectivity measurements
Debarati Bhattacharya, Pooja Moundekar, and Saibal Basu 768
Electron accumulation/depletion at F|6CoPc/Znq3 heterojunction: Kelvin probe and charge
transport study
Ashwini Kumar, R. Prasad, Arvind Kumar, Soumen Samanta, Ajay Singh, A. K. Dcbnalh,
D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 770
Poly(2,7-carbazole) derivative based air stable and flexible organic field effect transistor
Purushottam Jha, P. Veerender, S. P. Koiry, Vibha Saxena, A. Gusain, A. K. Chauhan,
D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 772
Improved efficiency of organic dye sensitized solar cells through acid treatment
Avani Jain, P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan,
D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 774
Investigation on the effects of thermal annealing on PCDTBTrPCBM bulk-heterojunction
polymer solar cells
Abhay Gusain, Vibha Saxena, P. Veerender, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,
and S. K. Gupta 776
Effect of Co-sensitization and acid treatment on Ti02 photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells
P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,
and S. K. Gupta 778
H2S sensing properties of RF sputtered Sn02 films
Kailasa Ganpathi, Manmeet Kaur, Niranjan Ramgir, Niyanta Datta, Shovit Bhattacharya,
A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 780
Enhanced H2S response of Au modified Fe203 thin films
Vishal Balouria, A. Singh, Niranjan S. Ramgir, A. K. Debnath, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bcdi,
D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 782
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Effect of substrate temperature on optical and morphological properties of Zr02-MgO composite
Alms
R. B. Tokas, S. Jena, N. M. Kamble, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 784
Effect of post deposition annealing on the performance of copper phthalocyanine based organic
thin film transistor
N. Padma, Shilpa N. Sawant, Shaswati Sen, and S. K. Gupta 786
High dielectric permittivity in BaFe12019/polyvinylidene fluoride composites
K. Devi Chandrsekhar, S. Karthikeyan, A. K. Das, and A. Venimadhav 788
Activation studies of NEG coatings by surface techniquesR. K. Sharma, Jagannath, K. G. Bhushan, S. C. Gadkari, R. Mukund, and S. K. Gupta 790
TSDC and x-ray diffraction analysis of pure and malachite green sensitized polyvinyl carbazole
films
Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, Rachana Kathal, Hariom Pandey, and P. K. Khare 792
Studies of thin films ofTi- Zr -V as non-evaporable getter films prepared by RF sputtering
Nidhi Gupta, Jagannath, R. K. Sharma, S. C. Gadkari, K. P. Muthe, R. Mukundhan,
and S. K. Gupta 794
G. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND PHONONS
Effect of Si doping on ductility of RuAl intermetallics: A first principle study
Bushra Fatima, Nikita Acharya, Sunil Singh Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal 796
Low temperature Raman spectra of rhombohedral La0.92sNao.o7sMn03
Neha Dodiya, A. Yogi, and Dinesh Varshney 798
Temperature dependent Raman study of Euo.75Yo.2sMn03
Dilccp K. Mishra and V. G. Sathe 800
First-principles study of structure and electronic properties of phenyl imidazole
H. R. Srccpad, M. Ramegowda, Khaleel Ahmed, H. M. Dayananda, and Manohara 802
Influence of Co doping on structural and electrical properties of La0.sCe0.5Mn1_J-CoIO3
manganites
Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, Y. K. Kuo, and Dinesh Varshney 804
A generalised algebraic approach to states having same energy but different potential strengthsSubha Gaurab Roy and Ramendu Bhattacharjee 806
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Raman scattering in 2H-MoS2 single crystal
M. P. Deshpande, Sandip V. Bhatt, Vasant Sathc, Bindiya H. Soni, Nitya Garg, and S. 11. Chaki 808
Bipolaron by inter-site electron-phonon interaction
N. S. Mondal, S. Nath, S. Bose, and M. Paul 810
Colossal thermal expansion behavior of Ag3M(CN)6 (M=Co,Fe)
R. Mittal, M. Zbiri, H. Schober, S. N. Achary, A. K. Tyagi, and S. L. Chaplot 812
Vibrational modes and electronic structure of Sr2GdTa06
Binita Ghosh, Sadhan Chanda, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, and T. P. Sinha 814
Evidence of unusual spin polarization of the surface states of W(l 10) surface
Deep Narayan Biswas, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Shyama R. Varicr, Nishaina Sahadev,
and Kalobaran Maiti 816
Study of the surface electronic structure of Si(lll) surface using spin and angle resolved
photoemission spectroscopy
Shyama R. Varier, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas,
and Kalobaran Maiti 818
Occurrence of diverse bonding characteristics in CaNi2As2 and CaPd2As2: A theoretical study
D. S. Jayalakshmi, M. Sundareswari, and M. Manjula 820
First principle study on structural, mechanical and electronic properties of REAg
(RE-Y, La, Pr and Er) intermetallic compounds
A. Sahu, Chandrabhan Makode, J. Pataiya, and Sankar P. Sanyal 822
Comparative study of NaTi02 and NaNi02 using first principle calculations
Monika Dhariwal, T. Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 824
Instability in coupled electron quantum layers with finite width
L. K. Saini and Mukesh G. Nayak 826
Evidence of bulk nature of the Kondo effect and different surface potentials in CeBA
Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, Sangecta Thakur, Khadiza Ali, Geetha Balakrishnan,
and Kalobaran Maiti 828
Structural properties of solid nitromethane: A density functional study
S. Appalakondaiah and G. Vaitheeswaran 830
Electronic structure and magnetic ordering of MgV204
Ramandeep Kaur, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal 832
The momentum distribution function of a Luttinger liquid
P. J. Monisha, Soma Mukhopadhyay, and Ashok Chatterjcc 834
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First-principles study of fluorination of L-Alanine
H. R. Srcepad, H. R. Ravi, Khalecl Ahmed, H. M. Dayananda, K. Umakanth, and B. M. Manohara 836
Study of thermally induced spin state transition in NdCo03 single crystal
J. Janaki, R. Nithya, S. Gancsamoorthy, T. N. Sairam, T. R. Ravindran, K. Vinod, and A. Bharathi 838
Density functional study on CeMo2Si2C
U. B. Paramanik, Anupam, C. Geibel, Z. Hossain, and R. Prasad 840
Electronic structure of Co2MnSn Heusler alloy
Madhusmita Baral, Soma Banik, Tapas Ganguli, Aparna Chakrabarti, A. Thamizhavel,
D. M. Phase, A. K. Sinha, and S. K. Deb 842
Optical absorption in B13 cluster: A time-dependent density functional approachRavindra Shinde and Meenakshi Tayade 844
Ab initio calculations of yttrium chromite
Vidhya G. Nair, C. Ganeshraj, P. N. Santhosh, and V. Subramanian 846
Large scale configuration interaction calculations of linear optical absorption of octacene and
nonacene
Himanshu Chakraborty and Alok Shukla 848
Designing a new class of III-IV-V semiconductor nanosheets
A. Bhattacharya, S. Chakrabarty, and G. P. Das 850
Ab-initio study of Fe doped molybedenum dichalcogenidesChamma Tiwari, Ramesh Sharma, and Yamini Sharma 852
High pressure infrared reflectivity measurements on copper doped Rul212
Himal Bhatt, S. Karmakar, M. N. Deo, M. R. Gonal, N. Patel, and Surinder M. Sharma 854
H. SINGLE CRYSTALS
Detached phenomenon: Its influence on the crystals quality of lnSb:Te grown by the VDS
technique
D. B. Gadkari 856
Molecular dynamics simulation of He diffusion in FeCr alloyA. Abhishek, M. Warrier, and E. Rajendra Kumar 858
The oxalic acid: 2-chloroacetamide crystallization: A new revelation
R. Chitra, R. R. Choudhury, Frederic Capet, and Pascal Rousscl 860
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Growth of silver doped Li2B407 single crystals for dosimetric applicationG. D. Patra, S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, D. G. Dcsai, B. Tiwari, S. Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 862
Scintillation yield uniformity studies on single crystals of Tl doped Csl
D. G. Desai, S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, Shashwati Sen, Sccma Shindc, and S. C. Gadkari 864
Optical and dielectric properties of L-methionine L-methioninium hydrogen malcatc single
crystal
P. Vasudevan, S. Sankar, and S. Gokulraj 866
Development of high quality, direction controlled ADP single crystals and the effect of impurities
on their growth
P. Rajesh and P. Ramasamy 868
Effect of cation size at Gd and AI site on Ce energy levels in Gd3(GaAl)50,2 sintered pellets
Mohit Tyagi, Fang Meng, Kaitlyn Darby, Merry Koschan, and C. L. Mclchcr 870
Transport, electrical and microtopography studies of W3Se4 single crystals
D. N. Bhavsar and A. R. Jani 872
Unidirectional growth of potassium hydrogen malate single crystals and its characterizations on
optical, mechanical, dielectric, laser damage threshold studies
K. Boopathi, P. Rajesh, and P. Ramasamy 874
Effect of temperature gradient on detachment of the crystals grown by vertical directional
solidification
D. S. Maske, M. Joshi, R. Choudhary, and D. B. Gadkari 876
Effect of Ce concentration on optical properties of Li6Gd(B03)3 single crystals
A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, D. G. Desai, S. Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 878
Single crystal growth of 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzophenone using nanoresolution translation by
Bridgman technique and its characterization
K. Aravinth, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 880
Study of surface microstructure and optical properties of as-grown Moo.6W().4Se2 single crystals
Sunil H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpandc, Jiten P. Tailor, M. D. Chaudhary, and K. S. Mahato 882
Synthesis and X-ray structural studies of novel metal-organic complex:
Diiodobis(2-aminopyridine)cadmium(II) single crystal
G. Venkatesan, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 884
Thermoluminescent dosimetric characteristics of irradiated ternary alkali halides doped with
lanthanum
G. Maruthi and R. Chandramani 886
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Effect of stirring on the growth rate anisotropy of the metastable a-glycine single crystals
K. Rcnuka Devi and K. Srinivasan 888
Influence of PT composition on the properties of PZN-PT single crystalsB. Srimathy, R. Jayavcl, and J. Kumar 890
Growth of Ce added NBT-BT single crystal by flux method and its characterization
S. Shanmuga Sundari and R. Dhanasekaran 892
Influence of solvents on the habit modification of alpha lactose monohydrate single crystalsP. Parimaladcvi and K. Srinivasan 894
Nucleation control and growth of metastable a-L-glutamic acid single crystals in the presence of
L-tyrosine
P. Dhanasekaran and K. Srinivasan 896
Growth and characterization of N,N-diethyl anilinium picrate (NNDEAP) single crystalsR. Subramaniyan, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 898
Study of the flow properties using simulation modeling for the melt growth byBridgman-Stockbarger method
M. Srinivasan and P. Ramasamy 900
Indentation size effect on some glycine based nonlinear optical crystalsN. Gopi Krishna, Ch. Sateesh Chandra, D. Nagaraju, and P. V. Shekar 902
Optical properties of Eu2+ doped antipervoskite fluoride single crystalsD. Joseph Daniel, R. Nithya, P. Ramasamy, and U. Madhusoodanan 904
Growth and characterization of L-serine formate nonlinear optical single crystalP. Krishnan, K. Gayathri, and G. Anbalagan 906
Linear optical and SHG characterization of new chalcone crystalsS. Raghavcndra, A. Jayarama, T. Chandra Shekhara Shetty, and S. M. Dharmaprakash 908
Growth and characterization of a nonlinear optical crystal: Bisglycine hydrogen chlorideCh. Sateesh Chandra, N. Gopi Krishna, P. V. Raja Shekar, and D. Nagaraju 910
The negative thermal expansion coefficient in lithium niobate single crystalsJ. C. Vyas and S. G. Singh 912
Structural, morphological and electrical studies of lithium ion irradiated sodium potassiumniobate single crystal grown by flux method
R. Saravanan, D. Rajcsh, S. V. Rajasekaran, R. Perumal, M. Chitra, and R. Jayavel 914
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Impact of firing on the optically stimulated luminescence of geological quart/.D. K. Koul and G. S. Polymeris 916
I. TRANSPORT PROPERTIES
Diffusion of water in bentonite clay: Neutron scattering studyV. K. Sharma, S. A. Prabhudcsai, R. Raut Dcssai, J. A. Erwin Dcsa, S. Mitra,and R. Mukhopadhyay 918
Millisecond transient current investigations in vectra B950 polymer liquid crystalJ. K. Quamara, S. K. Mahna, and Sanjccv Garg l)2()
Synthesis, electrical and thermal properties of Bi4V2-xZr,0|1 (x=0.0 & 0.02) ceramics
S. Sahu, S. K. Barbar, S. Jangid, and M. Roy 922
Effect of ionic-size change of the rare earth ion on the electrical properties of the hole dopeddouble perovskite Gdo.cuSro.osBaC^Os.s
J. Janaki, V. Rajaji, T. Geetha Kumary, S. Kalavathi, and A. Bharathi 924
Anisotropic behavior of DC resistivity in Sr3NiPt06 and Sr3CuPt06 single crystalsS. Chattopadhyay and S. Majumdar 926
Structure-property correlations in monovalent mixed oxide La|_xK,lVlnO1(0.0 < x < 0.3
manganites
Davit Dhruv, R. K. Trivedi, Bhumika Nimavat, Sanjay Kansara, D. D. Pandya, M. J. Keshvani,
P. S. Solanki, Bharat Kataria, D. G. Kubcrkar, and N. A. Shah 928
Structural and transport properties of NdCr03 nanoceramics
Sujoy Saha, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, Sayantani Das, and T. P. Sinha 930
Polaronic glassiness in Pro.5Ca0.5Mn03-s
A. Karmakar, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 932
Dielectric relaxation in multiferroic BiFe03
K. Dey, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 934
Effect of porosity on impedance of CaF2 ceramic
Shashwati Sen, Garima Mittal, S. K. Deshpande, and S. C. Gadkari 936
Effect of HC1 doping in polyaniline: Transport and optical studies
J. Sannigrahi and S. Majumdar 938
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Monte Carlo simulation of charge transport in disordered organic thin films: Applicability of
Meyer-Neldel rule for extracting energetic disorder
S. Raj Mohan, Manoranjan P. Singh, M. P. Joshi, and L. M. Kukreja 940
Effect of Y doping on magnetic and transport properties of La0.7Sr0.3CoO3
G. D. Dwivedi, K. K. Shukla, P. Shahi, O. K. Jha, A. K. Ghosh, A. K. Nigam,
and Sandip Chatterjce 942
Evanescent mode transport and its application to nano-electronics
Srccmoycc Mukherjec and Prosenjit Singha Deo 944
Structural and dielectric properties of Y^Er^FeC^
Indrani Das, Sadhan Chanda, Alo Dutta, Sourish Banerjee, and T. P. Sinha 946
Electrical properties of strontium doped yttrium manganite oxide
Rajcsh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, N. Kaurav, G. S. Okram, and N. K. Gaur 948
Lattice thermal conductivity of bilayer graphene
M. D. Kamatagi, S. M. Galagali, N. S. Sankeshwar, and B. G. Mulimani 950
Molecular dynamics dependence of overhauser-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (OMRI):
An ESR study
V. Meenakumari, A. Milton Franklin Benial, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Ken-ichi Yamada, A. Jawahar,
and Hideo Utsumi 952
High ionic conductivity and desirable stability properties of PNC for renewable energy
applications
A. L. Sharma and Awalendra K. Thakur 954
Structural and transport properties of Dy substituted YBaCo407
Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, S. Rayaprol, and N. K. Gaur 956
Pore topology and diffusion of acetylene in CuBTC metal organic framework
S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 958
Energy and momentum loss rates of hot electrons in a supported bilayer graphene
K. S. Bhargavi and S. S. Kubakaddi 960
Absolutely continuous spectrum and ballistic transport in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic
system
Biplab Pal and Arunava Chakrabarti 962
High pressure studies on topological insulator Bi2Se,
T. R. Dcvidas, Awadhesh Mani, and A. Bharathi 964
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Synthesis and electrical transport properties of SnS nanoparticles
S. H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, M. D. Chaudhary, J. P. Tailor, and K. S. Mahato 966
Structural and dielectric properties of LaFei-xZnxO3(0<x<0.3)
Irshad Bhat, Shahid Husain, and Wasi Khan 968
Observation of current-induced voltage jump at low temperature in V02 nanowires
Shubhankar Das, A. Rastogi, P. C. Joshi, Mandccp Kaur, S. C. Husalc, T. D. Scnguttuvan,
Z. Hossain, W. Prellicr, and R. C. Budhani 970
Competing Kondo and e-e interaction in Ce2.iNd0.9Al
Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Vcnkatcshwarlu, Mohan Gangradc,
and V. Ganesan 972
Study of dielectric relaxation at room temperature of the composite (100-x) LCMO/(x) BTO
Momin Hossain Khan, Sudipta Pal, and Esa Bosc 974
Electrical properties of Ba doped LSGM for electrolyte material of solid oxide fuel cells
Raghvendra, Prabhakar Singh, and Rajcsh Kumar Singh 976
Structural and transport properties of two new Heusler type Ru2VAI and Ru2VGa compounds
Sanchayita Mondal, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan 978
Sb concentration dependent power factor of n-type thermoelectric material Bi, vSbx alloy
K. Malik, Diptasikha Das, A. K. Deb, S. Bandyopadhyay, and Aritra Bancrjec 980
Single molecule conductance: Role of electrode morphology at the nanoscale
Divakar Ravi, C. P. Karthika, and Arijit Sen 982
Influence of particle shape on viscosity of nanofluids
Gaganpreet and Sunita Srivastava 984
Contrasting effects of compressive and tensile strain and doping-induced opening of
charge-transfer gap in NdNi0.90lVIno.ioO:< thin films
Mahesh Chandra, Amit Khare, Fozia Aziz, Rakcsh Rana, D. S. Rana, and K. R. Mavani 986
Fabrication and characterization of indium gallium zinc oxide (ICZO) thin film transistors with
(La0 5Yo.5)203 gate insulator
Bhaumik V. Mistry, Jaydeep Mistry, U. N. Trivcdi, V. G. Joshi, and U. S. Joshi 988
Structural and dielectric properties of Zn|_xMgxO
Parmod Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Hitendra K. Malik, and K. Asokan 990
Dependency of dielectric constant on the cation distribution for magnetite nanoparticles
Geeta Rana, Deepika Kandpal, and Umesh C. Johri 992
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Electrical and magnetic property of Al^Ci^s.sFen.s icosahedral quasicrystal: Spin-orbit
scatteringM. K. Ray, K. Bagani, B. Ghosh, M. Sardar, S. Banerjee, V. C. Srivastava,
and N. K. Mukhopadhyay 994
Effect of Ti02 ceramic filler on PEG-based composite polymer electrolytes for magnesium
batteries
Anji Reddy Polu, Ranveer Kumar, K. Vijaya Kumar, and N. Krishna Jyothi 996
Nonlinear dielectric response of BaBi4Ti4Oi5 ceramics
Sunil Kumar, D. A. Ochoa, J. E. Garcia, and K. B. R. Varma 998
Enhanced figure of merit in (AgCrSe2)o.75(CuCrSe2)o.25S. Bhattacharya, R. Bhatt, R. Basu, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1000
Dramatic thermal conductivity reduction in PbSe0.sTe0.5
Ranita Basu, S. Bhattacharya, Ranu Bhatt, Ajay Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1002
Influence of Cu intercalation on thermal transport properties of titanium diselenide
R. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1004
Flux induced fano peak splitting in asymmetric coupled quantum dot system
Bharat Bhushan Brogi, Shyam Chand, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1006
Anomalous dielectric and AC conductivity behavior ofthe nanocrystalline Ni-Cu ferrite
synthesized via combustion method
B. J. Madhu, B. N. Rashmi, Arshiya Banu, G. A. Seema, B. Shruthi, and H. S. Jayanna 1008
Structure and properties of REL\Ge2 (RE = La-Nd, Sm-Gd, Yb) compounds
Abishck K. Iyer, Udumula Subbarao, and Sebastian C. Peter 1010
J. SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS
Effects of magnetic field and the built-in internal fields on the absorption coefficients in a
strained wurtzite GaN/AlGaN quantum dot
N. S. Minimala and A. John Peter 1012
Strain induced optical gain in a ZnxCd^Te/ZnTe quantum dot nanostructure
R. Sangectha and A. John Peter 1014
Mechanical stiffening of transition metal carbides: XCX= Ti, Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta)Dincsh Varshncy, S. Shriya, and Namita Singh 1016
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Effects of gallium alloy content and the geometrical confinement on effective exciton g-factor in a
1I1-V semiconductor quantum dot
N. R. Senthilkumar and A. John Peter 1018
Dielectric effect of changes of refractive index in a Mg based II-VI semiconductor nanostructure
J. Abraham Hudson Mark and A. John Peter 1020
Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Pb0.90Sno.ioTe by Yb
P. K. Rawat, B. Paul, and P. Bancrji 1022
Studies on ZnO nanorods/CuInS2 coaxial n-p heterojunction arrays
Shrabani Panigrahi and Durga Basak 1024
Synthesis of nanocrystalline thin films of gold on the surface of GaSb by swift heavy ion
Vidya Jadhav, S. K. Dubcy, A. D. Yadav, and A. Singh 1026
Reliability studies on Si PIN photodiodes under Co-60 gamma radiation
Y. P. Prabhakara Rao, K. C. Praveen, Y. Rejeena Rani, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1028
A comparison of 75 MeV boron and 50 MeV lithium ion irradiation effects on 200 GHz SiGe
HBTs
K. C. Praveen, N. Pushpa, H. B. Shiva, J. D. Cresslcr, Ambuj Tripathi, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1030
Dielectric response of polyethersulphone (PES) polymer irradiated with 145 MeV Ne*+ ions
S. Asad Ali, Rajesh Kumar, Wasi Khan, A. H. Naqvi, and R. Prasad 1032
Annealing behavior of cadmium ion implanted GaSb
S. D. Pandey and S. K. Dubcy 1034
Structural, optical and electrical studies on CdO thin films using spray pyrolysis technique
K. Sankarasubramanian, R. Solaichamy, K. Sethuraman, R. Raincshbabu, and K. Ramamurthi 1036
High pressure structural phase transition of EuS
Ritu Dubey, Sadhna Singh, and Madhu Sarwan 1038
Reflectance contrast spectroscopy for distinguishing between monolayer and bilaycr graphene
Nihit Saigal and Sandip Ghosh 1040
Photoluminescence and defects in ultrathin SnG2 films
Shikha, D. K. Pandya, and S. C. Kashyap 1042
Theoretical study of the optical behavior of HgAl2Se4
Poonam Singh, Monika Sharma, and U. P. Verma 1044
Optical properties and defect related measurement of Sn02 cauliflower
Dipa Dutta and D. Bahadur 1046
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Role of indium in highly crystalline ZnO thin films
Anil Singh, Suject Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1048
Photoresponse study on transition metal (Co, Ni, Mn) doped ZnO thin films
R. Rajalakshmi and S. Angappane 1050
Electronic specific heat of armchair graphene nanoribbons: Effect of subbands
A. S. Nissimagoudar and N. S. Sankeshwar 1052
Strain profile in GaN/AlGaN nano-heterostructure
Sapna Gupta, F. Rahman, and P. A. Alvi 1054
Thermo-elastic and ductile properties of Samarium chalcogenides at high pressures
A. K. Baraiya, G. S. Raypuria, and D. C. Gupta 1056
Improvement in the thermoelectric properties of Zn4Sb3 induced by Sb deficiency
Anup V. Sanchela, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1058
Chalcogen doping at anionic site: A scheme towards more dispersive valence band in CuA102
Nilesh Mazumdcr, Dipayan Sen, and Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay 1060
Elastic constants and pressure derivative of elastic constants of Si,_xGex solid solution
A. R. Jivani, J. K. Baria, P. S. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 1062
Electrical properties of solution processed highly transparent ZnO TFT with organic gate
dielectric
Nirav C. Pandya, Nikhil G. Joshi, U. N. Trivedi, and U. S. Joshi 1064
Surface and morphological studies of pure and Sb doped thin film gas sensors
Archana Gupta, P. Rajaram, and M. C. Bhatnagar 1066
K. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, MAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS
Structural, transport and elastic properties of LaTi03
Rcnu Choithrani, Masroor Ahmad Bhat, and N. K. Gaur 1068
Inverse magnetocaloric effect in Ce(Fe0.96Ru0.o4)2^ Effect of fast neutron irradiation
V. Dube, P. K. Mishra, A. K. Rajarajan, C. L. Prajapat, P. U. Sastry, S. V. Thakare, M. R. Singh,and G. Ravikumar 1070
Magnetic transition in CaFe2As2 studied via hyperfine field measurements for 66Ga by TDPAD
technique
S. K. Mohanta, S. M. Davanc, Nceraj Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, and S. N. Mishra 1072
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Effect of annealing on the structural, microstructural and magnetic properties in
Ni46Co4Mn38Sb12 ribbons
Roshnee Sahoo, D. M. Raj Kumar, D. Arvindha Babu, K. G. Surcsh, and M. Manivcl Raja
Magnetic and transport studies in Co2TiGa alloy
Lakhan Pal, K. G. Surcsh, and A. K. Nigam
Influence of band Jahn-Teller distortion on the magnetoresistance in manganites
L. Haritha, G. Gangadhar Reddy, and A. Ramakanth
Development of ferromagnetic C01.5Fe1.5O4 ferrite by varying pH value during chemical
co-precipitation
R. N. Bhowmik and A. Bharathi
Prussian blue based molecular magnet Ko.3Mn2.8s|Cr(CN)6|2-nH20 with ferrimagnetic orderi
temperature of 60 K
Pramod Bhatt, Ranu Bhatt, M. D. Mukadam, and S. M. Yusuf
Electron phonon interaction in Hubbard model
S. Nath, N. S. Mondal, N. K. Ghosh, and S. K. Bhowmick
Magnetic properties of Cu70.<)Ali8.iMnii alloy
S. Chatterjee and S. Majumdar
Magnetic investigation of Ni5oMn33Ini2Ga5 alloy
S. Pramanick, S. Chatterjee, and S. Majumdar
Study of magnetocaloric effect in GdRhln compound
Sachin B. Gupta and K. G. Suresh
Electrical transport and magnetic properties of superconducting Mo52Re4s alloy
Shyam Sundar, L. S. Sharath Chandra, V. K. Sharma, M. K. Chattopadhyay, and S. B. Roy
Magnetization and neutron diffraction study of Tb0.9Y01MnO3
Keka R. Chakraborty, R. Shukla, M. D. Mukadam, S. D. Kaushik, A. K. Tyagi, V. Siruguri,
and S. M. Yusuf
Structural and Mossbauer spectroscopic study of cubic phase hydrogen storage alloys
TijNb^Fe,
S. S. Meena, Priyanka Das, A. Kumar, S. Banerjee, C. G. S. Pillai, and S. M. Yusuf
High coercivity through texture formation in S111C05/C0 multilayers
P. U. Sastry, P. K. Mishra, M. Krishnan, P. Chowdhury, and G. Ravikumar
Half metallic ferromagnetism in ACaB (A = Li, Na and K) compounds-DFT study
R. Umamaheswari, M. Yogeswari, and G. Kalpana 1100
Fermi surface studies of Co-based Heusler alloys: Ab-initio study
Swctarekha Ram and V. Kanchana 1102
Superconductivity in BiS2 based Bi404S3 novel compound
Shiva Kumar Singh, Anuj Kumar, Shruti, G. Sharma, S. Patnaik, M. Husain, and V. P. S. Awana 1104
Bulk superconductivity at 5K in Nd00.5Fo.5BiS2
Rajvccr Jha, Anuj Kumar, Shiva Kumar Singh, and V. P. S. Awana 1106
Study of magnetic properties of spin-dependent Falicov-Kimball model on a triangular lattice
Sant Kumar, Umesh K. Yadav, Tulika Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 1108
Structural and magnetic ordering in Co2MnSi films on (001) SrTi03
Himanshu Pandey, P. C. Joshi, and R. C. Budhani 1110
Exchange bias effect in Co(Cr0.92sFe0.07s)2O4
R. Padam, Swati Pandya, S. Ravi, A. K. Grover, and D. Pal 1112
Frustrated non-collinearity in the magnetic behaviour of layered VX2 |X = CI, Br, I] systems
A. H. M. Abdul Wasey, D. Karmakar, and G. P. Das 1114
Magnetocaloric properties of Ni2+xMni_xSn Heusler alloysM. D. Mukadam, Pramod Bhatt, and S. M. Yusuf 1116
Study of transport and magnetic properties in new BiS2 based layered LaO0.sF0.5BiS2
superconductor
Shruti, Anuj Kumar, Rajveer Jha, S. Patnaik, and V. P. S. Awana 1118
Investigation ofjunction magnetoresistance in Coo.65Zn0.3SFe204/p-Si heterostructure for
spintronics
J. Panda and T. K. Nath 1120
Possibility of spatial inversion symmetry breaking by magnetic ordering in Y2CoMn06G. Sharma, J. Saha, and S. Patnaik 1122
Neutron diffraction studies on cobalt substituted BiFeO,
J. Ray, A. K. Biswal, S. Acharya, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 1124
Temperature dependence of magnetotransport behavior and its correlation with inter-particleinteraction in Cu10o-,Cox granular films
Dincsh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1126
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Dynamical structure factor of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconductors
Arghya Dutta and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjcc 1128
Structural and magnetic studies of AP1+ doped cobalt ferrites CoFe2-*Alx04 (x=0.0, 0.2, 0.4)Rabia Pandit, Pawanprcct Kaur, K. K. Sharma, and Ravi Kumar 1130
Structure and magnetism of FeMn03
S. Rayaprol, S. D. Kaushik, P. D. Babu, and V. Siruguri 1132
Magnetic properties of GdT0.i7Sn2 (T = Co, Cu) compoundsKrishanu Ghosh, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and S. Mukhcrjcc 1134
Strong correlations in the two-dimensional extended Holstein-Hubbard model
I. V. Sankar and Ashok Chattcrjec 113d
Temperature dependent spin injection properties of self-assembled epitaxial Ni nanoparticlesembedded metallic TiN matrix/p-Si heterojunction
J. Panda and T. K. Nath 1138
Stability of high spin polarization via substituting .sy?element in Co2MnSii|_v(ia, Heuslcr alloys
Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardcv S. Saini, and Manish K. Kashyap 1140
Magnetic and transport relaxation property of Lafl ^Sro.ijCoOj single crystals
Kaustuv Manna, D. Samal, Suja Elizabeth, and P. S. Anil Kumar 1142
Effect of Pt layer thickness on perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin Co/Pt multilayers
P. D. Kulkarni, M. Krishnan, H. C. Barshilia, and P. Chowdhury 1144
Structural and magnetic properties of dispersed nickel ferrite nanoparticles synthesized through
thermal decomposition route
Bhaskar Chandra Bchcra, Ravindra A. Venkata, Chandan Srivastava, and Prahallad Padhan 1146
Synthesis and characterization of barium hexagonal ferrite
M. Manikandan and C. Vcnkatcswaran 1148
Destruction of magnetic frustration by a partial replacement of Ca by Cd in a spin chain
compound Ca3Co206
Tathamay Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, P. L. Paulose, and Echur V. Sampathkumaran 1150
Development of multichannel MEG system at IGCAR
N. Mariyappa, C. Parasakthi, K. Gireesan, S. Sengottuvel, Rajcsh Patcl, M. P. Janawadkar,
T. S. Radhakrishnan, and C. S. Sundar I 152
Study of quaternary Heusler alloy Co2CrAli_,Si,
K. Seema and Ranjan Kumar 1154
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Electronic band structure of La01_xFxBiS2: A recently invented family of superconductors
Jagdish Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, and V. P. S. Awana 1156
Single crystals of iron chalcogenide superconductor FeCr0.o2Se: Growth, characterization and
vortex pinning properties
Anil K. Yadav, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1158
Sintering effect on structural and magnetic properties of Ni0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4 ferrite
Manoj M. Kothawale, R. B. Tangsali, G. K. Naik, J. S. Budkuley, Sher Singh Meena,
and Pramod Bhatt 1160
Effect of europium substitution on the magnetic and optical properties of nanostructured
bismuth ferrite
A. Tamilselvan, M. Sakar, C. Nayek, P. Murugavel, and S. Balakumar 1162
Exchange bias in ball-milled LaFe03
S. D. Kaushik, S. Rayaprol, P. D. Babu, and V. Siruguri 1164
A study on pulsed laser deposited metallic spin valves
Sayak Ghoshal and P. S. Anil Kumar 1166
Exchange bias and its tuning in magnetic compensated Nd doped ferromagnetic samarium metal
Swati Pandya, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1168
Improved magnetic properties of microwave processed Mn0,5Zno.5Fe204 particlesT. Suncctha, Subhash C. Kashyap, and Hem C. Gupta 1170
Thickness dependence ferromagnetic resonance in Ta/Ni81Fei9 bilayer nanostructures
Nilamani Behcra, Sujcet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1172
Vortex pinning mechanism in single crystal of iron arsenide superconductor SrFe1.7Coo.3As2Ajay D. Thakur, A. K. Yadav, A. Thamizhavel, C. V. Tomy, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1174
Search for ferromagnetism in transition metal doped monoclinic Hf02K. Scema and Ranjan Kumar 1176
Magnetoresistance investigations in exchange-biased IrMn/NiFe bilayersHimanshu Fulara, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Subhash C. Kashyap 1178
Fingerprint for flux line lattice melting in a very weakly pinned crystal of 2H-NbSe2Ulhas Vaidya, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1180
Evolution of microstructure during formation of Nb3Sn superconducting phaseA. K. Singh, Shivendra Kumar, Satya Prakash Pasi, A. Laik, M. M. Hussain, K. K. Abdulla,andG. K. Dcy 1182
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L. NOVEL MATERIALS
Specific heat of Pr0.5A0.sCo03 (A=Ca and Sr)
N. K. Gaur, Rasna Thakur, Rajcsh K. Thakur, and A. Srivastava 1184
Lifshitz transition in bi-Iayer grapheneAjay Pratap Singh Gahlot
1186
Temperature and pressure dependent thermodynamical properties of uranium dinitrides: UN2Swarna Shriya, S. Chaudhary, M. Varshncy, and Dincsh Varshncy 1188
Effects of sintering temperature variation on microstructure and magnetic nature of Al diluted
La0.7Cao.3lVln03
Manish Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 1190
Synthesis of gadolinium silicate by hydrothermal methodSeema Shinde, M. Ghosh, Shashwati Sen, S. G. Singh, S. C. Gadkari, and S. K. Gupta 1192
Spin momentum density of Nd using Compton spectroscopyJagrati Sahariya, Shailja Tiwari, Alpa Dashora, H. S. Mund, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and B. L. Ahuja 1194
Soft ferromagnetism and semiconductor to metal transition in Lio.sMno.5Fe204 ferrite
G. Vijayasri and R. N. Bhowmik 1196
Synthesis of novel multiferroic composite film of MnFe204-poly (vinylidenc-fluoridc)-BaTiOjAmit Kumar and K. L. Yadav 1198
Effect of Fe incorporation on the optical behavior of ZnO thin films prepared by sol-gel derived
spin coating techniques
R. Ajay Rakkesh, R. Malathi, and S. Balakumar 1200
Crossover from more to less ordered vortex state on field-cooling a weakly pinned crystal of
Ca3Rh4Sn,3
Santosh Kumar, C. V. Tomy, A. K. Grover, G. Balakrishnan, and D. McK Paul 1202
Rietveld refinement and FTIR analysis of bulk ceramic Co, xMn1()4 compositionsP. L. Meena, Ravi Kumar, and K. Srccnivas 1204
Effect of variation of tin concentration on the properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited usingchemical spray pyrolysis
V. G. Rajeshmon, Abin Kuriakosc, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1206
Specific heat and thermal expansion of CdCoO,N. K. Gaur, Rasna Thakur, and Rajesh K. Thakur 1208
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Raman and AFM study of gamma irradiated plastic bottle sheets
Yasir Ali, Vijay Kumar, R. G. Sonkawade, and A. S. Dhaliwal 1210
Conductivity studies on PEMA based polymer electrolyte system with LiC104 salt
S. Rajcndran, K. Senthil, K. Kcsavan, Chithra M. Mathew, and T. Mahalingam 1212
Role of magnetostriction in magnetoelectric properties of NdCrTiOs
J. Saha, G. Sharma, and S. Patnaik 1214
Sonochemically precipitated spinel Co304 and NiCo204 nanostructures as an electrode materials
for supercapacitor
N. Padmanathan and S. Selladurai 1216
Electromagnetic absorption and shielding behavior of polyaniline-antimony oxide composites
Muhammad Faisal and Syed Khasim 1218
Structural and piezoelectric properties of BiFe03 thin films prepared by spin coating method
R. Kennedy, D. Sornadurai, K. Ganesan, and J. Jebaraj 1220
Photonic aspect of sea shell
Aditi Sarkar, Arnab Gangopadhyay, and A. Sarkar 1222
Linear and nonlinear properties of L-histidinium dinitrate
S. Arulmozhi, M. Dinesh Raja, and J. Madhavan 1224
Luminescence properties of novel NaSrB509:Eu3+ phosphor
G. R. Dillip and B. Dcva Prasad Raju 1226
Effect of conventional and microwave sintering on ceramic BiFeO,
K. Rama Obulesu and K. C. James Raju 1228
Synthesis structural and luminescence analysis of NaGd1_xTbx(W04)2 solid solution for white
LED application
A. Durairajan, D. Thangaraju, D. Balaji, and S. Moorthy Babu 1230
Single phase synthesis and room temperature neutron diffraction studies on multiferroic
PbFeo.5Nbo.5O3
Shidaling Mattcppanavar, Basavaraj Angadi, and Sudhindra Rayaprol 1232
Synthesis and characterization of Eu3+:YAG nanopowder by precipitation method
D. Balaji, D. Thangaraju, A. Durairajan, and S. Moorthy Babu 1234
Shape controlled synthesis of Cu20 microcrystals and their structural and optical propertiesG. Prabhakaran and Ramaswamy Murugan 1236
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Low temperature dielectric properties of YMno.95Ruo.05O3
Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, G. S. Okram, N. Kaurav, and N. K. Gaur 1238
Double negative refraction in barium substituted magnesium ferrite in the microwave frequency
region
P. Chithra lekha, S. Dincsh Kumar, N. Yogcsh, and V. Subramanian 1240
Mechanically strained tuning of the electronic and dielectric properties of monolayer honeycomb
structure of tungsten disulphide (WS2)
Ashok Kumar, Brij Mohan, Arun Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1242
Combustion synthesis of novel boron carbide
R. Saai Harini, E. Manikandan, S. Anthonysamy, V. Chandramouli, and D. Eswaramoorthy 1244
Topographical studies on GNF crystals of non linear optical originM. M. Khandpekar and S. P. Pati 1246
Structural studies of Na4(ThxUi-x)(Mo04)4 (x = 0.5, 0.8)
N. D. Dahale, S. K. Sali, Meera Keskar, Rohan Phatak, and S. Kannan 1248
Synthesis of Ag coated Cr4+/Cr3+ nanocomposites by mechanical attrition method
M. Patange, J. Jadhav, and S. Biswas 1250
First principle calculation of bulk electronic properties of cubic SrMOj pcrovskites (M = Ti, Zr)
Avinash Daga, Smita Sharma, and K. S. Sharma 1252
The effect of Pr co-dopant in samarium doped ceria
V. Venkatesh, V. Prashanth Kumar, Y. S. Rcddy, and C. Vishnuvardhan Rcddy 1254
Diffuse phase transition in Lio.i2Na0.88Nb03 piezoelectric ceramics
Supratim Mitra, Ajit R. Kulkarni, and Om Prakash 1256
Effects of chemical disorder on magnetism in inverse Heusler alloy Mn2NiSn
Souvik Paul and Subhradip Ghosh 1258
Study of de-watering from the gelatinous precipitate formed during co-precipitation of Nd-YAC
powder
Sanjib Karmakar, Rachna Sharma, S. K. Pathak, S. M. Gupta, and P. K. Gupta 1260
Raman studies of chemically and thermally reduced graphene oxide
Madhusmita Sahoo, Rajini P. Antony, Tom Mathews, S. Dash, and A. K. Tyagi 1262
Synthesis and structural characterization lithium nickel oxide at different temperatures
K. Vijaya Babu, V. Vccraiah, P. S. V. Subba Rao, and Paulos Taddcssc Shibcshi 1264
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Studies on PEO-BMImHS04 solid polymer electrolyte
S. S. Pundir, Kuldeep Mishra, and D. K. Rai 1266
Magnetic and ferroelectric studies of double perovskite (KBi)(FeNb)06 ceramics
B. K. Choudhary, A. K. Himanshu, Uday Kumar, S. K. Bandyopadhayay, Pintu Sen, S. N. Singh,
andT. P. Sinha 1268
Structural and multiferroic properties of YMn03 ceramics synthesized by co-precipitation
method
M. Muneeswaran, C. Mascovani, and N. V. Giridharan 1270
Growth and characterization of potassium acid phthalte for third order NLO applications
B. Sivakumar, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan 1272
Magnetodielectric properties of frustrated antiferromagnet LiCr02
A. K. Singh, K. Singh, Tathamay Basu, K. K. Iyer, P. L. Paulose, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1274
Enhance of ferroelectric properties by modifying Pb2+ side by Mg2+ in PZT (52/48) ceramics
P. Kour, Pawan Kumar, Manoranjan Kar, and S. K. Sinha 1276
Optical and dielectric properties of Ti02 doped PVA-CN/Li004 composite electrolyte
Sunil G. Rathod, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, and T. Sheela 1278
Photochromic and microstructural properties of methyl orange doped polyvinyl alcohol)
R. F. Bhajantri, Renuka Sali, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, T. Sheela, and Sunil G. Rathod 1280
Effect of Ni doping on the structural, optical and magnetic properties of Zno
Gunjan Srinet, Ravindra Kumar, and Vivek Sajal 1282
Structural and optical properties of copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS) material synthesized usingbinary sulphide precursors
K. K. Patel, D. V. Shah, and Vipul Kheraj 1284
Structural stability of BiFeO, by chemical modification in Bi as well as Fe sites
Chandrakanta Panda,Pawan Kumar, and Manoranjan Kar 1286
Molecular dynamics studies of radiation damage in yttria
Manan Dholakia, Gurprcet Kaur, and M. C. Valsakumar 1288
Growth of fluorine doped Sn02 nanostructures by spin coating of ultrasonically prepared gel
precursor
Y. C. Goswami, Vijay Kumar, V. Gancsan, and P. Rajaram 1290
Structural and photoluminescence properties of Zn2Si04:Tb3+ & Zn2Si04:Tb3++Li+ phosphorsB. Chandra Babu and S. Buddhudu 1292
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Effect of chromium doping on the resistivity behavior of gadolinium manganitcAnchit Modi, Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, G. S. Okram, and N. K. Gaur 1294
Dimensional crossover in chemical potential of synthetic spin-orbit coupled Fermi systemsReena Gupta, Dilna Azhikodan, G. S. Singh, and Jurgen Bossc 1296
Observation of dielectric and magnetic anomalies in multifcrroic Phi in 5Fc(l sO, compoundSnehlata Gupta, S. Chakrabarti, and V. R. Palkar 1298
Blue light emitting naphthalimides for organic light emitting diodes
Hidayath Ulla, B. Garudachar, M. N. Satyanarayan, G. Umcsh, and A. M. lsloor 1300
Preparation and characterization of NaC104 doped polyvinyl alcohol)/sodium alginate
composite electrolyte
T. Sheela, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, and Sunil G. Rathod 1302
Charge transport in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon
Nakul Mehrotra, Niraj Kumar, and Arijit Sen 1304
Enhanced dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ca2+ substituted sodium bismuth titanate
Chandrahas Bharti, A. Sen, and T. P. Sinha 1306
ABSTRACTS OF INVITED TALKS
Synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of nanostructure-formation at interfaces
Milan K. Sanyal 1308
Exploring the tunable coexistence of magnetic phasesP. Chaddah 1309
Development of scintillation materials for medical imaging and other applicationsC. L. Melchcr 1310
Strutural phase transitions in rare earth sesquioxides under pressure
N. V. Chandra Shekar, A. Arulraj, N. R. Sanjay Kumar, C. Ravi, M. Sckar, and P. Ch. Sahu 1311
Fundamentals of materials, techniques and instrumentation for OSL and FNTD dosimetryM. S. Aksclrod 1312
First-principles based calculation of phonon spectrain substitutional^ disordered alloys
Subhradip Ghosh 1313
Ultrafast interfacial charge transfer dynamics in dye-sensitized and quantum dot solar cell
Hirendra N. Ghosh 1314
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Improving organic solar cell efficiency by increasing light absorption and charge carrier mobilityin the device active layer
S. Sundar Kumar Iyer 1315
Superconducting and normal state tunnelling in NbN-GdN-NbN junctionsKartik Scnapati 1316
Magnetism without magnetic atoms: The physics of the vacancy in graphene
Sashi Satpathy 1317
Post-processing of lattice dynamical data for large crystalline systems (disordered
semiconductors)
Andrei Postnikov 1319
Multiferroic oxides: Growth of single crystals and investigation of their magnetic, dielectric and
ferroelectric properties
Gectha Balakrishnan 1320
Novel, band-controlled metal oxide compositions for semiconductor-mediated photocatalyticsplitting of water to produce H2
Narcndra M. Gupta 1321
Phase behavior and unusual dynamics of stimuli-responsive microgel colloids
B. V.R.Tata 1322
Role of defect states on magnetic and electrical properties of ZnO nanostructures: An
experimental view
M. Aslam 1323
Semiconducting nanowire field effect transistor for nanoelectronics and nanomechanics
Mandar Deshmukh 1324
Optically induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics in two-dimensional ferromagnetic nanodot
lattices
Anjan Barman 1325
Proteins as "dopable" bio-electronic materials
David Cahen1326
NMR study of valence fluctuating state in rare-earth based materials with multi-4f electronsTakeshi Mito
1327
Conductance and thermopower in molecular nanojunctionsArijitScn 1328
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