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SOLID STATE PHYSICS
Proceedings of the 55th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2010
Manipal University, Manipal, India 26 - 30 December 2010
I PART A
EDITORS
Alka B. GargR. Mittal
R. Mukhopadhyay
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai, India
SPONSORED BY
Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences
Department of Atomic EnergyGovernment of India
AIPMelville, New York, 2011
AmencanlnswuteAIP I CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS I 1349
AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1349
Solid State PhysicsProceedings of the 55th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2010
Table of Contents
PART A
Preface
Committees
INVITED TALKS
Composite fermions: Motivation, successes, and application to fractional quantum Hall
effect in grapheneJainendra Jain
Phononic heat conduction in disordered crystalsAbhishek Dhar
Probing hydrogen at extreme conditions by Raman spectroscopyN. Subramanian, Alexander F. Goncharov, Viktor V. Struzhkin, M. Somayazulu, and
Russell J. Hemley
Mixing of mode symmetries in top gated bilayer and multilayer graphene field effect
devices
Biswanath Chakraborty, Anindya Das, and A. K. Sood
Suspended graphene devices for electromechanics and quantum Hall effect (QHE)studies
Vibhor Singh, Ganesh Subramaniam, Bushra Irfan, and Mandar M. Deshmukh
STM spectroscopy of impurity doped grapheneK. Saha, I. Paul, and K. Sengupta
Heterogeneity in polymer thin films
Toshiji Kanaya, Rintaro Inoue, and Koji Nishida
Active matter: Liquid - crystal hydrodynamics with a difference
Sriram Ramaswamy 27
Raman scattering studies on LaMno.5Coo.5O3 with two distinct Curie temperatures
Chandrabhas Narayana, Venkata S. Bhadram, M. Viswanathan, and P. S. A. Kumar 28
Spin frustrated magnets: A novel route to multiferroicityA. K. Singh and S. Patnaik 29
Condensed matters under negative pressureAttila R. Imre 33
New oxypnictide superconductorsA. K. Ganguli, J. Prakash, S. J. Singh, and S. Patnaik 37
Isoelectronic substitution, external pressure and superconductivity in BaFe2As2
A. Bharathi 41
Magnetism and superconductivity in CaFe2.ITxAs2 (T = Co and Ni) single crystalsA. Thamizhavel 45
Electron spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots
X. Marie, T. Belhadj, B. Urbaszek, T. Amand, O. Krebs, A. Lemaitre, and P. Voisin 49
Dynamics of molecules adsorbed in zeolitic systems: Neutron scattering and MD
simulation studies
S. Mitra, V. K. Sharma, and R. Mukhopadhyay 54
Materials for hydrogen storage: From complex hydrides to functionalized nanostructures
G. P. Das 58
Criteria for choice of material for building organic solar cells
S. Sundar K. Iyer 59
Excitonic materials for hybrid solar cells and energy efficient lightingDinesh Kabra, Li P. Lu, Yana Vaynzof, Myounghoon Song, Henry J. Snaith, and Richard
H. Friend 60
Study of pseudogap state in NbN using scanning tunneling spectroscopyMadhavi Chand, Anand Kamlapure, Garima Saraswat, Sanjeev Kumar, John Jesudasan,Mintu Mondal, Vivas Bagwe, Vikram Tripathi, and Pratap Raychaudhuri 61
Exchange bias and magnetic phase separation in alloys and oxide materials
S. Giri 65
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First-principles investigations of defects in minerals
Ashok K. Verma 69
Electronic conduction through atomic chains, quantum well and quantum wire
A. C. Sharma 70
Synergistic tunability of fluorescence using coupled quantum dots
Sucheta Sengupta and Somobrata Acharya 75
Critical behavior at ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition of nearly half dopedmanganites
S. Arumugam 79
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
PHASE TRANSITIONS
Penetration of long steel rods into thick steel and sandstone targetsVishal Mehra and Shashank Chaturvedi 83
Thermal EOS for PtC within Mie-Griineisen hypothesisA. D. Patel, S. G. Khambolja, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, P. R. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 85
Effect of temperature on the void nucleation and growth parameters for single crystalcopper
S. Rawat, Manoj Warrier, S. Chaturvedi, and V. M. Chavan 87
Thermal degradation of lead monoxide filled polymer composite radiation shields
V. Harish and N. Nagaiah 89
Phase transition and elastic properties of La-compoundsG. S. Raypuria, K. C. Singh, A. K Baraiya, and D. C. Gupta 91
Structural and electronic properties of anti-ferromagnetic GdAsG. Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, P. Soni, S. P. Sanyal, and M. Rajagopalan 93
Molecular dynamics simulations of crystal copper: Bulk modulus and shocks
M. Warrier, S. Rawat, and S. Chaturvedi 95
High pressure phase transition and elastic properties of lutetium monopnictidesSunil S. Chouhan, G. Pagare, Pooja Soni, and S. P. Sanyal 97
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High pressure Raman scattering study on the phase stability of DyV04Nishant N. Patel, Alka B. Garg, S. Meenakshi, B. N. Wani, and S. M. Sharma 99
Pressure induced structural phase transition of ScC and YC: A FP-LAPW study
Pooja Soni, G. Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, S. P. Sanyal, and M. Rajagopalan 101
High-pressure structural phase transitions in FeAs based compounds at ambient and low
temperaturesR. Mittal, S. K. Mishra, S. L. Chaplot, S. V. Ovsyannikov, E. Greenberg, D. M. Trots, L.
Dubrovinsky, Y. Su, Th. Brueckel, S. Matsuishi, H. Hosono, and G. Garbarino 103
Structural behaviour of uranium sulfide under high pressure
F. Shareef, S. Singh, A. Gour, P. Bhardwaj, M. Sarwan, R. Dubey, and R. K. Singh 105
Pressure induced structural phase transition in actinide monophospides: Ab initio
calculations
Chandrabhan Makode and S. P. Sanyal 107
Thermodynamics of the two-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model on the triangular lattice
Umesh K. Yadav, T. Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 109
Pressure-induced structural phase transition in RESb compounds: Ab initio calculations
A. K. Sahu, A. Singh, Prafulla K. Jha, and S. P. Sanyal 111
Monte Carlo investigation of structural changes in NZP skeleton on alkali ion
substitution
Supriya Roy and P. P. Kumar 113
Analysis of defects induced melting in NaCl crystalR.S. Chauhan, K. Snehlata, and CP. Singh 115
Phase transition in a bond fluctuating linear homo polymerCh Sandhya, K. H. Bindu, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 117
Growth and characterization of PZN-PT single crystalsB. Srimathy, R. Jayavel, A. Thamizhavel, and J. Kumar 119
High pressure phase transition and elastic properties of LaAs: A full-potential studyS. K. Singh, K.C Singh, Pooja Rana, S. Kulshrestha, and D. C. Gupta 121
A Raman spectroscopic study of pressure-induced effects in molecular magnetFe[Fe(CN)6].4HzO
Rekha Rao, Amit Kumar, and S. M. Yusuf 123
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Spin glass behaviour in Fe-substituted LPMO manganite
Yugandhar Bitla, S. N. Kaul, and L. F. Barquin 125
Structural phase stability of rare earth iron garnet, Gd3Fe<;C)12 against pressure: in situ
X-ray diffraction studyAlka B. Garg, S. Chaudhury, S. C. Parida, and V. Vijayakumar 127
Magnetic relaxation and the nature of energy barriers near ferromagnetic to
antiferromagnetic transition in (Smi.yNdy)o.98Mn03 single crystalC. L. Prajapat, V. Dube, S. Arumugam, M. R. Singh, and G. Ravikumar 129
Spin-state transition in La1.ISrICo03 single crystalsS. Bhardwaj, D. Prabhakaran, and A. M. Awasthi 131
Structural and dielectric studies on tungsten bronze oxides (Sr6Ti2NbKO30 and Mn dopedSr6Ti2Nb8O30)
Vidhya G. Nair, V. Subramanian, and P. N. Santhosh 133
Structural phase transitions in TiNi_,C,B. D. Diwan, Anurag Srivastava, and R. K. Singh 135
First principles study of high pressure phase transitions in ThN and UN
P. Modak and Ashok K. Verma 137
Compressibility anomaly in magnetic Heuslar alloy Ni2MnGa and Co2FeSiAlka B. Garg and V. Vijayakumar 139
Inelastic neutron scattering, lattice dynamics and high pressure stability of LuV04Prabhatasree Goel, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, and C. K. Loong 141
High-pressure studies on synthetic orthorhombic cubanite (CuFe2S3)Usha Chandra, Nihal Singh, Pooja Sharma, and G. Parthasarathy 143
Effect of thermal cycling at different rates on phase transformation behavior of NiTi
shape memory alloyRamakrishna K and Manjunatha Pattabi 145
Phase transitions of Agl-Cul nanosystem in the Aniya-Ichihara theoryD. B. Mohan and C. S. Sunandana 147
Growth and characterization of mixed crystals of N, N-dimethylamino-N'-methylstilbazolium p-toluenesulphonate and p-napthalenesulfonate
R. J. Vijay, Tina Thomas, A. Ramanand, and P. Sagayaraj 149
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Investigation on growth and surface analysis of DAST single crystalsTina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, R. Gunaseelan, and P. Sagayaraj 151
SOFT CONDENSED MATTER INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Structural properties of potassium doped lanthanum manganitesDinesh Varshney, M. W. Shaikh, N. Dodiya, and I. Mansuri 155
Microstructural parameters in fibroin and fiber forms of wild-silks using whole powderpattern model
G. N. Siddaraju, H Somashekarappa, Subrata Roy, and R. Somashekar 157
Thermally stimulated dehydration studies in L-asparagine monohydrateDecpti Jain, S. Bharadwaj, V. Ganesan, A. M. Awasthi, and R. Nath 159
Bacterial spring constant in log-phase growthDecpti Jain, N. Nanda, R. Nath, D.S. Chitnis, and V. Ganesan 161
Dielectric studies on swift heavy ions and electron irradiated organic single crystalVincent Crasta, V. Ravindrachary, P. C. R. Kumar, and S. Ganesh 163
An optical characterization of PVA/PAM polymer blend
Gaurang Patel, M.B. Sureshkumar, and Purvi Patel 166
Synthesis of silver polymer nanocomposites and their antibacterial activityChaitali Gavade, Sunil Shah, and N. L. Singh 168
Synthesis and properties of ortho-nitro-Fe complexA. Mishra, Niyati Mishra, R. Sharma, G. Jain, S. Ninama, and R Awate 170
Stabilization of conducting polymers with CMC: Rheological approachRupali Gangopadhyay 172
Electrical and electrochemical characterization of PEO- Ag2S04 composite polymerelectrolytes
Neha Gupta, Munesh Rathore, and Anshuman Dalvi 174
Synthesis and crystal structure of l-(3, 5-dichloro-2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(5-methylfuran-2-yl)prop-2-en-l-one
G. B. Thippeswamy, D. Vijaykumar, B. S. Jayashree, M. A. Sridhar, and J. S. Prasad 176
Azimuthal bistability in patterned nematic liquid crystal films: A Monte Carlo studyS.C.R. Roshan, Lavanya Kunduru, Regina Jose, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 178
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On the development of thermally stable semi-IPNs of PVA and PAN using IR, DSC and
XRD studies
Deepti S. Deshpande, R. Bajpai, and A. K. Bajpai 180
Polymer network induced ordering in biaxial nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo
studyLavanya Kunduru, S. C. R. Roshan, B. K. Latha, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 182
Characterization of arachidic acid crystallized from various solvents
Debarati Bhattacharya, R. Chitra, and S. Basu 184
Synthesis and X-ray crystallographic studies of ethyl 3-methyl5-(methylthio)-lH-pyrazole-4-carboxylate
T. N. M. Prasad, B. N. Lakshminarayana, Ebraheem A. Musad, M. A. Sridhar, K. M. L.
Rai, and J. S. Prasad 186
Electrical and surface morphology of polyvinylchloride composites filled with aluminum
powder
Dolly Singh, Sangeeta Kishore, and N. L. Singh 188
Electrical properties of ethylene acrylic elastomer (AEM) loaded with conducting carbon
black
B. P. Sahoo, K. Naskar, and D. K. Tripathy 190
Analysis of toppling surfaces of stochastic sandpile models
Jahir A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra 192
Eco-friendly dyeing of cotton with indigo dye by electrochemical method
H. G. Prabu, K. Sarala, S. A. Babu, and K. U. Savitha 194
Free volume related fluorescence properties of electron irradiated chalcone dopedPMMA films
Ismayil V. Ravindrachary, R. F. Bhajantri, A. Harisha, and S. D. Pravccna 196
Crossover from rotational to stochastic sandpileHimangsu Bhaumik, Jahir A. Ahmed, and S. B. Santra 198
Equation of state for Mg2Si04 (a-forsterite, p-wadsleyite and y-ringwoodite): ab-initio
Seema Gupta and S. C. Goyal 200
SANS study of liquid-liquid phase transition in protein electrolyte solution
Akshay J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. G. Wagh 202
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Synthesis and dielectric studies of polyaniline-polyacrylamide conducting polymer
compositesA. K. Himanshu, S. K. Bandyopadhayay, Rajni Bahuguna, D. K. Ray, and T. P. Sinha 204
Growth, spectral and thermal studies of organic NLO crystals of DSAS by SNM
techniqueR. Gunaseelan, R. J. Vijay, G. Ramalingam, and P. Sagayaraj 206
Pressure tuning of Bragg diffraction in stimuli responsive microgel crystalsR. G. Joshi, B. V. R. Tata, and J. Brijitta 208
Electric modulus studies of low energy Ar9+ irradiated conducting polymer PANI-PVA
A. K. Himanshu, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Pintu Sen, and T. P. Sinha 210
Structural investigations of polyurethane-urea/clay nanocompositesS. K. Rath, M. Patri, P. U. Sastry, A. K. Patra, and Devang V. Khakhar 212
Fractal aggregation in silica nanoparticle and surfactant composites
Sugam Kumar and V. K. Aswal 214
Surface enhanced fluorescence of tryptophan by silver-nano-particlesAjeetkumar Patil, Unnikrishnan V. K., and Santhosh Chidangil 216
White light generation in human saliva
C. Santhosh, A. K. Dharmadhikari, J. A. Dharmadhikari, Kamlesh Alti, and D. Mathur 218
A study of cross-linked regions of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels by small-angle neutron
scatteringMathias B. Lawrence, J. A. E. Desa, and V. K. Aswal 220
SANS Study of Protein Adsorption on NanoparticlesSugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrecher 222
Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of soft tissues of the oral cavity
Ajeetkumar Patil, Unnikrishnan V. K., Rodney Bernard, Keerthilatha M. Pai, Ravikiran
Ongole, V. B. Kartha, and Santhosh Chidangil 224
Objective diagnosis of cervical cancer by tissue protein profile analysis
Ajeetkumar Patil, Sujatha Bhat, Lavanya Rai, V. B. Kartha, and Santhosh Chidangil 226
Free volume size distribution in some natural polymersM. N. Chandrashekara and C. Ranganathaiah 228
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NANO-MATERIALS
Synthesis and characterization of LiMV04 cathode material produced by sol-gel methodD. Prakash, M. Jayachandran, and C. Sanjeeviraja 233
Fuel to oxidizer ratio effects on La203 nano particlesG. B. Reddy, K. Bikshalu, K. V. Rao, Y. Aparna, M. C. Shekar, and K. E. Prasad 235
Effect of energy deposition on nanoparticle formation in the process of wire explosionR. Das, B. K. Das, Rohit Shukla, Partha Banerjee, Surender Shrama, Pankaj Deb, T.
Prabaharan, Biswajit Adhikary, and Anurag Shyam 237
Magnetic studies of Co-doped ZnO nanoparticlesS. K. Bandyopadhyay, N. S. Singh, A. K. Himanshu, Keka R. Chakraborty, D. Das, P. K.
Mukhopadhyay, and Nagendra Mondal 239
Structural, electronic and optical properties of medium sized neutral and cationic Li„
cluster (n=2, 8 10 20, 30) by density functional theoryNeetu Goel, Seema Gautam, and Keya Dharamvir 241
Preparation and structural analysis of CdS nanoparticle embedded polyurethanenanocomposites
Ajay P. Indolia, Purushottam Kumar, and M. S. Gaur 243
Investigations on structural and optical properties of ZnS: Mn2+ nanoparticlesD. M. Krishna, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, R. Venugopal, and B. K. Reddy 245
Effect of chirality on phonon-drag thermopower in bilayer grapheneK. S. Bhargavi and S. S. Kubakaddi 247
Structural, dielectric, microstructural properties of Ni0.7Zn0.3Fe2.xAlxO4 ferrite
nanoparticles through citrate-gel method
Mohd Hashim, Alimuddin, Shalendra Kumar, Sikander Ali, and R. Kumar 249
Structural and phonon modes of multiferroic Bio.9Cao.1Feo.9Coo.1O3 nanoparticlesDinesh Varshney, Geeta Das, and Ashwini Kumar 251
Structural and magnetic properties of Mn and Zn doped Fe304 nanoparticlesDinesh Varshney, Kavita Verma, and A. Yogi 253
Dielectric behaviour of Nd3+ substituted nanocrystalline nickel ferrites
Tukaram J. Shinde, Ashok B. Gadkari, and Pramod N. Vasambekar 255
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Synthesis of nano-Zr02 by reactive plasma processingS. Jayakumar, T. K. Thiyagarajan, P. V. Ananthapadmanabhan, K. P. Sreekumar, K.
Perumal, S. C. Mishra, L. T. Su, and A. I. Y. Tok 257
Static structure factor of amorphous rutile nanoparticle: A molecular dynamics studyKulbir Kaur, Ranber Singh, Navdeep Goyal, P. Entel, and Satya Prakash 259
2-mercapto ethanol passivated Zni_,CrxS nanoparticlesD. A. Reddy, G. Murali, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, and B. K. Reddy 261
Role of rare earth ions on structural and optical properties of ZnO nanopowder: A case
ofCe3+
N. R. Panda and B. S. Acharya 263
Thiols as effective capping molecules to synthesize high-quality ZnO nanocrystalsR. M. Hodlur, M. K. Rabinal, H. H. Bendigeri, S. S. Banappanavar, and M. N. Kalasad 265
Temperature dependent photosensitivity of Cu doped CdS thin film
Richa Panda, Swati Pandya, Vandana Rathore, Manoj Rathore, Vilas Shelke, Nitu Badera,
Deepti Jain, L. S. Sharathchandra, M. Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 267
Effect of La3+ substitution on electric, dielectric and magnetic properties of cobalt nano-
ferrite
Pawan Kumar and M. Singh 269
Facile room temperature synthesis of electrically conducting Cul nanoparticlesBindu Sharma and M. K. Rabinal 271
Structural and magnetic characterization of BaFe^O^ nanoparticlesVinod N. Dhage, M. L. Mane, Sagar E. Shirsath, S. P. Jadhav, R. P. Gunjal, and K. M.
Jadhav 273
Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by CVD and spray pyrolysis and their characterization by
scattering techniquesJ. Bahadur, J. Prakash, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, and D. Sathiyamoorthy 275
Tuning of long range visible emissions using coupled quantum dots
Sucheta Sengupta, Nirmal Ganguli, I. Dasgupta, D. D. Sarma, and Somobrata Acharya 277
Doping effect on electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons: An ab-
initio study
Satyendra S. Chauhan, Pankaj Srivastava, and Hushain J. Khan 279
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Chemical synthesis and characterization of lead sulphide (PbS) nanoparticlesSandip V. Bhatt, M. P. Deshpande, S. H. Chaki, Nikita H. Patcl, Nilesh Pandy, and BindiyaH. Soni 281
First-principles study of Cu doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons
Neeraj K. Jaiswal and Pankaj Srivastava 283
Highly emissive transition metal ion doped semiconducting nanocrystals
Santanu Jana, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, D. D. Sarma, and Narayan Pradhan 285
Processing and characterization of cobalt-zinc nano ferrite
Ritu Rani, Sangeeta Thakur, and M. Singh 287
Dye sensitized solar cells based on mesoporous titanate and titania nanoparticlesAdarsh Kaniyoor and S. Ramaprabhu 289
Hydrogenation in SWCNTs functionalized with borane
D. Silambarasan, V. Vasu, V. J. Surya, and K. Iyakutti 291
Interaction between alanine and single-walled carbon nanotube: A density functional
theory studyM. Rajarajeswari, K. Iyakutti, and Y. Kawazoe 293
The high pressure hydrogen storage study of functionalized graphite nanoplateletsB. P. Vinayan, K. Sethupathi, and S. Ramaprabhu 295
Ripples in graphene: A theoretical analysis using two dimensional vibrating membrane
model
V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, and K. Emelda 297
Density functional calculations of carrier induced ferromagnetism in Co doped Cd2NSe2N
nanocluster
Saurabh Ghosh, Biplab Sanyal, and G. P. Das 299
Synthesis and characterization of nano CoFe204 by low-temperature combustion
synthesis using different fuels
D. M. Jnaneshwara, R. G. Krishna, H. Nagabhushana, B. M. Nagabhushana, C.
Shivakumara, and R. P. S. Chakradhar 301
Self energy and density of screening charge of doped grapheneKavita N. Mishra, S. S. Z. Ashraf, and A. C. Sharma 303
Optical response of nanostructured Ag/Au And Au/Ag bilayer thin films deposited by ion
beam sputtering
Rajeeb Brahma and M. G. Krishna 305
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Ethanol sensor using undoped And Mn-doped CoFe204 nanoparticlesP. Indra Devi, N. Rajkumar, and K. Ramachandran 307
Dielectric behavior of bulk and nanocrystalline Zn-Mn ferrite
S. P. Pareek, Arun S. Prasad, S. N. Dolia, S. Kumar, Arvind Samariya, P. K. Sharma, M. S.
Dhawan, K. Asokan, V. K. Saxena, and K. B. Sharma 309
Effect of Cu-doping on nanocrystalline NiO thin films
Shweta Moghe, A. D. Acharya, Richa Panda, S. B. Shrivastava, Mohan Gangrade, and V.
Ganesan 311
Effect of heat treatment on morphology and optical properties of zinc oxide nanoparticledecorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes
Jaidev and S. Ramaprabhu 313
Zinc and carbonate Co-substituted nano-hydroxyapatiteE. K. Girija, G. S. Kumar, and A. Thamizhavel 315
Structural stability of GaAs nanocrystal
Anurag Srivastava, Neha Tyagi, and R. K. Singh 317
Quantum confined ZnO nanoparticles: Structural and optical studies
S. Dey, A. K. Mishra, D. Das, and S. Mukherjee 319
Solvent induced kinetic growth of shape controlled gold nanostructures
Abhitosh Kedia and P. S. Kumar 321
Effect of temperature on the structural properties of Mn substituted ZnO nanoparticlesV. D. Mote, V. R. Huse, Y. Purushotham, K. M. Jadhav, B. N. Dole, and S. S. Shah 323
Correlated barrier hopping in ZnO nanotubes
Soosen S. M., Jiji Koshy, Anoop Chandran, and K. C. George 325
Nano-titania photocatalyst loaded on W-MCM-41 support and its highly efficient
degradation of methylene blue
H. Shankar, R. Saravanan, V. Narayanan, and A. Stephen 327
Gaussian confinement of phonons in CdS nanoparticlesAnoop Chandran, Soosen S. M., Jiji Koshy, and K. C. George 329
Preparation and optical properties ZnO dumb-bell like microcrystalsAmitha Shetty and Karuna K. Nanda 331
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Humidity sensor based on nano structured ZnO thin films prepared by homemade
microprocessor controlled spray pyrolysis unit on Si
Chaitra V., K. S. Shamala, and V. Uma 333
Ultrasonic studies and microchannel flow behavior of copper oxide nanofluid
M. N. Rashin, J. Hemalatha, R. P. Nalini, and A. V. Ramya 335
Synthesis, charaterization and electrochemical sensing properties of PANI - cobalt dopeda-Fe203 nanocomposites
R. Suresh, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 337
Synthesis and characterization of silver-poIy(vinyl alcohol) nanocompositesSuman Mahendia, A. K. T mar, Rishi P. Chahal, and Shyam Kumar 339
Growth and characterization of hematite nanonails
H. Srivastava, P. Tiwari, A. K. Srivastava, S. K. Rai, and S. K. Deb 341
Ferroelectric studies on poly (vinylidene fluoride)/NiFe204 polymer nanocompositestructures
T. Prabhakaran and J. Hemalatha 343
Radiation fluence dependent variation in electrical conductivity of Cu nanowires
Devender Gehlawat, R. P. Chauhan, and R. G. Sonkawade 345
Ethanol sensitivity of Cuj.xSnjO (x=0.00, 0.03, and 0.05) nanoflakes
R. N. Mariammal and K. Ramachandran 347
Pyroelectric and thermal properties of PZT-PVA nanocompositesS. Uma and J. Philip 349
Preparation and magnetic studies on 10% Co-doped BiFe03 multiferroic nanoparticlesSamar Layek, Sujit Das, and H. C. Verma 351
Structural properties of nanocrystalline Nd3+ substituted nickel ferrites
Pramod N. Vasambekar, Tukaram J. Shinde, and Ashok B. Gadkari 353
Shape and size effects on magnetic behavior of nano-crystalline (La,Sr)(Mn,Fe)0perovskite systems
Usha Chandra, Pooja Sharma, Deepti Jain, and V. Ganesan 355
Plasma induced modification on spin-coated ZnO thin films
Rishi Vyas, Parul Gupta, Shubhra Mathur, K. Sachdev, and S. K. Sharma 357
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Role of sulfur as capping agent in controlling the particle size during the synthesis of
nano-crystalline CoS2
Pooja Sharma and Usha Chandra 359
Surface spin glass ordering and exchange bias in nanometric Smo.o9Ca0.91Mn03manganites.
S. K. Giri and T. K. Nath 361
Absorption-emission study of Zn/.^Al^O nanostructures
N. R. Yogamalar and A. C. Bose 363
Study of Ni-Zn ferrite prepared from citrate precursorV. D. Sudheesh, A. Vinesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 365
Structural characterization of ceria nanoparticlesR. Srinivasan and A. C. Bose 367
Visible luminescence from Au nanoparticles stabilized with aromatic thiols
Rani M. Pattabi and Manjunatha Pattabi 369
Direct synthesis of Fe-Pt nanoparticles in ordered face centered (fct) LI0 phase bymicrowave assisted route
S. A. Acharya, S. M. Khule, K. Singh, and S. S. Bhoga 371
Facile synthesis and characterization of p-Ga20( nanostructures via vapor transportmethod
R. Jangir, Tapas Ganguli, P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, S. K. Rai, A. K. Das, L. M. Kukreja,and S. M. Oak 373
One-step synthesis of white, orange and violet light emitting ZnO phosphorsGopal K. Goswami and Karuna K. Nanda 375
Chemical synthesis of nanocrystalline CuInS2Ashok K. Sharma, Dixit Prasher, and P. Rajaram 377
Synthesis Of CdSe@ZnS quantum dots via non-TOPO hydrothermal techniquesG. Ramalingam, J. Madhavan, R. J. Vijay, M. Vimalan, and P. Sagayaraj 379
HT-LiCo02 thin film positive electrodes prepared by RF magnetron sputteringP. J. Kumar, K. J. Babu, and O. M. Hussain 381
Magnetic, electronic and magneto-transport studies of ferromagnetic insulatingunderdoped Pr0.8Sro.2Mn03 manganite on nanometric grain size modulation
P. T. Das, A. Taraphder, and T. K. Nath 383
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Pure and strontium doped nano hydroxyapatite: New approach for bone implant and
drug delivery systemKashmira P. Tank, Sonal R. Vasant, Kiran S. Chudasama, Vrinda S. Thaker, and Mihir J.
Joshi 385
Ni+7 ion beam effect on Ag doped ZnS nanocrystals embedded in PMMA matrix
Shweta Agrawal, Balram Tripathi, Sumit Kumar, Vipin Jain, Subodh Srivastava, and Y. K.
Vijay 387
Synthesis, structural and magnetization studies of nanocrystalline Cu1.,ZnxFe204P. K. Sharma, Arun S. Prasad, Arvind Samaria, M. S. Dhawan, S. N. Dolia, R. K. Singhal,and Sudhish Kumar 389
Energy efficient and size tunable synthesis of 'colloidal' zinc oxide nanoparticles by
simple beaker chemistryAjay Kushwaha, Vijay Singh, and M. Aslam 391
Investigation of copper telluride nanowires synthesized by electrochemical method
Suresh Kumar, Virender Kundu, Anil Vohra, and S. K. Chakarvarti 393
Magnetic properties of nickel nanostructures grown by nanosphere lithographytechnique
S. Akshay, N. N. Kaushik, K. Naresh, Shounak De, and V. H. S. Moorthy 395
Deposition and characterization of nanocrystalline silver thin films by using SILARmethod
A. B. Rohom and S. D. Sartale 397
Size dependent antioxidant activity of polypyrrole nanoflbers
A. Kumar and Somik Banerjee 399
Chemical synthesis of nanocrystalline ceria
S. M. Yadav and S. D. Sartale 401
Dynamics of fluid in a nanotube
Reena Devi, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar 403
Combined small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering studies of block copolymer-mediatedgold nanoparticles
Debes Ray and V. K. Aswal 405
Effect of particle shape and interfacial layer in thermal conductivity and viscosity of
nanofluids
Gaganpreet and Sunita Srivastava 407
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Effect of Al3+-Cr3+ substitution on structural, cation distribution and magnetic propertiesof MgFe204 prepared by chemical co-precipitation method
S. P. Jadhav, J. B. Mote, V. N. Dhage, M. L. Mane, and N. D. Shinde 409
Investigation on zinc sulphide nanoparticles in dye sensitized solar cell
M. Ragam, N. Sankar, and K. Ramachandran 411
Particle-size effect on the compressibility of nanocrystalline germaniumTushar C. Pandya, Aasim I. Shaikh, and Apoorva D. Bhatt 413
Preparation of new reducing agent for the synthesis of silver nanoparticlesP. Manivel, K. Sivashanmugan, C. Viswanathan, and D. Mangalaraj 415
Synthesis of porous Cuprous Oxide (Cu20) on Cu foil
Satish L. Shinde and Karuna K. Nanda 417
PVA stabilized gold nanoparticles using ascorbic acid as a reducing agentHimanshu Tyagi, Ajay Kushwaha, Anshuman Kumar, and M. Aslam 419
Thermoluminescence characteristics of nanocrystalline LiF phosphors synthesized at
different pH values
A. K. Sharma, R. Dogra, Shalendra Kumar, S. K. Mishra, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar 421
Mossbauer studies of local environments of 57Fe in iron oxide particles dispersed Fematrix
L. H. Singh, R. Govindaraj, P. A. M. Kumar, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 423
Tunable optical limiting action due to non-linear absorption in ZnO/Ag nanocompositesS. Radhu, C. Vijayan, Suchand Sandeep, and Reji Philip 425
Magnetisation studies on nickel nano particlesA. T. Satya, T. Gnanasekaran, and A. Bharathi 427
Thermoelectric properties of nano structured CrSi2_iAli
P. Suresh and A. M. Umarji 429
Morphology dependent photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanostructures
K. S. Ranjith and R. T. R. Kumar 431
Effect of exchange-correlations and temperature on plasmons in nano-scale gold wire
Renu Bala, R. K. Moudgil, Sunita Srivastava, and K. N. Pathak 433
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Fourier-transform infrared absorption study of the nanocluster carbon thin films grown
using Cathodic Arc process
Shounak De, B. S. Satyanarayana, Shailesh Sharma, and Mohan R. K. 435
Ferrite nanoparticles in pharmacological modulation of angiogenesisApama Deshmukh, S. Radha, Y. Khan, and Priya Tilak 437
Nanocrystalline BaS04:Eu for dosimetry of proton beams
Shaila Bahl, S. P. Lochab, Anant Pandey, Pratik Kumar, V. E. Aleynikov, and A.
Molokanov 439
Hyperfine and magnetic properties of nanosized Nio.5Zno.5Fe204 synthesized by high-
energy ball millingS. Mukherjee, S. Dey, B. Ghosh, S. Kuamr, A. Poddar, and C. Mazumdcr 441
Tuning the properties of quantum dots via the effective mass
R. A. Singh, Abhinav Sinha, and Praveen Pathak 443
EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES
Study of compact penning ion source for material studies
B. K. Das, R. Das, and A. Shyam 447
Elucidation of equivalent current dipole from magnetocardiography (MCG)measurements
N. Mariyappa, M. P. Janawadkar, T. S. Radhakrishnan, C. S. Sundar, S. Scngottuvcl, K.
Gireesan, C. Parasakthi, and Rajesh Patel 449
Time resolved radiation pyrometer for transient temperature measurement
Amit S. Rav, A. K. Saxena, K. D. Joshi, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta 451
An automated home made low cost vibrating sample magnetometerS. Kundu and T. K. Nath 453
Neutron induced beta radiographyA. M. Shaikh and D. Shylaja 455
Predicting the performance parameters of In2S3/MEH-PPV heterojunction using
photoluminescence techniqueN. Poornima, M. R. R. Menon, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 457
Tetrahydroquinoxaline based small molecule: PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cell
S. S. Sharma, G. D. Sharma, Subodh, Sarla Sharma, and Y. K. Vijay 459
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EDM machine modified for micro drilling in DAC experiments
Dayana Lonappan, N. V. C. Shekar, L. M. Sundaram, T. Edwin, and P. Ch Sahu 461
Development of high Tc superconducting quantum interference devices
L. S. Vaidhyanathan, D. K. Baisnab, and M. P. Janawadkar 463
Hydrodynamic interaction in binary polymer blends measured experimentally from
ortho positronium lifetime
P. Ramya, J. M. Raj, and C. Ranganathaiah 465
Numerical simulations of an electromagnetic coilgun for impact and fracture studies
S. Madhavan, C. D. Sijoy, S. Pahari, and S. Chaturvedi 467
Measurement of thermal diffusion in coatings and films by traveling thermal wave
techniqueM. V. Manjusha and J. Philip 469
Microfocused X-rays beams using compound refractive lenses: Possibilities for Indus-2
M. K. Tiwari and G. S. Lodha 471
Illumination intensity dependent behavior of ZnO-P3HT based hybrid photovoltaicdevices
Monika Mall and Lokendra Kumar 473
Trace element analysis using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique
V. K. Unnikrishnan, K. Mridul, Rajesh Nayak, Kamlesh Alti, V. B. Karma, C. Santhosh,
and B. M. Suri 475
Photoluminescence studies on NaBi(W04)2 single crystals at low temperaturesM. Tyagi, S. G. Singh, A. K. Chauhan, S. C. Gadkari, and V. K. Handu 477
Shallow etching of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures in context of HEMT fabrication
Ch. R. Kumar and G. Rajaram 479
Performance of indigenously developed CsI(Tl)-photodiode detector for gamma-ray
spectroscopy
S. G. Singh, Arvind Singh, Anita Topkar, and S. C. Gadkari 481
Development of an electromagnetic acceleration facility for impact and fracture studies
at high strain rates
S. Pahari, I. V. V. Suryaprasad, N. Shiv, S. Madhavan, C. D. Sijoy, and S. Chaturvedi 483
X-ray diffraction analysis of defects in cold worked type 316 stainless steel
S. Murugesan, P. Kuppusami, E. Mohandas, and M. Vijayalakshmi 485
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Design and development of a D.C. magnetron sputtering system for thin film and
multilayer depositionDebarati Bhattacharya, A. Biswas, K. G. Bhushan, M. Swain, and S. Basu 487
Performance of BF3 filled position sensitive neutron detector
Shraddha S. Desai, Shylaja Devan, and P. S. R. Krishna 489
120 MeV Ag9+ ions induced ionoluminescence of SrS:Ce
Ankush Vij, Ravi Kumar, Fouran Singh, and Nafa Singh 491
Design optimization for cold crucible induction melter
Jyoti Jha, Archana Sharma, and R. K. Gupta 493
PC based pulsed field hysteresis loop tracer
S. D. Likhite, Prachi Likhite, and S. Radha 495
Photon detector for inverse photoemission spectroscopy with improved energy resolution
M. Maniraj, S. W. D'Souza, and S. R. Barman 497
Setting up of a low temperature in-situ ion implantation and channeling facility at
KalpakkamB. Sundaravel, K. Saravanan, B. K. Panigrahi, and K. G. M. Nair 499
Neutron coherent scattering length determination with a dual non-dispersive sampleSohrab Abbas, Apoorva G. Wagh, R. Loidl, H. Lemmel, and H. Rauch 501
Commissioning of angle dispersive x-ray diffraction beamline on Indus-2
A.K. Sinha, Archna Sagdeo, Pooja Gupta, Ashok Kumar, M. N. Singh, R. K. Gupta, S. R.
Kane, and S. K. Deb 503
LIQUIDS, GLASSES AND AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS
Stacking faults in cotton fibers
S. Divakara, A. R. Niranjana, G. N. Siddaraju, and R. Somashekar 507
Non-Debye specific heat of (NH4),Rbi.iBrP.S. Goyal, Swati Pandya, P. D. Babu, R. Rawat, and V. Ganesan 509
Structural properties of some semiconductor liquid metals using charged hard spherereference system
Y. A. Sonvane, P. B. Thakor, Sandhya Kanawade, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 511
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Effect Of Sb incorporation on the dark and photoconductivity of thin films of Se75In25
glassy alloyS. Shukla and S. Kumar 513
Quantification of changes in mulberry silk fabrics due to different laundering: Using
WAXS techniqueP. Parameswara, S. Nivedita, and R. Somashekar 515
Molecular association between n-methylacetamide and dimethylsulphoxide usingdielectric relaxation measurements in the microwave region
Raman Kumar and V. S. Rangra 517
Mixed glass former effect in silver molybdophosphate and borophosphate glassesB. Deb, S. Kabi, and A. Ghosh 519
Monte-Carlo structure factor (MCSQ) calculation for liquid structure ofH-bonded
molecular liquidsA. K. Sahoo and R. N. Joarder 521
Frequency and temperature dependence of conductivity studies of new silver-calcia-
borate glass system.Ranveer Kumar, Harsha Dehariya, and Anji R. Polu 523
Collective modes and elastic constants of Cu5oZr5o glassB. Y. Thakore, S.G. Khambholja, P. H. Suthar, N. K. Bhatt, and A. R. Jani 525
Ultra small-angle neutron scattering study of porous glassReshma R. Desai, J. A. E. Desa, D. Sen, and S. Mazumder 527
Optical properties of Pb0-ZnO-P2O5 glasses doped with samarium and neodymium.Lakshmikantha R., Rajaramakrishna R., R. V. Anavekar, and N. H. Ayachit 529
Emission properties of Eu3+ doped different chlorophosphate glassesK. V. Rao, M. Seshadri, and Y. C. Ratnakaram 531
Ionic conductivity and structural relaxation studies on lithium niobophosphate glassPrashant Dabas and K. Hariharan 533
Electrical transport in superionic thin films prepared by pulsed laser depositionNeha Gupta, Anshuman Dalvi, D. M. Phase, and A. M. Awasthi 535
Structural and thermal properties of PVA and its composite with CuCl2
G. Krishna Bama, P. Indra Devi, and K. Ramachandran 537
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Estimation of the activation energy for the non-isothermal crystallization in amorphousSe7oTei5ln15 alloy using iso-conversional methods
Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakur, and S. K. Tripathi 539
Structural investigation of Li20-Bi203-B203 glassesVirender Kundu, R. L. Dhiman, A. S. Maan, and D. R. Goyal 541
Effect of Ar+ ion implantation on electrical conductivity of polycarbonate
P. K. Goyal, V. Kumar, Renu Gupta, S. Kumar, P. Kumar, and D. Kanjilal 543
Optical properties of alkaline earth ions doped bismuth borate glassesVirender Kundu, R. L. Dhiman, A. S. Maan, and D. R. Goyal 545
Optical properties of Eu3+ doped lead borate tellurite and zinc borate tellurite glassesShigihalli N. B., Rajaramakrishna R., and R. V. Anavekar 547
First-principles investigations of liquid Sb
Ashok K. Verma and P. Modak 549
Study of relaxation dynamics in mixed iodide doped silver-vanado-borate superionic
glass systemPoonam Sharma, D. K. Kanchan, Meenakshi Pant, Nirali Gondaliya, and Manish S.
Jayswal 551
Thermal stability and other properties of a Ni-Cr based metallic glassP. R. Rao, A. K. Bhatnagar, Ravinder R. K, and Venkateswara R. M. 553
Chalcogenide glass photoresists for grayscale patterningPrabhat K. Dwivedi, Satinder K. Sharma, Amritha Rammohan, and Ashutosh Sharma 555
Spectroscopic studies on Eu3+ doped boro-tellurite glassesK. Selvaraju and K. Marimuthu 557
EPR study of vanadium ion in zinc-boro-vanadate glassesC. Renuka, V. C. V. Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. N. Reddy 559
Study of characterization of pure and malachite green doped samples using spectroscopicstudies
Jyoti Mishra, Pankaj K. Mishra, and P. K. Khare 561
Thermal physical, and infrared spectroscopic studies on glasses prepared by microwave
route
N. Jagadeesha, V. C. V. Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. N. Reddy 563
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Microstructural parameters of 8 MeV electron irradiated poly (vinyl alcohol) polymerfilms
Sangappa, S. Asha, Ganesh Sanjeev, and R. Somashekar 565
Binary structures and resistivity of liquid ZnSb alloysManjul Kumar, Mitesh Joshi, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 567
Preparation and characterization of niobium doped lead-telluride glass ceramics
M. Sathish, B. Eraiah, and R. V. Anavekar 569
Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on lithium zinc silicate glasses: A photoluminescencestudy
M. S. Jogad, R. M. Jogad, V. Sudarsan, P. S. R. Krishna, and G. P. Kothiyal 571
Collective dynamics of liquid potassium near melting pointIshu Goyal, Jyoti Sood, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar 573
Structural and optical behaviour of Ar+ implanted polycarbonateNidhi Shekhawat, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Annu Sharma, S. K. Deshpande, and K. G. M. Nair 575
Optical and electrical properties of Ar+ implanted PET
Rajiv Kumar, Nidhi Shekhawat, Annu Sharma, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Praveen Kumar, and D.
Kanjilal 577
Trap limited charge transport in GexSe8o_xPb2o films
Kamal Kumar, L. P. Purohit, R. Kumar, and R. M. Mehra 579
Structural and optical studies on Dy3+ doped boro-tellurite glassesK. Maheshvaran and K. Marimuthu 581
Dynamical properties of plasticizer in polyvinyl acetate
S. Gautam, F. Alvarez, A. Arbe, M. Tyagi, B. Frick, and J. Colmenero 583
SURFACES, INTERFACES AND THIN FILMS
Electrical conduction in solution grown thin films of tetrasulfurtetranitride (S4N4)H. K. Sharma and Himanshu Sharma 587
Structural, electrical and optical properties of gallium doped zinc oxide thin films
prepared by electron beam evaporation techniqueS Nagarani and C. Sanjeeviraja 589
Surface segregation of substrate metal on film surface
Y. Aparna, K. V. Rao, and G. B. Reddy 591
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Structural & transport properties of nanostructured NdojCaojMnO} thin films
Jessica R. Chocha, Pooja A. Chhclavda, V. Gancsan, and J. A. Bhalodia 593
Bandgap modulation in ZnO through doping by sol-gel method
Amanpal Singh, Kiran Walia, Dincsh Kumar, P.K. Khanna, Anuj Kumar, and Mukesh
Kumar 595
CuInI.xAlxSe2 thin films grown by electrodepositionDixit Prashcr, Ranjana Sharma, Ashok K. Sharma, and P. Rajaram 597
Transport properties of Fe3_.vTiv04 (x = 0.0 and 0.0206) epitaxial thin films
Dinesh Varshney, Arvind Yogi, K. Vcrma, and D. M. Phase 599
Conduction mechanisms in vacuum deposited p-ZnTe/n-Si heterojunction diodes
Gowrish R. K, Kasturi V. Bangera, and G. K. Shivakumar 601
Study of photo-conductivity in nano-crystalline cadmium telluride thin films
M.G. Mahesha, Kasturi V. Bangera, and G. K. Shivakumar 603
Optical properties of silver particulate films on modified polymer substrates
Gurumurthy S C, Manjunatha Pattabi, and Ganesh Sanjeeva 605
Effective dielectric function of AuNPs-ZnO composite thin films from Bergmanformalism
Anuradha Patra and S. Kasiviswanathan 607
Structure and optical properties of RF-Sputtered Mn - ZnO nanocrystalline thin filmsVenkaiah M. and R. Singh 609
Magnetic nano anisotropy by ion irradiation
S. Bhattacharjee, P. Karmakar, A. K. Sinha, and A. Chakrabarti 611
Electronic structure studies of 200MeV Ag+ls swift heavy ion irradiated Sn02 thin films
using x-ray absorption spectroscopyHardeep Thakur, Ravi Kumar, Kuldecp K. Sharma, and Pardecp Thakur 613
Organic thin film magnet of nickel-tetracyanoethylenePramod Bhatt and S. M. Yusuf 615
Effect of complexing agent on the properties of ZnSe thin films
Charita Mehta, Jasim M. Abbas, G.S.S. Saini, and S. K. Tripathi 61"
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Small molecule thin film solar cells with active layers composed of copper phthalocyanine
(CuPc) and fullerene (C70)
Dhananjaya Kekuda, Mohan R. K, Amita Tolpadi, Rajendra B.V., and C.W. Chu 619
On the suitability of dispersion models for the optical dispersion of poly(ethyl
methacrylate)
Kallol Das, Sheetal Mehta, and Shruti Patankar 621
Effect of in additive in the density of defect states in a-Se85Tei5 & a-Se75Te25 thin films
N. Sharma, S. Shukla, S. P. Singh, and S. Kumar 623
Compositional and morphological study of Sb doped PbTe
Ashoka Bali and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 625
Effect of Ag surfactant on Cu/Co multilayers deposited by RF-ion beam sputteringS. M. Amir, M. Gupta, A. Gupta, and A. Wildes 627
Dimer induced reconstruction and metallicity of Ge(OOl) surface: ab-initio SIESTA studyAshok K. Kaushal, Jagdish Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 629
Argon dilution as an alternative to hydrogen dilution for the preparation of large area
device quality amorphous silicon
Animesh Layek, Somnath Middya, and Partha P. Ray 631
Electrical switching studies on amorphous Ge-Te-Sn thin films
Chandasree Das, M.G. Mahesha, G. M. Rao, and S. Asokan 633
Growth and annealing influence on structural and optical properties of nanostructured
ZIO thin films
Vipin K. Jain, Praveen Kumar, Praveen Jain, S. Srivastava, and Y. K. Vijay 635
Influence of oxygen content in oriented LaCo03.6 thin films: Probed by x-ray diffraction
and Raman spectroscopy
D. K. Mishra, Anju Ahlawat, and V. G. Sathe 637
Structural and optical properties of e-beam evaporated MX, thin films
K. D. Patel, Mayur Patel, Keyur S. Hingarajiya, V. M. Pathak, and R. Srivastava 639
LiNiiC0i.iO2 cell grown by pulsed laser depositionM. C. Rao, K. Ravindranadh, Sk. M. Begum, and G. Nirmala 641
Emission from localized states in Co doped BaTi03 fdms
Kamakhya P. Misra, R. K. Shukla, and Anchal Srivastava 643
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Surface morphology and dielectric studies of Zr4+-rich barium titanate
Raghavendra Sagar, Shivanand Madolappa, and R. L. Raibagkar 645
SHI induced modifications in CdS/CuInSe2 thin film: XRD analysisRajesh A. Joshi, Vidya S. Taur, Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 647
Spin-resolved pair-correlation functions ofthe two-dimensional electron gas at arbitraryspin polarization
Krishan Kumar and R. K. Moudgil 649
Sputtering of CaF2 thin films
Ratnesh K. Pandey, Saif A. Khan, D. K. Avasthi, and Avinash C. Pandcy 651
Engineering of wet chemically grown nanostructured zinc oxide thin film by highelectronic excitation
Ravikiran B. Birajadar, Arindam A. Ghosh, Rajesh A. Joshi, Vidya S. Taur, S. U. Shaikh,Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 653
Discharge characteristics of low molecular weight solid polymer electrolyteP. Naveen Kumar, U. Sasikala, P. C. Sekhar, V. B. S. Achari, V. V. R. N. Rao, and A. K.
Sharma 655
Investigation of Cd-doped and undoped ZnO thin films
A. D. Acharya, Shweta Moghe, Richa Panda, S. B. Shrivastava, Mohan Gangradc, and V.
Ganesan 657
Study of trapping density in electrical characteristics of CdTe thin films
Kamlesh Chandekar, Ashavani Kumar, and Sukhvir Singh 659
Study of interfacial modification in Fe/Ag multilayer with thermal annealing using X ray
standing wave
Gagan Sharma, Ranjeeta Gupta, and Ajay Gupta 661
Self diffusion of Fe in CoFeB thin film
Ranjeeta Gupta, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta, and A. Wildes 663
Qualitative estimation of Si-rich a-SiN„:H thin film composition by soft X-ray reflectivityanalysis
Sarab Preet Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and P. Srivastava 665
Si-rich a-SiN,:H thin film a prospective material for EUV lithography: An opticalresponse near Si L^-edge
Sarab Preet Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and P. Srivastava 667
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M0O3 Film counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cell
M. Kovendhan, D. P. Joseph, P. Manimuthu, S. Ganesan, P. Maruthamuthu, S. Austin
Suthanthiraraj, C. Venkateswaran, and R. Mohan 669
Treatment ofscattering in nano-films
V. K. Lamba, R. S. Sawhney, and D. Engles 671
Improvement of device parameters of CuInS2/In2S3 junction deposited using automated
spray machine
M. V. Santhosh, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 673
HRXRD study of epitaxial GaN films grown on ZnO buffer layers by magnetron
sputteringP. Mohanta, D. Singh, R. Kumar, T. Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 675
Preparation and characterization of nanocrystalline soft magnetic FeATN thin films
Rachana Gupta, Ranjeeta Gupta, Mukul Gupta, and Ajay Gupta 677
Improved H2S and Cl2 sensing characteristics of pure and Au incorporated W03 thin
films
Niranjan S. Ramgir, S. K. Ganapathi, M. Kaur, S. Mishra, N. Datta, D. K. Aswal, S. K.
Gupta, and J. V. Yakhmi 679
Effect of Al doping on the properties of ZnO thin films grown by spray pyrolysisVikas Thakur, Urvashi Verma, U. P. Verma, and P. Rajaram 681
Spray pyrolysed Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell using cadmium free buffer layerV. G. Rajeshmon, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 683
Hydrogenation effect on Mg/Mn multilayer thin films
M. K. Jangid, S. P. Nehra, and M. Singh 685
Growth optimization of zinc phthalocyanine thin films for high performance thin film
transistor
Sarita Yadav and Subhasis Ghosh 687
Structural and transport studies of Co thin film on nano rippled Si (100) substrates
Sarathlal K. V, Dileep Kumar, and Ajay Gupta 689
Desorption of Ag from grain boundaries in Ag film on Br- and H-passivated Si(lll)surfaces
Anupam Roy, B. Sundaravel, R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, and B. N. Dev 691
Surface relaxation and electronic states of Pt(lll) surface with varying slab thickness
Ashok K. Kaushal, Shanta Mullick, and P. K. Ahluwalia 693
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Optical properties of subsurface silver particulate films on MPTMS doped polystyrenesubstrates
Manjunatha Pattabi, N.D. Naik, and S. C. Gurumurthy 695
X-ray absorption study of epitaxial LaNi03 thin films
Yogesh Kumar, Abhinav P. Singh, P. Thakur, and Ravi Kumar 697
Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline CdZnS thin films
Urvashi Verma, Vikas Thakur, Preeti Yadav, and A. K. Shrivastava 699
Effect of soft x-ray/VUV illumination on soft matter thin film
S. R. Naik, M. H. Modi, P. Pandit, G. S. Lodha, and A. Gupta 701
Huge anisotropic magnetoresistance in epitaxial Sm(l.5.,Sr,).47Mn03 thin films
M. K. Srivastava, A. Kaur, and H. K. Singh 703
Recrystallization, grain growth in copper foil at high temperature studied by electron
back scatter diffraction
P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, Sanjay Rai, and S. K. Deb 705
Preparation and characterization of spray pyrolysed ZnS thin films and the effect of
chlorine dopingAnjaly Jose, V. G. Rajeshmon, N. Poornima, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 707
Effect of oxygen/argon flow ratio on the optical properties of RF sputtered a-CalnZnO
thin film
Anup Thakur, Se-Jun Kang, Jae Y. Baik, Ik-Jae Lee, Han-Koo Lee, Jachun Park, and
Hyun-Joon Shin 709
Structure of photodiffused Ge-Sb-Te:Ag amorphous film
Sandeep Kumar, Digvijay Singh, and R. Thangaraj 711
Polyaniline/ZnO heterojunction
Bhupendra K. Sharma, Babu Banothu, and Neeraj Khare 713
Study of micro roughness parameters and growth characteristics of NbC/Si multilayer
using layer by layer power spectral density analysisMohammed H. Modi, G. S. Lodha, M. Thomasset, and Mourad Idir 715
Effect of annealing on undoped and Al- doped zinc-oxide thin films prepared by sol-gelmethod
Priyanka U. Londhe and N. B. Chaure 717
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Adhesion characteristics of Pd/Ge Ohmic contacts on GaAs/AlGaAs multilayerstructures
T. S. Abhilash, Ch. R. Kumar, and G. Rajaram 719
Surfactant mediated growth of T/Ni multilayersM. Gupta, S. M. Amir, A. Gupta, S. P. Tiwari, and J. Stahn 721
Resonant photoemission of Fe doped Ti02 thin films using Indus-1 synchrotron source
Komal Bapna, D. M. Phase, A. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary 723
Fabrication and electrical properties of transparent «-ZnO:Al-p-NiO:Li junctionJaydip Mistry, B. V. Mistry, U. N. Trivedi, R. Pinto, and U. S. Joshi 725
Nano pattern on n-Si (100) surface by ion irradiation
Tanuj Kumar, S. A. Khan, U. B. Singh, S. Verma, and D. Kanjilal 727
Surface morphological studies on cupric oxide thin films
T. Mahalingam, V. Dhanasekaran, G. Ravi, M. S. Vidhya, T. Sasikumar, and P. Joycee 729
Growth of zinc oxide by annealing zinc thin film on different substrates
P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, Nikita Mokhriwale, Sanjay Rai, A. K. Srivastava, and S. K. Deb 731
Anisotropic behavior of electron-phonon coupling in Fe304 thin films
Ridhi Master, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 733
Simulation of optical funneling in coaxial Y junctions in a photonic crystalG. Rajaram and Yashaswini V 735
X-ray standing wave in a multi-trilayer system with linearly varying periodSumalay Roy and B. N. Dev 737
Simulation of a coupled system consisting of a defect bend and a cavity in photoniccrystal
Yashaswini V and G. Rajaram 739
Self-organized growth of cobalt nanostructures on Ag/Si (lll)-7><7 surfaces
R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, A. Roy, and B. N. Dev 741
MOKE study of Fe/Co/Al multilayersSnehal Jani, Parasmani Rajput, M. Zajac, R. Ruffer, N. Lakshmi, V. R. Reddy, K.
Venugopalan, and Ajay Gupta 743
Interdiffusion in W/Si multilayers with boron carbide interlayersSatish Potdar, M. Gupta, A. Gupta, M. Schneider, and J. Stahn 745
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Growth and characterization of ZnO/Fe304 bilayer structure on c-A1203 substrate
D. M. Phase, Ridhi Master, A. D. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary 747
100 MeV Ag ion irradiation induced structural and optical modifications in PLD grown
tin oxide thin films
Vijay Kumar, R.S. Chauhan, D.C. Agarwal, R.J. Chaudhary, Deepti Pratap, P.K. Kulariya,and D.K. Avasthi 749
Raman, magnetic and electrical properties of sprayed Zni_xMn,0 films
L. R. Reddy, N. Revathi, P. Prathap, and K. T. R. Reddy 751
Study on Co/Pt multilayer with isothermal annealingS. Kavita and Ajay Gupta 753
Ellipsometric studies on silver selenide thin films
M. Pandiaraman, C. Kumar, N. Soundararajan, and R. Ganesan 755
Study of steady state conduction of pure and malachite green doped polyvinyl carbazole
samples
Pankaj K. Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, and P. K. Khare 757
Effect of Cr-doping on optical properties of ZnTe thin films
Dinesh C. Sharma, Garima, Subodh Srivastava, Y. K. Vijay, and Y. K. Sharma 759
Soliton scattering by an interface of gallium nanoparticles and monomode optical fiber
Preeti Naruka, Shivangi Bissa, Radha Mathur, and A. K. Nagar 761
Structural and magnetic properties of electrodeposited Co-Ni-P alloy thin films
M. Raja, K. Sundaram, V. Dhanasekaran, Soonil Lee, Han-jo Lim, and T. Mahalingam 763
Study of structural and gas sensing properties of tantalum coated polyaniline compositethin films
Subodh Srivastava, Sumit Kumar, Shweta Agrawal, S. S. Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, ArpitaSaxena, B. L. Choudhary, Shubhra Mathur, and Y. K. Vijay 765
Modulation on Ni2MnGa(001) surface
S. W. D'Souza, Abhishek Rai, J. Nayak, M. Maniraj, R. S. Dhaka, S. R. Barman, D. L.
Schlagel, and T. A. Lograsso 767
Nano-mechanical property studies of Tii_xAlxN thin films
Feby Jose, Srinivasu Kunuku, R. Ramaseshan, S. Dash, and A. K. Tyagi 769
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Investigations on the surface properties of 4-Methoxy N-Methyl 4-stilbazolium tosylate
single crystalAmirdha S. Gill and S. Kalainathan 771
Flat band barrier height of In-pSi Schottky diode
B. P. Modi and K. D. Patel 773
Influence of pH on corrosion protection performance of mild steel by poly(o-anisidine)
coatingsM. G. Wankhede and Rajni Bahuguna
775
Optical properties change in Te/As2S3 bilayer thin films
Ramakanta Naik, C. Kumar, H. Reddy, R. Ganesan, and K. S. Sangunni 777
Two-dimensional plasmon in a metallic surface-state band on Si(lll)-(V3xV3)-Ag:
Confinement effects
Nisha Bhukal and R. K. Moudgil779
Current density effects on the structural and magnetic properties of CoNiFe alloy thin
films
K. Sundaram, V. Dhanasekaran, T. Mahalingam, M. Raja, Takeyu Kim, and Deak Kim 781
Investigation of the influence of buffer layer on the interface roughness of NbC/Si
multilayer.
Arijeet Das, S. K. Rai, A. K. Srivastava, R. Dhawan, G. S. Lodha, and S. K. Deb 783
Refractive index of Ge nanocrystals embedded in a GeOx matrix
K. Vijayarangamuthu, Chaman Singh, and Shyama Rath 785
Structural and electrical studies of Cdi.jZnxTe thin film by vacuum evaporation
techniqueD. K. Dwivedi, Dayashankar, M. Dubey, and H. P. Pathak 787
Fe/Au multilayers: Structure and magnetoresistanceSurendra Singh, S. Basu, C. L. Prajapat, M. Gupta, and Debarati Bhattacharya 789
Frictional measurements of glow discharge grown DLC films using LFM
Pratima Singh, Gayatri Tripathi, and R. S. Yadav 791
Microstructural studies of epitaxial ZnO films deposited on sapphire by reactive RF
magnetron sputteringD. Singh, R. Kumar, T. Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 793
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