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Proceedings of the 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2013

Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India

17–21 December 2013

Editors Volume 1591 A

Chitra Murli
D. Bhattacharyya
S. C. Gadkari

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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Chitra Murli

High Pressure & Synchrotron Radiation Physics Division
Purnima Labs
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai, India
E-mail: [email protected]

D. Bhattacharyya

Atomic & Molecular Physics Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai, India
E-mail: [email protected]

S. C. Gadkari

Crystal Technology Section, Technical Physics Division
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Mumbai, India
E-mail: [email protected]

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Table of Contents 18
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Preface: DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 27
Chitra Murli, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, and S. C. Gadkari 33

Committees 36

PART A
INVITED TALKS

Indus-2 X-ray lithography beamline for X-ray optics and material science applications
V. P. Dhamgaye and G. S. Lodha

Synchrotron based X-ray fluorescence activities at Indus-2: An overview
M. K. Tiwari

Doped YVO4 single crystals: Growth issues in the OFZ technique and investigation
of spectroscopic properties

Indranil Bhaumik, S. Ganesamoorthy, R. Bhatt, A. Saxena, M. Soharab, A. K. Karnal,
and P. K. Gupta

Atomically resolved force microscopy at room temperature
Seizo Morita

Beyond modulation doping: Engineering a semiconductor to be ambipolar, or making
an ON-OFF-ON transistor

K. Das Gupta, A. F. Croxall, B. Zheng, F. Sfigakis, I. Farrer, C. A. Nicoll, H. E. Beere,
and D. A. Ritchie

Lipid-induced structural turnover of water droplets to liquid crystal droplets
Sumyra Sidiq and Santanu Kumar Pal

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
A. Phase Transitions

FPLAPW approach to high pressure mechanical and thermal behavior of HfN
Dinesh C. Gupta, Mamta Chauhan, and Idris Hamid Bhat

iii

Pressure induced local disorder to order phase transition in TaO2F 38
K. Kamali and T. R. Ravindran 40
42
Structural and dielectric properties of Nd/Ca co-doped bi-ferrite multiferroics 44
Ashwini Kumar, Poorva Sharma, and Dinesh Varshney 46
48
Structural and in-field dielectric studies across the antiferroelectric transition in Srí;CaXTiO3 50
Shivani Sharma, Aga Shahee, and N. P. Lalla
53
Structural and optical properties of Nd3+ doped gadolinium oxide 1D nanorods
G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan 55
58
Effect of samarium doping on the dielectric behavior of barium zircomium titanate ceramic 60
T. Badapanda, S. Sarangi, B. Behera, S. Anwar, and T. P. Sinha 62

Effect of Ti doping on high pressure behavior of BiMn2O5 64
K. K. Pandey, H. K. Poswal, Ravi Kumar, and Surinder M. Sharma

High pressure phase transformation in yttrium sulfide(YS): A first principle study
B. D. Sahoo, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta

Pressure induced structural and magnetic phase transition in magnesium nitrides
MgNx (x = 1, 2, 3): A first principles study

R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, G. Sudhapriyanga, A. Jemmy Cinthia, M. Santhosh, and A. Murugan

Phase evolution studies in CaZrTi2O7íRE2Ti2O7 5(ௗ ௗ1G3+, Sm3+) system: Futuristic ceramic
host matrices for nuclear waste immobilization

M. Jafar, S. N. Achary, and A. K. Tyagi

Role of excess Mn for martensitic transformation in Ni2Mn1+xSní[: Ab initio approach
Soumyadipta Pal, Priya Mahadevan, and C. Biswas

Pressure induced tetragonal to monoclinic transition in RbN3 studied from first principles theory
G. Vaitheeswaran and K. Ramesh Babu

URe2-A compressibility study of allotropic phases
B. Shukla, N. V. Chandra Shekar, and P. Ch. Sahu

Detection of a new 'nematic-like' phase in liquid crystal-amphiphile mixture by differential
scanning calorimetry

Kaustabh Dan, Madhusudan Roy, and Alokmay Datta

iv

Investigation of structural stability and elastic properties of Zrh and Zrh2: A first principles 67
study 70
73
S. Kanagaprabha, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, G. Sudhapriyanga, A. Murugan, M. Santhosh, 76
and K. Iyakutti 79

Dielectric studies of BaTi0.96Co0.04O3 prepared via solid state route 81
Ashutosh Mishra, Niyati Mishra, Kanaka Mahalakshmi Jarabana, and Supriya Bisen 84
86
Tuning of exchange bias in Mn50Ni39+xSní[ (x=0 and 2) full Heusler alloys 88
Jyoti Sharma and K. G. Suresh 90
92
Dielectric behavior of barium modified strontium bismuth titanate ceramic 94
P. Nayak, T. Badapanda, S. Anwar, and S. Panigrahi 96
99
Synthesis and structural studiHVRQí[%L0J1/2Ti1/2)O3íxPbTiO3 piezoceramics
Ashutosh Upadhyay, Rishikesh Pandey, Shashwat Anand, and Akhilesh K. Singh

Magnetic and structural properties of Zn doped MnV2O4
Prashant Shahi, K. K. Shukla, Rahul Singh, A. Das, A. K. Ghosh, A. K. Nigam,
and Sandip Chatterjee

Shock Hugoniot phase transition of SiC
A. Y. Vahora, Prakruti Chaudhari, R. H. Joshi, N. K. Bhatt, and B. Y. Thakore

Effect of dimensionality on vapor-liquid phase transition
Sudhir Kumar Singh

High pressure and high temperature behaviour of ZnO
Nilesh A. Thakar, Apoorva D. Bhatt, and Tushar C. Pandya

Dielectric spectroscopy of Dy2O3 doped (K0.5Na0.5)NbO3 piezoelectric ceramics
P. Mahesh, T. Subhash, and D. Pamu

Structural behaviour of YGa under high pressure
M. Sekar, N. V. Chandra Shekar, P. Ch. Sahu, and R. Babu

Phase formation in BZT (10/90) ceramic
Punita Batra and Sangeeta Singh

Synthesis, electrical and thermal properties of Bi4Ví[YxO11 (x=0.0 and 0.10) ceramics
S. Sahu and M. Roy

(QXPHUDWLRQDQGVWDELOLW\DQDO\VLVRIVLPSOHSHULRGLFRUELWVLQȕ-Fermi Pasta Ulam lattice
Rupali L. Sonone and Sudhir R. Jain

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Emergence of supersolid order in a disordered Bose gas with harmonic trapping 102
Apurba Barman and Saurabh Basu 104

Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating double-well potential: Hidden vortices and Feynman rule 107
T. Mithun, K. Porsezian, and Bishwajyoti Dey
110
Structural and magnetic transformation in electrochemically synthesized FePt thin films 113
on Si/Pt electrodes
115
Rekha Gupta, Rajan Goyal, Rohit Medwal, and S. Annapoorni
117
Structural and dielectric properties of erbium doped BiFeO3íPbTiO3 solid solutions 119
Vandana, Anupinder Singh, Lakhwant Singh, Anumeet Kaur, Sajjan Dahyia, 122
and Ratnamala Chatterjee 125
128
Charge density wave in Er2Ir3Si5 single crystal 131
P. C. Lalngilneia, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Pal 133

Inflection points of microcanonical entropy: Monte Carlo simulation of q state Potts model
on a finite square lattice

E. Praveen and S. V. M. Satyanarayana

Structural phase transition and elastic properties of hafnium dihydride: A first principles study
M. Santhosh, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, S. Kanagaprabha, G. Sudhapriyanga, A. Murugan,
A. Jemmy Chinthia, and K. Iyakutti

,QIOXHQFHRI0RLQȕSKDVHVWDELOLW\RI7L- Mo system: Synchrotron based XRD studies
M. Sabeena, S. Murugesan, R. Mythili, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, M. Vijayalakshmi, and S. K. Deb

Phase transition of La- chalcogenides under high pressure
Dinesh Chandra Gupta and Gajendra Singh Raypuria

High pressure Raman spectroscopic study of H3Co(CN)6
K. K. Mishra, Nilesh Salke, S. N. Achary, A. K Tyagi, and Rekha Rao

Effect of annealing temperature on titania nanoparticles
K. Manikandan, S. Arumugam, and G. Chandrasekaran

Magnetic measurements on Įí&62U4O12
Buddhadev Kanrar, N. L. Misra, P. U. Sastry, V. Dube, and G. Ravikumar

Enhanced dielectric constant and relaxor behavior realized by dual stage sintering
of Sr0.5Ba0.5Nb2O6

Satyapal S. Rathore and Satish Vitta

vi

+\GURJHQERQGVLQĮ-oxalic acid dihydrate-A Raman spectroscopic study 136
A. K. Mishra, Chitra Murli, H. Bhatt, and Surinder M. Sharma 139
142
Bose-Hubbard model with attractive interactions and inhomogeneous lattice potential 145
Mukesh Khanore and Bishwajyoti Dey 148

The effect of temperature on ferroelectric properties of CaCu3Ti4O12 ceramic 151
Sandeep Kumar, Neetu Ahlawat, and Suman Punia 153

Underdamped strain dynamics of a martensitic model with power-law interactions 156
N. Shankaraiah, Sanjay Puri, and S. R. Shenoy 158

Static critical phenomena in Co-Ni-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloy 161
Brahmananda Sethi, S. Sarma, A. Srinivasan, and S. B. Santra 164
167
Ab initio study of pressure induced structural and electronic properties in uranium 170
monobismuthide

Jagdish Pataiya, Mahendra Aynyas, C. Makode, A. Singh, and Sankar P. Sanyal

Comparative dielectric investigation on two newly synthesized H-shaped mesogenic dimers
Sudhaker Dixit, Rajiv Manohar, A. K. Prajapati, and Mahesh Varia

Structural behaviour of niobium oxynitride under high pressure
Bharat Bhooshan Sharma, H. K. Poswal, K. K. Pandey, Surinder M. Sharma, J. V. Yakhmi,
Y. Ohashi, and S. Kikkawa

High pressure Raman spectroscopic studies of (píchloroanilinium)2CuCl4
Pallavi Ghalsasi, Nandini Garg, Prasanna Ghalsasi, Hemant Mande, and S. M. Sharma

B. Soft Condensed Matter Including Biological Systems

Tuning structure of oppositely charged nanoparticle and protein complexes
Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and P. Callow

Structure and dynamics of aqueous solution of uranyl ions
Manish Chopra and Niharendu Choudhury

Observation of two different fractal structures in nanoparticle, protein and surfactant complexes
Sumit Mehan, Sugam Kumar, and V. K. Aswal

Radial distribution studies on water soluble polymers using XRD line profile data
G. Thejas Urs, M. B. Nanda Prakash, H. T. Ananda, and R. Somashekar

vii

An unusual behavior on the electrical properties of various salts of chitosan 172
C. Raja Mohan, R. Manikandan, and K. Jayakumar 175
178
Tuning of depletion interaction in nanoparticle-surfactant systems 180
D. Ray and V. K. Aswal
183
Fabrication, characterization and gas sensing studies of PPy/MWCNT/SLS nanocomposite 186
D. C. Tiwari, Priyanka Atri, and R. Sharma
189
Orientational order parameter measurements of discotic liquid crystal 192
Supreet Kaur, K. K. Raina, S. Kumar, and R. Pratibha 194

Optical and electrical properties of cobalt chloride doped polyvinylalcohol polyvinylpyrrolidone 197
blend 200

R. V. Patil, M. R. Ranganath, and Blaise Lobo 202
205
SANS study of understanding mechanism of cold gelation of globular proteins
A. J. Chinchalikar, Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. G. Wagh

Bio-compatibility, surface & chemical characterization of glow discharge plasma modified ZnO
nanocomposite polycarbonate

Bhawna Bagra, Prashant Pimpliskar, and Narendra Kumar Agrawal

Correlation between microhardness and surface properties of Rhodamine B doped PVA films
J. Tripathi, S. Tripathi, A. Sharma, T. Shripathi, J. M. Keller, and K. Das

FTIR and XRD study of PMMA/PCTFE blend films
S. Tripathi, J. Tripathi, A. Agrawal, A. Sharma, and T. Shripathi

Photoluminescence analysis of self induced planer alignment in azo dye dispersed nematic liquid
crystal complex

Rishi Kumar, Srishti Sood, and K. K. Raina

Electrically tuned photoluminescence in large pitch cholesteric liquid crystal
Manju Middha, Rishi Kumar, and K. K. Raina

Ionic conductivity studies in crystalline PVA/NaAlg polymer blend electrolyte doped
with alkali salt KCl

T. Sheela, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, Sunil G. Rathod, and Jagadish Naik

Esterase activity of BSA-ZnO nanoparticle complex
A. Bhogale, A. Nair, N . Patel, A. Miotello, and D. C. Kothari

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Study of x CNFO + (1-x) PLZT magnetoelectric composites 207
Dipti, Sangeeta Singh, J. K. Juneja, R. P. Pant, K. K. Raina, and Chandra Prakash 210
213
How attractive interaction changes water-like anomalies of a core-softened model potential 216
Shashank Pant, Tarun Gera, and Niharendu Choudhury 219
222
A comparative study of conventionally sintered and microwave sintered nickel zinc ferrite 225
Rekha Rani, J. K. Juneja, K. K. Raina, R. K. Kotnala, and Chandra Prakash 228
230
SANS study of interaction of silica nanoparticles with BSA protein and their resultant structure
Indresh Yadav, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrecher 233
236
Microstructural, thermal and antibacterial properties of electron beam irradiated Bombyx mori 238
silk fibroin films 241

S. Asha, Sangappa, Prashantha Naik, K. Sharat Chandra, and Ganesh Sanjeev

Diffusion studies on permeable nitroxyl spin probe through lipid bilayer membrane
A. Milton Franklin Benial, V. Meenakumari, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Ken-ichi Yamada,
Fuminori Hyodo, A. Jawahar, and Hideo Utsumi

Ab-initio study of napthelene based conducting polymer
Ankur Ruhela, Reena Kanchan, Anurag Srivastava, and O. P. Sinha

Lattice Boltzmann study of kinetic equation derived from BBGKY hierarchy
and non-equilibrium work distributions

S. Siva Nasarayya Chari and K. P. N. Murthy

Spectroscopic studies of glycinium oxalate under pressure
Himal Bhatt, C. Murli, N. Garg, A. K. Mishra, M. N. Deo, and Surinder M. Sharma

C. Nano-materials

Size effect on the electronic and optical band gap of CdSe QD
Namita Sisodia

Conducting intrinsic nanocrystalline silicon films with high growth rate prepared
at 27.12 MHz frequency

Praloy Mondal and Debajyoti Das

Structural, magnetic and magnetoelectric properties of In-Co codoped BiFeO3 nanoparticles
G. S. Arya, Mast ram, Hakikat Sharma, Khem Raj Sharma, R. K. Kotnala, and N. S. Negi

Chemical synthesis, characterizations and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline Fe50Co50 alloy
Shankar B. Dalavi, M. Manivel Raja, and Rabi Narayan Panda

ix

Effect of pressure on narrow band Coí[FexS2 nanoparticles-Mössbauer spectroscopic study 244
Usha Chandra, Pooja Sharma, and T. C. Badiwal
246
Novel synthesis of highly porous spinel cobaltite (NiCo2O4) electrode material 249
for supercapacitor applications 251
254
A. Nirmalesh Naveen and S. Selladurai
256
Study of sub band gap absorption of Sn doped CdSe thin films
Jagdish Kaur, Mamta Rani, and S. K. Tripathi 259
262
Electrical studies on perovskite BaSnO3 nanostructures 265
N. Rajamanickam, S. Rajashabala, R. Ramesh Babu, Nandakishor Meshram, and K. Ramachandran 267
270
High capacitance in BiFeO3 nanorod structure 273
Subhasis Rana, Nabanita Dutta, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Pintu Sen, and A. K. Himanshu 276

Determination of trap depth in nc-CdSe:Cu thin films using thermally stimulated current
measurements

S. K. Tripathi, Alaa. S. Al-Kabbi, Kriti Sharma, R. Ridhi, and G. S. S. Saini

Variation in band gap of lanthanum chromate by transition metals doping LaCr0.9A0.1O3
(A:Fe/Co/Ni)

Swaleha Naseem, Wasi Khan, A. A. Saad, M. Shoeb, Hilal Ahmed, Shahid Husain,
and A. H. Naqvi

Structural and optical studies of CuO nanostructures
Prakash Chand, Anurag Gaur, and Ashavani Kumar

Effect of gamma irradiation on electrical properties of Cu nanowires
Pallavi Rana, Devender Gehlawat, and R. P. Chauhan

6WUXFWXUDODQGRSWLFDOSURSHUWLHVRIĮí0Q22 QDQRZLUHVDQGȕí0Q22 nanorods
N. Rajamanickam, P. Ganesan, S. Rajashabala, and K. Ramachandran

Role of sonic energy on growth morphology and optical properties of ZnO:S nanostructures
Nihar Ranjan Panda, Bhabani Shankar Acharya, and Pratibindhya Nayak

Structural and optical properties of MgO doped ZnO
Kavita Verma, S. Shukla, M. Varshney, A. Asthana, and Dinesh Varshney

Microstructural and optical studies on sonochemically synthesized Cu doped ZnO nanoparticles
Dojalisa Sahu, Nihar Ranjan Panda, B. S. Acharya, and A. K. Panda

x

CdO-CdS nano-composites as improved photo-catalysts for the generation of hydrogen 279
from water 282
285
Shital V. Kahane, R. Sasikala, V. Sudarsan, and Shailaja Mahamuni 288
291
Structural and viscous properties of bidispersed magnetic colloids 294
Hiral Virpura, Mayur Parmar, Vishaka Dave, and Rajesh Patel
296
Possibility of hydrogen storage in SWCNT/TiO2/SnO2 hybrid system - An ab-initio study 299
R. Lavanya, V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, V. Vasu, and Y. Kawazoe 301

Silver decorated multiwalled carbon nanotubes and their characterization 303
Swati Gahlot, Vaibhav Kulshrestha, and V. K. Shahi 306

Liquid phase synthesis of copper indium diselenide nanoparticles 309
Priyanka Jakhmola, Garima Agarwal, Prafulla K. Jha, and S. P. Bhatnagar
312
Quantitative phase analysis of Mg:ZrO2 nanoparticles by Rietveld refinement method
V. Balaji, S. Senthilkumaran, and P. Thangadurai

Effect of gamma irradiation on dielectric properties of manganese zinc nanoferrites
V. Jagadeesha Angadi, B. Rudraswamy, E. Melagiriyappa, H. M. Somashekarappa,
and H. Nagabhushana

Flexible and optically transparent silver nano-islands film
Pratibha Goel, Samir Kumar, and J. P. Singh

Energy controlled edge formation for graphene nano ribbons
Deepika, T. J. Dhilip Kumar, and Rakesh Kumar

Effect of ZnO seed layer on the morphology and optical properties of ZnO nanorods
grown on GaN buffer layers

R. Nandi, S. Mohan, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major

Structural, optical and ethanol sensing properties of Cu-doped SnO2 nanowires
Anima Johari, Anoopshi Johari, M. C. Bhatnagar, and Manish Sharma

Morphological and photoluminescence study of chemically synthesized Al2O3 polythiophene
composite

Akhilesh Tripathi, Indra Bahadur, and R. K. Shukla

Substituted zinc phthalocyanine based nanowires for room temperature ppb level Cl2 sensing
application

Rajan Saini, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, A. K. Debnath, and D. K. Aswal

xi

Synthesis, morphology and optical properties of LaFeO3 nanospheres 315
R. Dhinesh Kumar and R. Jayavel 318

Conventional and anomalous quantum Rabi oscillations in graphene 320
Enamullah Khan, Vipin Kumar, Upendra Kumar, and Girish S. Setlur 323
325
Decrease of metal to semiconducting phase transition temperature with increase of particle size 327
in nickel ferrite 330
333
Vanidha Dessingou, Arunkumar Arumugam, and Kannan Radhakrishnan 336
339
Effect of elasticity of wall on diffusion in nano channel
K. Tankeshwar and Sunita Srivastava 342
345
Annealing effects on microstrain of cobalt oxide nanoparticles
Anjali Jain Deotale, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, Anuj Upadhyay, and R. V. Nandedkar 348

Structural and optical properties of Sb2S3 nanocrystals in glass
Rakesh K. Mishra, Raman Kashyap, A. G. Vedeshwar, and R. P. Tandon

Aligning carbon nano fibers using magnetic nanofluids
Mayur A. Parmar, Hiral A. Virpura, Vishaka Dave, and Rajesh J. Patel

Ceramic-polymer nanocomposites with increased dielectric permittivity and low dielectric loss
Sumit Bhardwaj, Joginder Paul, K. K. Raina, N. S. Thakur, and Ravi Kumar

Transport properties of nanocomposite and its simulation with L-R-C circuit
Arnab Gangopadhyay, Aditi Sarkar, and A. Sarkar

Adsorption of silver dimer on graphene - A DFT study
Gagandeep Kaur, Shuchi Gupta, Pooja Rani, and Keya Dharamvir

Photo-enhanced field emission characteristics of SnS2 nanosheets
Sachin R. Suryawanshi, Sambhaji S. Warule, Nilima S. Chaudhari, Satishchandra B. Ogale,
and Mahendra A. More

Spin coating of Ag nanoparticles: Effect of reduction
A. A. Ansari and S. D. Sartale

Influence of samarium doping on electronic and magneto-transport properties
of Laí[SmxSr0.1MnO3 ”[”QDQRSDUWLFOHV

Proloy T. Das, Kajal Gupta, Paresh Chandra Jana, and Tapan Kumar Nath

xii

Daylight photocatalytic activity of TiO2/SnO2 core/shell nanostructures: An experimental 351
and density functional study
353
Pawan Chetri, Priyanka Basyach, and Amarjyoti Choudhury 356
358
One step, microwave assisted green synthesis of biocompatible carbon quantum dots 361
DQGWKHLUFRPSRVLWHVZLWK>Įí3:12O40í] for visible light photocatalysis 364
366
Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Shashank Pant, Manjunath Chatti, Binoy Maiti, Priyadarsi De, 369
and Soumyajit Roy 372
374
Effect of Al2O3 RQFU\VWDOOLQLW\DQGFRQGXFWLYLW\RI39$í3(2í(&í/L&)3SO3 blend electrolyte 377
system 379

Prajakta N. Joge, D. K. Kanchan, and Poonam L. Sharma

Effect of geometry on the screened acceptor binding energy in a quantum wire
R. Vijaya Shanthi and P. Nithiananthi

Influence of La substitution on ferromagnetic properties of lead free Na0.5Bi0.5Ti0.988Fe0.012O3
multiferroic system

Kusum Parmar, Anshu Sharma, R. K. Kotnala, and N. S. Negi

Activation and adsorption of CO2 on copper surfaces and clusters
Seema Gautam, Neetu Goel, and Keya Dharmvir

Reduced graphene oxide based silver sulfide hybrid films formed at a liquid/liquid interface
K. Bramhaiah and Neena S. John

Thermoluminescence of nanocrystalline CaSO4: Dy for gamma dosimetry and calculation
of trapping parameters using deconvolution method

Nandkumar Mandlik, B. J. Patil, V. N. Bhoraskar, P. D. Sahare, and S. D. Dhole

Rapid and eco-friendly synthesis of copper nanoparticles
Y. Suresh, S. Annapurna, G. Bhikshamaiah, and A. K. Singh

Thermal expansion of multiwall carbon nanotube reinforced nanocrystalline silver matrix
composite

Manjula Sharma, Hemant Pal, and Vimal Sharma

Photocatalytic degradation of diethyl phthalate using TiO2 nanoparticles
Pooja Singla, O. P. Pandey, and K. Singh

Development and characterization of chitosan/silica nanocomposite membranes
Amit Kumar, Swati Gahlot, Vaibhav Kulshrestha, and V. K. Shahi

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Structural and surface morphological study of Ni doped ZnS nanoparticles 381
H. A. Khawal and B. N. Dole 384
387
Characterization and optical properties of polyaniline-MWCNT-ZnS nanocomposites 390
M. Goswami, R. Ghosh, and A. K. Meikap 393
396
Synthesis and characterization of Bií[LaxPO4 nano-rods 399
Sarabjot Singh, Sheeba Khan, D. K. Patel, and V. Sudarsan 402
405
Ferromagnetic superexchange interaction and spin glass behaviour in Sm2CoMnO6 407
nanoparticles 409
411
R. P. Maiti, M. K. Mitra, and Dipankar Chakravorty

Study of dielectric relaxation process in nanocomposite of Li2O-SiO2 nanoglass-CuO
nanoparticles

Dhriti Ranjan Saha and Dipankar Chakravorty

Modified properties of Fe3O4 nanoparticles on incorporation of optically active ZnSe
A. Roychowdhury, A. Das, S. P. Pati, S. Kumar, and D. Das

Structural, magnetic and Mössbauer studies of (BiFeO3)0.7-(SrFe12O19)0.3 nanocomposite
prepared by a sol-gel route

A. Das, A. Roychowdhury, S. P. Pati, S. Bandyopadhyay, and D. Das

Temperature dependent DC electrical conductivity studies of ZnO nanoparticle thick films
prepared by simple solution combustion method

C. S. Naveen, H. S. Jayanna, Ashok R. Lamani, and M. P. Rajeeva

Indium doped zinc oxide nanowire thin films for antireflection and solar absorber coating
applications

Ummar Pasha Shaik and M. Ghanashyam Krishna

Wet chemically grown composite thin film for room temperature LPG sensor
Ravikiran Birajadar, Dipalee Desale, Shaheed Shaikh, Sandip Mahajan, Deepak Upadhye,
Anil Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma

Synthesis and Raman spectrum of crystalline indium oxide micro-rods with rectangular
cross-section

Kavita Yadav, B. R. Mehta, and J. P. Singh

Optical nonlinear absorption characteristics of Sb2Se3 nanoparticles
Molli Muralikrishna, Aditha Sai Kiran, B. Ravikanth, P. Sowmendran, V. Sai Muthukumar,
and Kamisetti Venkataramaniah

xiv

Synthesis of CdS/CdSe core/shell ultra small nanostructures using new microwave assisted 414
ultrasonic sol gel route 417
420
Y. C. Goswami, Vijay Kumar, Ranjana Sharma, and Rajeev Singh 423
426
A study of various geometries of gold nanowires and effect of doping 429
Priyanka, Sumali Bansal, Rajiv Bhandari, and Keya Dharamvir 432
434
Fluorescence relaxation dynamics of CdSe and CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots 437
Gurvir Kaur, Harmandeep Kaur, and S. K. Tripathi 440
442
0DJQHWLFSURSHUWLHVRIĮí0Q22 and Co-GRSHGĮí0Q22 nanowires 445
C. Stella, N. Soundararajan, and K. Ramachandran
448
Structural investigations of Ga2O3 nanorods 450
R. M. Pandey, B. S. Naidu, V. Sudarsan, M. Pandey, R. J. Kshirasagar, and R. K. Vatsa

Surface-engineered core-shell nano-size ferrites and their antimicrobial activity
Jagdish D. Baraliya and Hiren H. Joshi

Size induced structural modifications in Y2Sn2O7
M. Pandey, S. Nigam, V. Sudarsan, R. J. Kshirsagar, and R. K. Vatsa

IR photodetector based on rectangular quantum wire in magnetic field
Nandan Jha

Controlled growth of nanocrystalline silicon within amorphous silicon carbide thin films
Arindam Kole and Partha Chaudhuri

Critical roles of cappants on the electrical resistivity of Ni nanoparticles
J. Singh, N. Kaurav, V. Ganesan, and Gunadhor S. Okram

Analysis of surface potential and photocatalytic activity of Au-graphene oxide nanocomposites
Arun Singh Patel, Mukesh Mishra, and T. Mohanty

Modulated magnetoelectric property of BiFeO3 incorporated in Co0.50Fe0.50Fe2O4
A. S. Mahapatra, K. Mukhopadhyay, K. Mukhuti, and P. K. Chakrabarti

Optical and morphological properties of graphene sheets decorated with ZnO nanowires
via polyol enhancement

Vinay Sharma, Rajveer Singh Rajaura, Preetam K. Sharma, Subodh Srivastava, S. S. Sharma,
and Y. K. Vijay

Adsorption configurations of two nitrogen atoms on graphene
Babita Rani, V. K. Jindal, and Keya Dharamvir

xv

Zinc oxide nanoflower prepared by wet colloid chemical method 453
S. Mahato, S. Das, and A. K. Kar
456
Influence of Al doping on optical properties of CdS/PVA nanocomposites: Theory 459
and experiment
462
Vaneeta Bala, S. K. Tripathi, and Ranjan Kumar 465
468
CTAB capped silver nanoparticles for plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cell 470
Tanvi, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and Subodh Kumar 472
474
Ion dynamics in nanocrystalline LiMnPO4 synthesised by novel template free hydrothermal 477
approach
481
Lakshmi Vijayan, Rajesh Cheruku, and G. Govindaraj 484
487
Photoluminescence and energy transfer study on Gd2O3:Eu3+, Al3+
T. Selvalakshmi, S. Anbumani, and A. Chandra Bose

Platinum atomic wire encapsulated in gold nanotubes: A first principle study
Sandeep Nigam, Suman K. Sahoo, Pranab Sarkar, and Chiranjib Majumder

Impedance due to grains in nano-crystalline Mn-Zn ferrite
G. Thirupathi and R. Singh

Synthesis and characterization of bifunctional hybrid nanocomposite YPO4:5Eu@Fe3O4
Amresh I Prasad, L. Robindro Singh, A. K. Parchur, and R. S. Ninghthoujam

Growth and characterization of ZnSe nanoparticles
Shail Sharma, Mukhtar Ah. Malik, Tarun Chandel, Vikas Thakur, and P. Rajaram

Structural, optical and ethanol gas sensing properties of In2O3 and Dy3+:In2O3 nanoparticles
Kanica Anand, R. Thangaraj, Nipin Kohli, and Ravi Chand Singh

An innovative approach for efficient and reusable FDWDOL]DWLRQIRUV\QWKHVLVRIĮȕ-unsaturated
compounds using polymer - NPs composites as catalyst

Prashant Pimpliskar, Bhawna Bagra, Gautam Aashish Kumar, Saurabh Khandelwal,
and Narendra Kumar Agrawal

Vapour phase transport growth and characterization of ZnO nanowires
B. V. Shrisha, Shashidhar Bhat, and K. Gopalakrishna Naik

Electronic and transport properties edge functionalized graphene nanoribbons-An ab initio
approach

Satyendra Singh Chauhan, Pankaj Srivastava, and A. K. Shrivastva

xvi

Intrinsic high magnetism in SnO2 quantum dots 490
Bonu Venkataramana, A. Das, Manas Sardar, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi 493
496
Micro structural studies of PVA doped with metal oxide nanocomposites films 499
N. B. Rithin Kumar, Vincent Crasta, B. M. Praveen, B. Shreeprakash, and F. Viju 502
505
Rapid phase synthesis of nanocrystalline cobalt ferrite
T. Shanmugavel, S. Gokul Raj, G. Rajarajan, and G. Ramesh Kumar 508

Structural and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of Fe-Ni alloy nanoparticles 511
Asheesh Kumar, S. S. Meena, S. Banerjee, and V. Sudarsan 514
516
Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Ca3B2O6:Tb3+ nanophosphors 519
Mohit Manhas, Vinay Kumar, O. M. Ntwaeaborwa, and H. C. Swart
521
Synthesis and thermal analysis of bisphenol a polycarbonate- ZnO nanocomposites 524
Harshita Agrawal, Shalini Agrawal, Kamlendra Awasthi, and Vibhav K. Saraswat

Solid state synthesis of copper tungstate nanoparticles and its electrochemical detection
of 4-chlorophenol

S. Muthamizh, R. Suresh, K. Giribabu, R. Manigandan, S. Praveen Kumar, S. Munusamy,
L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan

Effect of oxidizer on grain size and low temperature DC electrical conductivity
of tin oxide nanomaterial synthesized by gel combustion method

M. P. Rajeeva, H. S. Jayanna, V. Prasad bothla, R. L. Ashok, and C. S. Naveen

Synthesis of CdS nanoparticles for photocatalytic application of methyleneblue degradation
V. Muthuraj, M. Umadevi, K. Sankarasubramanian, and M. S. Kajamuhideen

Temperature dependent capacitance-voltage measurement of Al/Al2O3/PVA:n-CdSe MIS diode
Mamta Sharma and S. K. Tripathi

Thermal stability of bimetallic Au/Fe nanoparticles in silica matrix
Compesh Pannu, Udai B. Singh, Sonu Hooda, D. Kabiraj, and D. K. Avasthi

Size dependent structural, vibrational and magnetic properties of BiFeO3
and core-shell structured BiFeO3@SiO2 nanoparticles

Sunil Chauhan, Manoj Kumar, Sandeep Chhoker, and S. C. Katyal

Synthesis and photoluminescence study of Er-doped SnO2
Sandeep Nigam, Amresh I. Prasad, V. Sudarsan, and R. K. Vatsa

xvii

Mixed magnetic phases in Co3O4 nanoparticles synthesized by co-precipitation method 526
Stuti Rani, Yogesh Sharma, and G. D. Varma 529
531
Hydrothermal synthesis and magnetic properties of ErCrO4 nanoparticles 534
Y. Sundarayya, K. Ashwini Kumar, Rajesh Sondge, S. Srinath, and S. N. Kaul
537
Structural, electronic and optical properties of armchair silicon nanotube of chirality (6,6) 540
Surjeet Kumar Chandel, Arun Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, and Raman Sharma 543

Assessing the purity of CNT from its composite with polymer - A new approach 546
J. C. Maurya, Soumen Karmakar, Sukratu Barve, S. V. Bhoraskar, A. K. Das, and V. L. Mathe 549
552
Influence of Ni substitution on structural and magnetic properties of Zní[NixMg0.05Cu0.1Fe2O4 555
ferrite 558
561
A. S. Batra, M. Satalkar, S. N. Kane, A. Ghosh, and N. Ghodke
563
Extrinsic mechanism for giant dielectric response in Ba0.70Sr0.30(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 ceramic
Piyush Kumar Patel, K. L. Yadav, and Durgesh

Study of seed aging in seed-mediated synthesis of IR responsive gold nanorods
Parveer Kaur and Bhupendra Chudasama

Tuning diamagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in Mn doped CdS nanocrystals by crystal structure
engineering

Anirudha Ghosh, Sanhita Paul, and Satyabrata Raj

Bromide ion induced formation of PVP-capped anisotropic gold nanoplates/nanotriangles
Manoj Verma, Abhitosh Kedia, and P. Senthil Kumar

High temperature ferromagnetism in Ni doped ZnO nanoparticles: Milling time dependence
Bappaditya Pal, P. K. Giri, and D. Sarkar

Nano particle porous alumina based thin film parallel plate capacitive humidity sensor
Shailesh Kumar

Synthesis and photoluminescence study of Dy3+ doped Sr3B2O6: Nanophosphors
Neharika, Vinay Kumar, O. M. Ntwaeaborwa, and H. C. Swart

Folate-conjugated luminescent Fe3O4 nanoparticles for magnetic hyperthermia
K. C. Barick, Suman Rana, and P. A. Hassan

Template confined synthesis of amorphous carbon nanotubes and its confocal
Raman microscopy

Supratim Maity, Tuhin Roychowdhury, and Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay

xviii

Synthesis and characterization of ferroelectric bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3O12) 565
Pallavi Gupta, Balram, and Dwijendra P. Singh 568
571
Effect of surfactant assisted dispersed graphene on sensitivity of MWCNT-alcohol sensor 574
Anita Kumari, Neetu Prasad, Amandeep Kaur, Shiv Kumar Dixit, P. K. Bhatnagar, 577
and P. C. Mathur 580
583
Influence of sodium substitution on structural and optical properties of Zn0.96Mn0.04O 586
nanocrystals 589
592
B. L. Prashant, S. N. Dolia, Sudhish Kumar, Anjali Krishnamurthy, and Bipin K. Srivatava 595
597
Synthesis and characterizations of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide nanosheets
M. Venkanna and Amit K. Chakraborty

Surfactant free hydrothermal synthesis of SnO2 nanorods with their microstructure
and Raman studies

A. Amutha, B. K. Panigrahi, S. Amirthapanian, and P. Thangadurai

Ab initio study of nitrogen-multisubstituted neutral and positively charged C20 fullerene
Anita Rani and Ranjan Kumar

First principles DFT study of dye-sensitized CdS quantum dots
Kalpna Jain, Shyam Kishor, Kh. S. Singh, Ida Josefesson, Michael Odelius,
and Lavanya M. Ramaniah

Crystallographic, luminescence and photoconductive characteristics of chemically tailored
ZnO nanorods

Sayan Bayan, Dambarudhar Mohanta, and Purushottam Chakraborty

Ferroelectric studies of excessive Sm3+ containing perovskite PZT and pyrochlore biphase
ceramics

T. Anil Babu, K. V. Ramesh, V. Raghavendra Reddy, and D. L. Sastry

Growth and optical properties of partially transparent Eu doped CaF2 ceramic
Manoranjan Ghosh, Shashwati Sen, S. S. Pitale, U. K. Goutam, Seema Shinde, G. D. Patra,
and S. C. Gadkari

Synthesis of CdSe quantum dots for quantum dot sensitized solar cell
Neetu Singh, Vinod Kumar, R. M. Mehra, and Avinashi Kapoor

Thermal plasma synthesis of Feí[Nix alloy nanoparticles
Suyog A. Raut, Nilesh S. Kanhe, S. V. Bhoraskar, A. K. Das, and V. L. Mathe

xix

NVP encapsulated gold nanoclusters by in situ polymerization of monomer 600
M. Boazbou Newmai, Abhitosh Kedia, and Pandian Senthil Kumar 603

Mass production of magnetic nickel nanoparticle in thermal plasma reactor 605
Nilesh S. Kanhe, Ashok B. Nawale, S. V. Bhoraskar, A. K. Das, and V. L. Mathe
608
Fe3O4@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization and application 611
in environmental remediation 614

J. Majeed, Jayshree Ramkumar, S. Chandramouleeswaran, and A. K. Tyagi 617
620
D. Experimental Techniques and Devices 622

Shock induced spall fracture in polycrystalline copper 625
D. Mukherjee, Amit Rav, Amit Sur, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta 628
631
Performance study of polycrystalline CVD diamond detectors for fast neutron monitoring 633
Arvind Singh, Amit Kumar, and Anita Topkar

Photoluminescence studies on off-stoichiometric defects in sprayed CZTS thin films
N. Poornima, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

Adsorption properties and inhibition of mild steel corrosion in 15% HCl
by 3-((1H-indol-3-yl)(4-methoxyphenyl)methyl)-1H-indole:electrochemical study

Debasis Behera, Sushil Kumar, Rajesh Ranjan Sinha, and Mahendra Yadav

Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy of La0.7Ca0.3Mn1-XAlXO3 thin films
Manish Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase

Optical properties of Y and Ti co-substituted BiFeO3 multiferroics
Vikash Singh, Subhash Sharma, Manoj Kumar, and R. K. Dwivedi

Study on structural, dielectric and magnetic behaviour of ferroelectric/ferrite magnetoelectric
composites

Meera Rawat, Manjusha, and K. L. Yadav

Design and development of thermoelectric generator
D. S. Prem Kumar, Ishan Vardhan Mahajan, R. Anbalagan, and Ramesh Chandra Mallik

Fabrication of NiO thin film electrode for supercapacitor applications
V. V. Mali, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, G. D. Khuspe, P. R. Godse, S. A. Pawar, and V. B. Patil

All-solid-state proton battery using gel polymer electrolyte
Kuldeep Mishra, S. S. Pundir, and D. K. Rai

xx

On the improvement of photovoltaic action of ZnO/P3HT:PCBM by controlling roughness 636
of window layer 639
642
R. Geethu, M. R. Rajesh Menon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 644
646
Ageing studies on CuInS2/In2S3 junction (2.5×2cm2) deposited using automated spray machine
M. V. Santhosh, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 649
652
Synchrotron total reflection X-ray fluorescence at BL-16 microfocus beamline of Indus-2 655
M. K. Tiwari, A. K. Singh, Gangadhar Das, Anupam Chowdhury, and G. S. Lodha 658
661
Development of a nano-tesla magnetic field shielded chamber and highly precise 664
AC-VXVFHSWLELOLW\PHDVXUHPHQWFRLODWȝ.WHPSHUDWXUHV 666

Anil Kumar, Om Prakash, and S. Ramakrishanan

Photovoltaic response of RGO doped MEH-PPV:PCBM blend devices
S. S. Sharma, Vinay Sharma, Rajveer Singh Rajaura, Preetam K. Sharma, Subodh Srivastva,
M. Singh, and Y. K. Vijay

Commissioning and first results of scanning type EXAFS beamline (BL-09)
at INDUS-2 synchrotron source

A. K. Poswal, A. Agrawal, A. K. Yadav, C. Nayak, S. Basu, S. R. Kane, C. K. Garg,
D. Bhattachryya, S. N. Jha, and N. K. Sahoo

Dielectric relaxation characteristics of muscovite mica
Navjeet Kaur, Lakhwant Singh, Mohan Singh, A. M. Awasthi, and Jitender Kumar

Estimation of the activation energy of sintering in KNN ceramics using master sintering theory
Rajan Singh, P. K. Patro, Ajit R. Kulkarni, and C. S. Harendranath

Enhanced H2 sensing by substituting polyaniline nanoparticles with nanofibers
Preetam K. Sharma, Subodh Srivastava, Rajveer Singh Rajaura, Vinay Sharma, S. S. Sharma,
M. Singh, and Y. K. Vijay

FPGA based pulsed NQR spectrometer
Preeti Hemnani, A. K. Rajarajan, Gopal Joshi, Paresh D. Motiwala, and S. V. G. Ravindranath

LHDAC setup for high temperature and high pressure studies
Nishant N. Patel, S. Meenakshi, and Surinder M. Sharma

Effect of Ag substitution on the structural and magnetic properties
of Sm0.55Sr0.45MnO3 (x = 0, 0.15) system

Masroor A. Bhat, Renu Choithrani, N. K. Gaur, and Rajnish Kurchania

xxi

Effect of temperature on performance of 3He filled neutron proportional counters 668
Shraddha S. Desai 671
674
Substituted copper phthalocyanine/multiwalled carbon nanotubes hybrid material 677
for Cl2 sensing application 680
683
Anshul Kumar Sharma, Rajan Saini, Rajinder Singh, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and D. K. Aswal 685
687
ƍ-11ƍ-dicarbazole)biphenyl (CBP) as efficient host in cost-effective green phosphorescent 690
OLEDs 693

K. Thangaraju, G. Muralidharan, K. Jayakumar, Yun-Hi Kim, and Soon-Ki Kwon 696
699
Cation distribution in Nií[ZnxFe2O4 using X-ray absorption spectroscopy
A. K. Yadav, J. Jadhav, S. Biswas, S. N. Jha, D. Bhattacharyya, and N. K. Sahoo

Structural, vibrational and dielectric studies of (0.95)Pb(ZrxTií[)O3-(0.05)BiFeO3 nanoceramics
Subhash Sharma, Vikash Singh, and R. K. Dwivedi

Determination of residual stress in MEMS cantilevers
Tutul Bera and Ajay D. Thakur

Development of soft X-ray polarized light beamline on Indus-2 synchrotron radiation source
D. M. Phase, Mukul Gupta, S. Potdar, L. Behera, R. Sah, and Ajay Gupta

Comparison of Mo/Si and NbC/Si lamellar multilayer gratings near Si absorption edge
Ankita Niranjan, Mohammed H. Modi, Amol Singh, Mourad Idir, and G. S. Lodha

Design and calibration of Z-meter for simultaneous thermal transport measurements
at high temperature

B. Singh, D. Shukla, P. Srivastava, and S. Patnaik

Temperature dependence of gas sensing behaviour of TiO2 doped PANI composite thin films
Subodh Srivastava, S. S. Sharma, Preetam Sharma, Vinay Sharma, Rajveer Singh Rajura,
M. Singh, and Y. K. Vijay

E. Glasses and Amorphous Systems

,QWHQVHȝPIOXRUHVFHQFHRI1G3+ doped cadmium bismuth silicate glasses
I. Pal, A. Agarwal, S. Sanghi, S. Bhardwaj, and Sanjay

Transport properties of lithium- lead-vanadium-telluride glass and glass ceramics
M. Sathish and B. Eraiah

xxii

Li2SO4íLi22í32O5 ionic glass dispersed with [Bmim] [PF6] ionic liquid: Electrical transport 702
and thermal stability investigations 705
708
Munesh Rathore, Anshuman Dalvi, and Anil Kumar 711

Dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Al2O3 containing lead titanate based glass-ceramics 714
V. U. Rahangdale, D. K. Gala, R. M. Acharya, and V. K. Deshpande 717
719
PbTiO3 based ferroelectric glass ceramics 722
J. Shankar and V. K. Deshpande 725

Dielectric spectroscopy in crystalline methocarbamol 728
Manoj K. Saini 730
733
Photoluminescence properties of Ho3+ ion in lithium-fluoroborate glass containing different 736
modifier oxides 739

A. Balakrishna, D. Rajesh, and Y. C. Ratnakaram

Magnetic and optical properties of silico- phosphate glass-ceramics containing Au and iron oxide
K. Sharma, Rakesh Kumar, C. L. Prajapat, and M. R. Singh

Effect of thermal annealing on structure and optical band gap of amorphous Se72Te253 thin films
D. K. Dwivedi, H. P. Pathak, Vipin Kumar, and Nitesh Shukla

Elastic properties of silver borate glasses doped with praseodymium oxide
G. V. Jagadeesha Gowda and B. Eraiah

Analysis of emission spectra of Ho3+:LFBCd glasses
V. Naresh and S. Buddhudu

Spectrometric analysis of different fluorophosphate glasses doped with Sm3+ ions
for reddish-orange laser emission

S. Babu, A. Balakrishna, and Y. C. Ratnakaram

Thermal and elastic properties of oxy-fluoro zinc tellurite glasses
Shaik Kareem Ahmmad, M. A. Samee, S. M. Taqiullah, and Syed Rahman

Effect of CaF2 addition on optical properties of barium phosphate glasses
N. Manoj Kumar, G. Venkateswara Rao, B. E. Akhila, and H. D. Shashikala

Elastic properties of Li+ doped lead zinc borate glasses
R. Rajaramakrishna, R. Lakshmikantha, and R. V. Anavekar

Study of optical nonlinearities in Se-Te-Bi thin films
Ambika Sharma, Preeti Yadav, and Anshu Kumari

xxiii

High field conduction in glassy Se90Sb8Ag2 alloy: Applicability of Meyer-Neldel rule 742
Anjani Kumar and A. Kumar 745
747
Investigation of Mg and Zn doped 45S5 bioactive materials by XRD, FTIR and SEM techniques 749
Vikas Anand, K. J. Singh, and Kulwinder Kaur 751

Gamma ray shielding and structural properties of Bi2O3í3E2í%2O3íV2O5 glass system 753
Kulwinder Kaur, K. J. Singh, and Vikas Anand
756
Synthesis and studies on microhardness of alkali zinc borate glasses 759
Subhashini, Soumalya Bhattacharya, H. D. Shashikala, and N. K. Udayashankar 762

Collective modes of Ti60Zr16V9Cu3Al13Be9 bulk metallic glass 765
Prakruti Chaudhari, A. Y. Vahora, B. Y. Thakore, R. H. Joshi, and N. K. Bhatt 767

Effect of heat treatment time on microstructure and electrical conductivity in LATP glass 770
ceramics 773

Dhiren Sonigra, Swati Soman, and Ajit R. Kulkarni

Conductivity enhancement in PVA-PEO-EC-LiCF-3SO3 blends upon swift heavy O7+ ion
irradiation

Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, Manish Jayswal, and D. K. Awasthi

An unusual anomalous relaxation function and ion dynamics of Na4Nb(1-x)Cd2.5xP3O12 glass
N. S. Krishna Kumar and G. Govindaraj

Physical and optical absorption studies on xNa2O-(40-x)Bi2O3-20CdO-40B2O3 glasses
R. Vijaya Kumar, V. Rajashekar Reddy, S. Srinu Naik, and K. Siva Kumar

Characterization of radiative properties of Nd2O3 doped phosphate and silicate glasses
for solid state laser

P. Nandi, R. Shukla, M. Goswami, and V. Sudarsan

Ab-initio molecular dynamics simulations of liquid Hg-Pb alloys
Nalini Sharma, Anil Thakur, and P. K. Ahluwalia

Effect of heating rate on the glass transition temperature in Se79Te15In6-xPbx bulk alloys
using power-law behaviour

Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakur, and S. K. Tripathi

Structural investigation of x=Q2íx0Q2í)H2O3í60B2O3 glasses
R. L. Dhiman and Virender Kundu

xxiv

White light stimulation from Dy3+ doped B2O33E2í=Q2í%L2O3 glasses for WLED applications 775
M. Vijayakumar, S. Arunkumar, K. Annapoorani, and K. Marimuthu 778
781
Spectroscopic properties of Er3+ GRSHGOHDGWHOOXURERUDWHJODVVHVIRUȝPEURDGEDQG 784
amplifiers 787
790
R. Vijayakumar, S. Arunkumar, M. Vijayakumar, and K. Marimuthu 793
796
Near infrared and upconversion luminescence behaviour of Er3+/Yb3+ codoped boro-tellurite 799
glasses 802
805
K. Maheshvaran, S. Arunkumar, R. Vijayakumar, and K. Marimuthu 807
810
Study of dynamic properties for NaK binary liquid alloy using first principle and theoretical
predictions of isothermal bulk modulus using elastic constants

Anil Thakur, Nalini Sharma, Rajinder Kashyap, and P. K. Ahluwalia

Effect of microwave radiation on Jayadhar cotton fibers: WAXS studies
A. R. Niranjana, S. S. Mahesh, S. Divakara, and R. Somashekar

Nonlinear optical properties of quaternary amorphous Se80.5Bi1.5Teí\Ay (A = Sb, Ag) thin films
Anup Kumar, Pawan Heera, and Raman Sharma

Composition dependent light induced crossover from photodarkening to photobleaching
in GexAsí[Se65 thin films

Pritam Khan and K. V. Adarsh

Effect of alkali addition on DC conductivity & thermal properties of vanadium-bismo-borate
glasses

S. Khasa, M. S. Dahiya, and A. Agarwal

Effect of Li2SO4 addition on structure and ionic conductivity of lithium borosilicotitanate glasses
N. S. Satpute and A. V. Deshpande

Preparation and characterization of boro-tellurite glasses
Nirmal Kaur, Atul Khanna, and P. S. R. Krishna

Study of lithium borate glasses containing Bi2O3
A. V. Deshpande and V. D. Raut

Structural, surface wettability and antibacterial properties of HPMC-ZnO nanocomposite
B. Lakshmeesha Rao, S. Asha, R. Madhukumar, S. Latha, Mahadeva Gowda, G. Rajesha Shetty,
K. Sharath Chandra, Prashantha Naik, and Sangappa

Effect of Sn on the dielectric properties of Te rich Se-Te glassy alloys
Pawan Heera and Raman Sharma

xxv

Study of kinetics of crystallization of Ge7Se75Sb18 chalcogenide glass 813
Naveen Tanwar and Vibhav K. Saraswat 816
819
Pair correlation studies of CdCl2 doped PVA polymer films using X-ray data 822
M. B. Nanda Prakash, G. Thejas Urs, H. T. Anand, and R. Somashekar 825

Characterization of montmorillonite doped PVA/SA blends using X-ray diffraction 828
K. Hemalatha, Mahadevaiah, H. Somashekarappa, and R. Somashekar 831
833
Invariant bandwidth of erbium in ZnO-PbO-tellurite glasses: Local probe/model 836
Raj Kumar Ramamoorthy and Anil K. Bhatnagar 839
842
Molecular dynamics in amorphous ergocalciferol
Sahra Mohamed, M. Shahin Thayyil, and S. Capaccioli 845

Optical absorption and fluorescence properties of Er3+/Yb3+ codoped lead bismuth alumina
borate glasses

K. Krishna Murthy Goud, M. Chandra Shekhar Reddy, and B. Appa Rao

Spectroscopic studies of silver boro tellurite glasses
E. Ramesh Kumar, K. Rajani Kumari, B. Appa Rao, and G. Bhikshamaiah

Electrical studies on silver based fast ion conducting glassy materials
B. Appa Rao, E. Ramesh Kumar, K. Rajani Kumari, and G. Bhikshamaiah

Raman spectroscopic studies on mixed alkali borotungsten glasses
A. Edukondalu, CH. Srinivasu, Syed Rahman, V. Sathe, and K. Siva Kumar

The study of thermal and optical properties of Sn added Pb-Se-Ge chalcogenide glass
Vivek Modgil, Prashant Kumar, A. V. Nidhi, and V. S. Rangra

EPR and optical absorption by Cu2+ LRQVLQ=Q2í/L22í1D22í.22í%2O3 glasses
Abdul Hameed, G. Ramadevudu, Md. Shareefuddin, and M. Narasimha Chary

Comparative study of corrosion and structural properties of FeCoNiCu alloys and FeCoNiCu/Cu
multilayers

Syed Rajak, C. Srivastava, A. C. Bidaye, and S. K. Ghosh

xxvi

PART B 848
851
F. Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films 854
856
Dynamic fluorescence quenching of quinine sulfate dication by chloride ion in ionic 858
and neutral micellar environments 861
864
Sunita Joshi, Tej Varma Varma Y, and Debi D. Pant 867
869
Abbe's number and Cauchy's constant of iodine and selenium doped poly (methylmethacrylate) 872
and polystyrene composites 875

Sheetal Mehta, Kallol Das, and Jag Mohan Keller

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

Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das

Fabrication of highly transparent diamond-like carbon anti-reflecting coating
for Si solar cell application

Amit Banerjee and Debajyoti Das

Study of optical properties of asymmetric bipolar pulse DC magnetron sputtered Ta2O5 thin film
as a function of oxygen content in deposition ambient

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

Surface studies on aluminized and thermally oxidized superalloy 690 substrates interacted
with simulated nuclear waste and sodium borosilicate melt

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

Local elastic modulus of RF sputtered HfO2 thin film by atomic force acoustic microscopy
S. Jena, R. B. Tokas, P. Sarkar, J. S. Misal, K. D. Rao, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo

Adsorption of reactive dyes on to carbonate substituted nanohydroxyapatite
G. Vasugi, G. Suresh Kumar, and E. K. Girija

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

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

Fabrication of superhydrophobic silver nanorods array substrate using glancing angle deposition
Samir Kumar, Pratibha Goel, Dhruv P. Singh, and J. P. Singh

pH dependence of drug-membrane interaction
Uttam Kumar Basak and Alokmay Datta

xxvii

Role of oxygen mixing percentage on r.f sputtered and microwave annealed crystalline 878
SrBi4Ti4O15 thin films 881
884
A. Rambabu, E. Sivanagi Reddy, and K. C. James Raju
887
Photo-induced wettability of TiO2 film with Au buffer layer
Debarun Dhar Purkayastha, L. D. Varma Sangani, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and V. Madhurima 890
893
Preparation of Cu-doped nickel oxide thin films and their properties 895
V. Gowthami, M. Meenakshi, N. Anandhan, and C. Sanjeeviraja 898

Effect of annealing on the optical properties of thin silver films exhibiting surface plasmon 901
resonance 904
907
Aparajita Mandal and Partha Chaudhuri
910
Cleaning of optical surfaces by capacitively coupled RF discharge plasma 913
P. K. Yadav, M. Kumar, S. K. Rai, J. A. Chakera, C. Mukherjee, M. Nayak, P. A. Naik,
and G. S. Lodha

Magnetic properties of Mn2+: PEO+PVP polymer films
K. Naveen Kumar, K. Sivaiah, and S. Buddhudu

*URZWKRIYHUWLFDOO\DOLJQHGĮ-MoO3 nanoflakes by using a facile PVD route
Rabindar K. Sharma and G. B. Reddy

Acetone sensor based on zinc oxide hexagonal tubes
Anita Hastir, Onkar Singh, Kanika Anand, and Ravi Chand Singh

100 MeV O7+ irradiation induced red shift in the band gaps of 3 wt% 'Li' doped Nb2O5 thin film
M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, P. Manimuthu, K. Vijayarangamuthu, K. Asokan,
C. Venkateswaran, and R. Mohan

Long-timescale dynamics of thiol capped Au nanoparticle clusters at the air-water interface
Madhumita Choudhuri and Alokmay Datta

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

Response of nickel surface to pulsed fusion plasma radiations
Ram Niranjan, R. K. Rout, R. Srivastava, Y. Chakravarthy, N. N. Patel, P. Alex,
and Satish C. Gupta

Electronic structure of Fe3Si on Si(100) substrates
Chhagan Lal, G. Di Santo, M. Caputo, M. Panighel, B. A. Taleatu, A. Goldoni, and I. P. Jain

xxviii

Secondary electron measurement and XPS characterization of NEG coatings 916
R. K. Sharma, Atul K. Sinha, Nidhi Gupta, J. Nuwad, Jagannath, S. C. Gadkari, M. R. Singh, 919
and S. K. Gupta 922
925
Hydrogen removal from e-beam deposited alumina thin films by oxygen ion beam 927
Arijeet Das, C. Mukharjee, K. Rajiv, Aniruddha Bose, S. D. Singh, D. M. Phase, S. K. Rai, 930
Tapas Ganguli, S. C. Joshi, and S. K. Deb 933
935
Structural and optical properties of Ni added ZnO thin films deposited by sol-gel method 938
R. Murugan, G. Vijayaprasath, T. Mahalingam, N. Anandhan, and G. Ravi 941
944
NH3 sensor based on CSA doped PANi-SnO2 nanohybrid 946
G. D. Khuspe, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, R. N. Mulik, P. R. Godse, Shashwati Sen,
and V. B. Patil

Resonant x-ray reflectivity study of partial decomposed boron nitride thin films
using Indus-1 synchrotron

Maheswar Nayak and Gyanendra S. Lodha

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

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

Modified chemical route for deposition of molybdenum disulphide thin films
Akshay N. Vyas and S. D. Sartale

H2S sensing properties of R.F. sputtered NiO thin films
Toshi Bagwaiya, C. P. Goyal, Shovit Bhattacharya, N. S. Ramgir, D. Bhattacharya, S. P. Koiry,
D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

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

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

Structural, compositional and morphological studies of thermally evaporated MoO3 thin films
R. Senthilkumar and G. Ravi

Deposition of optical quality Cu/Ti films
Mitali Swain, Debarati Bhattacharya, and Saibal Basu

xxix

Structural transformations in reactively sputtered alumina films 948
P. Nayar and A. Khanna
951
Effect of discharge current and deposition temperature on roughness and density of NbC films 954
fabricated by ion beam sputtering technique 957

Rajnish Dhawan, Sanjay Rai, and G. S. Lodha 960
962
Structural study of Langmuir liquid crystal monolayer 965
Ramneek Kaur and K. K. Raina 968
970
Effect of polymers pore-filling on structural, optical and electrical properties of porous silicon 972
K. Kulathuraan, P. Jeyakumar, V. Ramadas, and B. Natarajan
975
Study of difference in interfacial reaction at Fe3O4/ZnO and ZnO/Fe3O4 heterostructure 977
using synchrotron radiation 980
982
A. D. Wadikar, Ridhi Master, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase

Structural, optical and electrical properties of CdS–polyaniline Langmuir–Blodgett films
Nayan Mani Das, Dhrubojyoti Roy, M. Gupta, V. Ganesan, and P. S. Gupta

InSb thin films grown by electrodeposition
Joginder Singh and P. Rajaram

Optical and surface morphology study of zinc phthalocyanine Langmuir Blodgett thin film
Dhrubojyoti Roy, Nayan Mani Das, M. Gupta, V. Ganesan, and P. S. Gupta

Study of iron mononitride thin films
Akhil Tayal, Mukul Gupta, D. M. Phase, V. R. Reddy, and Ajay Gupta

Surface potential studies of Langmuir monolayers of polyaniline-TiO2 nano-composite
Gurpreet Kaur Bhullar and K. K. Raina

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

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

Microwave properties of polypyrrole thin film deposited on inorganic substrate
Ninad B. Velhal, Narayan D. Patil, Varsha D. Phadtare, and Vijaya R. Puri

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

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

xxx

Installation and commissioning of a large area coating system for neutron and X-ray 985
optical devices 988
991
A. Biswas, Sk. Maidul Haque, J. Misal, K. D. Lagoo, R. D. Veerapur, M. Padmanabhan, R. K. Puri,
R. Sampathkumar, Ajaykumar, Debarati Bhattacharya, D. Bhattacharyya, and N. K. Sahoo 994
997
Study on higher harmonic suppression using edge filter and polished Si wafer 1000
R. K. Gupta, Amol Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and G. S. Lodha
1003
Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Mn doped benzimidazole thin films 1006
P. A. Praveen, R. Ramesh Babu, S. P. Prabhakaran, and K. Ramamurthi
1009
Influence of Boron doping on the structural, optical and electrical properties of CdO thin films 1012
by spray pyrolysis technique 1015
1018
P. Velusamy, R. Ramesh Babu, and K. Ramamurthi 1021

Surface structure and electrical properties of solution processed lanthanum nickelate films
Nirav C. Pandya and U. S. Joshi

Evolution of nano-structures of silver due to rapid thermal annealing
Shyamal Mondal and S. R. Bhattacharyya

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

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

Microwave properties of RF- sputtered ZnFe2O4 thin films
T. Garg, B. N. Sahu, Shiva Prasad, A. R. Kulkarni, and N. Venkataramani

Structural and optical properties of Sn1-xFexO2 thin films prepared by flash evaporation
technique

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

Electrochemically deposited nanostructured ZnO thin films for biosensor applications
Hemalata Bhadane, Edmund Samuel, and D. K. Gautam

Scaling behavior studies of Ar+ ion irradiated ripple structured mica surfaces
Amaresh Metya and Debabrata Ghose

Raman spectra of PLD deposited DLC thin films on Si substrate
Indrajeet Kumar and Alika Khare

Structural and electrical properties of sol-gel spin coated indium doped cadmium oxide thin films
R. Rajammal, E. Savarimuthu, and S. Arumugam

xxxi

Fabrication of metal dielectric metal multilayer thin film: Color filter 1024
Garima Kedawat, Vipin Kumar Jain, and Y. K. Vijay
1027
Effect of substrate temperature on structural and optical properties of nitrogen doped SnO2 thin 1030
film 1033
1036
Anup Thakur, Varinder Kumar, Se Jun Kang, Ik-Jae Lee, Sanjeev Gautam, K. H. Chae, 1039
and Hyun Joon Shin 1042
1045
Hexagonally ordered nanodots: Result of substrate rotation during oblique incidence low energy 1048
IBS 1051

Debasree Chowdhury and Debabrata Ghose 1054
1057
Preparation and characterization of CsI:Tl thick films on silica glass substrate
Seema Shinde, S. Singh, S. Sen, Chennakesavulu, S. C. Gadkari, and S. K. Gupta

Formation of H-type liquid crystal dimer at air-water interface
C. Karthik, Adbhut Gupta, Aditya Joshi, V. Manjuladevi, Raj Kumar Gupta, Mahesh C. Varia,
and Sandeep Kumar

Structural phase study in un-patterned & patterned PVDF semi-crystalline films
K. Pramod and Ramesh Babu Gangineni

Study of nano imprinting using soft lithography on Krafty glue & PVDF polymer thin films
M. S. Ravi Sankar and Ramesh Babu Gangineni

Glancing angle deposition of SiO2 thin film microstructures: Investigations of optical
and morphological properties

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

Conducting polymers based counter electrodes for dye-sensitized solar cells
P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,
and S. K. Gupta

Comparative studies of optical & elastic properties of ZrO2 thin films prepared under normal
and oblique incidence deposition geometries

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

G. Electronic Structures and Phonons

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

Phonon softening in (NH4Br)x(KBr)1-x mixed crystals
Alpana Tiwari

xxxii

Unequal density effect on static structure factor of coupled electron layers 1060
L. K. Saini and Mukesh G. Nayak
1062
Ab-LQLWLRVWXG\RIKLJKWHPSHUDWXUHODWWLFHG\QDPLFVRI%&&]LUFRQLXPȕ-Zr)
DQGXUDQLXPȖ-U) 1065
1068
Partha S. Ghosh, A. Arya, and G. K. Dey 1070
1072
Conformational effect of dicyclo-hexano-18-crown-6 on isotopic fractionation of zinc: 1075
DFT approach
1078
A. Boda, A. K. Singha Deb, Sk. M. Ali, K. T. Shenoy, and S. K. Ghosh 1081
1084
Phonon and magnon scattering of Bi2Fe4O9 ceramic 1087
Poorva Sharma, Ashwini Kumar, and Dinesh Varshney 1089
1092
High temperature phonon dispersion in graphene using classical molecular dynamics
P. Anees, M. C. Valsakumar, and B. K. Panigrahi

Lattice dynamics of proton conductor SrZrO3 in orthorhombic phase
Anupam Deep Sharma and M. M. Sinha

Electronic structure of polycrystalline Cd metal using 241Am radioisotope
M. S. Dhaka, G. Sharma, M. C. Mishra, and B. K. Sharma

A time-dependent density functional study of photoabsorption in B6O2 cluster:
Effect of geometry

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

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Fe-doped Zn3P2 from first-principles calculations
G. Jaiganesh and S. Mathi Jaya

Ab-initio calculation of ZnGeAs2 semiconductor
S. K. Tripathy and V. Kumar

Electronic study of Al substituted La0.7Ca0.3MnO3 using photoemission spectroscopy
D. M. Phase, Manish Kumar, A. D. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary

Ab-initio study of spinel type CoIn2S4 in PM, FM and AFM regime
Poonam Singh, Monika Sharma, Meena Kumari, and U. P. Verma

Hydrogen storage in LiH: A first principle study
Suman Banger, Vikas Nayak, and U. P. Verma

xxxiii

Should muffin tin radius vary in different structures of a material?: A case study 1095
Vikas Nayak, Suman Banger, and U. P. Verma
1098
Raman evidence for coupling of superconducting quasi-particles with a phonon and crystal field 1101
excitation in superconductor Ce0.6Y0.4FeAsO0.8F0.2
1103
Pradeep Kumar, D. V. S. Muthu, J. Prakash, A. K. Ganguli, and A. K. Sood 1106
1109
Effect of electron-phonon interaction on resistivity of some heavy fermion (HF) systems 1112
J. Sahoo, N. Shadangi, and P. Nayak 1115
1118
First principles electronic band structure and phonon dispersion curves for zinc blend beryllium 1121
chalcogenide 1124
1127
Shweta Dabhi, Venu Mankad, and Prafulla K. Jha 1130
1133
Density functional study of structural and electronic properties of Aln@C60
Shobhna Dhiman, Ranjan Kumar, and Keya Dharamvir

Ab-initio study of transition metal hydrides
Ramesh Sharma, Seema Shukla, Shalini Dwivedi, and Yamini Sharma

Effect of hydrogenation on magnetic and electronic behaviour of Pr-Ni
Pooja Rana, Sanjay K. Singh, and U. P. Verma

Improvement in elastic properties of CuAl0.4Fe1.6O4 spinel ferrite by rapid thermal cooling
K. B. Modi, S. J. Shah, T. K. Pathak, N. H. Vasoya, V. K. Lakhani, and A. K. Yahya

Elastic properties of sulphur and selenium doped ternary PbTe alloys by first principles
Ashoka Bali, Raju Chetty, and Ramesh Chandra Mallik

Electronic and mechanical properties of Zr2TiAl: A first principles study
P. V. Sreenivasa Reddy and V. Kanchana

Thermal conductivity analysis of lanthanum doped manganites
Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, E. Khan, and Dinesh Varshney

4XDQWL]DWLRQRIȕ-Fermi Pasta Ulam lattice
Sudhir R. Jain and Rupali L. Sonone

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

Structural and electronic properties of poly(vinyl alcohol) using density functional theory
Shweta Dabhi and Prafulla K. Jha

xxxiv

The pinning effect in quantum dots 1135
P. J. Monisha and Soma Mukhopadhyay 1137
1140
Study of structural and electronic properties of Mn3O4 1142
Ramandeep Kaur, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal 1145
1148
Half metallic ferromagnetism in alkali metal nitrides MN (M = Rb, Cs): A first principles study 1151
A. Murugan, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, M. Santhosh, G. Sudhapriyanga, and S. Kanagaprabha 1153
1155
Experimental and first principle studies on electronic structure of BaTiO3 1158
Archna Sagdeo, Haranath Ghosh, Aparna Chakrabarti, C. Kamal, Tapas Ganguli, D. M. Phase, 1161
and S. K. Deb 1164

Metal-insulator transition in NaxWO3: Photoemission spectromicroscopy study
Sanhita Paul, Anirudha Ghosh, and Satyabrata Raj

Structural and Raman scattering study of Ni-doped CoFe2O4
Ashwini Kumar, Mashkoor A. Dar, Poorva Sharma, and Dinesh Varshney

Electronic and magnetic properties of Fe and Mn doped two dimensional hexagonal germanium
sheets

Himadri R. Soni and Prafulla K. Jha

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

Electronic structure of ordered double perovskite Ba2CoWO6
Rajyavardhan Ray, A. K. Himanshu, Kumar Brajesh, B. K. Choudhary, S. K. Bandyopadhyay,
Pintu Sen, Uday Kumar, and T. P. Sinha

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

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

Vijay Kumar Gudelli and V. Kanchana

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

I. V. Sankar and Ashok Chatterjee

xxxv

Phase transitions in double perovskite Sr2ScSbO6: An Ab-initio study 1167
Rajyavardhan Ray, Ajay K. Himanshu, Kumar Brajesh, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Uday Kumar, 1170
and T. P. Sinha 1173
1176
Excitation energies of molecules within time-independent density functional theory
M. Hemanadhan and Manoj K. Harbola 1179
1182
mBJLDA approach for optical properties of Nowontny-Juza LiMgZ (Z = P, As) compounds 1185
Arvind K. Sharma, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap 1188
1191
Coulomb interaction of acceptors in Cd1-xMnxTe/CdTe quantum dot 1194
P. Kalpana, A. Merwyn Jasper D. Reuben, P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar 1197
1200
H. Single Crystals

Pure and Nd added NBT-BT single crystals - Growth and their characterization
S. Shanmuga Sundari, K. Baskar, and R. Dhanasekaran

Effect of orientation on deformation behavior of Fe nanowires: A molecular dynamics study
G. Sainath, V. S. Srinivasan, B. K. Choudhary, M. D. Mathew, and T. Jayakumar

Thermal and optical properties of new organic nonlinear optical single crystals
Anthoni Praveen Menezes and A. Jayarama

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

S. Karthi and E. K. Girija

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

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

Dielectric and magnetic investigations of GaFeO3 single crystals
B. Srimathy, Indranil Bhaumik, S. Ganesamoorthy, A. K. Karnal, and J. Kumar

Synthesis and crystal structure studies of ethyl 5-methyl-1,
3-diphenyl-1H-pyrazole-4-carboxylate

Chandra, N. Srikantamurthy, E. A. Jithesh Babu, K. B. Umesha, and M. Mahendra

Structural and spectroscopic studies on calcium succinate single crystals
M. P. Binitha and P. P. Pradyumnan

xxxvi

Growth and electrical properties on NLO crystal: 4-N,N-dimethylamino 1203
ƍ-1ƍ-methylstilbazolium iodide 1206
1209
M. Krishna Kumar, S. Sudhahar, and R. Mohan Kumar 1212
1214
Synthesis and single crystal x-ray diffraction study of a Schiff base derived 1217
from 4-acylpyrazolone and 2-aminophenol 1220
1223
Naresh Sharma, R. N. Jadeja, Rajni Kant, and Vivek K. Gupta 1226
1228
Thermal decomposition study of Cr0.25W0.75Se2 single crystals 1230
D. D. Patel, P. F. Desai, and A. R. Jani 1233

Theoretical study of geometrical and nonlinear optical properties of LHPCl single crystal
S. Arulmozhi, M. Dinesh Raja, and J. Madhavan

Numerical investigation of dimensionless numbers of Si melt flow in directional solidification
process for PV cells

M. Srinivasan and P. Ramasamy

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

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

Growth and optical characterizations on 3-aminophenol perchlorate (3-AMPP) crystal
K. Boopathi and P. Ramasamy

Modified Bridgman-Stockbarger growth and characterization of LiInSe2 single crystal
P. Vijayakumar, M. Magesh, A. Arunkumar, G. Anandha Babu, P. Ramasamy, and K. G. M. Nair

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

R. Thirumurugan and K. Anitha

TL and PL studies on cubic fluoroperovskite single crystal (KMgF3: Eu2+, Ce3+)
D. Joseph Daniel, U. Madhusoodanan, O. Annalakshmi, and P. Ramasamy

Investigation on crystalline perfection, mechanical, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties
of L-tartaric acid single crystal

G. Senthil Murugan and P. Ramasamy

Crystal structures of Schiff base derivatives of 1-(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylidene)thiosemicarbazide
and (E)-Nƍ-(3-nitrobenzylidene)isonicotinohydrazide

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

xxxvii

Magnetic property, Raman spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of Sm3+ in Sm(BrO3)3‫ڄ‬9H2O 1236
J. Mandal, T. Purohit, K. N. Chattopadhyay, M. Ghosh, and P. K. Chakrabarti 1239
1242
Ferromagnetism through Cr doping in topological insulator Bi2Te3 1244
V. K. Maurya and S. Patnaik 1247
1250
Effect of impurities on the hardness of alkali halide single crystals 1253
Ashok K. Verma, Chaturbhuj Ojha, and A. K. Shrivastava 1256
1259
Crystal growth, structure analysis and characterisation of 2 - (1, 3 - dioxoisoindolin - 2 - yl) 1262
acetic acid single crystal
1265
R. Siva Sankari and Rajesh Narayana Perumal 1269

Structure-property-relationship of p-toluidinium tetrachloromercurate(II)
Dinesh, Mukesh Kumar, and S. Dalela

Growth and characterization of lithium yttrium borate single crystals
A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, M. Tyagi, D. G. Desai, Shashwati Sen, and S. C. Gadkari

Band-gap modulation via gallium substitution in cerium doped gadolinium aluminum garnet
using a mixed fuel combustion approach

Mohit Tyagi, Shreyas S. Pitale, Manoranjan Ghosh, Seema Shinde, and S. C. Gadkari

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

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

Evaluation of mechanical properties of some glycine complexes
D. Nagaraju, P. V. Raja Shekar, Ch. Sateesh Chandra, K. Kishan Rao, and N. Gopi Krishna

Single crystal growth of Yb doped NaGd(WO4)2 and structural and spectroscopic studies
S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, D. G. Desai, B. Tiwari, M. Tyagi, and S. C. Gadkari

I. Transport Properties

Electric modulus and impedance spectroscopy analysis on selenium nanoparticles
at and above room temperature

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

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

Shivani Dhall and Neena Jaggi

xxxviii

The change in dielectric constant, AC conductivity and optical band gaps of polymer electrolyte 1272
film: Gamma irradiation 1275
1278
S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, C. Sharanappa, V. Mini, K. Archana, Ganesh Sanjeev, 1281
and H. Devendrappa 1283
1286
Conductivity and optical band gaps of polyethylene oxide doped with Li2SO4 salt 1289
Sharanappa Chapi, S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, K. Archana, V. Mini, and H. Devendrappa 1292
1295
Effect of gamma ray irradiation on the structural and electrical transport properties 1297
of PrFeí[MnxO3 1300
1303
Khalid Sultan, M. Ikram, and K. Asokan

Metallic and semiconducting resistivity behavior of Laí[KxMnO3 manganites
Dinesh Choudhary, E. Khan, and Dinesh Varshney

Tunneling control using classical non-linear oscillator
Susmita Kar and S. P. Bhattacharyya

Ionic, XRD, dielectric and cyclic voltammetry studies on PVdF-co-HFP / MMT clay intercalated
LiN(C2F5SO2)2 based composite electrolyte for Li-ion batteries

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

Structural and dielectric properties of Ba2LaSbO6 ceramics
Premlata Kumari, Alo Dutta, S. Prasad, and T. P. Sinha

Interpretation of thermoelectric properties of Cu substituted LaCoO3 ceramics
K. K. Choudhary, N. Kaurav, U. Sharma, and S. K. Ghosh

Electronic thermal conductivity of suspended graphene
K. Rizwana Begum and N. S. Sankeshwar

The ground states of Perovskite nickelates: A dynamical mean field approach
D. Misra and A. Taraphder

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

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

Studies on the dielectric behavior of Cu-doped NdMnO3
Malay Udeshi, Savan Katba, Ashish Ravalia, Megha Vagadia, P. S. Solanki, M. J. Keshvani,
C. M. Thaker, N. A. Shah, and D. G. Kuberkar

xxxix

Dielectric behavior of nanostructured Y0.95Ca0.05MnO3: Role of sintering temperature 1306
Zalak Joshi, Davit Dhruv, Sanjay Kansara, Megha Vagadia, Nishant Barot, P. K. Mehta, 1309
P. S. Solanki, D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah 1312
1314
I-V and C-V characteristics of Y0.95Ca0.05MnO3/Si film 1316
Davit Dhruv, Zalak Joshi, Ashish Ravalia, Sanjay Kansara, D. D. Pandya, P. S. Solanki, 1319
D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah 1321
1324
The electrical transport properties of liquid Rb using pseudopotential theory
A. B. Patel, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, P. R. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 1327
1330
6\QWKHVLVDQGFKDUDFWHUL]DWLRQRIȕ-napthalene sulphonic acid doped poly(o-anisidine)
D. Sangamithirai, V. Narayanan, and A. Stephen 1333

Effect of phonon confinement on lattice thermal conductivity of lead Telluride 1336
quantum well structure 1339

Madhvendra Nath Tripathi

Effect of polarization on dielectric behaviour of PET/0.8PHB polymer liquid crystals
Sridharbabu Yarramaneni, Anu Sharma, and J. K. Quamara

CuAlTe2 under high temperature: An ab initio approach
Monika Sharma, Poonam Singh, Meena Kumari, and U. P. Verma

Dynamics of confined fluid by using memory function approach
Reena Devi, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar

Study of transport properties with relativistic ponderomotive effect in two-electron
temperature plasma

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

Structural and dielectric properties of Gd doped bismuth ferrite-lead titanate
N. K. Mohanty, A. K. Behera, S. K. Satpathy, B. Behera, and P. Nayak

Effects of Ni3+ substitution on structural and temperature dependent dielectrical properties
of NdFeO3

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

Thermoelectric properties of Ag added Ca0.98La0.02MnO3
Poonam Khade, Miral Patel, Shovit Bhattacharya, Ranu Bhatt, Ranita Basu, N. Kailash Meshram,
Ajay Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

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

xl

Structural and dielectric properties of the lutetium (Lu) and yttrium (Y) doped nickel ferrite 1342
Kodam Ugendar and G. Markandeyulu
1345
On the heat capacity of Ce3Al 1348
Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade,
and V. Ganesan 1351
1353
Size-dependent thermopower of nickel nanoparticles
Jaiveer Singh, N. Kaurav, and Gunadhor S. Okram 1356
1358
Electron spin resonance studies on reduction process of nitroxyl spin radicals 1361
used in molecular imaging 1364
1367
M. Kumara Dhas, A. Jawahar, and A. Milton Franklin Benial 1370

Effect of temperature and pressure on the dynamics of nanoconfined propane 1372
Siddharth Gautam, Tingting Liu, Gernot Rother, Niina Jalarvo, Eugene Mamontov, Susan Welch, 1375
and David Cole

Bulk modulus and specific heat of B-site doped (La0.3Pr0.7)0.65Ca0.35Mn1-xBxO3 (B=Fe, Cr, Ru,
Al, Ga)

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

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

Molecular dynamics investigation of Na+ in Na2Ni2TeO6
Kartik Sau and P. Padma Kumar

Nano-/micro metallic wire synthesis on Si substrate and their characterization
Jaskiran Kaur, Harmanmeet Kaur, Surinder Singh, Dinakar Kanjilal, and Shiv Kumar Chakarvarti

Magneto-transport in LaTi1-xMnxO3/SrTiO3 oxide heterostructures
Pramod Kumar, Anjana Dogra, and R. C. Budhani

Transport properties of Ag doped Pr0.67Sr1-xAgxMnO3
N. K. Gaur, Renu Choithrani, Masroor A. Bhat, and Rajnish Kurchania

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

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

Charge transport in NdNiO3 thin films: Effects of mn-doping versus tensile strain
Mahesh Chandra, Fozia Aziz, Rakesh Rana, Ravikiran Late, D. S. Rana, and K. R. Mavani

xli

Structural and transport studies on LaAl1-xCoxO3 1377
V. Aswin, Pramod Kumar, Pooja Singh, and Anjana Dogra 1380
1383
Thermoluminescence and dielectric response of gamma irradiated muscovite mica 1386
Sukhnandan Kaur, Surinder Singh, Lakhwant Singh, and S. P. Lochab 1389
1392
Investigation of photoconductivity in Pr-doped ZnS powder prepared by simple heat treatment 1395
technique 1397
1400
Rajneesh K. Srivastava, Smriti Srivastava, Sheo K. Mishra, and R. K. Shukla
1403
Study of electronic transport properties of doped 8AGNR 1406
Uma Shankar Sharma, Anurag Srivastava, and U. P. Verma 1408

Structural and transport properties of PVC blend PEG doped with Mg(ClO4)2 solid polymer
electrolyte

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

Anisotropic thermal conductivity and thermopower of In2Te5 single crystal
Anup V. Sanchela, Ajay. D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy

Structural and magnetization behavior of highly spin polarized Co2CrAl full Heusler alloy
S. N. Saha, J. Panda, and T. K. Nath

Relaxation behavior of oxygen deficient strontium manganite
Namita Pandey and Awalendra Kumar Thakur

Magnetoresistance of bismuth in bulk and thin film forms
S. N. Dange, Ritwik Saha, A. M. Patade, Ajit Mahadkar, Deepa T. Pujara, S. V. Vansutre,
and S. Radha

J. Semiconductor Physics

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

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

Effect of trigonal warping on anomalous Rabi oscillations in graphene bilayer
Vipin Kumar, Enamullah, and Girish S. Setlur

Interband emission energy in wurtzite GaN/Ga0.8Al0.2N and ZnO/Zn0.607Mg0.393O strained
quantum dots

N. S. Minimala and A. John Peter

xlii

Magnetic field induced third order susceptibility of third order harmonic generation 1410
in a ZnMgSe strained quantum well
1412
J. Abraham Hudson Mark and A. John Peter 1414
1417
Effective Landé factor in a GaMnAs quantum dot; with the effects of sp-d exchange 1419
on a bound polaron
1422
D. Lalitha and A. John Peter
1425
Pressure dependence of half metallic behavior of Co2VZ (Z = Si, Ge)-An ab initio study 1428
K. Seema and Ranjan Kumar 1430
1433
Investigations on Landé factor in a strained GaxIní[As/GaAs quantum dot 1435
N. R. Senthil Kumar and A. John Peter 1437

Temperature dependence of material gain of InGaAsP/InP nano-heterostructure 1440
Rashmi Yadav and P. A. Alvi

A comparative study of structural and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanocrystals
for photovotaic applications

Anima Ghosh, R. Thangavel, and M. Rajagopalan

Electrical and optical characterization of Pd/ZnO nanorods (NRs) Schottky diodes grown
on n-Si substrates

Divya Somvanshi and S. Jit

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

Growth and electrical transport properties of Cr0.5Mo0.5Se2 single crystals
P. F. Desai, D. D. Patel, and A. R. Jani

Determination of annealing of temperature HfO2/Si metal-oxide-semiconductor devices
Debaleen Biswas, Sk. Abdul Kader Md. Faruque, and Supratic Chakraborty

Optical properties of (Se80Te20)100-xAgx ”[”WKLQILOPV
D. Singh, S. Kumar, S. Sandhu, and R. Thangaraj

Synthesis, morphology and optical properties of GaN and AlGaN semiconductor nanostructures
B. Kuppulingam, Shubra Singh, and K. Baskar

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

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

xliii

Ni, Fe Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by solution combustion method 1443
Pooja Dhiman, Jagdish Chand, S. Verma, Sarveena, and M. Singh 1446
1449
High total dose proton irradiation effects on silicon NPN rf power transistors
M. N. Bharathi, K. C. Praveen, N. Pushpa, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1452
1455
Simplified 2DEG carrier concentration model for composite barrier AlGaN/GaN HEMT
Palash Das and Dhrubes Biswas 1458
1461
Variation of carrier concentration and interface trap density in 8MeV electron irradiated 1464
c-Si solar cells 1467
1470
Sathyanarayana Bhat, Asha Rao, Sheeja Krishnan, Ganesh Sanjeev, and E. P. Suresh
1473
A study on the effect of silver nanofillers in porous silicon 1476
S. Manickam Christopher, K. Gangadevi, K. Ramachandran, and R. Srinivasan 1479

Effect of Al-mole fraction in AlxGaí[N grown by MOCVD
M. Jayasakthi, R. Ramesh, K. Prabakaran, R. Loganathan, B. Kuppulingam, M. Balaji,
P. Arivazhagan, S. Sankaranarayanan, Shubra Singh, and K. Baskar

Modeling and simulation of CuIní[GaxSe2 based thin film solar cell
S. Kumari, P. Singh, R. Gautam, and A. S. Verma

Electronic structure of CdMoO4 using Compton scattering technique
Khushboo Sharma, Jagrati Sahariya, and B. L. Ahuja

Energy loss rate in disordered quantum well
P. Tripathi, S. S. Z. Ashraf, S. T. Hasan, and A. C. Sharma

Fabrication of PANI/ZnO heterojunction
Lalit Kumar, Anant Bansal, and S. Annapoorni

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

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

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

Relaxor-like dielectric response of spin liquid CuCrO2
N. Mazumder, U. K. Ghorai, R. Roy, S. Saha, and K. K. Chattopadhyay

xliv

Emission behavior of anionic chalcogen acceptor states in ZnO nanoparticles 1482
S. K. Mandal, N. Mazumder, U. K. Ghorai, S. Saha, and K. K. Chattopadhyay 1485

Optical properties of halide and oxide compounds including the excitonic effects 1488
G. Shwetha and V. Kanchana
1491
Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles by solution based solid state reaction process 1493
and its application in dye sensitized solar cell as counter electrode
1496
Krishnaiah Mokurala, Parag Bhargava, and Sudhanshu Mallick 1498

Enhanced UV and suppressed defect related emission in yttrium doped zinc oxide 1501
Vikas Sharma, Parmod Kumar, Geeta Rana, Rishi Vyas, K. Sachdev, Hitendra K. Malik, 1503
and K. Asokan 1506
1508
Diffusion thermopower in ZnO nanowires 1510
S. M. Galagali and N. S. Sankeshwar 1513

Optical rectification in a strained GaAs0.9P0.1/GaAs0.6P0.4 quantum dot: Simultaneous effects
of electric and magnetic fields

Ada Vinolin and A. John Peter

Magnetic behavior in Cr2@Gen ”Q”FOXVWHUV$GHQVLW\IXQFWLRQDOLQYHVWLJDWLRQ
Kapil Dhaka, Ravi Trivedi, and Debashis Bandyopadhyay

K. Superconductivity, Magnetism and Spintronics

Structural and magnetic stability of Fe2NiSi
Dinesh C. Gupta, Idris Hamid Bhat, and Mamta Chauhan

The XY model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction
Ransell D'Souza

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

Structural and electrical transport properties of La0.8Sm0.05K0.15MnO3 manganites
M. W. Shaikh, I. Mansuri, and Dinesh Varshney

Structural and electronic transport studies of self-doped Prí[MnO“į manganites
Aga Shahee and N. P. Lalla

Role of oxygen vacancies in magnetic properties of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface
N. Mohanta and A. Taraphder

xlv

Induced antiferromagnetism in Mn doped BaMgF4 1516
M. Manikandan, A. Muthukumaran, and C. Venkateswaran 1518
1521
The microstuctural, Mössbauer and magnetic properties of MgGd0‫ڄ‬1Fe1‫ڄ‬9O4 ferrite processed 1523
by solid state reaction technique 1526
1529
Jagdish Chand, Satish Verma, Pooja, Sarveena, and M. Singh 1531

B2+L21 ordering in Co2MnAl Heusler alloy 1533
A. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1536
1539
Proximity effect in cuprate based superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions 1541
P. K. Rout, R. K. Rakshit, and R. C. Budhani 1544

Structural and magnetic properties of Co2Tií[Fex$O”x ”DOOR\V
Lakhan Pal, Sachin Gupta, and K. G. Suresh

Effect of grain size on charge and magnetic ordering in Bi0.67Ca0.33MnO3
Ramesh Ade and R. Singh

Magnetotransport studies on GdBa2Cu3OZ superconducting film
M. J. Keshvani, Malay Udeshi, Sadaf Jethva, J. S. Rathod, B. T. Savalia, D. Venkateshwarlu,
V. Ganesan, P. S. Solanki, and D. G. Kuberkar

Effect of Co2+ substitution in Mg0.5Zní[CoxFe2O4 ferrite nanoparticles: Study of structural,
dielectric and magnetic properties

Mohd Hashim, S. S. Meena, D. Ravinder, Ravi Kumar, Pramod Bhatt, Shalendra Kumar,
and Alimuddin

Microstructure refinement and enhanced critical current density in binary doped SmFeAsO
superconductor

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

Field induced phase transition in Sm0.5(Caí[Srx)0.5MnO3
Sk. Sabyasachi, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri

Role of bimodal distribution in tailoring the inter-particle interactions in Cu79Co21 nanogranular
films

Dinesh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya

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

xlvi

Investigation of magnetic spin glass property in La0.5Bi0.5MnO3 sample using non-linear 1546
AC susceptibility measurements 1549
1551
Punith V. Kumar, M. R. Manju, and Vijaylakshmi Dayal 1554
1557
Tuning electron-electron correlation in noncentrosymmetric superconductor BiPd
Bhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan 1560
1562
Quantification of quantum discord in a antiferromagnetic Heisenberg compound 1564
H. Singh, T. Chakraborty, and C. Mitra 1566
1569
Study of lattice dynamics in yttrium doped NdMnO3 using Raman spectroscopy 1572
Ruchika Yadav, Harikrishnan S. Nair, and Suja Elizabeth 1575
1578
The effect of external magnetic field on the Raman peaks in manganites 1581
A. K. Sahu and G. C. Rout

Effects of In3+ substitution on structural properties, cation distribution and Mössbauer spectra
of CoFe2O4 ferrite

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

Room temperature ferromagnetism in Co defused CdTe nanocrystalline thin films
N. Madhusudhana Rao, S. Kaleemulla, and M. Rigana Begam

Study of magnetic susceptibility in some heavy fermion (HF) superconductors
N. Shadangi, J. Sahoo, S. Mohanty, and P. Nayak

100 MeV Ni+7 swift heavy ion induced magnetism in cobalt doped ZnO thin films
Sunil Kumar, Ravi Kumar, and D. P. Singh

Violation of Bell’s inequality in a spin 1/2 quantum magnet
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Harkirat Singh, and Chiranjib Mitra

Superconductivity in a low carrier density system: A single crystal study of cubic Y3Ru4Ge13
Om Prakash, A. Thamizhavel, A. K. Nigam, and S. Ramakrishnan

Mössbauer spectroscopic study of iron-chelate trammels
Sangita Pal, S. S. Meena, R. S. Ningthoujam, and D. Goswami

Effect of Gd and Zr co-substitution on multiferroic properties of BiFeO3
Manisha Arora, Prakash Chandra Sati, and Manoj Kumar

Thermal properties of Ni-substituted LaCoO3 perovskite
Rasna Thakur, Rajesh K. Thakur, Archana Srivastava, and N. K. Gaur

xlvii

Variation of effective dielectric constant of dilute magnetic dielectrics with magnetic field 1583
Ananya Banerjee and A. Sarkar 1586
1589
Magnetic structure at low temperatures in FeGe2 1591
P. D. Babu, P. K. Mishra, V. Dube, R. Mishra, P. U. Sastry, and G. Ravikumar 1595

Superconductivity in In doped topological crystalline insulator SnTe 1598
V. K. Maurya, Shruti, P. Neha, P. Srivastava, and S. Patnaik 1601

)DEULFDWLRQDQGFKDUDFWHUL]DWLRQRIVKXQWHGȝ-SQUID 1604
Nikhil Kumar, T. Fournier, H. Courtois, and Anjan K. Gupta
1606
Magnetic origin of dielectric transition in BiFeO3 1609
J. Ray, A. K. Biswal, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma
1612
Influence of boron on the microstructural and mechanical properties of Ni53.5Mn26.0Ga20.5 shape 1615
memory alloy 1618

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

Evidence of low field magnetoimpedance effect in (111) oriented Fe3O4 thin films
R. S. Joshi, B. M. Sankarshan, K. Mohan Kant, and P. S. Anil Kumar

First principles DFT study of ferromagnetism in SnO2 induced by doped group 1A and 2A
non-magnetic elements X (X=Li, Na, K, Be, Mg, Ca)

Brahmananda Chakraborty and Lavanya M. Ramaniah

Enhancement of spin polarization via Fermi level tuning in Co2MnSní[Sbx (x = 0, 0.25. 0.5,
0.75, 1) Heusler alloys

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

In-plane anisotropy in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) patterned thin film
Sourabh Jain, Himanshu Sharma, C. V. Tomy, V. R. Palkar, and A. Tulapurkar

Substitution effect on magnetic and electrical properties of half-Heusler alloy
Nií[CoxMní\FeySb

Varun Kushwaha, Himanshu Sharma, Dinesh Dixit, Ashwin Tulapurkar, and C. V. Tomy

Dual anisotropic character in Fe/Pt multilayer grown on (001) MgO substrate
Himanshu Pandey, R. K. Rakshit, Anurag Gupta, K. K. Maurya, M. K. Dalai, and R. C. Budhani

Single particle spectral function in iron pnictide superconductors within two band model
Luxmi Rani and Ajay

xlviii

Specific heat and characteristic ratio of some Fe-based superconductors: A model study 1621
Haranath Ghosh, Smritijit Sen, and Harsh Purwar 1624
1627
Magnetic properties on strained manganite thin film 1630
C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, S. K. Gupta, D. Bhattacharya, S. Basu, and G. Ravikumar 1633
1636
FMR studies and magnetic properties of Mg doped La0.67Ca0.33MnO3
A. Sendil Kumar, K. Ravinder Reddy, and Anil K. Bhatnagar 1639
1642
Signature of Griffith singularity in half doped LaMn0.5Cu0.5O3
A. K. Biswal, J. Ray, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 1645
1648
Effect of synthesis route on the multiferroic properties of single phase BiFeO3 1651
Pittala Suresh and S. Srinath 1654
1657
Structural transitions in driven vortices of weakly pinned superconductors
M. Suresh Babu and D. Pal 1660

Enhanced room temperature magnetoresistance in píLa0.7Ca0.3MnO3/SrTiO3/níSi
heterostructure: A possible spintronics application

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

Anisotropic magnetic properties of Dy6Cr4Al43 single crystal
Arvind Maurya, A. Thamizhavel, and S. K. Dhar

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

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

Magnetization reversal and giant coercivity in Co(Cr0.7Mn0.3)2O4
R. Padam, R. Kumar, A. K. Grover, and D. Pal

Vortex lattices and their transformations in rectangular antidot arrays
Ajay D. Thakur, S. Ooi, M. Chand, J. Jesudasan, P. Raychaudhuri, and K. Hirata

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

Temperature dependent tunneling study of CaFe1.96Ni0.04As2 single crystals
Anirban Dutta, A. Thamizhavel, and Anjan K. Gupta

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

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

xlix

L. Novel Materials 1663
1666
Electric polarization in ferromagnetic Bi1/2As1/2MnO3: A first principle study 1669
S. Sheela Sathya, C. Kanagaraj, and N. Basakaran 1672
1674
XPS depth profile study of sprayed CZTS thin films 1677
D. R. Deepu, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1680
1683
Neutron diffraction studies on chemical and magnetic structure of multiferroic PbFe0.67W0.33O3 1686
Shidaling Matteppanavar, Basavaraj Angadi, and Sudhindra Rayaprol 1689
1691
Photoluminescence properties of NaPbB5O9:Dy3+ new material for white light applications
D. Rajesh and Y. C. Ratnakaram 1694

The nanosphere driven optical and dielectric changes in ferroelectric liquid crystal
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, S. K. Gupta, Shivani Pandey, Tripti Vimal, A. C. Pandey,
and Rajiv Manohar

Structural, morphological and optical investigations on Sm3+ doped gadolinium oxide nanorods
G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan

High value of ferroelectric polarization in BFO nanorods
S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Nabanita Dutta, Subhasis Rana, Pintu Sen, A. K. Himanshu,
and P. K. Chakraborty

Rietveld refinement and dielectric studies of Bi0.8Ba0.2Fe0.95V0.05O3 ceramic
Priyanka, A. Agarwal, N. Ahlawat, S. Sanghi, and S. Rani

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

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

Conductivity of the nanocomposite of graphite and clay at low temperature
Ranjana Goswami

Small angle x-ray scattering study of nano-scale precipitation in Ni50.3Ti29.7Hf20 high temperature
shape memory alloy

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

Electrokinetic properties of PMAA functionalized NiFe2O4 nanoparticles synthesized by thermal
plasma route

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

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