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Solid State Physics Proceedings of the 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2013 Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India 17–21 December 2013

Editors Chitra Murli D. Bhattacharyya S. C. Gadkari Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

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Editors 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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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1591 Solid State Physics Proceedings of the 58th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2013 Table of Contents Preface: DAE Solid State Physics Symposium Chitra Murli, Dibyendu Bhattacharyya, and S. C. Gadkari

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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

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

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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

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Atomically resolved force microscopy at room temperature Seizo Morita

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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

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

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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

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Pressure induced local disorder to order phase transition in TaO2F K. Kamali and T. R. Ravindran

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Structural and dielectric properties of Nd/Ca co-doped bi-ferrite multiferroics Ashwini Kumar, Poorva Sharma, and Dinesh Varshney

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Structural and in-field dielectric studies across the antiferroelectric transition in Srí;CaXTiO3 Shivani Sharma, Aga Shahee, and N. P. Lalla

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Structural and optical properties of Nd3+ doped gadolinium oxide 1D nanorods G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan

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Effect of samarium doping on the dielectric behavior of barium zircomium titanate ceramic T. Badapanda, S. Sarangi, B. Behera, S. Anwar, and T. P. Sinha

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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Detection of a new 'nematic-like' phase in liquid crystal-amphiphile mixture by differential scanning calorimetry Kaustabh Dan, Madhusudan Roy, and Alokmay Datta

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

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Dielectric studies of BaTi0.96Co0.04O3 prepared via solid state route Ashutosh Mishra, Niyati Mishra, Kanaka Mahalakshmi Jarabana, and Supriya Bisen

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Tuning of exchange bias in Mn50Ni39+xSní[ (x=0 and 2) full Heusler alloys Jyoti Sharma and K. G. Suresh

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Dielectric behavior of barium modified strontium bismuth titanate ceramic P. Nayak, T. Badapanda, S. Anwar, and S. Panigrahi

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Synthesis and structural studiHVRQí[ %L0J1/2Ti1/2)O3íxPbTiO3 piezoceramics Ashutosh Upadhyay, Rishikesh Pandey, Shashwat Anand, and Akhilesh K. Singh

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(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 Apurba Barman and Saurabh Basu

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Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating double-well potential: Hidden vortices and Feynman rule T. Mithun, K. Porsezian, and Bishwajyoti Dey

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Structural and magnetic transformation in electrochemically synthesized FePt thin films on Si/Pt electrodes Rekha Gupta, Rajan Goyal, Rohit Medwal, and S. Annapoorni

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Structural and dielectric properties of erbium doped BiFeO3íPbTiO3 solid solutions Vandana, Anupinder Singh, Lakhwant Singh, Anumeet Kaur, Sajjan Dahyia, and Ratnamala Chatterjee

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Charge density wave in Er2Ir3Si5 single crystal P. C. Lalngilneia, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Pal

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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

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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

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,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

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

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

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

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

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Enhanced dielectric constant and relaxor behavior realized by dual stage sintering of Sr0.5Ba0.5Nb2O6 Satyapal S. Rathore and Satish Vitta

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+\GURJHQERQGVLQĮ-oxalic acid dihydrate-A Raman spectroscopic study A. K. Mishra, Chitra Murli, H. Bhatt, and Surinder M. Sharma

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Bose-Hubbard model with attractive interactions and inhomogeneous lattice potential Mukesh Khanore and Bishwajyoti Dey

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

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

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Static critical phenomena in Co-Ni-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Brahmananda Sethi, S. Sarma, A. Srinivasan, and S. B. Santra

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Ab initio study of pressure induced structural and electronic properties in uranium monobismuthide Jagdish Pataiya, Mahendra Aynyas, C. Makode, A. Singh, and Sankar P. Sanyal

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

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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

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

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B. Soft Condensed Matter Including Biological Systems Tuning structure of oppositely charged nanoparticle and protein complexes Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and P. Callow

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

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

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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

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An unusual behavior on the electrical properties of various salts of chitosan C. Raja Mohan, R. Manikandan, and K. Jayakumar

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Tuning of depletion interaction in nanoparticle-surfactant systems D. Ray and V. K. Aswal

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Fabrication, characterization and gas sensing studies of PPy/MWCNT/SLS nanocomposite D. C. Tiwari, Priyanka Atri, and R. Sharma

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Orientational order parameter measurements of discotic liquid crystal Supreet Kaur, K. K. Raina, S. Kumar, and R. Pratibha

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Optical and electrical properties of cobalt chloride doped polyvinylalcohol polyvinylpyrrolidone blend R. V. Patil, M. R. Ranganath, and Blaise Lobo

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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

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Bio-compatibility, surface & chemical characterization of glow discharge plasma modified ZnO nanocomposite polycarbonate Bhawna Bagra, Prashant Pimpliskar, and Narendra Kumar Agrawal

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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

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

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Photoluminescence analysis of self induced planer alignment in azo dye dispersed nematic liquid crystal complex Rishi Kumar, Srishti Sood, and K. K. Raina

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

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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

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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 Dipti, Sangeeta Singh, J. K. Juneja, R. P. Pant, K. K. Raina, and Chandra Prakash

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How attractive interaction changes water-like anomalies of a core-softened model potential Shashank Pant, Tarun Gera, and Niharendu Choudhury

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A comparative study of conventionally sintered and microwave sintered nickel zinc ferrite Rekha Rani, J. K. Juneja, K. K. Raina, R. K. Kotnala, and Chandra Prakash

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SANS study of interaction of silica nanoparticles with BSA protein and their resultant structure Indresh Yadav, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrecher

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Microstructural, thermal and antibacterial properties of electron beam irradiated Bombyx mori silk fibroin films S. Asha, Sangappa, Prashantha Naik, K. Sharat Chandra, and Ganesh Sanjeev

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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

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

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Lattice Boltzmann study of kinetic equation derived from BBGKY hierarchy and non-equilibrium work distributions S. Siva Nasarayya Chari and K. P. N. Murthy

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

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C. Nano-materials Size effect on the electronic and optical band gap of CdSe QD Namita Sisodia

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Conducting intrinsic nanocrystalline silicon films with high growth rate prepared at 27.12 MHz frequency Praloy Mondal and Debajyoti Das

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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

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

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Effect of pressure on narrow band Coí[FexS2 nanoparticles-Mössbauer spectroscopic study Usha Chandra, Pooja Sharma, and T. C. Badiwal

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Novel synthesis of highly porous spinel cobaltite (NiCo2O4) electrode material for supercapacitor applications A. Nirmalesh Naveen and S. Selladurai

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Study of sub band gap absorption of Sn doped CdSe thin films Jagdish Kaur, Mamta Rani, and S. K. Tripathi

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Electrical studies on perovskite BaSnO3 nanostructures N. Rajamanickam, S. Rajashabala, R. Ramesh Babu, Nandakishor Meshram, and K. Ramachandran

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High capacitance in BiFeO3 nanorod structure Subhasis Rana, Nabanita Dutta, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Pintu Sen, and A. K. Himanshu

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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CdO-CdS nano-composites as improved photo-catalysts for the generation of hydrogen from water Shital V. Kahane, R. Sasikala, V. Sudarsan, and Shailaja Mahamuni

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Structural and viscous properties of bidispersed magnetic colloids Hiral Virpura, Mayur Parmar, Vishaka Dave, and Rajesh Patel

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Possibility of hydrogen storage in SWCNT/TiO2/SnO2 hybrid system - An ab-initio study R. Lavanya, V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, V. Vasu, and Y. Kawazoe

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

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Liquid phase synthesis of copper indium diselenide nanoparticles Priyanka Jakhmola, Garima Agarwal, Prafulla K. Jha, and S. P. Bhatnagar

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Quantitative phase analysis of Mg:ZrO2 nanoparticles by Rietveld refinement method V. Balaji, S. Senthilkumaran, and P. Thangadurai

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

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

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

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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

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

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Morphological and photoluminescence study of chemically synthesized Al2O3 polythiophene composite Akhilesh Tripathi, Indra Bahadur, and R. K. Shukla

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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

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

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Conventional and anomalous quantum Rabi oscillations in graphene Enamullah Khan, Vipin Kumar, Upendra Kumar, and Girish S. Setlur

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Decrease of metal to semiconducting phase transition temperature with increase of particle size in nickel ferrite Vanidha Dessingou, Arunkumar Arumugam, and Kannan Radhakrishnan

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Effect of elasticity of wall on diffusion in nano channel K. Tankeshwar and Sunita Srivastava

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Annealing effects on microstrain of cobalt oxide nanoparticles Anjali Jain Deotale, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, Anuj Upadhyay, and R. V. Nandedkar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Daylight photocatalytic activity of TiO2/SnO2 core/shell nanostructures: An experimental and density functional study Pawan Chetri, Priyanka Basyach, and Amarjyoti Choudhury

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One step, microwave assisted green synthesis of biocompatible carbon quantum dots DQGWKHLUFRPSRVLWHVZLWK>Įí3:12O40í] for visible light photocatalysis Atharva Sahasrabudhe, Shashank Pant, Manjunath Chatti, Binoy Maiti, Priyadarsi De, and Soumyajit Roy

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Effect of Al2O3 RQFU\VWDOOLQLW\DQGFRQGXFWLYLW\RI39$í3(2í(&í/L&)3SO3 blend electrolyte system Prajakta N. Joge, D. K. Kanchan, and Poonam L. Sharma

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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Thermal expansion of multiwall carbon nanotube reinforced nanocrystalline silver matrix composite Manjula Sharma, Hemant Pal, and Vimal Sharma

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

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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 H. A. Khawal and B. N. Dole

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Characterization and optical properties of polyaniline-MWCNT-ZnS nanocomposites M. Goswami, R. Ghosh, and A. K. Meikap

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Synthesis and characterization of Bií[LaxPO4 nano-rods Sarabjot Singh, Sheeba Khan, D. K. Patel, and V. Sudarsan

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Ferromagnetic superexchange interaction and spin glass behaviour in Sm2CoMnO6 nanoparticles R. P. Maiti, M. K. Mitra, and Dipankar Chakravorty

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Study of dielectric relaxation process in nanocomposite of Li2O-SiO2 nanoglass-CuO nanoparticles Dhriti Ranjan Saha and Dipankar Chakravorty

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

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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

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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

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Indium doped zinc oxide nanowire thin films for antireflection and solar absorber coating applications Ummar Pasha Shaik and M. Ghanashyam Krishna

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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

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Synthesis and Raman spectrum of crystalline indium oxide micro-rods with rectangular cross-section Kavita Yadav, B. R. Mehta, and J. P. Singh

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

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Synthesis of CdS/CdSe core/shell ultra small nanostructures using new microwave assisted ultrasonic sol gel route Y. C. Goswami, Vijay Kumar, Ranjana Sharma, and Rajeev Singh

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A study of various geometries of gold nanowires and effect of doping Priyanka, Sumali Bansal, Rajiv Bhandari, and Keya Dharamvir

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Fluorescence relaxation dynamics of CdSe and CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots Gurvir Kaur, Harmandeep Kaur, and S. K. Tripathi

420

0DJQHWLFSURSHUWLHVRIĮí0Q22 and Co-GRSHGĮí0Q22 nanowires C. Stella, N. Soundararajan, and K. Ramachandran

423

Structural investigations of Ga2O3 nanorods R. M. Pandey, B. S. Naidu, V. Sudarsan, M. Pandey, R. J. Kshirasagar, and R. K. Vatsa

426

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

429

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

432

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

434

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

437

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

440

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

442

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

445

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

448

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

450

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Zinc oxide nanoflower prepared by wet colloid chemical method S. Mahato, S. Das, and A. K. Kar

453

Influence of Al doping on optical properties of CdS/PVA nanocomposites: Theory and experiment Vaneeta Bala, S. K. Tripathi, and Ranjan Kumar

456

CTAB capped silver nanoparticles for plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cell Tanvi, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and Subodh Kumar

459

Ion dynamics in nanocrystalline LiMnPO4 synthesised by novel template free hydrothermal approach Lakshmi Vijayan, Rajesh Cheruku, and G. Govindaraj

462

Photoluminescence and energy transfer study on Gd2O3:Eu3+, Al3+ T. Selvalakshmi, S. Anbumani, and A. Chandra Bose

465

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

468

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

470

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

472

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

474

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

477

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

481

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

484

Electronic and transport properties edge functionalized graphene nanoribbons-An ab initio approach Satyendra Singh Chauhan, Pankaj Srivastava, and A. K. Shrivastva

487

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Intrinsic high magnetism in SnO2 quantum dots Bonu Venkataramana, A. Das, Manas Sardar, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi

490

Micro structural studies of PVA doped with metal oxide nanocomposites films N. B. Rithin Kumar, Vincent Crasta, B. M. Praveen, B. Shreeprakash, and F. Viju

493

Rapid phase synthesis of nanocrystalline cobalt ferrite T. Shanmugavel, S. Gokul Raj, G. Rajarajan, and G. Ramesh Kumar

496

Structural and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of Fe-Ni alloy nanoparticles Asheesh Kumar, S. S. Meena, S. Banerjee, and V. Sudarsan

499

Synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Ca3B2O6:Tb3+ nanophosphors Mohit Manhas, Vinay Kumar, O. M. Ntwaeaborwa, and H. C. Swart

502

Synthesis and thermal analysis of bisphenol a polycarbonate- ZnO nanocomposites Harshita Agrawal, Shalini Agrawal, Kamlendra Awasthi, and Vibhav K. Saraswat

505

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

508

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

511

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

514

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

516

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

519

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

521

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

524

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Mixed magnetic phases in Co3O4 nanoparticles synthesized by co-precipitation method Stuti Rani, Yogesh Sharma, and G. D. Varma

526

Hydrothermal synthesis and magnetic properties of ErCrO4 nanoparticles Y. Sundarayya, K. Ashwini Kumar, Rajesh Sondge, S. Srinath, and S. N. Kaul

529

Structural, electronic and optical properties of armchair silicon nanotube of chirality (6,6) Surjeet Kumar Chandel, Arun Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, and Raman Sharma

531

Assessing the purity of CNT from its composite with polymer - A new approach J. C. Maurya, Soumen Karmakar, Sukratu Barve, S. V. Bhoraskar, A. K. Das, and V. L. Mathe

534

Influence of Ni substitution on structural and magnetic properties of Zní[NixMg0.05Cu0.1Fe2O4 ferrite A. S. Batra, M. Satalkar, S. N. Kane, A. Ghosh, and N. Ghodke

537

Extrinsic mechanism for giant dielectric response in Ba0.70Sr0.30(Fe0.5Nb0.5)O3 ceramic Piyush Kumar Patel, K. L. Yadav, and Durgesh

540

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

543

Tuning diamagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in Mn doped CdS nanocrystals by crystal structure engineering Anirudha Ghosh, Sanhita Paul, and Satyabrata Raj

546

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

549

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

552

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

555

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

558

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

561

Template confined synthesis of amorphous carbon nanotubes and its confocal Raman microscopy Supratim Maity, Tuhin Roychowdhury, and Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay

563

xviii

Synthesis and characterization of ferroelectric bismuth titanate (Bi4Ti3O12) Pallavi Gupta, Balram, and Dwijendra P. Singh

565

Effect of surfactant assisted dispersed graphene on sensitivity of MWCNT-alcohol sensor Anita Kumari, Neetu Prasad, Amandeep Kaur, Shiv Kumar Dixit, P. K. Bhatnagar, and P. C. Mathur

568

Influence of sodium substitution on structural and optical properties of Zn0.96Mn0.04O nanocrystals B. L. Prashant, S. N. Dolia, Sudhish Kumar, Anjali Krishnamurthy, and Bipin K. Srivatava

571

Synthesis and characterizations of graphene oxide and reduced graphene oxide nanosheets M. Venkanna and Amit K. Chakraborty

574

Surfactant free hydrothermal synthesis of SnO2 nanorods with their microstructure and Raman studies A. Amutha, B. K. Panigrahi, S. Amirthapanian, and P. Thangadurai

577

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

580

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

583

Crystallographic, luminescence and photoconductive characteristics of chemically tailored ZnO nanorods Sayan Bayan, Dambarudhar Mohanta, and Purushottam Chakraborty

586

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

589

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

592

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

595

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

597

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

600

Mass production of magnetic nickel nanoparticle in thermal plasma reactor Nilesh S. Kanhe, Ashok B. Nawale, S. V. Bhoraskar, A. K. Das, and V. L. Mathe

603

Fe3O4@SiO2 core-shell nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization and application in environmental remediation J. Majeed, Jayshree Ramkumar, S. Chandramouleeswaran, and A. K. Tyagi

605

D. Experimental Techniques and Devices Shock induced spall fracture in polycrystalline copper D. Mukherjee, Amit Rav, Amit Sur, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta

608

Performance study of polycrystalline CVD diamond detectors for fast neutron monitoring Arvind Singh, Amit Kumar, and Anita Topkar

611

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

614

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

617

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

620

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

622

Study on structural, dielectric and magnetic behaviour of ferroelectric/ferrite magnetoelectric composites Meera Rawat, Manjusha, and K. L. Yadav

625

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

628

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

631

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

633

xx

On the improvement of photovoltaic action of ZnO/P3HT:PCBM by controlling roughness of window layer R. Geethu, M. R. Rajesh Menon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

636

Ageing studies on CuInS2/In2S3 junction (2.5×2cm2) deposited using automated spray machine M. V. Santhosh, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

639

Synchrotron total reflection X-ray fluorescence at BL-16 microfocus beamline of Indus-2 M. K. Tiwari, A. K. Singh, Gangadhar Das, Anupam Chowdhury, and G. S. Lodha

642

Development of a nano-tesla magnetic field shielded chamber and highly precise AC-VXVFHSWLELOLW\PHDVXUHPHQWFRLODWȝ.WHPSHUDWXUHV Anil Kumar, Om Prakash, and S. Ramakrishanan

644

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

646

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

649

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

652

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

655

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

658

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

661

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

664

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

666

xxi

Effect of temperature on performance of 3He filled neutron proportional counters Shraddha S. Desai

668

Substituted copper phthalocyanine/multiwalled carbon nanotubes hybrid material for Cl2 sensing application Anshul Kumar Sharma, Rajan Saini, Rajinder Singh, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and D. K. Aswal

671

ƍ-11ƍ-dicarbazole)biphenyl (CBP) as efficient host in cost-effective green phosphorescent OLEDs K. Thangaraju, G. Muralidharan, K. Jayakumar, Yun-Hi Kim, and Soon-Ki Kwon

674

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

677

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

680

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

683

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

685

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

687

Design and calibration of Z-meter for simultaneous thermal transport measurements at high temperature B. Singh, D. Shukla, P. Srivastava, and S. Patnaik

690

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

693

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

696

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

699

xxii

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

702

Dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Al2O3 containing lead titanate based glass-ceramics V. U. Rahangdale, D. K. Gala, R. M. Acharya, and V. K. Deshpande

705

PbTiO3 based ferroelectric glass ceramics J. Shankar and V. K. Deshpande

708

Dielectric spectroscopy in crystalline methocarbamol Manoj K. Saini

711

Photoluminescence properties of Ho3+ ion in lithium-fluoroborate glass containing different modifier oxides A. Balakrishna, D. Rajesh, and Y. C. Ratnakaram

714

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

717

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

719

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

722

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

725

Spectrometric analysis of different fluorophosphate glasses doped with Sm3+ ions for reddish-orange laser emission S. Babu, A. Balakrishna, and Y. C. Ratnakaram

728

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

730

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

733

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

736

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

739

xxiii

High field conduction in glassy Se90Sb8Ag2 alloy: Applicability of Meyer-Neldel rule Anjani Kumar and A. Kumar

742

Investigation of Mg and Zn doped 45S5 bioactive materials by XRD, FTIR and SEM techniques Vikas Anand, K. J. Singh, and Kulwinder Kaur

745

Gamma ray shielding and structural properties of Bi2O3í3E2í%2O3íV2O5 glass system Kulwinder Kaur, K. J. Singh, and Vikas Anand

747

Synthesis and studies on microhardness of alkali zinc borate glasses Subhashini, Soumalya Bhattacharya, H. D. Shashikala, and N. K. Udayashankar

749

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

751

Effect of heat treatment time on microstructure and electrical conductivity in LATP glass ceramics Dhiren Sonigra, Swati Soman, and Ajit R. Kulkarni

753

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

756

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

759

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

762

Characterization of radiative properties of Nd2O3 doped phosphate and silicate glasses for solid state laser P. Nandi, R. Shukla, M. Goswami, and V. Sudarsan

765

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

767

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

770

Structural investigation of x=Q2íx 0Q2í)H2O3í60B2O3 glasses R. L. Dhiman and Virender Kundu

773

xxiv

White light stimulation from Dy3+ doped B2O33E2í=Q2í%L2O3 glasses for WLED applications M. Vijayakumar, S. Arunkumar, K. Annapoorani, and K. Marimuthu

775

Spectroscopic properties of Er3+ GRSHGOHDGWHOOXURERUDWHJODVVHVIRUȝPEURDGEDQG amplifiers R. Vijayakumar, S. Arunkumar, M. Vijayakumar, and K. Marimuthu

778

Near infrared and upconversion luminescence behaviour of Er3+/Yb3+ codoped boro-tellurite glasses K. Maheshvaran, S. Arunkumar, R. Vijayakumar, and K. Marimuthu

781

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

784

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

787

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

790

Composition dependent light induced crossover from photodarkening to photobleaching in GexAsí[Se65 thin films Pritam Khan and K. V. Adarsh

793

Effect of alkali addition on DC conductivity & thermal properties of vanadium-bismo-borate glasses S. Khasa, M. S. Dahiya, and A. Agarwal

796

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

799

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

802

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

805

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

807

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

810

xxv

Study of kinetics of crystallization of Ge7Se75Sb18 chalcogenide glass Naveen Tanwar and Vibhav K. Saraswat

813

Pair correlation studies of CdCl2 doped PVA polymer films using X-ray data M. B. Nanda Prakash, G. Thejas Urs, H. T. Anand, and R. Somashekar

816

Characterization of montmorillonite doped PVA/SA blends using X-ray diffraction K. Hemalatha, Mahadevaiah, H. Somashekarappa, and R. Somashekar

819

Invariant bandwidth of erbium in ZnO-PbO-tellurite glasses: Local probe/model Raj Kumar Ramamoorthy and Anil K. Bhatnagar

822

Molecular dynamics in amorphous ergocalciferol Sahra Mohamed, M. Shahin Thayyil, and S. Capaccioli

825

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

828

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

831

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

833

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

836

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

839

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

842

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

845

xxvi

PART B F. Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films Dynamic fluorescence quenching of quinine sulfate dication by chloride ion in ionic and neutral micellar environments Sunita Joshi, Tej Varma Varma Y, and Debi D. Pant

848

Abbe's number and Cauchy's constant of iodine and selenium doped poly (methylmethacrylate) and polystyrene composites Sheetal Mehta, Kallol Das, and Jag Mohan Keller

851

One-step synthesis of silicon nanocrystals in a-SiOx matrix at low-temperature by RF magnetron sputtering Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das

854

Fabrication of highly transparent diamond-like carbon anti-reflecting coating for Si solar cell application Amit Banerjee and Debajyoti Das

856

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

858

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

861

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

864

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

867

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

869

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

872

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

875

xxvii

Role of oxygen mixing percentage on r.f sputtered and microwave annealed crystalline SrBi4Ti4O15 thin films A. Rambabu, E. Sivanagi Reddy, and K. C. James Raju

878

Photo-induced wettability of TiO2 film with Au buffer layer Debarun Dhar Purkayastha, L. D. Varma Sangani, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and V. Madhurima

881

Preparation of Cu-doped nickel oxide thin films and their properties V. Gowthami, M. Meenakshi, N. Anandhan, and C. Sanjeeviraja

884

Effect of annealing on the optical properties of thin silver films exhibiting surface plasmon resonance Aparajita Mandal and Partha Chaudhuri

887

Cleaning of optical surfaces by capacitively coupled RF discharge plasma P. K. Yadav, M. Kumar, S. K. Rai, J. A. Chakera, C. Mukherjee, M. Nayak, P. A. Naik, and G. S. Lodha

890

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

893

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

895

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

898

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

901

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

904

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

907

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

910

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

913

xxviii

Secondary electron measurement and XPS characterization of NEG coatings R. K. Sharma, Atul K. Sinha, Nidhi Gupta, J. Nuwad, Jagannath, S. C. Gadkari, M. R. Singh, and S. K. Gupta

916

Hydrogen removal from e-beam deposited alumina thin films by oxygen ion beam Arijeet Das, C. Mukharjee, K. Rajiv, Aniruddha Bose, S. D. Singh, D. M. Phase, S. K. Rai, Tapas Ganguli, S. C. Joshi, and S. K. Deb

919

Structural and optical properties of Ni added ZnO thin films deposited by sol-gel method R. Murugan, G. Vijayaprasath, T. Mahalingam, N. Anandhan, and G. Ravi

922

NH3 sensor based on CSA doped PANi-SnO2 nanohybrid G. D. Khuspe, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, R. N. Mulik, P. R. Godse, Shashwati Sen, and V. B. Patil

925

Resonant x-ray reflectivity study of partial decomposed boron nitride thin films using Indus-1 synchrotron Maheswar Nayak and Gyanendra S. Lodha

927

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

930

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

933

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

935

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

938

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

941

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

944

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

946

xxix

Structural transformations in reactively sputtered alumina films P. Nayar and A. Khanna

948

Effect of discharge current and deposition temperature on roughness and density of NbC films fabricated by ion beam sputtering technique Rajnish Dhawan, Sanjay Rai, and G. S. Lodha

951

Structural study of Langmuir liquid crystal monolayer Ramneek Kaur and K. K. Raina

954

Effect of polymers pore-filling on structural, optical and electrical properties of porous silicon K. Kulathuraan, P. Jeyakumar, V. Ramadas, and B. Natarajan

957

Study of difference in interfacial reaction at Fe3O4/ZnO and ZnO/Fe3O4 heterostructure using synchrotron radiation A. D. Wadikar, Ridhi Master, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase

960

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

962

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

965

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

968

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

970

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

972

Morphological characterization of &bgr; phase in poly-(vinylidenefluoride) film prepared by spin cast method Hitesh Kumar Mehtani, Rishi Kumar, and K. K. Raina

975

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

977

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

980

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

982

xxx

Installation and commissioning of a large area coating system for neutron and X-ray optical devices 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

985

Study on higher harmonic suppression using edge filter and polished Si wafer R. K. Gupta, Amol Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and G. S. Lodha

988

Linear and nonlinear optical properties of Mn doped benzimidazole thin films P. A. Praveen, R. Ramesh Babu, S. P. Prabhakaran, and K. Ramamurthi

991

Influence of Boron doping on the structural, optical and electrical properties of CdO thin films by spray pyrolysis technique P. Velusamy, R. Ramesh Babu, and K. Ramamurthi

994

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

997

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

1000

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

1003

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

1006

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

1009

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

1012

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

1015

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

1018

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

1021

xxxi

Fabrication of metal dielectric metal multilayer thin film: Color filter Garima Kedawat, Vipin Kumar Jain, and Y. K. Vijay

1024

Effect of substrate temperature on structural and optical properties of nitrogen doped SnO2 thin film Anup Thakur, Varinder Kumar, Se Jun Kang, Ik-Jae Lee, Sanjeev Gautam, K. H. Chae, and Hyun Joon Shin

1027

Hexagonally ordered nanodots: Result of substrate rotation during oblique incidence low energy IBS Debasree Chowdhury and Debabrata Ghose

1030

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

1033

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

1036

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

1039

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

1042

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

1045

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

1048

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

1051

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

1054

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

1057

xxxii

Unequal density effect on static structure factor of coupled electron layers L. K. Saini and Mukesh G. Nayak

1060

Ab-LQLWLRVWXG\RIKLJKWHPSHUDWXUHODWWLFHG\QDPLFVRI%&&]LUFRQLXPȕ-Zr) DQGXUDQLXPȖ-U) Partha S. Ghosh, A. Arya, and G. K. Dey

1062

Conformational effect of dicyclo-hexano-18-crown-6 on isotopic fractionation of zinc: DFT approach A. Boda, A. K. Singha Deb, Sk. M. Ali, K. T. Shenoy, and S. K. Ghosh

1065

Phonon and magnon scattering of Bi2Fe4O9 ceramic Poorva Sharma, Ashwini Kumar, and Dinesh Varshney

1068

High temperature phonon dispersion in graphene using classical molecular dynamics P. Anees, M. C. Valsakumar, and B. K. Panigrahi

1070

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

1072

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

1075

A time-dependent density functional study of photoabsorption in B6O2 cluster: Effect of geometry Dipanwita Mukherjee, Saroj K. Parida, Sridhar Sahu, and Sagar Sharma

1078

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

1081

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

1084

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

1087

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

1089

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

1092

xxxiii

Should muffin tin radius vary in different structures of a material?: A case study Vikas Nayak, Suman Banger, and U. P. Verma

1095

Raman evidence for coupling of superconducting quasi-particles with a phonon and crystal field excitation in superconductor Ce0.6Y0.4FeAsO0.8F0.2 Pradeep Kumar, D. V. S. Muthu, J. Prakash, A. K. Ganguli, and A. K. Sood

1098

Effect of electron-phonon interaction on resistivity of some heavy fermion (HF) systems J. Sahoo, N. Shadangi, and P. Nayak

1101

First principles electronic band structure and phonon dispersion curves for zinc blend beryllium chalcogenide Shweta Dabhi, Venu Mankad, and Prafulla K. Jha

1103

Density functional study of structural and electronic properties of Aln@C60 Shobhna Dhiman, Ranjan Kumar, and Keya Dharamvir

1106

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

1109

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

1112

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

1115

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

1118

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

1121

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

1124

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

1127

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

1130

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

1133

xxxiv

The pinning effect in quantum dots P. J. Monisha and Soma Mukhopadhyay

1135

Study of structural and electronic properties of Mn3O4 Ramandeep Kaur, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal

1137

Half metallic ferromagnetism in alkali metal nitrides MN (M = Rb, Cs): A first principles study A. Murugan, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, M. Santhosh, G. Sudhapriyanga, and S. Kanagaprabha

1140

Experimental and first principle studies on electronic structure of BaTiO3 Archna Sagdeo, Haranath Ghosh, Aparna Chakrabarti, C. Kamal, Tapas Ganguli, D. M. Phase, and S. K. Deb

1142

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

1145

Structural and Raman scattering study of Ni-doped CoFe 2O4 Ashwini Kumar, Mashkoor A. Dar, Poorva Sharma, and Dinesh Varshney

1148

Electronic and magnetic properties of Fe and Mn doped two dimensional hexagonal germanium sheets Himadri R. Soni and Prafulla K. Jha

1151

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

1153

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

1155

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

1158

Elastic constants and Fermi surface topology change in Calaverite AuTe2: A density functional study Vijay Kumar Gudelli and V. Kanchana

1161

The self-trapping transition in the non-half-filled strongly correlated extended Holstein-Hubbard model in two-dimensions I. V. Sankar and Ashok Chatterjee

1164

xxxv

Phase transitions in double perovskite Sr2ScSbO6: An Ab-initio study Rajyavardhan Ray, Ajay K. Himanshu, Kumar Brajesh, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Uday Kumar, and T. P. Sinha

1167

Excitation energies of molecules within time-independent density functional theory M. Hemanadhan and Manoj K. Harbola

1170

mBJLDA approach for optical properties of Nowontny-Juza LiMgZ (Z = P, As) compounds Arvind K. Sharma, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap

1173

Coulomb interaction of acceptors in Cd1-xMnxTe/CdTe quantum dot P. Kalpana, A. Merwyn Jasper D. Reuben, P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar

1176

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

1179

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

1182

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

1185

Synthesis, growth, structure determination and optical properties of chalcone derivative single crystal S. Karthi and E. K. Girija

1188

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

1191

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

1194

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

1197

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

1200

xxxvi

Growth and electrical properties on NLO crystal: 4-N,N-dimethylamino ƍ-1ƍ-methylstilbazolium iodide M. Krishna Kumar, S. Sudhahar, and R. Mohan Kumar

1203

Synthesis and single crystal x-ray diffraction study of a Schiff base derived from 4-acylpyrazolone and 2-aminophenol Naresh Sharma, R. N. Jadeja, Rajni Kant, and Vivek K. Gupta

1206

Thermal decomposition study of Cr0.25W0.75Se2 single crystals D. D. Patel, P. F. Desai, and A. R. Jani

1209

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

1212

Numerical investigation of dimensionless numbers of Si melt flow in directional solidification process for PV cells M. Srinivasan and P. Ramasamy

1214

Growth and characterization of 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzophenone single crystals using vertical Bridgman technique K. Aravinth, G. Anandha Babu, and P. Ramasamy

1217

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

1220

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

1223

Studies on synthesis, growth, structural, optical properties of organic 8-hydroxyquinolinium succinate single crystals R. Thirumurugan and K. Anitha

1226

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

1228

Investigation on crystalline perfection, mechanical, piezoelectric and ferroelectric properties of L-tartaric acid single crystal G. Senthil Murugan and P. Ramasamy

1230

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

1233

xxxvii

Magnetic property, Raman spectroscopy and crystal field analysis of Sm3+ in Sm(BrO3)3‫ڄ‬9H2O J. Mandal, T. Purohit, K. N. Chattopadhyay, M. Ghosh, and P. K. Chakrabarti

1236

Ferromagnetism through Cr doping in topological insulator Bi2Te3 V. K. Maurya and S. Patnaik

1239

Effect of impurities on the hardness of alkali halide single crystals Ashok K. Verma, Chaturbhuj Ojha, and A. K. Shrivastava

1242

Crystal growth, structure analysis and characterisation of 2 - (1, 3 - dioxoisoindolin - 2 - yl) acetic acid single crystal R. Siva Sankari and Rajesh Narayana Perumal

1244

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

1247

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

1250

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

1253

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

1256

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

1259

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

1262

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

1265

Effect of top metal contact on the electrical properties of suspended spiral multiwalled carbon nanotube Shivani Dhall and Neena Jaggi

1269

xxxviii

The change in dielectric constant, AC conductivity and optical band gaps of polymer electrolyte film: Gamma irradiation S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, C. Sharanappa, V. Mini, K. Archana, Ganesh Sanjeev, and H. Devendrappa

1272

Conductivity and optical band gaps of polyethylene oxide doped with Li2SO4 salt Sharanappa Chapi, S. Raghu, K. Subramanya, K. Archana, V. Mini, and H. Devendrappa

1275

Effect of gamma ray irradiation on the structural and electrical transport properties of PrFeí[MnxO3 Khalid Sultan, M. Ikram, and K. Asokan

1278

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

1281

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

1283

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

1286

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

1289

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

1292

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

1295

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

1297

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

1300

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

1303

xxxix

Dielectric behavior of nanostructured Y0.95Ca0.05MnO3: Role of sintering temperature Zalak Joshi, Davit Dhruv, Sanjay Kansara, Megha Vagadia, Nishant Barot, P. K. Mehta, P. S. Solanki, D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah

1306

I-V and C-V characteristics of Y0.95Ca0.05MnO3/Si film Davit Dhruv, Zalak Joshi, Ashish Ravalia, Sanjay Kansara, D. D. Pandya, P. S. Solanki, D. G. Kuberkar, and N. A. Shah

1309

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

1312

6\QWKHVLVDQGFKDUDFWHUL]DWLRQRIȕ-napthalene sulphonic acid doped poly(o-anisidine) D. Sangamithirai, V. Narayanan, and A. Stephen

1314

Effect of phonon confinement on lattice thermal conductivity of lead Telluride quantum well structure Madhvendra Nath Tripathi

1316

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

1319

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

1321

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

1324

Study of transport properties with relativistic ponderomotive effect in two-electron temperature plasma Sonu Sen, Meenu Asthana Varshney, A. Dubey, and Dinesh Varshney

1327

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

1330

Effects of Ni3+ substitution on structural and temperature dependent dielectrical properties of NdFeO3 Pawanpreet Kaur, Rabia Pandit, K. K. Sharma, and Ravi Kumar

1333

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

1336

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

1339

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Structural and dielectric properties of the lutetium (Lu) and yttrium (Y) doped nickel ferrite Kodam Ugendar and G. Markandeyulu

1342

On the heat capacity of Ce3Al Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade, and V. Ganesan

1345

Size-dependent thermopower of nickel nanoparticles Jaiveer Singh, N. Kaurav, and Gunadhor S. Okram

1348

Electron spin resonance studies on reduction process of nitroxyl spin radicals used in molecular imaging M. Kumara Dhas, A. Jawahar, and A. Milton Franklin Benial

1351

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

1353

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

1356

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

1358

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

1361

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

1364

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

1367

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

1370

Effect of low energy oxygen ion beam irradiation on ionic conductivity of solid polymer electrolyte H. Manjunatha, G. N. Kumaraswamy, and R. Damle

1372

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

1375

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Structural and transport studies on LaAl1-xCoxO3 V. Aswin, Pramod Kumar, Pooja Singh, and Anjana Dogra

1377

Thermoluminescence and dielectric response of gamma irradiated muscovite mica Sukhnandan Kaur, Surinder Singh, Lakhwant Singh, and S. P. Lochab

1380

Investigation of photoconductivity in Pr-doped ZnS powder prepared by simple heat treatment technique Rajneesh K. Srivastava, Smriti Srivastava, Sheo K. Mishra, and R. K. Shukla

1383

Study of electronic transport properties of doped 8AGNR Uma Shankar Sharma, Anurag Srivastava, and U. P. Verma

1386

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

1389

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

1392

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

1395

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

1397

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

1400

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

1403

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

1406

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

1408

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Magnetic field induced third order susceptibility of third order harmonic generation in a ZnMgSe strained quantum well J. Abraham Hudson Mark and A. John Peter

1410

Effective Landé factor in a GaMnAs quantum dot; with the effects of sp-d exchange on a bound polaron D. Lalitha and A. John Peter

1412

Pressure dependence of half metallic behavior of Co2VZ (Z = Si, Ge)-An ab initio study K. Seema and Ranjan Kumar

1414

Investigations on Landé factor in a strained GaxIní[As/GaAs quantum dot N. R. Senthil Kumar and A. John Peter

1417

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

1419

A comparative study of structural and optical properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanocrystals for photovotaic applications Anima Ghosh, R. Thangavel, and M. Rajagopalan

1422

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

1425

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

1428

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

1430

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

1433

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

1435

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

1437

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

1440

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Ni, Fe Co-doped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by solution combustion method Pooja Dhiman, Jagdish Chand, S. Verma, Sarveena, and M. Singh

1443

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

1446

Simplified 2DEG carrier concentration model for composite barrier AlGaN/GaN HEMT Palash Das and Dhrubes Biswas

1449

Variation of carrier concentration and interface trap density in 8MeV electron irradiated c-Si solar cells Sathyanarayana Bhat, Asha Rao, Sheeja Krishnan, Ganesh Sanjeev, and E. P. Suresh

1452

A study on the effect of silver nanofillers in porous silicon S. Manickam Christopher, K. Gangadevi, K. Ramachandran, and R. Srinivasan

1455

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

1458

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

1461

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

1464

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

1467

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

1470

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

1473

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

1476

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

1479

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

1482

Optical properties of halide and oxide compounds including the excitonic effects G. Shwetha and V. Kanchana

1485

Synthesis of Cu2ZnSnS4 nanoparticles by solution based solid state reaction process and its application in dye sensitized solar cell as counter electrode Krishnaiah Mokurala, Parag Bhargava, and Sudhanshu Mallick

1488

Enhanced UV and suppressed defect related emission in yttrium doped zinc oxide Vikas Sharma, Parmod Kumar, Geeta Rana, Rishi Vyas, K. Sachdev, Hitendra K. Malik, and K. Asokan

1491

Diffusion thermopower in ZnO nanowires S. M. Galagali and N. S. Sankeshwar

1493

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

1496

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

1498

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

1501

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

1503

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

1506

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

1508

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

1510

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

1513

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Induced antiferromagnetism in Mn doped BaMgF4 M. Manikandan, A. Muthukumaran, and C. Venkateswaran

1516

The microstuctural, Mössbauer and magnetic properties of MgGd0‫ڄڄ‬1Fe1‫ڄڄ‬9O4 ferrite processed by solid state reaction technique Jagdish Chand, Satish Verma, Pooja, Sarveena, and M. Singh

1518

B2+L21 ordering in Co2MnAl Heusler alloy A. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan

1521

Proximity effect in cuprate based superconductor-normal metal-superconductor junctions P. K. Rout, R. K. Rakshit, and R. C. Budhani

1523

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

1526

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

1529

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

1531

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

1533

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

1536

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

1539

Role of bimodal distribution in tailoring the inter-particle interactions in Cu79Co21 nanogranular films Dinesh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya

1541

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

1544

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Investigation of magnetic spin glass property in La0.5Bi0.5MnO3 sample using non-linear AC susceptibility measurements Punith V. Kumar, M. R. Manju, and Vijaylakshmi Dayal

1546

Tuning electron-electron correlation in noncentrosymmetric superconductor BiPd Bhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan

1549

Quantification of quantum discord in a antiferromagnetic Heisenberg compound H. Singh, T. Chakraborty, and C. Mitra

1551

Study of lattice dynamics in yttrium doped NdMnO3 using Raman spectroscopy Ruchika Yadav, Harikrishnan S. Nair, and Suja Elizabeth

1554

The effect of external magnetic field on the Raman peaks in manganites A. K. Sahu and G. C. Rout

1557

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

1560

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

1562

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

1564

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

1566

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

1569

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

1572

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

1575

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

1578

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

1581

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Variation of effective dielectric constant of dilute magnetic dielectrics with magnetic field Ananya Banerjee and A. Sarkar

1583

Magnetic structure at low temperatures in FeGe2 P. D. Babu, P. K. Mishra, V. Dube, R. Mishra, P. U. Sastry, and G. Ravikumar

1586

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

1589

)DEULFDWLRQDQGFKDUDFWHUL]DWLRQRIVKXQWHGȝ-SQUID Nikhil Kumar, T. Fournier, H. Courtois, and Anjan K. Gupta

1591

Magnetic origin of dielectric transition in BiFeO3 J. Ray, A. K. Biswal, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma

1595

Influence of boron on the microstructural and mechanical properties of Ni53.5Mn26.0Ga20.5 shape memory alloy M. Ramudu, A. Satish Kumar, V. Seshubai, and T. Rajasekharan

1598

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

1601

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

1604

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

1606

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

1609

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

1612

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

1615

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

1618

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Specific heat and characteristic ratio of some Fe-based superconductors: A model study Haranath Ghosh, Smritijit Sen, and Harsh Purwar

1621

Magnetic properties on strained manganite thin film C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, S. K. Gupta, D. Bhattacharya, S. Basu, and G. Ravikumar

1624

FMR studies and magnetic properties of Mg doped La0.67Ca0.33MnO3 A. Sendil Kumar, K. Ravinder Reddy, and Anil K. Bhatnagar

1627

Signature of Griffith singularity in half doped LaMn0.5Cu0.5O3 A. K. Biswal, J. Ray, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma

1630

Effect of synthesis route on the multiferroic properties of single phase BiFeO3 Pittala Suresh and S. Srinath

1633

Structural transitions in driven vortices of weakly pinned superconductors M. Suresh Babu and D. Pal

1636

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

1639

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

1642

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

1645

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

1648

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

1651

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

1654

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

1657

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in Cr-doped semiconducting Ge-chalcogenide: Density functional approach Hardev S. Saini, Mukhtiyar Singh, Jyoti Thakur, and Manish K. Kashyap

1660

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L. Novel Materials Electric polarization in ferromagnetic Bi1/2As1/2MnO3: A first principle study S. Sheela Sathya, C. Kanagaraj, and N. Basakaran

1663

XPS depth profile study of sprayed CZTS thin films D. R. Deepu, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

1666

Neutron diffraction studies on chemical and magnetic structure of multiferroic PbFe0.67W0.33O3 Shidaling Matteppanavar, Basavaraj Angadi, and Sudhindra Rayaprol

1669

Photoluminescence properties of NaPbB5O9:Dy3+ new material for white light applications D. Rajesh and Y. C. Ratnakaram

1672

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

1674

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

1677

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

1680

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

1683

Modification of optoelectronic properties of sprayed CZTS thin films through spray rate variation V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

1686

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

1689

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

1691

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

1694

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Effect of size of silica microspheres on photonic band gap N. Dhiman, A. Sharma, B. P. Singh, and A. K. Gathania

1696

Oxidation state of manganese in zinc pyrophosphate: Probed by luminescence and EPR studies Santosh K. Gupta, R. M. Kadam, V. Natarajan, and S. V. Godbole

1699

Structural and dielectric properties of BaBi2Nb2O9 ceramics R. Ramaraghavulu and S. Buddhudu

1702

Deposition and characterization of zirconium nitride (ZrN) thin films by reactive magnetron sputtering with linear gas ion source and bias voltage A. Kavitha, N. Sankara Subramanian, S. Loganathan, and R. Kannan

1705

Structure and cation binding affinities of cucurbit[6]uril: A DFT study Vivek Sinha and Mahesh Sundararajan

1708

High temperature XRD of Cu2.1Zn0.9SnSe4 Raju Chetty and Ramesh Chandra Mallik

1711

Structural and electronic properties of free standing one-sided and two-sided hydrogenated silicene: A first principle study Brij Mohan, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia

1714

Magnetic properties of Ga doped cobalt ferrite: Compton scattering study Arvind Sharma, Jagrati Sahariya, H. S. Mund, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and B. L. Ahuja

1717

Growth and characterization of new organic nonlinear optical crystal (R)-2-cyano-N-(1-phenylethyl) acetamide B. C. Hemaraju, B. S. Madhukar, D. G. Bhadregowda, and A. P. Gnana Prakash

1720

Electrospun nanocomposite fibrous polymer electrolyte for secondary lithium battery applications O. Padmaraj, B. Nageswara Rao, Paramananda Jena, M. Venkateswarlu, and N. Satyanarayana

1723

Synthesis and optical analysis of Cr3+:Zn2SiO4 nanocomposites by sol-gel method B. Chandra Babu, B. H. Rudhramadevi, and S. Buddhudu

1726

Structural and optical properties of Bi4Mg0.05V1.95Oíį synthesized via melt quench technique Sakshi Gupta and K. Singh

1729

First principle study of manganese doped cadmium sulphide sheet Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia

1732

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Magnetic properties of Fe doped SmCrO3 perovskite Venugopal Rao Bakshi, Bandi Vittal Prasad, Narsinga Rao Gade, C F Chou, and Suresh Babu Devarasetty

1735

Arsenic based hexagonal building motifs for inorganic nanomaterials Debesh Ranjan Roy and Sanjay D Gupta

1738

Tuning of properties of sprayed CuZnS films M. S. Sreejith, D. R. Deepu, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

1741

Structural, optical and dielectric property of Co doped Bi2Fe4O9 Smita Swain, S. R. Mohapatra, B. Sahoo, and A. K. Singh

1744

Synthesis, characterization and optical properties of Ce3+ activated CaMgAl10O17 phosphor Anupam Selot, Mahendra Aynyas, Manoj Tiwari, and Kapil Dev

1746

Calorimetric study of Skyrmionic chiral magnet MnSi S. Shanmukharao Samatham and V. Ganesan

1748

Tuning of opto-electronic properties of Cu2SnS3 thin films through variation of stoichiometry Gincy Sunny, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar

1750

Temperature dependent Raman scattering in YCrO3 A. K. Mall, S. Mukherjee, Y. Sharma, A. Garg, and R. Gupta

1753

Structural investigation of multiferroic BiFeO3-PbTiO3 solid solution Rajesh Katoch, Rajeev Gupta, and Ashish Garg

1755

Pressure-induced amorphization of charge ordered spinel AlV2O4 at low temperature Pallavi S. Malavi, S. Karmakar, P. Maurizio, and S. M. Sharma

1758

Unusual multiferroicity in Cu3Nb2O8 G. Sharma, J. Saha, and S. Patnaik

1761

ZnS nanoflakes deposition by modified chemical method Mangesh A. Desai and S. D. Sartale

1763

Low temperature magnetic properties of magnesium substituted YbMnO3 Bhumireddi Sattibabu, Anil K. Bhatnagar, Dasari Mohan, Dibakar Das, Mahadevan Sundararaman, Vasudeva Siruguri, and Sudhindra Rayaprol

1766

Thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of poly(vinyl alcohol)/graphene oxide composites Sunil G. Rathod, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, T. Sheela, and Jagadish Naik

1769

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DFT and experimental studies of the structure and vibrational spectra of 2-(tert-buroxycarbonyl (Boc) - amino)-5-bromopyridine S. Premkumar, A. Jawahar, M. Umadevi, V. G. Sathe, R. Mohamed Asath, and A. Milton Franklin Benial

1772

First principles DFT investigation of yttrium-doped graphene: Electronic structure and hydrogen storage Sameerah Desnavi, Brahmananda Chakraborty, and Lavanya M. Ramaniah

1775

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