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Volume 1536

Proceeding of International Conference on Recent Trends in Applied Physics & Material ScienceRAM 2013

Bikaner, Rajasthan, India1–2 February 2013

EditorsSudhir BhardwajGovt. College of Engineering & Technology, Rajasthan, India

Manoj Singh Shekhawat Bhuvneshwer SutharGovt. Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan, India

All papers have been peer reviewed.

Sponsoring OrganizationsDepartment of Science & Technology (DST, India), New DelhiDepartment of Science & Technology (DST, Rajasthan), JaipurCouncil of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi 

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Sudhir BhardwajGovt. College of Engineering & TechnologyDepartment of PhysicsKarni Industrial AreaPugal Road, Bikaner-334004RajasthanIndiaE-mail: ram2013india@gmail.com

Manoj Singh Shekhawat Bhuvneshwer SutharGovt. Engineering College BikanerDepartment of PhysicsKarni Industrial AreaPugal Road, Bikaner-334004RajasthanIndiaE-mail: manoj.shekhawat1@gmail.com E-mail: bhuvneshwer@gmail.com

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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1536

Proceeding of International Conference on Recent Trends in

Applied Physics & Material Science

RAM 2013

Table of Contents

Preface: Recent Trends in Applied Physics & Material Science

Sudhir Bhardwaj, Manoj Singh Shekhawat, and Bhuvneshwer Suthar

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INVITED TALKS

Spectroscopic studies of nanoscale metal clusters

P. Gangopadhyay

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Estimation of Gibbs free energy of crystallization of glass forming alloys

Arun Pratap, Heena R. Shevde, and Ashmi T. Patel

11

Chalcogenide photonic crystals - Exploiting nonlinearity for nanophotonic applications

A. Bhargava and B. Suthar

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CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

Category A: Nano-materials

Investigation on effect of weight ratios of PEG to BaTiO3 on PVdF-HFP nano composites for Li-

ion batteries

P. Vickraman and D. Ravindran

19

Blending effect of poly (ethyl methacrylate) on lithium bis(perfluoroethanesulfonyl) imide-

ferroceramic PVdF-HFP composite

P. Vickraman, R. Jayaraman, and K. Purushothaman

21

Optical properties of ZnS nanoparticles synthesized by Rf-magnetron sputtering technique

P. K. Ghosh and K. K. Chattopadhyay

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Effect of Li doping on the magnetic properties of ZnO nanomaterials

N. Rajamanickam, S. Rajashabala, and K. Ramachandran

25

Physical properties of transition metal ions (Mn

2+, Fe

3+, Cu

2+) doped PVA capped ZnSe

nanoparticles

Sk. Muntaz Begum, K. Ravindranadh, M. C. Rao, and R. V.S.S.N. Ravikumar

27

Modal gain study for SQW and MQWs based nano-heterostructures

Rashmi Yadav, Pyare Lal, F. Rahman, and P. A. Alvi

29

Synthesis of nanocrystalline tungsten carbide (WC) powder

Gourav Singla, K. Singh, and O. P. Pandey

31

Effects of Mn substitution on structural and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles

Sajid Husain, F. Rahman, Wasi Khan, and A. H. Naqvi

33

Controlled growth of vertically oriented molybdenum oxide nanoplates

Rabindar Kumar Sharma and G. B. Reddy

35

Bioconjugation of colloidal silver nanoparticles

Harmandeep Kaur, Archana Bhatnagar, and S. K. Tripathi

37

Synthesis and standardization of biologically synthesized silver nanoparticles

Swarup Roy and Tapan Kumar Das

39

Microwave-assisted solution combustion synthesis of nanostructured Zn2SnO4

L. C. Nehru and C. Sanjeeviraja

41

Surfactant induced phase control of CdSe nanoparticles

Jaspal Singh and N. K. Verma

43

Spectroscopic studies of CdSe/ZnSe core/shell nanoparticles

Gurvir Kaur and S. K. Tripathi

45

Compression behavior of nanocrystalline forsterite

Jeewan Chandra and Kuldeep Kholiya

47

Analysis of x-ray diffraction pattern and complex plane impedance plot of polypyrrole/titanium

dioxide nanocomposite: A simulation study

Y. T. Ravikiran and S. C. Vijaya Kumari

49

Biosynthesized gold nanoparticles destroy percolative behavior of KH2PO4 (KDP) filled PVA

composite film

Md. Jamal Uddin, T. R. Middya, and B. K. Chaudhuri

51

G-J study for GRIN InGaAlAs/InP lasing nano-heterostructures

Pyare Lal, Sapna Gupta, and P. A. Alvi

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Structural, electrical, magnetic and multiferroism in Dy-doped BiFeO3 nanoparticles

Gurmeet Singh Lotey and N. K. Verma

55

Glass viscosity dependant growth of CdS nanocrystals in silicate glass matrix

R. K. Mishra, A. G. Vedeshwar, and R. P. Tandon

57

Electronic states and transport properties of a 1D quantum wire with side-coupled quantum dots

Biplab Pal

59

Structural stability of CdS nanoparticles

Anirudha Ghosh, Sanhita Paul, and Satyabrata Raj

61

Aqueous based synthesis of CdSe/ZnS Q-dots: Study on luminescence properties and cytotoxicity

Diksha Painuly, Anugya Bhatt, and V. Kalliyana Krishnan

63

Structural properties of single step electrochemically deposited ZnS nanofibers

Anuradha B. Bhalerao, B. G. Wagh, and C. D. Lokhande

65

Gold nanoparticles in columnar matrix of discotic liquid crystal

Supreet, Rishi Kumar, R. Pratibha, Sandeep Kumar, and K. K. Raina

67

Application of Eu2O3/ZnO nanoparticles in dye sensitized solar cell

Manveen Kaur and N. K. Verma

69

Synthesis and characterization of silica coated potassium ferrite nanoparticles

Lavanya Khanna and N. K. Verma

71

Influence of size on the excitonic absorbance of CdSe nano crystal

Namita Sisodia, Bhavana Bhadkare, Priyanka Bhavsar, and Amitesh Sisodia

73

A new approach to synthesize nano WC

Harjinder Singh and O. P. Pandey

75

Photo-induced EPR study of electron trap in ZnO nanoparticles

K. Senthilkumar, M. Subramanian, H. Ebisu, M. Tanemura, and Y. Fujita

77

Spectroscopic studies on pure and histidine functionalized MWCNTs

T. Mathavan, C. V. Kanimozhi, M. A. Jothi Rajan, S. Umapathy, M. Kumara Dhas, and A. Milton

Franklin Benial

79

Photocatalytic studies of capped ZnS nanoparticles

Jagdeep Kaur, Manoj Sharma, and O. P. Pandey

81

Viscoelastic properties of graphene/PVA nanocomposite

Sreemanta Mitra, Dhriti Ranjan Saha, Sourish Banerjee, and Dipankar Chakravorty

83

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Synthesis of Ag@CrO2 core-shell nanoparticles

Preetam K. Sharma, Priyanka Sharma, S. Biswas, and A. K. Nagawat

85

Gas sensing properties of ZnFe2O4 nanoparticles

Susmita Misra and S. Ram

87

Low-lying magnetic excitations, magnetic irreversibility and approach-to-saturation in

nanocrystalline Ni

M. Pavan Venu Prakash, S. P. Mathew, and S. N. Kaul

89

Binding energy of an off - centre D

0 complex in a GaAs quantum dot with Gaussian confinement

Aalu Boda and Ashok Chatterjee

91

Fungus mediated biosynthesis and characterization of zinc oxide nanorods

K. S. Venkatesh, N. S. Palani, S. R. Krishnamoorthi, V. Thirumal, and R. Ilangovan

93

Effect of deposition time on the growth of diamond-like zinc oxide nanostructures

Poulami Ghosh and Ashwini K. Sharma

95

Synthesis and characterization of nanosize conducting polyaniline, titania and their composite

B. Kavitha, K. Prabakar, D. Srinivasu, Ch. Srinivas, K. Siva Kumar, and N. Narsimlu

97

Electron phonon interaction in K-doped (9,9) carbon nanotube

P. K. Upadhyay and A. K. Nagar

99

Spin injection in quasi defect-free mesoscopic ZnO nanostructures

S. Mukherjee, K. Bhushan, and V. Bandopadhyay

101

Synthesis and characterization of zinc doped nano TiO2 for efficient photocatalytic degradation

of Eriochrome Black T

Pooja Singla, Manoj Sharma, Kulvir Singh, and O. P. Pandey

103

Indium assisted growth of silicon nanowires by electron beam evaporation

R. Rakesh Kumar, K. Narasimha Rao, and K. Rajanna

105

Milling duration induced structural and magnetic properties of Fe/MnO nanocomposites

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

107

Enhancement of photoelectrochemical properties of TiO2 nanotube loaded with gold

nanoparticles

S. K. Jana, T. Majumder, S. Majumder, and S. Banerjee

109

Synthesis of PZT nanorods and study of dielectric behaviour

S. K. Sayyed and S. A. Acharya

111

Phase evaluation and optical studies of cubic MnxZr1-xO2 and CoyZr1-yO2 nanocrystals

S. Thota, A. Ansari, S. K. Singh, A. Mallick, and J. Kumar

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Synthesis, characterization and gas sensing properties of tin oxide nanopowder

Meenakshi Choudhary, V. N. Mishra, and R. Dwivedi

115

Wet chemical synthesis and characterization of AgGaSe2 nanoparticles

S. Sugan and R. Dhanasekaran

117

Luminescent properties of nano-sized Y2O3: Eu synthesized by co-precipitation method

Deepak Kumar, Manoj Sharma, and O. P. Pandey

119

Structural, compositional and Raman studies of ZnS: Ce, Cu co-doped nanoparticles

G. S. Harish and P. Sreedhara Reddy

121

UV light induced photodegradation of organic dye by ZnO nanocatalysts

C. K. Sumesh, Bhavin Patel, and Kinnari Parekh

123

Catalyst free growth of ZnO nanorods by thermal evaporation method

Divya Somvanshi and S. Jit

125

Electronic and magnetic correlations in Mn doped ZnO nano-rods

Arvind Samariya, S. C. Sharma, M. S. Dhawan, P. K. Sharma, Sudhish Kumar, K. B. Sharma, S. N.

Dolia, and R. K. Singhal

127

Structural and electrical characterization of Ag doped CdSe/PVA nanocomposite thin film

Ramneek Kaur, Mamta Sharma, and S. K. Tripathi

129

Preparation and characterization of bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) - polyaniline (PANI)

nanocomposite

R. Ridhi and S. K. Tripathi

131

Influence of pH on the properties of PVA capped silver nanoparticles

B. Ajitha and P. Sreedhara Reddy

133

Effect of flux on thermoluminescence studies of Sr2SiO4:Eu0.01 nanophosphor

B. S. Prathibha, M. S. Chandrashekara, H. Nagabhushana, and B. M. Nagabhushana

135

Effect on dynamic screening for determination of energy loss rate in disordered quantum well

P. Tripathi, S. T. Hasan, and K. N. Vyas

137

First principle study of transport properties of a graphene nano structure

Naveen Kumar, Munish Sharma, Jyoti Dhar Sharma, and P. K. Ahluwalia

139

Structural and optical properties of cobalt doped Cds nanostructures

Kamaldeep Kaur and N. K. Verma

141

Structural and optical studies of Sr and Mn doped ZnO nanoparticles

Prakash Chand, Anurag Gaur, and Ashavani Kumar

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The effect of the post-annealing on the nanostructure and optical properties of SnO2

Sandeep A. Arote, Vilas A. Tabhane, and Habib M. Pathan

145

Preparation and structural properties of pure and codoped (Mg, Ag) ZnO nanoparticles

B. Sankara Reddy, S. Venkatramana Reddy, and N. Koteeswara Reddy

147

Single phase synthesis of highly stable copper nanoparticles

Chandni, O. P. Pandey, and Bhupendra Chudasama

149

Electrodeposition of Sno2 nanoneedles on anodized copper substrates and its electrochemical

performance

D. Vasanth Raj, N. Ponpandian, D. Mangalaraj, and C. Viswanathan

151

Effect of nano CuO on the ionic conductivity of PVC-PEG blend polymer electrolytes

Dhandapani Ravindran and Palanichamy Vickraman

153

Raman spectroscopy studies of Bi4Ti3O12 nanocrystals prepared by mechanical alloying

Sumit Bhardwaj, J. P. Sharma, K. K. Raina, and Ravi Kumar

155

Synthesis and electrical transport properties of Gd doped nanocrystalline ceria

Sk. Anirban, A. Sinha, and A. Dutta

157

A comparative study of the sol-gel synthesized nanostructured SnO2 powders

Parul Gupta, Rishi Vyas, B. L. Choudhary, K. V. R. Rao, K. Sachdev, D. S. Patil, and S. K. Sharma

159

Growth of silicon nanocrystallites in amorphous silicon carbide thin films by aluminum induced

crystallization

Arindam Kole and Partha Chaudhary

161

Effect of surfactant on temperature stability of solid lipid nanoparticles studied by dynamic light

scattering

Sacheen Kumar and Jaspreet Kaur

163

Structural and optical properties of CdS thin films prepared by chemical bath deposition

P. Agrawal, M. Sachdeva, Anupinder Singh, B. Suthar, and A. Bhargava

165

Enhanced light absorption in CdTe nanoparticles/P3HT nanofiber blends

S. Ananthakumar, J. Ramkumar, and S. Moorthy Babu

167

Influence of bath parameters on the structure and optical properties of CdSe nanocrystalline

thin films

P. Agrawal, M. Sachdeva, Anupinder Singh, B. Suthar, and A. Bhargava

169

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of thin films of carbon nanotubes

Monika Poonia, V. Manjuladevi, and Raj Kumar Gupta

171

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Synthesis and characterization of Cu, Fe co-doped ZnO nano-particles synthesized by solution

combustion method

Dikshita Gupta, Ghanshyam, R. K. Kotnala, and N. S. Negi

173

A high resolution microscopic approach for imaging antiferromagnetic nanodomains of NiO thin

film

Jayanta Das and Krishnakumar S. R. Menon

175

Effect of Co doping on optical behaviors in ZnO nanorods

A. Ghosh, N. Karak, and T. K. Kundu

177

Study of rise and decay of ZnS nanoparticles synthesized by solid state reaction method under

UV-vis illumination

Mohd Mubashshir Hasan Farooqi, R. K. Srivastava, and S. G. Prakash

179

Visible luminescence from triethanolamine-modified zinc oxide nanoparticles

N. Karak, P. Barik, and T. K. Kundu

181

Size and frequency dependent dielectric properties of tin (IV) oxide nanoparticles synthesized by

gel combustion method

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

183

Periodic array of TiO2 nanoparticles on gold substrate

Keerti Choudhury, Raj Kumar Gupta, V. Manjuladev, Sanjeev Gupta, and Jamil Akhtar

185

Synthesis and characterization of PMMA-ZrO2 nanocomposites

Rajesh Kumar and Gaganpreet Kaur Sidhu

187

High Ion/Ioff ratio of electrochemically prepared graphene quantum dots

Hemen Kalita, V. Harikrishnan, and M. Aslam

189

Dielectric study of strontium pyrophosphate nano particle

P. D. Solanki, S. R. Vasant, K. P. Tank, and M. J. Joshi

191

Self-assembly of metal nanorod arrays into hierarchical clusters and evolution of their

hydrophobic behaviour

Indrani Chakraborty, Bhagyashree A. Chalke, Smita Gohil, and Pushan Ayyub

193

Degradation of luminescence stability in laser etched silicon nanostructures

Vivek Kumar, Kapil Saxena, and A. K. Shukla

195

Electrical conductivity of polyvinyl alcohol-multiwall carbon nanotubes composites

Sayed Amrin and V. D. Deshpande

197

Study of chemically functionalized carbon nanotubes

Waseem Khan, Shahir Hussain, Azher Majid Siddiqui, and S. S. Islam

199

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Structural and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles prepared by chemical precipitation

technique

Dinesh Saini, Rajendra Kumar Duchaniya, and Sumita Kachhwaha

201

Size-selected copper nanolclusters for fabrication of isolated size-controlled nanostructures

Shyamal Mondal, S. Jana, and S. R. Bhattacharyya

203

Synthesis and structural characterization of CZTS nanoparticles

R. Lydia and P. Sreedhara Reddy

205

A novel chemical synthesis method of monodispersed luminescent CdSe nanoparticles

S. Pokhriyal and S. Biswas

207

Sol-gel derived porous bioactive nanocomposites: Synthesis and in vitro bioactivity

Nisha Shankhwar, G. P. Kothiyal, and A. Srinivasan

209

Effect of Rashba interaction on the energy levels of a GaAs quantum dot with parabolic

confinement

D. Sanjeev Kumar, Soma Mukhopadhyay, and Ashok Chatterjee

211

Hybrid polymer solar cell based on cadmium selenide quantum dots

Anup J. More, Sachin A. Pawar, Vishal V. Burungale, Raghunath S. Patil, and Pramod S. Patil

213

Synthesis and applications of CdSe nanoparticles

M. C. Rao, K. Ravindranadh, and M. S. Shekhawat

215

Relaxed structural property of Al nano-cluster: Theory

Bhoopendra Dhar Diwan and Amit Khaskalam

217

Preparation and applications of ZnSe nanoparticles

K. Ravindranadh, M. S. Shekhawat, and M. C. Rao

219

Structural and topographical analysis of Nd:Gd2O3 nanorods

G. Boopathi, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan

221

Facile synthesis, self-assembly mechanism and field emission property of copper phthalocyanine

nanowires

U. K. Ghorai, S. Saha, S. Shee, and K. K. Chattopadhyay

223

Electrochemical capacitive properties of Mn3O4 nanoparticles and reduced graphene oxide

composite

Arijit Mitra, Hemen Kalita, Jeotikanta Mohapatra, and Mohammed Aslam

225

Crystallization and microstructure of 8YSZ nanopowders synthesized by ball-mill assisted

constant pH route

Subrat K. Mohanty and Bibhuti B. Nayak

227

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A comparative analysis of green synthesis approach starch capped metal oxides (ZnO & CdO)

nanoparticles and its bacterial activity

K. Vidhya, V. P. Devarajan, C. Viswanathan, D. Nataraj, and G. Bhoopathi

229

Degree of supersaturation: An effective tool to control the luminescence efficiency and size

distribution in CdTe quantum dots

Indrajit Kumar, Amiya Priyam, and Ravi Kant Choubey

231

A simple gold nanoparticles based colorimetric assay for the detection of highly reactive OH⋅ radicals

G. Abilash, S. Sai Nandan, C. Madhu Sudan, D. S. S. Sri Harsha, Rajesh Sadasivan, and Ch.

Janardhana

233

Morphological changes of supported gold nanoparticles in Au\In2O3\Si: An atomic force

microscopic study

Ranjit Laha and S. Kasiviswanathan

235

Size and dimension dependent diffusion coefficients of SnO2 nanoparticles

Purvi A. Bhatt, Arun Pratap, and Prafulla K. Jha

237

ZnO NPs synthesized by thermal decomposition of zinc oxalate at 300°C and its photo response

under UV-illumination

Ravi Shankar, Rajneesh K. Srivastava, and S. G. Prakash

239

Structural and dielectric properties of Mn doped copper oxide (CuO) nanostructure

Imran Khan, Shakeel Khan, Hilal Ahmed, and Razia Nongjai

241

Photocatalytic degradation of an azo dye with ZnO nanoparticles

Garima Pravin Pandey, Ajaya K. Singh, Lata Deshmukh, Anupama Asthana, and Soumya R. Deo

243

Study of optical properties of hydrothermally synthesized Cu/Cu2O/CuO nanocrystals

Laxmi J. Tomar, Rahul K. Desai, and Bishwajit S. Chakrabarty

245

Effects of Mg doping on the structural and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticles

Gunjan Srinet, Ravindra Kumar, and Vivek Sajal

247

Chemical functionalization of carbon nano tube

S. H. Pisal, N. S. Harale, S. A. Pawar, H. P. Deshamukh, and P. S. Patil

249

Effect of annealing on structural & optical behavior of nanocrystalline Cd0.5Zn0.5S thin films

Soumya R. Deo, Ajaya K. Singh, Lata Deshmukh, and Garima Pandey

251

Size effect on the superconducting penetration depth and transition temperature in

nanostructured al thin films

Subhrangsu Sarkar, Sanjeev Kumar, Pratap Raychaudhuri, and Pushan Ayyub

253

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Preparation and characterization of zinc sulphide nanocomposites based on acrylonitrile

butadiene rubber

M. T. Ramesan, A. Nihmath, and Joseph Francis

255

Nanoindentation studies on silver nanoparticles

Dhriti Ranjan Saha, Amrita Mandal, Sreemanta Mitra, Mykanth Reddy Mada, Philip Boughton, Sri

Bandyopadhyay, and Dipankar Chakravorty

257

Thermo-mechanical characterization of nano filled and fiber reinforced brake friction materials

Tej Singh, Amar Patnaik, and Bhabani K. Satapathy

259

Efficient electron transfer from chlorophyll-a to TiO2 in polyaniline-interconnected grana-like

nano-matrix

D. Das, R. Singh, J. S. Manna, and M. K. Mitra

261

Growth and temperature dependent electrical properties of ZnO nanostructures

A. Santhosh Kumar, K. K. Nagaraja, and H. S. Nagaraja

263

Preparation, characterizations and CO sensing performance of chemically sprayed

nanostructured SnO2 thin films

R. H. Bari

265

Effect of surrounding medium on light absorption characteristics of CdSe, CdS & CdTe

nanospheres and their comparison

Amit Bansal, Jagmeet Singh Sekhon, and S. S. Verma

267

Structural studies of Mn-doped and undoped ZnO nanoparticles synthesized by solution

combusting method

M. Silambarasan and S. Saravanan

269

Synthesis of vanadium carbide nanoparticles by thermal decomposition of the precursor

Mani Mahajan, K. Singh, and O. P. Pandey

271

Combustion synthesis and optical properties of ceria doped gadolinium-oxide nanopowder

Raunak Kumar Tamrakar and D. P. Bisen

273

Methanol assisted synthesis and characterization of tin oxide nanoparticles

Virender Singh Kundu, R. L. Dhiman, Davender Singh, and A. S. Maan

275

Photoluminescence mechanism in silicon quantum rods studied by time-resolved spectroscopy

Ujjwal Ghanta, Mallar Ray, and Syed Minhaz Hossain

277

Size dependence effective band gap in GaSb nano-solid

Bhoopendra Dhar Diwan and Vinod Kumar Dubey

279

Transport properties of Ni-interacted armchair graphene nanoribbons

Neeraj K. Jaiswal, Pankaj Srivastava, and Sanodh Kumar

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Structural and optical properties of Ni0.05Zn0.95O nanoparticles synthesized by a chemical

precursor method

J. Jadhav, M. Patange, and S. Biswas

283

Metal assisted chemical etching for light emitting silicon nanowires

S. Jana and S. R. Bhattacharyya

285

Production of carbon nanotubes by AC arc discharge method

Vishalli, Charanjit Singh, Keya Dharamvir, and Sonal Singhal

287

Humidity sensing property of polyaniline - cromium oxide nanocomposites

K. C. Sajjan, Muhammad Faisal, S. C. Vijaya Kumari, Y. T. Ravikiran, and Syed Khasim

289

High aspect ZnO nanostructures based hydrogen sensing

Ankur Gupta, Shashank S. Pandey, and Shantanu Bhattacharya

291

Category B: Semiconductor and Superconductivity

Raman scattering study on sequentially Au implanted sample

Gayatri Sahu

293

Pressure induced structural, electronic and superconducting properties of VN and NbN: An ab-

initio study

R. Rajeswara Palanichamy and M. Santhosh

295

First principles study of “111” type iron arsenide superconductors

A. Murugan, S. Kanagaprabha, and R. Rajeswara Palanichamy

297

Structural and superconducting properties of Sr for Ba substituted La1.5Nd0.5Ca1(Ba2−xSrx)Cu5Oz

system

J. A. Bhalodia, S. R. Mankadia, S. M. Dalsaniya, and G. S. Okram

299

Computational studies of polyvinyl alcohol encapsulated tetrahedral cadmium sulphide cluster

Vaneeta Bala, S. K. Tripathi, and Ranjan Kumar

301

Linear properties of ZnGeX2 (X = P, As) semiconductors: A first-principle approach

S. K. Tripathy, P. K. Khatua, and V. Kumar

303

First principles study on structural, electronic, elastic and thermal properties of equiatomic CoTi

and CoZr

Nikita Acharya, Bushra Fatima, Sunil Singh Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal

305

Dispersion relation in a plasma consisting of oppositely charged ions with non-Maxwellian

electrons

Parveen Bala and Sukhdeep Kaur

307

Thermodynamic properties of Y0.15Sr0.85CoO3−δ

Rasna Thakur, Rajesh K. Thakur, and N. K. Gaur

309

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Theoretical study of Si8H8 and Si8H8 clusters: Searching for new high-energy density materials

S. K. Parida and Sridhar Sahu

311

SbSeGe semiconducting alloys: Non-linear refractive index and susceptibility

Sunanda Sharda, Neha Sharma, Pankaj Sharma, and Vineet Sharma

313

Rabi oscillations in trilayer graphene

Enamullah, Vipin Kumar, and Girish S. Setlur

315

Temperature dependent I-V characteristics of the Al/Rhodamine-6G/n-Si organic MOS diode

Anubhuti Tripathi and Mamta Sharma

317

Optical and photoelectrochemical study of WTe2 single crystals

P. F. Desai, D. D. Patel, D. N. Bhavsar, and A. R. Jani

319

Back gated strained-Si (s-Si) on silicon-germanium-on-insulator (SGOI) MOSFETs for improved

switching speed and short-channel effects (SCEs)

Mirgender Kumar, Sarvesh Dubey, Pramod Kumar Tiwari, and S. Jit

321

Optical, thermal and surface microtopography studies of MoTe2 single crystals

D. D. Patel, P. F. Desai, D. N. Bhavsar, and A. R. Jani

323

Electron phonon interaction in high-Tc superconductors

S. Nath, N. S. Mondal, S. K. Bhowmick, and N. K. Ghosh

325

Refractive index of B1−xGaxN semiconductors

P. S. Vyas, J. K. Baria, A. R. Jivani, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani

327

Charge carrier transport in bilayer graphene

S. S. Z. Ashraf, D. Patel, and A. C. Sharma

329

Energetics of small clusters of group IB metals (Cu, Ag, and Au) adsorbed on graphene

Gagandeep Kaur, Shuchi Gupta, and Keya Dharamvir

331

Effect of annealing on electrical characteristics of dilute nitride of indium antimonide

M. Deshpande, D. Maske, R. Choudhari, B. M. Arora, and D. Gadkari

333

Stimulated Brillouin scattering in semiconductors: Quantum effects

Ravi Vanshpal, Swati Dubey, and S. Ghosh

335

An investigation of different stress-free passivation layer designs in GaN HEMTs

Diksha Joshi, Niketa Sharma, and Nidhi Chaturvedi

337

Structural, electronic and optical properties of Zn substituted CuInSe

2 chalcopyrite

semiconductor

Surabala Mishra and Biplab Ganguli

339

xv

Self sputtered ripple structure formation on Si(100)

S. A. Mollick and D. Ghose

341

Optical properties of cadmium implanted GaSb

S. D. Pandey, R. L. Dubey, and S. K. Dubey

343

Thickness dependent transport studies of YBCO in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/YBa2Cu3O7/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3

heterostructure

Minaxi Sharma, K. K. Sharma, Ravi Kumar, and R. J. Choudhary

345

Deposition of CdS thin films by chemical bath and photochemical deposition methods and its

characterization

V. Nirmal Kumar, R. Suriakarthick, T. S. Shyju, and R. Gopalakrishnan

347

Study of covalency in GaSb under high pressure

M. Faisal Shareef, Madhu Sarwan, V. Abdul Shukoor, Purvee Bhardwaj, and Sadhna Singh

349

Bilayer graphene in optical regime

Vipin Kumar, Enamullah, and Girish S. Setlur

351

High fluence effect on Si ripple morphology developed by low energy ion beam sputtering

Debasree Chowdhury and Debabrata Ghose

353

Effect of Te doping on structural and superconducting properties of FeSe superconductor

Stuti Sudesh and G. D. Varma

355

Growth and characterization of LiInS2 single crystal by Bridgman technique

M. Magesh, A. Arunkumar, P. Vijayakumar, G. Anandha babu, and P. Ramasamy

357

Dielectric properties of FeCl3 doped PVA films

H. K. Mahavar, A. Rawat, and P. J. Singh

359

Dual erosion phases in HNA etched Si surfaces

Prabhjeet Kaur Dhillon and Subhendu Sarkar

361

Interaction of two nitrogen molecules with graphene

Babita Rani, V. K. Jindal, and Keya Dharamvir

363

Evaluation of density of states for a polyisoprene based organic semiconductor

T. Praveen, K. Shiju, N. M. Faseena, and Jayan Manuvel

365

Phonon softening of Raman modes in graphite as a function of spatial disorder

Kapil Saxena, Vivek Kumar, and A. K. Shukla

367

xvi

Electronic transport properties of SWGaNNTs

U. S. Sharma, R. Shah, C. Pathak, and M. Sharma

369

Hydrothermal synthesis of CdSe microspheres

Sachin A. Pawar, D. S. Patil, S. B. Pawar, T. S. Bhat, P. P. Waifalkar, S. H. Pisal, P. N. Bhosale,

and P. S. Patil

371

Thermal transport properties of strontium intercalated titanium diselenide

M. Patel, R. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, F. Z. Haque, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

373

Effect of iron substitution in pyrochlore type semiconducting oxides: CaCe0.6Mn0.4Sn1-xFexNbO7-δ

(x = 0, 0.2, 0.4 and 0.6) for high temperature NTC thermistor applications

S. Sumi, P. Prabhakar Rao, and Peter Koshy

375

Growth of a-few-atom wide nanowires with different surface reconstructions via desorption of

Au on vicinal Si (111) surfaces

Debolina Das, J. C. Mahato, R. Batabyal, Nasrin Banu, Bhaskar Bisi, and B. N. Dev

377

Quenching superconductivity by Zn doping in YBCO(123)

P. K. Sharma, A. Samariya, M. S. Dhawan, S. N. Dolia, and R. K. Singhal

379

Photovoltaic properties of DBPYM: PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cells

S. S. Sharma

381

The growth mechanism of ordered mesoporous electrodes in view of their response in dye-

sensitized solar cells

Devendra Mohan, Divya Jyoti, Rakesh Dhar, and Amrik Singh

383

Category C: Electronic Structure and Phonons

Electronic structure and bonding in CaO

G. Sharma, M. C. Mishra, V. Vyas, and B. K. Sharma

385

Compton profile study of ZrB2

V. Vyas, R. Kumar, G. Sharma, and B. K. Sharma

387

Toluene adsorption on Na-graphene interface- a DFT study

Pooja Rani and V. K. Jindal

389

Electronic properties and electron phonon coupling constant for CeCu3Al2

Sunil S. Chouhan, Gitanjali Pagare, and Sankar P. Sanyal

391

Structural, elastic and thermal properties of curium mono pnictides: A first principles study

Hansa Devi, Gitanjali Pagare, Sunil S. Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal

393

First-principles study of structural properties of alkaline earth metals methanides

A2C(A=Be,Mg)

U. Paliwal, D. K. Trivedi, K. L. Galav, and K. B. Joshi

395

xvii

Phonon dynamics of americium telluride

B. S. Arya, Mahendra Aynyas, Ashok K. Ahirwar, and S. P. Sanyal

397

Electronic, structural and ground state properties of 3d transition metal mononitrides: A first

principles study

R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, M. Santhosh, G. Sudha Priyanga, A. T. Asvini Meenaatci, and

S. Kanagaprabha

399

The effect of d-orbital electrons on electronic structure of InN: FP-LAPW+LO approach

Vrishali Joshi

401

Lattice dynamic calculations on LiH

D. Mukherjee, B. D. Sahoo, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta

403

Effect of ion size of various salts of Chitosan on the electrical properties

C. Raja Mohan, S. Murugan, P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar

405

Thermal expansion of noble metals using improved lattice dynamical model

Priyank Kumar, N. K. Bhatt, P. R. Vyas, and V. B. Gohel

407

Influence of Γ-X band mixing on the excited donor in a parabolic quantum well

T. Raghuvaran, R. Vijaya Shanthi, A. Merwyn Jasper D' Reuben, and P. Nithiananthi

409

Ab-initio study of the electronic properties of MoSi2

Mani Shugani, Mahendra Aynyas, and S. P. Sanyal

411

First principles study on structural, electronic, elastic and mechanical properties of RuAl1-xGex

alloys using special quasirandom structure

Bushra Fatima, Nikita Acharya, Sunil Singh Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal

413

Ab initio computational study of 2-thioureidobenzoxazole molecule

Pusala Aditya, V. Sai Muthukumar, Jyoti Dhar Sharma, and C.N. Sundaresan

415

Infra red active modes due to coupling of cyclotron excitation and LO phonons in polar

semiconductor

Ratna Agrawal, Swati Dubey, and S. Ghosh

417

Electronic structure calculation of amorphous and nano crystalline Si using empirical

pseudopotential method

R. Khatri, B. Suthar, and A. Bhargava

419

Phase transition and shock Hugoniot of MgO using tight-binding model

A. Y. Vahora, Prakruti Chaudhari, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, and A. R. Jani

421

Structural, electronic and thermal properties of ZnSiX2 (X=P, As) studied from first-principles

theory

Sheetal Sharma, A. S. Verma, R. Bhandari, and V. K. Jindal

423

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Phonon dispersion of noble metal: Copper as a prototype

T. K. Pathan, A. B. Patel, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, and A. R. Jani

425

Electronic properties in Mn doped and pure NiO clusters

Moumita Barman, Somnath Paul, and A. Sarkar

427

Study of electronic structure of PtN and PtC

J. B. Rathod, P. B. Thakor, Y. A. Sonvane, and A. R. Jani

429

First principle study of electronic and optical properties of CeF3 compound

Sapan Mohan Saini and Saurabh Samant

431

Pressure-induced structural and electronic properties of SmBi: Ab intio calculations

A. Singh, Y. S. Panwar, M. Aynyas, and S. P. Sanyal

433

Interaction of longitudinal wave with a glass microballoon in syntactic foams - A numerical study

Phani Mylavarapu, Srivathsa Boddapati, and Srinivas Kuchipudi

435

A first principle study of electronic and magnetic properties of EuFe4P12 using FP-LAPW

method

A. Shankar, D. P. Rai, Sandeep, and R. K. Thapa

437

Computer simulation of point defects in MnO and FeO

B. Srinivasa Rao, M. Rekha Rani, and S. D. V. Prasad

439

An assessment of current status of preparation, properties and applications of chalcogenide

glasses

Pawan Kumar and Ishu Sharma

441

Pressure induced phase transition and electronic properties of GaN nanocrystals: Ab-initio study

Anurag Srivastava and Neha Tyagi

443

Category D: Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films

Structural, morphological and optical properties of cadmium sulphide thin films grown using

chemical bath deposition technique

N. M. Shah

445

Electron mobility in MgZnO/ZnO heterojunctions

K. Rizwana Begum, Sangeeta B. Kolvekar, and N. S. Sankeshwar

447

Thermal properties of carbon ion beam-irradiated polycarbonate/polystyrene composite films

Bhupendra Singh Rathore, M. S. Gaur, and K. S. Singh

449

Growth of polycrystalline oxygenated three dimensional cadmium telluride thin films by

chemical synthesis

Ramesh S. Kapadnis, Sanjay B. Bansode, Sampat S. Kale, and Habib M. Pathan

451

xix

Ultrasonically assisted intercalation of Ni in Al2O3 thin film prepared by SILAR technique

Swapnali Dhanayat, Renuka Digraskar, Ketan Gattu, Deepak Upadhye, Sandeep Mahajan,

Ramphal Sharma, and Anil Ghule

453

Transport properties of indium sulfide thin films deposited by chemical bath deposition

Sanjay B. Bansode, Ramesh S. Kapadnis, V. G. Wagh, Sampat S. Kale, and Habib M. Pathan

455

Structural and morphological studies of electrochemically deposited SnS thin films

T. Shrividhya, G. Ravi, and T. Mahalingam

457

Vapor sensing mechanism of acid on copper phthalocyanine thin films studied by electrical

conductivity

Sukhwinder Singh, G. S. S. Saini, and S. K. Tripathi

459

SHI induced modifications in manganese doped ZnO thin films

Sunil Kumar, Ravi Kumar, and D. P. Singh

461

Energy gap variation by addition of Ag in (In50Se50)100-xAgx(x = 0,0.5,10) thin films

Shikha Gupta, Navdeep Goyal, and S. K. Tripathi

463

Structural, magnetic and optical properties of Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4 nanostructured thin films

Kanchan Bala and N. S. Negi

465

Electrical properties of Au/n-InP and Au/PVA/n-InP Schottky structures

A. Umapathi, M. Siva Pratap Reddy, K. Ravindranatha Reddy, and V. Rajagopal Reddy

467

Thermal annealing effects on electrical properties of Ir/Ru Schottky contacts on n-InGaN

R. Padma, B. Prasanna lakshmi, and V. Rajagopal Reddy

469

Temperature dependent electrical properties of rare-earth metal Er Schottky contact on p-type

InP

L. Dasaradha Rao, N. Ramesha Reddy, A. Ashok Kumar, and V. Rajagopal Reddy

471

Growth and characterization of pulse electrodeposited CuAlSe2 thin films

Joginder Singh, Dixit Prasher, Kamlesh Nigam, and P. Rajaram

473

Influence of oxygen partial pressure on the physical properties of Ag doped NiO thin films

Y. Ashok Kumar Reddy, A. Sivasankar Reddy, and P. Sreedhara Reddy

475

Dielectric studies of iodine doped nylon 6 polymer films

K. Sreelatha and P. Predeep

477

Humidity response of SnO2 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis

Akhilesh Tripathi, Akhilesh Pandey, and R. K. Shukla

479

xx

The formation of thermally evaporated stable Schottky barriers on p-ZnxPb(1-x)Te thin films

U. P. Khairnar and S. R. Jadhav

481

Chemosynthesis of PbS thin film by SILAR technique

Sarita B. Pawar, S. A. Pawar, P. S. Patil, and P. N. Bhosale

483

Preparation and characterization of the heterojunction of CuInSe2/CdS thin films prepared by

stacked elemental layer technique

Mahesh C. Sharma, Indu B. Vashistha, and Y. K. Vijay

485

The effects of temperature on electrical transport properties of Al/Si Schottky diode

Rajender Kumar and Subhash Chand

487

NiS/ZnS multilayer thinfilm prepared by chemical bath deposition method

J. Yuvaloshini, G. Ravi, and Ra. Shanmugavadivu

489

Investigations on polyaniline-TiO2 nano-composite Langmuir Blodgett thin films

Gurpreet Kaur Bhullar, Ramneek Kaur, and K. K Raina

491

Structure-property relation in HPMC polymer films plasticized with Sorbitol

Y. Prakash, H. Somashekarappa, Mahadevaiah, and R. Somashekar

493

Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on structural properties of GdFeO3 thin film

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

495

Substrate induced modifications in the structural and optical properties of zinc oxide thin films

Parmod Kumar, Hitendra K. Malik, and K. Asokan

497

Temperature dependent thickness change in NiO/Si thin film system

Suvankar Chakraborty, Subarna Mitra, and Krishnakumar S. R. Menon

499

Fabrication and characterizations of NiO-GDC/GDC structure for IT-SOFC

Archana U. Chavan, M. B. Kadam, C. H. Bhosale, and L. D. Jadhav

501

Chemically deposited cubic structured CdO thin films: Room temperature

R. N. Bulakhe and C. D. Lokhande

503

Thickness dependent dielectric tunable properties of barium strontium titanate thin films

Anil K. Yadava, V. Annapu Reddy, Vivek Sharma, N. P. Pathak, and R. Nath

505

Effect of deposition temperature on structural and optical properties of sprayed nickel oxide thin

films

R. Sharma, A. D. Acharya, Shweta Moghe, S. B. Shrivastava, and V. Ganesan

507

Determination of refractive index and thickness of thin-film from reflectivity spectrum using

genetic algorithm

Sanjaykumar J. Patel and Vipul Kheraj

509

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Study on silver doped and undoped ZnO thin films working as capacitive sensor

S. Kiran, N. Santhosh Kumar, and S. K. Naveen Kumar

511

Nanomechanical studies of doped InGaP/GaAs epilayers

Dipika Robidas, K. R. Deepthi, C. Arunseshan, G. Attolini, M. Bosi, and D. Arivuoli

513

Nanoflakes of β-Co(OH)2 thin film for supercapacitor application

N. S. Harale, N. L. Tarwal, P. R. Jadhav, S. H. Pisal, I. S. Mulla, V. K. Rao, and P. S. Patil

515

Electrochromic properties of vanadium oxide thin films prepared by PSPT: Effect of substrate

temperature

C. E. Patil, P. R. Jadhav, N. L. Tarwal, H. P. Deshmukh, M. M. Karanjakar, A. A. Wali, and P. S.

Patil

517

Effect of annealing on sputtered heusler alloy Co2Cr0.6Fe0.4Al thin film

Anjali Yadav and Sujeet Chaudhary

519

The role of surface effects on the optical behavior of nanocrystalline NiO

S. Thota, A. Mallick, and S. K. Singh

521

Synthesis and characterization of graphene thin film by thermal reduction

Sumita Rani, Mukesh Kumar, Amanpal Singh, Sumit Sharma, and Dinesh Kumar

523

Sol-gel processed Cu2SnS3 films for photovoltaics

Sandra Dias, Murali Banavoth, and S. B. Krupanidhi

525

Effect of deposition time on the chemical bath deposition method of ZnO thin films

G. Vijayaprasath, G. Ravi, M. Arivanandhan, and Y. Hayakawa

527

Study of n-ZnO/ p-SiNW heterostructures grown by thermal evaporation method

Purnima Hazra and S. Jit

529

Preparation of DC reactive magnetron sputtered ZnO thin film towards photovoltaic

applications

M. Prabhu, A. Sivanantham, P. Karthick Kannan, V. Vishnukanthan, and J. Mayandi

531

Effect of solute concentration on the structural and morphological properties of sol-gel derived

CdO films

R. Rajammal, E. Savarimuthu, and S. Arumugam

533

Catalyst free growth of CNTs by CVD on nanoscale rough surfaces of silicon substrates

D. Damodar, R. K. Sahoo, and C. Jacob

535

Caking and characterizing graphene oxide thin films via electrodeposition technique for possible

application in photoelectrochemical spliting of water

Nirupama Singh, Pushpendra Kumar, Sumant Upadhyay, Surbhi Choudhary, Vibha R. Satsangi,

Sahab Dass, and Rohit Shrivastav

537

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Optical properties of Bi0.1Zn0.45VO3.1 thin films using UV-VIS-NIR spectroscopy

R. Punia, R. S. Kundu, J. Hooda, Rajesh Parmar, and N. Kishore

539

Effect of oxygen pressure on the structural and optical properties of ZnO/Si(100) thin films

Sanjeev Gautam, Anup Thakur, Ankush Vij, Seonghoon Jung, Ik Jae Lee, Hyun Joon Shin, Han

Koo Lee, Jaehun Park, Jong Han Song, and Keun Hwa Chae

541

Concentration dependence of electrical resistivity of binary liquid alloy HgZn: Ab-initio study

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

543

Study of the growth of graphene film on Ni and Si substrates by hot filament chemical vapor

deposition

Mukesh Singh, Himanshu S. Jha, Asha Yadav, and Pratima Agarwal

545

Effect of annealing time on the properties of BLT thin film prepared by sol-gel technique

Vinika Manglani and Ashish Agnihotri

547

Category E: Liquids, Glasses and Amorphous

Modification of conductivity by Sb addition in bulk glasses

Harshita Agrawal, L. I. Singh, P. K. Saraswat, and Vibhav K. Saraswat

549

Study of phase change technology for computer memory using Se70Te30-xAgx system

A. Kumar, Pragya Agarwal, and Abhay Saxena

551

Synthesis of transparent and hydrophobic TMOS based silica aerogels

D. B. Mahadik, A. Venkateswara Rao, P. B. Wagh, and Satish C. Gupta

553

Experimental verification of theoretically calculated parameters of Te15(Se100-xBix)85(x = 0,2,4

at.%) amorphous semiconductors

Kameshwar Kumar and Nagesh Thakur

555

Effect of doping on structural and dielectric properties of BaTiO3

Ashutosh Mishra and Niyati Mishra

557

Structural and optical properties of niobium doped silver-lead-borate glasses

M. Sathish and B. Eraiah

559

PTCR-NTCR composite behavior of bismuth titanate ceramics

Nagbasavanna Sharanappa, Shivanand Madolappa, Raghavendra Sagar, and R. L. Raibagkar

561

Temperature dependent impedance behavior of (Ba0.6Sr0.4)(Zr0.65Ti0.35)O3

C. M. Tawade, Nagbasavanna Sharanappa, Shivanand Madolappa, Raghavendra Sagar, and R. L.

Raibagkar

563

Electronic and magnetic properties of RECu3Al2 (RE = Sm, Gd and Tb)

Gitanjali Pagare, Sunil S. Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal

565

xxiii

Structural, electronic and elastic properties of LaX3 (X = In, Sn and Tl) compounds: A FP-

LAPW study

Jisha Annie Abraham, G. Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, and S. P. Sanyal

567

Structural and magnetic properties of BaCoxZrxFe(12-2x)O19 prepared by citrate precursor sol-gel

route

S. K. Chawla, R. K. Mudsainiyan, S. S. Meena, and S. M. Yusuf

569

Synthesis, characterization and optical properties of Mn

2+ activated Y3Al5O12 phosphor

Anupam Selot, S. J. Dhoble, Mahendra Aynyas, and Sanjay Bhatt

571

Effect of Sn substitution on structural and transport properties of (La0.67Sr0.33)MnO3

Tejas M. Tank, V. Sridharan, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, V. Ganesan, and S. P. Sanyal

573

Electrical and magnetic properties of La0.5Bi0.5MnO3

V. Punith Kumar, M. R. Manju, and Vijaylakshmi Dayal

575

Electric relaxation behavior of Bi0.5Sr0.5FeO3 ceramic: An electric modulus approach

Samita Thakur, O. P. Pandey, and K. Singh

577

Signature of polaron formation in Na0.025WO3: Photoemission and X-ray diffraction

investigations

Sanhita Paul, Anirudha Ghosh, and Satyabrata Raj

579

Persistent current in an ordered-disordered separated cylinder

Paramita Dutta, Santanu K. Maiti, and S. N. Karmakar

581

Molecular reorientation based changes on dielectric behavior of newly synthesized liquid crystal

Prachi Tripathi, Sudhaker Dixit, Rajiv Manohar, A. K. Prajapati, and M. C. Varia

583

Selective surface treatments for commercial conducting oxides used in fabricating defect free

organic displays

Vivek Kumar Shukla and Ranbir Singh

585

Anomalous conduction in pure and Mn doped Gd2O3

Somnath Paul and A. Sarkar

587

Frequency moments and elastic moduli of liquid rubidium at different temperatures

A. B. Patel, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, and A. R. Jani

589

Electrical resistivity of Al-Cu liquid binary alloy

P. P. Thakor, J. J. Patel, Y. A. Sonvane, and A. R. Jani

591

Electrical resistivity of liquid lanthanides using charge hard sphere system

Y. A. Sonvane, P. B. Thakor, and A. R. Jani

593

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Oblique wave diffraction by varying porous bottom in the presence of surface tension

Srikumar Panda and S. C. Martha

595

Physical and optical properties of Pr6O11 doped zinc fluoroborate glass

M. PrajnaShree, Akshatha Wagh, Y. Raviprakash, Sangeetha G. Bhat, and Sudha D. Kamath

597

Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on optical properties of amorphous As2Se3 thin films

Rashmi Chauhan, Arvind Tripathi, Amit Kumar Srivastava, and K. K. Srivastava

599

Synthesis & photoluminescence study of UV emitting borate phosphor Ca3B2O6: Pb

2+

A. B. Gawande, R. P. Sonekar, and S. K. Omanwar

601

Characterization and optical properties of Bi2Te3 and (Bi.20Sb.80)2Te3

Kanchan Sharma, Anil Kumar, Navdeep Goyal, and Manohar Lal

603

Structural and morphological properties of Ce doped ZnO

Nishant Kumar, K. P. Misra, S. K. Jain, and B. L. Choudhary

605

Enhanced field emission from polyaniline coated amorphous carbon nanotubes

S. Maity, S. Goswami, and K. K. Chattopadhyay

607

DC electrical conductivity study of cerium doped conducting glass systems

R. V. Barde and S. A. Waghuley

609

Enhancing multiferroic properties in solid solution of Bi1-xSrxFeO3-BaTiO3 ceramics

P. Tirupathi and Amreesh Chandra

611

Influence of RF power on optical and morphological properties of NiO thin films

K. S. Usha, C. Sanjeeviraja, and R. Sivakumar

613

Stability analysis of IV-V-VI chalcogenide glasses using glass transition and crystallization

temperature

Neha Sharma, Sunanda Sharda, Vineet Sharma, and Pankaj Sharma

615

Synthesis and X-ray diffraction study of polyaniline doped with chromium oxide

Asha, Sneh Lata Goyal, and Nawal Kishore

617

Preparation and properties of silver-borate glasses doped with praseodymium oxide

G. V. Jagadeesha Gowda and B. Eraiah

619

Doping effect of tellurium on the crystallization kinetics of Se95Pb5 glass

D. Sushama, George Achamma, and H. K. Unnithan

621

Electron paramagnetic resonance of vanadyl doped mixed alkaline earth borate glasses

Samdani, K. Chandrasekhar, Md. Shareefuddin, and M. Narasimha Chary

623

xxv

Effects of CaF2 vis-a-vis TiO2 as nucleating agent in SiO2–Al2O3–CaO glass-ceramics

Debasis Pradip Mukherjee, Tanmoy Datta, and Sudip Kumar Das

625

Li

+ ion transport studies in Li2O-Li2SO4-ZnO-B2O3 glass system

Sangeeta B. Kolavekar, R. Lakshmikantha, N. H. Ayachit, and R. V. Anavekar

627

The phenomenon of nanomaterial induced photoluminescence in ferroelectric liquid crystals

Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Swadesh Kumar Gupta, and Rajiv Manohar

629

Role of ceramic particles for developing wear resistant materials

Kamalpreet Kaur and O. P. Pandey

631

Study of conduction mechanism in amorphous Ge20Te80-xBix (x = 0, 1.5, 2.5, 5.0) chalcogenide

glassy alloys

Ambika Sharma, Kumari Anshu, and Preeti Yadav

633

Collective modes and elastic constants of Pd39Ni10Cu30P21 bulk metallic glass

Prakruti Chaudhari, A. Y. Vahora, B. Y. Thakore, M. V. Vaghela, and A. R. Jani

635

Concentration dependence of pair correlation function and bulk modulus of liquid AlxCu1-x

alloys

M. V. Vaghela, A. Y. Vahora, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, and A. R. Jani

637

Glass-ceramics system using normal and nano silica - preparation and characteristics

Debasis Pradip Mukherjee, Jayanta Kumar Sinha, and Sudip Kumar Das

639

Specific heat of porous materials as a function of moisture content

Devendra K. Singhal and Usha Singh

641

Electrical conductivity studies of iron doped Pb(Yb0.5Ta0.5)O3 ceramics by impedance

spectroscopy

Swetapadma Praharaj, V. Subramanian, and Dibyaranjan Rout

643

TGA-DTA and chemical composition study of raw material of Bikaner region for electrical

porcelain

S. K. Tak, M. S. Shekhawat, and R. Mangal

645

Numerical analysis of crystallization in amorphous Bi-Se-Te thin films

Jaya Kalla, B. Suthar, and A. Bhargava

647

Structural phase transitions in titanium oxide

Bhoopendra Dhar Diwan and Surendra Kumar Singh

649

Effect of micro alloying on glass forming ability of Cu50Zr50 metallic glass

Supriya Kasyap, Ashmi T. Patel, and Arun Pratap

651

Effect of Fe2O3 on the physical and structural properties of bismuth silicate glasses

Rajesh Parmar, R. S. Kundu, R. Punia, P. Aghamkar, and N. Kishore

653

xxvi

Thermodynamics of glass forming polymeric melts

Prapti B. Pandya, Ashmi T. Patel, and Arun Pratap

655

Synthesis, electrical and thermal properties of Bi4V2-xNbxO11 (x=0.0 and 0.06) ceramics

S. Sahu and M. Roy

657

Physical and structural properties of Nd

3+ doped BaO-ZnO-B2O3 glasses

Kirti Nanda, R. S. Kundu, R. Punia, R. Parmar, and N. Kishore

659

Luminescence studies of PbO-Bi2O3-Ga2O3-B2O3 glasses doped with Yb

3+ /Er

3+

Y. Raja Rao, K. Krishnamurthy Goud, and B. Appa Rao

661

Study of photostability in amorphous Ge-As-Se chalcogenide thin films

A. Tripathi, R. Chauhan, and K. K. Srivastava

663

Anomalous elastic behaviour of orientationally disordered (ND4I)x(KI)1-x

Alpana Tiwari, N. K. Gaur, and Dipti Sen

665

Effect of strontium substitution on dielectric constants of PZT nanocrystalline ceramics

P. Kour, Pawan Kumar, Manoranjan Kar, and S. K. Sinha

667

Influence of PbTiO3 addition on microstructure of (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-xPbTiO3 ceramics

T. Garg, A. R. Kulkarni, and N. Venkataramani

669

FTIR studies of some vanadyl ion doped calcium oxychloride borate glasses

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

671

Crystallization studies of Se Sb Te ternary chalcogenide glasses using non-isothermal analysis

C. Harikuttan Unnithan, S. Jayakumar, and D. Sushama

673

Giant dielectric constant in Cu doped LaFeO3

Bandi Vittal Prasad, B. Venugopal Rao, K. Narsaiah, G. Narsinga Rao, J. W. Chen, and D. Suresh

Babu

675

Heating rate dependence of the glass transition temperature in Se85-xTe15Inx amorphous alloys

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

677

Manganese oxide thin films deposited by SILAR method for supercapacitor application

P. R. Jadhav, V. V. Shinde, G. J. Navathe, M. M. Karanjkar, and P. S. Patil

679

DSC and DC conductivity of ZnO.LiF.B2O3 glasses

Susheel Arora, Sajjan Dahiya, Virender Kundu, D. R. Goyal, and A. S. Maan

681

Piezoelectric effect on artificial phonon-plasmon polariton in lithium niobate(LiNbO3)

B. K. Sahoo, Vikas Gedam, and Anju Pansari

683

xxvii

Physical and electrical properties of copper oxide doped bismuth borate glasses

R. L. Dhiman, Virender Singh Kundu, Susheel Arora, and A. S. Maan

685

Block copolymer templating syntheses of mesoporous ZrO2 with large ordering lengths and

semicrystalline framework

B. Sathyaseelan, G. Killivalavan, G. Rameshkumar, G. Senthilkumar, and K. Kamaraj

687

Effect of sintering temperature on electrical behavior of BiFeO3 electroceramics

Sangram K. Pradhan and Binod K. Roul

689

Temperature dependence dielectric properties of modified barium titanate-PVB composites

N. J. Joshi, P. B. Rakshit, G. S. Grewal, V. Shrinet, and A. Pratap

691

Reduction of threshold electric field on doping nematic liquid crystal with functionalized CNT

Jitendra Kumar, Raj Kumar Gupta, and V. Manjuladevi

693

Synthesis and dielectric properties of Fe doped SmCrO3 semiconductor ceramics

Bandi Vittal Prasad, B. Venugopal Rao, K. Narsaiah, G. Narsinga Rao, J. W. Chen, and D. Suresh

Babu

695

Frequency dependence of dielectric constants of Ag doped Se-Bi-Te system

Anup Kumar, Pawan Heera, P. B. Barman, and Raman Sharma

697

Category F: Optoelectronics and Photonic materials

Electro optic properties of DAST single crystal

M. R. Manikandan, G. Ravi, M. Arivanandhan, Y. Hayakawa, P. K. Gupta, and S. Ganesamoorthy

699

Mode field diameters of index-guided microstructured optical fibers

Dinesh Kumar Sharma and Anurag Sharma

701

Optics of magnetic photonic crystals with mu-negative materials

N. Kumar, K. B. Thapa, Ram Janma, G. N. Pandey, and Reena

703

Design of a transmission TM mode filter using one-dimensional ternary photonic crystal

Sanjeev Sharma, Rajendra Kumar, Kh. S. Singh, Vipin Kumar, and Deepti Jain

705

Design of an omni-directional reflector using 1D ge-based photonic crystal

Deepti Jain, Kh. S. Singh, Vipin Kumar, Sanjeev Sharma, and M. P. S. Rao

707

Theoretical study of SNR in photorefractive materials

Ruchi Singh, D. P. Singh, and R. A. Yadav

709

TM polarized filter using 1D photonic crystal

Vipin Kumar, Arun Kumar, B. Suthar, Kh. S. Singh, and S. P. Ojha

711

xxviii

Impact of material absorption on supercontinuum generation in liquid core photonic crystal

fiber

K. Nithyanandan, Vasantha Jayakantha Raja, T. Uthayakumar, and K. Porsezian

713

All optical AND and NAND logic gates based on a triple core photonic crystal fiber

T. Uthayakumar, R. Vasantha Jayakantha Raja, K. Nithyanandan, and K. Porsezian

715

Travelling wave solutions in negative index materials in the presence of external source

Vivek Kumar Sharma, Amit Goyal, C. N. Kumar, and J. Goswamy

717

Nucleation and growth of L-glutamic acid polymorphs and its nonlinear optical properties

P. Dhanasekaran and K. Srinivasan

719

Near edge X-ray absorption fine structure study of Zn0.8Mg0.2O thin films

Ankush Vij, Amanpal Singh, Ravi Kumar, Sanjeev Gautam, Dinesh Kumar, and Keun Hwa Chae

721

CuBO2: A new photoconducting material

S. Santra, N. S. Das, and K. K. Chattopadhyay

723

Growth and characterization of L-arginine sulphate: A new nanocrystal with non linear optical

behaviour

M. M. Khandpekar and Smita S. Patil

725

Soliton propagation at two nonlinear interfaces formed by monomode optical fiber and gallium

nanoparticles

Preeti Naruka and Shivangi Bissa

727

Dispersion flattened single mode optical fiber with large effective area

Babita and Vipul Rastogi

729

Design of omni-directional reflector using 1D superconductor-semiconductor photonic crystal

Vinay Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Arun Kumar, and S. P. Ojha

731

Thermal effect on photonic band gap in semiconductor based 1D photonic crystal

J. V. Malik, Arun Kumar, Vipin Kumar, Arvind Kumar, and T. P. Singh

733

Nonlinear optical properties of nitrogen-doped bilayer graphene

Benoy Anand, Ramakrishna Podila, Apparao M. Rao, Reji Philip, and S. Siva Sankara Sai

735

Reflection properties of one dimensional plasma photonic crystal

Arun Kumar, Pinky Khundrakpam, and Priyanka Sharma

737

Gap soliton in nonlinear-plasma 1D photonic crystal

Arun Kumar, V. Kumar, B. Suthar, A. Sharma, Kh. S. Singh, and S. P. Ojha

739

xxix

Dynamics of soliton matter waves in trapped BEC with time-dependent two and three-body

interaction

T. Mithun and K. Porsezian

741

Morphological responses of polymer dispersed liquid crystal composites for photonic display

applications

Rishi Kumar, Supreet, and K. K. Raina

743

Synthesis of nanostructured polyaniline for optoelectronic devices and gas sensing applications

I. D. Sharma, P. K. Saini, and S. K. Sharma

745

Growth and characterization of nearly perfect lithium para nitrophenolate nonlinear optical

single crystal

M. Mahadevan, K. Jagannathan, P. Anandan, and K. Ramachandran

747

Enlargement of omnidirectional bandgap region by using a one-dimensional quarternary plasma

photonic crystal

Maitreyi Upadhyay, S. K. Awasthi, S. K. Srivastava, and S. P. Ojha

749

Novel D-π-A-π-D type organic chromophores for second harmonic generation and multi-photon

absorption applications

Pusala Aditya, Hari Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Rajashekar, M. Muralikrishna, V. Sai Muthukumar, B.

Siva Kumar, S. Siva Sankara Sai, and G. Nageshwar Rao

751

Soliton reflectance at the gallium silica interface

Preeti Naruka, Shivangi Bissa, and A. K. Nagar

753

Spectroscopic studies of lead antimony borate glasses doped with erbium ions

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

755

Discrete modulational instability in parametrically driven optical lattices

O. P. Swami, A. Sharma, and A. K. Nagar

757

Growth, optical, mechanical and electrical properties of L-serine acetate: A promising

semiorganic nonlinear optical crystal

K. Rajesh, P. Praveen Kumar, A. Zamara, and A. Thirugnanam

759

Stability of discrete solitons in a hexagonal lattice

Arvind Sharma, Vijendra Kumar, and A. K. Nagar

761

Self transparency in nonlinear multilayer structure

Priyanka Sharma, Arun Kumar, and Vipin Kumar

763

Category G: Single Crystals and Novel Materials

Optical and dielectric properties of the co-doped TiO2

M. H. Mangrola, B. H. Parmar, A. S. Pillai, and V. G. Joshi

765

xxx

Dielectric and optical behavior of Sr-doped TiO2 synthesized by solid state reaction method

M. H. Mangrola, B. H. Parmar, A. S. Pillai, and V. G. Joshi

767

Elastic moduli of pyrope rich garnets

B. K. Pandey, A. K. Pandey, and C. K. Singh

769

Mercurophilic interactions in [HgI]

- hybrid materials

Mukesh Kumar, S. Dalela, and Dinesh

771

Study of OSL in NaCl:Cu co-doped with Ca and Ca,P

Y. K. More, S. P. Wankhede, and S. V. Moharil

773

Li ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes based on Poly(vinyl acetate)

S. Rajendran, Chithra M. Mathew, T. Marimuthu, and K. Kesavan

775

Study of mechanical properties of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polystyrene (PS) polymers and

their blends

Shalini Agarwal, N. S. Saxena, R. Agrawal, and Vibhav K. Saraswat

777

Color-sensitive photoconductivity of nanostructured ZnO/fast green dye hybrid films

Mamta Rani and S. K. Tripathi

779

Analysis of negative material supported helix slow wave structure for traveling-wave tubes

N. Purushothaman, V. Srivastava, and S. K. Ghosh

781

Photoluminescence and long after glow study of Sr4Si3O8Cl4:Eu

2+ phosphor

Gurjeet Talwar, Khushbu Sharma, S. V. Moharil, and K. B. Ghormare

783

Structural and mechanical properties of some thulium pnictides under pressure

Sanjay Bhajanker, Vipul Srivastava, and Sankar P. Sanyal

785

SILAR deposited TiO2 thin film for supercapacitor application

P. R. Deshmukh and C. D. Lokhande

787

Study on environmental stability of a Zn based metal chelate organic small molecule in powder

and thin films

Vivek Kumar Shukla and Jaya Maitra

789

Thermophysical properties of liquid rare earth metals

P. B. Thakor, Y. A. Sonvane, H. P. Patel, and A. R. Jani

791

On the application of CaF2:Eu and SrF2:Eu phosphors in LED based phototherapy lamp

P. D. Belsare, S. V. Moharil, C. P. Joshi, and S. K. Omanwar

793

Dielectric spectroscopy studies of NASICON materials

Paramjyot Kumar Jha, O. P. Pandey, and K. Singh

795

xxxi

Solvatochromic study of quinidine: Determination of ground and excited state dipole moments

Sunita Joshi and Debi D. Pant

797

X-ray diffraction studies of polyaniline doped with Zn(NO3)2

Sneh Lata Goyal, Smriti Sharma, Devinder Kumar, and Nawal Kishore

799

Specific heat of (Pr1-ySmy)0.7Ca0.3CoO3

Rasna Thakur, Rajesh K. Thakur, and N. K. Gaur

801

LEDs phosphor BaAl2O4: Sm prepared by solution combustion synthesis

N. S. Bajaj and S. K. Omanwar

803

An ab-initio study of full Heusler alloy Fe2CoGa

K. Seema and Ranjan Kumar

805

Novel inorganic borate host phosphor K2Al2B2O7:Dy

3+ for LED based solid state lighting

R. S. Palaspagar, R. P. Sonekar, and S. K. Omanwar

807

Optical investigation of polyphenylene sulfide composite

A. S. Rahate, K. R. Nemade, and S. A. Waghuley

809

XRD and xanes studies of copper complexes using (diethyl 4-amino-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazole-3,5

dicarboxylate) as ligand

Ashutosh Mishra and Garima Jain

811

Structural and transport properties of orthorhombic GdMnO3

Anchit Modi, Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, N. K. Gaur, N. Kaurav, and G. S. Okram

813

Electrochemical studies of C60 grafted nonconjugated polymer

Renu Jose

815

Synthesis of single phase BiFeO3 by one step method

Deepika Bhuwal and Vilas Shelke

817

Study of elastic behavior of alloy BxGa1-xN by using bowing parameter

Madhu Sarwan, Narendra Singh Thakur, Ritu Dubey, and Sadhna Singh

819

Anisotropy in SmFeAsO0.8F0.15 single crystal

A. Pattanaik and P. Nayak

821

Crystal structure and transport properties of two new compounds: SmPt3B and GdPt3B

Sudipta Mondal, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

823

Ru2VAl and Ru2VGa: Two new heusler-type compounds

Sanchayita Mondal, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan

825

xxxii

Structural properties of high energy mechanical milled Ca-Zr doped

BaTiO3:Ca0.1Ba0.9Zr0.1Ti0.9O3

Ashish R. Tanna and H. H. Joshi

827

Evolution of surface modification by Ar

+ ion implantation with incident angle into sodium

potassium niobate single crystal

R. Saravanan, D. Rajesh, S. V. Rajasekaran, R. Perumal, M. Chitra, and R. Jayavel

829

Thermal decomposition study of Mo0.6W0.4Se2 single crystals

Sunil H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, and Jiten P. Tailor

831

Growth and microtopographic study of CuAlS2 single crystals

Sunil H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, and Kanchan S. Mahato

833

Extrudate characteristics and morphology of styrene butadiene rubber/high density polyethylene

blends

T. K. Jayasree and Jayan Manuvel

835

Growth and characterization of L-tryptophan doped KDP crystals

K. D. Parikh, D. J. Dave, B. B. Parekh, and M. J. Joshi

837

PALS and DSC studies in high energy electron irradiated semicrystalline polypropylene

Arunava Mandal, Subrata Mukherjee, Sandip Pan, Achintya Kumar Saha, and Asmita Sengupta

839

Shock Hugoniot and high pressure melting curve for CaF2

R. H. Joshi, A. B. Patel, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, and A. R. Jani

841

Negative differential resistance and memory phenomenon in natural rubber

J. Aneesh, N. M. Faseena, and P. Predeep

843

Effect of nanochitosan and succinonitrile on the AC ionic conductivity of plasticized

nanocomposite solid polymer electrolytes (PNCSPE)

K. Karuppasamy, C. Vijil Vani, A. Nichelson, S. Balakumar, and X. Sahaya Shajan

845

Ab initio study of structural and electronic properties of Cun@C60

Shobhna Dhiman, Ranjan Kumar, and Keya Dharamvir

847

Structural, optical and dielectric properties of (0.95)PbZr0.52Ti0.48O3-(0.05)BiFeO3 solid solution

Subhash Sharma, Vikash Singh, and R. K. Dwivedi

849

Synthesis and third order optical investigations of nitrophenyl porphyrins

N. K. Siji Narendran, M. Midhun, Rahul Soman, Chellaiah Arunkumar, and K. Chandrasekharan

851

Double differential cross sections of carbonyl sulfide molecule

Rajeev Kumar and Sanju

853

Observation of two critical current densities in a weakly pinned single crystal of Ca3Rh4Sn13

M. Babu Suresh, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ramakrishnan, A. K. Grover, and D. Pal

855

xxxiii

Studies on the effect of dispersoid(ZrO2) in PVdF-co-HFP based gel polymer electrolytes

M. Sivakumar, R. Subadevi, and R. Muthupradeepa

857

Effect of plasticizer (DMF) on electrical properties of PMMA based polymer electrolyte films

P. Chandra Sekhar, P. Naveen Kumar, U. Sasikala, and A. K. Sharma

859

Accurate real time optical transmission study of vulcanized poly (ethylene-co-vinyl acetate) in

aromatic solvent

Satheesh Chandran, P. Ashok, P. Anin, A. Sujith, and Ravi Varma

861

Effect of Ta doped on microstructure of sodium potassium niobate single crystal grown by flux

method

R. Saravanan, D. Rajesh, S. V. Rajasekaran, R. Perumal, M. Chitra, and R. Jayavel

863

Transport, magneto transport and magnetic properties of Ru substituted NdMnO3

Deepshikha Bhargava, Tejas M. Tank, Rajeev Rawat, and Sankar P. Sanyal

865

Synthesis and physico-chemical properties of organic aerogels

Mahendra S. Kavale, V. G. Parale, A. Venkateswara Rao, P. B. Wagh, and Satish C. Gupta

867

Normal coordinate analysis of GdVO4 rare earth compound

Ruby Jindal, M. M. Sinha, and H. C. Gupta

869

Synthesis, structure and characterization of novel metal-organic single crystal: Dibromobis(L-

proline)zinc(II)

G. Venkatesan, G. Anandha Babu, and P. Ramasamy

871

The electrical and optical studies of the KC1 doped PVA polymer electrolyte materials

K. K. Kamani, B. J. Madhu, M. Nethravathi, and S. T. Ashwini

873

Fatigue crack growth behaviour of Al-Li alloys

R. Saravanakumar, K. S. Ramakrishna, and B. Avinash Kanna

875

Growth and characterization of selenium (Se) doped gallium antimony (GaSb) bulk single

crystals using VDS technique

Rashmi Choudhari, Manisha Joshi, Dilip Maske, and Dattatray Gadkari

877

Annealing effect on the dielectric response of novel polymer/nano-quasicrystalline composites

Ch. Venkatesh and V. V. Rao

879

Effect of hot-press sintering temperature on thermal transport properties of TiSe2

R. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, M. Patel, A. Singh, P. Bhatt, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

881

Evolution of microstructure of Mg + FeTi nanocomposite prepared by mechanical alloying

Chhagan Lal, Vidyadhar Singh, M. Jangir, R. K. Jain, and I. P. Jain

883

xxxiv

Low frequency dielectric relaxation and optical behaviour of a nematic liquid crystal 4-methyl

(2′-hydroxy, 4′-N-hexadecyloxy) azobenzene

Pankaj Kr Tripathi, Abhishek Kr Misra, Shivani Pandey, and Rajiv Manohar

885

Growth and optical property of methyl para hydroxybenzoate sodium dihydrate single crystals

N. Karunagaran and P. Ramasamy

887

Upconversion studies in Gd2O3:Tm

3+/Yb

3+ phosphor

A. K. Singh, K. Kumar, S. B. Rai, and D. K. Rai

889

A study of piezoelectric properties of (Ba0.85Ca0.15)(Zr0.9Ti0.1)O3 ceramics synthesized by sol-gel

process

J. Paul Praveen, Kranti Kumar, C. K. James Raju, and Dibakar Das

891

Study of structural properties of NbC at high temperature

V. Abdul Shukoor, Vasudev Thakre, and Sadhna Singh

893

Synthesis and photoluminescence of inorganic borate host red emitting VUV phosphor

YCaBO4:Eu3+

J. T. Ingle, A. B. Gawande, R. P. Sonekar, P. A. Nagpure, and S. K. Omanwar

895

Thermal analysis of microwave assisted synthesized poly(acrylic) acid/alumina composites.

Rahul Desai, Laxmi J. Tomar, and Bishwajit S. Chakrabarty

897

Synthesis and characterization of Sm

3+:PEO+PVP polymer film

K. Naveen Kumar and S. Buddhudu

899

Properties of ferroelectric glycine phosphite single crystals

K. Senthil Kumar, S. Moorthy Babu, Binay Kumar, and G. Bhagavannarayana

901

Investigation on spectral, thermal and dielectric properties of DAST derivative crystal

M. Krishna Kumar, S. Sudhahar, and R. Mohan Kumar

903

The enhanced supercapacitive performance of SnO2 combined with RuO2 by chemical synthesis

S. N. Pusawale, P. R. Deshmukh, and C. D. Lokhande

905

Category H: Phase Transitions and Magnetism

Dielectric and optical study of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) / Fe2O3 films

Anita, O. P. Chimankar, A. R. Bansod, and Basavaraja Sannakki

907

Microwave synthesis and magnetic properties of indium substituted Mn-Zn ferrites

Surender Kumar, Tukaram J. Shinde, and Pramod N. Vasambekar

909

D.C. electrical conductivity and magnetic susceptibility of polythiophene doped with iodine

Ashish B. Chourasia and Deepali S. Kelkar

911

xxxv

Specific heat of charge-ordered rare earth Sm0.5Ca0.5MnO3 perovskite manganites

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

913

Thermal expansion and specific heat of Pr0.8Na0.2MnO3 and Tb0.85Na0.15MnO3 perovskite

manganites

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

915

Pressure induced structural phase transition and elastic properties of barium selenide

Kuldeep Kholiya and Jeewan Chandra

917

Elasticity and structural phase transition in TiH and VH: An ab initio study

S. Kanagabrabha, M. Santhosh, G. Sudhapriyanga, A. T. Asvinimeenaatci, R.

Rajeswarapalanichamy, and K. Iyakutti

919

First principles study of CrH and CrM2H

S. Kanagaprabha, M. Santhosh, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, and K. Iyakutti

921

First principles study of semiconductor to metallic transition in cadmium selenide under high

pressure

M. Santhosh, S. Kanagaprabha, G. Sudhapriyanga, A. T. Asvinimeenaatci, and R. Rajeswara

Palanichamy

923

Study of pressure induced structural and electronic properties of PuAs and PuSb

Chandrabhan Makode, Jagdish Pataiya, M. Aynyas, and Sankar P. Sanyal

925

High pressure phase transition and elastic properties of americium telluride

Mahendra Aynyas, Aditi Rukmangad, B. S. Arya, and S. P. Sanyal

927

Pressure induced structural phase transition of actinide mono-nitride

Y. S. Panwar, Mahendra Aynyas, B. S. Arya, and S. P. Sanyal

929

Pressure induced structural phase transition in actinide mono-bismuthides: Ab initio calculations

J. Pataiya, C. Makode, M. Aynyas, and Sankar P. Sanyal

931

Dielectric relaxation of a ferroelectric liquid crystal showing anomalous behaviour due to

polarization inversion

Abhishek Kumar Misra, Kamal Kr Pandey, Pankaj Kr Tripathi, and Rajiv Manohar

933

Comparative study of the structural and magnetic properties of bulk and nano-sized Fe2CoAl

Vishal Jain, Jagdish Nehra, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan

935

High pressure phase transformation in thorium carbide: A first principle study

B. D. Sahoo, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta

937

Microstructural and electrical properties of single phase multifeorric BiFeO3 nanoparticles

Abdullah A. Saad, Wasi Khan, and A. H. Naqvi

939

xxxvi

Spin Hall Effect in a kagome lattice

Moumita Dey, Santanu K. Maiti, and S. N. Karmakar

941

Re-entrant magnetic phases in CaFeO3 nanoparticle

B. Ghosh, K. Bagani, M. K. Ray, M. Sardar, and S. Banerjee

943

Enhancement of martensitic transition temperature and exchange bias upon substitution of Fe on

Sn site in Ni50Mn35Sn15 alloy

M. K. Ray, K. Bagani, B. Ghosh, and S. Banerjee

945

Electrical transport and magnetoresistive properties of nanophasic La1-XAXMnO3 (A = Ca, Sr

and Na) manganites

S. R. Mankadia and J. A. Bhalodia

947

Dynamical correlation effects on pair-correlation functions of spin polarized two-dimensional

electron gas

Krishan Kumar, Vinayak Garg, and R. K. Moudgil

949

Electronic and thermal properties of spin polarised MgPr intermetallic

Afroj A. Khan, Vipul Srivastava, M. Rajagopalan, and Sankar P. Sanyal

951

Critical behavior near ferromagnetic-paramagnetic phase transition in ion-beam sputtered

Cr70Fe30 thin films

B. Ravi Kumar and S. N. Kaul

953

Influence of Si layer thickness on the structure and magnetic properties of Si/Fe multilayers

S. S. Das and M. Senthil Kumar

955

Magnetism and magnetocaloric effect in TbNi0.6Ge2

Sachin B. Gupta and K. G. Suresh

957

Tuning of magnetic properties of NiFe alloy nanowires

Daljit Kaur, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya

959

Influence of Mn addition on magnetic and structural properties of barium hexaferrite

A. Ghosh, A. Pasko, S. N. Kane, M. Satalkar, R. Prasad, R. Diwedi, S. Ladole, A. S. Aswar, G. N.

P. Oliveira, A. Apolinário, C. T. Sousa, J. P. Araujo, and F. Mazaleyrat

961

Origin of ferromagnetic ordering of Lu2V2O7 studied with crystal-field theory in the mean-field

approach

Aksar Ali Biswas, Yatramohan Jana, Jahangir Alam, and Partha Das

963

Electronic and magnetic properties of ASrB (A=Li, Na, K and Rb) compounds: First principles

study

R. Umamaheswari, M. Yogeswari, D. Vijayalakshmi, and G. Kalpana

965

Magnetotransport behavior of Eu0.5Sr0.5MnO3 perovskite

P. Dutta, D. Das, S. Chatterjee, and S. Majumdar

967

xxxvii

Effect of reduced size and Ba doping on multiferroic properties of BiFeO3 nanoparticles

Gurmeet Singh Lotey, Gitanjali Dhir, and N. K. Verma

969

Lattice strain and ferromagnetism in pure and substituted BiFeO3 samples

T. Karan and S. Ram

971

Effect of mode of heating on: Structure and magnetic properties of BiFeO3

V. M. Gaikwad and S. A. Acharya

973

Magnetization and XPS study of pristine bulk In2O3

S. C. Sharma, Arvind Samariya, M. S. Dhawan, P. K. Sharma, Sudhish Kumar, and R. K. Singhal

975

Role of replacement of Sb with Al in the phase transformation of Ni-Mn-Sb alloys

Sandeep Agarwal and P. K. Mukhopadhyay

977

Distance dependence of magnetic field effect inside confined environment of reverse micelles

Manas Kumar Sarangi and Samita Basu

979

Influence of microstructure on the magnetic properties in Zr1-xCrxO2(x≤0.2) nanocrystallites

Arundhati Sengupta and Shanker Ram

981

Structural, vibrational and ferroelectric properties of BaCaTiSi2O8 ceramics

S. K. Barbar, M. Roy, A. K mar, and A. R. James

983

Enhanced magnetization with anomalous dielectric response of Bi0.9Y0.1Fe1-xMnxO3(0≤x≤0.07)

ceramics

Virendra Kumar, Anurag Gaur, and R. K. Kotnala

985

Effect of chemical etching and mechanical polishing on the transformation-temperature of super

elastic shape memory alloys

Manjunatha Pattabi and M. S. Murari

987

Antiferromagnetic ordering in GdCo0.17Sn2 and GdCu0.17Sn2

Krishanu Ghosh, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and S. Mukherjee

989

Magnetic behaviour of praseodymium substituted perovskites La1-xPrxMn0.8Co0.2O3

B. L. Choudhary, Sudhish Kumar, Anjali Krishnamurthy, and Bipin K. Srivastava

991

Comparison between structure and magnetic properties of BaFe12O19 prepared by two different

techniques

Samiksha Verma, O. P. Pandey, and Puneet Sharma

993

Effect of base and dopant concentration on phase formation of LaFeO3

Shrikant K. Nikam and Anjali A. Athawale

995

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Study of cation distribution in Cu-Zn ferrites

P. K. Sharma, Arvind Samariya, S. P. Pareek, M. S. Dhawan, Arun S. Prasad, and S. N. Dolia

997

Dielectric behaviour of nanocrystalline Cu0.2Ni0.8Fe2O4 ferrite

S. P. Pareek, Arvind Samariya, P. K. Sharma, Arun S. Prasad, M. S. Dhawan, S. N. Dolia, and K.

B. Sharma

999

Rietveld refinement of perovskite Ba(Re1/2Nb1/2)O3; Re ≡ Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd and Dy ceramics

K. P. Chandra, K. AmarNath, A. R. Kulkarni, and K. Prasad

1001

Dielectric study and multiferroic behaviour of Fe and Sm doped bismuth titanate

J. P. Sharma, Sumit Bhardwaj, Ravi Kumar, K. K. Raina, and R. K. Kotnala

1003

The effect of spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization on phonon relaxation rates in binary

wurtzite nitrides

S. K. Sahoo, B. K. Sahoo, and S. Sahoo

1005

Investigations of electrical properties of Nd substituted BiFeO3 multiferroic ceramics

T. Durga Rao and Saket Asthana

1007

Spectroscopic studies on Fe(II) and Fe(III) complexes of 5-aryl azo substituted lH-pyrimidine-

2,4-dione

G. V. Vidya, S. S. Meena, Pramod Bhatt, V. Sadasivan, and S. Mini

1009

Synthesis and characterization of Fe (III) complex of an azo dye derived from (2-amino-5-

chlorophenyl) phenyl methanone

S. Mini, S. S. Meena, Pramod Bhatt, V. Sadasivan, and V. G. Vidya

1011

Structural, cationic distribution and dielectric studies of Zn

2++ doped cobalt ferrites Co1-

xFe2ZnxO4(x=0.2,0.4)

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

1013

Effect of zinc doping on magnetic and magnetoelastic properties of cobalt ferrite synthesized by

autocombustion process

M Vinitha Reddy, J Praveen Paul, and Dibakar Das

1015

Elucidation of reaction mechanism involved in the formation of LaNiO3 from XRD and TG

analysis

Dipti V. Dharmadhikari and Anjali A. Athawale

1017

Structural and optical properties of α-Fe2O3 film prepared by chemical method

Pawan Kumar, Sk. Emdadul Islam, and Rajesh Kumar

1019

Structural and electrical studies of La2NiO4 system

Yogesh Kumar, Parmod Kumar, Gagan Dixit, and K. Asokan

1021

Magnetic properties of Al/

57Fe/Cr multilayers

Snehal Jani, N. Lakshmi, Vishal Jain, V. R. Reddy, Ajay Gupta, and K. Venugopalan

1023

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Suppression of Barkhausen noise due to exchange biasing in Fe-FeMn bilalayers

Arnab Roy and P. S. Anil Kumar

1025

Synthesis and optical properties of Y

3+ doped BiFeO3 multiferroics

Vikash Singh, Subhash Sharma, Manoj Kumar, and R. K. Dwivedi

1027

Room temperature ferromagnetism in Co doped ZnO thin film grown using spray pyrolysis

Vikas Thakur, Urvashi Verma, U. P. Verma, and P. Rajaram

1029

Magnetic property of Co2Mn0.5Fe0.5Si on nano-scale

Kuntal Kabra, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan

1031

Synthesis and magnetic properties of morphologically varied Fe2O3 nanostructures

S. Chakrabarty, A. Pal, and K. Chatterjee

1033

Synthesis, structure determination and 3D molecular modeling of some novel manganese(II)

complexes

M. L. Hari Kumaran Nair and K. P. Lalitha

1035

Structural and thermodynamic properties of multiferroic Y0.3Dy0.2Sr0.5MnO3

N. Kumar Swamy, Manish Gupta, Vikas Malik, and B. K. Das

1037

Robust nature of frustrated antiferromagnetism in ACrO2(A=Pd/Li) compounds

A. K. Singh, Tathamay Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, K. Mukherjee, P. L. Paulose, and Echur V.

Sampathkumaran

1039

Effect of excess bismuth on synthesis of bismuth ferrite

Pawan Kumar and Manoranjan Kar

1041

Study of dielectric responses and scaling behavior in (100-x)BaTiO3/(x)La0.7Ca0.3MnO3

composites

Momin Hossain Khan, Sudipta Pal, and Esa Bose

1043

Effect of dysprosium doping on structural, dielectric and ferroelectric properties of PLZT

(65/35) ceramics

Manpreet Kaur, Nandini Sharma, and Poonam Uniyal

1045

Ground state study of half-metallic ferromagnetism in the half-Heusler compound Gekca using

density functional theory

T. Malsawmtluanga and R. K. Thapa

1047

Magnetic study under external high pressure and magnetic field in low dimensional honeycomb

lattice In3Cu2VO9

Kartik K. Iyer, Tathamay Basu, A. K. Singh, K. Mukherjee, P. L. Paulose, and Echur V.

Sampathkumaran

1049

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Comparison of conventional and microwave sintering on Y-ferrite

K. Rama Obulesu and K. C. James Raju

1051

Size dependent magnetic properties of double perovskite La2CoMnO6 nanoparticles

J. Krishna Murthy and A. Venimadhav

1053

Effect of sintering temperature on the magnetic properties of zinc substituted lithium ferrites

synthesized using sol-gel method

P. Vijaya Bhasker Reddy, S. Narender Reddy, and Ch. Gopal Reddy

1055

Low temperature AC susceptibility and line profile analysis in Co-Zn ferrites

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

1057

Observation of high magnetic moment in the Ho doped BiFeO3 ceramics

Pittala Suresh and S. Srinath

1059

Phase transition studies in bismuth ferrite thin films synthesized via spray pyrolysis technique

Ankit Goyal and Harish Lakhotia

1061

Study on thermal hysteresis of Sr doped manganites

Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, Rajneesh Mohan, S. Bhattacharya, and N. K. Gaur

1063

Structural, optical and ferroelectric properties of Cu, Cr, and Li doped ZnO

Neha Sharma and Anurag Gaur

1065

Dielectric behavior and magnetoelectric effect in CoFe2O4+Ba0.8Pb0.2TiO3 ME composites

S. L. Kadam and D. R. Thube

1067

Multiferroic behaviour of double perovskite Y2NiMnO6 nanoparticle

R. P. Maiti, M. K. Mitra, and Dipankar Chakravorty

1069

1H NMR spectroscopy study of water adsorbed on the surface of layered ilerite

Cléo T. G. V. M. T. Pires and Claudio Airoldi

1071

Low temperature vibrational spectroscopic and magneto resistance studies of

Bi1.6Pb0.4Sr2Ca3Cu4O12+δ

T. Kannan and P. Predeep

1073

Structural, dielectric and Mössbauer studies of sol-gel synthesized nano Ni-Cu-Zn ferrites

Mohd Hashim, Alimuddin, S. S. Meena, Shalendra Kumar, Sagar E. Shirsath, Pramod Bhatt, and

Ravi Kumar

1075

An ab-initio DFT study of electronic structure of SrMO3 perovskites (M = Rh and Ru)

Avinash Daga, Smita Sharma, and K. S. Sharma

1077

Tunneling conductance studies in the ion-beam sputtered CoFe/Mg/MgO/NiFe magnetic tunnel

junctions

Braj Bhusan Singh and Sujeet Chaudhary

1079

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Optimization of band gap in Ni-substituted magnetite nanoparticles

Geeta Rana and Umesh C. Johri

1081

Phase transition properties of YbN under pressure

Sanjay Kumar Singh, P. Rana, V. Nayak, and U. P. Verma

1083

Structural, electronic and elastic properties of Fe-doped YN: DFT study

Pooja Rana and U. P. Verma

1085

The electrical properties of substituted cobalt ferrite

S. K. Parmar and G. J. Baldha

1087

Effect of deposition pressure on the structural and magnetic properties of cobalt ferrite thin films

R. Nongjai, S. Khan, H. Ahmad, I. Khan, and K. Asokan

1089

Category I: Nuclear and Particle Physics

Description of C isotopes within RMF+BCS approach

G. Saxena, D. Singh, and M. Kaushik

1091

Ground state properties of the frustrated Hubbard model

S. Nath, N. K. Ghosh, S. K. Bhowmick, and N. S. Mondal

1093

Charge changing cross-sections for 300 A MeV Fe

26+ ion beam in Al target

Renu Gupta and Ashavani Kumar

1095

Nucleon electromagnetic form factors in a hypercentral quark model

Kaushal Thakkar and P. C. Vinodkumar

1097

Calibration of CR39 track etch detectors using 600 a MeV Si

14+ ion beam

Ashavani Kumar and Renu Gupta

1099

Spectroscopy and lifetime of the Bc meson

Nayneshkumar Devlani and Ajay Kumar Rai

1101

Orbitally excited states and E1 transitions in heavy quarkonia

Nayeshkumar Devlani and Ajay Kumar Rai

1103

Monte Carlo simulation studies for charmonium like Y(4260) state using PANDAROOT

Rajeshkumar Dudhat, S. S. Godre, and Ajay Kumar Rai

1105

Observation of Kondo insulator behavior through f-d interaction in some heavy fermion (HF)

systems

J. Sahoo, S. Mohanty, N. Shadangi, and P. Nayak

1107

xlii

Contribution of charge pions elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Sudhir Bhardwaj, Ajit K. Somani, and Ashish Agnihotri

1109

Study of solitary waves in e-p pair plasma: Effect of weakly relativistic species

Rakhee Malik, Hitendra K. Malik, and Subhash C. Kaushik

1111

Contribution of resonant particles elliptic flow in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Sudhir Bhardwaj, Ajit K. Somani, and Ashish Agnihotri

1113

Category J: Applied Physics and Devices

Humidity sensor using soft Y-Cd ferrite

Ashok B. Gadkari, Tukaram J. Shinde, and Pramod N. Vasambekar

1115

ITO based fiber optic SPR sensor

Mahima Rani and Navneet K. Sharma

1117

XRD measurement and EXAFS study using synchrotron radiation of Ni (II) complexes of macro

cyclic ligand

Ashutosh Mishra and Samrath Ninama

1119

Parametric dispersion and amplification characteristics of hot electron driven diffusive

semiconductor plasmas*

Nilesh Nimje and S. Ghosh

1121

Estimation of ground and excited state dipole moments of 6-methoxyquinoline from

solvatochromic effect on absorption and fluorescence spectra

Y. Tej Varma, Sunita Joshi, and Debi D. Pant

1123

Transport properties of plastic separator for renewable energy applications

A. L. Sharma and A. K. Thakur

1125

A novel route to nanocrystalline semiconducting SnS thin films suitable for photovoltaic

structures

T. H. Patel

1127

Dielectric study of allyl chloride with 2-butanol in microwave frequency range

A. P. Maharolkar, Y. S. Sudake, S. P. Kamble, A. G. Murugkar, S. S. Patil, and P. W. Khirade

1129

Thermal analysis of multi-beam electron gun collector

Ashok Nehra, R. K. Sharma, and Y. Choyal

1131

Switching action in a quantum network

Srilekha Saha, Santanu K. Maiti, and S. N. Karmakar

1133

Low temperature specific heat of Pr1-xLaxVO3(0≤x≤1)

N. K. Gaur, Atahar Parveen, and Arun K. Nigam

1135

xliii

Thermodynamic properties of solid oxide fuel cell anode material: La1-xSrxVO3

Atahar Parveen, N. K. Gaur, and Arun K. Nigam

1137

Organic field effect transistor with conductivity enhanced PEDOT: PSS composite electrodes

K. Shiju, T. Praveen, J. Aneesh, and Jayan Manuvel

1139

Insitu polymerised polyaniline-polyisoprene composite for micro electronic application

K. M. Anoop, Renu Jose, K. Shiju, Jayan Manuvel, and P. Predeep

1141

Study of wear mechanism for LM13/Zr composite under dry sliding conditions at different loads

Ranvir Singh Panwar, Suresh Kumar, and O. P. Pandey

1143

Collimation testing by incorporating Fourier transform method in coherent gradient sensing

interferometer

Jitendra Dhanotia and Shashi Prakash

1145

Synthesis and vibrational characterization of KLa(WO4)2 crystalline powders by modified

pechini method

K. Kavi Rasu, A. Durairajan, D. Balaji, and S. Moorthy Babu

1147

Solution processed CuPc based nanowires for room temperature Cl2 gas sensing applications

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

1149

A novel nano-antenna design for pentahertz frequency

Krishna Hari Sharma, Abhishek Kandwal, and Sunil Kumar Khah

1151

Solution for quantum mechanical problem in physics

Amruta Daga and V. H. Pradhan

1153

Biomaterial based sulphur di oxide gas sensor

P. K. Ghosh and A. Sarkar

1155

Chemical modification of poly (vinyl chloride) sheet with thiourea for cell study

Monika, R. R. Mishra, S. Jaiswal, G. Kapusetti, and N. Misra

1157

Effect of pre-deposition annealing on the performance of MIS capacitor formed using atomic

layer deposition of ultrathin HfO2

Savita Maurya, B. R. Singh, and M. Radhakrishna

1159

Effect of fuel to oxidant molar ratio on particle size and LPG sensing properties of ZnO

nanoparticles prepared by simple solution combustion method.

C. S. Naveen, M. P. Rajeeva, Ashok R. Lamani, P. R. Deshmukh, C. D. Lokhande, and H. S.

Jayanna

1161

Deposition and evaluation of self assembled monolayer as diffusion barrier for copper

metallization for integrated circuits

Sumit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Sumita Rani, Amanpal Singh, B. Prasad, and Dinesh Kumar

1163

xliv

SPR: A promising platform for thermal transport studies

T. Abhilash, M. Balasubrahmaniyam, G. Markandeyulu, and S. Kasiviswanathan

1165

Substrate-selective imprinted polymer based ceramic electrode sensor for bovine serum albumin

Amrita Prasad, Mahavir Prasad Tiwari, and Bhim Bali Prasad

1167

Explosively generated shock wave processing of metal powders by instrumented detonics

A. D. Sharma, A. K. Sharma, and N. Thakur

1169

Electron spin resonance spectroscopy studies on 15

N-labeled and their deuterated nitroxyl spin

probes used in molecular imaging

D. David Jebaraj, A. Milton Franklin Benial, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Kenichi Yamada, and Hideo

Utsumi

1171

Study of OSL in NaF: Ca,Cu

Y. K. More, S. P. Wankhede, and S. V. Moharil

1173

Ethanol, acetone and ammonia gas room temperature operated sensor

Iqbal Singh and R. K. Bedi

1175

Influence of RF power on microstructural and electrochemical properties of rf-sputtered

LiMn2O4 thin films

K. Jayanth-Babu, P. Jeevan-Kumar, and O. M. Hussain

1177

Synthesis of polypyrrole thin film by SILAR method for supercapacitor application

B. H. Patil, S. S. Shinde, and C. D. Lokhande

1179

Silver incorporated polypyrrole/polyacrylic acid electrode for electrochemical supercapacitor

Dipali S. Patil, Sachin A. Pawar, Archana S. Kamble, and Pramod S. Patil

1181

Behavior of graphene oxide in ionic liquid for supercapacitor application

S. T. Jadhav, S. U. Dubal, L. D. Jadhav, J. S. Shaikh, A. U. Chavan, A. P. Jamale, S. P. Patil, P. S.

Patil, and S. S. Kolekar

1183

Investigation of magnon assisted resistivity in permalloy thin films

Vineeth Mohanan Parakkat and P. S. Anil Kumar

1185

Effect of ethanol washing on morphology of Nd:Y2O3 powder and on its sinterability

Anshul Goyal, Gurvinderjit Singh, and V. S. Tiwari

1187

Grid contact optimization of p-i-n GaN/InGaN solar cell

Aniruddha Singh Kushwaha, Pramila Mahala, and C. Dhanavantri

1189

Highly sensitive vertically standing Ag nanorod arrays substrates for surface enhanced

fluorescence studies

Dhruv P. Singh and J. P. Singh

1191

xlv

Perturbation of Ag thick film microstrip ring resonator due to superstrate Ni0.6Co0.4AgyMn2-yO4

ceramics

Rupali Jadhav, S. P. Patil, S. N. Mathad, S. A. Kanade, and Vijaya Puri

1193

Spectroscopic study of laser induced ZnO plasma

Poulami Ghosh and Ashwini K. Sharma

1195

Antimicrobial activity of silver nanoparticles impregnated wound dressing

V. V. Shinde, P. R. Jadhav, and P. S. Patil

1197

Localized surface plasmon resonance of silver nanoisland based glucose sensor

N. Venugopal and Anirban Mitra

1199

Role of chain stiffness and end entropy in the unzipping of DNA chain

Amar Singh and Navin Singh

1201

Study of meteorological parameters over the central Himalayan region using balloon-borne

sensor

Rahul Shrivastava, Manish Naja, and A. K. Gwal

1203

Leaky channel waveguide for large-mode-area extended single-mode operation

Than Singh Saini, Ajeet Kumar, Vipul Rastogi, and Ravindra Kumar Sinha

1205

Variation of complex permittivity of soils with moisture content using VNA

D. H. Gadani, V. A. Rana, S. P. Bhatnagar, A. N. Prajapati, and A. D. Vyas

1207

Effect of chemical treatment on the structure and morphology of coir fiber composites

Alveera Khan and S. Joshi

1209

Impedance study of beta-alumina by microwave sintering

S. K. Tak

1211

Energy conversion efficiencies of thermoelectric pallets (Bi2Pb3,Bi2Te3 and Pb2Te3) under the

influences of electric and magnetic fields

Jaspal Singh and S. S. Verma

1213

Multiple sensor array based on pure and surface modified WO3 thin films for e-nose application

C. P. Goyal, N. S. Ramgir, P. K. Sharma, N. Datta, S. Kailasaganapathi, M. Kaur, A. K. Debnath,

F. Z. Haque, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

1215

Structural and electrochemical properties of LiFeO2 bulk and film cathodes

P. Rosaiah and O. M. Hussain

1217

Critical width for coherent stripes

Ganesh Iyer, Arun Kumar, and Anandh Subramaniam

1219

Optogenetics: Past, present and future

Ashish Gupta and Arun Kumar

1221

xlvi

Polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels for iontohporesis

Prasanta Bera, Asif Ali Alam, Neha Arora, Dewaki Nandan Tibarewala, and Piyali Basak

1223

Biodegradation of poly(etherurethanes)

Neha Arora, Asif Ali, Nandan Kumar Jana, and Piyali Basak

1225

Thermoelectric property of Cu2ZnSnSe4 and Cu2Zn0.5Cd0.5SnSe4

Ranita Basu, Miral Patel, S. Bhattacharya, Ranu Bhatt, Mainak Roy, Ajay Singh, D. K. Aswal, and

S. K. Gupta

1227

Design and development of multiple sensor array based on SnO2 thin films for e-nose application

P. K. Sharma, N. Ramgir, C. P. Goyal, N. Datta, S. Kailasaganapathi, M. Kaur, A. K. Debnath, D.

K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

1229

Design and fabrication of compact integrated optic waveguide coupler using SiON/SiO2 material

Bidyut Deka, Aradhana Dutta, Gopal Hegde, and Partha P. Sahu

1231

Thermoelectric properties of CuCrSe2

S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, R. Bhatt, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

1233

Magnetic resonance and electrical properties of p-toluene sulphonic acid doped polyaniline

Manju Arora, S. K. Arya, Sunil Kumar Barala, and Parveen Saini

1235

Designing of conducting polymer composites for shielding of microwave radiations

Parveen Saini, Sunil Kumar Barala, Manju Arora, and R. K. Kotnala

1237

Modification in dielectric properties: Effect of gamma radiation

Sudhaker Dixit, Prachi Tripathi, Rajiv Manohar, and A. K. Arora

1240

Lattice dynamical study of NaCdAsS3

Shaveen Garg, M. M. Sinha, and H. C. Gupta

1242

Magnetite decorated activated carbon composites for water purification

Sunil Kumar Barala, Manju Arora, and Parveen Saini

1244

Ageing effect of the electrolyte on structure and magnetic properties of Co-rich Co-Pt films

M. S. Khatri, H. Schlörb, S. Fähler, and L. Schultz

1246

Effect of different binders on mechanical and ballistic properties of boron - viton based fuel rich

propellant

Pankaaj Verma, J. G. Bhujbal, R. B. Ghavate, S. D. Darekar, and R. V. Singh

1248

Structural distinction between black and grey human hair: A FTIR investigation

Arup Dutta and A. Sarkar

1250

xlvii

Dielectric properties of rare earth (Sm and La) substituted lead zirconate titanate (PZT)

ceramics

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

1252

A new surface acoustic wave (SAW) delay line sensor

Shashank S. Jha and R. D. S. Yadava

1254

Integrating optical glucose sensing into a planar waveguide sensor structure

Aradhana Dutta, Bidyut Deka, and Partha P. Sahu

1256

LPG sensing application of graphene/CeO2 quantum dots composite

K. R. Nemade and S. A. Waghuley

1258

Synthesis and characterization of pure Cu and CuO nano particles by solution combustion

synthesis

Sarika P. Patil, Shital P. Patil, V. R. Puri, and L. D. Jadhav

1260

Structural properties of ZrN at high temperature and pressure

Vasudev Thakre and Sadhna Singh

1262

FLC diffraction grating: Efficiency enhancement by SWCNT doping

Swadesh Kumar Gupta, Dharmendra Pratap Singh, and Rajiv Manohar

1264

Study of low frequency emission by injection of hot electron beam in the magnetosphere of

Uranus

R. S. Pandey and Rajbir Kaur

1266

Stacked arrangement of microstrip patch antenna for improved performance

Laxmi Sharma, Meenakshi Chauhan, Yogesh Bhomiya, and Garima Mathur

1268

Er

3+, Yb

3+ doped yttrium oxide phosphor as a temperature sensor

Manoj Kumar Mahata, Astha Kumari, Vineet Kumar Rai, and Kaushal Kumar

1270

Finite element analysis of notch tensile behavior of alloy 718

A. Sridhar and B. Srivathsa

1272

Correlation effects on plasmon dispersion of a dilute two-dimensional electron gas at finite

temperature

Nisha Bhukal, Gurvinder Singh, and R. K. Moudgil

1274

Study the degree of purification of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs)

Shahir Hussain and S. S. Islam

1276

Effect of cooling rate on stress build-up in TBcs during thermal cycling

B. Srivathsa and D. K. Das

1278

LPG sensing performance of nanostructured zinc oxide thin films

A. R. Bari and L. A. Patil

1280

xlviii

Coumarin6 interaction with solvents

Amit Sharma

1282

Investigation of internal pressure and stress in the buckled H-implanted Ge layer

Praveen Kumar, U. Dadwal, and R. Singh

1284

Tribological properties of Zircon sand and Zirfloor reinforced LM13 alloy matrix composite-A

comparative study

Suresh Kumar, Ranvir Singh Panwar, and O. P. Pandey

1286

Jeans instability of self gravitating partially ionized Hall plasma with radiative heat loss

functions and porosity

Sachin Kaothekar and R. K. Chhajlani

1288

A pulse forming network (PFN) for compact plasma system (CPS) at Ravenshaw University,

India

G. Sahoo, R. Paikaray, S. Samantaray, D. C. Patra, N. Sasini, S. Tripathy, S. R. Dash, A. Sahoo, J.

Ghosh, and A. K. Sanyasi

1290

Electrical behaviour of Ca substituted HoMnO3 electroceramics

P. P. Rout, S. K. Pradhan, S. K. Das, and B. K. Roul

1292

Tuning the surface plasmon resonance of core-shell particles

Ankita Sharma, Bhanu P. Singh, and Arvind K. Gathania

1294

Growth, optical and structural reports on new glycine D-tartaric acid complex crystal

C. Ranjith Dev Inbaseelan and S. Saravanan

1296

Metal-tetraphenylporphyrin functionalized carbon nanotube thin films as sensor for detection of

nitrogen dioxide vapors

Swasti Saxena and A. L. Verma

1298

The effect of jet and DBD plasma on NCI-78 blood cancer cells

Nagendra K. Kaushik, Neha Kaushik, and Eun Ha Choi

1300

Extended X-ray absorption studies of copper (II) dibenzoyal methane diquinoline complexes

A. Mishra, P. Sharma, and P. K. Malviya

1302

Powder XRD and dielectric studies of gel grown calcium pyrophosphate crystals

Bharat Parekh, Ketan Parikh, and Mihir Joshi

1304

Study of hardness of lead-cadmium (Pb-Cd) grown by zone - refining techniques

Arti H. Prajapati and I. B. Patel

1306

Surface plasmon resonance based fiber optic refractive index sensor utilizing Cu/ZnO layer

Satyendra Kr Mishra, Charul Varshney, and Banshi D. Gupta

1308

xlix

Long range surface plasmon enhanced tunable Goos-Hänchen shift in ZnSe prism

Arijit Ghosh, Nabamita Goswami, and Ardhendu Saha

1310

Choice of metal heaters for measuring thermal conductivity using 3ω method

Hisay Lama, Anomitra Sil, and S. Kasiviswanathan

1312

Structural and thermal study of hydrothermally grown h-MoO3

A. Chithambararaj and A. Chandra Bose

1314

SPR based fiber optic two channel sensor in near infrared (NIR) region

Roli Verma and Banshi D. Gupta

1316

Significant aspects on thermal degradation of hybrid biocomposite material

D. Saravana Bavan and G. C. Mohan Kumar

1318

Structural and magnetic study of Fe doped Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 prepared by sol gel method

Kusum Parmar, Anshu Sharma, Kanchan Bala, and N. S. Negi

1320

Effect of oxidizer morphology on combustion characteristics of nanoenergetic materials of

CuO/Al

Vinay Kumar Patel and Shantanu Bhattacharya

1322

Two dimensional fiber Bragg grating based vibration sensor for structural health monitoring

Pathi Munendhar and Sunil K Khijwania

1324

A novel fiber Bragg grating structure for multiparameter sensing with enhanced strain

sensitivity

Pathi Munendhar, Shaival Buch, R. Aneesh, and Sunil K Khijwania

1327

Temperature dependent electrical conductivity measurement of Ad-(TCNQ)2 grown by different

methods

Yadunath Singh

1330

Temperature dependent electrical conductivity measurement of Qn-(TCNQ)2 grown by different

methods

Yadunath Singh

1332

Temperature dependence conductivity in organic charge transfer complexes: A theoretical view

Yadunath Singh

1334

The Gypsum: White gold of Rajasthan, introduction, uses and future prospective

Gayatri Sharma

1336

On some unified integrals involving Fox's H-function

Shoukat Ali

1338

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A new family of summation formulas for hypergeometric function

Radha Mathur and Mukesh M. Joshi

1341

On some reduction formulas of Kampé De Fériet function

Shoukat Ali and Kailash Lachhwani

1343

On generalised formula for hypergeometrics functions

Mukesh M. Joshi and Radha Mathur

1346

Towards a universal law of particle production in heavy-ion collisions

Aditya Nath Mishra, Rakesh Mazumder, and Raghunath Sahoo

1348

Time synchronization in ad-hoc wireless sensor networks

Nishant Sharma

1350

Measurement of direction dependent thermal properties of Graphite-1346

R. K. Kalal, Balesh Ropia, M. K. Bansode, H. Shekhar, and C. Gururaja Rao

1352

Author Index

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