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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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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
7
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
15
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
23
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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
53
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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
113
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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
143
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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
281
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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
xviii
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
xxi
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
1355
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