SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Proceedings of the 57th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2012

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India 3-7 December 2012

Solid State Physics (India) Vol. 57 (2012)

EDITORS

A. K. Chauhan

Chitra Murli

S. CGadkariBhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

AM papers have been peer reviewed.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

Department of Atomic EnergyGovernment of India

AIPMelville, New York, 2013

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Table of Contents

Preface: Solid State Physics SymposiumA. K. Chauhan, Chitra Murli, and S. C. Gadkari

Committees

INVITED TALKS

Connecting jamming and depinning transitions

C. Reichhardt, Z. Nussinov, and C. J. Olson Rcichhardt 7

Vibrational properties of zincblende structured ternary alloysMala N. Rao

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Interesting spectral evolution in Fe-based superconductorsKalobaran Maiti, Gancsh Adhikary, Nishaina Sahadcv, Deep Narayan Biswas, R. Hindu,N. Kumar, C. S. Yadav, A. Thamizhavel, S. K. Dhar, and P. L. Paulosc 15

The vortex explosion transition

M. N. Kunchur, M. Liang, and A. Gurcvich19

Unidirectional crystallization of charged colloids

Junpei Yamanaka and Akiko Toyotama 22

Magnetic Compton scattering: A reliable probe to investigate magnetic propertiesB. L. Ahuja 26

Development of magnetoresistive thin film sensor for magnetic field sensing applicationsP. Chowdhury 30

Core/shell nano-structuring of metal oxide semiconductors and their photocatalytic studies

S. Balakumar and R. Ajay Rakkcsh 34

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CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

A. PHASE TRANSITIONS

Studies on melt-quenched AglnSbTe system

C. Rangasami, Mahavccr K. Jain, and S. Kasiviswanathan 38

High-pressure electrical resistivity studies on FeSe2 and FeTe2

G. Parthasarathy, D. K. Sharma, Y. K. Sharma, and Usha Chandra 40

Investigation of dielectric and structural behaviour of lead free (Ba,_xCax)(Zr0.05^0.95)03

ceramics

Kamal Jain, Gurvindcrjit Singh, G. K. Upadhyaya, and V. S. Tiwari 42

Influence of anthracene doping on the order-disorder phase transition in phenanthrene

Rajul Ranjan Choudhury, R. Chitra, Lata Panickcr, and V. B. Jayakrishnan 44

Study of structural phase transition and optical properties in BiFe03-BiMn03 thin fdms

V. Annapu Rcddy and R. Nath 46

HCP to omega martensitic phase transformation pathway in pure Zr

Partha S. Ghosh, A. Arya, and G. K. Dey 48

Pressure induced phase transition in NaNb03

S. K. Mishra, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, and Thomas Hansen 50

Liquid-vapor phase diagram of metals using EAM potential

Chandrani Bhattacharya 52

Role of amphiphilic molecule on liquid crystal phases

Kaustabh Dan, Madhusudan Roy, and Alokmay Datta 54

Stabilisation of SrAI204 hexagonal phase at RT in ZnO-SrAl204 nanocomposite

V. P. Singh, S. B. Rai, H. Mishra, and Chandana Rath 56

Effect of site selective Ti substitution on the melting point of CuTi alloys

Karabi Ghosh and Manoranjan Ghosh 58

Temperature dependent structural studies of multiferroic La0.7Bi0.3CrO3 perovskites

Aga Shahcc and N. P. Lalla 60

Dielectric and ferroelectric studies on lead free piezoelectric KNN ceramics

P. Mahcsh, Ajeet Kumar, A. R. James, and D. Pamu 62

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Structural and elastic properties of ZrxNb|_,C alloy

Purvee Bhardwaj, Faisal Sharccf, Madhu Sarwan, V. Thakrc, and Sadhna Singh 64

Structural properties of TiN and TiO at high temperature and pressure

Vasudev Thakre, Sadhna Singh, Purvcc Bhardwaj, and Faisal Shared' 66

Effect of high pressure on the structure of LuN

Sanjay K. Singh, P. Rana, V. Nayak, and U. P. Vcmia 68

High pressure study of Mgi-xSrxO solid solution

Mamta Chauhan and Dincsh C. Gupta 70

Structural behaviour and thermo-physical properties of PrTe: A model study

M. Faisal Sharcef, Madhu Singh, V. Abdul shukoor, and Sadhna Singh 72

FTIR, dielectric and impedance spectroscopic studies on Bi3.25Lao.75Ti3.,iZr«0|2(x=O.I, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7

and 1)

N. Thirumal Reddy, N. V. Prasad, G. S. Kumar, and G. Prasad 74

Structural refinement and observation of enhanced magnetic properties of La doped BiFeO,

Pittala Surcsh and S. Srinath 76

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

B. D. Sahoo, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta 78

First-principles investigations of equation of states and phase transitions in PaN under pressure

P. Modak and Ashok K. Verma 80

Electronic structure, charge and orbital order and metal-insulator transition in nickclatcs

D. Misra and A. Taraphdcr 82

Activation of slip systems and shape changes during deformation of single crystal copper: A

molecular dynamics study

S. Rawat, V. M. Chavan, M. Warricr, S. Chaturvcdi, S. Sharma, and R. J. Patcl 84

Ab-initio investigations of RTc to PmTm transition in /?A103 (La, Pr and Nd) pcrovskites under

pressure

Ashok K. Vcrma and P. Modak 86

High pressure structural investigations of copper metaborate (CuB204)

Pallavi S. Malavi, S. Karmakar, and Surindcr M. Sharma 88

Memory effect in SrRu(,.x)O3(0.01<x<0.07)

Chanchal Sow, D Samal, A. K. Bcra, S. M. Yusuf, and P. S. Anil Kumar W)

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Synthesis and structural characterization of highly tetragonal (l-x)Bi(Zn|/2Ti|/2)-xPbTi03

piezoceramics

Jyoti Sharma, Rishikcsh Pandcy, and Akhilesh Kumar Singh 92

Dielectric studies of the blue phase-Ill liquid crystal

Manoj Marik, B. K. Chaudhuri, and D. Jana 94

Magnetic anomalies in specific heat and dielectric properties of multiferroic GdMn03

Puncct Negi, Hcmaunt Kumar, H. M. Agrawal, and R. C. Srivastava 96

Antiferromagnetic order in systems with doublet Stot = 1/2 ground states

Sambuddha Sanyal, Argha Banerjec, Kcdar Damlc, and Anders W. Sandvik 98

High pressure behavior of BiMn205

K. K. Pandcy, H. K. Poswal, Ravi Kumar, and Surinder M. Sharma 100

Delineating overlapping structural and magnetic phase transformations in a Fe-5.93at% Ni alloy

A. Vcrma, Jung B. Singh, M. Sundararaman, and J. K. Chakravartty 102

Enhanced incompressibility in iron doped nano particles of indium sesquioxide under high

pressure

Nandini Garg, K. K. Pandey, A. K. Mishra, Anshu Singhal, and Surinder M. Sharma 104

Raman spectroscopic studies on TaV05

Nilcsh P. Salke, Rekha Rao, Jinxia Deng, and Xianran Xing 106

Structural behaviour of Mg, Al and Si doped niobium oxynitrides under high pressures

Bharat Bhooshan Sharma, H. K. Poswal, Surinder M. Sharma, J. V. Yakhmi, Y. Ohashi,

andS. Kikkawa 108

B. SOFT CONDENSED MATTER INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

First principles DFT study of weak C-H...O bonds in crystalline amino acids under pressure-

alanine

Lavanya M. Ramaniah, C. Kamal, and S. K. Sikka 110

Dynamical motion in SDBS micelles

V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 112

Optical and thermal properties of a lyotropic micellar nematic phase

T. N. Govindaiah, H. R. Srcepad, P. M. Sathyanarayana, J. Mahdeva, and Nagappa 114

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Role of valence plasmons in transmission of photons through mica membrane in energy range10-40eV

P. K. Yadav, Shailendra Kumar, R. K. Gupta, M. H. Modi, Pragya Tiwari, (i. S. I.odha,

and S. K. Deb

Structure of micelles in re-entrant phase of SDS/A1(NO-0;, solutions

Raisa Nadaf, Mahcsh Ijjada, Janaky Narayanan, Binoj Kutty, V. K. Aswal, Jaycsh R. Bellare,and P. S. Goyal

Surface properties of rhodamine B doped poly (vinyl) alcohol films studied using XPS and AFM

J. Tripathi, S. Tripathi, J. M. Keller, K. Das, and T. Shripathi

Nano-Bioglass (NBG) for bone regeneration applications-Preparation and its characterization

D. Durgalakshmi and S. Balakumar

Probing interaction of charged nanoparticles with uncharged micelles

Sugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrccher

Free volume dependent fluorescence property of PMIV1A composite: Positron annihilation studie

V. Ravindrachary, S. D. Pravccna, R. F. Bhajantri, Ismayil, and Vincent Crasta

Free volume related electrical properties of sodium alginate/Li004 solid polyectrolyteS. D. Pravccna, V. Ravindrachary, R. F. Bhajantri, and Ismayil

Study of interaction of ZnO nanoparticles with human serum albumin using fluorescence

spectroscopy

A. Bhogalc, N. Patcl, J. Mariam, P. M. Dongrc, A. Miotello, and D. C. Kothari

Permeability studies of redox-sensitive nitroxyl radicals through bilayer lipid membranesM. Kumara Dhas, A. Milton Franklin Bcnial, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Kcn-ichi Yamada,

Fuminori Hyodo, A. Jawahar, and Hideo Utsumi

Probing the microstructure of hydrogels using fluorescence recovery after photoblcaching

Santripti Khandai, Ronald A. Sicgcl, and Sidhartha S. Jena

Structural refinement analysis of bulk Zn-ferrite obtained from sintering of its nanoparticlesG. Thirupathi and R. Singh

Two dimensional mixtures at water surface

Madhumita Choudhuri and Alokmay Datta

Bidirectional transport of motor-driven cargoes in cell: A random walk with memory

Deepak Bhat and Manoj Gopalakrishnan

"Coffee-ring" patterns of polymer droplets

Nupur Biswas and Alokmay Datta

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Force induced melting of DNA hairpin: A Monte Carlo studyM. Suman Kalyan and K. P. N. Murthy 144

Phase transitions in methyl parben doped dipalmitoyl phosphatidylethanolamine vesiclesLata Panicker 146

A simple route to silver/polyaniline nanocompositeJavcd R. Mondal and S. Bhattacharya 148

Surfactant-monomer interactions: Towards oxidative surface polymerization of transparentconducting polymers

Smita Mukhcrjee, Anshu Kumar, Bikash K. Sikder, and Anil Kumar 150

Tuning of adsorption vs. depletion interaction in nanoparticle-polymer system

Sugam Kumar, A. J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, and R. Schweins 152

Structure and interaction in liquid-liquid phase transition of silica nanoparticles in aqueous

electrolyte solution

A. J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. G. Wagh 154

Physical understanding of pore formation on supported lipid bilayer by bacterial toxins

R. Bhattacharya, A. Agrawal, K. G. Ayappa, S. S. Visweswariah, and J. K. Basu 156

Preparation and introduction of CdSe quantum dots in a 5CB twisted nematic liquid crystal cell:

Observation of ordered array of nanostructures

Subhojyoti Sinha, Sanat Kumar Chatterjee, Jiten Ghosh, and Ajit Kumar Meikap 158

Role of electrostatic interaction on surfactant induced protein unfoldingSumit, Sugam Kumar, and V. K. Aswal 160

Computationally efficient algorithm in cluster geometry optimizationKanchan Sarkar and S. P. Bhattacharyya 162

Yielding behavior of dense microgel glassesR. G. Joshi, B. V. R. Tata, and D. Karthickeyan 164

Synthesis and characterization of metal oxide-polyaniline emeraldine salt based nanocompositeK. Siva Kumar, B. Kavitha, K. Prabakar, D. Srinivasu, Ch. Srinivas, and N. Narsimlu 166

Protonated water under hydrophobic nanoconfinement: An ab initio studyM. K. Tripathy, K. R. S. Chandrakumar, and S. K. Ghosh 168

Dielectric and electric modulus study of PPy/Ti02/CNT/SLS composite with temperatureD. C. Tiwari, Priyanka Atri, and Rishi Sharma 170

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Thermal properties of conformational!} modified arachidic acid crystals from different solvents

Debarati Bhattacharya, L. Panickcr, R. Chitra, G. Abraham, and S. Basu 172

Synthesis and dielectric studies of polyorthotoluidine-polyvinyl pyrrolidone conducting polymercomposites

A. K. Himanshu, Rajni Bahuguna, D. K. Ray, S. K. Bandyopadyayay, and T. P. Sinha 174

C. NANO-MATERIALS

Particle distribution of nanocrystalline copper produced by exploding wire method

Rashmita Das, Basanta Kumar Das, and Anurag Shyam 176

N0 acceptor enhanced RTFM in nitrogen doped ZnO synthesized by ammonialysisN. Sivagami, D. Vanidha, A . Arunkumar, A. Sivagamasundari Mahcswarikuppaiyandi,Nareddula Dastagiri Rcddy, S. Rajagopan, and R. Kannan 17S

Grain growth kinetics and its effect on instrumented indentation response to nanocrystalline Ni

Arnomitra Chatterjee, Garima Sharma, and J. K. Chakravartty 180

Enhanced multiferroic properties in scandium doped Bi2Fe404

Dimple P. Dutta and A. K. Tyagi 1K2

CaMo04:Tb@Fe304 hybrid nanoparticles for luminescence and hyperthermia applicationsA. K. Parchur, N. Kaurav, A. A. Ansari, A. I. Prasad, R. S. Ningthoujam, and S. B. Rai 1X4

Structural and optical studies on Mg doped CdS nanoparticles by simple co-precipitation method

G. Giribabu, D. Amaranatha Reddy, G. Murali, and R. P. Vijayalakshmi 1X6

Crystallographic, FTIR and optical property studies on Co doped ZnS nanometer-sized crystalsV. D. Mote, V. R. Huse, and B. N. Dole 1XX

Electronic and optical properties of free standing Au nanowires using density functional theoryAnil Thakur, Arun Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 190

Band gap engineering in nano structured graphane by applying elastic strain

Naveen Kumar, Jyoti Dhar Sharma, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 192

Structural and electrochemical studies of LiNio.2Coo.8VO4 cathode material for lithium batteries

D. Prakash and C. Sanjeeviraja 194

Superparamagnetism in nanocrystalline CePd3: Bulk magnetization and TDPAC studies

S. N. Mishra, S. K. Mohanta, S. M. Davanc, K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 196

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Nanoindentation studies of nickel zinc ferrite embedded mesoporous silica template

S. Bancrjec, P. Hajra, M. R. Mada, S. Bandopadhyay, and D. Chakravorty 198

Tuning the optical properties in nanocrystaliine Zn doped CdSe thin films by light soaking

Kriti Sharma, Alaa S. Al-Kabbi, G. S. S. Saini, and S. K. Tripathi 200

Photoluminescence spectra of InAs quantum dots embedded in GaAs heterostructure

Rahul M. Makhijani, S. Chakrabarti, and Vijay A. Singh 202

Observation of excitation wavelength dependent photoluminescence from ZnO nanoparticles

embedded in mesoporous silica

K. Sowri Babu, A. R. C. Rcddy, Ch. Sujatha, K. V. G. Reddy, and N. K. Mishra 204

Single molecule detection using SERS study in PVP functionalized Ag nanoparticlesParul Garg and S. Dhara 206

Electrical characterization of dye sensitized nano solar cell using natural pomegranate juice as

photosensitizer

U. Adithi, Sara Thomas, V. Uma, and N. Pradeep 208

Surfactant doped silica aerogels dried at supercritical pressure

V. G. Parale, D. B. Mahadik, M. S. Kavale, A. Venkateswara Rao, R. S. Vhatkar, P. B. Wagh,and Satish C. Gupta 210

Photoluminescence study of p-Ga203 nanostructures under different oxygen pressure conditions

R. Jangir, S. Porwal, Pragya Tiwari, S. K. Rai, Puspen Mondal, Tapas Ganguli, S. M. Oak,

and S. K. Deb 212

Electronic transport, ac-susceptibility, and magnetotransport studies of Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3

manganite nanoparticles

Proloy T. Das, J. Panda, A. Taraphder, and T. K. Nath 214

Structural, Raman spectroscopy and dielectric relaxation study of nanoceramics NdFe03Sadhan Chanda, Indrani Das, Sujoy Saha, and T. P. Sinha 216

Probing the plasmonic response of an isolated Au nanorod using cathodoluminescence

Pabitra Das, Suraj Kumar Karmakar, and Tapas Kumar Chini 218

Role of Co doping on structural and morphological properties of SnO nanoparticleG. Vijayaprasath, G. Ravi, M. Arivanandhan, and Y. Hayakawa 220

Exchange bias effect in nanocrystaliine Co@Co304D. Dc. S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 222

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Determination of density of states using constant photocurrent method in nc-CdSe:Sn thin films

Jagdish Kaur and S. K. Tripathi 224

Wet chemical synthesis of Ag nano wires for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy

D. Rajesh, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and C. S. Sunandana 226

Manifestation of weak ferromagnetism and photocatalytic activity in bismuth ferrite

nanoparticles

M. Sakar, S. Balakumar, P. Saravanan, and S. N. Jaisankar 228

Synthesis, characterisation and counterion dependent mesoscopic modifications of ionomcr

nanocomposites having different dimensional silver nanostructures

Sabyasachi Patra, Debasis Sen, Chhavi Agarwal, Ashok K. Pandcy, S. Mazumdcr, and A. Goswami 230

Gold nanostars reshaping and plasmon tuning mechanism

Abhitosh Kedia and P. Senthil Kumar 232

A simple novel method of developing BFO nanostructures

N. Dutta, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, P. Sen, A. K. Himanshu, P. Y. Naviraj, R. Mcnon,

P. K. Mukhopadhyay, and P. Ray 234

Economic approach for fabricating nontoxic Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) thin films for solar cell

applicationsRenuka Digraskar, Swapnali Dhanayat, Ketan Gattu, Sandccp Mahajan, Deepak Upadhye,Anil Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 236

Studies on nitrogen doped ZnO nanorods synthesized through sonochemical route

N. R. Panda, B. S. Acharya, and P. Nayak 238

Enhanced electrical conductivity and reduced defect emissions of ZnO:Mo nanowire array films

Ajay Kushwaha and M. Aslam 240

Synthesis and structural properties of pure and co-doped (Cu, Ag) ZnO nanoparticles

B. Sankara Reddy, S. Vcnkatramana Rcddy, and N. Koteeswara Rcddy 242

Structural, electrical and magnetic properties of Ni2+ substituted cobalt nanoferrite using sol-gel

method

A. Paul Blessington Selvadurai, P. M. Md.Gazzali, C. Murugascn, V. Pazhanivelu, R. Murugaraj,

and G. Chandrasekaran 244

Magnetic-fluorescent nanocomposite: A case study on Fe30,»/ZnS

A. Roychowdhury, S. P. Pati, S. Kumar, and D. Das 246

Luminescence and electrical behavior of lead molybdate nanoparticles

B. P. Singh, A. K. Parchur, S. B. Rai, and P. Singh 248

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Synthesis and photoluminescence study of flower-like hydroxyapatite nanostructure for bioprobe

applications

G. Suresh Kumar, E. K. Girija, and A. Thamizhavel

Metal-dielectric composite for dispersion free opticsM. Balasubrahmaniyam, Anuradha Patra, A. R. Ganesan, and S. Kasiviswanathan

Effects of Cr-doping on structural and optical properties of ZnO nanoparticlesShiv Kumar, S. Chattcrjee, and Anup K. Ghosh

Effect of size on the exciton-phonon coupling strength in ZnO nanoparticlesA. Sharma, S. Dhar, and B. P. Singh

Size dependent absorption kinetics of sedimenting nanoparticles

Manoranjan Ghosh, Karabi Ghosh, Seema Shinde, and S. C. Gadkari

Synthesis and characterization of nano Co06Feo.4S2

Pooja Sharma and N. Razia

Study of B and N doped graphene by varying dopant positions

Pooja Rani and V. K. Jindal

Effect on magnetic properties of germanium encapsulated C60 fullerene

Nibras Mossa Umran and Ranjan Kumar

Growth of germanium nanowires by electron beam evaporationR. Rakesh Kumar, K. Narasimha Rao, and A. R. Phani

Growth of Ti02 nanoparticles under heat treatment

J. Bahadur, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, P. U. Sastry, and B. Paul

Optical studies of ZnO nanoparticles and 1-D nanofibers

O. Padmaraj, B. Nageswara Rao, M. Venkateswarlu, and N. Satyanarayana

A new type of exchange bias effect in oxidized Ni3Al compacted nanoparticlesM Umasankar, S. P. Mathew, S. N. Kaul, M. Ames, and R. Birringer

Synthesis of phase pure BiDy03 and its structural characterization

S. lyyapushpam, S. T. Nishanthi, and D. Pathincttam Padiyan

Photoluminescence and optical absorption of LiF.Eu phosphorsA. K. Sharma, Satinder Kumar, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar

Indium assisted growth of GaN nanowires at low temperaturesKishorc K. Madapu, S. Dhara, S. Amirthapandian, and Ramanathaswamy Pandian

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Visible light photocatalytic degradation of 4-chlorophenol using vanadium and nitrogen

co-doped Ti02

R. Jaiswal, N. Patcl, D. C. Kothari, and A. Miotcllo 280

A comparative study of transition metal doped tubular gold cages:M@Au24 (M = Au, Cu, Ag)

Sumali, Priyanka, and Kcya Dharamvir 282

Co-B nanoparticles supported over FSM type mesoporous silica: An efficient nanocatalyst for

hydrogen production by hydrolysis of ammonia borane

S. Gupta, N. Patel, R. Fernandcs, D. C. Kothari, and A. Miotcllo 284

The effect of annealing on the structural and magnetic properties of zinc substitutes Ni-fcrrite

nanocrystals

Chaturbhuj Ojha, A. K. Verma, and A. K. Shrivastava 286

Evolution of silver/gold triangular nanoframes from prismatic silver/gold core/shell

nanostructures and their SERS properties

P. Parthiban, M. Sakar, and S. Balakumar 288

Adsorption of Eu atom at the Ti02 anatase (101) and rutile (110) surfaces

Sandeep Nigam, Suman Kalyan Sahoo, Pranab Sarkar, and Chiranjib Majumdcr 290

DFT study of H20 adsorption on Ti02 (110) and Sn02 (110) surfaces

Suman Kalyan Sahoo, Sandeep Nigam, Pranab Sarkar, and Chiranjib Majumdcr 292

Ammonia sensing properties of silver nanocomposite with polypyrrole

N. S. Karmakar, D. C. Kothari, and N. V. Bhat 294

Synthesis, characterization and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline nickel

Sourav Das, N. P. Lalla, and G. S. Okram 296

Adsorption over polyacrylonitrile based carbon monoliths

Mahasweta Nandi, Arghya Dutta, Astam Kumar Patra, Asim Bhaumik, and Hiroshi Uyama 298

Interaction of nitrogen molecule with graphene

Babita Rani, V. K. Jindal, and Keya Dharamvir 300

Magnetic properties of Ni(OH)2 nanostructures

B. Gokul and R. Sathyamoorthy 302

The transport behavior of graphene quantum dots

Hemen Kalita, V. Harikrishnan, and M. Aslam 304

In-situ study of the growth of CuO nanowires by energy dispersive X-ray diffraction

Himanshu Srivastava, Tapas Ganguli, S. K. Deb, Tushar Sant, Himanshu Poswal,

and S. M. Sharma 306

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Electronic properties of anodic bonded graphene

Dccpika, Adrian Balan, Abhay Shukla, Escoffier Walter, and Rakesh Kumar 308

Structural, optical and antibacterial studies on Zn, vMnxS nanomaterials

M. Elango, E. M. Rajesh, R. Rajendran, and M. Thamilselvan 310

Enhanced photocatalytic performance of ZnO-reduced graphene oxide hybrid synthesized via

ultrasonic probe-assisted study

A. Prakash, N. K. Sahu, and D. Bahadur 312

Dielectric properties of Mn0.5Zno.5Fe204 ferrite nanoparticlesC. Murugesan, P. M. Md Gazzali, B. Sathyamoorthy, and G. Chandrasekaran 314

Observation of Coulomb blockade and Coulomb staircase in a lateral metal nanostructure

Sourabh Barua, Rohan Poojary, and K. P. Rajeev 316

Surface controlled magnetic properties of Fe304 nanoparticlesJcotikanta Mohapatra, Arijit Mitra, D. Bahadur, and M. Aslam 318

Synthesis and characterization of Ti02 and Ag/Ti02 nanostructure

Swati Gahlot, Amit Kumar Thakur, Vaibhav Kulshrestha, and V. K. Shahi 320

Partial inversion in nano zinc ferrite as studied using Mdssbauer spectroscopyL. Hcrojit Singh, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 322

Magnetic core shell nanostructures with plasmonic propertiesHimanshu Tyagi and M. Aslam 324

Morphology controlled synthesis of ZnO nanostructures through a mild-thermal decompositionShripal Singh, Jcotikanta Mohapatra, A. Mitra, Ajay Kushwaha, and M. Aslam 326

Impedance and modulus spectroscopy analysis of Mn0.5Zno.5Fe204 nanoparticlesH. Aircddy, U. Bidayat, and A. K. Das 328

Electrical and magnetic properties of sol-gel synthesized nanocrystalline Li2Ni1-xMgxTi04materials

Rajesh Chcruku, G. Govindaraj, and Lakshmi Vijayan 330

Structural morphological and optoelectronic study of titania and gold doped titania

nanoparticles grown by sol-gel technique

Yogcsh A. Jadhav, Ketan P. Gattu, Anil Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 332

Kelvin probe studies of H2S exposed CuO:ZnO nanowires random networks

Niyanta Datta, Niranjan Ramgir, Manmeet Kaur, Kailasa Ganpathi, A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal,and S. K. Gupta 334

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Cathodoluminescence properties of p-Ga203 nanowires grown using CVD techniqueSudheer Kumar, C. Tcssarek, S. Christiansen, and R. Singh 336

Structural and Mossbauer spectroscopic studies of heat-treated Ni„Zn|_xFe204 ferritc

nanoparticles

Ch. Srinivas, S. S. Meena, B. V. Tirupanyam, D. L. Sastry, and S. M. Yusuf 338

Effect of dopant concentration on photoluminescence properties of Gd203:Eu:<+T. Selvalakshmi and A. Chandra Bose 340

Influence of cobalt doping on the structural and optical properties of ZnS nanoparticlesB. Poornaprakash, D. Amaranatha Reddy, G. Murali, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, and B. K. Rcddy 342

First principles study of hydrogen storage in SWCNT functionalized with MgH2R. Lavanya, K. Iyakutti, V. J. Surya, V. Vasu, and Y. Kawazoc 344

Probing gas response of pure and Au modified ZnO nanowires network using work function

measurements

Preetam K. Sharma, Niranjan S. Ramgir, N. Datta, M. Kaur, C. P. Goyal, S. Kailasaganapathi,A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 346

A novel one-step synthesis of highly fluorescent CdSe QD's of tunable light emission by aqueous

route

R. M. Hodlur and M. K. Rabinal 34S

Optical studies of reduced graphene oxide thin films

Kanika Anand, Nipin Kohli, Onkar Singh, Anita Hastir, and Ravi Chand Singh 350

Study of magnetization dynamics in electrodeposited magnetic nanostructures

Sachin Pathak and Manish Sharma 352

Enrichment of magnetic alignment stimulated by y-radiation in core-shell type nanoparticle

Mn-Zn ferrite

P. P. Naik, R. B. Tangsali, B. Sonayc, and S. Sugur 354

TL kinetics study of LiF nanophosphors for high exposures of gamma-rays

A. K. Sharma, Ankush Vij, Satindcr Kumar, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar 356

Quantum interference effects and high magnetoresistance in textured Ni nanodots embedded in

TiN matrix

J. Panda and T. K. Nath 35X

Fermi velocity modulation in graphene by strain engineering

Harihar Behcra and Gautam Mukhopadhyay 360

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Ordering of FeCo nanocrystalline phase in FeCoNbB alloy: An anomalous diffraction studyP. Gupta, Tapas Ganguli, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, P. Svec Jr., and S. K. Deb 362

Nanostructured zinc oxide as a prospective room temperature thermoelectric material

Pawan Kumar, M. Kar, Anup V. Sanchela, C. V. Tomy, and Ajay D. Thakur 364

Electrochemical capacitance properties of Mn304 nanoparticles via energy efficient thermolysisArijit Mitra, Jeotikanta Mohapatra, Balakrishna Ananthoju, and M. Aslam 366

Chunk-shaped ZnO nanoparticles for ethanol sensing

R. N. Mariammal, C. Stella, and K. Ramachandran 368

Mn02 nanotube-Pt/graphene mixture as an ORR catalyst for proton exchange membrane fuel

cell

P. Divya and S. Ramaprabhu 370

Antibacterial efficacy of silver nanoparticles against Escherichia coli

Rani M. Pattabi, G. Arun Kumar Thilipan, Vinayachandra Bhat, K. R. Sridhar,

and Manjunatha Pattabi 372

Application of multiwalled carbon nanotubes-graphene hybrid nanocomposite for nonenzymatic

H202 biosensor

Pranati Nayak, P. N. Santhosh, and S. Ramaprabhu 374

Structural phase analysis of nanocrystalline Mg:Zr02

S. Senthilkumaran, A. Ahamed Fazil, S. Kannan, and P. Thangadurai 376

Electronic structure and electron energy loss spectra of armchair and zigzag edged buckled

silicene nano-ribbons

Brij Mohan, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 378

Synthesis of embedded titanium dioxide nanoparticles by oxygen ion implantation in titanium

films

Dcepti. A. Rukade, C. A. Desai, Nilesh Kulkarni, L. C. Tribedi, and Varsha Bhattacharyya 380

Effect of calcination temperature on structural and magnetic properties of nanocrystallinemagnesium ferrite powders

T. P. Sumangala, C. Mahcnder, N. Venkataramani, and S. Prasad 382

STM observation of surface transfer doping mechanism in 3 keV nitrogen ion implanted UNCDfilms

B. Sundaravel, Kalpataru Panda, R. Dhandapani, B. K. Panigrahi, K. G. M. Nair, and I-Nan Lin 384

Synthesis, characterization and ion conductivity study of nanocrystalline LiNaS04K. N. Ganesha and G. Govindaraj 386

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Synthesis and characterization of ZnS thin films deposited by CBD and UCBD techniquesSachin V. Mukhamale and N. B. Chaurc 388

Effect of tautomerism on Au-6-mercaptopurine nanocluster stabilityNeda Rashidpour, Vikas Kashid, and Vaishali Shah 390

Al3+ doped V2Os nanostructure: Synthesis and structural, morphological and optical

characterization

A. Venkatesan, N. Krishna Chandar, M. Krishna Kumar, S. Arjunan, R. Mohan Kumar,

and R. Jayavel 392

Ag+I2 ion induced modifications of structural and optical properties of ZnO-PMMA

nanocomposite films

Sarla Sharma, Rishi Vyas, and Y. K. Vijay 394

Electronic structure investigations in conductance across porphyrin-fullercne molecular

junctions

Vikas Kashid, H. G. Salunke, and Vaishali Shah 396

CaSn(OH)6 cubes: Synthesis and photoluminescence studies

D. K. Patel, J. Nuwad, V. Sudarsan, R. K. Vatsa, and S. K. Kulshrcshtha 398

Synthesis of reduced graphene oxide and its electrochemical sensing of 4-nitrophenolK. Giribabu, R. Suresh, R. Manigandan, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 400

Electrochemical sensing property of Mn doped Fe304 nanoparticles

R. Suresh, K. Giribabu, R. Manigandan, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 402

Microwave accelerated one-minute synthesis of luminescent ZnO quantum dots

Adersh Asok, A. R. Kulkarni, and Mayuri N. Gandhi 404

Interaction of carboplatin with SWCNT (10,10): A first principles study

V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, H. Mizuseki, and Y. Kawazoc 406

Nanocrystalline Ni-Al ferrites for high frequency applications

T. Ramesh, S. Bharadwaj, R. S. Shinde, and S. R. Murthy 408

Effect of Ga-doped ZnO seed layer thickness on the morphology and optical properties of ZnO

nanorods

R. Nandi, D. Singh, P. Joshi, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 410

Impedance spectroscopy of Sni_xCd,02 nanoparticles

Sumaira Mchraj and Alimuddin 412

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Investigations on chemosynthesized CdSe microclusters

Sachin A. Pawar, S. B. Pawar, A. S. Kamble, D. S. Patil, P. N. Bhosale, and P. S. Patil 414

Enhancement of nonlinear optical absorption in copper decorated a-Fe2Oi nanoparticlesManas Ranjan Parida and C. Vijayan 416

Enhanced magnetism in ball milled Cu:Ti02

K. Bagani, M. K. Ray, B. Ghosh, N. Gayathri, M. Sardar, and S. Banerjee 418

Micromagnetic study of magnetization reversal and dipolar interactions in NiFe nano disks

Janaki Shcth, D. Venkateswarlu, and P. S. Anil Kumar 420

Ion beam synthesis of Au nanoparticles embedded nano-composite glassRanjana S. Varma, D. C. Kothari, Ravi Kumar, P. Kumar, S. S. Santra, and R. G. Thomas 422

Application of silica nanoparticles for increased silica availability in maize

R. Suriyaprabha, G. Karunakaran, R. Yuvakkumar, P. Prabu, V. Rajendran, and N. Kannan 424

Thermoluminescent response of rare earth doped nanocrystalline Ba0.97Cao.ojS04Shaila Bahl, S. P. Lochab, Anant Pandey, and Pratik Kumar 426

Structural and ac electrical properties of LiCoP04 synthesised by template free hydrothermalapproach

Lakshmi Vijayan, Rajesh Cheruku, and G. Govindaraj 428

Nano Ag-doped ZnO particles magnetic, optical and structural studies

A. H. Shah, E. Manikandan, M. Basheer Ahmed, and M. Irdosh 430

Development of high strength hydroxyapatite for bone tissue regeneration using nanobioactive

glass composites

Pragya Shrivastava, Sridhar Dalai, Prerna Sudera, Santosh Param Sivam, S. Vijayalakshmi,and Pratibha Sharma

432

Electron beam assisted synthesis of cadmium selenide nanomaterials

M. C. Rath, A. Guleria, S. Singh, A. K. Singh, S. Adhikari, and S. K. Sarkar 434

Effect of shield gas on the size distribution of aluminum nanoparticles synthesized in thermal

plasma reactor

Vijaykumar B. Varma, Chiti M. Tank, Amiya Nandi, Arti Pant, Hima Prashant, R. K. Pandey,A. K. Das, S. V. Bhoraskar, and V. L. Mathc 436

Synthesis and electrical properties of Cu-doped tin oxide nanowires

Anima Johari, Manish Sharma, and M. C. Bhatnagar 438

Nanomagnetic chelators for removal of toxic metal ions

Sarika Singh, K. C. Barick, and D. Bahadur 440

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Effect of nucleation and growth temperatures on the synthesis of monodispcrsc silver

nanoparticles

Chandni, O. F. Fandey, and Bhupcndra Chudasama 442

175 MeV Au+I3 ion irradiation induced structural and morphological modifications in zinc oxide

thin films

Devendra Singh, Aditya Sharma, Mayora Varshncy, Shalcndra Kumar, and K. D. Verma 444

Effect of particle size on the thermoluminescence properties of Ba(l.97Ca0 0,SO4:CuRenuka Bokolia and P. D. Saharc 446

Preparation and characterization of Eu3+ doped ln203 nanoparticlesKanica Anand, Digvijay Singh, Sandeep Kumar, and R. Thangaraj 448

Study of the antibacterial activity of ZnO nanoparticles

Arjuman Surti, S. Radha, and S. S. Garjc 450

D. EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES

Development of neutron tomography and phase contrast imaging techniqueY. S. Kashyap, Ashish Agrawal, P. S. Sarkar, Mayank Shukla, and Amar Sinha 452

Elemental and isotopic analysis of inorganic salts by laser desorption ionization mass

spectrometry

T. Jayasekharan and N. K. Sahoo 454

Design and development of low cost thermoelectric power setup in the temperature range of

30 - 320 K up to a magnetic field of 8 T

S. K. Giri, S. K. Hazra, and T. K. Nath 456

Study of aging of nuclear detector based on n-silicon/copper phthalocyaninc hctcrojunctionA. Ray and S. K. Gupta 458

Comparative study of ionization chamber detectors vis-a-vis a CCD detector for dispersive XAS

measurement in transmission geometryA. K. Poswal, A. Agrawal, D. Bhattachryya, S. N. Jha, and N. K. Sahoo 460

Structural and optical properties of Pr doped BiFe03 multiferroic ceramics

Vikash Singh, Subhash, R. K. Dwivcdi, and Manoj Kumar 462

Defect analysis of CZTS thin films using photoluminescence technique

N. Poornima, V. G. Rajeshmon, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 464

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Ambipolar copper phthalocyanine heterojunction field effect transistors based organic inverter

Sarita Yadav and Subhasis Ghosh 466

ZnO based organic-inorganic hybrid p-n junction diode

Budhi Singh and Subhasis Ghosh 468

Study of nonlinear refraction of organic dye by Z-scan technique using He-Ne laser

S. Medhekar, R. Kumar, S. Mukherjec, and R. K. Choubey 470

Local structure investigation of Eu doped SrSn03 samples surrounding Sr site

S. Basu, D. K. Patel, V. Sudarsan, S. K. Kulshreshtha, S. N. Jha, and D. Bhattacharyya 472

Development of Nd-YAG laser heated diamond anvil cell facility and HPHT synthesis of WGe2

N. R. Sanjay Kumar, N. V. Chandra Shekar, and P. Ch. Sahu 474

X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) studies on Sb-doped Bi2U06 at Bi and U edgesA. K. Yadav, N. L. Misra, Sangita Dhara, Rohan Phatak, A. K. Poswal, S. N. Jha,

and D. Bhattacharyya 476

Tris-(8-hydroxyquinoline)aluminum thin film as ETL in efficient green phosphorescent OLEDs

K. Thangaraju, Yun-Hi Kim, and Soon-Ki Kwon 478

Comparison of spectral performance of Hf02/Si02 and Ti02/Si02 based high reflecting mirrors

S. Maidul Haque, P. R. Sagdeo, D. Bhattacharya, D. D. Shinde, J. S. Misal, Nisha Prasad,

and N. K. Sahoo 480

Neutron imaging experiments at E-12 beam-line of CIRUS

Ashish Agrawal, Yogesh Kashyap, Mayank Shukla, P. S. Sarkar, and Amar Sinha 482

Doping of graphene during chemical exfoliation

Pawan Kumar Srivastava, Premlata Yadav, and Subhasis Ghosh 484

On experimental realisation of a plane wave of neutrons

Sohrab Abbas and Apoorva G. Wagh 486

Detection of very low concentration of water in ethanol by using NASICON probeParul Yadav and M. C. Bhatnagar 488

Density and thermal expansion of 7010 and 7017 wrought aluminum alloys by gamma ray

attenuation techniqueK. Gopal Kishan Rao, K. Narender, A. S. Madhusudhan Rao, and N. Gopi Krishna 490

Comparison study of LDMOS and VDMOS technologies for RF power amplifiersB. V. Ramarao, J. K. Mishra, Manjiri Pandc, P. Singh, G. Kumar, and J. Mukherjee 492

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Inductively coupled plasma reactive ion etching of Ill-nitride semiconductors

A. P. Shah, M. R. Laskar, A. A. Rahman, M. R. Gokhalc, and A. Bhattacharya 494

Developing high aspect ratio comb-drive using synchrotron radiation at Indus-2

Rahul Shukla, V. K. Jain, V. P. Dhamgayc, and G. S. Lodha 496

Analysis of soft x-ray/Vl)V transmission characteristics of Si and Al filters

Aby Joseph, Mohammed H. Modi, Amol Singh, R. K. Gupta, and G. S. Lodha 498

CSA doped polypyrrole-zinc oxide thin film sensor

M. A. Chougule, D. M. Jundale, B. T. Raut, Shashwati Sen, and V. B. Pati! 500

Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on conductivity and relaxation time in

PVA-PEO-EC-LiCF3S03 blends

Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, Manish Jayswal, Nirali Gondaliya,and D. K. Awasthi 502

Development of Fe203 sensor for N02 detection

S. R. Nalage, S. T. Navale, M. A. Chougule, S. G. Pawar, Shashwati Sen, and V. B. Patil 504

Effect of EC & LiCFjSOj on conductivity and relaxation in PVA-PEO blends

Prajakta Joge, D. K. Kanchan, Poonam Sharma, and Nirali Gondaliya 506

Composition and optical microstructure of good gray cast iron

Nithyadevi Duraisamy and V. Veeravazhuthi 508

Development of wide band complex permeability measurement set-up

Manjeet Ahlawat and R. S. Shinde 510

Study of structural disorder in Pb(Mg,/3Nb2/3)03

Ashok Bhakar, S. M. Gupta, Tapas Ganguli, A. K. Sinha, M. N. Singh, A. Upadhyay, S. K. Deb,

and P. K.Gupta 512

Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of KNN synthesized using colloidal coating approach

Rajan Singh, Ajit. R. Kulkarni, and C. S. Harendranath 514

Study of electrochemical reduced graphene oxide and Mn02 heterostructurc for supercapacitor

application

S. K. Jana, V. P. Rao, and S. Banerjce 516

Study of oxide etching for MOSFET-based MEMS-bio sensor

Vikas Sharma, K. Sachdcv, and V. K. Khanna 518

Dielectric constant microscopy for biological materials

A. V. Valavade, D. C. Kothari, and C. Lobbc 520

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UV detector based on polycrystalline diamond films

K. G. Girija and J. Nuwad 522

10B thin film based position sensitive neutron detector

Shraddha S. Dcsai and Shylaja Devan 524

Neutron diffraction measurements of dislocation density in copper crystals deformed at high

strain rate

Mala N. Rao, S. Rawat, S. Sharma, V. M. Chavan, R. J. Patel, and S. L. Chaplot 526

Characterization of pulsed (plasma focus) neutron source with image plate and application to

neutron radiography

Sanjay Andola, Ram Niranjan, A. M. Shaikh, R. K. Rout, T. C. Kaushik, and S. C. Gupta 528

E. LIQUIDS, GLASSES AND AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS

Optical properties and Judd-Ofelt analysis of Nd3+ ions in lead-zinc-phosphate glasses

R. Lakshmikantha, N. H. Ayachit, and R. V. Anavekar 530

Microstructural and electrical properties of CoCl2 doped HPMC/PVP polymer blend films

H. Somashekarappa, Y. Prakash, Mahadevaiah, K. Hemalatha, and R. Somashekar 532

Photo induced effects in Bi/As2Se3 bilayer thin films

Ramakanta Naik, E. M. Vinod, C. Kumar, R. Ganesan, and K. S. Sangunni 534

Photo-degradation of Lexan polycarbonate studied using positron lifetime spectroscopy

K. Harecsh, A. K. Pandey, D. Meghala, C. Ranganathaiah, and Ganesh Sanjeev 536

Magnetic studies of silico-phosphate glass-ceramics containing Ag and iron oxide

K Sharma, C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, and G. P. Kothiyal 538

Variation of Mott parameters by chemical modification of (In50Se5o)9oMi0 (M = Ag and Bi) thin

films

Shikha Gupta, Falah I. Mustafa, N. Goyal, and S. K. Tripathi 540

Kinetics of amorphous-crystallization transformation of Se8g-xTe15Snx (jc = 2, 4 and 6) alloys

under non-isothermal conditions using Matusita's approach

Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakur, and S. K. Tripathi 542

Structural and ionic conductivity behavior in hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) polymer

films complexed with sodium iodide (Nal)

N. Sandhya Rani, J. Sannappa, T. Demappa, and Mahadevaiah 544

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Nonlinear optical properties of IV-V-VI chalcogenide glasses

Neha Sharrna, Sunanda Sharda, Vincct Sharma, and Pankaj Sharma 546

Effect of Zr02 on solubility and thermo-physical properties of CaO-Al20,-Si02 glass system

Madhumita Goswami, Aparna Patil, and G. P. Kothiyal 548

Er3+-doped strontium lithium bismuth borate glasses for broadband 1.5 um emission - optical

propertiesD. Rajesh, A. Balakrishna, and Y. C. Ratnakaram 550

Effect of Zn incorporation on the optical properties of thin films of SeX5 re|5 glassy alloy

S. Shukla and S. Kumar 552

Structural relaxation at glass transition temperature in Li20-B20, glassy ionic system

Munesh Rathore and Anshuman Dalvi 554

Time evolution of photo-generated defect states in a-Se thin films

Rituraj Sharma, Pritam Khan, S. Binu, and K. V. Adarsh 556

Nanosecond light induced transient absorption in a-Ge5AsMSe65 thin films

Pritam Khan, Rituraj Sharma, and K. V. Adarsh 558

Effect of heat treatment on green luminescence broadening of Er-doped ZnO-PbO tellurite glass

ceramics

Raj Kumar Ramamoorthy, Anil K. Bhatnagar, M. Mattarclli, and M. Montagna 560

Transport of polar and non-polar solvents through a carbon nanotubc

Manish Chopra, Rohan Phatak, and N. Choudhury 562

Synthesis and structural studies of praseodymium doped silver borate glasses

G. V. Jagadeesha Gowda and B. Eraiah 564

Physical, optical and structural properties of xNa2O-(50-x)Bi2O3-10ZnO-40B2O, glasses

Sajjan Dahiya, A. S. Maan, R. Punia, R. S. Kundu, and S. Murugavcl 566

Synthesis and structural studies of multi-component strontium zinc silicate glass-ceramics

Babita Tiwari, M. Pandey, S. C. Gadkari, and G. P. Kothiyal 568

Quantum and classical molecular dynamics simulations of liquid methane

Y. Pathania and P. K. Ahluwalia 570

Analysis of ion dynamics on Na2NbZnP3Ol2 glass using anomalous relaxation function

N. S. Krishna Kumar, G. Govindaraj, and S. Vinoth Rathan 572

Anomalous Brillouin shift in lead-tellurite glass above glass transition

S. Chakraborty, A. K. Arora, V. Sivasubramanian, and P. S. R. Krishna 574

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MN rule in a-Si:H alloys

Himanshu Gupta, L. P. Purohit, F. S. Gill, and R. Kumar 576

Electrical and optical properties of ferric doped PVA-PVP-PPy composite films

Ravikumar V. Patil, M. R. Ranganath, and Blaise Lobo 578

Effect of ZnO on the physical and optical properties of tellurite base glassesSunil Dhankhar, R. S. Kundu, Rajesh Punia, Meenakshi, and Nawal Kishore 580

Magnetic and thermal properties of the ground state GdNi

Pooja Rana, S. K. Singh, V. Nayak, and U. P. Verma 582

Influence of an ionic liquid on the conduction characteristics of lithium niobophosphate glassPrashant Dabas and K. Hariharan 584

Effect of alkali treatment on the physical and surface properties of Indian hemp fibers

Sangappa, B. Lakshmeesha Rao, S. Asha, and R. Somashekar 586

Effect of ZnO nanoparticles on structural and mechanical properties of HPMC polymer films

B. Lakshmeesha Rao, Mahadeviah, S. Asha, R. Somashekar, and Sangappa 588

Comparison of orders, structures and anomalies of water: A molecular dynamics simulation

study

Dibyendu Bandyopadhyay, Sadhana Mohan, Swapan K. Ghosh, and Niharendu Choudhury 590

Structural and electronic transport properties of compound forming HgPb liquid alloy usingab-initio pseudopotential

Nalini Sharma, Anil Thakur, and P. K. Ahluwalia 592

Ab-initio study of liquid systems: Concentration dependence of electrical resistivity of binaryliquid alloy Rbl-xCsx

Anil Thakur, Nalini Sharma, Surjeet Chandel, and P. K. Ahluwalia 594

Investigation of DC electrical conductivity of chalcogenide glassesSanjay, N. Kishore, R. S. Kundu, A. Agarwal, and S. Dhankhar 596

Structural and physical properties of vanadium doped copper bismuth borate glassesR. L. Dhiman, Vircnder Singh Kundu, Susheel Arora, and A. S. Maan 598

Effect of La20_n on the electrical conductivity and thermal properties of proton conducting glassesS. R. Tiplc and V. K. Deshpande 600

Luminescence, electrical and magnetic studies of Mn2+:Li20-LiF-B203-CdO glassesV. Naresh and S. Buddhudu 602

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Structural, dielectric and AC conductivity properties of Co2+ doped mixed alkali zinc borate

glasses

B. J. Madhu, Syed Asma Banu, G. A. Harshitha, T. M. Shilpa, and B. Shruthi 604

Solvent primitive model study of structure of colloidal solution in highly charge asymmetricelectrolytes

Brindaban Modak, Chandra N. Patra, and Swapan K. Ghosh 606

Silver doped nanobioactive glass particles for bone implant applicationsM. Prabhu, K. Kavitha, G. Karunakaran, P. Manivasakan, and V. Rajcndran 608

Spectroscopic studies of pure and malachite green sensitized polyvinyl carbazolc III ins

Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, and P. K. Kharc 610

Optical and microhardness measurement of lead silicate

Rashmi M. Jogad, Rakesh Kumar, P. S. R. Krishna, M. S. Jogad, G. P. Kothiyal, and R. D. Malhad 612

Spectroscopy of Nd3+ in two different glassy networks: Phosphate and silicate

P. Nandi, M. Goswami, M. N. Deo, V. Sudarsan, and G. P. Kothiyal 614

Acoustical and thermal conductivity studies on CuO/DEA-benzene hybrid nanofluids

B. Rohini, M. Gopalakrishnan, R. Kiruba, T. Mahalingam, and A Kingson Solomon Jccvaraj 616

Mixed alkali effect in glasses containing Mn02M. Sudhakara Reddy, Asha Rajiv, V. C. Vccranna Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. Narayana

Reddy 618

Reitveld refinement study of PLZT ceramics

Rakesh Kumar, D. V. Bavbandc, R. Mishra, V. H. Bafna, D. Mohan, and G. P. Kothiyal 620

F. SURFACES, INTERFACES AND THIN FILMS

Optical properties change of Gei2.5Sb25Se62.5 thin films by laser irradiation

Ramakanta Naik, E. M. Vinod, C. Kumar, and R. Ganesan 622

Fabrication of electrospun poly (methyl methacrylate) nanofiber membranes

M. Sethupathy, V. Sethuraman, and P. Manisankar 624

Improved optical and electrical properties of 200 MeV Agl5+ irradiated 3 wt% 'Li' doped Mo(),

thin film

M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, P. Manimuthu, S. Sambasivam, J. P. Singh, K. Asokan,

C. Venkatcswaran, and R. Mohan 626

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Optical properties of (Sn02/Cu-Zn ferrite) multilayers

S. Saipriya and R. Singh 628

Enhanced soft magnetic properties in stress free amorphous FeTaC/Ta multilayer thin films

Akhilesh Kr. Singh and A. Perumal 630

Optical constants and thickness determination of thin films using envelope method and inverse

synthesis method: A comparative study

S. Jena, R. B. Tokas, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 632

Growth and electrical transport study in pulsed laser deposited Sr2Co04 thin film on (001) MgO

substrate

Pankaj K. Pandey, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 634

Dispersion parameters and optical band gap in Se8o.5Bi|.5Tei8-ySby amorphous thin films

Anup Kumar, Pawan Hcera, P. B. Barman, and Raman Sharma 636

A comparative study of photoconductivity in LaTi03/SrTi03 and LaA103/SrTi03 2-DEG

heterostructures

A. Rastogi, Z. Hossain, and R. C. Budhani 638

Structural and electrical properties of pure and Cu doped NiO films deposited at various oxygen

partial pressures

Y. Ashok Kumar Reddy, A. Mallikarjuna Reddy, A. Sivasankar Reddy, and P. Sreedhara Reddy 640

Conductive atomic force microscopy study of local electronic transport in ZnTe thin films

Sachin D. Kshirsagar, M. Ghanashyam Krishna, and Surya P. Tewari 642

Preferred C-axis oriented photoluminescent ZnO thin films prepared by RF magnetron

sputtering

Praloy Mondal and Dcbajyoti Das 644

Wide band gap nanocrystalline silicon carbide thin films prepared by ICP-CVD

Debjit Kar and Debajyoti Das 646

Room temperature ethanol sensing property of cubic nanostructure tungsten oxide (W03)R. Scnthilkumar, G. Ravi, C. Sanjeeviraja, M. Arivanandhan, and Y. Hayakawa 648

Annealing effect of double dip coated ZnAl204 thin films

R. Chandramohan, V. Dhanasekaran, K. Sundaram, and T. Mahalingam 650

Mn doped nanostucture ZnO thin film for photo sensor and gas sensor application

Sandip V. Mahajan, Deepak S. Upadhye, Shahid U. Shaikh, Ravikiran B. Birajadar,Farha Y. Siddiqui, Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 652

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Preparation and characterization of Fe-Si-B thin films

M. Satalkar, S. N. Kane, A. Pasko, A. Apolinario, C. T. Sousa, J. Ventura, J. J. Belo,

J. M. Teixeira, J. P. Araujo, F. Mazalcyrat, and E. Fleury 654

Effect of substrate on magnetic properties of La2/jSri/3IV1n01 films

C. L. Prajapat, D. Bhattacharya, R. B. Tokas, B. K. Roul, M. R. Singh, P. K. Mishra, S. Basu,

S. K. Gupta, and G. Ravikumar 656

Stability of UV exposed RR-P3BT films by spectroscopic ellipsometry

Mangesh S. Diware, J. S. Byun, S. Y. Hwang, T. J. Kim, and Y. D. Kim 658

Crystal structure and magnetic properties of Zn0.9Cu0.iOy rf-sputtered thin films

M. Venkaiah, U Kumar Kiran, and R. Singh 660

Preparation and characterization of lead doped zinc oxide thin films

I. Inigo Valan, V. Gokulakrishnan, A. Stephen, and K. Ramamurthi 662

Raman spectral study of electrochemically synthesized aupolyaniline composite

Vijay Kumar, Yasir Ali, R. G. Sonkawade, and A. S. Dhaliwal 664

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

S. S. Das and M. Senthil Kumar 666

Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured ZnS thin film

T. A. Safeera, K. J. Anju, P. J. Joffy, and E. I. Anila 668

The metastable nature of Langmuir monolayers: An attempt towards quantification

Uttam Kumar Basak and Alokmay Datta 670

Structural and photoluminescence properties of ZnO/PS heterojunctionKavu Kulathuraan and Balan Natarajan 672

Fabrication of high quality nanocrystalline Cd,i_x)ZnxS thin films for optoelectronic applicationsUrvashi Verma, Vikas Thakur, P. Rajaram, and A. K. Shrivastava 674

Improvement of room temperature ppb level Cl2 sensing characteristics of copper

phthalocyanine film

Rajan Saini, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bedi, and D. K. Aswal 676

Thermal diffusion in Ni/Al multilayer

M. Swain, D. Bhattacharya, S. Singh, M. Gupta, and S. Basu 678

High resolution TOF - SIMS depth profiling of nano-film multilayersK. G. Bhushan, R. Mukundhan, and S. K. Gupta 680

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Aging and annealing effects on properties of Ag-N dual-acceptor doped ZnO thin films

R. Swapna, R. Amiruddin, and M. C. Santhosh Kumar 682

In-situ TEM studies on grain growth and glassy transition in nanoscale MgF2/Cu/Si structure

Puspcn Mondal, Mahendra Babu, C. Mukhcrjee, Rajiv Kamparath, and A. K. Srivastava 684

Crystalline silicon growth in nickel/a-silicon bilayer

Md Ahamad Mohiddon, K. Lakshun Naidu, G. Dalba, F. Rocca, and M. Ghanashyam Krishna 686

Dependence of optical properties of chemical bath deposited SnS2 films on deposition time

G. Sreedevi and K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy 688

Hydrogen implantation-induced layer transfer of silicon using direct wafer bondingU. Dadwal, S. Chandra, P. Kumar, D. Kanjilal, and R. Singh 690

Frequency dependent FMR studies on pulsed laser ablated YIG films deposited on (111) GGGsubstrate

B. Bhoi, N. Venkataramani, R. P. R. C. Aiyar, Shiva Prasad, Mikhail Kostylev, and R. L. Stamps 692

Spin enhancement and band gap opening of ferrimagnetic graphene on fcc-Co(lll) surface upon

hydrogenation

Niharika Joshi, Indu Kaul, Nirmalya Ballav, and Prasenjit Ghosh 694

XPS study of 2H-TPP at Fe/Si(lll) system

Chhagan Lai, I. P. Jain, G. Di Santo, M. Caputo, M. Panighel, B. A. Taleatu, and A. Goldoni 696

Vapor-liquid-solid growth of GaN nanowires by reactive sputtering of GaAs

P. Mohanta, P. Chaturvedi, S. S. Major, and R. S. Srinivasa 698

Construction of concentration density profile across the interface in SAN/EVA immiscible blend

from positron lifetime parameters

P. Ramya, D. Meghala, T. Pasang, and C. Ranganathaiah 700

Effect of ammonia plasma treatment on graphene oxide LB monolayersGulbagh Singh, V. Divakar Botcha, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar,R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 702

Improvement in open circuit voltage of MEHPPV:FeS2 nanoparticle based organic inorganichybrid solar cell

Animcsh Layek, Somnath Middya, and Partha Pratim Ray 704

Structural and optical properties of electrochemically grown highly crystalline Cu2ZnSnS4(CZTS) thin films

Balakrishna Ananthoju, Ajay Kushwaha, Farjana J. Sonia, and M. Aslam 706

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Effect of subphase pH on Langmuir-Blodgett deposition of graphene oxide monolayers on Si

and Si02/Si substrates

V. Divakar Botcha, Gulbagh Singh, Pavan K. Narayanam, D. S. Sutar, S. S. Talwar,

R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 708

Fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) thin film as transparent conductive oxide (I CO) for photovoltaic

applications

Anusha Muthukumar, Germain Rcy, Gael Giusti, Vincent Consonni, lislellc Appcrt, llerve

Roussel, Arivuoli Dakshnamoorthy, and Daniel Bcllet 710

Role of oxygen annealing on charge order and insulator metal transition in l>rll.5(tCa(i.42Mn(), thin

films

Vasudha Agarwal and H. K. Singh 712

Manifestation of surface and interface properties of Ag overlayer on Si (111)

A. H. M. Abdul Wasey, R. Batabyal, B. N. Dev, and G. P. Das 714

FTIR study of thin film of uracil on silanised glass substrate using attenuated total reflection

(ATR)

Naveen Kumar, Susy Thomas, and R. J. Kshirsagar 716

Effect of oxide insertion layer on resistance switching properties of copper phthalocyanineNikhil G. Joshi, Nirav C. Pandya, and U. S. Joshi 718

Study of GaFe03 thin films prepared by PLD

Kavita Sharma, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Ajay Gupta, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase, A. Banerjee,and V. Ganesan 720

Impact of quenched disorder on magnetotransport properties in Ndo ^^Sm.Srn ^lVInO^ thin films

Manoj K. Srivastava, Amarjeet Kaur, and H. K. Singh 722

Fourier transform infrared study of pulsed laser deposited Fe304 thin films grown on different

substrates

Ridhi Master, D. M. Phase, R. J. Choudhary, U. P. Deshpandc, and T. Shripathi 724

Preparation and characterization of Cd203 thin films by RF magnetron sputtering

Manjunatha Pattabi and G. Arun Kumar Thilipan 726

SERS study of Pd-CTAB interactions in monolayer film

A. Das, K. Priya Madhuri, Sonu Mewada, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi 728

Effect of annealing on structure and magneto-transport properties of Fe/Au multilayerSurendra Singh, Saibal Basu, C. L. Prajapat, and M. Gupta 730

Emission properties of Ag@Si02/ZnO nanorods' heterostructure

Moumita Mahanti and Durga Basak 732

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Exchange coupled Co-ferrite/Zn-ferrite bilayer

Subasa C. Sahoo, Baidyanath Sahu, Murtaza Bohra, N. Venkataramani, Shiva Prasad,

and R. Krishnan 734

Crystalline SrBi4Ti4Oi5 thin films on amorphous substrates sputtered by rf sputtering

A. Rambabu and K. C. James Raju 736

Anomalous X-ray scattering study of quantum dots embedded in MBE grown silicon/germanium

multilayers

Manjula Sharma, Milan K. Sanyal, and Mrinmay K. Mukhopadhyay 738

Early stage fractal growth in thin films below the percolation limit

R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, Debolina Das, and B. N. Dev 740

Impact of fringing field on the C-V characterization of Hf02 high-K dielectric MOS (p)

capacitors fabricated through atomic layer deposition

Savita Maurya, B. R. Singh, and M. Radhakrishna 742

Structural characterization of polyelectrolyte thin film prepared under applied electric potential

Tanusrcc Samanta and M. Mukherjee 744

Growth and morphology of rubrene thin films on hydrophilic and hydrophobic substrates

S. Sinha, C.-H. Wang, A. K. M. Maidul Islam, Y.-W. Yang, and M. Mukherjee 746

Simultaneous growth of sub-nanometer deep vacancy island and epitaxial silicide islands on Si

(111)

J. C. Mahato, Debolina Das, R. Batabyal, and B. N. Dev 748

The electrochemical performance of Sn02 film incorporated with Ru02

S. N. Pusawale, P. R. Deshmukh, and C. D. Lokhande 750

Effect of post-deposition treatment on energy conversion efficiency of nanostructured CdS/Cu2Sthin films

Vidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, and Ramphal Sharma 752

Study of percolation behavior in semiconducting La0.95MnO3/polyvinylidene fluoride

nanocomposites

K. Devi Chandrasckhar, P. M. Manjunatha, N. Vijay Prakash Chaudhary, and A. Venimadhav 754

Oxygen partial pressure influenced structural and optical properties of DC magnetron sputteredZr02 films

P. Kondaiah, V. Madhavi, and S. Uthanna 756

Electrochemical properties of magnetron sputtered W03 thin films

V. Madhavi, P. Kondaiah, O. M. Hussain, and S. Uthanna 758

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A novel high transmittance red color filter: ZnS and Ag multilayer

Garima Kedawat, Vipin Kumar Jain, Subodh Srivastava, and Y. K. Vijay 760

Growth temperature effect on a-Si:H thin films studied by constant photocurrent method

N. A. Wadibhasme and R. O. Dusanc 762

Influence of RF power on magnetron sputtered AZO films

Mohit Agarwal, Pankaj Modi, and R. O. Dusanc 764

Optimization of manganites thin film for electric field and strain control

Himanshu Sharma, Sourabh Jain, D. Dixit, C. V. Tomy, and A. Tulapurkar 766

Characterization of Ni/Zr system by x-ray reflectivity measurements

Debarati Bhattacharya, Pooja Moundekar, and Saibal Basu 768

Electron accumulation/depletion at F|6CoPc/Znq3 heterojunction: Kelvin probe and charge

transport study

Ashwini Kumar, R. Prasad, Arvind Kumar, Soumen Samanta, Ajay Singh, A. K. Dcbnalh,

D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 770

Poly(2,7-carbazole) derivative based air stable and flexible organic field effect transistor

Purushottam Jha, P. Veerender, S. P. Koiry, Vibha Saxena, A. Gusain, A. K. Chauhan,

D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 772

Improved efficiency of organic dye sensitized solar cells through acid treatment

Avani Jain, P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan,

D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 774

Investigation on the effects of thermal annealing on PCDTBTrPCBM bulk-heterojunction

polymer solar cells

Abhay Gusain, Vibha Saxena, P. Veerender, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,

and S. K. Gupta 776

Effect of Co-sensitization and acid treatment on Ti02 photoanodes in dye-sensitized solar cells

P. Veerender, Vibha Saxena, Abhay Gusain, P. Jha, S. P. Koiry, A. K. Chauhan, D. K. Aswal,

and S. K. Gupta 778

H2S sensing properties of RF sputtered Sn02 films

Kailasa Ganpathi, Manmeet Kaur, Niranjan Ramgir, Niyanta Datta, Shovit Bhattacharya,

A. K. Debnath, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 780

Enhanced H2S response of Au modified Fe203 thin films

Vishal Balouria, A. Singh, Niranjan S. Ramgir, A. K. Debnath, Aman Mahajan, R. K. Bcdi,

D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 782

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Effect of substrate temperature on optical and morphological properties of Zr02-MgO composite

Alms

R. B. Tokas, S. Jena, N. M. Kamble, S. Thakur, and N. K. Sahoo 784

Effect of post deposition annealing on the performance of copper phthalocyanine based organic

thin film transistor

N. Padma, Shilpa N. Sawant, Shaswati Sen, and S. K. Gupta 786

High dielectric permittivity in BaFe12019/polyvinylidene fluoride composites

K. Devi Chandrsekhar, S. Karthikeyan, A. K. Das, and A. Venimadhav 788

Activation studies of NEG coatings by surface techniquesR. K. Sharma, Jagannath, K. G. Bhushan, S. C. Gadkari, R. Mukund, and S. K. Gupta 790

TSDC and x-ray diffraction analysis of pure and malachite green sensitized polyvinyl carbazole

films

Pankaj Kumar Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, Rachana Kathal, Hariom Pandey, and P. K. Khare 792

Studies of thin films ofTi- Zr -V as non-evaporable getter films prepared by RF sputtering

Nidhi Gupta, Jagannath, R. K. Sharma, S. C. Gadkari, K. P. Muthe, R. Mukundhan,

and S. K. Gupta 794

G. ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND PHONONS

Effect of Si doping on ductility of RuAl intermetallics: A first principle study

Bushra Fatima, Nikita Acharya, Sunil Singh Chouhan, and Sankar P. Sanyal 796

Low temperature Raman spectra of rhombohedral La0.92sNao.o7sMn03

Neha Dodiya, A. Yogi, and Dinesh Varshney 798

Temperature dependent Raman study of Euo.75Yo.2sMn03

Dilccp K. Mishra and V. G. Sathe 800

First-principles study of structure and electronic properties of phenyl imidazole

H. R. Srccpad, M. Ramegowda, Khaleel Ahmed, H. M. Dayananda, and Manohara 802

Influence of Co doping on structural and electrical properties of La0.sCe0.5Mn1_J-CoIO3

manganites

Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, Y. K. Kuo, and Dinesh Varshney 804

A generalised algebraic approach to states having same energy but different potential strengthsSubha Gaurab Roy and Ramendu Bhattacharjee 806

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Raman scattering in 2H-MoS2 single crystal

M. P. Deshpande, Sandip V. Bhatt, Vasant Sathc, Bindiya H. Soni, Nitya Garg, and S. 11. Chaki 808

Bipolaron by inter-site electron-phonon interaction

N. S. Mondal, S. Nath, S. Bose, and M. Paul 810

Colossal thermal expansion behavior of Ag3M(CN)6 (M=Co,Fe)

R. Mittal, M. Zbiri, H. Schober, S. N. Achary, A. K. Tyagi, and S. L. Chaplot 812

Vibrational modes and electronic structure of Sr2GdTa06

Binita Ghosh, Sadhan Chanda, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, and T. P. Sinha 814

Evidence of unusual spin polarization of the surface states of W(l 10) surface

Deep Narayan Biswas, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Shyama R. Varicr, Nishaina Sahadev,

and Kalobaran Maiti 816

Study of the surface electronic structure of Si(lll) surface using spin and angle resolved

photoemission spectroscopy

Shyama R. Varier, Partha Sarathi Mandal, Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas,

and Kalobaran Maiti 818

Occurrence of diverse bonding characteristics in CaNi2As2 and CaPd2As2: A theoretical study

D. S. Jayalakshmi, M. Sundareswari, and M. Manjula 820

First principle study on structural, mechanical and electronic properties of REAg

(RE-Y, La, Pr and Er) intermetallic compounds

A. Sahu, Chandrabhan Makode, J. Pataiya, and Sankar P. Sanyal 822

Comparative study of NaTi02 and NaNi02 using first principle calculations

Monika Dhariwal, T. Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 824

Instability in coupled electron quantum layers with finite width

L. K. Saini and Mukesh G. Nayak 826

Evidence of bulk nature of the Kondo effect and different surface potentials in CeBA

Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, Sangecta Thakur, Khadiza Ali, Geetha Balakrishnan,

and Kalobaran Maiti 828

Structural properties of solid nitromethane: A density functional study

S. Appalakondaiah and G. Vaitheeswaran 830

Electronic structure and magnetic ordering of MgV204

Ramandeep Kaur, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal 832

The momentum distribution function of a Luttinger liquid

P. J. Monisha, Soma Mukhopadhyay, and Ashok Chatterjcc 834

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First-principles study of fluorination of L-Alanine

H. R. Srcepad, H. R. Ravi, Khalecl Ahmed, H. M. Dayananda, K. Umakanth, and B. M. Manohara 836

Study of thermally induced spin state transition in NdCo03 single crystal

J. Janaki, R. Nithya, S. Gancsamoorthy, T. N. Sairam, T. R. Ravindran, K. Vinod, and A. Bharathi 838

Density functional study on CeMo2Si2C

U. B. Paramanik, Anupam, C. Geibel, Z. Hossain, and R. Prasad 840

Electronic structure of Co2MnSn Heusler alloy

Madhusmita Baral, Soma Banik, Tapas Ganguli, Aparna Chakrabarti, A. Thamizhavel,

D. M. Phase, A. K. Sinha, and S. K. Deb 842

Optical absorption in B13 cluster: A time-dependent density functional approachRavindra Shinde and Meenakshi Tayade 844

Ab initio calculations of yttrium chromite

Vidhya G. Nair, C. Ganeshraj, P. N. Santhosh, and V. Subramanian 846

Large scale configuration interaction calculations of linear optical absorption of octacene and

nonacene

Himanshu Chakraborty and Alok Shukla 848

Designing a new class of III-IV-V semiconductor nanosheets

A. Bhattacharya, S. Chakrabarty, and G. P. Das 850

Ab-initio study of Fe doped molybedenum dichalcogenidesChamma Tiwari, Ramesh Sharma, and Yamini Sharma 852

High pressure infrared reflectivity measurements on copper doped Rul212

Himal Bhatt, S. Karmakar, M. N. Deo, M. R. Gonal, N. Patel, and Surinder M. Sharma 854

H. SINGLE CRYSTALS

Detached phenomenon: Its influence on the crystals quality of lnSb:Te grown by the VDS

technique

D. B. Gadkari 856

Molecular dynamics simulation of He diffusion in FeCr alloyA. Abhishek, M. Warrier, and E. Rajendra Kumar 858

The oxalic acid: 2-chloroacetamide crystallization: A new revelation

R. Chitra, R. R. Choudhury, Frederic Capet, and Pascal Rousscl 860

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Growth of silver doped Li2B407 single crystals for dosimetric applicationG. D. Patra, S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, D. G. Dcsai, B. Tiwari, S. Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 862

Scintillation yield uniformity studies on single crystals of Tl doped Csl

D. G. Desai, S. G. Singh, A. K. Singh, Shashwati Sen, Sccma Shindc, and S. C. Gadkari 864

Optical and dielectric properties of L-methionine L-methioninium hydrogen malcatc single

crystal

P. Vasudevan, S. Sankar, and S. Gokulraj 866

Development of high quality, direction controlled ADP single crystals and the effect of impurities

on their growth

P. Rajesh and P. Ramasamy 868

Effect of cation size at Gd and AI site on Ce energy levels in Gd3(GaAl)50,2 sintered pellets

Mohit Tyagi, Fang Meng, Kaitlyn Darby, Merry Koschan, and C. L. Mclchcr 870

Transport, electrical and microtopography studies of W3Se4 single crystals

D. N. Bhavsar and A. R. Jani 872

Unidirectional growth of potassium hydrogen malate single crystals and its characterizations on

optical, mechanical, dielectric, laser damage threshold studies

K. Boopathi, P. Rajesh, and P. Ramasamy 874

Effect of temperature gradient on detachment of the crystals grown by vertical directional

solidification

D. S. Maske, M. Joshi, R. Choudhary, and D. B. Gadkari 876

Effect of Ce concentration on optical properties of Li6Gd(B03)3 single crystals

A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, D. G. Desai, S. Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 878

Single crystal growth of 4-chloro-3-nitrobenzophenone using nanoresolution translation by

Bridgman technique and its characterization

K. Aravinth, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 880

Study of surface microstructure and optical properties of as-grown Moo.6W().4Se2 single crystals

Sunil H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpandc, Jiten P. Tailor, M. D. Chaudhary, and K. S. Mahato 882

Synthesis and X-ray structural studies of novel metal-organic complex:

Diiodobis(2-aminopyridine)cadmium(II) single crystal

G. Venkatesan, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 884

Thermoluminescent dosimetric characteristics of irradiated ternary alkali halides doped with

lanthanum

G. Maruthi and R. Chandramani 886

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Effect of stirring on the growth rate anisotropy of the metastable a-glycine single crystals

K. Rcnuka Devi and K. Srinivasan 888

Influence of PT composition on the properties of PZN-PT single crystalsB. Srimathy, R. Jayavcl, and J. Kumar 890

Growth of Ce added NBT-BT single crystal by flux method and its characterization

S. Shanmuga Sundari and R. Dhanasekaran 892

Influence of solvents on the habit modification of alpha lactose monohydrate single crystalsP. Parimaladcvi and K. Srinivasan 894

Nucleation control and growth of metastable a-L-glutamic acid single crystals in the presence of

L-tyrosine

P. Dhanasekaran and K. Srinivasan 896

Growth and characterization of N,N-diethyl anilinium picrate (NNDEAP) single crystalsR. Subramaniyan, G. Babu Anandha, and P. Ramasamy 898

Study of the flow properties using simulation modeling for the melt growth byBridgman-Stockbarger method

M. Srinivasan and P. Ramasamy 900

Indentation size effect on some glycine based nonlinear optical crystalsN. Gopi Krishna, Ch. Sateesh Chandra, D. Nagaraju, and P. V. Shekar 902

Optical properties of Eu2+ doped antipervoskite fluoride single crystalsD. Joseph Daniel, R. Nithya, P. Ramasamy, and U. Madhusoodanan 904

Growth and characterization of L-serine formate nonlinear optical single crystalP. Krishnan, K. Gayathri, and G. Anbalagan 906

Linear optical and SHG characterization of new chalcone crystalsS. Raghavcndra, A. Jayarama, T. Chandra Shekhara Shetty, and S. M. Dharmaprakash 908

Growth and characterization of a nonlinear optical crystal: Bisglycine hydrogen chlorideCh. Sateesh Chandra, N. Gopi Krishna, P. V. Raja Shekar, and D. Nagaraju 910

The negative thermal expansion coefficient in lithium niobate single crystalsJ. C. Vyas and S. G. Singh 912

Structural, morphological and electrical studies of lithium ion irradiated sodium potassiumniobate single crystal grown by flux method

R. Saravanan, D. Rajcsh, S. V. Rajasekaran, R. Perumal, M. Chitra, and R. Jayavel 914

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Impact of firing on the optically stimulated luminescence of geological quart/.D. K. Koul and G. S. Polymeris 916

I. TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

Diffusion of water in bentonite clay: Neutron scattering studyV. K. Sharma, S. A. Prabhudcsai, R. Raut Dcssai, J. A. Erwin Dcsa, S. Mitra,and R. Mukhopadhyay 918

Millisecond transient current investigations in vectra B950 polymer liquid crystalJ. K. Quamara, S. K. Mahna, and Sanjccv Garg l)2()

Synthesis, electrical and thermal properties of Bi4V2-xZr,0|1 (x=0.0 & 0.02) ceramics

S. Sahu, S. K. Barbar, S. Jangid, and M. Roy 922

Effect of ionic-size change of the rare earth ion on the electrical properties of the hole dopeddouble perovskite Gdo.cuSro.osBaC^Os.s

J. Janaki, V. Rajaji, T. Geetha Kumary, S. Kalavathi, and A. Bharathi 924

Anisotropic behavior of DC resistivity in Sr3NiPt06 and Sr3CuPt06 single crystalsS. Chattopadhyay and S. Majumdar 926

Structure-property correlations in monovalent mixed oxide La|_xK,lVlnO1(0.0 < x < 0.3

manganites

Davit Dhruv, R. K. Trivedi, Bhumika Nimavat, Sanjay Kansara, D. D. Pandya, M. J. Keshvani,

P. S. Solanki, Bharat Kataria, D. G. Kubcrkar, and N. A. Shah 928

Structural and transport properties of NdCr03 nanoceramics

Sujoy Saha, Anup Pradhan Sakhya, Sayantani Das, and T. P. Sinha 930

Polaronic glassiness in Pro.5Ca0.5Mn03-s

A. Karmakar, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 932

Dielectric relaxation in multiferroic BiFe03

K. Dey, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 934

Effect of porosity on impedance of CaF2 ceramic

Shashwati Sen, Garima Mittal, S. K. Deshpande, and S. C. Gadkari 936

Effect of HC1 doping in polyaniline: Transport and optical studies

J. Sannigrahi and S. Majumdar 938

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Monte Carlo simulation of charge transport in disordered organic thin films: Applicability of

Meyer-Neldel rule for extracting energetic disorder

S. Raj Mohan, Manoranjan P. Singh, M. P. Joshi, and L. M. Kukreja 940

Effect of Y doping on magnetic and transport properties of La0.7Sr0.3CoO3

G. D. Dwivedi, K. K. Shukla, P. Shahi, O. K. Jha, A. K. Ghosh, A. K. Nigam,

and Sandip Chatterjce 942

Evanescent mode transport and its application to nano-electronics

Srccmoycc Mukherjec and Prosenjit Singha Deo 944

Structural and dielectric properties of Y^Er^FeC^

Indrani Das, Sadhan Chanda, Alo Dutta, Sourish Banerjee, and T. P. Sinha 946

Electrical properties of strontium doped yttrium manganite oxide

Rajcsh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, N. Kaurav, G. S. Okram, and N. K. Gaur 948

Lattice thermal conductivity of bilayer graphene

M. D. Kamatagi, S. M. Galagali, N. S. Sankeshwar, and B. G. Mulimani 950

Molecular dynamics dependence of overhauser-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (OMRI):

An ESR study

V. Meenakumari, A. Milton Franklin Benial, Kazuhiro Ichikawa, Ken-ichi Yamada, A. Jawahar,

and Hideo Utsumi 952

High ionic conductivity and desirable stability properties of PNC for renewable energy

applications

A. L. Sharma and Awalendra K. Thakur 954

Structural and transport properties of Dy substituted YBaCo407

Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, S. Rayaprol, and N. K. Gaur 956

Pore topology and diffusion of acetylene in CuBTC metal organic framework

S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 958

Energy and momentum loss rates of hot electrons in a supported bilayer graphene

K. S. Bhargavi and S. S. Kubakaddi 960

Absolutely continuous spectrum and ballistic transport in a one-dimensional quasiperiodic

system

Biplab Pal and Arunava Chakrabarti 962

High pressure studies on topological insulator Bi2Se,

T. R. Dcvidas, Awadhesh Mani, and A. Bharathi 964

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Synthesis and electrical transport properties of SnS nanoparticles

S. H. Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, M. D. Chaudhary, J. P. Tailor, and K. S. Mahato 966

Structural and dielectric properties of LaFei-xZnxO3(0<x<0.3)

Irshad Bhat, Shahid Husain, and Wasi Khan 968

Observation of current-induced voltage jump at low temperature in V02 nanowires

Shubhankar Das, A. Rastogi, P. C. Joshi, Mandccp Kaur, S. C. Husalc, T. D. Scnguttuvan,

Z. Hossain, W. Prellicr, and R. C. Budhani 970

Competing Kondo and e-e interaction in Ce2.iNd0.9Al

Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Vcnkatcshwarlu, Mohan Gangradc,

and V. Ganesan 972

Study of dielectric relaxation at room temperature of the composite (100-x) LCMO/(x) BTO

Momin Hossain Khan, Sudipta Pal, and Esa Bosc 974

Electrical properties of Ba doped LSGM for electrolyte material of solid oxide fuel cells

Raghvendra, Prabhakar Singh, and Rajcsh Kumar Singh 976

Structural and transport properties of two new Heusler type Ru2VAI and Ru2VGa compounds

Sanchayita Mondal, Chandan Mazumdar, and R. Ranganathan 978

Sb concentration dependent power factor of n-type thermoelectric material Bi, vSbx alloy

K. Malik, Diptasikha Das, A. K. Deb, S. Bandyopadhyay, and Aritra Bancrjec 980

Single molecule conductance: Role of electrode morphology at the nanoscale

Divakar Ravi, C. P. Karthika, and Arijit Sen 982

Influence of particle shape on viscosity of nanofluids

Gaganpreet and Sunita Srivastava 984

Contrasting effects of compressive and tensile strain and doping-induced opening of

charge-transfer gap in NdNi0.90lVIno.ioO:< thin films

Mahesh Chandra, Amit Khare, Fozia Aziz, Rakcsh Rana, D. S. Rana, and K. R. Mavani 986

Fabrication and characterization of indium gallium zinc oxide (ICZO) thin film transistors with

(La0 5Yo.5)203 gate insulator

Bhaumik V. Mistry, Jaydeep Mistry, U. N. Trivcdi, V. G. Joshi, and U. S. Joshi 988

Structural and dielectric properties of Zn|_xMgxO

Parmod Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Hitendra K. Malik, and K. Asokan 990

Dependency of dielectric constant on the cation distribution for magnetite nanoparticles

Geeta Rana, Deepika Kandpal, and Umesh C. Johri 992

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Electrical and magnetic property of Al^Ci^s.sFen.s icosahedral quasicrystal: Spin-orbit

scatteringM. K. Ray, K. Bagani, B. Ghosh, M. Sardar, S. Banerjee, V. C. Srivastava,

and N. K. Mukhopadhyay 994

Effect of Ti02 ceramic filler on PEG-based composite polymer electrolytes for magnesium

batteries

Anji Reddy Polu, Ranveer Kumar, K. Vijaya Kumar, and N. Krishna Jyothi 996

Nonlinear dielectric response of BaBi4Ti4Oi5 ceramics

Sunil Kumar, D. A. Ochoa, J. E. Garcia, and K. B. R. Varma 998

Enhanced figure of merit in (AgCrSe2)o.75(CuCrSe2)o.25S. Bhattacharya, R. Bhatt, R. Basu, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1000

Dramatic thermal conductivity reduction in PbSe0.sTe0.5

Ranita Basu, S. Bhattacharya, Ranu Bhatt, Ajay Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1002

Influence of Cu intercalation on thermal transport properties of titanium diselenide

R. Bhatt, S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta 1004

Flux induced fano peak splitting in asymmetric coupled quantum dot system

Bharat Bhushan Brogi, Shyam Chand, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1006

Anomalous dielectric and AC conductivity behavior ofthe nanocrystalline Ni-Cu ferrite

synthesized via combustion method

B. J. Madhu, B. N. Rashmi, Arshiya Banu, G. A. Seema, B. Shruthi, and H. S. Jayanna 1008

Structure and properties of REL\Ge2 (RE = La-Nd, Sm-Gd, Yb) compounds

Abishck K. Iyer, Udumula Subbarao, and Sebastian C. Peter 1010

J. SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS

Effects of magnetic field and the built-in internal fields on the absorption coefficients in a

strained wurtzite GaN/AlGaN quantum dot

N. S. Minimala and A. John Peter 1012

Strain induced optical gain in a ZnxCd^Te/ZnTe quantum dot nanostructure

R. Sangectha and A. John Peter 1014

Mechanical stiffening of transition metal carbides: XCX= Ti, Zr, Nb, Hf, Ta)Dincsh Varshncy, S. Shriya, and Namita Singh 1016

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Effects of gallium alloy content and the geometrical confinement on effective exciton g-factor in a

1I1-V semiconductor quantum dot

N. R. Senthilkumar and A. John Peter 1018

Dielectric effect of changes of refractive index in a Mg based II-VI semiconductor nanostructure

J. Abraham Hudson Mark and A. John Peter 1020

Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Pb0.90Sno.ioTe by Yb

P. K. Rawat, B. Paul, and P. Bancrji 1022

Studies on ZnO nanorods/CuInS2 coaxial n-p heterojunction arrays

Shrabani Panigrahi and Durga Basak 1024

Synthesis of nanocrystalline thin films of gold on the surface of GaSb by swift heavy ion

Vidya Jadhav, S. K. Dubcy, A. D. Yadav, and A. Singh 1026

Reliability studies on Si PIN photodiodes under Co-60 gamma radiation

Y. P. Prabhakara Rao, K. C. Praveen, Y. Rejeena Rani, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1028

A comparison of 75 MeV boron and 50 MeV lithium ion irradiation effects on 200 GHz SiGe

HBTs

K. C. Praveen, N. Pushpa, H. B. Shiva, J. D. Cresslcr, Ambuj Tripathi, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 1030

Dielectric response of polyethersulphone (PES) polymer irradiated with 145 MeV Ne*+ ions

S. Asad Ali, Rajesh Kumar, Wasi Khan, A. H. Naqvi, and R. Prasad 1032

Annealing behavior of cadmium ion implanted GaSb

S. D. Pandey and S. K. Dubcy 1034

Structural, optical and electrical studies on CdO thin films using spray pyrolysis technique

K. Sankarasubramanian, R. Solaichamy, K. Sethuraman, R. Raincshbabu, and K. Ramamurthi 1036

High pressure structural phase transition of EuS

Ritu Dubey, Sadhna Singh, and Madhu Sarwan 1038

Reflectance contrast spectroscopy for distinguishing between monolayer and bilaycr graphene

Nihit Saigal and Sandip Ghosh 1040

Photoluminescence and defects in ultrathin SnG2 films

Shikha, D. K. Pandya, and S. C. Kashyap 1042

Theoretical study of the optical behavior of HgAl2Se4

Poonam Singh, Monika Sharma, and U. P. Verma 1044

Optical properties and defect related measurement of Sn02 cauliflower

Dipa Dutta and D. Bahadur 1046

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Role of indium in highly crystalline ZnO thin films

Anil Singh, Suject Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1048

Photoresponse study on transition metal (Co, Ni, Mn) doped ZnO thin films

R. Rajalakshmi and S. Angappane 1050

Electronic specific heat of armchair graphene nanoribbons: Effect of subbands

A. S. Nissimagoudar and N. S. Sankeshwar 1052

Strain profile in GaN/AlGaN nano-heterostructure

Sapna Gupta, F. Rahman, and P. A. Alvi 1054

Thermo-elastic and ductile properties of Samarium chalcogenides at high pressures

A. K. Baraiya, G. S. Raypuria, and D. C. Gupta 1056

Improvement in the thermoelectric properties of Zn4Sb3 induced by Sb deficiency

Anup V. Sanchela, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1058

Chalcogen doping at anionic site: A scheme towards more dispersive valence band in CuA102

Nilesh Mazumdcr, Dipayan Sen, and Kalyan Kumar Chattopadhyay 1060

Elastic constants and pressure derivative of elastic constants of Si,_xGex solid solution

A. R. Jivani, J. K. Baria, P. S. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 1062

Electrical properties of solution processed highly transparent ZnO TFT with organic gate

dielectric

Nirav C. Pandya, Nikhil G. Joshi, U. N. Trivedi, and U. S. Joshi 1064

Surface and morphological studies of pure and Sb doped thin film gas sensors

Archana Gupta, P. Rajaram, and M. C. Bhatnagar 1066

K. SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, MAGNETISM AND SPINTRONICS

Structural, transport and elastic properties of LaTi03

Rcnu Choithrani, Masroor Ahmad Bhat, and N. K. Gaur 1068

Inverse magnetocaloric effect in Ce(Fe0.96Ru0.o4)2^ Effect of fast neutron irradiation

V. Dube, P. K. Mishra, A. K. Rajarajan, C. L. Prajapat, P. U. Sastry, S. V. Thakare, M. R. Singh,and G. Ravikumar 1070

Magnetic transition in CaFe2As2 studied via hyperfine field measurements for 66Ga by TDPAD

technique

S. K. Mohanta, S. M. Davanc, Nceraj Kumar, A. Thamizhavel, and S. N. Mishra 1072

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Effect of annealing on the structural, microstructural and magnetic properties in

Ni46Co4Mn38Sb12 ribbons

Roshnee Sahoo, D. M. Raj Kumar, D. Arvindha Babu, K. G. Surcsh, and M. Manivcl Raja

Magnetic and transport studies in Co2TiGa alloy

Lakhan Pal, K. G. Surcsh, and A. K. Nigam

Influence of band Jahn-Teller distortion on the magnetoresistance in manganites

L. Haritha, G. Gangadhar Reddy, and A. Ramakanth

Development of ferromagnetic C01.5Fe1.5O4 ferrite by varying pH value during chemical

co-precipitation

R. N. Bhowmik and A. Bharathi

Prussian blue based molecular magnet Ko.3Mn2.8s|Cr(CN)6|2-nH20 with ferrimagnetic orderi

temperature of 60 K

Pramod Bhatt, Ranu Bhatt, M. D. Mukadam, and S. M. Yusuf

Electron phonon interaction in Hubbard model

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

Magnetic properties of Cu70.<)Ali8.iMnii alloy

S. Chatterjee and S. Majumdar

Magnetic investigation of Ni5oMn33Ini2Ga5 alloy

S. Pramanick, S. Chatterjee, and S. Majumdar

Study of magnetocaloric effect in GdRhln compound

Sachin B. Gupta and K. G. Suresh

Electrical transport and magnetic properties of superconducting Mo52Re4s alloy

Shyam Sundar, L. S. Sharath Chandra, V. K. Sharma, M. K. Chattopadhyay, and S. B. Roy

Magnetization and neutron diffraction study of Tb0.9Y01MnO3

Keka R. Chakraborty, R. Shukla, M. D. Mukadam, S. D. Kaushik, A. K. Tyagi, V. Siruguri,

and S. M. Yusuf

Structural and Mossbauer spectroscopic study of cubic phase hydrogen storage alloys

TijNb^Fe,

S. S. Meena, Priyanka Das, A. Kumar, S. Banerjee, C. G. S. Pillai, and S. M. Yusuf

High coercivity through texture formation in S111C05/C0 multilayers

P. U. Sastry, P. K. Mishra, M. Krishnan, P. Chowdhury, and G. Ravikumar

Half metallic ferromagnetism in ACaB (A = Li, Na and K) compounds-DFT study

R. Umamaheswari, M. Yogeswari, and G. Kalpana 1100

Fermi surface studies of Co-based Heusler alloys: Ab-initio study

Swctarekha Ram and V. Kanchana 1102

Superconductivity in BiS2 based Bi404S3 novel compound

Shiva Kumar Singh, Anuj Kumar, Shruti, G. Sharma, S. Patnaik, M. Husain, and V. P. S. Awana 1104

Bulk superconductivity at 5K in Nd00.5Fo.5BiS2

Rajvccr Jha, Anuj Kumar, Shiva Kumar Singh, and V. P. S. Awana 1106

Study of magnetic properties of spin-dependent Falicov-Kimball model on a triangular lattice

Sant Kumar, Umesh K. Yadav, Tulika Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 1108

Structural and magnetic ordering in Co2MnSi films on (001) SrTi03

Himanshu Pandey, P. C. Joshi, and R. C. Budhani 1110

Exchange bias effect in Co(Cr0.92sFe0.07s)2O4

R. Padam, Swati Pandya, S. Ravi, A. K. Grover, and D. Pal 1112

Frustrated non-collinearity in the magnetic behaviour of layered VX2 |X = CI, Br, I] systems

A. H. M. Abdul Wasey, D. Karmakar, and G. P. Das 1114

Magnetocaloric properties of Ni2+xMni_xSn Heusler alloysM. D. Mukadam, Pramod Bhatt, and S. M. Yusuf 1116

Study of transport and magnetic properties in new BiS2 based layered LaO0.sF0.5BiS2

superconductor

Shruti, Anuj Kumar, Rajveer Jha, S. Patnaik, and V. P. S. Awana 1118

Investigation ofjunction magnetoresistance in Coo.65Zn0.3SFe204/p-Si heterostructure for

spintronics

J. Panda and T. K. Nath 1120

Possibility of spatial inversion symmetry breaking by magnetic ordering in Y2CoMn06G. Sharma, J. Saha, and S. Patnaik 1122

Neutron diffraction studies on cobalt substituted BiFeO,

J. Ray, A. K. Biswal, S. Acharya, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 1124

Temperature dependence of magnetotransport behavior and its correlation with inter-particleinteraction in Cu10o-,Cox granular films

Dincsh Kumar, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1126

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Dynamical structure factor of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov superconductors

Arghya Dutta and Jayanta K. Bhattacharjcc 1128

Structural and magnetic studies of AP1+ doped cobalt ferrites CoFe2-*Alx04 (x=0.0, 0.2, 0.4)Rabia Pandit, Pawanprcct Kaur, K. K. Sharma, and Ravi Kumar 1130

Structure and magnetism of FeMn03

S. Rayaprol, S. D. Kaushik, P. D. Babu, and V. Siruguri 1132

Magnetic properties of GdT0.i7Sn2 (T = Co, Cu) compoundsKrishanu Ghosh, Chandan Mazumdar, R. Ranganathan, and S. Mukhcrjcc 1134

Strong correlations in the two-dimensional extended Holstein-Hubbard model

I. V. Sankar and Ashok Chattcrjec 113d

Temperature dependent spin injection properties of self-assembled epitaxial Ni nanoparticlesembedded metallic TiN matrix/p-Si heterojunction

J. Panda and T. K. Nath 1138

Stability of high spin polarization via substituting .sy?element in Co2MnSii|_v(ia, Heuslcr alloys

Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardcv S. Saini, and Manish K. Kashyap 1140

Magnetic and transport relaxation property of Lafl ^Sro.ijCoOj single crystals

Kaustuv Manna, D. Samal, Suja Elizabeth, and P. S. Anil Kumar 1142

Effect of Pt layer thickness on perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in ultrathin Co/Pt multilayers

P. D. Kulkarni, M. Krishnan, H. C. Barshilia, and P. Chowdhury 1144

Structural and magnetic properties of dispersed nickel ferrite nanoparticles synthesized through

thermal decomposition route

Bhaskar Chandra Bchcra, Ravindra A. Venkata, Chandan Srivastava, and Prahallad Padhan 1146

Synthesis and characterization of barium hexagonal ferrite

M. Manikandan and C. Vcnkatcswaran 1148

Destruction of magnetic frustration by a partial replacement of Ca by Cd in a spin chain

compound Ca3Co206

Tathamay Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, P. L. Paulose, and Echur V. Sampathkumaran 1150

Development of multichannel MEG system at IGCAR

N. Mariyappa, C. Parasakthi, K. Gireesan, S. Sengottuvel, Rajcsh Patcl, M. P. Janawadkar,

T. S. Radhakrishnan, and C. S. Sundar I 152

Study of quaternary Heusler alloy Co2CrAli_,Si,

K. Seema and Ranjan Kumar 1154

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Electronic band structure of La01_xFxBiS2: A recently invented family of superconductors

Jagdish Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, and V. P. S. Awana 1156

Single crystals of iron chalcogenide superconductor FeCr0.o2Se: Growth, characterization and

vortex pinning properties

Anil K. Yadav, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1158

Sintering effect on structural and magnetic properties of Ni0.6Zn0.4Fe2O4 ferrite

Manoj M. Kothawale, R. B. Tangsali, G. K. Naik, J. S. Budkuley, Sher Singh Meena,

and Pramod Bhatt 1160

Effect of europium substitution on the magnetic and optical properties of nanostructured

bismuth ferrite

A. Tamilselvan, M. Sakar, C. Nayek, P. Murugavel, and S. Balakumar 1162

Exchange bias in ball-milled LaFe03

S. D. Kaushik, S. Rayaprol, P. D. Babu, and V. Siruguri 1164

A study on pulsed laser deposited metallic spin valves

Sayak Ghoshal and P. S. Anil Kumar 1166

Exchange bias and its tuning in magnetic compensated Nd doped ferromagnetic samarium metal

Swati Pandya, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1168

Improved magnetic properties of microwave processed Mn0,5Zno.5Fe204 particlesT. Suncctha, Subhash C. Kashyap, and Hem C. Gupta 1170

Thickness dependence ferromagnetic resonance in Ta/Ni81Fei9 bilayer nanostructures

Nilamani Behcra, Sujcet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 1172

Vortex pinning mechanism in single crystal of iron arsenide superconductor SrFe1.7Coo.3As2Ajay D. Thakur, A. K. Yadav, A. Thamizhavel, C. V. Tomy, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1174

Search for ferromagnetism in transition metal doped monoclinic Hf02K. Scema and Ranjan Kumar 1176

Magnetoresistance investigations in exchange-biased IrMn/NiFe bilayersHimanshu Fulara, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Subhash C. Kashyap 1178

Fingerprint for flux line lattice melting in a very weakly pinned crystal of 2H-NbSe2Ulhas Vaidya, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 1180

Evolution of microstructure during formation of Nb3Sn superconducting phaseA. K. Singh, Shivendra Kumar, Satya Prakash Pasi, A. Laik, M. M. Hussain, K. K. Abdulla,andG. K. Dcy 1182

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L. NOVEL MATERIALS

Specific heat of Pr0.5A0.sCo03 (A=Ca and Sr)

N. K. Gaur, Rasna Thakur, Rajcsh K. Thakur, and A. Srivastava 1184

Lifshitz transition in bi-Iayer grapheneAjay Pratap Singh Gahlot

1186

Temperature and pressure dependent thermodynamical properties of uranium dinitrides: UN2Swarna Shriya, S. Chaudhary, M. Varshncy, and Dincsh Varshncy 1188

Effects of sintering temperature variation on microstructure and magnetic nature of Al diluted

La0.7Cao.3lVln03

Manish Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 1190

Synthesis of gadolinium silicate by hydrothermal methodSeema Shinde, M. Ghosh, Shashwati Sen, S. G. Singh, S. C. Gadkari, and S. K. Gupta 1192

Spin momentum density of Nd using Compton spectroscopyJagrati Sahariya, Shailja Tiwari, Alpa Dashora, H. S. Mund, M. Itou, Y. Sakurai, and B. L. Ahuja 1194

Soft ferromagnetism and semiconductor to metal transition in Lio.sMno.5Fe204 ferrite

G. Vijayasri and R. N. Bhowmik 1196

Synthesis of novel multiferroic composite film of MnFe204-poly (vinylidenc-fluoridc)-BaTiOjAmit Kumar and K. L. Yadav 1198

Effect of Fe incorporation on the optical behavior of ZnO thin films prepared by sol-gel derived

spin coating techniques

R. Ajay Rakkesh, R. Malathi, and S. Balakumar 1200

Crossover from more to less ordered vortex state on field-cooling a weakly pinned crystal of

Ca3Rh4Sn,3

Santosh Kumar, C. V. Tomy, A. K. Grover, G. Balakrishnan, and D. McK Paul 1202

Rietveld refinement and FTIR analysis of bulk ceramic Co, xMn1()4 compositionsP. L. Meena, Ravi Kumar, and K. Srccnivas 1204

Effect of variation of tin concentration on the properties of Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films deposited usingchemical spray pyrolysis

V. G. Rajeshmon, Abin Kuriakosc, C. Sudha Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 1206

Specific heat and thermal expansion of CdCoO,N. K. Gaur, Rasna Thakur, and Rajesh K. Thakur 1208

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Raman and AFM study of gamma irradiated plastic bottle sheets

Yasir Ali, Vijay Kumar, R. G. Sonkawade, and A. S. Dhaliwal 1210

Conductivity studies on PEMA based polymer electrolyte system with LiC104 salt

S. Rajcndran, K. Senthil, K. Kcsavan, Chithra M. Mathew, and T. Mahalingam 1212

Role of magnetostriction in magnetoelectric properties of NdCrTiOs

J. Saha, G. Sharma, and S. Patnaik 1214

Sonochemically precipitated spinel Co304 and NiCo204 nanostructures as an electrode materials

for supercapacitor

N. Padmanathan and S. Selladurai 1216

Electromagnetic absorption and shielding behavior of polyaniline-antimony oxide composites

Muhammad Faisal and Syed Khasim 1218

Structural and piezoelectric properties of BiFe03 thin films prepared by spin coating method

R. Kennedy, D. Sornadurai, K. Ganesan, and J. Jebaraj 1220

Photonic aspect of sea shell

Aditi Sarkar, Arnab Gangopadhyay, and A. Sarkar 1222

Linear and nonlinear properties of L-histidinium dinitrate

S. Arulmozhi, M. Dinesh Raja, and J. Madhavan 1224

Luminescence properties of novel NaSrB509:Eu3+ phosphor

G. R. Dillip and B. Dcva Prasad Raju 1226

Effect of conventional and microwave sintering on ceramic BiFeO,

K. Rama Obulesu and K. C. James Raju 1228

Synthesis structural and luminescence analysis of NaGd1_xTbx(W04)2 solid solution for white

LED application

A. Durairajan, D. Thangaraju, D. Balaji, and S. Moorthy Babu 1230

Single phase synthesis and room temperature neutron diffraction studies on multiferroic

PbFeo.5Nbo.5O3

Shidaling Mattcppanavar, Basavaraj Angadi, and Sudhindra Rayaprol 1232

Synthesis and characterization of Eu3+:YAG nanopowder by precipitation method

D. Balaji, D. Thangaraju, A. Durairajan, and S. Moorthy Babu 1234

Shape controlled synthesis of Cu20 microcrystals and their structural and optical propertiesG. Prabhakaran and Ramaswamy Murugan 1236

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Low temperature dielectric properties of YMno.95Ruo.05O3

Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, G. S. Okram, N. Kaurav, and N. K. Gaur 1238

Double negative refraction in barium substituted magnesium ferrite in the microwave frequency

region

P. Chithra lekha, S. Dincsh Kumar, N. Yogcsh, and V. Subramanian 1240

Mechanically strained tuning of the electronic and dielectric properties of monolayer honeycomb

structure of tungsten disulphide (WS2)

Ashok Kumar, Brij Mohan, Arun Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 1242

Combustion synthesis of novel boron carbide

R. Saai Harini, E. Manikandan, S. Anthonysamy, V. Chandramouli, and D. Eswaramoorthy 1244

Topographical studies on GNF crystals of non linear optical originM. M. Khandpekar and S. P. Pati 1246

Structural studies of Na4(ThxUi-x)(Mo04)4 (x = 0.5, 0.8)

N. D. Dahale, S. K. Sali, Meera Keskar, Rohan Phatak, and S. Kannan 1248

Synthesis of Ag coated Cr4+/Cr3+ nanocomposites by mechanical attrition method

M. Patange, J. Jadhav, and S. Biswas 1250

First principle calculation of bulk electronic properties of cubic SrMOj pcrovskites (M = Ti, Zr)

Avinash Daga, Smita Sharma, and K. S. Sharma 1252

The effect of Pr co-dopant in samarium doped ceria

V. Venkatesh, V. Prashanth Kumar, Y. S. Rcddy, and C. Vishnuvardhan Rcddy 1254

Diffuse phase transition in Lio.i2Na0.88Nb03 piezoelectric ceramics

Supratim Mitra, Ajit R. Kulkarni, and Om Prakash 1256

Effects of chemical disorder on magnetism in inverse Heusler alloy Mn2NiSn

Souvik Paul and Subhradip Ghosh 1258

Study of de-watering from the gelatinous precipitate formed during co-precipitation of Nd-YAC

powder

Sanjib Karmakar, Rachna Sharma, S. K. Pathak, S. M. Gupta, and P. K. Gupta 1260

Raman studies of chemically and thermally reduced graphene oxide

Madhusmita Sahoo, Rajini P. Antony, Tom Mathews, S. Dash, and A. K. Tyagi 1262

Synthesis and structural characterization lithium nickel oxide at different temperatures

K. Vijaya Babu, V. Vccraiah, P. S. V. Subba Rao, and Paulos Taddcssc Shibcshi 1264

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Studies on PEO-BMImHS04 solid polymer electrolyte

S. S. Pundir, Kuldeep Mishra, and D. K. Rai 1266

Magnetic and ferroelectric studies of double perovskite (KBi)(FeNb)06 ceramics

B. K. Choudhary, A. K. Himanshu, Uday Kumar, S. K. Bandyopadhayay, Pintu Sen, S. N. Singh,

andT. P. Sinha 1268

Structural and multiferroic properties of YMn03 ceramics synthesized by co-precipitation

method

M. Muneeswaran, C. Mascovani, and N. V. Giridharan 1270

Growth and characterization of potassium acid phthalte for third order NLO applications

B. Sivakumar, S. Gokul Raj, G. Ramesh Kumar, and R. Mohan 1272

Magnetodielectric properties of frustrated antiferromagnet LiCr02

A. K. Singh, K. Singh, Tathamay Basu, K. K. Iyer, P. L. Paulose, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1274

Enhance of ferroelectric properties by modifying Pb2+ side by Mg2+ in PZT (52/48) ceramics

P. Kour, Pawan Kumar, Manoranjan Kar, and S. K. Sinha 1276

Optical and dielectric properties of Ti02 doped PVA-CN/Li004 composite electrolyte

Sunil G. Rathod, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, and T. Sheela 1278

Photochromic and microstructural properties of methyl orange doped polyvinyl alcohol)

R. F. Bhajantri, Renuka Sali, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, T. Sheela, and Sunil G. Rathod 1280

Effect of Ni doping on the structural, optical and magnetic properties of Zno

Gunjan Srinet, Ravindra Kumar, and Vivek Sajal 1282

Structural and optical properties of copper zinc tin sulphide (CZTS) material synthesized usingbinary sulphide precursors

K. K. Patel, D. V. Shah, and Vipul Kheraj 1284

Structural stability of BiFeO, by chemical modification in Bi as well as Fe sites

Chandrakanta Panda,Pawan Kumar, and Manoranjan Kar 1286

Molecular dynamics studies of radiation damage in yttria

Manan Dholakia, Gurprcet Kaur, and M. C. Valsakumar 1288

Growth of fluorine doped Sn02 nanostructures by spin coating of ultrasonically prepared gel

precursor

Y. C. Goswami, Vijay Kumar, V. Gancsan, and P. Rajaram 1290

Structural and photoluminescence properties of Zn2Si04:Tb3+ & Zn2Si04:Tb3++Li+ phosphorsB. Chandra Babu and S. Buddhudu 1292

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Effect of chromium doping on the resistivity behavior of gadolinium manganitcAnchit Modi, Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, G. S. Okram, and N. K. Gaur 1294

Dimensional crossover in chemical potential of synthetic spin-orbit coupled Fermi systemsReena Gupta, Dilna Azhikodan, G. S. Singh, and Jurgen Bossc 1296

Observation of dielectric and magnetic anomalies in multifcrroic Phi in 5Fc(l sO, compoundSnehlata Gupta, S. Chakrabarti, and V. R. Palkar 1298

Blue light emitting naphthalimides for organic light emitting diodes

Hidayath Ulla, B. Garudachar, M. N. Satyanarayan, G. Umcsh, and A. M. lsloor 1300

Preparation and characterization of NaC104 doped polyvinyl alcohol)/sodium alginate

composite electrolyte

T. Sheela, R. F. Bhajantri, V. Ravindrachary, P. K. Pujari, and Sunil G. Rathod 1302

Charge transport in a zigzag silicene nanoribbon

Nakul Mehrotra, Niraj Kumar, and Arijit Sen 1304

Enhanced dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ca2+ substituted sodium bismuth titanate

Chandrahas Bharti, A. Sen, and T. P. Sinha 1306

ABSTRACTS OF INVITED TALKS

Synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of nanostructure-formation at interfaces

Milan K. Sanyal 1308

Exploring the tunable coexistence of magnetic phasesP. Chaddah 1309

Development of scintillation materials for medical imaging and other applicationsC. L. Melchcr 1310

Strutural phase transitions in rare earth sesquioxides under pressure

N. V. Chandra Shekar, A. Arulraj, N. R. Sanjay Kumar, C. Ravi, M. Sckar, and P. Ch. Sahu 1311

Fundamentals of materials, techniques and instrumentation for OSL and FNTD dosimetryM. S. Aksclrod 1312

First-principles based calculation of phonon spectrain substitutional^ disordered alloys

Subhradip Ghosh 1313

Ultrafast interfacial charge transfer dynamics in dye-sensitized and quantum dot solar cell

Hirendra N. Ghosh 1314

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Improving organic solar cell efficiency by increasing light absorption and charge carrier mobilityin the device active layer

S. Sundar Kumar Iyer 1315

Superconducting and normal state tunnelling in NbN-GdN-NbN junctionsKartik Scnapati 1316

Magnetism without magnetic atoms: The physics of the vacancy in graphene

Sashi Satpathy 1317

Post-processing of lattice dynamical data for large crystalline systems (disordered

semiconductors)

Andrei Postnikov 1319

Multiferroic oxides: Growth of single crystals and investigation of their magnetic, dielectric and

ferroelectric properties

Gectha Balakrishnan 1320

Novel, band-controlled metal oxide compositions for semiconductor-mediated photocatalyticsplitting of water to produce H2

Narcndra M. Gupta 1321

Phase behavior and unusual dynamics of stimuli-responsive microgel colloids

B. V.R.Tata 1322

Role of defect states on magnetic and electrical properties of ZnO nanostructures: An

experimental view

M. Aslam 1323

Semiconducting nanowire field effect transistor for nanoelectronics and nanomechanics

Mandar Deshmukh 1324

Optically induced ultrafast magnetization dynamics in two-dimensional ferromagnetic nanodot

lattices

Anjan Barman 1325

Proteins as "dopable" bio-electronic materials

David Cahen1326

NMR study of valence fluctuating state in rare-earth based materials with multi-4f electronsTakeshi Mito

1327

Conductance and thermopower in molecular nanojunctionsArijitScn 1328

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