SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Proceedings of the 55th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2010

Manipal University, Manipal, India 26 - 30 December 2010

I PART A

EDITORS

Alka B. GargR. Mittal

R. Mukhopadhyay

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre

Mumbai, India

SPONSORED BY

Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

Department of Atomic EnergyGovernment of India

AIPMelville, New York, 2011

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Table of Contents

PART A

Preface

Committees

INVITED TALKS

Composite fermions: Motivation, successes, and application to fractional quantum Hall

effect in grapheneJainendra Jain

Phononic heat conduction in disordered crystalsAbhishek Dhar

Probing hydrogen at extreme conditions by Raman spectroscopyN. Subramanian, Alexander F. Goncharov, Viktor V. Struzhkin, M. Somayazulu, and

Russell J. Hemley

Mixing of mode symmetries in top gated bilayer and multilayer graphene field effect

devices

Biswanath Chakraborty, Anindya Das, and A. K. Sood

Suspended graphene devices for electromechanics and quantum Hall effect (QHE)studies

Vibhor Singh, Ganesh Subramaniam, Bushra Irfan, and Mandar M. Deshmukh

STM spectroscopy of impurity doped grapheneK. Saha, I. Paul, and K. Sengupta

Heterogeneity in polymer thin films

Toshiji Kanaya, Rintaro Inoue, and Koji Nishida

Active matter: Liquid - crystal hydrodynamics with a difference

Sriram Ramaswamy 27

Raman scattering studies on LaMno.5Coo.5O3 with two distinct Curie temperatures

Chandrabhas Narayana, Venkata S. Bhadram, M. Viswanathan, and P. S. A. Kumar 28

Spin frustrated magnets: A novel route to multiferroicityA. K. Singh and S. Patnaik 29

Condensed matters under negative pressureAttila R. Imre 33

New oxypnictide superconductorsA. K. Ganguli, J. Prakash, S. J. Singh, and S. Patnaik 37

Isoelectronic substitution, external pressure and superconductivity in BaFe2As2

A. Bharathi 41

Magnetism and superconductivity in CaFe2.ITxAs2 (T = Co and Ni) single crystalsA. Thamizhavel 45

Electron spin dynamics in semiconductor quantum dots

X. Marie, T. Belhadj, B. Urbaszek, T. Amand, O. Krebs, A. Lemaitre, and P. Voisin 49

Dynamics of molecules adsorbed in zeolitic systems: Neutron scattering and MD

simulation studies

S. Mitra, V. K. Sharma, and R. Mukhopadhyay 54

Materials for hydrogen storage: From complex hydrides to functionalized nanostructures

G. P. Das 58

Criteria for choice of material for building organic solar cells

S. Sundar K. Iyer 59

Excitonic materials for hybrid solar cells and energy efficient lightingDinesh Kabra, Li P. Lu, Yana Vaynzof, Myounghoon Song, Henry J. Snaith, and Richard

H. Friend 60

Study of pseudogap state in NbN using scanning tunneling spectroscopyMadhavi Chand, Anand Kamlapure, Garima Saraswat, Sanjeev Kumar, John Jesudasan,Mintu Mondal, Vivas Bagwe, Vikram Tripathi, and Pratap Raychaudhuri 61

Exchange bias and magnetic phase separation in alloys and oxide materials

S. Giri 65

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First-principles investigations of defects in minerals

Ashok K. Verma 69

Electronic conduction through atomic chains, quantum well and quantum wire

A. C. Sharma 70

Synergistic tunability of fluorescence using coupled quantum dots

Sucheta Sengupta and Somobrata Acharya 75

Critical behavior at ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition of nearly half dopedmanganites

S. Arumugam 79

CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

PHASE TRANSITIONS

Penetration of long steel rods into thick steel and sandstone targetsVishal Mehra and Shashank Chaturvedi 83

Thermal EOS for PtC within Mie-Griineisen hypothesisA. D. Patel, S. G. Khambolja, N. K. Bhatt, B. Y. Thakore, P. R. Vyas, and A. R. Jani 85

Effect of temperature on the void nucleation and growth parameters for single crystalcopper

S. Rawat, Manoj Warrier, S. Chaturvedi, and V. M. Chavan 87

Thermal degradation of lead monoxide filled polymer composite radiation shields

V. Harish and N. Nagaiah 89

Phase transition and elastic properties of La-compoundsG. S. Raypuria, K. C. Singh, A. K Baraiya, and D. C. Gupta 91

Structural and electronic properties of anti-ferromagnetic GdAsG. Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, P. Soni, S. P. Sanyal, and M. Rajagopalan 93

Molecular dynamics simulations of crystal copper: Bulk modulus and shocks

M. Warrier, S. Rawat, and S. Chaturvedi 95

High pressure phase transition and elastic properties of lutetium monopnictidesSunil S. Chouhan, G. Pagare, Pooja Soni, and S. P. Sanyal 97

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High pressure Raman scattering study on the phase stability of DyV04Nishant N. Patel, Alka B. Garg, S. Meenakshi, B. N. Wani, and S. M. Sharma 99

Pressure induced structural phase transition of ScC and YC: A FP-LAPW study

Pooja Soni, G. Pagare, S. S. Chouhan, S. P. Sanyal, and M. Rajagopalan 101

High-pressure structural phase transitions in FeAs based compounds at ambient and low

temperaturesR. Mittal, S. K. Mishra, S. L. Chaplot, S. V. Ovsyannikov, E. Greenberg, D. M. Trots, L.

Dubrovinsky, Y. Su, Th. Brueckel, S. Matsuishi, H. Hosono, and G. Garbarino 103

Structural behaviour of uranium sulfide under high pressure

F. Shareef, S. Singh, A. Gour, P. Bhardwaj, M. Sarwan, R. Dubey, and R. K. Singh 105

Pressure induced structural phase transition in actinide monophospides: Ab initio

calculations

Chandrabhan Makode and S. P. Sanyal 107

Thermodynamics of the two-dimensional Falicov-Kimball model on the triangular lattice

Umesh K. Yadav, T. Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 109

Pressure-induced structural phase transition in RESb compounds: Ab initio calculations

A. K. Sahu, A. Singh, Prafulla K. Jha, and S. P. Sanyal 111

Monte Carlo investigation of structural changes in NZP skeleton on alkali ion

substitution

Supriya Roy and P. P. Kumar 113

Analysis of defects induced melting in NaCl crystalR.S. Chauhan, K. Snehlata, and CP. Singh 115

Phase transition in a bond fluctuating linear homo polymerCh Sandhya, K. H. Bindu, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 117

Growth and characterization of PZN-PT single crystalsB. Srimathy, R. Jayavel, A. Thamizhavel, and J. Kumar 119

High pressure phase transition and elastic properties of LaAs: A full-potential studyS. K. Singh, K.C Singh, Pooja Rana, S. Kulshrestha, and D. C. Gupta 121

A Raman spectroscopic study of pressure-induced effects in molecular magnetFe[Fe(CN)6].4HzO

Rekha Rao, Amit Kumar, and S. M. Yusuf 123

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Spin glass behaviour in Fe-substituted LPMO manganite

Yugandhar Bitla, S. N. Kaul, and L. F. Barquin 125

Structural phase stability of rare earth iron garnet, Gd3Fe<;C)12 against pressure: in situ

X-ray diffraction studyAlka B. Garg, S. Chaudhury, S. C. Parida, and V. Vijayakumar 127

Magnetic relaxation and the nature of energy barriers near ferromagnetic to

antiferromagnetic transition in (Smi.yNdy)o.98Mn03 single crystalC. L. Prajapat, V. Dube, S. Arumugam, M. R. Singh, and G. Ravikumar 129

Spin-state transition in La1.ISrICo03 single crystalsS. Bhardwaj, D. Prabhakaran, and A. M. Awasthi 131

Structural and dielectric studies on tungsten bronze oxides (Sr6Ti2NbKO30 and Mn dopedSr6Ti2Nb8O30)

Vidhya G. Nair, V. Subramanian, and P. N. Santhosh 133

Structural phase transitions in TiNi_,C,B. D. Diwan, Anurag Srivastava, and R. K. Singh 135

First principles study of high pressure phase transitions in ThN and UN

P. Modak and Ashok K. Verma 137

Compressibility anomaly in magnetic Heuslar alloy Ni2MnGa and Co2FeSiAlka B. Garg and V. Vijayakumar 139

Inelastic neutron scattering, lattice dynamics and high pressure stability of LuV04Prabhatasree Goel, R. Mittal, S. L. Chaplot, and C. K. Loong 141

High-pressure studies on synthetic orthorhombic cubanite (CuFe2S3)Usha Chandra, Nihal Singh, Pooja Sharma, and G. Parthasarathy 143

Effect of thermal cycling at different rates on phase transformation behavior of NiTi

shape memory alloyRamakrishna K and Manjunatha Pattabi 145

Phase transitions of Agl-Cul nanosystem in the Aniya-Ichihara theoryD. B. Mohan and C. S. Sunandana 147

Growth and characterization of mixed crystals of N, N-dimethylamino-N'-methylstilbazolium p-toluenesulphonate and p-napthalenesulfonate

R. J. Vijay, Tina Thomas, A. Ramanand, and P. Sagayaraj 149

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Investigation on growth and surface analysis of DAST single crystalsTina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, R. Gunaseelan, and P. Sagayaraj 151

SOFT CONDENSED MATTER INCLUDING BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Structural properties of potassium doped lanthanum manganitesDinesh Varshney, M. W. Shaikh, N. Dodiya, and I. Mansuri 155

Microstructural parameters in fibroin and fiber forms of wild-silks using whole powderpattern model

G. N. Siddaraju, H Somashekarappa, Subrata Roy, and R. Somashekar 157

Thermally stimulated dehydration studies in L-asparagine monohydrateDecpti Jain, S. Bharadwaj, V. Ganesan, A. M. Awasthi, and R. Nath 159

Bacterial spring constant in log-phase growthDecpti Jain, N. Nanda, R. Nath, D.S. Chitnis, and V. Ganesan 161

Dielectric studies on swift heavy ions and electron irradiated organic single crystalVincent Crasta, V. Ravindrachary, P. C. R. Kumar, and S. Ganesh 163

An optical characterization of PVA/PAM polymer blend

Gaurang Patel, M.B. Sureshkumar, and Purvi Patel 166

Synthesis of silver polymer nanocomposites and their antibacterial activityChaitali Gavade, Sunil Shah, and N. L. Singh 168

Synthesis and properties of ortho-nitro-Fe complexA. Mishra, Niyati Mishra, R. Sharma, G. Jain, S. Ninama, and R Awate 170

Stabilization of conducting polymers with CMC: Rheological approachRupali Gangopadhyay 172

Electrical and electrochemical characterization of PEO- Ag2S04 composite polymerelectrolytes

Neha Gupta, Munesh Rathore, and Anshuman Dalvi 174

Synthesis and crystal structure of l-(3, 5-dichloro-2-hydroxyphenyl)-3-(5-methylfuran-2-yl)prop-2-en-l-one

G. B. Thippeswamy, D. Vijaykumar, B. S. Jayashree, M. A. Sridhar, and J. S. Prasad 176

Azimuthal bistability in patterned nematic liquid crystal films: A Monte Carlo studyS.C.R. Roshan, Lavanya Kunduru, Regina Jose, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 178

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On the development of thermally stable semi-IPNs of PVA and PAN using IR, DSC and

XRD studies

Deepti S. Deshpande, R. Bajpai, and A. K. Bajpai 180

Polymer network induced ordering in biaxial nematic liquid crystals: A Monte Carlo

studyLavanya Kunduru, S. C. R. Roshan, B. K. Latha, K. P. N. Murthy, and V. S. S. Sastry 182

Characterization of arachidic acid crystallized from various solvents

Debarati Bhattacharya, R. Chitra, and S. Basu 184

Synthesis and X-ray crystallographic studies of ethyl 3-methyl5-(methylthio)-lH-pyrazole-4-carboxylate

T. N. M. Prasad, B. N. Lakshminarayana, Ebraheem A. Musad, M. A. Sridhar, K. M. L.

Rai, and J. S. Prasad 186

Electrical and surface morphology of polyvinylchloride composites filled with aluminum

powder

Dolly Singh, Sangeeta Kishore, and N. L. Singh 188

Electrical properties of ethylene acrylic elastomer (AEM) loaded with conducting carbon

black

B. P. Sahoo, K. Naskar, and D. K. Tripathy 190

Analysis of toppling surfaces of stochastic sandpile models

Jahir A. Ahmed and S. B. Santra 192

Eco-friendly dyeing of cotton with indigo dye by electrochemical method

H. G. Prabu, K. Sarala, S. A. Babu, and K. U. Savitha 194

Free volume related fluorescence properties of electron irradiated chalcone dopedPMMA films

Ismayil V. Ravindrachary, R. F. Bhajantri, A. Harisha, and S. D. Pravccna 196

Crossover from rotational to stochastic sandpileHimangsu Bhaumik, Jahir A. Ahmed, and S. B. Santra 198

Equation of state for Mg2Si04 (a-forsterite, p-wadsleyite and y-ringwoodite): ab-initio

Seema Gupta and S. C. Goyal 200

SANS study of liquid-liquid phase transition in protein electrolyte solution

Akshay J. Chinchalikar, V. K. Aswal, J. Kohlbrecher, and A. G. Wagh 202

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Synthesis and dielectric studies of polyaniline-polyacrylamide conducting polymer

compositesA. K. Himanshu, S. K. Bandyopadhayay, Rajni Bahuguna, D. K. Ray, and T. P. Sinha 204

Growth, spectral and thermal studies of organic NLO crystals of DSAS by SNM

techniqueR. Gunaseelan, R. J. Vijay, G. Ramalingam, and P. Sagayaraj 206

Pressure tuning of Bragg diffraction in stimuli responsive microgel crystalsR. G. Joshi, B. V. R. Tata, and J. Brijitta 208

Electric modulus studies of low energy Ar9+ irradiated conducting polymer PANI-PVA

A. K. Himanshu, S. K. Bandyopadhyay, Pintu Sen, and T. P. Sinha 210

Structural investigations of polyurethane-urea/clay nanocompositesS. K. Rath, M. Patri, P. U. Sastry, A. K. Patra, and Devang V. Khakhar 212

Fractal aggregation in silica nanoparticle and surfactant composites

Sugam Kumar and V. K. Aswal 214

Surface enhanced fluorescence of tryptophan by silver-nano-particlesAjeetkumar Patil, Unnikrishnan V. K., and Santhosh Chidangil 216

White light generation in human saliva

C. Santhosh, A. K. Dharmadhikari, J. A. Dharmadhikari, Kamlesh Alti, and D. Mathur 218

A study of cross-linked regions of poly(vinyl alcohol) gels by small-angle neutron

scatteringMathias B. Lawrence, J. A. E. Desa, and V. K. Aswal 220

SANS Study of Protein Adsorption on NanoparticlesSugam Kumar, V. K. Aswal, and J. Kohlbrecher 222

Laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy of soft tissues of the oral cavity

Ajeetkumar Patil, Unnikrishnan V. K., Rodney Bernard, Keerthilatha M. Pai, Ravikiran

Ongole, V. B. Kartha, and Santhosh Chidangil 224

Objective diagnosis of cervical cancer by tissue protein profile analysis

Ajeetkumar Patil, Sujatha Bhat, Lavanya Rai, V. B. Kartha, and Santhosh Chidangil 226

Free volume size distribution in some natural polymersM. N. Chandrashekara and C. Ranganathaiah 228

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NANO-MATERIALS

Synthesis and characterization of LiMV04 cathode material produced by sol-gel methodD. Prakash, M. Jayachandran, and C. Sanjeeviraja 233

Fuel to oxidizer ratio effects on La203 nano particlesG. B. Reddy, K. Bikshalu, K. V. Rao, Y. Aparna, M. C. Shekar, and K. E. Prasad 235

Effect of energy deposition on nanoparticle formation in the process of wire explosionR. Das, B. K. Das, Rohit Shukla, Partha Banerjee, Surender Shrama, Pankaj Deb, T.

Prabaharan, Biswajit Adhikary, and Anurag Shyam 237

Magnetic studies of Co-doped ZnO nanoparticlesS. K. Bandyopadhyay, N. S. Singh, A. K. Himanshu, Keka R. Chakraborty, D. Das, P. K.

Mukhopadhyay, and Nagendra Mondal 239

Structural, electronic and optical properties of medium sized neutral and cationic Li„

cluster (n=2, 8 10 20, 30) by density functional theoryNeetu Goel, Seema Gautam, and Keya Dharamvir 241

Preparation and structural analysis of CdS nanoparticle embedded polyurethanenanocomposites

Ajay P. Indolia, Purushottam Kumar, and M. S. Gaur 243

Investigations on structural and optical properties of ZnS: Mn2+ nanoparticlesD. M. Krishna, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, R. Venugopal, and B. K. Reddy 245

Effect of chirality on phonon-drag thermopower in bilayer grapheneK. S. Bhargavi and S. S. Kubakaddi 247

Structural, dielectric, microstructural properties of Ni0.7Zn0.3Fe2.xAlxO4 ferrite

nanoparticles through citrate-gel method

Mohd Hashim, Alimuddin, Shalendra Kumar, Sikander Ali, and R. Kumar 249

Structural and phonon modes of multiferroic Bio.9Cao.1Feo.9Coo.1O3 nanoparticlesDinesh Varshney, Geeta Das, and Ashwini Kumar 251

Structural and magnetic properties of Mn and Zn doped Fe304 nanoparticlesDinesh Varshney, Kavita Verma, and A. Yogi 253

Dielectric behaviour of Nd3+ substituted nanocrystalline nickel ferrites

Tukaram J. Shinde, Ashok B. Gadkari, and Pramod N. Vasambekar 255

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Synthesis of nano-Zr02 by reactive plasma processingS. Jayakumar, T. K. Thiyagarajan, P. V. Ananthapadmanabhan, K. P. Sreekumar, K.

Perumal, S. C. Mishra, L. T. Su, and A. I. Y. Tok 257

Static structure factor of amorphous rutile nanoparticle: A molecular dynamics studyKulbir Kaur, Ranber Singh, Navdeep Goyal, P. Entel, and Satya Prakash 259

2-mercapto ethanol passivated Zni_,CrxS nanoparticlesD. A. Reddy, G. Murali, R. P. Vijayalakshmi, and B. K. Reddy 261

Role of rare earth ions on structural and optical properties of ZnO nanopowder: A case

ofCe3+

N. R. Panda and B. S. Acharya 263

Thiols as effective capping molecules to synthesize high-quality ZnO nanocrystalsR. M. Hodlur, M. K. Rabinal, H. H. Bendigeri, S. S. Banappanavar, and M. N. Kalasad 265

Temperature dependent photosensitivity of Cu doped CdS thin film

Richa Panda, Swati Pandya, Vandana Rathore, Manoj Rathore, Vilas Shelke, Nitu Badera,

Deepti Jain, L. S. Sharathchandra, M. Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 267

Effect of La3+ substitution on electric, dielectric and magnetic properties of cobalt nano-

ferrite

Pawan Kumar and M. Singh 269

Facile room temperature synthesis of electrically conducting Cul nanoparticlesBindu Sharma and M. K. Rabinal 271

Structural and magnetic characterization of BaFe^O^ nanoparticlesVinod N. Dhage, M. L. Mane, Sagar E. Shirsath, S. P. Jadhav, R. P. Gunjal, and K. M.

Jadhav 273

Synthesis of carbon nanotubes by CVD and spray pyrolysis and their characterization by

scattering techniquesJ. Bahadur, J. Prakash, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, and D. Sathiyamoorthy 275

Tuning of long range visible emissions using coupled quantum dots

Sucheta Sengupta, Nirmal Ganguli, I. Dasgupta, D. D. Sarma, and Somobrata Acharya 277

Doping effect on electronic and transport properties of graphene nanoribbons: An ab-

initio study

Satyendra S. Chauhan, Pankaj Srivastava, and Hushain J. Khan 279

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Chemical synthesis and characterization of lead sulphide (PbS) nanoparticlesSandip V. Bhatt, M. P. Deshpande, S. H. Chaki, Nikita H. Patcl, Nilesh Pandy, and BindiyaH. Soni 281

First-principles study of Cu doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Neeraj K. Jaiswal and Pankaj Srivastava 283

Highly emissive transition metal ion doped semiconducting nanocrystals

Santanu Jana, Bhupendra B. Srivastava, D. D. Sarma, and Narayan Pradhan 285

Processing and characterization of cobalt-zinc nano ferrite

Ritu Rani, Sangeeta Thakur, and M. Singh 287

Dye sensitized solar cells based on mesoporous titanate and titania nanoparticlesAdarsh Kaniyoor and S. Ramaprabhu 289

Hydrogenation in SWCNTs functionalized with borane

D. Silambarasan, V. Vasu, V. J. Surya, and K. Iyakutti 291

Interaction between alanine and single-walled carbon nanotube: A density functional

theory studyM. Rajarajeswari, K. Iyakutti, and Y. Kawazoe 293

The high pressure hydrogen storage study of functionalized graphite nanoplateletsB. P. Vinayan, K. Sethupathi, and S. Ramaprabhu 295

Ripples in graphene: A theoretical analysis using two dimensional vibrating membrane

model

V. J. Surya, K. Iyakutti, and K. Emelda 297

Density functional calculations of carrier induced ferromagnetism in Co doped Cd2NSe2N

nanocluster

Saurabh Ghosh, Biplab Sanyal, and G. P. Das 299

Synthesis and characterization of nano CoFe204 by low-temperature combustion

synthesis using different fuels

D. M. Jnaneshwara, R. G. Krishna, H. Nagabhushana, B. M. Nagabhushana, C.

Shivakumara, and R. P. S. Chakradhar 301

Self energy and density of screening charge of doped grapheneKavita N. Mishra, S. S. Z. Ashraf, and A. C. Sharma 303

Optical response of nanostructured Ag/Au And Au/Ag bilayer thin films deposited by ion

beam sputtering

Rajeeb Brahma and M. G. Krishna 305

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Ethanol sensor using undoped And Mn-doped CoFe204 nanoparticlesP. Indra Devi, N. Rajkumar, and K. Ramachandran 307

Dielectric behavior of bulk and nanocrystalline Zn-Mn ferrite

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

Dhawan, K. Asokan, V. K. Saxena, and K. B. Sharma 309

Effect of Cu-doping on nanocrystalline NiO thin films

Shweta Moghe, A. D. Acharya, Richa Panda, S. B. Shrivastava, Mohan Gangrade, and V.

Ganesan 311

Effect of heat treatment on morphology and optical properties of zinc oxide nanoparticledecorated multi-walled carbon nanotubes

Jaidev and S. Ramaprabhu 313

Zinc and carbonate Co-substituted nano-hydroxyapatiteE. K. Girija, G. S. Kumar, and A. Thamizhavel 315

Structural stability of GaAs nanocrystal

Anurag Srivastava, Neha Tyagi, and R. K. Singh 317

Quantum confined ZnO nanoparticles: Structural and optical studies

S. Dey, A. K. Mishra, D. Das, and S. Mukherjee 319

Solvent induced kinetic growth of shape controlled gold nanostructures

Abhitosh Kedia and P. S. Kumar 321

Effect of temperature on the structural properties of Mn substituted ZnO nanoparticlesV. D. Mote, V. R. Huse, Y. Purushotham, K. M. Jadhav, B. N. Dole, and S. S. Shah 323

Correlated barrier hopping in ZnO nanotubes

Soosen S. M., Jiji Koshy, Anoop Chandran, and K. C. George 325

Nano-titania photocatalyst loaded on W-MCM-41 support and its highly efficient

degradation of methylene blue

H. Shankar, R. Saravanan, V. Narayanan, and A. Stephen 327

Gaussian confinement of phonons in CdS nanoparticlesAnoop Chandran, Soosen S. M., Jiji Koshy, and K. C. George 329

Preparation and optical properties ZnO dumb-bell like microcrystalsAmitha Shetty and Karuna K. Nanda 331

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Humidity sensor based on nano structured ZnO thin films prepared by homemade

microprocessor controlled spray pyrolysis unit on Si

Chaitra V., K. S. Shamala, and V. Uma 333

Ultrasonic studies and microchannel flow behavior of copper oxide nanofluid

M. N. Rashin, J. Hemalatha, R. P. Nalini, and A. V. Ramya 335

Synthesis, charaterization and electrochemical sensing properties of PANI - cobalt dopeda-Fe203 nanocomposites

R. Suresh, L. Vijayalakshmi, A. Stephen, and V. Narayanan 337

Synthesis and characterization of silver-poIy(vinyl alcohol) nanocompositesSuman Mahendia, A. K. T mar, Rishi P. Chahal, and Shyam Kumar 339

Growth and characterization of hematite nanonails

H. Srivastava, P. Tiwari, A. K. Srivastava, S. K. Rai, and S. K. Deb 341

Ferroelectric studies on poly (vinylidene fluoride)/NiFe204 polymer nanocompositestructures

T. Prabhakaran and J. Hemalatha 343

Radiation fluence dependent variation in electrical conductivity of Cu nanowires

Devender Gehlawat, R. P. Chauhan, and R. G. Sonkawade 345

Ethanol sensitivity of Cuj.xSnjO (x=0.00, 0.03, and 0.05) nanoflakes

R. N. Mariammal and K. Ramachandran 347

Pyroelectric and thermal properties of PZT-PVA nanocompositesS. Uma and J. Philip 349

Preparation and magnetic studies on 10% Co-doped BiFe03 multiferroic nanoparticlesSamar Layek, Sujit Das, and H. C. Verma 351

Structural properties of nanocrystalline Nd3+ substituted nickel ferrites

Pramod N. Vasambekar, Tukaram J. Shinde, and Ashok B. Gadkari 353

Shape and size effects on magnetic behavior of nano-crystalline (La,Sr)(Mn,Fe)0perovskite systems

Usha Chandra, Pooja Sharma, Deepti Jain, and V. Ganesan 355

Plasma induced modification on spin-coated ZnO thin films

Rishi Vyas, Parul Gupta, Shubhra Mathur, K. Sachdev, and S. K. Sharma 357

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Role of sulfur as capping agent in controlling the particle size during the synthesis of

nano-crystalline CoS2

Pooja Sharma and Usha Chandra 359

Surface spin glass ordering and exchange bias in nanometric Smo.o9Ca0.91Mn03manganites.

S. K. Giri and T. K. Nath 361

Absorption-emission study of Zn/.^Al^O nanostructures

N. R. Yogamalar and A. C. Bose 363

Study of Ni-Zn ferrite prepared from citrate precursorV. D. Sudheesh, A. Vinesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 365

Structural characterization of ceria nanoparticlesR. Srinivasan and A. C. Bose 367

Visible luminescence from Au nanoparticles stabilized with aromatic thiols

Rani M. Pattabi and Manjunatha Pattabi 369

Direct synthesis of Fe-Pt nanoparticles in ordered face centered (fct) LI0 phase bymicrowave assisted route

S. A. Acharya, S. M. Khule, K. Singh, and S. S. Bhoga 371

Facile synthesis and characterization of p-Ga20( nanostructures via vapor transportmethod

R. Jangir, Tapas Ganguli, P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, S. K. Rai, A. K. Das, L. M. Kukreja,and S. M. Oak 373

One-step synthesis of white, orange and violet light emitting ZnO phosphorsGopal K. Goswami and Karuna K. Nanda 375

Chemical synthesis of nanocrystalline CuInS2Ashok K. Sharma, Dixit Prasher, and P. Rajaram 377

Synthesis Of CdSe@ZnS quantum dots via non-TOPO hydrothermal techniquesG. Ramalingam, J. Madhavan, R. J. Vijay, M. Vimalan, and P. Sagayaraj 379

HT-LiCo02 thin film positive electrodes prepared by RF magnetron sputteringP. J. Kumar, K. J. Babu, and O. M. Hussain 381

Magnetic, electronic and magneto-transport studies of ferromagnetic insulatingunderdoped Pr0.8Sro.2Mn03 manganite on nanometric grain size modulation

P. T. Das, A. Taraphder, and T. K. Nath 383

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Pure and strontium doped nano hydroxyapatite: New approach for bone implant and

drug delivery systemKashmira P. Tank, Sonal R. Vasant, Kiran S. Chudasama, Vrinda S. Thaker, and Mihir J.

Joshi 385

Ni+7 ion beam effect on Ag doped ZnS nanocrystals embedded in PMMA matrix

Shweta Agrawal, Balram Tripathi, Sumit Kumar, Vipin Jain, Subodh Srivastava, and Y. K.

Vijay 387

Synthesis, structural and magnetization studies of nanocrystalline Cu1.,ZnxFe204P. K. Sharma, Arun S. Prasad, Arvind Samaria, M. S. Dhawan, S. N. Dolia, R. K. Singhal,and Sudhish Kumar 389

Energy efficient and size tunable synthesis of 'colloidal' zinc oxide nanoparticles by

simple beaker chemistryAjay Kushwaha, Vijay Singh, and M. Aslam 391

Investigation of copper telluride nanowires synthesized by electrochemical method

Suresh Kumar, Virender Kundu, Anil Vohra, and S. K. Chakarvarti 393

Magnetic properties of nickel nanostructures grown by nanosphere lithographytechnique

S. Akshay, N. N. Kaushik, K. Naresh, Shounak De, and V. H. S. Moorthy 395

Deposition and characterization of nanocrystalline silver thin films by using SILARmethod

A. B. Rohom and S. D. Sartale 397

Size dependent antioxidant activity of polypyrrole nanoflbers

A. Kumar and Somik Banerjee 399

Chemical synthesis of nanocrystalline ceria

S. M. Yadav and S. D. Sartale 401

Dynamics of fluid in a nanotube

Reena Devi, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar 403

Combined small-angle neutron and x-ray scattering studies of block copolymer-mediatedgold nanoparticles

Debes Ray and V. K. Aswal 405

Effect of particle shape and interfacial layer in thermal conductivity and viscosity of

nanofluids

Gaganpreet and Sunita Srivastava 407

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Effect of Al3+-Cr3+ substitution on structural, cation distribution and magnetic propertiesof MgFe204 prepared by chemical co-precipitation method

S. P. Jadhav, J. B. Mote, V. N. Dhage, M. L. Mane, and N. D. Shinde 409

Investigation on zinc sulphide nanoparticles in dye sensitized solar cell

M. Ragam, N. Sankar, and K. Ramachandran 411

Particle-size effect on the compressibility of nanocrystalline germaniumTushar C. Pandya, Aasim I. Shaikh, and Apoorva D. Bhatt 413

Preparation of new reducing agent for the synthesis of silver nanoparticlesP. Manivel, K. Sivashanmugan, C. Viswanathan, and D. Mangalaraj 415

Synthesis of porous Cuprous Oxide (Cu20) on Cu foil

Satish L. Shinde and Karuna K. Nanda 417

PVA stabilized gold nanoparticles using ascorbic acid as a reducing agentHimanshu Tyagi, Ajay Kushwaha, Anshuman Kumar, and M. Aslam 419

Thermoluminescence characteristics of nanocrystalline LiF phosphors synthesized at

different pH values

A. K. Sharma, R. Dogra, Shalendra Kumar, S. K. Mishra, S. P. Lochab, and Ravi Kumar 421

Mossbauer studies of local environments of 57Fe in iron oxide particles dispersed Fematrix

L. H. Singh, R. Govindaraj, P. A. M. Kumar, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 423

Tunable optical limiting action due to non-linear absorption in ZnO/Ag nanocompositesS. Radhu, C. Vijayan, Suchand Sandeep, and Reji Philip 425

Magnetisation studies on nickel nano particlesA. T. Satya, T. Gnanasekaran, and A. Bharathi 427

Thermoelectric properties of nano structured CrSi2_iAli

P. Suresh and A. M. Umarji 429

Morphology dependent photocatalytic properties of ZnO nanostructures

K. S. Ranjith and R. T. R. Kumar 431

Effect of exchange-correlations and temperature on plasmons in nano-scale gold wire

Renu Bala, R. K. Moudgil, Sunita Srivastava, and K. N. Pathak 433

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Fourier-transform infrared absorption study of the nanocluster carbon thin films grown

using Cathodic Arc process

Shounak De, B. S. Satyanarayana, Shailesh Sharma, and Mohan R. K. 435

Ferrite nanoparticles in pharmacological modulation of angiogenesisApama Deshmukh, S. Radha, Y. Khan, and Priya Tilak 437

Nanocrystalline BaS04:Eu for dosimetry of proton beams

Shaila Bahl, S. P. Lochab, Anant Pandey, Pratik Kumar, V. E. Aleynikov, and A.

Molokanov 439

Hyperfine and magnetic properties of nanosized Nio.5Zno.5Fe204 synthesized by high-

energy ball millingS. Mukherjee, S. Dey, B. Ghosh, S. Kuamr, A. Poddar, and C. Mazumdcr 441

Tuning the properties of quantum dots via the effective mass

R. A. Singh, Abhinav Sinha, and Praveen Pathak 443

EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES

Study of compact penning ion source for material studies

B. K. Das, R. Das, and A. Shyam 447

Elucidation of equivalent current dipole from magnetocardiography (MCG)measurements

N. Mariyappa, M. P. Janawadkar, T. S. Radhakrishnan, C. S. Sundar, S. Scngottuvcl, K.

Gireesan, C. Parasakthi, and Rajesh Patel 449

Time resolved radiation pyrometer for transient temperature measurement

Amit S. Rav, A. K. Saxena, K. D. Joshi, T. C. Kaushik, and Satish C. Gupta 451

An automated home made low cost vibrating sample magnetometerS. Kundu and T. K. Nath 453

Neutron induced beta radiographyA. M. Shaikh and D. Shylaja 455

Predicting the performance parameters of In2S3/MEH-PPV heterojunction using

photoluminescence techniqueN. Poornima, M. R. R. Menon, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 457

Tetrahydroquinoxaline based small molecule: PCBM bulk heterojunction solar cell

S. S. Sharma, G. D. Sharma, Subodh, Sarla Sharma, and Y. K. Vijay 459

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EDM machine modified for micro drilling in DAC experiments

Dayana Lonappan, N. V. C. Shekar, L. M. Sundaram, T. Edwin, and P. Ch Sahu 461

Development of high Tc superconducting quantum interference devices

L. S. Vaidhyanathan, D. K. Baisnab, and M. P. Janawadkar 463

Hydrodynamic interaction in binary polymer blends measured experimentally from

ortho positronium lifetime

P. Ramya, J. M. Raj, and C. Ranganathaiah 465

Numerical simulations of an electromagnetic coilgun for impact and fracture studies

S. Madhavan, C. D. Sijoy, S. Pahari, and S. Chaturvedi 467

Measurement of thermal diffusion in coatings and films by traveling thermal wave

techniqueM. V. Manjusha and J. Philip 469

Microfocused X-rays beams using compound refractive lenses: Possibilities for Indus-2

M. K. Tiwari and G. S. Lodha 471

Illumination intensity dependent behavior of ZnO-P3HT based hybrid photovoltaicdevices

Monika Mall and Lokendra Kumar 473

Trace element analysis using laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique

V. K. Unnikrishnan, K. Mridul, Rajesh Nayak, Kamlesh Alti, V. B. Karma, C. Santhosh,

and B. M. Suri 475

Photoluminescence studies on NaBi(W04)2 single crystals at low temperaturesM. Tyagi, S. G. Singh, A. K. Chauhan, S. C. Gadkari, and V. K. Handu 477

Shallow etching of GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures in context of HEMT fabrication

Ch. R. Kumar and G. Rajaram 479

Performance of indigenously developed CsI(Tl)-photodiode detector for gamma-ray

spectroscopy

S. G. Singh, Arvind Singh, Anita Topkar, and S. C. Gadkari 481

Development of an electromagnetic acceleration facility for impact and fracture studies

at high strain rates

S. Pahari, I. V. V. Suryaprasad, N. Shiv, S. Madhavan, C. D. Sijoy, and S. Chaturvedi 483

X-ray diffraction analysis of defects in cold worked type 316 stainless steel

S. Murugesan, P. Kuppusami, E. Mohandas, and M. Vijayalakshmi 485

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Design and development of a D.C. magnetron sputtering system for thin film and

multilayer depositionDebarati Bhattacharya, A. Biswas, K. G. Bhushan, M. Swain, and S. Basu 487

Performance of BF3 filled position sensitive neutron detector

Shraddha S. Desai, Shylaja Devan, and P. S. R. Krishna 489

120 MeV Ag9+ ions induced ionoluminescence of SrS:Ce

Ankush Vij, Ravi Kumar, Fouran Singh, and Nafa Singh 491

Design optimization for cold crucible induction melter

Jyoti Jha, Archana Sharma, and R. K. Gupta 493

PC based pulsed field hysteresis loop tracer

S. D. Likhite, Prachi Likhite, and S. Radha 495

Photon detector for inverse photoemission spectroscopy with improved energy resolution

M. Maniraj, S. W. D'Souza, and S. R. Barman 497

Setting up of a low temperature in-situ ion implantation and channeling facility at

KalpakkamB. Sundaravel, K. Saravanan, B. K. Panigrahi, and K. G. M. Nair 499

Neutron coherent scattering length determination with a dual non-dispersive sampleSohrab Abbas, Apoorva G. Wagh, R. Loidl, H. Lemmel, and H. Rauch 501

Commissioning of angle dispersive x-ray diffraction beamline on Indus-2

A.K. Sinha, Archna Sagdeo, Pooja Gupta, Ashok Kumar, M. N. Singh, R. K. Gupta, S. R.

Kane, and S. K. Deb 503

LIQUIDS, GLASSES AND AMORPHOUS SYSTEMS

Stacking faults in cotton fibers

S. Divakara, A. R. Niranjana, G. N. Siddaraju, and R. Somashekar 507

Non-Debye specific heat of (NH4),Rbi.iBrP.S. Goyal, Swati Pandya, P. D. Babu, R. Rawat, and V. Ganesan 509

Structural properties of some semiconductor liquid metals using charged hard spherereference system

Y. A. Sonvane, P. B. Thakor, Sandhya Kanawade, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 511

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Effect Of Sb incorporation on the dark and photoconductivity of thin films of Se75In25

glassy alloyS. Shukla and S. Kumar 513

Quantification of changes in mulberry silk fabrics due to different laundering: Using

WAXS techniqueP. Parameswara, S. Nivedita, and R. Somashekar 515

Molecular association between n-methylacetamide and dimethylsulphoxide usingdielectric relaxation measurements in the microwave region

Raman Kumar and V. S. Rangra 517

Mixed glass former effect in silver molybdophosphate and borophosphate glassesB. Deb, S. Kabi, and A. Ghosh 519

Monte-Carlo structure factor (MCSQ) calculation for liquid structure ofH-bonded

molecular liquidsA. K. Sahoo and R. N. Joarder 521

Frequency and temperature dependence of conductivity studies of new silver-calcia-

borate glass system.Ranveer Kumar, Harsha Dehariya, and Anji R. Polu 523

Collective modes and elastic constants of Cu5oZr5o glassB. Y. Thakore, S.G. Khambholja, P. H. Suthar, N. K. Bhatt, and A. R. Jani 525

Ultra small-angle neutron scattering study of porous glassReshma R. Desai, J. A. E. Desa, D. Sen, and S. Mazumder 527

Optical properties of Pb0-ZnO-P2O5 glasses doped with samarium and neodymium.Lakshmikantha R., Rajaramakrishna R., R. V. Anavekar, and N. H. Ayachit 529

Emission properties of Eu3+ doped different chlorophosphate glassesK. V. Rao, M. Seshadri, and Y. C. Ratnakaram 531

Ionic conductivity and structural relaxation studies on lithium niobophosphate glassPrashant Dabas and K. Hariharan 533

Electrical transport in superionic thin films prepared by pulsed laser depositionNeha Gupta, Anshuman Dalvi, D. M. Phase, and A. M. Awasthi 535

Structural and thermal properties of PVA and its composite with CuCl2

G. Krishna Bama, P. Indra Devi, and K. Ramachandran 537

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Estimation of the activation energy for the non-isothermal crystallization in amorphousSe7oTei5ln15 alloy using iso-conversional methods

Balbir Singh Patial, Nagesh Thakur, and S. K. Tripathi 539

Structural investigation of Li20-Bi203-B203 glassesVirender Kundu, R. L. Dhiman, A. S. Maan, and D. R. Goyal 541

Effect of Ar+ ion implantation on electrical conductivity of polycarbonate

P. K. Goyal, V. Kumar, Renu Gupta, S. Kumar, P. Kumar, and D. Kanjilal 543

Optical properties of alkaline earth ions doped bismuth borate glassesVirender Kundu, R. L. Dhiman, A. S. Maan, and D. R. Goyal 545

Optical properties of Eu3+ doped lead borate tellurite and zinc borate tellurite glassesShigihalli N. B., Rajaramakrishna R., and R. V. Anavekar 547

First-principles investigations of liquid Sb

Ashok K. Verma and P. Modak 549

Study of relaxation dynamics in mixed iodide doped silver-vanado-borate superionic

glass systemPoonam Sharma, D. K. Kanchan, Meenakshi Pant, Nirali Gondaliya, and Manish S.

Jayswal 551

Thermal stability and other properties of a Ni-Cr based metallic glassP. R. Rao, A. K. Bhatnagar, Ravinder R. K, and Venkateswara R. M. 553

Chalcogenide glass photoresists for grayscale patterningPrabhat K. Dwivedi, Satinder K. Sharma, Amritha Rammohan, and Ashutosh Sharma 555

Spectroscopic studies on Eu3+ doped boro-tellurite glassesK. Selvaraju and K. Marimuthu 557

EPR study of vanadium ion in zinc-boro-vanadate glassesC. Renuka, V. C. V. Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. N. Reddy 559

Study of characterization of pure and malachite green doped samples using spectroscopicstudies

Jyoti Mishra, Pankaj K. Mishra, and P. K. Khare 561

Thermal physical, and infrared spectroscopic studies on glasses prepared by microwave

route

N. Jagadeesha, V. C. V. Gowda, R. P. S. Chakradhar, and C. N. Reddy 563

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Microstructural parameters of 8 MeV electron irradiated poly (vinyl alcohol) polymerfilms

Sangappa, S. Asha, Ganesh Sanjeev, and R. Somashekar 565

Binary structures and resistivity of liquid ZnSb alloysManjul Kumar, Mitesh Joshi, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 567

Preparation and characterization of niobium doped lead-telluride glass ceramics

M. Sathish, B. Eraiah, and R. V. Anavekar 569

Effect of swift heavy ion irradiation on lithium zinc silicate glasses: A photoluminescencestudy

M. S. Jogad, R. M. Jogad, V. Sudarsan, P. S. R. Krishna, and G. P. Kothiyal 571

Collective dynamics of liquid potassium near melting pointIshu Goyal, Jyoti Sood, Sunita Srivastava, and K. Tankeshwar 573

Structural and optical behaviour of Ar+ implanted polycarbonateNidhi Shekhawat, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Annu Sharma, S. K. Deshpande, and K. G. M. Nair 575

Optical and electrical properties of Ar+ implanted PET

Rajiv Kumar, Nidhi Shekhawat, Annu Sharma, Sanjeev Aggarwal, Praveen Kumar, and D.

Kanjilal 577

Trap limited charge transport in GexSe8o_xPb2o films

Kamal Kumar, L. P. Purohit, R. Kumar, and R. M. Mehra 579

Structural and optical studies on Dy3+ doped boro-tellurite glassesK. Maheshvaran and K. Marimuthu 581

Dynamical properties of plasticizer in polyvinyl acetate

S. Gautam, F. Alvarez, A. Arbe, M. Tyagi, B. Frick, and J. Colmenero 583

SURFACES, INTERFACES AND THIN FILMS

Electrical conduction in solution grown thin films of tetrasulfurtetranitride (S4N4)H. K. Sharma and Himanshu Sharma 587

Structural, electrical and optical properties of gallium doped zinc oxide thin films

prepared by electron beam evaporation techniqueS Nagarani and C. Sanjeeviraja 589

Surface segregation of substrate metal on film surface

Y. Aparna, K. V. Rao, and G. B. Reddy 591

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Structural & transport properties of nanostructured NdojCaojMnO} thin films

Jessica R. Chocha, Pooja A. Chhclavda, V. Gancsan, and J. A. Bhalodia 593

Bandgap modulation in ZnO through doping by sol-gel method

Amanpal Singh, Kiran Walia, Dincsh Kumar, P.K. Khanna, Anuj Kumar, and Mukesh

Kumar 595

CuInI.xAlxSe2 thin films grown by electrodepositionDixit Prashcr, Ranjana Sharma, Ashok K. Sharma, and P. Rajaram 597

Transport properties of Fe3_.vTiv04 (x = 0.0 and 0.0206) epitaxial thin films

Dinesh Varshney, Arvind Yogi, K. Vcrma, and D. M. Phase 599

Conduction mechanisms in vacuum deposited p-ZnTe/n-Si heterojunction diodes

Gowrish R. K, Kasturi V. Bangera, and G. K. Shivakumar 601

Study of photo-conductivity in nano-crystalline cadmium telluride thin films

M.G. Mahesha, Kasturi V. Bangera, and G. K. Shivakumar 603

Optical properties of silver particulate films on modified polymer substrates

Gurumurthy S C, Manjunatha Pattabi, and Ganesh Sanjeeva 605

Effective dielectric function of AuNPs-ZnO composite thin films from Bergmanformalism

Anuradha Patra and S. Kasiviswanathan 607

Structure and optical properties of RF-Sputtered Mn - ZnO nanocrystalline thin filmsVenkaiah M. and R. Singh 609

Magnetic nano anisotropy by ion irradiation

S. Bhattacharjee, P. Karmakar, A. K. Sinha, and A. Chakrabarti 611

Electronic structure studies of 200MeV Ag+ls swift heavy ion irradiated Sn02 thin films

using x-ray absorption spectroscopyHardeep Thakur, Ravi Kumar, Kuldecp K. Sharma, and Pardecp Thakur 613

Organic thin film magnet of nickel-tetracyanoethylenePramod Bhatt and S. M. Yusuf 615

Effect of complexing agent on the properties of ZnSe thin films

Charita Mehta, Jasim M. Abbas, G.S.S. Saini, and S. K. Tripathi 61"

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Small molecule thin film solar cells with active layers composed of copper phthalocyanine

(CuPc) and fullerene (C70)

Dhananjaya Kekuda, Mohan R. K, Amita Tolpadi, Rajendra B.V., and C.W. Chu 619

On the suitability of dispersion models for the optical dispersion of poly(ethyl

methacrylate)

Kallol Das, Sheetal Mehta, and Shruti Patankar 621

Effect of in additive in the density of defect states in a-Se85Tei5 & a-Se75Te25 thin films

N. Sharma, S. Shukla, S. P. Singh, and S. Kumar 623

Compositional and morphological study of Sb doped PbTe

Ashoka Bali and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 625

Effect of Ag surfactant on Cu/Co multilayers deposited by RF-ion beam sputteringS. M. Amir, M. Gupta, A. Gupta, and A. Wildes 627

Dimer induced reconstruction and metallicity of Ge(OOl) surface: ab-initio SIESTA studyAshok K. Kaushal, Jagdish Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 629

Argon dilution as an alternative to hydrogen dilution for the preparation of large area

device quality amorphous silicon

Animesh Layek, Somnath Middya, and Partha P. Ray 631

Electrical switching studies on amorphous Ge-Te-Sn thin films

Chandasree Das, M.G. Mahesha, G. M. Rao, and S. Asokan 633

Growth and annealing influence on structural and optical properties of nanostructured

ZIO thin films

Vipin K. Jain, Praveen Kumar, Praveen Jain, S. Srivastava, and Y. K. Vijay 635

Influence of oxygen content in oriented LaCo03.6 thin films: Probed by x-ray diffraction

and Raman spectroscopy

D. K. Mishra, Anju Ahlawat, and V. G. Sathe 637

Structural and optical properties of e-beam evaporated MX, thin films

K. D. Patel, Mayur Patel, Keyur S. Hingarajiya, V. M. Pathak, and R. Srivastava 639

LiNiiC0i.iO2 cell grown by pulsed laser depositionM. C. Rao, K. Ravindranadh, Sk. M. Begum, and G. Nirmala 641

Emission from localized states in Co doped BaTi03 fdms

Kamakhya P. Misra, R. K. Shukla, and Anchal Srivastava 643

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Surface morphology and dielectric studies of Zr4+-rich barium titanate

Raghavendra Sagar, Shivanand Madolappa, and R. L. Raibagkar 645

SHI induced modifications in CdS/CuInSe2 thin film: XRD analysisRajesh A. Joshi, Vidya S. Taur, Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 647

Spin-resolved pair-correlation functions ofthe two-dimensional electron gas at arbitraryspin polarization

Krishan Kumar and R. K. Moudgil 649

Sputtering of CaF2 thin films

Ratnesh K. Pandey, Saif A. Khan, D. K. Avasthi, and Avinash C. Pandcy 651

Engineering of wet chemically grown nanostructured zinc oxide thin film by highelectronic excitation

Ravikiran B. Birajadar, Arindam A. Ghosh, Rajesh A. Joshi, Vidya S. Taur, S. U. Shaikh,Anil V. Ghule, and Ramphal Sharma 653

Discharge characteristics of low molecular weight solid polymer electrolyteP. Naveen Kumar, U. Sasikala, P. C. Sekhar, V. B. S. Achari, V. V. R. N. Rao, and A. K.

Sharma 655

Investigation of Cd-doped and undoped ZnO thin films

A. D. Acharya, Shweta Moghe, Richa Panda, S. B. Shrivastava, Mohan Gangradc, and V.

Ganesan 657

Study of trapping density in electrical characteristics of CdTe thin films

Kamlesh Chandekar, Ashavani Kumar, and Sukhvir Singh 659

Study of interfacial modification in Fe/Ag multilayer with thermal annealing using X ray

standing wave

Gagan Sharma, Ranjeeta Gupta, and Ajay Gupta 661

Self diffusion of Fe in CoFeB thin film

Ranjeeta Gupta, Mukul Gupta, Ajay Gupta, and A. Wildes 663

Qualitative estimation of Si-rich a-SiN„:H thin film composition by soft X-ray reflectivityanalysis

Sarab Preet Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and P. Srivastava 665

Si-rich a-SiN,:H thin film a prospective material for EUV lithography: An opticalresponse near Si L^-edge

Sarab Preet Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, and P. Srivastava 667

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M0O3 Film counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cell

M. Kovendhan, D. P. Joseph, P. Manimuthu, S. Ganesan, P. Maruthamuthu, S. Austin

Suthanthiraraj, C. Venkateswaran, and R. Mohan 669

Treatment ofscattering in nano-films

V. K. Lamba, R. S. Sawhney, and D. Engles 671

Improvement of device parameters of CuInS2/In2S3 junction deposited using automated

spray machine

M. V. Santhosh, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 673

HRXRD study of epitaxial GaN films grown on ZnO buffer layers by magnetron

sputteringP. Mohanta, D. Singh, R. Kumar, T. Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 675

Preparation and characterization of nanocrystalline soft magnetic FeATN thin films

Rachana Gupta, Ranjeeta Gupta, Mukul Gupta, and Ajay Gupta 677

Improved H2S and Cl2 sensing characteristics of pure and Au incorporated W03 thin

films

Niranjan S. Ramgir, S. K. Ganapathi, M. Kaur, S. Mishra, N. Datta, D. K. Aswal, S. K.

Gupta, and J. V. Yakhmi 679

Effect of Al doping on the properties of ZnO thin films grown by spray pyrolysisVikas Thakur, Urvashi Verma, U. P. Verma, and P. Rajaram 681

Spray pyrolysed Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cell using cadmium free buffer layerV. G. Rajeshmon, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 683

Hydrogenation effect on Mg/Mn multilayer thin films

M. K. Jangid, S. P. Nehra, and M. Singh 685

Growth optimization of zinc phthalocyanine thin films for high performance thin film

transistor

Sarita Yadav and Subhasis Ghosh 687

Structural and transport studies of Co thin film on nano rippled Si (100) substrates

Sarathlal K. V, Dileep Kumar, and Ajay Gupta 689

Desorption of Ag from grain boundaries in Ag film on Br- and H-passivated Si(lll)surfaces

Anupam Roy, B. Sundaravel, R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, and B. N. Dev 691

Surface relaxation and electronic states of Pt(lll) surface with varying slab thickness

Ashok K. Kaushal, Shanta Mullick, and P. K. Ahluwalia 693

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Optical properties of subsurface silver particulate films on MPTMS doped polystyrenesubstrates

Manjunatha Pattabi, N.D. Naik, and S. C. Gurumurthy 695

X-ray absorption study of epitaxial LaNi03 thin films

Yogesh Kumar, Abhinav P. Singh, P. Thakur, and Ravi Kumar 697

Synthesis and characterization of nanocrystalline CdZnS thin films

Urvashi Verma, Vikas Thakur, Preeti Yadav, and A. K. Shrivastava 699

Effect of soft x-ray/VUV illumination on soft matter thin film

S. R. Naik, M. H. Modi, P. Pandit, G. S. Lodha, and A. Gupta 701

Huge anisotropic magnetoresistance in epitaxial Sm(l.5.,Sr,).47Mn03 thin films

M. K. Srivastava, A. Kaur, and H. K. Singh 703

Recrystallization, grain growth in copper foil at high temperature studied by electron

back scatter diffraction

P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, Sanjay Rai, and S. K. Deb 705

Preparation and characterization of spray pyrolysed ZnS thin films and the effect of

chlorine dopingAnjaly Jose, V. G. Rajeshmon, N. Poornima, C. S. Kartha, and K. P. Vijayakumar 707

Effect of oxygen/argon flow ratio on the optical properties of RF sputtered a-CalnZnO

thin film

Anup Thakur, Se-Jun Kang, Jae Y. Baik, Ik-Jae Lee, Han-Koo Lee, Jachun Park, and

Hyun-Joon Shin 709

Structure of photodiffused Ge-Sb-Te:Ag amorphous film

Sandeep Kumar, Digvijay Singh, and R. Thangaraj 711

Polyaniline/ZnO heterojunction

Bhupendra K. Sharma, Babu Banothu, and Neeraj Khare 713

Study of micro roughness parameters and growth characteristics of NbC/Si multilayer

using layer by layer power spectral density analysisMohammed H. Modi, G. S. Lodha, M. Thomasset, and Mourad Idir 715

Effect of annealing on undoped and Al- doped zinc-oxide thin films prepared by sol-gelmethod

Priyanka U. Londhe and N. B. Chaure 717

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Adhesion characteristics of Pd/Ge Ohmic contacts on GaAs/AlGaAs multilayerstructures

T. S. Abhilash, Ch. R. Kumar, and G. Rajaram 719

Surfactant mediated growth of T/Ni multilayersM. Gupta, S. M. Amir, A. Gupta, S. P. Tiwari, and J. Stahn 721

Resonant photoemission of Fe doped Ti02 thin films using Indus-1 synchrotron source

Komal Bapna, D. M. Phase, A. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary 723

Fabrication and electrical properties of transparent «-ZnO:Al-p-NiO:Li junctionJaydip Mistry, B. V. Mistry, U. N. Trivedi, R. Pinto, and U. S. Joshi 725

Nano pattern on n-Si (100) surface by ion irradiation

Tanuj Kumar, S. A. Khan, U. B. Singh, S. Verma, and D. Kanjilal 727

Surface morphological studies on cupric oxide thin films

T. Mahalingam, V. Dhanasekaran, G. Ravi, M. S. Vidhya, T. Sasikumar, and P. Joycee 729

Growth of zinc oxide by annealing zinc thin film on different substrates

P. Tiwari, H. Srivastava, Nikita Mokhriwale, Sanjay Rai, A. K. Srivastava, and S. K. Deb 731

Anisotropic behavior of electron-phonon coupling in Fe304 thin films

Ridhi Master, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase 733

Simulation of optical funneling in coaxial Y junctions in a photonic crystalG. Rajaram and Yashaswini V 735

X-ray standing wave in a multi-trilayer system with linearly varying periodSumalay Roy and B. N. Dev 737

Simulation of a coupled system consisting of a defect bend and a cavity in photoniccrystal

Yashaswini V and G. Rajaram 739

Self-organized growth of cobalt nanostructures on Ag/Si (lll)-7><7 surfaces

R. Batabyal, J. C. Mahato, A. Roy, and B. N. Dev 741

MOKE study of Fe/Co/Al multilayersSnehal Jani, Parasmani Rajput, M. Zajac, R. Ruffer, N. Lakshmi, V. R. Reddy, K.

Venugopalan, and Ajay Gupta 743

Interdiffusion in W/Si multilayers with boron carbide interlayersSatish Potdar, M. Gupta, A. Gupta, M. Schneider, and J. Stahn 745

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Growth and characterization of ZnO/Fe304 bilayer structure on c-A1203 substrate

D. M. Phase, Ridhi Master, A. D. Wadikar, and R. J. Choudhary 747

100 MeV Ag ion irradiation induced structural and optical modifications in PLD grown

tin oxide thin films

Vijay Kumar, R.S. Chauhan, D.C. Agarwal, R.J. Chaudhary, Deepti Pratap, P.K. Kulariya,and D.K. Avasthi 749

Raman, magnetic and electrical properties of sprayed Zni_xMn,0 films

L. R. Reddy, N. Revathi, P. Prathap, and K. T. R. Reddy 751

Study on Co/Pt multilayer with isothermal annealingS. Kavita and Ajay Gupta 753

Ellipsometric studies on silver selenide thin films

M. Pandiaraman, C. Kumar, N. Soundararajan, and R. Ganesan 755

Study of steady state conduction of pure and malachite green doped polyvinyl carbazole

samples

Pankaj K. Mishra, Jyoti Mishra, and P. K. Khare 757

Effect of Cr-doping on optical properties of ZnTe thin films

Dinesh C. Sharma, Garima, Subodh Srivastava, Y. K. Vijay, and Y. K. Sharma 759

Soliton scattering by an interface of gallium nanoparticles and monomode optical fiber

Preeti Naruka, Shivangi Bissa, Radha Mathur, and A. K. Nagar 761

Structural and magnetic properties of electrodeposited Co-Ni-P alloy thin films

M. Raja, K. Sundaram, V. Dhanasekaran, Soonil Lee, Han-jo Lim, and T. Mahalingam 763

Study of structural and gas sensing properties of tantalum coated polyaniline compositethin films

Subodh Srivastava, Sumit Kumar, Shweta Agrawal, S. S. Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, ArpitaSaxena, B. L. Choudhary, Shubhra Mathur, and Y. K. Vijay 765

Modulation on Ni2MnGa(001) surface

S. W. D'Souza, Abhishek Rai, J. Nayak, M. Maniraj, R. S. Dhaka, S. R. Barman, D. L.

Schlagel, and T. A. Lograsso 767

Nano-mechanical property studies of Tii_xAlxN thin films

Feby Jose, Srinivasu Kunuku, R. Ramaseshan, S. Dash, and A. K. Tyagi 769

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Investigations on the surface properties of 4-Methoxy N-Methyl 4-stilbazolium tosylate

single crystalAmirdha S. Gill and S. Kalainathan 771

Flat band barrier height of In-pSi Schottky diode

B. P. Modi and K. D. Patel 773

Influence of pH on corrosion protection performance of mild steel by poly(o-anisidine)

coatingsM. G. Wankhede and Rajni Bahuguna

775

Optical properties change in Te/As2S3 bilayer thin films

Ramakanta Naik, C. Kumar, H. Reddy, R. Ganesan, and K. S. Sangunni 777

Two-dimensional plasmon in a metallic surface-state band on Si(lll)-(V3xV3)-Ag:

Confinement effects

Nisha Bhukal and R. K. Moudgil779

Current density effects on the structural and magnetic properties of CoNiFe alloy thin

films

K. Sundaram, V. Dhanasekaran, T. Mahalingam, M. Raja, Takeyu Kim, and Deak Kim 781

Investigation of the influence of buffer layer on the interface roughness of NbC/Si

multilayer.

Arijeet Das, S. K. Rai, A. K. Srivastava, R. Dhawan, G. S. Lodha, and S. K. Deb 783

Refractive index of Ge nanocrystals embedded in a GeOx matrix

K. Vijayarangamuthu, Chaman Singh, and Shyama Rath 785

Structural and electrical studies of Cdi.jZnxTe thin film by vacuum evaporation

techniqueD. K. Dwivedi, Dayashankar, M. Dubey, and H. P. Pathak 787

Fe/Au multilayers: Structure and magnetoresistanceSurendra Singh, S. Basu, C. L. Prajapat, M. Gupta, and Debarati Bhattacharya 789

Frictional measurements of glow discharge grown DLC films using LFM

Pratima Singh, Gayatri Tripathi, and R. S. Yadav 791

Microstructural studies of epitaxial ZnO films deposited on sapphire by reactive RF

magnetron sputteringD. Singh, R. Kumar, T. Ganguli, R. S. Srinivasa, and S. S. Major 793

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