SOLID STATE PHYSICS

Proceedings of the 56th DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2011

SRM University, Kaffonkulathur, Tamilnadu, India 19-23 December 2011

PART TWO

EDITORS

R. Mittal

A. K. Chauhan

R. Mukhopadhyay

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

All papers have been peer reviewed.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences

Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

AIPAmerican institute

Melville, New York, 2012of Physics AIP I CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 1447

PART TWO

ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND PHONONS

Radiation induced changes in electronic and dielectric properties of polyoxymethyleneH. R. Sreepad, H. R. Ravi, Khaleel Ahmed, and Umesh V. Waghmare 793

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First-principles study of structure and properties of the cyclic pentamer of formaldehydeH. R. Sreepad, H. R. Ravi, K.P. S.S. Hembram, and Umesh V. Waghmare 795

Determination of energy bands in solids using unitary representation of Su(l,l) lie algebraSubha Gaurab Roy, Nirmal Kumar Sarkar, and Ramendu Bhattacharjee 797

Structural electronic and phonon properties of some transition metal aluminides

Bushra Fatima, Premlata Pandit, and Sankar P. Sanyal 799

Phonon dynamics of neptunium chalcogenidesMahcndra Aynyas, Aditi Rukmangad, Balwant S. Arya, and Sankar P. Sanyal 801

On dynamic and elastic stability of group IIIB metal carbides: Ab-initio calculations

B. D. Sahoo, D. Mukherjee, K. D. Joshi, and Satish C. Gupta 803

Ab-initio study of co-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Necraj K. Jaiswal and Pankaj Srivastava 805

Electronic structure of a superconducting boride, ZrBI2

Sangeeta Thakur, Deep Narayan Biswas, Nishaina Sahadev, Geetha Balakrishnan, and Kalobaran

Maiti 807

Theoretical study of electronic and elastic properties of Li(Mg, Zn)N alloyM. Rajagopalan, S. Ramasubramanian, and J. Kumar 809

Electronic structure of HoB4: A photoelectron spectroscopic studyKalobaran Maiti, Deep Narayan Biswas, Nishaina Sahadev, Ganesh Adhikary, and Geetha

Balakrishnan 811

Anharmonicity of Raman modes of Bi12SiO20Nilesh P. Salke and Rekha Rao 813

Influence ofA- site doping on structural properties of Bi0.95Pro.o5Fe03 multiferroics

Dinesh Varshncy, Poorva Sharma, and Ashwini Kumar 815

Inelastic neutron scattering measurements and lattice dynamics of ZnS|.xSexTista Basak, Mala N. Rao, A. K. Rajarajan, and S. L. Chaplot 817

Electronic structure of Ni2MnSn: Experiment and theoryM. Maniraj, S. W. D'Souza, S. Majumdar, A. Chakrabarti, and S. R. Barman 819

Structural properties of intermetallic Li-Be compoundK. L. Galav, U. Paliwal, and K. B. Joshi 821

Synthesis and Raman spectroscopic studies of NaZr2(P04)3K. Kamali, T. R. Ravindran, V. Sridharan, and R. Nithya 823

Effect of impurity on electron-phonon interaction in some alloyed heavy fermion (HF) systemsS. Mohanty, J. Sahoo, and P. Nayak 825

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Effect of doping on phonon properties of UxLa|.xS compoundsB. S. Arya, Ashok K. Ahirwar, Mahendra Aynyas, and Sankar P. Sanyal 827

The electronic, magnetic and thermal properties of actinide monocarbides: A first principlesstudy

Pooja Soni, Gitanjali Pagare, M. Rajagopalan, and Sankar P. Sanyal 829

Electronic and optical properties of free standing Pt nanowires using localized basis sets

Arun Kumar, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 831

Strong Nd4f hybridization effect in Ge doped Nd2PdSi3

Tathamay Basu, Sangeeta Thakur, Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, Ganesh Adhikary, K.

Mukherjee, E. V. Sampathkumaran, and Kalobaran Maiti 833

Density functional study of the spinel compound Mn304 and doped system Zno.5Mn2.5O4Ramandeep, Tulika Maitra, and Tashi Nautiyal 835

Unoccupied electronic structure of graphite probed by ARPESS. K. Mahatha and Krishnakumar S. R. Menon 837

First principles calculation of phase diagrams of V-Nb, V-Ta and Nb-Ta alloysC. Ravi, B. K. Panigrahi, M. C. Valsakumar, and A. Van de Walle 839

High resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy - A case study of MgB2Nishaina Sahadev, Deep Narayan Biswas, K. Srinivas, P. Manfrinetti, A. Palenzona, and Kalobaran

Maiti 841

Electronic structure and ground state properties of A4|Cu404| (A=Li, Na, K and Rb): A first

principle studyR. Umamaheswari, M. Yogeswari, and G. Kalpana 843

Lattice dynamics and elastic properties of MoP

Premlata Pandit and Sankar P. Sanyal 845

Lattice dynamics of (ND4I),(KI)i_x mixed crystalsAlpana Tiwari and N. K. Gaur 847

FP-LAPW + lo calculations for the structural, electronic, optical and mechanical properties of

ZnX (X = S, Se and Te)Sheetal Sharma, A. S. Verma, B. K. Sarkar, and V. K. Jindal 849

Gigantic density of states in 1.22nm nanocrystalline nickel

Sourav Das, R. Rawat, N. P. Lalla, and G. S. Okram 851

Nonlocal exchange correlation pressure corrected thermal properties of U02 within LDA+U

approachPuspamitra Panigrahi, Gurpreet Kaur, and M. C. Valsakumar 853

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Raman and infrared study of Bi filled Co4Sb12Krushna Kumari Raut, Ashoka Bali, and Ramesh Chandra Mallik 855

SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

High pressure phase transition and superconductivity in transition metal nitride HfN and ZrN:

An ab-initio studyA. T. Asvini Meenaatci, S. Kanaga prabha, R. Rajeswara palanichamy, and K. lyakutti 859

Spectral weight below Tc at energies larger than the gap amplitude in hole-doped cuprates

Ajay Pratap Singh Gahlot and Partha Goswami 861

Pressure induced superconductivity in transition metal trihydrides: An ab-initio study

S. Kanagaprabha, A. T. Asvini Meenaatci, R. Rajeswarapalanichamy, and K. lyakutti 863

Increase of effective exchange energy due to phonon mediated interaction in the extended t-J

model

N. S. Mondal and N. K. Ghosh 865

Fabrication of DC sputtered NbN thick film with high upper critical field of above 400 kOe

Rajveer Jha, Anuj Kumar, and V. P. S. Awana 867

Control of interstitial Fe and its impact on superconductivity of FeTc^Se^

V. P. S. Awana, Anuj Kumar, and Anand Pal 869

Establishment of 37 channel SQUID system for magnetocardiographyC. Parasakthi, Rajesh Patel, S. Sengottuvel, N. Mariyappa, K. Gireesan, M. P. Janawadkar, and T.

S. Radhakrishnan 871

High field transport and magnetic properties of RECo(P/As)0

Anand Pal, S. S. Mehdi, Mushahid Husain, and V. P.S. Awana 873

Superconductivity and ferromagnetism in the non-oxide perovskite MgCNi3

Anuj Kumar, Rajveer Jha, R. P. Tandon, and V. P. S. Awana 875

Magnetization and NMR studies in SmFeAsO0.86F0 U

Amitabha Ghoshray, Mayukh Majumder, Asok Poddar, Chandan Mazumdar, Kajal Ghoshray, and

David Bcrardan 877

Study of single crystal CuxBi2Se3 topological superconductorBhanu Joshi, A. Thamizhavel, and S. Ramakrishnan 879

Structural and magnetic properties of iron based superconductor Fe0.99Se0.sTeo.5

T. Satya Krishna and A. K. Bhatnagar 881

Centre seeded infiltration and growth process for fabrication of large grain bulk YBCO/Ag

superconducting compositesR. Parthasarathy and V. Scshubai 883

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Evidence of 3D fluctuations in magnetization of BaFei 25Ruo.75As2 single crystalShilpam Sharma, K. Vinod, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi 885

Superconductivity in Cu0.o8TiSe2D. Venkateshwarlu, S. Shanmukharao Samatham, Mohan Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 887

Phase diagram of Ru doped BaFe2As2K. Vinod, Shilpam Sharma, A. T. Satya, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi 889

Improving noise performance of the SQUID in presence of high resistive signal leads

N. Mariyappa, C. Parasakthi, S. Sengottuvel, Rajesh Patel, K. Girecsan, T. S. Radhakrishnan, M. P.

Janawadkar, and C. S. Sundar 891

Ab initio study of magnetism in FeSe and FeTe

Jagdish Kumar, P. K. Ahluwalia, S. Auluck, and V. P. S Awana 893

Effect of Ni, Fe intercalation on the superconducting properties of ZrTe3C. S. Yadav and P. L. Paulose 895

Pinning mechanism in iron chalcogenide superconductor FeSe0.5Te0.sAjay D. Thakur, Anil K. Yadav, P. Das, C. V. Tomy, M. R. Lees, G. Balakrishnan, S.

Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 897

Counter magnetization of SmCo5 permanent magnet by YBCO/Ag composite bulk

superconductor — A competing interaction pictureR. Parthasarathy, M. M. Lakshmi, and V. Seshubai 899

Dirac cone states in Ru doped BaFe2As2 as observed by magneto resistance measurements

A. T. Satya, K. Vinod, Shilpam Sharma, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi 901

Surface superconductivity, metastability effects and paramagnetic magnetization in niobium

sphereUlhas Vaidya, P. D. Kulkarni, H. Takeya, S. Ramakrishnan, and A. K. Grover 903

Study of upper critical field in 1111-ferropnictide superconductorsS. J. Singh, J. Prakash, V. K. Maurya, A. K. Ganguli, and S. Patnaik 905

Role of excess Cr at Fe site in FeCrxSe and FeCr,Se0.sTeo.sAnil K. Yadav, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 907

Multi-quanta vortex states, crossover to Abrikosov's lattice and peak effect phenomenon in

Ca3Ir4Sn13Santosh Kumar, Ajay D. Thakur, Ravi Singh, A. Thamizhavel, C. V. Tomy, and A. K. Grover 909

Study of superconducting properties in melt textured YBCO samplesM. R. Gonal, K. G. Bhushan, S. Ramanathan, R. C. Hubli, A. K. Tyagi, and G. P. Kothiyal 911

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TRANSPORT PROPERTIES

Atomic transport properties of 3d liquid transition metals

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

Electronic transport properties of some liquid semiconductor

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

Large MR and ER at room temperature in manganite based heterostructure

Uma Khachar, P. S. Solanki, M. J. Keshvani, R. J. Choudhary, D. M. Phase, and D. G. Kuberkar

Dielectric behaviour of PLD grown BiFeO, multiferroic thin films

Ashish Ravalia, Megha Vagadia, N. A. Shah, D. D. Pandya, Devang D. Shah, P. K. Mehta, and D.

G. Kuberkar

Enhancement of figure of merit in asymmetrically coupled double quantum dot system

Gagan Rajput, A. Dixit, and K. C. Sharma

The thermal expansion oforthogallate LaGa03N. K. Gaur, Atahar Parveen, and Masroor Ahmad Bhat

Low temperature relaxation properties of SHI irradiated N-doped 6H-SiC

E. Viswanathan, R. Murugaraj, S. Selvakumar, S. Sankar, D. Kanjilal, and K. Sivaji

Metal - insulator transition upon Ni substitution in Fe,_xNixSb2 Kondo insulating systemJ. Janaki, Awadhesh Mani, A. T. Satya, T. Geetha Kumary, S. Kalavathi, and A. Bharathi

Anomalous transport properties of SrTi(1-x)Fex03±8 (0<x<1.0)

Arijit Ghosh, D. K. Modak, Md. G. Masud, and B. K. Chaudhuri

Evolution of temperature dependent properties of oriented YBaCo407 thin films

R. Nithya, S. Tripura Sundari, T. Geetha Kumary, Sharat Chandra, Awadhesh Mani, S. Dash, and

V. Sankara Sastry

Dynamics of water in Mg2+/Al3+/Si4+ saponite clayS. Mitra, S. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, P. Maheshwari, D. Chakrabarty, M. A. Vicente, J. Peter

Embs, and R. Mukhopadhyay

Studies on nonlinear electrical transport and magnetoresistance in Co/CoO core-shell

nanostructure

A. Sarkar, N. Behera, R. Adhikari, and A. K. Das

Terminal group effect of electrode-molecule interface on electron transportC. Pcfercncial Kala, D. John Thiruvadigal, and P. Aruna Priya

Performance characteristics of diphenyl amine doped PMMA/PVDF blended polymer electrolytein a nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cell

S. Austin Suthanthiraraj, S. Amudha, and P. Maruthamuthu

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Fabrication of a solid state power source for ambient conditions using solid electrolyte system(SbI3)o3-(Ag2Cr04)o.7

S. Austin Suthanthiraraj and S. Sarojini 943

Lattice thermal conductivity of grapheneM. D. Kamatagi, A. S. Nissimagoudar, N. S. Sankeshwar, and B. G. Mulimani 945

Polar-optical-phonon-limited electron mobility in GaN/AlGaN heterojunctionsK. Begum Rizwana and N. S. Sankeshwar 947

Dynamics oi /vater in Prussian Blue Analogue Cuo.75Mno.75|Fe(CN)6l 7H20V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, Amit Kumar, S. M. Yusuf, F. Juranyi, and R. Mukhopadhyay 949

Diffusion of acetylene inside the Cu-BTC metal organic frameworkS. A. Prabhudesai, V. K. Sharma, S. Mitra, and R. Mukhopadhyay 951

Anomalous transport properties of graphene oxide magnetic ferrite nanocompositesJhuma Sannigrahi, D. Bhadra, Md. G. Masud, and B. K. Chaudhuri 953

Structural and transport properties of Yb substituted YBaCo407Bharat Singh, Naresh Kumar, N. K. Gaur, and S. Rayaprol 955

Explanation of thermoelectric power of La0 67Ba0 33MnO3 manganites: Phonon-scatteringmechanism

Dinesh Varshney, Dinesh Choudhary, M. W. Shaikh, and I. Mansuri 957

Explanation of metallic and semiconducting temperature dependent resistivity of

Lao.91Rbp.06Mno.94O3 manganitesDinesh Varshney, Neha Dodiya, I. Mansuri, and Poorva Sharma 959

Characterization of SDC-A1203 solid electrolyteS. Ramesh, K. C. James Raju, and C. Vishnuvardhan Reddy 961

Metal-semiconductor transition and ferroelectricity in charge ordered La0 5Ba05FeO3 perovskiteMd. G. Masud, Arijit Ghosh, Jhuma Sannigrahi, and B. K. Chaudhuri 963

Structural, thermal studies and ionic conductivity of doped polymer electrolytesSubramanya Kilarkaje, S. Raghu, and H. Devendrappa 965

AC conductivity and dielectric relaxation of polymer complexesS. Raghu, Subramanya Kilarkaje, V. Manjunatha, and H. Devendrappa 967

AC conductivity and electrochemical studies of PVA/PEG based polymer blend electrolyte filmsAnji Reddy Polu, Ranveer Kumar, and Harsha Dehariya 969

Proton conducting polymer electrolytes based on KH2P04 doped PVAMd Jamal Uddin, S. C. Sarkar, and B. K. Chaudhuri 971

Electron-impurity scattering rate in doped bilayer grapheneDigish K. Patel and A. C. Sharma 973

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Structural and electrical properties of NdCoi-jNijOs

Vinod Kumar, Yogesh Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, and Ravi Kumar 975

Improvement of rubrene thin film transistor with self assembled monolayer of

octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS)

S. Sinha, C. -H. Wang, A. K. M. Maidul Islam, Y. -W. Yang, and M. Mukherjee 977

Giant enhancement of magnetoresistance of nanocrystalline La0.4sCa0.55MnO3

Kalipada Das, Tapas Samanta, A. Poddar, and I. Das 979

Giant Hall resistivity at low magnetic fields in nanocrystalline NiS0Mn32Sni8 Heusler alloy

A. A. Prasanna, S. Ram, and D. Das 981

Magnetotransport studies on polycrystalline MnSi

S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 983

Transport study on 20% Co doped FeSi in zero field

S. Shanmukharao Samatham, D. Venkateshwarlu, Mohan Gangrade, and V. Ganesan 985

Electrical transport properties study of Moo.6Wo.4Se2 single crystalsSunil Chaki, M. P. Deshpande, J. P. Tailor, M. D. Chaudhary, and Pallavi N. Sakaria 987

Low temperature specific heat of perovskite LaCo03

Rasna Thakur, Archana Srivastava, Rajesh K. Thakur, and N. K. Gaur 989

Structural and thermal investigations on Bil3-Ag2S04 mixed systemS. Austin Suthanthiraraj and Ayesha Saleem 991

Ionic transport studies of PVP: KBr04 complexed polymer electrolyte films

M. Ravi, S. Bhavani, K. Kiran Kumar, A. K. Sharma, and V. V. R. Narasimha Rao 993

Growth and decay ofcurrent signal in poled guest/host nonlinear optical polymer film

D. K. Modak, Md. G. Masud, C. H. Wang, and B. K. Chaudhuri 995

Structural and dielectric properties of Bi2Sn2-xTis07 pyrochloreIndu Bala, M. Roy, S. K. Barbar, and S. Sahu 997

Dielectric response in multiferroic Bio.jBao i5Pb0 |5Fe03

K. Dey, S. Majumdar, and S. Giri 999

Electrical and thermal transport properties of co-doped Rui^Co.vS^Eui.sCeo.sC^Oio-s magnetic

superconductorsS. Bhardwaj and A. M. Awasthi 1001

Room temperature thermoelectric material Fe(Sb|.xSex)2

Anup Sanchcla, Ajay D. Thakur, and C. V. Tomy 1003

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XRD and FTIR studies on a new solid electrolyte system containing Ag3P04 and Sbl3S. Austin Suthanthiraraj and R. Sarumathi

Coexistence of charge density wave and antiferromagnetism in Er2Ir3Si3R. Padam, A. Thamizhavel, S. Ravi, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Pal

Transport behavior of GdBaC02-xFeIO5.5+5P. Yasodha, N. Thirumurugan, A. Bharathi, V. Sridharan, and C. S. Sundar

Computation of thermal conductivity: A nonequilibrium approachP. Anees, .<.. Gururaj, and M. C. Valsakumar

The effect of strontium doping on the structural and magnetic transition of YMn03

Rajesh K. Thakur, Rasna Thakur, A. M. Awasthi, V. Ganesan, and N. K. Gaur

Enhancement in power factor values of Sn substituted Fe2 VA1 Heusler alloysCh. Venkatesh, V. Srinivas, and V. V. Rao

Structural and electrical studies of Ba(Fe0.25Gd0.25Nbo.5)03

Devang D. Shah and P. K. Mehta

Modification in transport properties of NdNi03 thin films by substrate induced strain

Yogesh Kumar, R. J. Choudhary, and Ravi Kumar

Thermoelectric properties ofAgCrSe2S. Bhattacharya, R. Basu, R. Bhatt, A. Singh, S. Sen, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

Thermoelectric properties of transition metal intercalated layered TiSe2

R. Bhatt, R. Basu, S. Bhattacharya, A. Singh, S. Sen, G. S. Okram, V. Ganesan, D. K. Aswal, and

S. K. Gupta

Transport properties of Ar-Al plasma at 1 atmosphereNilesh S. Kanhe, A. K. Tak, S. V. Bhoraskar, V. L. Mathe, and A. K. Das

Improved thermoelectric properties of PbTe0.sSe0.5Ranita Basu, S. Bhattacharya, R. Bhatt, A. Singh, D. K. Aswal, and S. K. Gupta

SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS

Electron beam induced structural transitions in polyaniline-dodecatungstophosphoric acid

compositeP. Chithra Lekha, E. Subramanian, Ganesh Sanjeev, and D. Pathinettam Padiyan

Evolution of palladium related defects in silicon

R. Dogra, A. K. Sharma, A. P. Byrne, and M. C. Ridgway

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Radiative recombination life time of an exciton confined in a strained wide band gap quantum

dot

M. Revathi and A. John Peter 1035

Structural properties of lVIg,Cdi.,0 alloysU. Paliwal, T. Brcdow, and K. B. Joshi 1037

Cu2SnS3 as a potential absorber for thin film solar cells

Dcvcndra Tiwari, T. K. Chaudhuri, T. Shripathi, and U. Deshpande 1039

Certain elastic properties of BAsi_,Px semiconductors

P. S. Vyas, B. Y. Thakore, P. N. Gajjar, and A. R. Jani 1041

The influence of 175 MeV Niu+ ion and Co-60 gamma irradiation effects on subthreshold

characteristics of N-channel depletion MOSFETs

N. Pushpa, K. C. Praveen, A. P. Gnana Prakash, P. S. Naik, S. K. Gupta, and D. Revannasiddaiah 1043

Growth improvement and characterization of AgGaSe2 chalcopyrite single crystals using

Bridgman techniqueG. Anandha babu, R. Subramaniyan Raja, P. Ramasamy, and N. Karunagaran 1045

Optical and magnetic studies of Zn1.2yNiyCoyO (y < 0.05) degenerate semi-magneticsemiconductor

Subhash Thota and Jitendra Kumar 1047

Electronic thermal conductivity of graphene nanoribbons

A. S. Nissimagoudar, M. D. Kamatagi, and N. S. Sankeshwar 1049

Formation of p-FeSi2 by ion implantation of 90 keV Fe10+ ions on N-type silicon

P. V. Rajesh, S. P. Pati, J. B. M. Krishna, B. Ghosh, and D. Das 1051

Electronic spin detection and measurement of spin lifetime in bulk GaAs at room temperature

using a highly sensitive radio frequency coil

Chinkhanlun Guite and V. Venkataraman 1053

Dynamic deformation potential electron-phonon interaction in disordered quantum well

P. Tripathi, S. T. Hasan, S. S. Z. Ashraf, and A. C. Sharma 1055

A comparison of inverse spin hall spectra in Pt/III-V hybrid structures

Shailcsh K. Khamari and V. K. Dixit 1057

Ag induced photo-generated charge trapping in nanostructured CdS/Cu2S thin film for

photovoltaic applicationsVidya S. Taur, Rajesh A. Joshi, and Ramphal Sharma 1059

Raman and photoluminescence studies of semiconductor quantum well microtube

S. Saiavanan, M. Silambarasan, and Deepak Ranjan Nayak 1061

Growth and thermal properties of GeSePb0.4 single crystalsG. K. Solanki, K. D. Patcl, N. N. Gosai, and Ruchita R. Patel 1063

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Preparation and characterization of solar cell ofa novel configuration ITO/n-OVC/p-CIS/In

R. Geethu, S. Dhanya, Rajani Jacob, P. V. Sreenivasan, T. Shripathi, and Rachel Rccna Philip 1065

Growth and study of Culn,.xAI,Se2 thin films for photovoltaic applications

Dhananjaya Kekuda, J. Nagaraju, and S. B. Krupanidhi 1067

Study of electrochemically prepared CuInSe2 thin films

Vishakha N. Dhanwate and N. B. Chaure 1069

Photoelectrochemical properties of chemosynthesized CdS thin film

S. B. Pawar, S. A. Pawar, P. N. Bhosale, and P. S. Patil 1071

Characterization of CuInTe2 thin films deposited by electrochemical techniqueNeelima A. Patil, Manorama Lakhe, and N. B. Chaure 1073

Effect of Mn doping on structural and optical properties of Zn, sMnxO thin films

R. Karmakar, S. K. Neogi, S. Bandyopadhyay, and Aritra Banerjee 1075

The structural and electronic properties of Hf02

Kumari Seema and Ranjan Kumar 1077

Properties of Cd^^Ca^O disordered alloySharat Chandra, V. Srihari, and V. Sridharan 1079

Development of Sb2Te3 films for low-resistance contact to CdS/CdTe solar cells

Shivaji M. Sonawane and N. B. Chaure 1081

Annealing effect on the optical and electrical properties of ZnO thin film grown on inp substrate

K. Ghosh, S. Majumdar, and S. Bhunia 1083

Effect of lOOMeV oxygen ion irradiation on silicon NPN power transistor

M. Vinay Kumar, K. S. Krishnakumar, C. M. Dinesh, S. Krishnaveni, and Ramani 1085

Electronic and optical properties of AgMX2 (M= Al, Ga, In; X= S, Se, Te)

V. Jayalakshmi, S. Mageswari, and B. Palanivel 1087

Optical properties of GaN nanopillars fabricated using ICPRIE techniqueH. P. Bhasker, P. Ghosh, A. Ghosh, A. Mukherjee, B. P. Singh, and S. Dhar 1089

Growth of germanium single crystals by Czochralski techniqueS. G. Singh, D. G. Desai, A. K. Singh, S. Sen, S. C. Gadkari, and S. K. Gupta 1091

CulnSe2 thin films by non-aqueous electrodepositionN. B. Chaure 1093

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MAGNETISM INCLUDING SPINTRONICS

Observation of spin glass-like behavior in fine particles of Nd2PdSi3K. Mukherjee, Tathamoy Basu, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1097

Electrical and magnetic properties of nanosized Mgo.2Mno.5Nio.3AlyFe2.yO4 ferrites

Satish Verma, Jagdish Chand, Pawan Kumar, and M. Singh 1099

Doping effects of Cr in cluster glass La0.sSro.5Co03B. Roy and S. Das 1101

Inter particle interaction in Nio.sZno.sFe204 prepared by self combustion method

V. D. Sudheesh, A. Vinesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1103

Magnetic field induced transition in Ni5oMn35In15Archana Lakhani, A. Banerjee, and P. Chaddah 1105

Mossbauer and magnetization studies of the quaternary Heusler alloy Fe2.xCoxMnAIA. Vinesh, V. D. Sudheesh, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 1107

Coexistence of long-range and short-range magnetic ordering in the frustrated antiferromagnetCa3Co206

Anil Jain and S. M. Yusuf 1109

Effect of atomic disorder on half-metallic ferromagnetism in Fe3_,CrxSi (x= 0, 0.25, 0.75,1)Heusler alloys

Mukhtiyar Singh, Hardev Singh, and Manish K. Kashyap 1111

Occurrence of magneto-elastic coupling across the metal-insulator transition in LaMn03±fiAga Shahee, Dhirendra Kumar, and N. P. Lalla 1113

Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of rare earth intermetallic compound DyCoNiRajib Mondal, J. Arout Chelvane, and R. Nirmala 1115

Preparation and characterization of charge ordered Nd0.8Na0.2MnO3 thin fdm

A. Nandy, Tribedi Bora, B. Samantaray, R. K. Bhuyan, D. Pamu, and S. Ravi 1117

Preparation and characterization of Ndo.gKo.isMn03 thin film

Tribedi Bora, A. Nandy, B. Samantaray, R. K. Bhuyan, D. Pamu, and S. Ravi 1119

Structural properties and electrical resistivity behaviour of Pr0.6Sr0.4MnO3 manganitesDinesh Varshncy, Mohammed Wasim Shaikh, I. Mansuri, and A. Yogi 1121

Structure and electrical resistivity behavior of barium doped LaMn03 manganiteDinesh Varshncy, Irfan Mansuri, M. W. Shaikh, and A. Yogi 1123

Synthesis and study of Bi0.9Tbo.iFe0.9Mn0.|03 ceramics

K. Saravana Kumar and C. Venkatcswaran 1125

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Multiferroic properties of (y) Ni0.65Cdo.3Cuo.o5Fe204 + (1-y) BaTi03 particulate compositesP. B. Belavi, L. R. Naik, and G. N. Chavan 1127

Synthesis and magnetic properties of MnFe204 nanoparticlesG. Thirupathi, S. Saipriya, and R. Singh 1129

Study of structural, magnetic and electric properties of Bio^NdjCao^MnC^ (0.0<x<0.6)perovskite manganites

Kamlesh Yadav, M. P. Singh, H. K. Singh, F. S. Razavi, and G. D. Varma 1131

Ground state study of spin-1/2 Falicov-Kimball model on a triangular lattice

Umesh K. Yadav, Sant Kumar, T. Maitra, and Ishwar Singh 1133

Evidence of exchange bias in Fe/Co304 nanocompositesS. P. Pati, A. Roychowdhury, S. Kumar, and D. Das 1135

Structure-property correlations in Lai.xNaxMn03 manganitesN. A. Shah, D. D. Pandya, C. M. Thaker, Sanjay Kansara, P. S. Solanki, C. L. Prajapat, M. R.

Singh, S. Rayaprol, and D. G. Kuberkar1137

Effect of carbon tailoring on magnetic properties of Mn3GaCE. Dias, K. R. Priolkar, and A. K. Nigam 1139

Effect of rare earth size on structural, magnetic and transport properties of RBaCo2Os.5Shraddha Ganorkar, K. R. Priolkar, P. R. Sarode, and A. Bancrjee 1141

Electron spin resonance and magnetization studies of sol-gel synthesized Bio.4Ca0.6Mn03Ramesh Ade, Joji Kurian, D. Vijayan, and R. Singh 1143

Study of entanglement in a quantum antiferromagnetTanmoy Chakraborty, Diptaranjan Das, Harkirat Singh, Tamal K. Sen, Swadhin K. Mandal, andChiranjib Mitra

1145

Structural and magnetic properties of transition metal (Co, Ni and Fe) doped Sn02 nanoparticlesAditya Sharma, Mayora Varshney, K. D. Verma, and Ravi Kumar 1147

Magnetic ordering in La-substituted BiFe03-PbTi03K. K. Mishra, A. T. Sathya, A. Bharathi, and A. K. Arora 1149

Study of magnetoresistance in Rh-doped FePt

Pallab Bag and R. Rawat 1151

Electronic and magnetic properties of NdVSb3: A first principles studySandeep, M. P. Ghimire, D. P. Rai, A. Shankar, A.. K. Mohanty, Arthur Ernst, D. Deka, A.

Rahman, and R. K. Thapa 1153

First-principles calculations of ferromagnetism in ZnO co-doped with cobalt and nitrogenM. Rajagopalan, S. Ramasubramanian, and J. Kumar 1155

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Magnetic behavior of nano-crystalline ruthenium perovskites, CaRu03 and SrRu03K. K. Iyer, Niharika Mohapatra, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1157

Thermodynamics of calcium doped perovskite materials

Renu Choithrani and N. K. Gaur 1159

Large magnetoresistance in Ni-Mn-In alloyS. Chatterjee, S. Majumdar, and V. Koledov 1161

Effective anisotropy field distribution of soft magnetic nanocrystalline Fe84Zr3 sNbj 5B8Cu|ribbons

S. S. Modak, F. Mazaleyrat, M. Lo Bue, L. K. Varga, and S. N. Kane 1163

Magnetoresistance and magnetocaloric effect in Er5Si3Niharika Mohapatra, K. Mukhcrjee, K. K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 1165

Structural and magnetic studies of Sri.5Pr0.sCoO4S. Patankar and A. Banerjee 1167

Large pyramid shaped single crystals of BiFe03 by solvothermal synthesis method

D. Sornadurai, T. R. Ravindran, V. Thomas Paul, and V. Sankara Sastry 1169

Anisotropic spin-fluctuations in SmCoPO: 3,P NMR study

M. Majumder, K. Ghoshray, A. Ghoshray, A. Pal, and V. P. S. Awana 1171

Magnetic refrigerant properties of Ni50Mn37.xFexSni3 alloy at low magnetic fields

Rahul Das, A. Perumal, and A. Srinivasan 1173

Tuning magnetism in semiconducting cadmium chalcogenides via Cr-dopingHardev S. Saini, Mukhtiyar Singh, Sarvesh Kumar, and Manish K. Kashyap 1175

Study of magneto resistance effects in Bi doped Pr0.7_xSr0.3MnO3 at Pr site

Mamatha D. Daivajna, Geetha, and Ashok Rao 1177

Crossover from antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic state in the semi heusler alloys Cu,_ANivMnSb

Madhumita Haider and S. M. Yusuf 1179

Coexistence of antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic order in NdCuAl intermetallic

P. K. Mishra, V. Dube, A. K. Rajarajan, G. Ravikumar, C. L. Prajapat, and P. U. Sastry 1181

Effect of fast neutron irradiation on the magneto-dynamics of the metamagnetic transition in

Ce(Feo.96Ruo.o4)2C. L. Prajapat, V. Dube, A. K. Rajarajan, S. V. Thakare, K. C. Jagadeesan, P. L. Paulose, P. K.

Mishra, M. R. Singh, S. K. Gupta, and G. Ravikumar 1183

Experimental and theoretical investigation of magnetocaloric behavior in HoRu2Si2Tapas Paramanik, Kalipada Das, Tapas Samanta, and I. Das 1185

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Theoretical investigation of hyperfine field parameters through mossbauer gamma ray

Sikander Ali and Mohd Hashim 1187

Electronic properties of Fe2Cr,_xVxAl heusler alloysRitwik Saha, V. Srinivas, Ch. Venkatesh, and S. K. Srivastava 1189

The effect of Bi doping on ESR of La0.7.xBixCa0.3MnO3D. Vijayan, Joji Kurian, and R. Singh 1191

Evidence of Re-entrant spin glass phase in Nd5Ge3Bibekananda Maji, K. G. Suresh, and A. K. Nigam 1193

Role of milling time for ferromagnetic Mn doped ZnO samplesS. Chattopadhyay, R. Karmakara, S. K. Neogi, A. Banerjee, S. Bandyopadhyay, M. D. Mukadam,

andS. M. Yusuf 1195

Half-metallic ferromagnetism in MgS0.s75X0.125 (X = C, Si, Ge and Sn): A first principle approachM. Yogeswari, R. Umamaheswari, and G. Kalpana 1197

Effect of Ni2+ ion on the structural, magnetic and electrical properties of cobalt ferrites

V. Pazhanivelu and R. Murugaraj -" • 1199

Magnetic properties of GdTxSn (T = Fe, Ni) compoundsKrishanu Ghosh, R. Ranganathan, Chandan Mazumdar, and S. Mukherjee 1201

Magnetic glass like arrest in Ca doped GdBaCo205.53N. Thirumurugan, E. P. Amaladass, C. S. Sundar, and A. Bharathi 1203

Multiferroic Lu3Fe5012 for magneto-dielectric applicationsP. Manimuthu, M. Manikandan, M. Malar Selvi, and C. Venkateswaran 1205

Crystal-field interaction in frustrated spin-glass pyrochlore Tb2Nb207 revisited: Estimation of

exchange interaction

Yatramohan Jana, Partha Das, Aksar Ali Biswas, and Jahangir Alam 1207

Study of the magnetorheology of bimodal magnetite suspensionKruti Shah, R. V. Upadhyay, and V. K. Aswal 1209

Structural, magnetic and electrical properties of Mg doped La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 manganitesK. Ravinder Reddy, Anil K. Bhatnagar, and Mohan Dasari 1211

Neutron diffraction studies on the full heusler alloy Co2FeGeK. Ramesh Kumar, B. Venkateswarlu, P. D. Babu, and N. Harish Kumar 1213

Unusual magnetoresistive behavior of epitaxial Zn(Fe, AI)0 dilute magnetic semiconducting thin

film

S. Chattopadhyay and T. K. Nath 1215

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Structural and magnetic properties of barium hexaferrrite prepared through sol-gel auto

combustion techniqueM.D. P.M. Gazzali, A. Paul Blessington Selvadurai, V. Anbarasu, C. Murugesan, and G

Chandrasekaran 1217

The optical and electronic transport properties of SrSno.95Feo.05O3 films

G. Prathiba, S. Venkatesh, and N. Harish Kumar 1219

Evidence of spin glass like ordering and electronic phase arrest in Pr3+ doped Sm0.5Sro.slvIn03

bulk manganitesS. K. Giri, J. Panda, and T. K. Nath 1221

Spin susceptibility of a symmetric electron bilayerKrishan Kumar and R. K. Moudgil 1223

Effect on magnetic and magnetocaloric properties with Ge substitution in Ni-Mn-Sb Heusler

alloysRoshnee Sahoo, Ajaya K. Nayak, K. G. Suresh, and A. K. Nigam 1225

Magnetoresistance of Ni nanoparticles embedded in tin matrix/p-Si heterostructure for

spintronicsJ. Panda, S. Chattopadhyay, and T. K. Nath 1227

Full potential density functional study of structural, electronic and magnetic properties of Hg,_xMn«Te

Sonu Sharma, Nisha Devi, P. Rajaram, and U. P. Verma 1229

Destruction of ferromagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO upon annealing: Role of oxygen vacancyB. Ghosh, M. Sardar, and S. Banerjee 1231

Emergence of long range magnetic interaction upon reduction of graphene oxide

J. Kaur, A. Rai Chowdhury, A. Bhattacharya, B. Ghosh, M. Sardar, and S. Banerjee 1233

Magnetocaloric effect in double pervoskite La2CoMn06J. Krishnamurthy and A. Venimadhav 1235

Magnetic properties of La2NiMn06 nanoparticlesK. Devi Chandrsekhar, A. K. Das, and A. Venimadhav 1237

Unusual magnetodielectric response in La2CoMn06 nanoparticlesJ. Krishnamurthy and A. Venimadhav 1239

Mossbauer effect in tetragonal SrFe03_sA. Scndilkumar, V. R. Reddy, M. Manivel Raja, P. D. Babu, A. Gupta, and S. Srinath 1241

Effect of Co-Zr doping in the M-Type barium hexaferrite BaCo^Zr^Fedj-uiO^: A Mossbauer

spectroscopic studyS. K. Chawla, R. K. Mudsainiyan, S. S. Meena, S. M. Yusuf, and N. Singh 1243

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Mossbauer spectroscopic study of heat-treated (Ni0.5Zno.5)Fe204 nanoparticlesS. S. Meena, Srinivas Ch., V. Sudarsan, B. V. Tirupanyam, K. R. Rao, D. L. Sastry, and S. M.

Yusuf

Magnetism in tetragonal and cubic phase of FePt

J. Majeed, O. D. Jayakumar, H. G. Salunke, and A. K. Tyagi

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Specific heai and thermal expansion of magnetocaloric perovskite-La,_xAgxMn03Archana Srivastava and N. K. Gaur

Energy transfer and lasing properties of Nd: Cr: YAG transparent laser ceramics at different Cr

concentration

P. Samuel, H. Yagi, T. Yanagitani, and Ken Ichi Ueda

Unidirectional growth, rocking curve, linear and nonlinear optical properties of LPHC1 single

crystalsP. Ramesh Kumar, R. Gunaseelan, A. Antony Raj, S. Selvakumar, and P. Sagayaraj

The effect of 100 MeV oxygen ion on electrical and optical properties of nonlinear optical1-alanine sodium nitrate single crystals

M. A. Ahlam and A. P. Gnana Prakash

Investigation on the growth, structural and optical properties of DASC crystal: A potential THz

emitter

R. Gunaseelan, S. Selvakumar, Tina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, and P. Sagayaraj

Nonlinear optical studies of a novel pyrazolineK. Janardhana, V. Ravindrachary, P.C. Rajesh Kumar, G. Umesh, K. B. Manjunatha, and Ismayil

Vibrational and third-order nonlinear optical study on hydroxyethylammonium picrate (HEAP)

single crystalsN. Sudharsana, R. Nagalakshmi, V. Krishnakumar, A. Sharma, R. Fausto, T. N. Guru Row, and

Rumpa Pal

Structural and impedance studies of doped LLT materials for electrolytes of iithium-ion batteries

K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah, and P. S. V. Subba Rao

Effect of additives on mechanical and electrical properties of semi organic non linear material-y-

glycineM. N. Ravishankar, R. Chandramani, and A. P. Gnana Prakash

Electronic structure and optical conductivity of two dimensional (2D) MoS2: PseudopotentialDFT versus full potential calculations

Ashok Kumar, Jagdish Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia

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Synthesis, thermal and nonlinear optical characterization of L-arginine semi-oxalate single

crystalsP. Vasudevan, S. Gokulraj, and S. Sankar 1271

Structural, functional and optical studies on the amino acid doped glycine crystalM. R. Manikandan, T. Mahalingam, and G. Ravi 1273

Line profile analysis and low temperature AC susceptibility of Cu-Zn ferrites

Ashok. R. Lamani, H. S. Jayanna, and G. D. Prasanna 1275

Noble metal ions incorporated in lattice points of perovskites - water gas shift activity of BaCe(.

»Pt,03d

C. P. Jijil, A. K. Rajarajan, and R. Nandini Devi 1277

Graphene based polyurethane material: As highly pressure sensitive compositeR. M. Hodlur and M. K. Rabinal 1279

Electro-caloric effect in PLZT (8/65/35) ceramic

Rachna Selvamani, Gurvinderjit Singh, and V. S. Tiwari 1281

Methyltrimethoxysilane based flexible silica aerogels for oil absorption applicationsMahendra S. Kavale, D. B. Mahadik, V. G. Parale, A. Venkateswara Rao, P. B. Wagh, and S. C.

Gupta 1283

Structural and mechanical studies of cadmium manganese thiocyanate crystalM. R. Manikandan, G. Vijayaprasath, G. Anandha babu, G. Bhagavannarayan, N. Vijayan,and G.Ravi 1285

Experimental investigations on the synthesis, growth and characterization of MCCTC singlecrystals

V. Ramcsh, K. Sendil Kumar, A. Subashini, A. Shihabuddeen, K. Jaganathan, and K. Rajarajan 1287

Self-catalyzed anisotropic growth of GaN spiralsAvinash Patsha, Prasana Sahoo, S. Dhara, and A. K. Tyagi 1289

Growth of propyl-p-hydroxybenzoate single crystals and its characterizations

N. Karunagaran and P. Ramasamy 1291

Growth, structural and thermal analysis of DSSS single crystalsM. Antony Arockiaraj, Tina Thomas, R. Jerald Vijay, and P. Sagayaraj 1293

Fabrication of SiC/Al203 CMCs & their physical propertiesS. Santhosh Kumar, M. Dcvaiah, and T. Rajasckharan 1295

Synthesis, experimental and theoretical investigations of N-(3-nitrophenyl) acetamide (3NAA)S. Prathap and J. Madhavan 1297

Doping induced modification in polyhedral tilt in hexagonal Ho^YxMnG^S. D. Kaushik and S. Rayaprol 1299

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Theoretical study of Ni2MnGa Heusler alloyR. Shanmuga Sundari and Manickam Mahendran 1301

Magnetic, Mossbauer and ferroelectric study of magneto-electric Ga2_xFe,03 (x=1.0,1.1 & 1.2)

Kavita Sharma, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Ajay Gupta, and A. Banerjee 1303

Growth and characterization studies of sodium Di(L-Malato) borate bulk single crystal: A

promising nonlinear optical material

A. Senthil, M. Loganayaki, M. Lenin, and P. Ramasamy 1305

Real space analysis of Compton profile of Heusler alloy Ni2TiAl

Jagrati Sahariya, H. S. Mund, and B. L. Ahuja 1307

Highly flexible poly (vinyldine fluoride)/bismuth iron oxide multiferroic polymer nanocompositesT. Prabhakaran and J. Hemalatha 1309

Crystal growth and characterization of novel nonlinear optical crystal: L-threonine formate.

Hanumantharao Redrothu, S. Kalainathan, and G. Bhagavannarayana 1311

Growth, spectral and crystallization perfection studies of semi organic non linear optical crystal -

L-alanine lithium chloride

Hanumantharao Redrothu, S. Kalainathan, and G. Bhagavannarayana 1313

Effect of displacement damage on the stability of oxide nanoparticles in model ODS alloys: TEM

studies

Sumita Santra, S. Balaji, B. K. Panigrahi, Yves Serruys, C. Robertson, Alamo Ana,

and C. S. Sundar 1315

Synthesis & structural studies of new thermoelectric perovskite material

T. Ramachandran, N. E. Rajeevan, and P. P. Pradyumnan 1317

Structural and magnetic study of La doped multiferroic BiFe03

Deepti Kothari, Sanjay Upadhya, Carlo Meneghini, V. Raghavendra Reddy, Guiliana Aquilanti,and Ajay Gupta 1319

Annealing effects in Eurofer-97 steel as studied by Mossbauer spectroscopyL. Herojit Singh, S. Hari Babu, R. Govindaraj, G. Amarendra, and C. S. Sundar 1321

Multiferroicity in double perovskite Y2CoMn06G. Sharma, J. Saha, and S. Patnaik 1323

Synthesis and characterization of Ni2+: Zn2Si04 nano phospshor by sol-gel method

B. Chandra Babu and S. Buddhudu 1325

Investigations on polyaniline-histidine compositesT. Mathavan, S. Umapathy, I. Suganya, and M. A. Jothirajan 1327

Studies on novel co-crystal of 2, 6-diaminopyridinium 4-nitrophenolate 4-nitrophenol.M. Rajaboopathi and V. Krishnakumar 1329

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Synthesis and characterization of poly (N-methylaniline) microfibrillar structure

T. Mathavan, K. Gangadevi, B. Hanitha, S. Umapathy, S. Rajakarthihan, and M. A. Jothirajan 1331

Structural and magneto-electric properties of Bio.4Lao.6Feo.8Mno.2O3 ceramicsS. P. Keerthana, M. Muneeswaran, P. Jegatheesan, and N. V. Giridharan 1333

Comparison of optical properties of pure and doped lithium tetraborate single crystals and

glassesG. D. Patra, A. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, M. Tyagi, S. Sen, B. Tiwari, and S. C. Gadkari 1335

Growth and luminescence properties of Ce doped Li6Gd(B03)3 single crystalsA. K. Singh, S. G. Singh, Mohit Tyagi, D. G. Desai, S. Sen, and S. C. Gadkari 1337

Growth of preferred oriented Ba0.5Sro.5Ti03 films on amorphous substrates by RF sputteringS. Ramakanth and K. C. James Raju 1339

Synthesis and piezoelectric properties of PLZT ceramics

D. V. Bavbande, Rakesh Kumar, V. H. Bafha, Dhirendra Mohan, and G. P. Kothiyal 1341

Linear and NLO properties of an organic single crystalP. C. Rajesh Kumara, V. Ravindrachary, K. Janardhana, Boja Poojary, K. B. Manjunath, and G.

Umesh 1343

X-ray study of Fe^Cr, alloys prepared by mechanical alloyingL. Jithender and N. Gopi Krishna 1345

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