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DAE Solid State PhysicsSymposium 2016

Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

26-30 December 2016

Editors

Shovit Bhattacharya

Surendra Singh

Amitabh Das

Saibal Basu

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India

Sponsoring OrganizationBoard of Research in Nuclear Sciences, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India

All papers have been peer reviewed.

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PART B

Isochronal annealing studies on 1.1 MeV Fe ion irradiated RAFM steel using variable energy

slow positron beam

Renjith Ramachandran, C. David, R. Rajaraman, S. Abhaya, B. K. Panigrahi, and G. Amarendra 080045

Studies on nanosized molybdenum trioxide (a-Mo03) thin films

S. A. Khalate, R. S. Kate, and R. J. Deokate 080046

The effect of pulse width on asymmetric bipolar pulse DC sputtered tantalum pentoxide thin films

S. Maidul Haque, S. Tripathi, Rajnarayan De, J. S. Misal, D. D. Shinde, K. Divakar Rao,

and N. K. Sahoo 080047

Synthesis and characterization of nickel oxide (NiO) thin films

R. S. Kate, S. A. Khalate, and R. J. Deokate 080048

Galvanic displacement reaction and rapid thermal annealing in size/shape controlling silver

nanoparticles on silicon substrate

Tapas Ghosh and Biswarup Satpati 080049

Electrochemical performance of brownmillerite calcium ferrite for application as supercapacitor

Suchita Dhankhar, Sumithra Sivadas Menon, Bhavana Gupta, K. Baskar, and Shubra Singh 080050

Optimization and characterization of cobalt & gadolinium films using X-ray scattering

M. A. Basha, C. L. Prajapat, Surendra Singh, and S. Basu 080051

Structural characterization of Pt/C multilayer phase-shift reflectors

P. C. Pradhan, S. Bhartiya, M. Nayak, and G. S. Lodha 080052

Localized surface plasmon enhanced band edge emission in Au/ZnO/Au hybrid nanostructure

G. Jayalakshmi, K. Saravanan, and B. K. Panigrahi 080053

Effect of deposition time on the properties ofAl doped ZnO films prepared by DC magnetron

sputtering

Ganesh R. Bhand, Nitu Motwani, and Nandu B. Chaure 080054

Reduction of oxide and interface charge density of reactive sputtered HfOz thin films by rapid

thermal annealing

K. C. Das, S. P. Ghosh, N. Tripathy, G. Bose, P. Parhi, and J. P. Kar 080055

Structural and optoelectronic characterization of organic vapor phase deposited thin films

of oriented DH6T molecules

Shalu C, S. Raj Mohan, M. P. Joshi, and V. Singh 080056

Structural and electronic properties of amorphous Ti-Ni alloy thin films prepared by ion beam

sputtering

Pramod Bhatt, Rami Bhatt, and S. M. Yusuf 080057

UV-Vis photodetection of porous silicon (PS) MSM structure passivated with CdS

Mintu Das and D. Sarkar 080058

Na2Ti60]3 thin films as anode for thin film sodium ion batteries

A. Rambabu, B. Kishore, N. Munichandraiah, S. B. Krupanidhi, and P. Barpanda 080059

Dependence of equilibrium stacking fault width on thickness of Cu thin films: A molecular

dynamics study

P. Rohith, G. Sainath, and B. K. Choudhary 080060

Structural and optical properties of sputtered A1N thin films

Padmalochan Panda, R. Ramaseshan, S. Tripura Sundari, R. Rajaraman, H. Suematsu, and S. Dash 080061

Inverted polymer solar cell using 'Ta' doped V2Os thin film as cathodic buffer layer

M. Kovendhan, D. Paul Joseph, K. Sowri Babu, and A. Sendilkumar 080062

Structural and mechanical properties analysis of sputtered W2N/Ni multilayered thin films

Pravati Nayak, Sharmistha Anwar, Shubhra Bajpai, and Shahid Anwar 080063

SHI irradiation effect on pure and Mn doped ZnO thin films

H. A. Khawal, N. D. Raskar, and B. N. Dole 080064

CH3NH3PM3 based solar cell: Modified by antisolvent treatment

Pronoy Nandi, Chandan Giri, Umesh Bansode, and D. Topwal 080065

Magnetic properties of electrodeposited FePd alloy thin films

A. Soundararaj and J. Mohanty 080066

Optical properties of strontium doped zinc oxide thin films

P. V. Raghavendra and J. S. Bhat 080067

Band alignment and electrical investigations of ultra-thin A1203 on Si by E-beam evaporation

Arvind Kumar, Sandip Mondal, and K. S. R. Koteswara Rao

Depth resolved composition analysis by angle dependent X-ray fluorescence measurement

Himanshu Srivastava, Ajay Khooha, Ajit Singh, and Tapas Ganguli

Low temperature laser molecular beam epitaxy and characterization of AlGaN epitaxial layers

Prashant Tyagi, Ramesh Ch., S. S. Kushvaha, and M. Senthil Kumar

Effect of annealing on the optical properties of the ion beam sputtered NiO thin film

Romita Chouhan, Priyanka Baraskar, Tanveer A. Dar, Arpana Agrawal, Mukul Gupta,

Pranay K. Sen, and Pratima. Sen

Microwave assisted radiant heating effect on the crystallization of Sn02 thin films prepared

by spin-coatingAnil Gome, V. Raghavendra Reddy, V. Ganesan, and Ajay Gupta

Deposition and characterization of CrN thin films by reactive ion beam sputtering

Rajnish Dhawan and Sanjay Rai

Influence of preparation methods on the optical and electronic properties of Cr-doped Ti02

thin films

Sagar Sen, Ajay Gupta, D. M. Phase, and Ratnesh Gupta

Impact of time-dependent annealing on Ti02 films for CMOS application

Gyanan, Sandip Mondal, and Arvind Kumar

Enhanced photoelectrochemical performance of Ti02 electrodes of DSSCs irradiated

with 80MeV 06+ ion

Deepak T. G., A. Sreekumaran Nair, Fouran Singh, and Praveen D.

Low temperature phase selective deposition of MnS films

R. Sivakumar, T. Dhandayuthapani, M. Girish, and C. Sanjeeviraja

Growth and characterizations ofvarious GaN nanostructures on C-plane sapphire using laser MBE

Ramesh Ch., P. Tyagi, K. K. Maurya, M. Senthil Kumar, and S. S. Kushvaha

Swift heavy ion induced mixing at Pd0 60 Ni„ 40/quartz interface

Paramita Patra, S. A. Khan, D. Kabiraj, Manju Bala, D. K. Avasthi, and S. K. Srivastava

Growth and characterization studies of ZnS thin films prepared by single source evaporation

technique

Anantha Sunil Maligi, Nagaraju Jampana, and Mohan Rao Gowravaram

Early stages of TiN thin film growth probed using in-situ soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Rachana Gupta, Mukul Gupta, and D. M. Phase

One step synthesis of kestarite Cu2ZnSnS4 thin film by simple and economic chemical bath

deposition method

Nanasaheb P. Huse, Avinash S. Dive, Ketan P. Gattu, and Ramphal Sharma

Synthesis and optical characterization of ternary chalcogenide Cu3BiS3 thin film by spin coating

Neha Rawal, Mohammed Kamal Hadi, and B. P. Modi 080083

Oxygen adsorption by supported size-selected copper clusters: Substrate effects

Shyamal Mondal, D. Chowdhury, and S. R. Bhattacharyya 080084

Effect of Sm doping on the physical properties of ZnO thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis

technique

P. Velusamy, R. Ramesh Babu, and K. T. Aparna 080085

Visualizing the optical field strengths in Au/dielectric nanostructures and its correlation

to SERS enhancements

Y. Rajesh, L. D. Varma Sangani, Ummar Pasha Shaik, Anshu Gaur, Md Ahamad Mohiddon,

and M. Ghanashyam Krishna 080086

Temperature dependent structural and magnetic study of Co-sputtered Fe-Al thin film

Anupam Vyas and Ranjeet Brajpuriya 080087

Evolution of a dense interlayer in a-SiNx:H thin films under 100 MeV Ni7+ ion irradiation

R. K. Bommali, S. Ghosh, and P. Srivastava 080088

Super-hard coating creation by laser bonding technique

K. Monisha, S. Aran Kumar, M. Gunaseelan, and J. Senthilselvan 080089

Study of 120 MeV Ni7+ ion beam irradiated Sn02/Ag/Sn02 multilayer thin films

Vikas Sharma, Neeru Sharma, Surbhi, Satyavir Singh, Devendra Singh, Garima Makhija,

K. Asokan, and Kanupriya Sachdev 080090

Welding of copper oxide nanocolumns by ion irradiation: Transition from hydrophilic

to hydrophobic surface

Satyanarayan Dhal, Sriparna Chatterjee, and Shyamal Chatterjee 080091

Work function measurements of copper nanoparticle intercalated polyaniline nanocomposite

thin films

U. V. Patil, Niranjan S. Ramgir, A. Bhogale, A. K. Debnath, K. P. Muthe, S. C. Gadkari,

and D. C. Kothari 080092

Study of complex waveguide structure using soft X-ray reflectivity technique

Amol Singh, Mohammed H. Modi, R. Dhawan, P. Jonnard, K. Le Guen, and J.-M. Andre 080093

G. Electronic Structures and Phonons

Ab-initio study of optical properties of Cu3SbSe3

Aditya Jayaraman, Abhijit B. K., and Muralikrishna Molli 090001

A first-principle approach to study the thermodynamical behavior of MgH2+nH (n=0, 4, 8)

Vikas Nayak, Suman Banger, and U. P. Verma 090002

Spectroscopic investigation, HOMO-LUMO and NLO studies on L-histidinium maleate based

on DFT approach

S. Dhanavel, A. Stephen, and P. Samuel Asirvatham 090003

Electronic properties and migration pathways of CI functionalized zigzag graphene nanoribbons

Neeraj K. Jaiswal, Amit Kumar, Neha Tyagi, and Pankaj Srivastava 090004

Ab-initio studies of structural and electronic properties of binary skutterudite CoAs3

Shashank Nautiyal, Priya Yadav, Meena Kumari, Manju Sikarwar, Priyanka Rajpoot, and U. P. Verma 090005

Modified Becke-Johnson potential inspired electronic and optical response of CdMo04Khushboo Sharma, Seema Meena, and B. L. Ahuja 090006

First principle calculation of half metallicity in Ti2MnSb Heusler alloy

Rakesh Jain, Vivek Kumar Jain, N. Lakshmi, Aarti R. Chandra, K. Venugopalan, and Vishal Jain 090007

Electronic structure of Ni2Mn,+xSn,.x as a function of composition

Sandeep Singh, Ganesh Adhikary, D. Biswas, Kalobaran Maiti, and Chhayabrita Maji 090008

The magnetic state of £-Fe2N

K. Sandeep Rao and H. G. Salunke 090009

XPS studies on B-site disordered SrTi0 5Mn0 503

Shivani Sharma and N. P. Lalla 090010

Electron-Phonon relaxation in bilayer graphene on a piezoelectric substrate

Mohd Meenhaz Ansari and SSZ Ashraf 090011

Electronic response and Fermi surface topology of strontium cobaltate

Komal Bapna and B. L. Ahuja 090012

Effect of annealing temperature on structural and optical properties of Fe doped TiOz thin films

prepared by modified sol-gel method

Manas R. Panigrahi and Maya Devi 090013

On the pressure and temperature dependent ductile, brittle nature of Hg0 9,Mn0 09Te semiconductor

S. Shriya, R. Sapkale, M. Varshney, R. Khenata, and Dinesh Varshney 090014

Crystal and lattice structure of Cr doped Mn-Zn ferrites synthesized by coprecipitation method

Anand Yadav, Pankaj Choudhary, and Dinesh Varshney 090015

Study of optical properties of poiycrystalline Y2Ir207

Vinod Kumar Dwivedi and Soumik Mukhopadhyay 090016

First principles study of transport gap in zircon and scheelite type of GdCr04

Avijeet Ray and Tulika Maitra 090017

Structural stability and bonding in TMOs2 (TM=Sc and Y) C14 Laves phase compounds

Nikita Acharya, Deepika Shrivastava, and Sankar P. Sanyal 090018

ARPES study on Bi2Se3 and BiSbTe, 25Se, 75

H. Lohani, P. Mishra, K. Majhi, A. Banerjee, A. K. Yadav, R. Ganesan, P. S. Anil Kumar,

and B. R. Sekhar 090019

Raman spectroscopic investigation of spin-lattice coupling in LaFe03Gaurav Sharma, Shekhar Tyagi, and V. G. Sathe 090020

Orbital ordering in MnV204 from ab-initio phonon and Raman scattering study

Dibyendu Dey, T. Maitra, and A. Taraphder 090021

Structural study of Co doped MnV204 from first principles

Jyoti Krishna and Tulika Maitra 090022

Effect of Ca doping on the Pr magnetic moment in Pr0 75Ca0 25Mn03

Urmimala Dey, Monodeep Chakraborty, and Arghya Taraphder 090023

Effect of oxygen atom on electronic and optical properties of 2D monolayer of PtS2

Deobrat Singh, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Yogesh Sonvane 090024

Holstein polarons and triplet bipolarons with NNN hopping

Monodeep Chakraborty, A. Taraphder, and Mona Berciu 090025

Valence band electronic structure of Ho-doped La0 67Ca0 33Mn03 using ultra-violet photoemission

spectroscopy

S. K. Rout, R. N. Mukharjee, D. K. Mishra, B. K. Roul, B. R. Sekhar, and M. K. Dalai 090026

Probing the electronic structure of SmCr03: A study by resonant photoemission spectroscopy

Malvika Tripathi, R. J. Choudhary, A. Wadikar, and D. M. Phase 090027

A first principle study of bulk and electronic properties of "Ceria" using LDA+U method

Sanjeev Kumar, Ashok Kumar, and P. K. Ahluwalia 090028

Te doped indium (II) selenide photocatalyst for water splitting: A first principles study

M. R. Ashwin Kishore and P. Ravindran 090029

First-Principles study of quaternary Heusler compounds CoX'FeSi (X' = 4d transition elements)

for spintronics applications

Srikrishna Ghosh, Ashish Kundu, and Subhradip Ghosh 090030

Metal-Mott insulator transition of SrMn03 by fluorine doping

Mohini Ramwala, Deobrat Singh, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Yogesh Sonvane 090031

Impurity States and diamagnetic susceptibility of a donor in a triangular quantum well

P. Kalpana, A. Merwyn Jasper D. Reuben, P. Nithiananthi, and K. Jayakumar 090032

Structural, electronic and ferroelectric properties of BaRe03

Sagar Parekh, Deobrat Singh, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Yogesh Sonvane 090033

Spin dependent calculation of calcium manganese oxide

Ruchi Rathod, Shivam Kansara, Sanjeev K. Gupta, and Yogesh Sonvane 090034

First principle study of electronic and optical properties of molecular ion (BF4) substituted

hybrid perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3)

Shalu Rani and Poorva Singh

Structure factor and radial distribution function of some liquid lanthanides using charged

hard sphere

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

Anthocyanin modified triphenylamine based organic sensitizer for dye sensitized solar cells

(DSSC) - A theoretical approach

P. Pounraj, V. Mohankumar, Muthu Senthil Pandian, and P. Ramasamy

Electronic and transport properties of fluorite structure of La2Ce207H. R. Mahida, Deobrat Singh, Sanjeev K. Gupta, Yogesh Sonvane, and P. B. Thakor

Study of structural, magnetic and electronic properties of Ni-Fe-Ga based ferromagnetic

shape memory alloys

Madhusmita Baral, Tufan Roy, Balaji Mondal, Apama Chakrabarti, and Tapas Ganguli

Computational study of solid energetic oxidizer ammonium nitrate under high pressure

N. Yedukondalu, G. Vaitheeswaran, P. Anees, and M. C. Valsakumar

Enroute to phase purity in CaMn70,2

Kamini Gautam, D. K. Shukla, R. J. Choudhary, and D. M. Phase

Structural, electronic and lattice dynamical properties of perovskite CaZr03 under high pressure

B. Moses Abraham, N. Yedukondalu, and G. Vaitheeswaran

Vibrational properties of III-V semiconductor in wurtzite phase: A comparative density

functional theory study

Trupti K. Gajaria, Shweta D. Dabhi, Bhumi A. Baraiya, Venu Mankad, and Prafulla K. Jha

Virtual synthesis of crystals using ab initio MD: Case study on LiFeP04

S. B. Mishra and B. R. K. Nanda

Bandgap and magnetic moment of Ga^C^N

Manjeet Bhatia and Anurag Srivastava

Strain induced changes in phonon band structure of antimony monolayer using density

functional theory calculations

Sharad Babu Pillai, Som Narayan, and Prafulla K. Jha

Composition dependence of Ni L23M45M45 Auger spectra in Fe,.xNix alloys

S. S. Acharya, V. R. R. Medicherla, K. Bapna, K. Ali, D. Biswas, and K. Maiti

Power dependent phonon frequency within CdSe and CdMnSe nanosheets

Oindrila Haider and S. Rath

Electronic properties of ultrathin 2D and ID alloyed nanostructures of stanene

Geeta Sachdeva, Chandra Kumar, K. Tankeshwar, and Ashok Kumar

H. Single Crystals

Crystal growth of semiorganic complex- samarium chloride coordinated thiourea-L-tartaric acid

and its studies on structure and optical characteristics

Goldy Slathia, Harjinder Singh, E. Ramya, D. Narayana Rao, and K. K. Bamzai 100001

Synthesis and characterization of rare earth coordinated with thiourea single crystal

Harjinder Singh, Goldy Slathia, and K. K. Bamzai 100002

Crystal growth and characterization of sodium p-nitrophenolate dihydrate (NPNa) single crystals

for NLO applications

D. Sethupathi, Muthu Senthil Pandian, K. K. Maurya, and R Ramasamy 100003

Structural, electronic and optical properties of metal thiophosphate InPS4

Priyanka Rajpoot, Vikas Nayak, Meena Kumari, Manju Sikarwar, Priya Yadav, Shashank Nautiyal,

and U. P. Verma 100004

Optimization, frontier molecular orbitals and dielectric studies on 2,6DiaminopyridiniumTosylate

single crystals

RO. MU. Jauhar and P. Murugakoothan 100005

Local symmetry and location of VOz+ ion in potassium succinate-succinic acid single crystal

through EPR studies

K. Juliet Sheela, N. Subbulakshmi, and P. Subramanian 100006

Growth and characterization of In0 6Se0 4 crystals

P. B. Patel, H. N. Desai, J. M. Dhimmar, and B. P. Modi 100007

Structural, vibrational, optical, thermal and mechanical properties of guanidinium

trichloroacetate single crystal

P. Karuppasamy, Muthu Senthil Pandian, and P. Ramasamy 100008

Single crystal EPR studies of Cu2+ ion doped lithium potassium phthalate

N. Subbulakshmi, K. Juliet Sheela, and P. Subramanian 100009

Single crystal: Urea bisthiourea sodium acetate synthesis, growth and characterization

R. Manickam and G. Srinivasan 100010

Crystal growth, piezoelectric, non-linear optical and mechanical properties of lithium

hydrogen oxalate monohydrate single crystal

Senthilkumar Chandran, Rajesh Paulraj, and P. Ramasamy 100011

Orientation ofN-benzoyl glycine on silver nanoparticles: SERS and DFT studies

A. Parameswari, R. Mohamed Asath, R. Premkumar, and A. Milton Franklin Benial 100012

Crystal growth of potassium 3,5-dinitrobenzoate (KDNB) for third order nonlinear optical (NLO)

applications

Muthu Senthil Pandian, P. Karuppasamy, and P. Ramasamy 100013

Growth and characterization of 2-methylquinolinium L-malate single crystal

M. Divya Bharathi, G. Ahila, J. Mohana, and G. Anbalagan 100014

Growth and characterization of glycinium 3-nitrophthalate nonlinear optical single crystal

R. Bhuvaneswari, M. Divya Bharathi, K. Hemanathan, and K. Sakthi Murugesan 100015

Synthesis, crystal growth and characterization of bioactive material: 2-amino-lH-benzo[d]imidazol-

3-ium salicylate single crystal-a proton transfer molecular complex

K. Saiadali Fathima and K. Anitha 100016

Growth and characterization of organic 2,4, 6-triaminopyrimidinium 4-nitrophenolate

single crystal

M. Tamil Elakkiya, P. Kavitha, and K. Anitha 100017

Growth and investigation ofNd doped GdV04 single crystals grown by OFZ technique

M. Soharab, Indranil Bhaumik, R. Bhatt, A. Saxena, A. K. Kamal, and P. K. Gupta 100018

Growth and characterization of urea sulphamic acid single crystals

E. Chinnasamy and S. Senthil 100019

An investigation to overcome the problems in growing bulk size a-LiI03 single crystals

A. Silambarasan, P. Rajesh, P. Ramasamy, A. K. Kamal, Rajeev Bhatt, Indranil Bhaumik,

and P. K. Gupta 100020

Magnetic phase transitions in HoFe03 single crystals grown using the optical floating-zone method

Rabindranath Bag and Surjeet Singh 100021

Synthesis and NLO studies of novel (2£)-l-(2-bromo-4,5-dimethoxyphenyL)-3-

(3-Bromo-4-Fluorophenyl)Prop-2-en-l-one single crystal

C. Shruthi, V. Ravindrachary, D. Jagadeesh Prasad, B. Guruswamy, and Shreedatta Hegde 100022

I. Transport Properties

Ambipolar nature of dimethyl benzo difuran (DMBDF) molecule: A charge transport study

Smruti Ranjan Sahoo and Sridhar Sahu 110001

Spin persistent current of one electron quantum dot with Gaussian confinement

Aalu Boda, Bahadir Boyacioglu, and Ashok Chatterjee 110002

Quantum transport through a helical ring in presence of Aharonov-Bohm flux and Rashba

spin-orbit interaction

Paramita Dutta, Arijit Saha, and A. M. Jayannavar 110003

Thermoelectric properties of ZrNiSn Half-Heusler system: An ab-initio study

Sukhwinder Singh, Kulwinder Kaur, and Ranjan Kumar 110004

Evaluation of mechanical and transport properties of Zr2CoSi Heusler alloy

Saleem Yousuf, S. A. Khandy, T. M. Bhat, and D. C. Gupta 110005

Slow light hierarchy and tunable switching in fractal wave guide

Atanu Nandy and Arunava Chakrabarti 110006

Transport properties of spin polarised quaternary CoMnVAs alloy

Tahir Mohiuddin Bhat, Shakeel Ahmad Khandy, Saleem Yousuf, Idris Hamid Bhat,

and Dinesh C. Gupta 110007

Tailoring thermal conductivity in PbS by incorporation of copper for thermoelectric applications

Sajid Ahmad, Shovit Bhattacharya, Ajay Singh, Ranita Basu, Rami Bhatt, A. K. Bohra,

K. P. Muthe, and S. C. Gadkari 110008

Thermoelectric properties of defect chalcopyrites

Chhama Pandey, Ramesh Sharma, and Yamini Sharma 110009

Effect ofA1203 nanoparticles in plasticized PMMA-LiC104 based solid polymer electrolyte

P. Pal and A. Ghosh 110010

A comparative study of charge transport properties of halogenated (-C1, F) triphenylene molecules

Rudranarayan Khatua, Smruti Ranjan Sahoo, and Sridhar Sahu 110011

Quantum heat fluctuation theorem

P. S. Pal, Sourabh Lahiri, and A. M. Jayannavar 110012

Effects due to unconventional pairing in transport through a normal metal-superconductor-normal

metal hybrid junction

Ganesh C. Paul, Paramita Dutta, and Arijit Saha 110013

Electrical transport and magnetoresistive properties of La07Sr03Mn,_xCoxO3 (LSMCO)

(x = 0, 0.06) & LSMCO+4% micro A1203 composite

Hiral D. Shah and J. A. Bhalodia 110014

Transport properties of bismuth telluride compound prepared by mechanical alloying

Poonam Khade, Toshi Bagwaiya, Shovit Bhattacharya, Sudhindra Rayaprol, Ashok K. Sahu,

and Vilas Shelke 110015

Absence of localization in a multi-strand quasiperiodic lattice

Amrita Mukherj ee and Arunava Chakrabarti 110016

AC - conductivity studies on Y,_xBixCr03 solid solution

Venkateswara Rao Mannepalli and Ranjith Ramadurai 110017

Pressure and temperature dependent thermodynamical properties of Sm chalcogenides

S. Shriya, N. Singh, R. Khenata, and Dinesh Varshney 110018

Synthesis & tailoring the thermal conductivity of Sr doped Bi2Se3 thermoelectric material

Anil K. Bohra, Ranu Bhatt, Shovit Bhattacharya, Ranita Basu, Sajid Ahmad, Ajay Singh,

D. K. Aswal, and K. P. Muthe 110019

Ionic conductivity of rare earth doped phase stabilized Bi203: Effect ofionic radius

S. Bandyopadhyay, Sk. Anirban, A. Sinha, and A. Dutta 110020

Effect of sintering temperature on structural, optical and electrical relaxation properties

of Gd-doped nickel-ferrites

A. Sinha, Sk. Anirban, S. Bandyopadhyay, and A. Dutta 110021

Structural and electrical characterization ofion beam sputter deposited Mo/Cu films

V. Harimohan, Mukul Gupta, Shilpam Sharma, B. Sundaravel, P. Magudapathy,

Awadhesh Mani, and C. S. Sundar 110022

Particle dynamics in a symmetrically driven underdamped inhomogeneous periodic

potential system

D. Kharkongor, S. Saikia, A. M. Jayannavar, Mangal C. Mahato, and W. L. Reenbohn 110023

Thermoelectric properties of ternary half-heuslar LuPdBi

A. Mukhopadhyay, S. Mahana, S. Chowki, D. Topwal, and N. Mohapatra 110024

Synthesis and electrical properties of LifNi^Mn^Co^JOj

Sunil Kumar, Arun Yadav, Parasharam M. Shirage, and Somaditya Sen 110025

Effect of electron correlations on the lifshitz transition at the LaA103/SrTi03 interface

S. Nandy, N. Mohanta, S. Acharya, and A. Taraphder 110026

Electronic properties of Fe2TiSn,_xSix

S. Chaudhuri, P. A. Bhobe, andA. K. Nigam 110027

Enhanced thermoelectric properties of Yb doped SnTe

Somnath Acharya andAjay Soni 110028

Enhanced dielectric of PVDF-CoFe, 5Cr0 504 for capacitor application

Sweety Supriya, Sunil Kumar, and Manoranjan Kar 110029

Magnetic field induced Fermi liquid behavior in Mn0 95Cr0 05Si

Ashish Kumar Mishra, Krishnan M., M. K. Gangrade, Durgesh Singh, S. Shanmukharao Samatham,

R. Venkatesh, and V. Ganesan 110030

Role of grain and grain boundary on the electrical and thermal conductivity of Bi0 9Y0 ,Fe0 9Mn0 j03

ceramics

Rabichandra Pandey, Chandrakanta Panda, Pawan Kumar, Lagen Kumar Pradhan,

and Manoranjan Kar 110031

Microstructure correlated impedance spectroscopy studies of Ce0 8Y0 202.a: Effect of grain growth

Sk. Anirban, A. Sinha, S. Bandyopadhyay, and A. Dutta 110032

Compensation effects in a correlated insulator Fe,.xNixSi

Krishnan M., A. K. Mishra, Durgesh Singh, Mohan Gangrade, V. R. Gorli, R. Venkatesh,

and V. Ganesan 110033

Comparing contribution of flexural and planar modes to thermodynamic properties

Sarita Mann, Pooja Rani, and V. K. Jindal 110034

Electrical conductivity and current-voltage hysteresis behavior of BiFe03 doped PVA

nanocomposite film

Monalisa Haider, Amit Kumar Das, and Ajit Kumar Meikap 110035

Structural and transport properties ofNd0 6Sr0 4Co03 compound

Anchit Modi, Masroor Ahamd Bhat, Devendra K. Pandey, Tarachand, Shovit Bhattacharya,G. S. Okram, and N. K. Gaur 110036

Hopping conduction mechanism of Pr,_AJNdA.Mn03 (jt=0.3,0.5,0.7)

Sanjay Biswas and Sudipta Pal 110037

Model study of transmission across N periodically placed ionic molecules in one dimension

M. Dharani and C. S. Shastry 110038

Colossal magnetoresistance and phase separation in manganite thin films

M. K. Srivastava, V. Agarwal, A. Kaur, and H. K. Singh 110039

Effect of nickel doping on thermoelectric properties ofBismuth selenide

Chiranjit Kulsi, Kajari Kargupta, and Dipali Banerjee 110040

Phonon limited diffusion thermopower in phosphorene

R. G. Vaidya, N. S. Sankeshwar, and B. G. Mulimani 110041

Suppressed Fano resonance in hybrid asymmetric parallel double quantum dot - Superconductor

tunnel junction

Bharat Bhushan Brogi, Shyam Chand, and P. K. Ahluwalia 110042

Thermal and electrical transport properties of polyvinyl alcohol and bismuth ferrite

nanocomposites film

Dhiraj Kumar Rana, Shovan Kumar Kundu, and Soumen Basu 110043

Thermoelectric figure of merit in rare-earth doped Fe2VAl Heusler alloy

Sudhakara Rao Hari, Y. K. Kuo, and V. Srinivas 110044

Effect of Mn dispersion on thermoelectric properties of Sb2Te3 based nanocomposite

Subarna Das, Pintu Singha, S. Bandyopadhyay, V. A. Kulbachinskii, A. K. Deb, and Aritra Banerjee 110045

Observation of zero field charge order melting in oxygen deficient Pr,.xCaxMn03 thin films

V. Agarwal, M. K. Srivastava, and H. K. Singh 110046

Inverse correlation between magnetoresistance and isothermal magnetic entropy change

in CoS, 8Se02

Saroj Kumar Mishra and Pallab Bag 110047

Understanding the transport properties of YNiBi half- Heusler alloy: An Ab-initio study

Sonu Sharma and Pradeep Kumar 110048

Ion dynamic studies through AC conductivity spectra on Pb(N03)2:Al203 composite solid electrolytes

Y. Govind Reddy, M. Chandra Sekar, A. Sadananda Chary, and S. Narender Reddy 110049

Effect of Cu deficiency on the transport behavior and thermoelectric properties in Cu3SbSe4

Aparabal Kumar, P. Dhama, and P. Banerji

Grain-size controlled thermoelectric efficiency in LaCo03 and La0 9Sr0 jCo03 system

Subhrangsu Taran and H. D. Yang

Frequency dependent transport properties of Na2Pb2La2W2Ti4Nb4O30 ceramics

L. Biswal, Piyush R. Das, and Banarji Behera

Enhanced thermoelectric performance of template based nanostructured polyaniline

Shilpa Maity, Subhra Rakshit, Sukhen Das, and Krishanu Chatterjee

En route to the conductivity bottleneck in p-type CuCr,_xMx02_ySy (M = Li, Mg)

P. Mandal, N. Mazumder, A. J. Akhtar, R. Roy, and K. K. Chattopadhyay

Enhanced power factor in Ho3+ doped ZnO: A new material for TE application

P. P. Pradyumnan, Anju Paulson, Muhammed Sabeer N. A., and Deepthy N.

Study of boron doping on crystal structure and electro-transport property ofTbCo2Susmita Chowdhury, Vikram Singh, and Rajeev Rawat

Reduction of 4-Nitrophenol using electrocatalytic ZnS nanoparticles for counter electrode

application in dye-sensitized solar cells

K. Subalakshmi, K. Ashok Kumar, and J. Senthilselvan

Ab-initio study of optical and electronic transport properties of Te2V209

Abhijit B. K., Kirthna K., and Muralikrishna Molli

Temperature and frequency dependence ofAC conductivity and modulus in Cr-Doped ZnO

P. M. Junais and G. Govindaraj

Destruction of Kondo coherence in heavy fermion system Eu(Ni,_Ar Cu^P;, (0.00 < x < 0.20)

Rajesh Tripathi, C. Geibel, and Z. Hossain

AC conductivity studies of La doped Ba0 5Sr0 5Ti03

Slavia Deeksha D'Souza, Kotla Surya Rohith, Anil K. Bhatnagar, and A. Sendil Kumar

J. Semiconductor Physics

Synthesis of n-type Bi4„xLaxTi3012 (x=0 to 0.45) by alternative mechanochemical method

Nagbasavanna Sharanappa

Half-Metalicity in Fe doped Hf02

Chandra Kumar Dixit, Ramesh Sharma, and K. C. Bhamu

Effect of annealing temperature on dielectric behavior of PVDF thick films

Shobhneek Kaur and Dwijendra P. Singh

An investigation of 80 MeV nitrogen ion irradiation on silicon NPN transistors

T. M. Pradeep, N. H. Vinayakprasanna, B. C. Hemaraju, K. C. Praveen, Arshiya Anjum,

N. Pushpa, K. G. Bhushan, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 120004

Recovery of electrical characteristics of 80 MeV carbon ion irradiated SiGe HBTs by mixed mode

electrical stress

N. H. Vinayakprasanna, K. C. Praveen, J. D. Cressler, and A. P. Gnana Prakash 120005

Plasmons in a semiconductor electron quantum wire at finite temperature in the random phase

approximation

Akariti Sharma, Vinayak Garg, and R. K. Moudgil 120006

A high visible light ZnMgS nanorod thin film photosensor by solution growth technique

Avinash S. Dive, Nanasaheb P. Huse, Ketan P. Gattu, and Ramphal Sharma 120007

Confinement potentials due to conduction and valence bands in a Ga,.xInxNyAs,.y/GaAs quantum dot

P. Uma Mageshwari and A. John Peter 120008

Effect of dielectric mismatch on exciton binding energies in a CdSe/Pb0 8Cd0 2Se/CdSe

dot-well system

S. N. Saravanamoorthy and A. John Peter 120009

Effect of Co doping on optical properties of chemically synthesized delafossite structured

CuCr02 thin film

A. Bera, K. Deb, K. Sarkar, and B. Saha 120010

Impedance studies on PF6~ doped Poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene) devices

Amit Roy, P. Anjaneyulu, and R. Menon 120011

Tuning the band-gap of zinc oxide by first principle studies

Anupati Telugu Raghavender, Mudunuri Chaitanya Varma, Subimal Deb, and Nguyen Hoa Hong 120012

Current density characteristics in the studies of electromagnetically induced transparency

in a GaAs/GaAlAs quantum well

J. Jayarubi and A. John Peter 120013

Numerical simulation of power consumption under the effect of reduced surface area

of the DS furnace

V. Kesavan, M. Srinivasan, and P. Ramasamy 120014

A new model of heterostructure GaAs/Ge IMPATT diode at W-band frequency

P. R. Tripathy, S. K. Choudhury, and S. P. Pati 120015

Stark shift and field induced tunneling in AlxGa,_xN/GaN single quantum well

S. Panda, T. Das, and B. K. Panda 120016

Third-order non-linear optical susceptibilities in diffusion modified AlxGa,.xN/GaN single

quantum well

T. Das, M. Panda, S. Panda, and B. K. Panda 120017

Deposition ofAlrZnO thin film by DC magnetron sputtering in presence of hydrogen

Susanta Kumar Sahoo, Sutanu Mangal, and Udai P. Singh

Achieving tunable doping ofMoSe2 based devices using GO@MoSe2 heterostructure

Tuhin Kumar Maji, Krishna Kanhaiya Tiwary, and Debjani Karmakar

Effect of heater design on the melt crystal interface

S. Sanmugavel, M. Srinivasan, K. Aravinth, and P. Ramasamy

Effect of Fe203 doping on structural properties of ZnO-V2Os based varistor system

Jasvir Singh, Virpal, Sandeep Sharma, and Ravi Chand Singh

Optical properties of Type-I GaAsP/AlGaAs nano-heterostructure under external uniaxial strain

Md. Riyaj, A. K. Singh, Sandhya K., Amit Rathi, and P. A. Alvi

Effect of silicon doping in InGaN/GaN heterostructure grown byMOCVD

S. Surender, S. Pradeep, K. Prabakaran, Shubra Singh, and K. Baskar

Efficiency of depleted U02 based semiconductor neutron detectors-A Monte Carlo simulation study

Manoj Kumar Parida, K. Prabakar, S. Tripura Sundari, and M. Raghuramaiah

Lattice parameter variation in Ni,.xCaxO ternary solid solutions

Kiran Baraik, Ashok Bhakar, Archna Sagdeo, and S. D. Singh

Quantized conductance in Ta2Os based resistive random access memory devices

V. K. Sahu, P. Misra, A. K. Das, R. S. Ajimsha, and B. Singh

First principle study on the structure, electronic and optical properties of MoS2/AlN hybrid bilayer

A DFT investigation

Vipin Kumar and Debesh R. Roy

Effect of microstructure on magneto-capacitance of [80 wt%BaFe,20,9 (BaM)-20 wt%

Na0 5Bi0.5T1O3 (NBT)] composite system

Ranjit Pattanayak, Subhajit Rout, Sourav Kuila, Rakesh Muduli, and Simanchala Panigrahi

Structural and resistive property study of Bi2Te3+x% graphite nanocomposites

Pintu Singha, Subarna Das, S. Bandyopadhyay, V. A. Kulbashinskii, A. K. Deb, and Aritra Banerjee

Synthesis of dendritic-flowers of wurtzite Cu2ZnSnS4 via solvothermal process

Nagaraju Mukurala, Krishnaiah Mokurala, Sudhanshu Mallick, M. Komaraiah, and D. Sreedhar

Interaction of Ti02 nanocluster with graphene oxide: Experimental and theoretical investigations

A. Yadav, A. S. Gangan, B. Chakraborty, L. M. Ramaniah, N. Patel, M. Yadav, A. Dashora,

D. C. Kothari, and M. Press

Sulfurization effect on optical properties of Cu2SNS3 thin films grown by two-stage process

G. Phaneendra Reddy and K. T. Ramakrishna Reddy

Enhanced thermoelectric power factor of Cu2ZnSnS4 in the presence of Cu2.xS and SnS2

secondary phase

Sunil Kumar, Mohd ZubairAnsari, and Neeraj Khare 120033

Investigation of band alignment in Co doped ZnO/ZnO heterostructure

Girish, Parasmani Rajput, Mangla Nand, Manvendra Kumar, Mukul Gupta, S. N. Jha,

D. Bhattacharyya, and N. K. Sahoo 120034

Probing of barrier induced deviations in current-voltage characteristics of polymer devices

by impedance spectroscopy

Motiur Rahman Khan, K. S. R. Koteswara Rao, and R. Menon 120035

K. Superconductivity, Magnetism and Spintronics

Magnetic behavior of Li3Co2Ru06

Sanjay Kumar Upadhyay, Kartik K. Iyer, and E. V. Sampathkumaran 130001

Spin filtering action in a magnetic-nonmagnetic superlattice structure

BiplabPal 130002

Magneto-Transport phenomenon in Pd-rich alloys

Ramesh Sharma and Yamini Sharma 130003

Temperature-Dependent exchange bias of sputter deposited Fe304 thin films

Muhammed Shameem P. V., Laxman Mekala, and M. Senthil Kumar 130004

Investigation ofthermodynamic properties of multiferroic YBaCuFeOsSurender Lai, K. Mukherjee, and C. S. Yadav 130005

High pressure structural and superconducting properties of Ca,.xEuxFeAs2

Utpal Dutta, Subodha Sahoo, Pallavi S. Malavi, Boby Joseph, and S. Karmakar 130006

Classical spin in contact with an anomalous dissipative heat bath

Malay Bandyopadhyay and A. M. Jayannavar 130007

Structure, magnetic and electronic properties in Ga doped 0>Cr2O3 oxide

K. Venkata Siva and R. N. Bhowmik 130008

A combined XRD, magnetization and EPR study on Th0 9Sb0,02.5 solid solution

Buddhadev Kanrar, Nimai Pathak, C. L. Prajapat, R. M. Kadam, N. L. Misra, and G. Ravikumar 130009

Study of microstructure and electrical properties of Y123 cylinders prepared by melt textured

growth technique

M. R. Gonal, B. C. Maji, M. Krishnan, I. Pallavi, A. Gyore, and I. Vajda 130010

Transport and magnetic properties of SiTe2

C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Gonal, P. K. Mishra, R. Mishra, P. U. Sastry, and G. Ravikumar 130011

Observation of antiferromagnetic coupling in ferromagnetic metallic [Ni/Gd],0 and oxide

[LSMO/LCMO]10 multilayers

C. L. Prajapat, M. R. Singh, P. K. Mishra, and G. Ravikumar 130012

Structural and magnetic properties of tetragonal distorted spinel CuMn204 prepared by single

step method

I. Naik, S. Mohanta, and S. D. Kaushik 130013

Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of MnCo„ 8V0 2Ge alloy

P. Dutta, S. Pramanick, D. Das, and S. Chatterjee 130014

Spin injection and detection in p-Si channel using highly spin polarized Heusler alloy

Co4SNi5Cr25Al25/MgO tunnel contact

Uddipta Kar, J. Panda, and T. K. Nath 130015

Impedance studies on Ca - doped BiFe03 multiferroic: Role of grain and grain boundary

SadafJethva, Hetal Kundalia, Brinda Vyas, Chirag Savaliya, Malay Udeshi, Savan Katba,

and D. G. Kuberkar 130016

Half-Metallic ferromagnetism in V-doped ALP: An imperative compound for spintronics

Hardev Singh, A. K. Pundir, Jyoti Thakur, Mukhtiyar Singh, and Manish K. Kashyap 130017

Electrical spin injection from CoFe204 into p-Si semiconductor across MgO tunnel barrier

for spin electronics

J. Panda, Nilay Maji, and T. K. Nath 130018

Structural and magnetic properties of high energy Ball milled Co2FeAl0 5Si0 5 Heusler alloy

Aarti R. Chandra, Vishal Jain, Vivek Kumar Jain, Rakesh Jain, N. Lakshmi, and K. Venugopalan 130019

Microscopic theoretical study of frequency dependent dielectric constant of heavy fermion

systems

Keshab Chandra Shadangi and G. C. Rout 130020

Magnetic structure and magnetism of divalent Zn doped NdMn03

Brinda Vyas, Chirag Savaliya, Hetal Kundalia, SadafJethva, Malay Udeshi, Savan Katba,

Priyanka Trivedi, C. M. Thaker, S. Rayaprol, and D. G. Kuberkar 130021

The electronic and magnetic properties of Zn0 875Fe0,25Se alloy

Swati Khatta, S. K. Tripathi, and Satya Prakash 130022

Room temperature neutron diffraction, optical and magnetic properties of Co(Cr,.;cMnA.)204

(x =0.0 and 0.30)

Ram Kumar, R. Padam, S. Rayaprol, V. Siruguri, and D. Pal 130023

High-Tc superconductivity: The t-J-V model and its applications

K. Roy, P. Pal, S. Nath, and N. K. Ghosh 130024

Tight-binding model study of the effect of lattice distortion on superconducting gapin iron-based superconductors: One band approach

Sushree Sangita Jena, S. K. Agarwalla, and G. C. Rout 130025

The role of second nearest neighbor antiferromagnetic spin coupling in the orbitally ordered

CMR manganites:A tight binding model study

Saswati Panda, N. Santi, D. D. Sahoo, and G. C. Rout 130026

Magneto-dielectric and Magneto-resistive in the mixed spinel - MgFe204

B. Santhosh Kumar, N. Praveen Shankar, N. Aparna Devi, and C. Venkateswaran 130027

Effect of oxidation on the structural, vibrational, magnetic and electrical properties of Fe

thin films

Amol Nande, Patta Ravikumar, and A. Perumal 130028

Local structure distortions and mix valence effect on magnetic property of Cd-substituted

CdCr2Se4

P. Suchismita Behera, V. G. Sathe, and P. A. Bhobe 130029

Competition between strain and superexchange mediated magnetism in modified cobalt ferrite

Rajnish Kumar, Abhay Kr. Aman, Rakesh Kr. Singh, and Manoranjan Kar 130030

Nonlinear magnetic excitations in periodic array of ferromagnetic alloys

D. Giridharan, P. Sabareesan, and M. Daniel 130031

Geometrical frustration in a new S = XA distorted check-board lattice PbCuTeOs

S. P. Chilakalapudi, Aga Shahee, A. V. Mahajan, S. Srinath, and B. Koteswararao 130032

Magnetocaloric properties of HoFe0 5Cr0 503 compound

Ganesh Kotnana and S. Narayana Jammalamadaka 130033

Synthesis and study of FeSe thin films and LiFe02/FeSe bi-layers

N. Radhikesh Raveendran, T. Geetha Kumary, Sunitha Rajkumari, R. Pandian, J. Janaki,

and Awadhesh Mani 130034

Structural and magnetic studies of Fe-doped Co2V207

S. De, A. Das, D. Das, and S. Chatterjee 130035

Effect of Y substitution in SrRu03: Evolution from itinerant to localized type magnetism

Renu Gupta and A. K. Pramanik 130036

Sign reversal of magnetoresistance in TbMn2Si2

Swati Pandey, V. Siruguri, and R. Rawat 130037

Evolution of structural and magnetic properties in Ti doped pyrochlore iridate Y2Ir207

Harish Kumar and A. K. Pramanik 130038

Temperature dependent giant magnetoresistance and magnetization properties of Dy28Fe72

granular thin film

Laxman Mekala, Muhammed Shameem P. V., and M. Senthil Kumar 130039

Breaking of ferrimagnetic ordering in Sc3+ doped Mn-Zn ferrites due to high energy

Gamma irradiation

Jagadeesha Angadi V., Shidaling Matteppanavar, Raju B. Katti, B. Rudraswamy, and K. Praveena 130040

AUuaudite class of high voltage sodium insertion materials: An interplay of polymorphismand magnetism

Debasmita Dwibedi and Prabeer Barpanda 130041

Study of interlayer coupling between FePt and FeCoB thin films through MgO spacer layerSadhana Singh, Dileep Kumar, Mukul Gupta, and V. Raghvendra Reddy 130042

Magnetization study of rare Earth rich intermetaUic compoundSrikanta Goswami, R D. Babu, and R. Rawat 130043

Microscopic understanding of domain formation in Gd-Fe thin films

A. Talapatra, J. Arout Chelvane, and J. Mohanty 130044

Study of multiferrocity in Ba3NbFe3Si2014S. Chaudhary, G. Gurjar, J. Saha, and S. Patnaik 130045

Complex magnetic behavior in GdCr03Sudipta Mahana, U. Manju, and D. Topwal 130046

ESR and dielectric studies on superparamagnetic LaFeO, nanoparticlesA. Sendil Kumar and Anil K. Bhatnagar 130047

Synthesis and characterization of binary intermetaUic superconductor Mo8Ga4IP. Neha, B. Sharma, and S. Patnaik 130048

An ab-initio study of optical properties of Co2VSi and Co2VGe alloysK. Seema

130049

The tight binding model study of the role of anisotropic AFM spin ordering in the chargeordered CMR manganites

J. K. Kar, Saswati Panda, and G. C. Rout 130050

Tunneling Magneto-resistance in grain boundary tailored Fe304 nano structured thin films

Ankit Kumar, Nilamani Behera, Sajid Husain, Sujeet Chaudhary, and Dinesh K. Pandya 130051

Synthesis and characterization of rare Earth based Fe2CeAg Heusler alloy nanoparticlesfor ultra-soft magnetic applications

G. Saravanan, V. Asvini, and K. Ravichandran 130052

Prediction of magnetoelectric behavior in Bi2MnTi06Lokanath Patra and P. Ravindran 130053

Magnetodielectric effect in Eu0 75Y0 25Mn03Surbhi Gupta, J. Saha, S. D. Kaushik, S. Patnaik, V. Siruguri, and V. G. Sathe 130054

Magnetic properties of nanosized Ni-Zn ferrites synthesized by hydrothermal method

S. Dey, R. Mondal, P. Dasgupta, A. Poddar, and S. Kumar 130055

Large anomalous Hall conductivity and Hall coefficient of Co2FeSi thin films

Binoy Krishna Hazra, M. Manivel Raja, R. Rawat, Archana Lakhani, and S. Srinath 130056

Coercivity enhancement in sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets by Dy diffusion using simple vapor

deposition techniqueM. Ramudu, N. V. Rama Rao, and S. Pandian 130057

Theoretical and experimental study of multiferroic BiFe03

Pralay Paul, Tuhin Kumar Maji, Krishna Kanhaiya Tiwari, Balaji Mandal, A. K. Rajarajan,

Ranu Bhatt, Debjani Karmakar, and T. V. C. Rao 130058

Magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of the intermetallic compound ErCu2

R. Rajivgandhi, J. Arout Chelvane, and R. Nirmala 130059

Electronic and magnetic properties of transition metal doped graphyne

Abhijeet Sadashiv Gangan, Asha S. Yadav, Brahmananda Chakraborty, and Lavanya M. Ramaniah 130060

Structural and electronic properties of LaPd2As2 superconductor: First-principle calculations

Birender Singh and Pradeep Kumar 130061

Study ofphase co-existence in Rh doped FePt using low temperature magnetic force microscopy

Pampi Saha, Vikram Singh, Pallab Bag, and Rajeev Rawat 130062

L. Novel Materials

Temperature and grain size effect on electrical properties of gallium ferrite polycrystalline ceramic

Ashish Kumar Mall, Rajeev Gupta, and Ashish Garg 140001

Ab-initio study of charged oxygen defects in Gd2Zr207

P. S. Ghosh, K. Ali, and A. Arya 140002

Cohesive energy of KH+nH (n=0, 2, 6, 8): A DFT study

Suman Banger, Vikas Nayak, and U. P. Verma 140003

Neutron diffraction, Mossbauer and electron paramagnetic resonance studies

ofPb0 8Bi0 2Fe0 6Nb0 403 multiferroic

Sunanda T. Dadami, Shidaling Matteppanavar, Shivaraja I., Sudhindra Rayaprol,

Basavaraj Angadi, and Balaram Sahoo 140004

Thermal expansion and specific heat of a superior IR-SOFC cathode material Sr,.xCexCoO3-8

Archana Srivastava, Rasna Thakur, and N. K. Gaur 140005

A new polyester based polymer composite for shielding soft gamma rays

M. R. Ambika, N. Nagaiah, and S. K. Suman 140006

Elastic properties of geophysical minerals at different temperatures

Chandra Kumar Singh, Brijesh K. Pandey, and Anjani K. Pandey 140007

Phase preference in some Ag-In-Sb-Te alloys

C. Rangasami 140008

Controlling sphere to doughnut transformation during quick drying of colloidal micrometric

droplets

P. Biswas, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, and P. Doshi 140009

Study of nonlinear absorption properties of reduced graphene oxide by Z-scan technique

V. G. Sreeja, G. Vinitha, R. Reshmi, E. I. Anila, and M. K. Jayaraj 140010

Photoluminescence investigations of Y203: Eu phosphor co-doped with Ca

Ramya G. Nair, Sandeep Nigam, V. Sudarsan, and R. K. Vatsa 140011

Waves in metamaterials

S. P. Mohanty, A. Dutta, S. K. Sahu, K. K. Sethi, C. S. Mishra, S. K. Sahoo, and G. Palai 140012

Enhanced low field magnetoresistance in La0 7Ca0 2Sr0 ,Mn03 - MgO composites

Mashkoor A. Dar, M. S. Malla, J. Solanki, and Dinesh Varshney 140013

Synthesis and characterization of lanthanum complex (5-choloro-8-hydroxy quinoline)bis (2-2'bipyridine) lanthanum La(Bpy)2(5-Clq)

Rahul Kumar, Ankur Soam, and Parag Bhargava 140014

Conformational, vibrational spectroscopic and nonlinear optical activity studies

on N,N-Di-Boc-2-amino pyridine : A DFT approach

R. Mohamed Asath, R. Premkumar, T. Mathavan, and A. Milton Franklin Benial 140015

Photoluminescence investigation of Dy3+ doped a-Al203 phosphor

Ram Prakash, Sandeep Kumar, and Vinay Kumar 140016

Temperature dependent neutron diffraction of yttrium doped hexagonal HoMn03

S. D. Kaushik, S. Rayaprol, C. L. Prajapat, and M. R. Singh 140017

Study of magnetic and dielectric properties of polycrystalline Dy0 8La0 2Mn205

Sudipta Pal and Esa Bose 140018

Enhanced magnetodielectricity in Gd3+ substituted Bi2Fe409 ceramics

S. R. Mohapatra, C. S. Yadav, S. D. Kaushik, and A. K. Singh 140019

Study of dielectric and magnetic properties of (Bi0 5La0 5FeO3)(1.x)-(Ba0 7Sr0 3Ti03)x solid solution

Sandeep Vansutre, P. D. Babu, S. D. Kaushik, Ramesh Yadav, S. Radha, P. S. Goyal, and V. Siruguri 140020

Cluster glass like behavior of magnetoelectric PbNi,/3Nb2/303 ceramics

Preeti, Adityanarayan Pandey, Rachna Selvamani, Chander Shekhar, and S. M. Gupta 140021

Investigation of bandgap modulation, field emission and dielectric properties of cadmium

doped CaCu3 Ti4012

S. Maitra, R. Mitra, K. P. Bera, and T. K. Nath 140022

Synthesis of graphene oxide thin film and effect of electron beam irradiation

Priyanka Gulia, Ranjeet Brajpuriya, Sunil Kumar, and Ambuj Tripathi 140023

Microstructure and frequency dependent electrical properties of lead-free Na0 5Bi0 5Ti03

perovskite

S. Praharaj, S. Kumari, V. Subramanian, and D. Rout 140024

Swelling characteristics and drug release kinetics ofAg/PVA hydrogel nanocomposites

Swaroop K. and Somashekarappa H. M. 140025

Structural, dielectric and magnetic studies of Fe2Te06 and Fe2Te0 96Nb0 04O6 ceramics

P. Pal, S. R. Mohapatra, S. D. Kaushik, and A. K. Singh 140026

Ag nanoparticles in AgCuOz: Synthesis and characterizations

P. Magudapathy, S. K. Srivatsava, P. Gangopadhyay, K. Saravanan, A. Das, and B. K. Panigrahi 140027

Investigation of bioactive CaO-P205-MgO-Si02 ceramic composition for orthopedic applications

Pardeep Kaur, K. J. Singh, Henna Sood, and Daljit Singh Arora 140028

Structural and electrical properties of lead - free 65Na0 5Bi0 5Ti03-35CoFe204 particulate

multiferroic composite

Shilpa Thakur, Kusum Parmar, Hakikat Sharma, and N. S. Negi 140029

SEM, magnetization and Mossbauer spectroscopic characterization of Fe-U sequestration

Sangita Pal, Sher Singh Meena, Supratik Roy Chowdhury, C. L. Prajapat, and D. Goswami 140030

Defects in partially dealloyed Fe+ implanted Ag75Au25C. Lakshmanan, R. N. Viswanath, B. Sundaravel, R. Rajaraman, S. Dash, G. Amarendra,

andC. S. Sundar 140031

Bi augmented magnetization in gadolinium iron garnet

N. Aparnadevi, B. Santhosh Kumar, and C. Venkateswaran 140032

Exceptional magneto-resistance in 3D Dirac semimetal Bi0 96Sb0 04

P. Kumar, V. Nagpal Sudesh, and S. Patnaik 140033

Effect of sintering time on the phase evolution of biphasic La2NiMn06

Sweta K., S. Kuila, M. R. Sahoo, A. Barik, P. D. Babu, V. Siruguri, and P. N. Vishwakarma 140034

Development of a novel magnetostrictive material with large piezomagnetic coefficient

for stress sensor applicationsVinitha Reddy Monaji and D. Das 140035

First principles study of electronic and thermoelectric performance of Li intercalated

MoSe2 nanotubes

Munish Sharma, Ashok Kumar, Ravindra Pandey, and P. K. Ahluwalia 140036

Enhanced piezoelectricity in lead-free BCZT piezoceramics for sensor applications

E. Chandrakala, J. Paul Praveen, and Dibakar Das 140037

Theoretical and experimental evaluation of structural and optical properties of novel

zinc-benzimidazole metal complex doped in polystyrene matrices

P. A. Praveen and R. Ramesh Babu 140038

Optical and electronic structure studies of half metallic in Sr2CoW06 double perovskite

Golak Mandal, Dhiraj Jha, A. K. Himanshu, P. Mukherjee, N. K. Das, B. K. Singh, Uday Kumar,

and T. P. Sinha 140039

Influence of natural oxidation to control the particle size and enhance the number density

during subsequent sputtering growth of silver nanoparticle thin film

Sudheer, P. Tiwari, Velaga Srihari, K. K. Pandey, V. N. Rai, A. K. Srivastava, and P. A. Naik 140040

Structural, vibrational spectroscopic and quantum chemical studies on indole-3-carboxaldehyde

R. Premkumar, R. Mohamed Asath, T. Mathavan, and A. Milton Franklin Benial 140041

Characterization ofplasticized PEO-PAM blend polymer electrolyte system

Gargi Dave and Dinesh Kanchan 140042

Raman and dielectric studies of GdMn03 bulk ceramics synthesized from nano powders

S. Samantaray, D. K. Mishra, and B. K. Roul 140043

Structural, dielectric and impedance studies of polycrystalline La0 6Dy0 2Ca0 2Mn03

K. R. Nandan and A. Ruban Kumar 140044

Structural and ferromagnetic properties of KNb03 microrods

S. Raja, R. Ramesh Babu, and K. Ramamurthi 140045

Thermal degradation and morphological studies on raw and reinforced polyacrylic rubbers

A. Sasikala and A. Kala 140046

Ionic transport studies in PVDF-HFP-PMMA-(PC+DEC)-LiC104 gel polymer electrolyte

Khushbu Gohel and D. K. Kanchan 140047

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