Preface: Functional Materials
S.M. Bose and S.K. Tripathy .................................. 1
Committees and Sponsors ......................................... 3
In Memoriam: S.N. Behera ........................................ 5
Group Photo ..................................................... 6
Editors' Note ................................................... 7
SECTION I: INVITED TALKS
First-principles investigations of caloric effects in ferroic
materials
Peter Entel, Sanjubala Sahoo, Mario Siewert, Markus E.
Gruner, Heike C. Herper, Denis Comtesse, Mehmet Acet,
Vasiliy D. Buchelnikov, and Vladimir V. Sokolovskiy ......... 11
On the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction in graphene
M. Sherafati and S. Satpathy ................................ 24
Energetics of magnetic states in graphene nano-triangles: An
ab-initio density functional theory study
Albert K. Dearden, Swastik Kar, John Hagopian, Pulickel
M. Ajayan, and Saroj K. Nayak ............................... 34
Electrical transport properties of buckled carbon nanotube
arrays
L.T. Singh and К.K. Nanda ................................... 42
Fabrication of flexible and porous surface enhanced raman
scattering (SERS) substrates using nanoparticle inks
Manuel Figueroa, Kambiz Pourrezaei, and Somdev Tyagi ........ 47
Electrical transport in a quantum dot undergoing Jahn-Teller
transition
Shyamalendu M. Bose, Didier Ndengeyintwali, Surjyo N.
Behera, and Peter Entel ..................................... 54
Diluted magnetic tin telluride: Study by an extended k • π
method
G.S. Tripathi, K. Dash, S.K. Nayak, S.N. Behera, and
P. Entel .................................................... 64
Influence of site occupancy on the structure, microstructure
and magnetic properties of ternary and quasi-ternary alloys
of Ni-Mn-Ga
V. Seshubai, A. Satish Kumar, and M. Ramudu ................. 74
Structure and magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO dilute
magnetic semiconductors synthesized via hydrothermal method
K. Ghosh, P.K. Kahol, S. Bhamidipati, N. Das, S. Khanra,
A. Wanekaya, and R. Delong .................................. 87
Magnetization reversal study along easy and hard axes in a
superferromagnet
Subhankar Bedanta, Niru Chowdhury, and Sovakar Sing ......... 98
Electrical current induced torque in the one and two
dimensional domain wall
S. Sil and P. Entel ........................................ 104
On the response of large systems to electrostatic fields
Michael Springborg, Bernard Kirtman, Yi Dong, and
Violina Tevekeliyska ....................................... 116
On the approach to modeling of the mechanical behavior of
a fine grained material
О.I. Bylya, K. Bhaskaran, P.V. Chistyakov, and R.A. Vasin .. 132
Development of PZT materials, fabrication and
characterization of multi layered actuators for aerospace
applications
P.K. Panda ................................................. 144
Designing tissue phantoms for ultrasonography and
elastography with TiO2 incorporated polyacrylamide hydrogels
Kishore Kumar, Maneesha Esther Mohanty, V. Jayashankar,
S. Suresh, and Ashok K. Mishra ............................. 151
Spin-orbit coupling, spin currents and emergent gauge fields
in solids
Debanand Sa ................................................ 160
Unusual charge-density-wave order in 2H-NbSe2
S. Koley, N. Mohanta, and A. Taraphder ..................... 170
Strong electron correlation and nonlinear optics
Haranath Ghosh ............................................. 175
On response of nano-particles to electromagnetic radiation
Gautam Mukhopadhyay ........................................ 187
SECTION II: ORAL AND POSTER PRESENTATIONS: (A) Nanomaterials
Exact diagonalization study of quantum spin clusters
Sanjubala Sahoo, Alfred Hucht, Shreekantha Sil, and
Peter Entel ................................................ 199
Detection of defects in ZnO nanoparticles by spectroscopic
measurements
V.P. Singh, R.K. Singh, D. Das, and Chandana Rath .......... 205
Growth of ZnO nanostructures on graphite-rod by hydrothermal
technique
Trilochan Sahoo and In-Hwan Lee ............................ 209
Evolution of microstructure and surface topography of gold
thin films under thermal annealing
P. Dash, H. Rath, B.N. Dash, P. Mallick, T. Basu,
T. Som, U.P. Singh, and N.C. Mishra ........................ 214
Preparation of nano fluids by mechanical method
J. Boopathy, R. Pari, M. Kavitha, and P.C. Angelo .......... 218
Synthesis of self-ordered titanium oxide nanotubes by
anodization of titanium
A. Yaadhav Krishnan, S. Sivabalan, S. Subhachandhar,
M. Balakrishnan, and R. Narayanan .......................... 222
Synthesis of TiO2 nanoparticles by hydrolysis and
peptization of titanium isopropoxide solution
S. Mahata, S. S. Mahato, M. M. Nandi, and B. Mondal ........ 225
Structural and optical characterization of NiO nanoparticles
synthesized by sol-gel route
P. Mallick, C.S. Sahoo, and N.C. Mishra .................... 229
Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles based saturable absorbers
Muralikrishna Molli, Girish D. Salian, Sai Kiran Aditha,
V. Sai Muthukumar, Tanu Mimani Rattan, S. Amrithapandian,
В.K. Panigrahi, and Venkataramaniah Kamisetti .............. 233
Low temperature chemical synthesis of ferrite nanoparticles
S. Ramesh, S.N.R. Rao, B. Parvatheeswara Rao, and
P.S.V. Subba Rao ........................................... 237
A computational study of armchair nanotube
N. Bedamani Singh and Utpal Sarkar ......................... 241
Novel ABA type gold copolymer nanoparticles: PNIPAAm-b-PU-b-
PNIPAAm tri-block nanopolymer as reducing and stabilizing
agent
Prashant Singh, Hemant Verma, Chaitnaya Kumar, Kamlesh
Kumari, Gopal K. Mehrotra, Ramesh Chandra, and
K. Tharanikkarrasu ......................................... 246
Multisubband electron transport in GaAs/InGaAs strained
coupled quantum well structures
Pravat Kumar Subudhi, Sangita Palo, and Trinath Sahu ....... 251
Electric field induced enhancement of low temperature
electron mobility in coupled InGaAs/InAlAs double quantum
well structures
T. Sahu, S. Palo, Т.C. Tripathy, and P.K. Nayak ............ 255
(B) Magnetic Materials
Absence of ferromagnetic interaction in Co-Co nearest
neighbor impurity pairs in ZnO: An analysis from GGA+U
studies
Sanjeev K. Nayak, Andreas Ney, Markus E. Gruner, Gouri
S. Tripathi, Surjyo N. Behera, and Peter Entel ............. 261
Interplay between magnetic order and electrical resistivity
in local moment manganites
L. Haritha, G. Gangadhar Reddy, A. Ramakanth, and
S.K. Ghatak ................................................ 267
Instability and re-entrant behaviour of Jahn-Teller
distortion due to induced magnetization in manganites
Saswati Panda, G.C. Rout, and S.N. Behera .................. 271
Core level spectra of disordered Cu-Ni alloys
V.R.R. Medicherla, S. K. Parida, Pallab Bag, Rajeev
Rawat, T. Shripathi, Nishaina Sahadev, Deepnarayan
Biswas, Ganesh Adhikary, and K. Maiti ...................... 275
Effect of magnetic field on the electrodeposition of nickel
S. Subhachandhar, A. Yaadhav Krishnan, S. Sivabalan,
and R. Narayanan ........................................... 279
A model study of ultrasonic attenuation in heavy fermion
systems in Kondo-lattice model
Keshab Chandra Shadangi and G.C. Rout ...................... 282
(C) Ceramic, Ferroic and Superconducting Materials
Ionic conductivity of co-doped Sc2O3-ZrO2 ceramics
Shobit Omar, Waqas bin Najib, Weiwu Chen, and Nikolaos
Bonanos .................................................... 289
Study of complex impedance spectroscopic properties of
Na2Pb2Pr2W2Ti4Nb4O30 ceramic
L. Biswal, Piyush R. Das, and Banarji Behera ............... 294
Structural and dielectric properties of zinc cobalt oxide
(ZnCo2O4) ceramics
B. Hymavathi, B. Rajesh Kumar, and T. Subba Rao ............ 299
AC impedance spectroscopy studies on solid-state sintered
zinc aluminum oxide (ZnAl2O4) ceramics
B. Rajesh Kumar and T. Subba Rao ........................... 303
Role of Y203, CaO, MgO additives on structural and
microstructural behavior of zirconia/mullite aggregates
D.K. Mishra, Sasmita Prusty, В.K. Mohapatra, S.K. Singh,
and S.N. Behera ............................................ 307
Structural and dielectric properties of a complex tungsten
bronze ferroelectric
R. Padhee, P.R. Das, B.N. Panda, and R.N.P. Choudhary ...... 312
Synthesis of y-aluminium oxynitride spinel using thermal
plasma technique
Pravuram Panda, S.K. Singh, and S.P. Sinha ................. 316
Effect of rare earth on multiferroic behavior of Bi rich
BiFe03 ceramic
S.K. Pradhan and В.K. Roul ................................. 320
Multiferroic bismuth ferrite material core based inductive
displacement sensor
R. Rajeswari, M.R. Biswal, J. Nanda, and N.C. Mishra ....... 324
Orbital density wave, spin density wave and
superconductivity in Fe-based materials
Haranath Ghosh and Harsh Purwar ............................ 328
Study of the effect of spin fluctuation on the
superconducting gap in the under-doped region of cuprates
K.L. Mohanta and G.C. Rout ................................. 332
A model study of CDW and SDW mixed mode exciton peak in
Raman scattering of high-Tc superconductors
S.K. Panda and G.C. Rout ................................... 337
Dimensionality fluctuation in the superconducting order
parameter of YBa2Cu3O7-δ+x CoFe2O4 composite
M. Sahoo, B. Bhol, A. Kujur, and D. Behera ................. 342
(D) Optical Properties and Spectroscopies of Materials
Temperature dependent photoluminescence studies in Hg0.2Cd0.8Te
nanorods synthesized by solvothermal method
Jayakrishna Khatei and K.S.R. Koteswara Rao ................ 349
Photoluminescence studies of chemically bath deposited
nanocrystalline lead sulphide (PbS) thin films
L. Rajen Singh, S. Bobby Singh, R.K. London, H.B. Sharma,
and A. Rahman .............................................. 353
Light induced optical properties change in Sb20S40Se40 thin
films
Ramakanta Naik, Sanjit K. Panda, E.M. Vinod,
R. Ganesan, and K.S. Sangunni .............................. 358
Femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy of novel corroles
Debasis Swain, P.T. Anusha, Syed Hamad, Surya P. Tewari,
L. Giribabu, and S. Venugopal Rao .......................... 363
(E) Materials for Engineering and Biomedical Applications
Realization of optical XOR and OR gates using asymmetric
Y-structure in a two dimensional photonic crystal
Smrati Rath, Sonali P. Dash, Mihir Hota, and Sukanta
K. Tripathy ................................................ 369
Effect of ceria content on adsorption properties of titanium
dioxide towards aqueous phosphate
P.K. Satapathy, Jagdeep Mohanta, and Deepak Kumar Parhi .... 374
Transition metal substituted SrTiO3 perovskite oxides as
promising functional materials for oxygen sensor
Sunasira Misra ............................................. 379
A novel method to measure the strength of CygelTM by using
two dimensional photonic crystal structures
G. Palai, S.K. Tripathy, N. Muduli, D. Patnaik, and
S.K. Patnaik ............................................... 383
Synthesis of metal-Bis(N-(3-ethylphenyl)-pyridine-2-acetyl-
hydrazine complexes and evaluation of their magnetic and
antimicrobial activity
Jagvir Singh, Kamelesh Kumari, Prashant Singh, Gopal
K. Mehrotra, and Netra Pal Singh ........................... 387
(F) Catalytic Activity and Ion-beam Modification of Materials
Novel sol-gel synthesis of cerium-doped ZnO thin films for
photocatalytic activity
S. Senthilvelan, V. L. Chandraboss, B. Karthikeyan,
M. Murugavelu, B. Loganathan, and L. Natanapatham .......... 395
Novel Ag-Pt doped silicate catalyst for C-C coupling reaction
B. Karthikeyan, M. Murugavelu, S. Senthilvelan, and
V.L. Chandraboss ........................................... 399
Reduction of anatase TiO2 on Si(111) by ion beam sputtering
V.R.R. Medicherla, R.R. Mohanta, K.L. Mohanta, Nimai
C. Nayak, S. Choudhary, S. Majumder, V. Solanki,
Shikha Varma, D.M. Phase, and V. Sathe ..................... 403
Effect of 79 MeV Br ion irradiation on the surface features
of rutile ТiO2 thin film
H. Rath, P. Dash, T. Som, B.N. Dash, U.P. Singh,
D. Kanjilal, and N.C. Mishra ............................... 408
List of Participants .......................................... 415
Author Index .................................................. 425
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