Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU): Recent submissions

  • Mukhopadhyay, Sabyasachi (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Photovoltaics deal with harnessing sunlight and subsequent conversion into electrical energy. Efficient photovoltaic solar cells based on inorganic semiconductors have developed considerably [1] since the first realization ...
  • Radha, B. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    The dawn of nanoscience and nanotechnology is considered to be the lecture There's plenty of room at the bottom delivered by a visionary physicist, Richard Feynmann in 1959 [1]. Drexler elaborated this idea in his technical ...
  • Joshi, Darshana (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    This chapter gives a detailed account of group III nitride family, with special focus on Gallium Nitride (GaN) in terM.S. of its fundamental properties and promising applications. Literature background that highlights ...
  • Ghosh, Dibyajyoti (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Low-dimensional materials have attracted a huge attention of chemists and physicists in recent years.[1, 2] The appearance of anomalous novel properties in these materials has made them very interesting to investigate. ...
  • Kesaria, Manoj (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    The group III-Nitride solid state devices, which have permeated our daily life, are light emitting diodes (LEDs) and laser diodes (LDs). In fact, they have been overshadowed only by the transistor. The power efficiency, ...
  • Chakraborty, Anindita (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Molecular magnetism deals with the magnetic properties of materials consisting discrete molecules or assemblies of molecules. Generally, the molecular magnets consist of solid lattice made of molecular building blocks1 ...
  • Kanoo, Prakash (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    Solids containing voids or empty spaces in their lattices which can be used for trapping gas or other molecules are called porous solids. The voids or empty spaces in these solids are occupied by guest or template molecules ...
  • Rai, Shipra (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    The year 2011 has witnessed the completion of 100 years of discovery of superconductivity. It was discovered in the year 1911 by H. K. Onnes in mercury while measuring its resistivity at low temperatures. He observed a ...
  • Kumar, Prashant (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Semiconductors were discovered in early 19th century, when a decrease in resistance with increasing temperature was observed in certain materials [1]. Metal-semiconductor diodes and junction diodes were studied in 1870s ...
  • Subrahmanyam, K.S. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    The thesis consists of seven chapters of which the first chapter provides a brief overview of graphene. Chapter 2 deals with the synthesis and characterization of graphene. When graphene research was initiated in our ...
  • Mandal, Pranab (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    Present day leisure and basic needs of our daily life has triggered an exponential increase in technical advances. This has enforced scientists and engineers to discover new compounds and develop technologies. At present, ...
  • Kuyyalil, Jithesh (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    Semiconductors have revolutionised many aspects of life over the past 50 years. Techniques which have led to low cost, high density processing of silicon have resulted in silicon integrated circuits becoming ubiquitous ...
  • Payal, Rajdeep Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2014)
    Room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have gained a lot of attention owing to their attractive physiochemical properties. Low vapor pressure [13], inflammability [4, 5], high chemical and thermal stability [6, 7], wide ...
  • Mettela, Gangaiah (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2012)
    The prefix nano in ‘nanoscience’ means a billionth (1 × 10-9 ). It deals with various aspects of matter, having dimensions of the order of a billionth of a meter (1 nm). At the nanoscale, the fundamental properties of ...
  • Bag, Manojit (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    Abundant and economical energy in its different forms is the life blood of modern civilizations. Natural gas, coal and oil provides almost 85% of the total energy consumption. However world’s leading geologists have ...
  • Datta K, Kumara Ramanatha (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2011)
    Hybrid materials derived from organic and inorganic components are receiving enormous attention owing to their applications in the fields of biology, energy, catalysis, reinforcements, etc. 1 These materials are broadly ...
  • Thirumurugan, A. (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2008)
    Hybrid inorganic organic network compounds constitute an important class of materials that have been studied extensively over the last few years due to their potential applications in catalysis, gas separation and storage. ...
  • G, Kavitha (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2008)
    The present thesis uses two optical probes, namely, Raman and Brillouin spectroscopy to study the physical properties of material. In order to understand the systeM.S. we have used the two thermodynamic quantities, pressure ...
  • B L, Bhargava (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2008)
    The thesis presents results of investigations on imidazolium cation based room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs), using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) and classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Chapter 1 ...
  • Kumar, G V Pavan (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific ResearchChemistry and Physics of Materials Unit (CPMU), 2008)
    At the onset of twenty first century, molecular spectroscopy has been rejuvenated by the advances in various fields like optical instrumentation, nanoscience and biotechnology. By employing various spectroscopic techniques, ...

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