MnSbInS4 multi-component semiconductor thin films are prepared by chemical spray pyrolysis on glass substrates at various substrate temperatures ranging from 250-400 °C with a constant spray time (5mins). The structural, morphological, optical and electrical properties of the thin films are investigated through different techniques such as X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron diffraction spectroscopy

Remarkable enhancement in figure-of-merit (ZT) value of p-type Tin Telluride (SnTe) thin films is reported in the present investigations. Under high vacuum conditions, all thin films deposited on the glass substrate by using thermal evaporation technique. Thickness of the thin films were kept 55 and 33 nm. Morphological features and the elemental composition of the thin film were investigated using

The utilization of usual supply voltage and clock for repetitive state transistors in digital circuits is a fundamental driver for high power utilization. Most significant bit states of the counter stay longer than the least significant bit states and it has some repetitive states. To limit the supply voltage and stop the clock for MSB Flip Flop (FF) transistor, our method uses Control Combinational

Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is an emerging technology in medical diagnosis and rehabilitation. In this study, by the acquisition of Electroencephalogram (EEG) signals from 30 healthy participants who perform four different hand movements, necessary features are extracted and classified to determine their accuracies. Statistical time domain features are extracted from the mu and beta frequency band

Modulational instability and bright envelope solitons of ion acoustic waves in dense plasma consisting of ultra-relativistic degenerate electrons and positrons, cold and mobile inertial ions, and negatively charged static dust particles have been investigated using Fried and Ichikawa method. Nonlinear Schrodinger equation has been derived and the growth rate of modulationally unstable ion acoustic

The flow of Casson fluid in contact with Jeffery fluid in a tube with a small diameter is concentrated in this paper. Casson fluid is considered in the central region and Jeffery fluid in the outer region. The governing equations are solved analytically and obtained expressions for velocity, flux, effective viscosity, central hematocrit, and mean hematocrit in dimensional form. The effect of many physical

The present paper deals with the synthesis and characterization of crystalline polyaniline (PANI). In the present work the crystalline PANI was synthesized in two steps. Firstly, the amorphous polyaniline was prepared by co-precipitation method using aniline as precursor and ammonium peroxodisulfate as reagent. In second stage the crystalline PANI was prepared by the melting and slow cooling. Pellets

The study aimed to design a hand cart for the cart puller in the old Delhi area. We used a Generic Product Development Process as a base to design and test our new cart design for the cart pullers. The process had been used in a sequential procedure to get the best design solution. It also saves time and money which would be wasted in the reiteration of the cart design. It starts with User Research

Simple high energy laser photon irradiation is a handy tool to tune the functional properties of wide band gap oxide-based devices. Present study reports on the effects of laser photon irradiation on electrical transport behaviour of n-ZnO/p-Si p-n junctions. The n-type conductivity of ZnO was optimised by doping of stoichiometric amount of Al in ZnO. The n-ZnO/p-Si junctions were grown on p-Si (100)

A new silver ion conducting Polyethylene Oxide (PEO) based solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) films: (1-x) PEO: xAgCl, where 0

In this paper, the concept of integration of a high voltage trench MOSFET (HVT MOSFET) and low voltage trench MOSFET (LVT MOSFET) is proposed. Insulator (Dielectric) isolation technique is used for the implementation of HVT and LVT MOSFETs on Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) layer side by side. The HVT MOSFET consists of two gates which are placed in separate trenches in the drift region. The proposed structure

The purpose of present paper is to analyze the Soret and Dufour effects on an unsteady magneto hydrodynamic oscillatory flow of radiative, visco-elastic fluid through an inclined channel filled with saturated porous medium with non-uniform wall temperature in presence of first-order chemical reaction. The governing dimensionless momentum equation coupled with the energy and mass diffusion equations

Fe/Co co-doped Zinc oxide was prepared by using hydrothermal method. Refinement of recorded X-ray diffractograms was done by Rietveld method by using MAUD. It shows that all the samples have a hexagonal structure with space group P63mc and the average crystallite size of the samples lie between 49-79 nanometers. Presence of some secondary phases were also detected. Rietveld analysis data reveals that

In this present investigation, the thermo-acoustic fundamental parameters such as density (ρ) and speed of sound (U) were measured experimentally for the anisidine isomers (2-methoxy aniline, 3-methoxy aniline and 4-methoxy aniline) with solvent agent such as 2-methyl cyclohexanone in various concentrations within temperatures from 303.15 to 313.15K (5K interval) at ambient atmospheric pressure. From

This paper presents the study of surface morphological, optical and microstructural features of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanofilm layered upon p-type Si substrate of <100> orientation by employing conventional RF magnetron sputtering system at different annealing temperatures. The effect of annealing on the nano-film is examined using different characterization techniques such as Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Compositional designing of effective graded radar absorbing material for low observable technology is always a challengeable task in material science. The micro scale or quantum scale interaction of electromagnetic radiation is depends on the characteristic property of each atom or their assembly in a material composition. The filler and matrix in a composite structure plays a vital role between the

Performance of Self Amplifed Spontaneous Emission (SASE) operation for an X-ray Free-Electron Laser (FEL), is optimized by Multiple Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEA). Different types of hybrid planar undulators are considered to achieve 0.5 Å ≤ λFEL ≤ 1.5 Å wavelength range. This demand is regarded as a continuous optimization problem, and hence, an evolutionary algorithm is designed to find

In this paper, a Differential Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (DQAM) technique for 200 x100 Gbps Super Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (SD-WDM) system is proposed. Optimized rating outcome in terms of the quality factor, bit error rate, crosstalk, and acceptable minor effect of the channel spacing with the support of RAMAN-EDFA-RAMAN Hybrid Optical Amplifier (HOA) is reported.

Digital Filter design plays a vital role in signal processing and communication applications. This paper proposes a hearing loss system model with Variable Bandwidth FIR Filter (VBF) and adaptive algorithms for the application to listening. The tunable band filter is designed to provide an appropriate sound level. This filter has several sub-filters each of which is designed with set of selected bandwidths

In this paper, a novel universal filter using single Four Terminal Floating Nullor Transconductance Amplifier (FTFNTA), two capacitors and one/two resistor has been proposed. Sensitivity of pole frequency (ω0) and quality factor (Q0) is analysed. Workability of proposed filter has been demonstrated by PSPICE simulations in 0.18µm TSMC CMOS technology.

The 2, 4, 6-trimethylbenzene sulphonyl chloride was characterized using IR and Raman spectral data. The molecular electrostatic potential surface of the 2,4,6-trimethylbenzene sulphonyl chloride (TMBS) has been visualized in electropositive potential in the region of the CH3+ group and most electronegative potential in the two oxygen atom has strong binding group. The HOMO and LUMO energies and electronic

This present paper is concerned with the analytical study of the amplitude modulation and demodulation of a coherent electromagnetic wave in magnetized doped III-V semiconductors. Utilizing the hydrodynamic model of a semiconductor plasma, the modulation indices for upper (+) and lower (–) side bands have been obtained. The incorporation of carrier diffusion in the nonlinear laser-semiconductor interaction

The present paper analyzes the effect of chemical reaction on free convection MHD motion of steady, laminar, incompressible liquid under the influence of heat source/sink. The motion is considered over an exponential radiative extending surface with a magnetic field. An appropriate similar transformation is employed to convert the nonlinear system of partial differential equations (PDEs) to a set of

A speculative investigation has been presented to explore the significant features of MHD convective Casson fluid flow past a semi-infinite moving vertical porous plate with heat source/sink are included in the flow configuration. The governing partial differential equations are remodeled into ordinary differential equations using appropriate non-dimensional variables. The ensuing differential equations

Two dimensional, steady, forced convection magnetohydrodynamic flow of an incompressible, viscous electrically conducting fluid in a forward stagnation region of an infinite solid surface with Newtonian heating, constant wall temperature and constant heat flux has been investigated. Governing partial differential equations for the exploration have been formulated and converted to nonlinear ordinary

Light sources are used extensively at various stages of development and characterization of an electro-optical (EO) payload like Cartosat, HySIS, Microsat etc. These sources are required to characterize many critical parameters of EO payload like photo response non uniformity (PRNU), noise performance, saturation radiance etc. Currently integrating sphere with quartz tungsten halogen (QTH) lamp is

In this manuscript, grounded capacitor single resistance controlled oscillator using four terminal floating Nullor transconductance amplifier (FTFNTA) is presented. It requires only one FTFNTA, two grounded resistors and two grounded capacitors. Oscillation condition (OC) and oscillation frequency (OF) are solely controlled through resistors. The non-ideal behaviour of the proposed structure has also

Free standing and flexible polymer blend films of PPy (poly pyrrole) doped in PVA (poly vinyl alcohol) – PVP (poly vinyl pyrrolidone) matrix with varying concentrations of PPy have been prepared by solution cast technique at room temperature. In-situ polymerization of pyrrole monomer (Py) in PVA-PVP matrix has been carried out using FeCl3 as oxidant. The effect of monomer amount and monomer to oxidant

The solvatochromic studies in a Quinoline derivative molecule namely Quinolin-8-ol (QO) have been carried out at ambient temperature using absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The QO molecule shows the bathochromic shift with increase in solvent polarity demonstrating π → π* transition. The solvatochromic data coupled with quantum mechanical calculations has been used to estimate change in dipole

This paper investigates a hetero-junction vertical t-shape tunnel field effect transistor and discussed various methods for the suppression of ambipolar conduction for the first-time utilizing computer aided design sentaurus simulation tool. This device is primarily consisting of dual gate silicon based gated p-i-n diode for eminent control over the channel. Further, introduction to the 10 nm silicon

In the present investigation, solar cells have been fabricated using Cds/CdSe quantum dots sensitized ZnO photoanode for solar cell application. Photocurrent-voltage analysis and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurements have been performed to investigate the electron transport and recombination of charge carriers in quantum dot-sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs) based on ZnO photoanodes

The effective electrical conductivity (EEC) of low density polyethylene (LDPE) and linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) polymer composites filled with copper has been studied. The nonlinear behavior has been observed for effective electrical conductivity versus filler content. Several approaches have been described to predict the electrical conductivities of polymer composites. EEC is described

A precision LCR meter along with a liquid dielectric cell have been used to measure the capacitance and resistance of the binary mixtures of methyl ethers with water at 298.15 K in the frequency range of 20 Hz to 2 MHz. The measured values are used to compute the complex dielectric permittivity ε*(ω). The parameters like complex electrical modulus M*(ω), complex electrical conductivity σ*(ω) and loss

The dielectric properties of sandy soil for various moisture contents of distilled water and Urea-fluid solutions in soil are estimated in the lower frequency range from 20 Hz to 2 MHz using precision LCR meter. The spectra of complex permittivity e*(ω), loss tangent tan δ(ω), electrical conductivity σ*(ω), and complex impedance Z*(ω) plane plots of these soil-fluid system have been investigated for

A ZBLAN glass of the following composition: 53 mol.% ZrF4, 20 mol.% BaF2, 4 mol.% LaF3,3 mol.% AIF3, 20 mol.% NaF is studied for predicting its glass forming ability (GFA). The GFA of a ZBLAN glass is evaluated by estimating the Gibbs free energy difference (ΔG) between the undercooled liquid and the corresponding equilibrium solid phases. Other GFA criteria (Trg=Tg/Tl, Tx/Tl, γ=Tx/Tg+Tl, ΔTxg=Tx-Tg

Dielectric measurements have been carried out for distilled water and saline water solutions of salinities 10000, 20000, 30000, 40000 ppm, as well as sea water of Diu beach area, using Anritsu Shockline Vector Network Analyzer (VNA, model no: MS46322A) in the frequency range from 1 GHz to 20 GHz, over the temperatures of 20°, 30° and 40 °C. From the measured values of dielectric constant and dielectric

An attempt was made to understand the role of various entrance channel parameters on incomplete fusion dynamics by the measurements of excitation functions of evaporation residues populated via complete and incomplete fusion dynamics in the system 19F + 154Sm at projectile energy ≈ 4-6 MeV/A. The stacked foil activation technique followed by offline gamma ray spectrometry was employed in these measurements

The barrier distribution of a system can be extracted from excitation function data obtained either through fusion reaction or through quasi-elastic scattering measurement. In the present work, the quasi-elastic excitation function has precisely been measured at back angle for the 28Si + 142Nd system at energies around the Coulomb barrier and the corresponding experimental barrier distribution has

The alpha decay chain properties of Z = 122 isotope in the mass range 298£ A £ 350, even-even nuclei, are studied using a fission-like model with an effective combination of the cubic plus proximity potential in the pre and post-scission regions, wherein the decay rates are calculated using improved transfer matrix method, and the results are in good agreement with other phenomenological formulae such

The paper presents a design and construction of uniform amplitude pulse generator for testing Differential Non-Linearity (DNL) of high-resolution nuclear spectroscopy systems. The paper describes two methods based on two new techniques called DAC Interpolation and Analog Multiplexer based design. A prototype of DAC interpolation technique has been designed and tested. **The method based on analog multiplexer

Systematic study of superheavy nuclei 296Og and its possibilities to emit alpha particle and heavier clusters are studied using Modified Generalized Liquid Drop Model (MGLDM) with Q value dependent preformation factor. Half-lives and branching ratio of all possible cluster emission of 296Og is checked and only those cluster which are within the experimental half-lives limit (less than 1030s) and branching

A novel method for quantification of trace elements in herbal samples using photon activation analysis is reported. Seven trace elements have been detected and their concentrations have been estimated from residue yields after the photo-nuclear reaction. This method can complement the conventional neutron activation analysis for trace elemental detection. The data is useful for setting referral standards

This work is devoted to determination of the response function of a BGO detector of γ-rays, which is used in experiments aimed at investigation of inelastic scattering of neutrons with energies of 14.1 MeV on various nuclei. A function is constructed to describe the Monte-Carlo simulated response of a gamma-detector, which allows taking into account all possible mechanisms of interaction of γ-rays

In the present study we have calculated the proton spectra of 59Co(n,xp) using TALYS-1.9. TALYS uses all major reaction mechanisms like compound, pre-equilibrium and direct reactions. The contribution from compound nuclear reaction is calculated using optical model calculations. For pre-equilibrium contributions we have used two particle exciton model. The results from the present work suggests the

The issue of magicity of Si28 has been a contentious one. Fridmann et al., through studies of two-proton knockout reaction Si28 ⟶ Si28, presented strong evidence in support of magicity and sphericity of Si28. However in complete conflict with this, Bastin et al., gave equally strong empirical evidence, to show that the N = 28 magicity had completely collapsed in Si28 to make it well deformed. The consensus

The fusion and subsequent decay analysis of Z=116 superheavy nucleus formed via 48Ca+248Cm→296Lv*, 50Ti+244Pu→294Lv*,and 58Fe+232Th→290Lv* reactions is carried out using extended ℓ-summed Wong model and dynamical cluster decay model (DCM), respectively. First of all, the experimentally available fusion-fission (A/2±20) data is adequately addressed for 296Lv* and 294Lv* superheavy nuclei using extended

In this paper, the measurement and covariance analysis of the cross section of 100Mo (n, 2n) 99Mo reaction, with the 197Au (n, 2n)196 Au reaction being used as the monitor, at the incident neutron energy of 13.9 MeV is reported. The 3H (d, n) 4He nuclear reaction is used as the neutron source. The experiment was performed at the Purnima neutron facility, BARC. The method of activation with off-line

During the last few decades, research in heavy-ion induced nuclear reactions has opened numerous fields, in its theoretical and experimental domains. At energies, from near the Coulomb barrier to well above it, the complete fusion (CF) and incomplete fusion (ICF) reactions compete with each other. The relative contribution of these processes depends on various entrance channel parameters. In order

An experiment has been performed for the measurements of forward recoil range distributions (FRRDs) of evaporation residues (ERs) using 16O beam on the target 148Nd to explore the incomplete fusion (ICF) dynamics at low projectile energy ≈ 4-6 MeV/A. In the present work, FRRDs of ERs 159,158Er(xn), 160g,159Ho(pxn), 157,155Dy(αxn) and 155Tb(αpxn) have been measured. The measured FRRDs of ERs have been

This paper is dedicated to n+12C, n+24Mg, n+52Cr -reactions investigation at 14.1 MeV neutron energy. Characteristics of these reactions have been calculated using TALYS code to estimate perspectives of using of this code in data interpretation in the TANGRA project. This project is performed in Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics (FLNP JINR) to investigate properties of (n,xγ)-type reactions, important

The paper describes a new method for high resolution nuclear timing spectroscopy system using tracking ADCs and free running ramp to give the timing resolution of few ps over wide dynamic range of time interval extending up to few µs. The method makes use of tracking ADCs with 16 bit resolution with low conversion time of nearly 1 µs along with a free running ramp which is given as input to the two

Study of N≈Z nuclei in mass A ̴80 region, which is in the transitional region, is of interest due to the existence of abundant nuclear structure phenomena and this mass region is often characterized by shape co-existence. In present work, the multi-quasiparticle triaxial projected shell model (TPSM) approach is employed to study the high spin structures and to depict γ deformation in 82Sr. TPSM results

A heavy-ion collision provides a unique opportunity to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density and temperature. Nuclear fragmentation is an important experimental phenomenon in nucleus-nucleus collision at relativistic energy, since it carries the information about emission mechanism, phase transition of the nuclear matter as well as equation of state. The interesting feature

The evaporation-residue cross section σEVR of fusion reactions depend on the projectile-target combinations and the incident energy. A detail theoretical study is useful before the synthesis of more isotopes of super heavy nuclei Z=119. We have studied the evaporation-residue cross sections for possible projectile-target combinations to synthesis the superheavy nuclei with Z=119. We have studied the

A heavy-ion collision provides a unique opportunity to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density and temperature. Nuclear fragmentation is an important experimental phenomenon in nucleus-nucleus collision at relativistic energy, since it carries the information about emission mechanism, phase transition of the nuclear matter as well as equation of state. The interesting feature

We have studied the X-ray and gamma radiation shielding parameters such as mass attenuation coefficient, linear attenuation coefficient, Half Value Layer (HVL), Tenth Value Layer (TVL), effective atomic number and electron density in some boron polymers of different boron based polymers [ Polymer A-PolyBorazylene (B3N3H4), Polymer B- 4-Vinylphenyl Boronic acid (C8H9O2B), Polymer C- Borazine (B3N3H6)

The phenomenon of proton emission from nuclear ground states limits the possibilities of the creation of more exotic proton rich nuclei that are usually produced by fusion-evaporation nuclear reactions. In the energy domain of radioactivity, proton can be considered as a point charge having highest probability of being present in the parent nucleus. Conclaves et al.1 studied the two-proton radioactivity

The ground state nuclear structure properties of the proton rich even-even tellurium isotopes are studied by using Gogny energy density functional within the framework of Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) method. The HFB equations are solved by using the axial cylindrical transformed deformed harmonic oscillator basis. The full parameterization of Gogny energy density functional is employed in the present

We have studied chlorine (Cl), potassium (K) and Nickel (Ni) induced reactions in the synthesis of 273Rg. We have studied the compound nucleus formation probability, survival probability and evaporation residue cross sections to synthesize superheavy element (SHN) 273Rg. The selected projectile-target combinations to synthesis 273Rg are 35,37Cl + 238,236Pu, 39-41K + 234-232U and 63,64Ni + 210,209Bi

In present work, we have calculated the hindrance factors of 182 even-even alpha emitters using Preston’s formulation of alpha decay probabilities and presented HFs systematics of 1- and 3- states in reflection asymmetric even-even quadruple-octupole deformed nuclides (A~216-230). The calculated HFs of both 1- and 3- states decrease with reduction in neutron number and this decrease is attributed to