Bulletin of Materials Science

Volume 27, No. 1, February 2004

CONTENTS


Cover: 3-Dimensional AFM image of 0.5 µm thick TiN coating deposited at substrate bias voltage, -- 40 V. For details, see p. 39.


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Review--Ionic Conductros
Theoretical approaches to superionic conductivity

C S Sunandana and P Senthil Kumar



Synthesis and structural characterization of (Bi2O3)1--x (Y2O3)x and (Bi2O3)1--x (Gd2O3)x solid solutions

Srikant Ekhelikar and G K Bichile

19


Single Crystals
X-ray diffraction studies of NbTe2 single crystal

Neha Bhatt, Rajiv Vaidya, S G Patel and A R Jani

23


Synthesis and structural characterization of CsNiP crystal

G S Gopalakrishna, B H Doreswamy, M J Mahesh,
M Mahendra, M A Sridhar, J Shashidhara Prasad and K G Ashamanjari


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Structural Studies
X-ray structure determination and analysis of hydrogen interactions in 3,3´-dimethoxybinphenyl

Rajnikant, Dinesh and Dalbir Singh

31


Thin Films
Nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy measurements on reactively sputtered TiN coatings

Harish C Barshilia and K S Rajam

35


Dielectric Materials
Nonlinear I--V characteristics study of doped SnO2

S R Dhage, V Ravi and S K Date

43


Polymers
Forbidden reflections from the aramid PPTA--A novel correlation with stacking faults

Anjana Jain and Kalyani Vijayan

47


Preparation and study of conductivity in lithium salt complexes of mixed MEEP : PEO polymer electrolytes

G Saibaba, D Srikanth and A Ramachandra Reddy

51


A fresh study of optical and thermal properties of polystyrene solutions

S Durai and P Ramadoss

57


Alloys and Steels
X-ray diffraction line profile analysis for defect study in Zr--2.5% Nb material

K Kapoor, D Lahiri, S V R Rao, T Sanyal and B P Kashyap

59


Thermal conductivity of Cu--4.5 Ti alloy

S Nagarjuna

69


Optical Materials

Fabrication of silicon based glass fibres for optical communication


Vivek P Kude and R S Khairnar

73


Simulation Studies

Simulation studies of atomic resolution X-ray holography


Yogesh Kashyap, P S Sarkar, Amar Sinha and B K Godwal

79


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