Single Crystals

Thermal characteristics of pure and substituted gel grown Gd-molybdate crystals

Vinay Hangloo, K K Bamzai, P N Kotru and M L Koul

395

Phase Transitions

Phase transition in L-alaninium oxalate by photoacoustics

M Sivabarathy, S Natarajan, S K Ramakrishnan and K Ramachandran

403

Composites

Influence of steady shear flow on dynamic viscoelastic properties of un-reinforced and Kevlar, glass fibre reinforced LLDPE

Takeshi Kitano, S A R Hashmi and Navin Chand

409

Nuclear Related Materials

Irradiation of large area Mylar membrane and characterization of nuclear track filter

N K Acharya, P K Yadav, S Wate, Y K Vijay, F Singh and D K Avasthi

417

Dielectrics

Investigation of  Ba_2--xSr_xTiO₄: Structural aspects and dielectric properties

Vishnu Shanker, Tokeer Ahmad and Ashok K Ganguli

421

Superconductors

Phase formation of superconducting MgB₂ at ambient pressure

A Talapatra, S K Bandyopadhyay, Pintu Sen, A Sarkar and P Barat

429

Thin Films

Progress of (Sr, Ba) TiO₃ ferroelectric thin film and tunability

Fu Xinghua, Shan Lianwei,  Ding Biyan, Hou Wenping, 
Fang Zhou and Fu Zhengyi

433

Pre-exponential factor in a-Se₇₅In_25--xPb_x  thin films

D  Kumar and S Kumar

441

CVD growth and characterization of 3C-SiC thin films

A Gupta, D Paramanik, S Varma and C Jacob

445

Plasma spheroidization of nickel powders in a plasma reactor

G Shanmugavelayutham and V Selvarajan

453

Ionic Conductors

Study of effect of quenching and deformation on KCl : Gd³⁺ crystals by using conductivity measurements

G Saibabu, A Ramachandra Reddy and D Srikanth

459

Biomimetic synthesis of cellular SiC based ceramics from plant precursor

O P Chakrabarti, H S Maiti and R Majumdar

467

Instrumentation

Accurate determination of the voltage of a transmission electron microscope (TEM) by <0 1 2> CBED--HOLZ analyses using GaAs crystal

D V Sridhara Rao, R Balamuralikrishnan and K Muraleedharan

471