There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

The term photonic crystals appears because of the analogy between electron waves in crystals and the light waves in artificial periodic dielectric structures. During the recent years the investigation of one-, two-and three-dimensional periodic structures has attracted a widespread attention of the world optics community because of great potentiality of such structures in advanced applied optical fields. The interest in periodic structures has been stimulated by the fast development of semiconductor technology that now allows the fabrication of artificial structures, whose period is comparable with the wavelength of light in the visible and infrared ranges.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/6354/16969/00781867.pdf

Photonic crystals

In this chapter, we will restrict our attention to the ferrites and a few other closely related materials. The great interest in ferrites stems from their unique combination of a spontaneous magnetization and a high electrical resistivity. The observed magnetization results from the difference in the magnetizations of two non-equivalent sub-lattices of the magnetic ions in the crystal structure. Materials of this type should strictly be designated as “ferrimagnetic” and in some respects are more closely related to anti-ferromagnetic substances than they are to ferromagnetics in which the magnetization results from the parallel alignment of all the magnetic moments present. We shall not adhere to this special nomenclature except to emphasize effects, which are due to the existence of the sub-lattices.

Ferromagnetic materials

3d-transition-metal-doped ZnO films (n-type Zn1−xMxO (x=005–025): M=Co, Mn, Cr, Ni) are formed on sapphire substrates using a pulsed-laser deposition technique, and their magnetic and electric properties are examined The Co-doped ZnO films showed the maximum solubility limit Some of the Co-doped ZnO films exhibit ferromagnetic behaviors with the Curie temperature higher than room temperature The magnetic properties of Co-doped ZnO films depend on the concentration of Co ions and carriers

Magnetic and electric properties of transition-metal-doped ZnO films

Recent advances in the theory and experimental realization of ferromagnetic semiconductors give hope that a new generation of microelectronic devices based on the spin degree of freedom of the electron can be developed. This review focuses primarily on promising candidate materials (such as GaN, GaP and ZnO) in which there is already a technology base and a fairly good understanding of the basic electrical and optical properties. The introduction of Mn into these and other materials under the right conditions is found to produce ferromagnetism near or above room temperature. There are a number of other potential dopant ions that could be employed (such as Fe, Ni, Co, Cr) as suggested by theory [see, for example, Sato and Katayama-Yoshida, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., Part 2 39, L555 (2000)]. Growth of these ferromagnetic materials by thin film techniques, such as molecular beam epitaxy or pulsed laser deposition, provides excellent control of the dopant concentration and the ability to grow single-phase layers. T...

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Wide band gap ferromagnetic semiconductors and oxides

Heteroaromatic studies of purine bases

The modal spectrum of the whispering gallery modes of dielectric resonator depends mainly on its physical dimensions, dielectric constant, and to a lesser extent, on the environment. This paper carries investigation of the resonant frequencies in dielectric disc utilising the ring resonator model. Results of the structural design parameters are used to generate a nume!ical expression for describing the operational frequencies useful for computer-aided design applications. Theoretical and experimental results are given for resonators of various sizes.

http://publications.drdo.gov.in/ojs/index.php/dsj/article/download/2229/1189

Resonant frequencies of whispering gallery modes of dielectric resonator

Relaxation dynamics of l-alanine in water medium investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy.

Anisotropic properties of a few liquid crystalline schiff bases

The new dispersion formula derived by Murthy et al. has been used to calculate the magneto-optic rotativity (δ). The expression for magneto-optic rotatory dispersion (MORD), derived from the new dispersion relation reads as The magneto-optic rotativity or verdet constants are calculated for chloro-, bromo-, methyl-, and dimethyl substituted benzenes. The magneto-optic rotativities are measured experimentally at various wavelengths and the theoretical and experimental MORD curves are drawn. The results are discussed critically and the utility of the new expression for MOR is verified. The possible extension of this approach for structural studies is outlined.

V. R. K. Murthy

Papers

Heteroaromatic studies of purine bases

Resonant frequencies of whispering gallery modes of dielectric resonator

Relaxation dynamics of l-alanine in water medium investigated by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy.

Anisotropic properties of a few liquid crystalline schiff bases

Magneto-optic rotatory dispersion — studies of some substituted benzenes by a new dispersion relation