Items where Division is "Material Science and Technology" and Year is 2008

Article

Anumola, R and Ravi Kumar, B and Misra, R D K and Mannering, T and Panda, D and Jansto, S G (2008) On the determining role of microstructure of niobium-microalloyed steels with differences in impact toughness. Materials Science and Engineering A, 491 (1-2). pp. 55-61.

Balasubramani, N and Srinivasan, A and Pillai, U T S and Raghukandan, K and Pal, B C (2008) Effect of antimony addition on the microstructure and mechanical properties of ZA84 magnesium alloy. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 455 (1-2). pp. 168-173.

Barman, S R and Chakrabarti, Aparna and Singh, Sanjay and Banik, S and Bhardwaj, S and Paulose, P L and Chalke, B A and Panda, A K and Mitra, A and Awasthi, A M (2008) Theoretical prediction and experimental study of a ferromagnetic shape memory alloy: Ga2MnNi. Physical Review B (PRB), 78 (13). pp. 1-6.

Biswal, Vivekananda and Soni, Sunny and Jena, D P and Kumar, Rajesh (2008) Application of image processing in estimation of area of heat affected zone. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (4). pp. 219-225.

Bose, S C and Singh, Kulvir and Ray, Ashok K and Ghosh, R N (2008) Effect of thermal ageing on mechanical properties and microstructures of a standard G-X 12 CrMoVWNbN 1011 grade of cast steel for turbine casing. Materials Science and Engineering A, 476 (1-2). pp. 257-266.

Chaudhuri, S (2008) Philosophy of integrity assessment of engineering components. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 489 (1-2). pp. 259-266.

Das, Arpan and Das, S K and Sivaprasad, S and Tarafder, S (2008) Fracture-property correlation in copper-strengthened high-strength low-alloy steel. Scripta Materialia, 59 (7). pp. 681-683.

Das, Arpan and Sivaprasad, S and Chakraborti, P C and Tarafder, S (2008) Correspondence of fracture surface features with mechanical properties in 304LN stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 496 (1-2). pp. 98-105.

Das, Arpan and Sivaprasad, S and Ghosh, M and Chakraborti, P C and Tarafder, S (2008) Morphologies and characteristics of deformation induced martensite during tensile deformation of 304 LN stainless steel. Materials Science and Engineering A, 486 (1-2). pp. 283-286.

Das, Arpan and Tarafder, S (2008) Geometry of dimples and its correlation with mechanical properties in austenitic stainless steel. Scripta Materialia, 59 (9). pp. 1014-1017.

Ghosh, Arindam and Das, Samar and Chatterjee, S (2008) Ageing behavior of a Cu-bearing ultrahigh strength steel. Materials Science and Engineering A, 486 (1-2). pp. 152-157.

Ghosh, Sabita and Pal, T K and Mukherjee, Surojit and Das, Goutam and Ghosh, Sukomal (2008) Comparative study of heat-affected zone with weld and base material after post-weld heat treatment of HSLA steel using ball indentation technique. Journal of Materials Science, 43 (16). pp. 5474-5482.

Ghosh, Sabita and Yadav, Sandip and Das, Goutam (2008) Ball Indentation Technique: A currently developed tool to study the effect of various heat treatments on the mechanical properties of En24 steel. Materials Letters, 62 (24). pp. 3966-3968.

Ghosh, Sabita and Yadav, Sandip and Das, Goutam (2008) Study of standard heat treatment on mechanical properties of Inconel 718 using ball indentation technique. Materials Letters, 62 (17-18). pp. 2619-2622.

Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Mondal, Amit and Gubicza, Jeno and Krallics, Gyorgy and Fodor, Arpad (2008) Evolution of microstructure and texture in an ultrafine-grained Al6082 alloy during severe plastic deformation. Materials Science and Engineering A, 490 (1-2). pp. 335-342.

Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Pereloma, Elena V and Santos, D B (2008) Evolution of texture at the initial stages of continuous annealing of cold rolled dual-phase steel: Effect of heating rate. Materials Science and Engineering A, 480 (1-2). pp. 540-548.

Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Singh, Raghuvir (2008) The influence of recrystallized structure and texture on the sensitization behaviour of a stable austenitic stainless steel (AISI 316L). Scripta Materialia, 58 (12). pp. 1102-1105.

Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Xu, Cheng and Langdon, T G (2008) Texture evolution in an aluminum alloy processed by ECAP with concurrent precipitate fragmentation. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 473 (1-2). pp. 219-225.

Goswami, B and Ray, Ashok K (2008) Perspectives of nanocrystalline materials and metallic glass in pure nickel and nickel base alloys. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (4). pp. 195-217.

Goswami, B and Sahay, S K and Ray, Ashok K (2008) Application of thermal barrier coating in light weight gas turbine. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (1). pp. 1-21.

Hamada, A S and Sahu, Puspendu and Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Karjalainen, L P and Levoska, J and Oittinen, T (2008) Kinetics of the γ → ε Martensitic Transformation in Fine-Grained Fe-26Mn-0.14C Austenitic Steel. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 39 (2). pp. 462-465.

Jindal, Vikas and Srivastava, V C (2008) Growth of intermetallic layer at roll bonded IF-steel/aluminum interface. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 195 (1-3). pp. 88-93.

Kar, Abhijit and Ghosh, M and Ghosh, R N and Majumdar, Bhaskar S and Ray, Ajoy K (2008) Evolution of mechanical and electrical properties of tin–lead and lead free solder to copper joint interface. Materials Letters, 62 (1). pp. 151-154.

Kar, Abhijit and Ghosh, M and Ray, Ashok K and Ray, Ajoy K (2008) Effect of interfacial thickness and residual stress on the mechanical property of the alumina–stainless steel braze joint interface. Materials Science and Engineering A, 498 (1-2). pp. 283-288.

Khanra, A K and Pathak, L C and Godkhindi, M M (2008) Double SHS of ZrB2 powder. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 202 (1-3). pp. 386-390.

Kumar, A and Singh, R J and Mitra, A and Panda, A K (2008) Preparation of Fe and Co based amorphous wires by in-water quenching process. Materials Science and Technology, 24 (5). pp. 618-622.

Kumari, Mamta and Prasad, J N (2008) Analysis of optimized sierpinski carpet (SC) fractal antenna and estimation of EMI. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (4). pp. 235-243.

Metya, A and Ghosh, M and Parida, N and Palit Sagar, S (2008) Higher harmonic analysis of ultrasonic signal for ageing behaviour study of C-250 grade maraging steel. NDT & E International, 41 . pp. 484-489.

Metya, Avijit Kumar and Ghosh, M and Parida, N and Palit Sagar, S (2008) Higher harmonic analysis of ultrasonic signal for ageing behaviour study of C-250 grade maraging steel. NDT & E International, 41 (6). pp. 484-489.

Mishra, Suman K and Bhattacharyya, A S (2008) Effect of substrate temperature on the adhesion properties of magnetron sputtered nano-composite Si–C–N hard thin films. Materials Letters, 62 (3). pp. 398-402.

Mishra, Suman K and Pathak, L C (2008) Effect of carbon and titanium carbide on sintering behaviour of zirconium diboride. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 465 (1-2). pp. 547-555.

Misra, R D K and Ravi Kumar, B and Somani, M and Karjalainen, L P (2008) Deformation processes during tensile straining of ultrafine/nanograined structures formed by reversion in metastable austenitic steels. Scripta Materialia, 59 (1). pp. 79-82.

Mitra, A and Panda, A K (2008) Development of Ni-Mn-Ga based Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy by Rapid Solidification Technique. Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Book Series: Advanced Materials Research , 52 . pp. 17-27.

Mohan, B M and Ghosh, Arpita (2008) Analytical structure and stability analysis of a fuzzy PID controller. Applied Soft Computing, 8 . pp. 749-758.

Mohan, B M and Ghosh, Arpita (2008) Analytical Structures for Fuzzy PID Controllers? IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 16 (1). pp. 52-60.

Mohan, B M and Ghosh, Arpita (2008) Mathematical models of the simplest fuzzy PI/PD controllers with skewed input and output fuzzy sets. ISA Transactions , 47 . pp. 300-310.

Mohan, B M and Ghosh, Arpita (2008) The simplest fuzzy two-term controllers: mathematical models and stability analysis. International Journal of Automation and Control, 2 . pp. 5-21.

Mohapatra, J N and Ray, Ashok K and Swaminathan, J and Mitra, A (2008) Creep behaviour study of virgin and service exposed 5Cr–0.5Mo steel using magnetic Barkhausen emissions technique. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 320 (18). pp. 2284-2290.

Murthy, G V S and Ghosh, Sabita and Das, Mousumi and Das, Goutam and Ghosh, R N (2008) Correlation between ultrasonic velocity and indentation-based mechanical properties with microstructure in Nimonic 263. Materials Science and Engineering A, 488 (1-2). pp. 398-405.

Narasaiah, N and Ray, K K (2008) Initiation and growth of micro-cracks under cyclic loading. Materials Science and Engineering A, 474 (1-2). pp. 48-59.

Nayar, S and Pramanick, A K and Guha, Avijit and Mahato, B and Gunjan, M K and Sinha, Arvind (2008) Biomimetic synthesis of hybrid nanocomposite scaffolds by freeze-thawing and freeze-drying. Bulletin of Material Science, 31 (3). pp. 429-432.

Nayar, S and Pramanick, A K and Sharma, Binay Kumar and Das, Goutam and Ravi Kumar, B and Sinha, Arvind (2008) Biomimetically synthesized polymer-hydroxyapatite sheet like nano-composite. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 19 (1). pp. 301-304.

Pal, S K and Panda, A K and Mitra, A (2008) Effect of annealing on the second harmonic amplitude of Giant Magneto-Impedance (GMI) voltage of a Co–Fe–Si–B amorphous wire. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 320 (3-4). pp. 496-502.

Palit Sagar, S and Metya, Avijit Kumar and Parida, N and Ghosh, R N (2008) Nonlinear ultrasonic to assess localized plastic deformation during high cycle fatigue. Review Of Progress In Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol 27a And 27b Book Series: AIP Conference Proceedings, 975 . pp. 1260-1266.

Palit Sagar, S and Ravi Kumar, B and Ghosh Chowdhury, S and De, P K and Ghosh, R N (2008) Determination of crystallographic texture in cold-rolled copper and stainless steel by spectrum analysis of ultrasonic signal. Scripta Materialia, 58 (7). pp. 595-598.

Panda, A K and Ghosh, M and Kumar, Arvind and Mitra, A (2008) Magnetic transitions and structure of a NiMnGa ferromagnetic shape memory alloy prepared by melt spinning technique. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 320 (17). pp. 116-120.

Panda, A K and Kumar, Arvind and Ghosh, M and Mitra, A (2008) Development of Ni-Mn-Ga-based ferromagnetic shape memory alloy by rapid solidification route. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 320 (20). pp. 730-733.

Rajnikanth, V and Arora, Gaurav and Narasaiah, N and Venkateswarlu, K (2008) Effect of repetitive corrugation and straightening on Al and Al–0.25Sc alloy. Materials Letters, 62 (2). pp. 301-304.

Ramanathan, K and Periasamy, V M and Malathy, and Pushpavanamb, and Natarajan, U (2008) Prediction of volume fraction of diamond deposition in Ni-diamond composite coatings - An artificial neural network approach. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (1). pp. 57-64.

Ray, Ashok K and Diwakar, K and Roy, Nilima and Das, H K and Sahu, J K and Ghosh, R N (2008) Creep behaviour and stress analysis of a seventeen-year service-exposed primary super heater tube in a thermal power plant. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 47 (4). pp. 469-478.

Ray, Ashok K and Diwakar, K and Sahu, J K and Das, H K and Roy, Nilima and Ghosh, R N (2008) Stress Analysis and Creep Behavior of Service Exposed Primary Superheater Tube in a Thermal Power Plant. High Temperature Materials And Processes, 27 (2). pp. 79-89.

Ray, Ashok K and Goswami, B and Kar, Abhijit and Ray, Ajoy K and Das, H K and Roy, P K and Kumar, S B and Bose, S C (2008) Damage resistance of a thermal barrier coated superalloy for combustor liners in aero turbines during fatigue and creep. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 47 (4). pp. 479-493.

Ray, Ashok K and Goswami, B and Kumar, S B and Das, D and Das, Swapan K and Sharma, A and Das, D K (2008) Influence of thermally grown oxide scale on fatigue resistance of a thermal barrier coated superalloy. Canadian Metallurgical Quarterly, 47 (1). pp. 99-109.

Ray, Ashok K and Goswami, B and Kumar, S B and Sahay, S K (2008) Damage assessment and life prediction of TBC systems. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (3). pp. 127-150.

Ray, Ashok K and Goswami, B and Kumar, S B and Sahay, S K (2008) Fatigue in gas turbine components. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (2). pp. 85-105.

Roy, H and Parida, N and Sivaprasad, S and Tarafder, S and Ray, K K (2008) Acoustic emissions during fracture toughness tests of steels exhibiting varying ductility. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 486 (1-2). pp. 562-571.

Saha, Debdulal and Das, Santanu and Sengupta, Kamalendu (2008) Development of commercial nanoporous trace moisture sensor following sol–gel thin film technique. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 128 (2). pp. 383-387.

Sahu, Ranjan K and Ray, Ajoy K and Mishra, T and Pathak, L C (2008) Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Magnetic Ni Wire from a Metal−Organic Precursor Containing Ni(II) and Triethanolamine. Crystal Growth & Design, 8 (10). pp. 3754-3760.

Sahu, Ranjan K and Roy, Ajoy K and Manotiaran, S S and Arora, S and Mishra, T and Lim, S -H and Salamanca-Riba, L G and Kundaliya, D C and Panda, A K and Mitra, A and Pathak, L C (2008) Single step synthesis of Ni wire, sponge and flower, and their magnetic properties. Magnetic Materials Book Series: Aip Conference Proceedings, 1003 . pp. 100-102.

Sen, S and Choudhary, R N P (2008) Phase transition in Sr modified Pb(SnTi)O3 system. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 457 (1-2). pp. 417-421.

Sen, S and Mishra, Suman K (2008) Electrical behaviour of PMN–PT–PVDF nanocomposite. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 41 (16). p. 165305.

Sen, S and Mishra, Suman K and Palit Sagar, S and Das, Swapan K (2008) Preparation and characterization of PMN-PT nanocomposite. Indian Journal Of Engineering And Materials Sciences , 15 (2). pp. 111-115.

Sen, S and Mishra, Suman K and Palit Sagar, S and Das, Swapan K and Tarafder, A (2008) Impedance analysis of 0.65Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3–0.35PbTiO3 ceramic. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 453 (1-2). pp. 395-400.

Singh, Nidhi and Singh, Vakil (2008) Effect of temperature on tensile properties of near-alpha alloy Timetal 834. Materials Science And Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure And Processing, 485 (1-2). pp. 130-139.

Singh, P K and Bhasin, V and Vaze, K K and Ghosh, A K and Kushwaha, H S and Murthy, D S R (2008) Fatigue studies on carbon steel piping materials and components: Indian PHWRs. Nuclear Engineering and Design, 238 (4). pp. 801-813.

Singh, R N and Singh, A and Mishra, D and Tiwari, S K and Gunjan, M K (2008) Influence of substitution of Ru on the electrocatalytic properties of the perovskite-type LaSrNiO4 electrode towards methanol oxidation. Indian Journal Of Chemistry Section A-Inorganic Bio-Inorganic Physical Theoretical & Analytical Chemistry , 47 (8). pp. 1187-1193.

Sinha, Arvind and Mishra, T and Ravishankar, N (2008) Polymer assisted hydroxyapatite microspheres suitable for biomedical application. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 19 (5). pp. 2009-2013.

Sinha, Arvind and Nayar, S and Kar, Abhijit and Gunjan, M K and Mahato, B and Das, Goutam and Kumar, Arun and Chabra, Aman (2008) Microhydrogel-Mediated Synthesis of Sintered Hydroxyapatite Granules. International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology, 5 (5). pp. 458-463.

Swaminathan, J and Guguloth, K and Gunjan, M K and Roy, P K and Ghosh, R N (2008) Failure analysis and remaining life assessment of service exposed primary reformer heater tubes. Engineering Failure Analysis, 15 (4). pp. 311-331.

Swaminathan, J and Prasad, Prabha and Gunjan, M K and Guguloth, K and Roy, P K and Singh, Raghubir and Ghosh, R N (2008) Mechanical strength and microstructural observations for remaining life assessment of service exposed 24Ni–24Cr–1.5Nb cast austenitic steel reformer tubes. Engineering Failure Analysis , 15 (6). pp. 723-735.

Venkataraman, R and Singh, S Pabla and Venkataraman, B and Das, D K and Pathak, L C and Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Ghosh, R N and Ravichandra, D and Rao, G V Narasima and Nair, Keasavan and Kathirkar, Rajesh (2008) A scanning electron microscopic study to observe the changes in the growth morphology of the α phased Alumina–13 wt.% titania coatings during plasma spraying. Surface and Coatings Technology, 202 (21). pp. 5074-5083.

Venkateswarlu, K and Ghosh, M and Ray, Ajoy K and Xu, Cheng and Langdon, T G (2008) On the feasibility of using a continuous processing technique incorporating a limited strain imposed by ECAP. Materials Science and Engineering: A, 485 (1-2). pp. 476-480.

Venkateswarlu, K and Rajnikanth, V and Sirkar, M K and Atiquzzaman, and Sinha, D P and Das, S K (2008) High stress abrasive wear behavior of coal mill liner materials - A model based factorial design. Journal of Metallurgy and Materials Science, 50 (3). pp. 151-166.

Book or NML Publication

Pramanick, A K and Sinha, Arvind and Nayar, S and Dragieva, I (2008) Characterization of different samples by Atomic Force Microscopy. In: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology-8. Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, Sofia, 2008, Sofia, pp. 257-262. ISBN 1311-9702

Ray, Ashok K and Goswami, B and Kumar, S B and Das, D K (2008) Efficacy of thermal barrier coated superalloy used in turbines. In: Remaining life assessment of aged components in thermal power plants and petrochemical industries. NML, Jamshedpur, pp. 1-29. ISBN 81-87053-73-1

Sahu, J K and Swaminathan, J and Sivaprasad, S and Ray, Ajoy K and Tarafder, S and Chaudhuri, S and Ghosh, R N (2008) Use of expert system software for life monitoring of power plant components. In: Remaining Life Assessment of aged Components in Thermal Power Plants & Petrochemical Industries. NML, Jamshedpur, India, Jamshedpur, pp. 169-181. ISBN 81-87053-73-1

Shanmuganathan, P and Ravishankar, G S and Kamesh, S V (2008) Boiler feed pump foundation bolts failures. In: Remaining Life Assessment of aged Components in Thermal Power Plants & Petrochemical Industries. NML, Jamshedpur, India, Jamshedpur, pp. 77-84. ISBN 81-87053-73-1

Conference or Workshop Item

Bose, S C and Singh, K and Sarma, D S (2008) Effect of service simulated ageing on microstructure and creep rupture properties of I CrMoV (Casing Casting) steel vis-a-vis remnant life assessment in view of latent creep strength. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Chandwani, R and Timbrell, C M and Wiehahn, M A (2008) Crack modelling in power plant components. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Chaudhuri, S (2008) Creep and life assessment of engineering components in power plants and process industries. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Chaudhuri, S and Roy, Nilima and Ghosh, R N (2008) Assessment of creep and rupture behavior of 2.25Cr-1Mo steel – A strain-based approach and its limitation. In: 5th International Conference on Creep, Fatigue and Creep-Fatigue Interaction, September 24-26, 2008, Kalpakkam.

Gaddu, Vinay D and Dawson, A S (2008) Case studies of failures in thermal power plant boilers. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Ghosh, M and Kar, Abhijit and Ghosh, R N and Ray, Ajoy K (2008) A comparative study on the ageing behaviour of solder alloy-cu joint assemly using lead free solder and Sn-Pb eutectic solder alloy. In: The 3rd Asian Thermal Spray Conference (ATSC 2008), 2008, Singapore.

Ghosh, R N and Das, S K and Mitra, A (2008) Damage assessment of process heater tube. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Jha, B B and Ojha, S N and Misra, B K (2008) Residual life estimation of high temperature tubings based on oxide scale thickness measurement. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Mandal, D (2008) Effect of wt% Reinforcement on Mechanical and Wear Properties of Al-2Mg base short copper Coated Steel Fiber Composites. In: Seminar on Growth with Quality Challenges & Opportunities for foundry, January 18-19, 2008, TMDC Auditorium, Jamshedpur.

Mandal, D and Ghosh, M and Pal, J and De, P K and Ghosh Chowdhury, S and Das, S K and Das, Goutam and Ghosh, Sukomal (2008) Influence of Austempering Temperature on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Cast Fe-Si-Mn-VSteel. In: 60 Annual Technical Meeting, November, 15-16, 2008, NML, Jamshedpur.

Mohan, B M and Ghosh, Arpita (2008) Mathematical Model of the Simplest Fuzzy PID Controller with Asymmetric Fuzzy Sets. In: Proceedings of the 17th World Congress, July 6-11, 2008, Seoul, Korea.

Palit Sagar, S (2008) Advanced ultrasonic for remaining life assessment of industrial components. In: Remaining Life Assessment of Aged Components in Thermal Power Plants and Petrochemical Industries, 2008, NML Jamshedpur 831007, India.

Palit Sagar, S and Metya, Avijit Kumar and Dey, Swapna and Chattoraj, I (2008) Pitting Stochastic Study in Airframe Aluminium Alloy using Non-linear Ultrasonic. In: 17th World Conference on Nondestructive Testing, 25-28 Oct., 2008, Shanghai, China. (Submitted)

Parida, N (2008) Condition monitoring of pressure vessels and storage tanks by acoustic emission technique. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Project Reports

Pramanick, A K and Sinha, Arvind (2008) Nano-crystallization Studies on Cobalt containing Bulk Metallic Glasses. Grant in Aid (GAP). CSIR-NML, Jamshdpur. (Unpublished)

Rajnikanth, V and Ray, Ajoy K and Das, Goutam and Ghosh, M and Das, Swapan K and De, P K (2008) Strain Hardening behavior of Al-Sc alloys. Exploratory (OLP). NML, Jamshedpur. (Submitted)

Roy, Nilima and Ghosh, R N and Dash, Byomkesh and Sivaprasad, S and Tarafder, S (2008) Software development for Critical Assessment of High Temperature Engineering components. Other (TMP). CSIR-NML, Jamshdpur. (Submitted)

Thesis

Reddy, B V Ramana (2008) Microstructural variations in Al-Cu-Y systems under metastable conditions. Masters thesis, CSIR-NML .

Reddy, B V Ramana (2008) Microsturctural variation in Al-Cu-Y Sysytem Under Metastable condition. Masters thesis, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML).

Sahu, J K (2008) Effect of 475oC embrittlement on the fatigue behaviour of a duplex stainless steel. PhD thesis, University Siegen.

Sarkar, Samata (2008) Synthesis & Characterisation of Silicon nano Particles. Masters thesis, Bengal Engineering and Science Universiy, Shibpur.