Publications - 2014

68. Excitonic effects in oxyhalide scintillating host compounds
G. Shwetha, V. Kanchana, and M. C. Valsakumar
J. Alloys. Compd., 616, 527-534, 2014.

67. Ab initio study of Fermi surface and dynamical properties of Ni2XAl (X=Ti, V,Zr, Nb, Hf and Ta)
P. V. Sreenivasa Reddy and V. Kanchana
J. Alloys. Compd., 616, 527-534, 2014.

66. High-pressure study of binary thorium compounds from first principles theory and comparisons with experiments
V. Kanchana,G. Vaitheeswaran, A. Svane, S. Heathman, L. Gerward and J. Staun Olsen,
Acta Cryst. B70, 459, 2014.

65.Phase transitions in the rare earth tellurides under pressure
L. Petit, A. Svane, G. Vaitheeswaran, V. Kanchana, W. M. Temmerman
J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 274213, 2014.

64.Optical properties of halide and oxide compounds including the excitonic effects
G. Shwetha and V. Kanchana
AIP Conf. Proc.1591, 1485, 2014.

63. Elastic constants and Fermi surface topology change in Calaverite AuTe2: A density functional study
Vijay Kumar Gudelli and V. Kanchana
AIP Conf. Proc.1591, 1161, 2014..

62.Electronic and mechanical properties of Zr2TiAl: A first principles study
P. V. Sreenivasa Reddy and V. Kanchana
AIP Conf. Proc.1591, 1121, 2014.

61.Skutterudites under pressure: An ab initio study
Swetarekha Ram, V. Kanchana and M. C. Valsakumar
J. Appl. Phys., 115, 093903, 2014.

60.Pressure induced valence change of Eu in EuFe2As2at low temperature and high pressures probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Ravhi S. Kumar, Yi Zhang, Arumugam Thamizhavel, A. Svane, G. Vaitheeswaran, V. Kanchana, Yuming Xiao, Paul Chow, Changfeng Chen and Yusheng Zhao
App. Phys. Lett., 104, 042601, 2014.

59.High-Pressure Structural Stability and Optical Properties of Scheelite-type ZrGeO4 and HfGeO4 X-ray Phosphor Hosts
G. Shwetha, V. Kanchana, K. Ramesh Babu, G. Vaitheeswaran, and M. C. Valsakumar
J. Phys. Chem. C, 118(8), 4325, 2014.

58.Lattice dynamics and superconducting properties of antiperovskite La3InZ (Z=N, O)
Swetarekha Ram and V. Kanchana
Solid State communications, 181, 54, 2014.

57.Thermoelectric properties of marcasite and pyrite FeX2 (X=Se,Te): A first principle study
Vijay Kumar Gudelli, V. Kanchana, G. Vaitheeswaran, M. C. Valsakumar and S. D. Mahanti
RSC Advances, 4, 9424, 2014.