1. Editorial

   • P Rama Rao
   • K J Rao

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - i

2. Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy of C₇₀ thin films

   • Hemantkumar N Aiyer
   • A Govindaraj
   • C N R Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 575

3. YBa₂SnO_5·5, a novel ceramic substrate for YBCO and BiSCCO superconductors

   • J Koshy
   • K S Kumar
   • A D Damodaran

   OriginalPaper Pages: 577 - 584

4. Critical exponent of the electrical conductivity in the paracoherence region of a thin film of YBa₂Cu₃O_7−x

   • Manmeet K Marhas
   • K Balakrishnan
   • S Mohan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 585 - 594

5. Flux trapping and its effect on AC susceptibility of granular superconductors

   • Subir Saha
   • BK Das

   OriginalPaper Pages: 595 - 606

6. History effects in low-field magnetoresistance of BPSSCO polycrystals

   • A Das
   • A Banerjee
   • R Srinivasan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 613

7. Effect of oxide additives onT _c behaviour of Bi_2·1Sr_1·93Ca_0·97Cu₂O₈ system

   • P Sumana Prabhu
   • U V Varadaraju

   OriginalPaper Pages: 615 - 624

8. Growth and characterization of laser-deposited Ag-doped YBa₂Cu₃O_7−x thin films on bare sapphire

   • Dhananjay Kumar
   • K M Satyalakshmi
   • M S Hegde

   OriginalPaper Pages: 625 - 632

9. Effect of alloying additions onK _ISCC of ultrahigh strength NiSiCr steel

   • S V Kamat
   • G Malakondaiah
   • P Rama Rao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 633 - 641

10. Some new results in thermomechanical processing of microalloyed steels

    • Ramen Datta
    • Sanak Mishra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 643 - 662

11. Creep strain prediction of 2 1/4 Cr 1Mo steel—A model based approach

    • R N Ghosh
    • S Chaudhuri

    OriginalPaper Pages: 663 - 670

12. Metallurgical aspects of corrosion

    • K Balakrishnan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 671 - 684

13. On the stress corrosion cracking mechanisms of austenitic stainless steels

    • P Rodriguez
    • H S Khatak
    • J B Gnanamoorthy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 698

14. Acoustic emission behaviour during stage II fatigue crack growth in an AISI type 316 austenitic stainless steel

    • V Moorthy
    • T Jayakumar
    • Baldev RAJ

    OriginalPaper Pages: 699 - 715

15. A unified approach to complex crystalline and so-called quasicrystalline phases in aluminium alloys

    • T R Anantharaman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 717 - 732

16. Development of ultra light magnesium-lithium alloys

    • C R Chakravorty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 733 - 745

17. The hardness-flow stress correlation in metallic materials

    • G Sundararajan
    • Y Tirupataiah

    OriginalPaper Pages: 747 - 770

18. Formation and propagation of bands in jerky flow: a coupled lattice map description

    • G Ananthakrishna

    OriginalPaper Pages: 771 - 781

19. Average lattices and aperiodic structures

    • E S R Gopal
    • S Baranidharan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 783 - 794

20. An electron diffraction study of quasicrystals in Ti-37 at% Mn and Ti-24 at% Mn-13 at% Fe alloys

    • T A Bhaskaran
    • R V Krishnan
    • S Ranganathan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 795 - 810

21. Preparation and characterization of diamond films

    • S Chaudhuri
    • A K Pal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 811 - 827

22. Deposition of diamond like carbon (DLC) and C-N films using ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) technique and evaluation of their properties

    • J Prabhjyot Pal
    • S C Patil
    • P Rama Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 829 - 839

23. Creation of nanostructures on nickel thin films by STM

    • V Srinivas
    • M V H Rao
    • K L Chopra

    OriginalPaper Pages: 841 - 848

24. Synthesis of aluminium matrix composites containing nanocrystalline oxide phases

    • S K Pradhan
    • A Datta
    • D Chakravorty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 849 - 853

25. Synthesis and properties of zirconia thin films

    • M H Suhail
    • M Ghanashyam Krishna
    • S Mohan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 855 - 862

26. The mechanical response of tetragonal zirconia polycrystal to conical indentation

    • S A Syed Asif
    • S K Biswas

    OriginalPaper Pages: 863 - 873

27. Studies on high temperature deformation behaviour of 3Y-TZP ceramics

    • D D Upadhyaya
    • S K Roy
    • S Banerjee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 875 - 881

28. Microdeformations in ferroelectrics

    • E C Subbarao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 883 - 891

29. Fractography as well as fatigue and fracture of 25 wt% silicon carbide whisker reinforced alumina ceramic composite

    • A K Ray
    • S Banerjee
    • G Das

    OriginalPaper Pages: 893 - 910

30. Electrokinetic behaviour and dispersion characteristics of ceramic powders with cationic and anionic polyelectrolytes

    • Pradip
    • R S Premachandran
    • S G Malghan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 911 - 920

31. Electronic mechanism of sintering: Some case studies on real systems

    • G S Upadhyaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 921 - 934

32. Equation of state of refractory materials at very high temperatures—theoretical and experimental studies

    • M Joseph
    • N Sivakumar
    • C K Mathews

    OriginalPaper Pages: 935 - 950

33. Studies on electrical conduction in Bi₄SrTi₄O₁₅

    • A R James
    • G S Kumar
    • S V Suryanarayana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 951 - 958

34. Photoelectrochemical studies on the mixed oxides, A₆Nb₈Ti₂O₃₀ (A = Ba, Sr)

    • P A Ramakrishnan
    • U V Varadaraju
    • G V Subba Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 959 - 965

35. A new chemical route for the preparation of fine ferrite powders

    • P Pramanik
    • Amita Pathak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 967 - 975

36. Combustion synthesis of oxide materials for nuclear waste immobilization

    • M Muthuraman
    • N Arul Dhas
    • K C Patil

    OriginalPaper Pages: 977 - 987

37. Cd₂SnO₄-its sol-gel preparation and materials properties

    • M Jayachandran
    • B Subramanian
    • A S Lakshmanan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 989 - 997

38. Role of dopant cations in the gelation behaviour of silica sols

    • A Patra
    • D Ganguli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 999 - 1004

39. Interfacial mechanisms controlling phase formation in sol-gel derived lead zirconate titanate thin films

    • S B Majumder
    • V N Kulkarni
    • D C Agrawal

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1005 - 1014

40. Synthesis and study of structural, thermal, optical and magnetic properties of stabilized Mn_1−x Ni _x O system (0·01 <x < 0·30)

    • P P Bakare
    • C E Deshpande
    • S K Date

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1015 - 1028

41. EXAFS and MAS NMR studies of sodium molybdophosphate and sodium tungstophosphate glasses

    • S Muthupari
    • G U Kulkarni
    • K J Rao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1029 - 1037

42. Growth, characterization and electrical anisotropy in GaTe—a natural semiconducting superlattice

    • S Pal
    • D N Bose

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1039 - 1047

43. Successively pulse plated cadmium selenide films and their photoelectrochemical behaviour

    • V Subramanian
    • K R Murali
    • A S Lakshmanan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1049 - 1055

44. Influence of deviation from stoichiometry on the photoluminescence in CdTe doped with indium

    • Suma Gurumurthy
    • K S R K Rao
    • Vikram Kumar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1057 - 1064

45. Polyetherurethaneurea reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol) dialysis membranes: studies on permeability and mechanical strength

    • Willi Paul
    • Chandra P Sharma

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1065 - 1070

46. Gas permeabilities of bisphenol bridge-disubstituted polyarylates

    • U K Kharul
    • S S Kulkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1071 - 1077

47. Crystallization of polyphenylene sulfide

    • J P Jog
    • Neelima Bulakh
    • V M Nadkarni

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1079 - 1089

48. Thermal expansion of irradiated nylon-6 from 10 K to 340 K

    • H S Jayanna
    • S V Subramanyam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1091 - 1094

49. Effect of structure on properties of vinyl ester resins

    • P Siva
    • I K Varma
    • T J M Sinha

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1095 - 1101

50. Some concepts on design of surfactant gels and vesicles

    • Sushama Mishra
    • B K Mishra
    • C Manohar

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1103 - 1108