Dr. Yamini Sharma

Introduction

Short Introduction of Dr. Yamini Sharma.

Name Dr. Yamini Sharma
Designation Reader
Qualification M.Sc., Ph.D.
Address Srijan, Manika Cinema Road, Civil Lines, RaeBareli, U.P
Phone no. 0535-2702222
Academic Achievements (i) Visiting Fellow under UGC-DSA programme, Dept. of Physics, College of Science, MLS University, Udaipur, 2009

(ii) Participation and presentation at the “Discussion meeting on INDIA-GERMANY collaboration at DESY for Nanoscience with nano-sized high energy photon beam” Sponsored by DST on 13th and 14th January, 2009, at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur, Bangalore.

(iii) Associateship awarded by IUC, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 2008

(iv) Ist Prize for poster presentation at 2nd National Conference in Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics – 07 , Rajasthan University, Jaipur (Raj.) Feb 1- 3, 2007.

(v) Visiting Scholar under the Center for Theoretical Studies (CTS) Visitors Program of IIT, Kharagpur, 2003-2004

Participation in summer schools, workshops, seminars, symposia
  1. 1. Participated in the ICCE conference at Ubonratchathani, Thailand from 21st to 23rd Jan 2010.
    Presented paper entitled ‘Study of properties of some transition metal chalcogenides by ab- initio methods.”
  2. 2. Participated in 5th National Conference on Thermophysical Properties, MS University Baroda, Vadodara,7th -9th October 2009.
    Invited Talk entitled ‘Applications of ab initio methods for theoretical investigation of the electronic properties of materials’.
  3. 3. Participated in SAGAMORE XVI Conference at Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, organized by the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 2nd – 5th August 2009.
    Presented papers entitled ‘Electronic properties and Compton profiles of FeS2: Theory and experiment’ and ‘Magnetic Compton scattering study of Ni2Mn1.4Sn0.6’.
  4. 4. Participated in KKR Bandstructure and Spectroscopy Calculations Hands-on- Course 2009 organized by the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, 23-27 June 2009.
    Presented paper entitled ‘Electronic structure study of FeS2’
  5. 5. Participated in the International Symposium on Clusters, Cluster Assemblies
    and Nano-scale: materials fundamental issues to novel applications, HRI, Allahabad, India 09th - 11th Feb, 2009.
  6. 6. Participated in 14th Wien2k Workshop at IHPC, Singapore, 6-9 July 2007, Presented paper ‘Compton profile and Electronic Band Structure of WS2’
  7. 7. Participated and presented paper in 2nd National Conference in Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics 07, Jaipur (India)), Feb 1- 3, 2007. 1st prize for presentation.
  8. 8. Participated at the “Ab initio Simulation of Condensed Systems” ASCS 2006 Conference, 17-22 Sept.06 at Spokane, (Washington State University), USA
    Presented paper ‘Compton Profile of InSb: Theory and Experiment’.
  9. 9. Participated in National Symposium in “Current Trends in Material Characterization” Organized by Advanced Centre for Material Studies, I I T Kanpur, Dec 05-07, 2005
Membership of professional Bodies, Editorship of Journals etc
  1. i. Member of Physics Teachers Association
  2. ii. Member of Indian Society for Radiation Physics
  3. iii. Member of Thermophysical Society of India
  4. iv. Member of Materials Research Society of India
Membership of professional Bodies, Editorship of Journals etc
  1. i. Member of Physics Teachers Association
  2. ii. Member of Indian Society for Radiation Physics
  3. iii. Member of Thermophysical Society of India
  4. iv. Member of Materials Research Society of India
Research Project (i) Minor Research Project of UGC entitled “Micromorphological study of soils in Raebareli District in semi-arid region of Indo–Gangetic plains.” No.F.6-1(30)/2007(MRS/Sc/NRCB)

(ii) Major Project : Grants-in-Aid for Research project titled “Study of Electronic Properties of Some Transition-Metal Chalcogenides” of Rs 14.982 Lakhs , vide letter no ERIP/ER/0704358/M/01/1047 , DRDO, New Delhi

(iii) Major Project: Co-PI for project entitled “Compton profile study of some technologically important materials” DST reference No. SR/S2/CMP00062/2007 dated 9.4.2008

Seminars / Conferences organized 1. Workshop in X-rays Spectroscopy at Dept. of Physics, Feroze Gandhi College, 9 – 11, April 2000.

2. Organized “1-Day Workshop on Remote Sensing and GIS” at Feroze Gandhi College, Raebareli on 18th February 2005.
International /National Seminars/ conferences attended: 1. International Symposium on Clusters, Cluster Assemblies and Nano-scale: materials fundamental issues to novel applications, HRI, Allahabad, India Feb. 09-11, 2009

2. Participated and presented paper at the 14th Wien2k workshop organized by Institute of High Performance Computing and National University of Singapore. 6-9 July 2007

3. Participated in 2nd National Conference in Condensed Matter Physics and Material Physics 07 , Rajasthan University, Jaipur (Raj.) , Feb 1- 3, 2007. Ist prize for poster presentation.

4. Participated and presented paper at the “Ab initio Simulation of Condensed Systems” ASCS 2006 Conference, 17-22 Sept.06 at Spokane, (Washington State University), USA.

5. Attended National Symposium in “Current Trends in Material Characterization” Organized by Advanced Centre for Material Studies, I I T Kanpur, Dec 05-07, 2005

Collaborations 1. Compton Profile Laboratory, Department of Physics, M L Sukhadia University, Udaipur.

2. Inorganic Materials and Nanocomposites Laboartory, Dept. of Chemistry, IIT Kharagpur.

3. Nano Phosphor Application Centre, Dept. of Physics, Allahabad University.

4. Participated and presented paper at the “Ab initio Simulation of Condensed Systems” ASCS 2006 Conference, 17-22 Sept.06 at Spokane, (Washington State University), USA.

Publications in International Journals and Conferences
  1. Electronic structure of Compton profiles of molybdenum dichalcogenides

    2.       N. L. Heda, A. Marwal, Y. Sharma, S. K. Srivastava, G. Ahmed and B. L. Ahuja
    Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 71, 187 (2010)

  2.  Electronic properties of   PbCl2 and PbBr2 using Compton scattering technique

    3.        G. Ahmed, Y. Sharma and B.L. Ahuja
    Applied Radiations and Isotopes 67, 1050-1056 (2009)

  3. Electronic structure of transition metal dichalcogenides WX2   (X= S, Se) using

    4.       Compton  Spectroscopy: Theory and Experiment
    Gunjan Arora, Yamini Sharma, Vinit Sharma, S.K. Srivastava and B.L. Ahuja
    J. Alloys Compd. 470, 452-460 (2009)

  4.  Electronic structure of TaC using Compton scattering technique

    5.       Alpa Dashora, L. Vadkhiya, N.L. Heda, Y. Sharma and B.L. Ahuja
    Asian journal of Chemistry, 21 10 S195 (2009)

  5. Compton profiles and band structure calculations of IV-VI layered compounds

    6.        GeS and  GeSe
    A.Rathor, V. Sharma, N.L. Heda, Y. Sharma, B.L. Ahuja
    Radiation Physics and Chemistry 77, 391- 400 (2008)

  6. Study of electronic structure and Compton profiles of PbS and PbSe

    7.       N.L. Heda, A. Rathor, V. Sharma, G. Ahmed, Y. Sharma and B.L. Ahuja
    J. Alloys Compd. 463, 47-54 (2008)

  7. Electronic structure and Compton profiles of tungsten

    8.       B. L. Ahuja, A. Rathor, V. Sharma, Y. Sharma and A. R. Jani
    Z. Naturforsch  63a,  703-711 (2008)

  8. Compton Profile Study of Aluminium Nitride.

    9.        V. Vyas, Y. C. Sharma, V. Purvia, N. L. Heda, Y. Sharma, B. L. Ahuja, B. K. Sharma
    Z. Naturforsch  62a, 703-710  (2007)

9.  Large Area Soil Moisture Estimation using Multi-Incidence Angle RADARSAT-1
SAR Data.
Srivastava H. S., Patel P, Sharma Y. and Navalgund R. R.
Geoscience & Remote sensing, IEEE Transaction 47, 8, 2528 (2009)

10. Multi-frequency and multi-polarized SAR response to thin vegetation and scattered
trees”
H S Srivastava, Parul Patel, Yamini Sharma and Ranganath R. Navalgund,
Current Science, 97, 3, 425-429 (2009)

    11. Retrieval of surface roughness using multipolarized Envisat-1 ASAR data.
H.S.Srivastava, P.Patel, Y. Sharma, R.R.Navalgund
Geocarto International, 23, 1, 67 (2008)

12. Detection and Density Mapping of forested Areas using SAR interoferometry Technique.
Srivastava H. S., Patel P, Sharma Y. and Navalgund R. R.
International J of Geoinformatics, 3, 2, 1, 2007.

13. Comparative Evaluation of Potential of Optical and SAR Data for the Detection of
Human Settlements using Digital Classification.
Srivastava H. S., Patel P, Sharma Y. and Navalgund R. R.
Int. J Geoinfomatics, 2, 3, 21, 2006

  14. Cylindrical Surface and Interface Plasmons.
O. K. Harsh, Tapasi Dhar, Yamini Sharma, S.P.Godia
Indian J. of Pure Applied Physics. 32. 94. 456 (1993)

  15. Plasmon Oscillation during X-ray Raman Scattering.
B.K. Agarwal, O. K. Harsh, Yamini Sharma, S.P. Godia.
Oriental Journal of Physics.  9, 2, 1993.

16.  Role of plasma oscillations in Chemical Shifts of X-Ray Absorption Edges in
Sr-Compounds. 
O. K. Harsh, Tapasi Dhar, S.P.Godia, Yamini Sharma
Asian Journal of Physics.1, 89, 1992.

   17. First-principles study of electronic and optical properties of Bi2Se3 in its trigonal
and orthorhombic phases
Yamini Sharma and Pankaj Srivastava
Communicated for publication of conference proceeding of NCTP-09 by AIP.(2009)

   18. Electronic properties and Compton profiles of FeS2: Theory and experiment
Y. Sharma, N. L. Heda, M. Sharma and B. L. Ahuja
Communicated to Physical Review Lett.(2010)

   19. Electronic Structure and Compton profile of Bi2S3 and Bi2Se3
Y. Sharma, P. Srivastava and B.L.Ahuja
Communicated to physics status solidi (b), 2010

    20. Investigation of Electronic and optical properties of Doped CdO
Y. Sharma and P. Srivastava
Communicated for publication of conference proceeding of CONIAPS-XI-2010
Journal of International Academy of Science, Allahabad


Papers presented / accepted in conferences

21. Study of properties of Some Transition Metal Chalcogenides by ab- initio methods
Sharma Yamini  and Srivastava Pankaj
4th ICCE-2009, 21-23 January 2010, THAILAND

22. Electronic properties and Compton profiles of FeS2: Theory and experiment’
Y. Sharma, N. L.Heda, M. Sharma and B. L. Ahuja
SAGAMORE XVI, August 2-7, 2009, New Mexico, USA

23.  Magnetic Compton scattering study of Ni2Mn1.4Sn0.6.
B. L. Ahuja, N. L. Heda, Y. Sharma, A. Dashora, L.Vedkhiya, K. R. Prikar , M. Itou
and Y. Sakurai
SAGAMORE XVI, August 2-7, 2009, New Mexico, USA

24.  Electronic structure study of FeS2
Y. Sharma and B. L. Ahuja
KKR Bandstructure and Spectroscopy Calculations Hands-on- Course 2009 the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany, 23-27 June 2009.

25. Electronic Structure of Bismuth Chalcogenide Compounds
Pankaj Srivastava and Yamini Sharma
National Conference on Application of Material Science (AMSS-09) Allahabad (2009)

26. First principle study of electronic and optical properties of Bi2Se3 in its trigonal and
orthorhombic phase
Yamini Sharma and Pankaj Srivastava
5th National Conference on Thermo physical Properties (NCTP-09), Baroda (2009)

27. Theoretical Investigation of Electronic and Optical properties of Bismuth Trisulphide
Pankaj Srivastava and Yamini Sharma
International Symposium on Nanostructured Materials, Structure, Properties and
Application (ISNM-09) Jalandhar (2009)

28. Electronic Structure of Bi2S3 and Bi2Se3 using Compton Spectroscopy
Y.Sharma, P.Srivastava, G.Ahmed, Alpa Dashora, L.Vedkhiya and B.L.Ahuja
Eighteenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics (NSRP-18), Udaipur (2009)

29. Compton scattering study of HgBr2 and HgI2
G. Ahmed, Y. Sharma, M. Sharma, S. Tiwari, H.S. Mund, J. Sahariya,  G. Arora, R. Jain,
H. Malhotra and B.L. Ahuja
Eighteenth National Symposium on Radiation Physics (NSRP-18), Udaipur (2009)

30. First principle study of electronic and optical properties of doped transparent conducting
oxide CdO
Pankaj Srivastava and Yamini Sharma
11th International Conference of the International Academy of Physical Science
(CONIAPS XI-2010) Allahabad (2009)

31. Electronic Structure of MoS2
Pankaj Srivastava , Yamini Sharma and B.L.Ahuja
Workshop on Surface and Interface Modification by Energetic Ions
University of Allahabad , Allahabad, (2009)

32. Characterizing SAR Backscatter From Crop Cover By Treating Crop Cover As Three Layer Medium: A Case Study Of Wheat Crop At Grain Filling Stage Using Cross-Polarized Envisat-1 ASAR Data
H S Srivastava, Yamini Sharma and Parul Patel
ISRS-2008 National Symposium , Ahmedabad, 18-20 Dec 2008.

33. Feasibility of use of optical and SAR data for land cover mapping
H S Srivastava, Yamini Sharma and Parul Patel
ISRS-2008 National Symposium, Ahmedabad, 18-20 Dec 2008.

34. Compton Profile and Electronic Band Structure of WS2.
Y. Sharma, V.Sharma, G.Arora and B.L. Ahuja,
Presented at 14th Wien2k Workshop at IHPC, Singapore, 6-9 July 2007.

35. Electronic structure of WSe2 
Gunjan Arora, Yamini Sharma and B. L. Ahuja
Proceedings of the DAE Solid State Physics Symposium, Mysore, India, Dec (2007)

36. Characterization of Electronic properties of WSe2 using Compton spectroscopy
Gunjan Arora, Yamini Sharma, Gulzar Ahmed and B. L. Ahuja
22nd Indian Engg Congress, Udaipur, India, Dec (2007)

37. Potential Applications of Multi-parametric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data in Wetland     Inventory: A Case Study of Keoladeo National Park (A World Heritage and Ramsar Site), Bharatpur, India,
Srivastava, H. S., Patel, P., Prasad, S. N., Sharma, Yamini., Vijiyan, L., Praveen, B.,
Arun Prasad, K. C. A., and Vijiyan, V. S.
TAAL-2007, 28 Oct – 02 Nov, 2007, Jaipur

38. Compton Profile of InSb: Theory and Experiment.
Yamini Sharma and B.L. Ahuja,
Presented at ASCS2006, Spokane, USA, 17-22 Sept, 2006.

39. Radar Remote Sensing Applications in Wetland Habitat: V. A case study of Keoladeo National Park using High Resolution Temporal RADARSAT-1 SAR Data
H S Srivastava, Parul Patel, Yamini Sharma, K. C. A. Arun Prasad and S. N. Prasad, Proceedings of ICORG-2006, ICRS and GIS/GPS-2006, ICORG-200605-08, June, Hyderabad, India

40. Radar Remote Sensing Applications in Wetland Habitat: IV. A Case Study of Keoladeo National Park Using SAR Texture Analysis
Srivastava, H. S., Patel, P., Sharma, Yamini., Yadav, V., Arun Prasad, K. C. A.,Vijiyan, L. and Prasad, S. N.
Proceedings ICMARS-2005, 20-22, Dec. 2005,  Jodhpur.

41. Demonstration of use of Interferometric coherence in Forestry
Hari Shanker, Parul Patel, Yamini Sharma and R. R. Navalgund,
ISRS –2004 Symposium, 03rd – 05th Nov 2004, Jaipur

42. Feasibility of estimating the crop height using interferometric coherence.
Hari Shanker Srivastava , Parul Patel and Yamini Sharma,
2nd Int. Conf. on microwave, antenna, propagation and remote sensing, ICMARS-2004,
Jodhpur,  2004.

43. Comparative evaluation of sensitivity of SAR and optical remote sensing for
canopy structure,
Hari Shanker Srivastava , Parul Patel and Yamini Sharma,
ICMARS, Jodhpur, 2004.

44. Use of Monte Carlo Simulation in treatment of cancer.
Y. Sharma and B.L.Ahuja
Ind. Sc. Congress, Bangalore, 2003.

45. Surface Plasmon Satellite in the X-Ray Emission Spectra Magnesium.
O. K. Harsh and Yamini Sharma
Ind. Sc. Cong  Baroda (1992).

46. Dispersion relation of hydrodynamic plasma oscillations.
O. K. Harsh and Yamini Sharma,
Ind. Sc. Cong. Indore (1991).

47.  Effect of the collective electron oscillations on the absorption edges in
Metal-Compounds and their applications.
O. K. Harsh and Yamini Sharma,
Ind. Sc. Cong. Cochin (1990).

48. First principles study of electronic and optical properties of  doped transparent conducting
oxide CdO
Pankaj Srivastava , Yamini Sharma
Accepted for oral presentation at ICPAC-2010, Mauritius, 26-30 July 2010