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B.Sc. Hons (Physics) 1964

Ph.D. 1970 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay University
Thesis Title: Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of Semiconductors)
Thesis Advisor: Prof S.S.Jha Registered guide: Prof B.M.Udgaonkar

Semiconductor Physics, Nonlinear Optics, Lasers, Nanomaterials

Rustagi, K.C. Effect of carrier scattering on nonlinear optical susceptibility due to mobile carriers
in InSb, InAs, and GaAs Physical Review B2, 4053, (1970)

Rustagi, K.C.; Pradere, F.; Mysyrowicz, A.
Two-photon absorption in Cu2O
Physical Review B 8, 2721,(1973)

Rustagi, K.C.; Ducuing, J.
Third-order optical polarizability of conjugated organic molecules
Optics Communications10, 258( 1974)

Rustagi, K.C.; Merle, P.; Auvergne, D.; Mathieu, H.
Spin-orbit splitting in AlSb
Solid State Communications 18, 1201( 1976)
Laurenti, J.P.; Rustagi, K.C.; Rouzeyre, M.
Optical filters using coupled light waves in mixed crystals
Applied Physics Letters 28, 212( 1976)

Rustagi, K.C.; Weber, W.
Adiabatic bond charge model for the phonons in A/sup 3/B/sup 5/ semiconductors.
Solid State Communications18, 673(1976)

Mehendale, S.C.; Rustagi, K.C.
Optical nonlinearities in substituted symmetric cyanine dyes
Optics Communications 28, March 1979, pp.359-62.

Rustagi, K.C.; Mehendale, S.C.; Meenakshi, S.
Optical frequency conversion in quasi-phase-matched stacks of nonlinear crystals
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics .QE-18,1029, (1982)

Rustagi, K.C.; Flytzanis, C.
Optical nonlinearities in semiconductor-doped glasses
Optics Letters 9, 344(1984)

Roussignol, P.; Ricard, D.; Rustagi, K.C.; Flytzanis, C.
Optical phase conjugation in semiconductor-doped glasses
Optics Communications55, 143( 1985)

Nair, S.V.; Sinha, S.; Rustagi, K.C.
Quantum size effects in spherical semiconductor microcrystals
Physical Review B35,4098( 1987)

Nair, S.V.; Ramaniah, L.M.; Rustagi, K.C.
Electron states in a quantum dot in an effective-bond-orbital model
Physical Review B 45, 5969( 1992 )

Joshi, M.P.; Mishra, S.R.; Rawat, H.S.; Mehendale, S.C.; Rustagi, K.C.
Investigation of optical limiting in C60solution
Applied Physics Letters 62,1763 (1993)

Oak, S.M.; Bindra, K.S.; Chari, R.; Rustagi, K.C.
Two-photon absorption in semiconductor-doped glasses
Journal of the Optical Society of America B10, 613, 1993

Mishra,SR; Rawat,HS; Joshi,MP; Mehendale,SC and Rustagi,K C
Optical limiting in C60 and C70 solutions Proc. SPIE Vol. 2284, p. 220-229, (1994)

Mehendale, S.C.; Mishra, S.R.;Bindra, K.S.;Laghate, M.;Dhami, T.S.; Rustagi, K.C.
Nonlinear refraction in aqueous colloidal gold
Optics Communications 133, 273( 1997 )

Ingale, A.; Rustagi, K.C.
Raman spectra of semiconductor nanoparticles: disorder-activated phonons
Physical Review B58, 7197 (1998)

Bindra, K .S.; Oak, S. M.; Rustagi, K. C.
Degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor-doped glasses below the
absorption edge Physical Review B59, 2968, (1999)

Mishra, S.R.; Rawat, H.S.; Mehendale, S.C;. Rustagi, K.C.; Sood, A.K.; Bandyopadhyay, R.; Govindaraj, A.; Rao, CNR.
Optical limiting in single-walled carbon nanotube suspensions
Chemical Physics Letters 317, 510 (2000)

Misra, P.;Bhattacharya, P.; Mallik, K.;Rajagopalan, S.; Kukreja, L.M.; Rustagi, K.C.
Variation of band gap with oxygen ambient pressure in MgxZn1-xO thin films
grown by pulsed laser deposition Solid State Communications 117, 673, (2001)

Ganguli, T.; Kumar, S.; Kukreja, L.M.; Rustagi, K.C.
Surface phototage spectroscopy of pulsed laser deposited undoped ZnSe/n+GaAs
Journal of Physics: Cond Mat 14, 1813( 2002)

Sharma, T.K.; Kumar, S.; Rustagi, K.C.
Frequency and intensity dependence of the sub-band-gap features observed in
the surface phototage spectrum of semi-insulating GaAs Journal of Applied Physics 92,5959(2002)

Jayabalan J, Singh MP, Rustagi KC
Enhancement of linear and second-order hyperpolarizabilities in wedge-shaped nanostructures
PHYSICAL REVIEW B 68 , 075319 (2003)

Pages O, Ajjoun M, Tite T, et al.
Long-wave phonons in ZnSe-BeSe mixed crystals: Raman scattering and percolation model
Phys Rev B 70 ,155319 (2004)

S.D.Singh,S.Porwal ,T.K.Sharma, and K.C.Rustagi
Temperature dependence of the lowest excitonic transition for an InAs ultra thin quantum well J Applied Physics

Tapas Ganguli, Sanjay Porwal, Tarun Sharma, Alka Ingale, Shailendra Kumar
, Pragya Tiwari, A.K.Balamurugan, S.Rajagopalan, A.K.Tyagi, K.S.Chandrasekaran, B.M.Arora, and K.C.Rustagi
Growth of strained ZnSe layers on GaAs substrates by Pulsed laser deposition
carried out in an off-axis deposition geometry Thin Solid Films(submitted)
Book Chapter:
Nonlinear Optics in : Perspectives in Optoelectronics ,edited by S.S.Jha,World Scientific (1996)