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Brief Resume of Dr. P.S.V. Subba Rao

Present Designation and Place of working	:	Assistant Professor Department of Physics College of Science and Technology Andhra University, Visakhapatnam-530 003, A.P., India
Administrative Position	:		Assistant Principal, AU College of Science & Tech. (Since July 2014)

Academic Record

	Examination Passed	University/ Institution/ Board		Subjects		Division
	B.Sc.	Andhra University		Maths, Physics, Chemistry		First Class
	M.Sc.	Andhra University		Physics		First Class
	Ph.D.*	Andhra University		Solid State Physics

*Title of the Ph.D. thesis: Structural and Electrical Properties of Rare-Earth Ion Doped TB type

Ferroelectric Barium Sodium Niobate Ceramics.

Fields of Specialisation	:	Materials Science (Ferroelectrics, Ferrites)
Scientific and Academic Positions held

Designation of post	Name of employer/ institution	Period of service From To	Nature of work
Junior Research Fellow	University Grants Commission, New Delhi	1983 1985	Research and Development at Physics Department, Andhra University
Senior Research Fellow	Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi	1986 1990	Research and Development at Physics Department, Andhra University
Research Associate ( Post Doc )	Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi	1991 1995	Research and Development & Teaching at Physics Department, Andhra Univ.
Post Doctoral Fellow	Andhra University	1996 2000	- do -
Project Associate	University Grants Commission, New Delhi	2001 2003	- do -
Teacher Associate	Department of Engineering Physics College of Engineering Andhra University	2003 2006	- do -
Assistant Professor	Department of Physics, Andhra University	2006 to date	- do -

Experiences
(a) Teaching Experience	:	Since 1990, being a Post doc, Teacher Associate and Assistant Professor as teaching was a part of its curriculum apart from research, I have been involved in teaching Physics at graduate and postgraduate courses and played key role in the development of Materials Science laboratories in Physics Department and Engineering Physics by designing and setting-up of new experiments.
(b) Subject areas of teaching experience	:	Solid State Physics Mathematical Methods of Physics Analytical Techniques Electrodynamics
(c) Professional activities	:	Reviewer for the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

(d) Research Guidance			:	Awarded Two Ph.D. and seven M.Phil degrees and two submitted for Ph.D. and one for M.Phil in Materials Science Working Six scholars for their Ph.D. degrees
S.No	Name of the Student	Degree Awarded			Title of the Thesis	Whether guide/ co-guide
	B. Chandra Sekhar	M.Phil			Preparation and characterization of Lanthanum substituted ferroelectric Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics	Guide (01.10.2009)
	P. Siva Sandhya	M.Phil			Synthesis and Characterization of Ferroelectric Relaxor Barium Zirconate Titanate	Guide (17.06.2010)
	P. Geetha	M.Phil			Dielectric behaviour of lanthanum substituted Lead Zirconate Titanate ferroelectrics	Guide (17.05.2012
	G.S. Satyanarayana	M.Phil			Structural and electrical properties of Ti modified Barium Iron Niobate electroceramics	Guide (10.10.2012)
	K. Lakshmi Sukanya	M.Phil			Performance of three different radiators of 8x8 acoustic array antennae for Doppler sodar	Guide (10.10.2012)
	T. Kamakshi	M.Phil			Hardening and softening of PZT	Guide (18.09.2013)
	S. Ramesh	Ph.D.			Effect of Mn/Co substitutions on the properties of nano and bulk Ni-Zn ferrites	Guide (26.01.2014)
	T.K. Visweswara Rao	M.Phil			Cadmium doped L-Cysteine hydrochloride monohydrate NLO crystal grown by conventional and unidirectional techniques and their crystalline and optical characterization	Co-guide (23.08.2014)
	B. Chandra Sekhar	Ph.D.			Structural, magnetic and magnetostrictive properties of Cr/Cu substituted cobalt ferrites	Guide (30.03.2015)
	P. Venkata Prasad	Ph.D			Unidirectional growth and characterization of some nonlinear optical single crystals with metal dopants	Co-guide (Submitted)
	T.V. Satyendra Nath	M.Phil			Some structural and electrical properties of ferroelectric Calcium Barium Niobate ceramics	Guide (Submitted)
	T.V.S.L. Satyavani	Ph.D.			Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical performance evaluation of supervalent doped carbon coated nano Lithium Iron Phosphate for high rate Li-ion cells	Guide (Submitted)

(c) Research Projects

S.No	Title of the Project	Funding agency	Amount in Rs	Whether Principal Investigator/ Co-investigator	Status (Ongoing/ Completed/ Applied)
	Synthesis and characterization of nano ferrites and their composites for high frequency applications	DST – PURSE	3,70,000/-	Principal Investigator	Completed (2012 – 2014)

Membership/Executive positions in professional bodies

S.No.	Name of the association/organization	National/ International	Status
	Materials Research Society of India (MRSI), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore	National	Member
	The Indian Science Congress Association, Kolkata, India	National	Member

Details of Training programmes attended (including orientation/refresher programme)

S.No.	Name of the programme	Period
	UGC Orientation course conducted by UGC, Academic Staff College, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam	27.11.2006 to 24.12.2006 (4 weeks)
	DST Sponsored three week SERC Training Programme on “Atmospheric & Space Sciences”, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam	08.09.2008 to 28.09.2008 (3 weeks)
	SAKSHAM – IT Champion Training Programme conducted by Microsopt under The National Mission on Education Through ICT (NME-ICT) at AU College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam	10.04.2013 to 20.04.2013 (11 days)
	Science Academies’ Two-week Refresher Course on Experimental Physics at Government College (A), Rajahmundry organized by IASc, Bangalore; INSA, New Delhi; NASI, Allahabad	27.05.2014 to 11.06.2014 (2 weeks)

Personal Details
Father’s Name	:	P. Sreeramulu
Date & Place of Birth	:	01.03.1958 & Gajjalakonda
Marital Status	:	Married
Nationality	:	Indian
Passport details	:	No. J 8432569, Issued at Visakhapatnam and valid upto 12-10-2021
Residential address	:	#201, Trishul Villa, Old CBI down Chinawaltair Colony, Visakhapatnam – 530 003

List of publicatios

1)	Dielectric studies in some ferroelectrics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao Proc.3rd National seminar on ferroelectrics and dielectrics, Oct.17-19-1984 IISc , Bangalore ,India, pp 222-226
2)	Ferroelectric properties of modified strontium barium niobate ceramics K.Chandramouli, K.H.Rao, P.S.V.Subba Rao and A.Bhanumathi Ferroelectrics (USA), 1986, Vol 67, pp 169-171
3)	Effect of rare earth ions on the dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ba4 Na2Nb10 O30 ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao, K.Sambasiva Rao and A. Bhanumathi Proc. Sixth IEEE International symposium on applications of ferroelectrics (ISAF), USA June 8-11, 1986, pp 130-133
4)	Influence of Gd2O3 on dielectric and ferroelectric properties of Ba4Na2Nb10O30 ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao IV National seminar on ferroelectrics and dielectrics, December 22-24,1986, IIT, Kharagpur, India
5)	Preparation, characterization and electrical properties of Y2O3 doped Ba4Na2Nb10O30 ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao 3rd National seminar on crystal growth, Feb 16-19, 1987, Anna University, Madras
6)	Dielectric behaviour of modified ferroelectric Ba4Na2Nb10O30 ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao, K.Sambasiva Rao and A.Bhamumathi J.Mater. Sci. Lett.1987,Vol6,pp299-300
7)	Anomalous electrical behaviour of Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics doped with trivalent lanthanum P.S.V.Subba Rao, K.Sambasiva Rao and A. Bhanumathi J.Mater. Sci. Lett. 1987, Vol 6, pp 809-810
8)	Processing, characterization and electrical properties of Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics doped with trivalent neodymium impurity P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao International workshop on analytical techniques for materials characterization, March 11-16, 1987,( USA)
9)	Piezoelectric and dielectric properties of Sm^3+ doped Ba4Na2Nb10O30 ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao J.Acou. Soc. India, 1988, Vol XVI, pp 79-83
10)	Doping pair (mono and trivalent) effect on electrical properties of TB type Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao 5th National seminar on ferroelectrics and dielectrics, January 3-5, 1989, S.V.U., Tirupathi, India
11)	Structural and electrical properties of Dy doped Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao Ferroelectrics (USA), 1990, Vol 102, pp 183-190
12)	Measurement of refractive index of polycrystalline ferroelectric Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics by ellipsometry P.S.V.Subba Rao, K.Sambasiva Rao and J. Ashok 7th International ,meeting on ferroelectricity ( IMF-7 ), August 28 - September 1, 1989, Saarbrucken, F.R.Germany

13)		Influence of praseodymium on microstructure and electrical properties of Barium Sodium Niobate ceramics P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.Sambasiva Rao 7th International seminar on ferroelectricity ( IMF-7 ), August 28 - September 1, 1989, Saarbrucken, F.R.Germany
14)		Ferroelectric ceramics of modified Barium Lithium Niobate K.Sambasiva Rao, C. Satyanarayana, P.S.V.Subba Rao and A.I.Robin 6th National seminar on ferroelectrics and dielectrics, December 17-19, 1990, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India
15)		Lanthanam doped perovskite ferroelectric Barium copper tantalate ceramics K.Sambasiva Rao, P.S.Jagga Rao, K.Rama Rao, A.I. Robin and P.S.V.Subba Rao 6th National seminar on ferroelectrics and dielectrics, December 17-19, 1990, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India
16)		Unusual dielectric behaviour of Ni - Zn ferrites in the lower megahertz region (1-10 MHz) due to dimensional resonance B.Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao and K.H. Rao, J. Mater. Sci. Lett. 15, 781-783, 1996
17)		Densification, grain growth and microstructure of Ni - Zn ferrites B.Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.H.Rao J. Phys.(France), 7 , Suppl. C1: 241-242, 1997
18)		X-ray and magnetic studies on scandium substituted Ni - Zn ferrites B.Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V.Subba Rao and K.H. Rao IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 33, 4454-4458, 1997
19)		Influence of sintering conditions on the electrical and microstructural properties of Ni - Zn ferrites B. Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V.Subba Rao , A. Lakshman and K.H. Rao J. Magn. Soc. Jpn. 22 Supl. S1, 83-85, 1998
20)		Influence of trivalent Cr / In substitutions on the magnetic properties of Mg - Mn ferrites Atmaram Lakshman , P.S.V.Subba Rao, B. Parvatheeswara Rao and K.H.Rao 8^th International Conference on Ferrites held at Kyoto, Japan during Sept 18-21, 2000 – accepted for presentation
21)		Sodar study of convective characteristics of coastal atmospheric boundary layer Rao, A.B., P.S.V.S. Rao & M. Purnachandra Rao J. Acous. Soc. India 28, 219-222, 2000
22)		Acoustic sounder study of sea breeze at Visakhapatnam Rao, A.B., K.K. Reddy, P.S.V.S. Rao & M. Purnachandra Rao J. Acous. Soc. India 29, 67-72, 2001
23)		Sodar observation of lump structures in the atmospheric boundary layer Rao, A.B., P.S.V.S. Rao, M. Purnachandra Rao & K.K. Reddy J. Acous. Soc. India 29, 81-86, 2001
24)		Mössbauer study of the system Ni0.65 Zn0.35 Fe2-x Scx O4, B. Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, G. V.S. Murthy and K.H. Rao J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 268(3) (2004) 315-320.
25)	Frequency dependence of initial permeability and magnetic loss factor in In^3+and Cr^3+ substituted Mg-Mn ferrites A. Lakshman, K.H. Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao and R.G. Mendiratta Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 283, 329-334, 2004

26)	Mossbauer spectroscopic analyses of Mg 0.9 Mn 0.1 InxFe2 – xO4 spinel ferrites A. Lakshman, K.H. Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao and R.G. Mendiratta Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 284, 352-357, 2004
27)	Electrical and magnetic properties of divalent Cu/Co doped Ni-Zn ferrites B. Parvatheeswara Rao, S.P. Setty, P.S.V. Subba Rao and K.H. Rao Ninth International Conference on Ferrites (ICF9- Proceedings) 603 (2004) published as a special volume by American Ceramic Society.
28)	Effect of synthesis parameters on the soft chemical processing of Mn-Zn ferrite nanoparticles B. Parvatheeswara Rao, K.H. Rao, S.P. Setty, P.S.V. Subba Rao, N.S. Gajbhiye and O.F. Cultin Ninth International Conference on Ferrites (ICF9- Proceedings) 603 (2004) published as a special volume by American Ceramic Society
29)	Electrical properties of In^3+ and Cr^3+ substituted magnesium-manganese ferrites A. Lakshman, P.S.V. Subba Rao, B. Parvatheeswara Rao and K.H. Rao J.Phys.D: Appl.Phys. 38, 673-678, 2005
30)	Swift heavy ions irradiation studies on some ferrite nanopaticles B. Parvatheeswara Rao, K.H. Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, A. Mahesh Kumar, Y.L.N. Murthy, K. Asokan, V.V. Siva Kumar, Ravi Kumar, N.S. Gajbhiye and O.F. Cultin Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physical Research B (NIM:B), 244, 27, 2005
31)	Irradiation effects of 190MeVAg ion on the properties of Ni0.65Zn0.375In0.10Ti0.025Fe1.85O4 ferrite nanopaticles B. Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, A. Mahesh Kumar, K.H. Rao, V.V. Siva Kumar, K. Asokan, Ravi Kumar and O.F. Cultin Annual Report-2005, Chapter 5-2, pp 178-179, Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, India
32)	Swift heavy ion induced modifications in coprecipitated Mn-Zn nanoferrites B. Parvatheeswara Rao, K.H. Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, A. Mahesh Kumar, S. Srinivasa Rao, Y.L.N. Murthy, K. Asokan, Ravi Kumar and O.F. Cultin Annual Report-2005, Chapter 5-2, pp 179-181, Nuclear Science Centre, New Delhi, India
33)	Irradiation of swift heavy ions on Ni-Zn-In ferrite nanoparticles B. Parvatheeswara Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, A. Mahesh Kumar, K.H. Rao, V.V. Siva Kumar, Ravi Kumar and O.F. Cultin Presented at Indo-German workshop of Nano-05 held in New Delhi in Feb 2005
34)	Synthesis of Mn-Zn ferrite nanopaticles by soft chemistry and investigation of 190MeV Ag ion irradiation effects B. Parvatheeswara Rao, K.H. Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao, A. Mahesh Kumar, S. Srinivasa Rao, Y.L.N. Murthy, K. Asokan, Ravi Kumar and O.F. Cultin Presented at Indo-German workshop of Nano-05 held in New Delhi in Feb 2005
35)	Mossbauer spectroscopic analyses of Mg0.9Cu0.1Mn0.05CrxFe1.95 - xO4 spinel ferrites A. Lakshman, P.S.V. Subba Rao and K.H. Rao Materials Letters, 60(1), 7-10, 2006
36)	Mossbauer study of Mg 0.9 Mn 0.1 Cr y Fe 2 – y O4 spinel ferrites A. Lakshman, P.S.V. Subba Rao and K.H. Rao Modern Physics Letters B [Condensed Matter Physics; Statistical Physics and Applied Physics], 20 (7), 365-372, 2006
38)	Synthesis and characterization of Nb doped Lithium Lanthanum Titanate materials K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao International Conference on Electroceramics (ICE-2009), December 13-17, 2009, University of Delhi, Delhi

39)	Preparation and characterization of vanadium doped perovskite lithium lanthanum titanate for high ionic conducting materials K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao National conference on Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion-2010 (NCMESC-2010), January 23-24, 2010, S.V. University, Tirupati
40)	Synthesis and characterization of lithium lanthanum titanate for high conducting electrolyte materials K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao National conference on Recent trends in Advanced Energy Materials (NCRTEM-2010), March 10-11, 2010, Alagappa University, Karaidudi
41)	High frequency dielectric behaviour of indium and chromium substituted Mg-Mn ferrites A. Lakshman, P.S.V. Subba Rao and K.H. Rao Modern Physics Letters B, Vol 24, No.15 , 1657-1667, 2010
42)	Low temperature chemical synthesis of ferrite nanoparticles S. Ramesh, S.N.R. Rao, B. Parvatheeswara Rao and P.S.V. Subba Rao AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conf. Proc. 1461, 237-240, 2012
43)	Structural and impedance studies of doped LLT materials for electrolytes of lithium-ion batteries K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao AIP (American Institute of Physics) Conf. Proc. 1447, 1265-1266, 2012
44)	Structural, Impedance, Dielectric and Modulus Analysis of Li0.5-xLa0.5Ti1-xNbxO3 (x = 0,0.05,0.1 and 0.15) K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao Acta Physica Polonica A, 122, 1111-1115, 2012
45)	Structural, Impendence and Factor Group Analysis of Lithium Lanthanum Titanate for Electrolyte Materials K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao Journal of Physical Science and Application 2, 1-7, 2012
46)	Synthesis, Structural and Conductivity studies of Vanadium doped Lithium Lanthanum Titanate for Solid Electrolytes K. Vijaya Babu, V. Veeraiah and P.S.V. Subba Rao International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, February -2012
47)	Effect of Strontium oxide on grain growth and densification in BNN system B. Chandra Sekhar, P.S.V. Subba Rao and B. Parvatheeswara Rao International Journal of Engineering Science & Technology, Vol 5, No.2, 272-276, Feb 2013
48)	Improved magnetostrictive properties of Co-Mn ferrites for automobile torque sensor applications G.S.N. Rao, O.F.Caltun, K.H.Rao, P.S.V. Subba Rao and B. Parvatheeswara Rao Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 341, 60-64, 2013
49)	Preparation, characterization and electrical properties of Y2O3 doped Ba4Na2Nb10O30 ceramics B. Chandra Sekhar, P.S.V. Subba Rao and B. Parvatheeswara Rao International Journal of Pure & Applied Sciences, vol.02, No.01, 39-42, 2013
50)	Microstructural and magnetic behaviour of mixed Ni-Zn-Co and Ni-Zn-Mn ferrites S. Ramesh, B. Chandra Sekhar, P.S.V. Subba Rao and B. Parvatheeswara Rao Ceramic International, 40, 8729-8735,2014
51)	Softening transitions in ferroelectric Pb (Zr, Ti)O3 ceramics doped with neodymium oxide and lanthanum oxide T. Kamakshi and P.S.V. Subba Rao IOSR Journal of Applied Physics, 6, 50-55, 2014
52)	Nano lithium iron phosphate cathode material for Li-ion based batteries for under water applications T.V.S.L. Satyavani, A. Srinivas Kumar and P.S.V. Subba Rao In Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Environmental Science and Engineering (Eds.) V.K. Jain and A. Verma, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-03002-9_186, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 721-723, 2014
53)	Effect of Mn substitution on dielectric and magnetic properties of multiferroic bismuth ferrite B. Dhana Lakshmi, K. Pratap, B. Parvatheeswara Rao and P.S.V. Subba Rao Indian Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Special issue 1, 32-35, December 2014
54)	Effect of substituent (Me = Cr, Mn, Cu) concentration on CoMexFe2-xO4 lattice constant G.S.N. Rao, K.H. Rao, V. Chandra Sekhar, B. Chandra Sekhar and P.S.V. Subba Rao Indian Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Biotechnology, Special issue 1, 52-55, December 2014
54)	Structural and Photoluminescence Studies of Eu3+ doped L-Tartaric Single Crystal through Evaporation Technique P.V. Prasad, T.K. Visweswara Rao, Ch. Satya Kamal, S. Rajya Lakshmi, R.K. Ramachandra, V. Sudarsan, M.C. Rao, P.S.V. SubbaRao Journal of Molecular Structure, 1085, 115-120, 2015
55)	L-tartaric single crystal doped with Eu3+ ions for photoluminescence applications K Ramchandra Rao, P  V Prasad, T.K Visweswara  Rao, Ch  S Kamal, V Sudarsan, MC R Rao and P S V Subba Rao Physica B (Communicated 2015)
56)	Enhanced strain derivative in copper substituted cobalt ferrites Chandra Sekhar B., Rao G.S.N., Caltun O.F., Parvatheeswara Rao Balaga, and Subba Rao P.S.V. Journal of Applied Physics (Communicated 2015)