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    Significant recent publications:

• Strain induced metal-insulator transition in ultrathin films of SrRuO3, Kapil Gupta, Basudeb Mandal and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B (in press).
• Displacive-type ferroelectricity from magnetic correlations within spin-chain, T. Basu, V.V. Ravi Kishore, S. Gohil,K. Singh, N. Mohapatra, S. Bhattacharjee, B. Gonde, N.P.Lalla, Priya Mahadevan, S. Ghosh and E.V. Sampathkumaran, Sci. Rep. 4,5636 (2014).
• NaOsO3: A high Neel temperature 5d oxide,S.Middey, S. Debnath, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. B 89, 134416 (2014).
• Boron diffusion in MgO and emergence of magnetic ground states: A first principles study, H.K. Chandra and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 89, 144412 (2014).
• Microscopic model for the strain driven direct to indirect band-gap transition in monolayer MoS 2 and ZnO, Ruma Das, Bipul Rakshit, Saikat Debnath and Priya Mahadevan, Phys Rev. B 81, 115201 (2014).
• The role of Passivants on the Stoichiometry of CdSe and GaAs Nanocrystals, S. Debnath, R. Cherian and Priya Mahadevan, J. Phys. Chem. C 117, 21981 (2013).
• Orbital ordering induced ferroelectricity in SrCrO3, Kapil Gupta, Priya Mahadevan, Phivos Mavropoulos, Marjana Lezaic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 077601 (2013).
• Ultranarrow and Widely Tunable Mn²⁺-Induced Photoluminescence from Single Mn-Doped Nanocrystals of ZnS-CdS Alloys, Abhijit Hazarika, Arunasish Layek, Suman De, Angshuman Nag, Saikat Debnath, Priya Mahadevan, Arindam Chowdhury, and D. D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 267401 (2013).
• Effective mass driven structural transition in Mn-doped nanoplatelet, Celine Gerard, Ruma Das, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4, 1023 (2013).
• Indirect to Direct Band Gap transition under uniaxial strain in layered ZnO, Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan, Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 143116 (2013).
• Ferroelectric distortions in doped ferroelectrics: BaTiO3:M (M=V-Fe) Hirak Kumar Chandra, Kapil Gupta, Ashis Kumar Nandy, and Priya Mahadevan, PRB 87, 214110 (2013).
• Route to high Neel temperatures in 4d and 5d oxides, S. Middey, Ashis Nandy, Shishir Pandey, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. B 86, 104406 (2012).
• Defect induced local moment in ZnO as a consequence of Stoner mechanism, Hirak Kumar Chandra and Priya Mahadevan, Solid State Commun. 152, 762 (2012).
• The Spin and orbital physics of the alkali superoxides (A p-band orbital ordering), Ashis Nandy, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma in Concepts and Methods in Modern Theoretical Chemistry: Electronic Structure and Reactivity, Ed. P. Chattaraj and S. Ghosh (2012)
• Formation and the stability of the oxides of K, Ashis Nandy, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Mol. Sim. 38, 1308 (2012)
• K$_2$O$_2$ : The most stable oxide of K, A.K. Nandy, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. B. 84, 035116 (2011).
• Stability of the bulk phase of layered ZnO, B. Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085508 (2011).
• Dependence of magnetism on the GdFeO3 distortion in the t2g system ARuO3 (A=Sr, Ca), S. Middey, Priya Mahadevan and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. B 83, 014416 (2011).
• Size dependence of the bulk modulus of semiconductor nanocrystals from first-principles calculations, R. Cherian, C. Gerard, Priya Mahadevan, N.T. Cuong and R. Maezono, Phys. Rev. B 82, 235321 (2010).
• Absence of rippling in graphene under biaxial tensile strain, Bipul Rakshit and Priya Mahadevan, Phys. Rev. B 82, 153407 (2010).
• KO2: Realization of orbital ordering in a p-orbital system, A.K. Nandy, Priya Mahadevan, P. Sen and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 056403 (2010)
• Charge ordering induced ferromagnetic insulator : K2Cr8O16, Priya Mahadevan, Abhinav Kumar, D. Choudhury and D.D. Sarma, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 256401 (2010).