Dr. Pushpa Raghani is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics. Dr.
Raghani earned her Ph.D. at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
and completed post-doctoral work at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale at Stanford
University. She has extensive research interests including studying magnetic structures
with a single atom or multi-atom, calculating magnetic anisotropy for transition metal
and rare earth atoms, and researching mechanism for ferromagnetic coupling in bulk or in
molecules. Dr. Raghani has published in The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review
B, and Solid State Communications. She is also the recipient of the Kawazoe-Aida prize
for the best poster presentation in ACCMS-I, Bangalore, India.

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Bond Stiffening in Small Nanoclusters and Its Consequences for Mechanical and Thermal Properties (with Umesh Waghmare and Shobhana Narasimhan), Physical Review B (2008)
We have used density functional perturbation theory to investigate the stiffness of interatomic bonds in...
 

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Interplay Between Bonding and Magnetism in the Binding of NO to Rh Clusters (with Prasenjit Ghosh, Stefano de Gironcoli, and Shobhana Narasimhan), Journal of Chemical Physics (2008)
We have studied the binding of NO to small Rh clusters, containing one to five...
 

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SixC1−xO2 Alloys: A Possible Route to Stabilize Carbon-Based Silica-Like Solids?, Solid State Communications (2007)
Novel extended tetrahedral forms of CO2 have been synthesized recently under high-pressure conditions. We perform...