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Full Screen- Title
- Declaration
- Certificate
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Abstract
- Preface
- 1. General introduction
- 1.1 Glass
- 1.2 Sol-Gel Processing
- 1.3 Sol-Gel Chemistry
- 1.4 Advantages of Sol-Gel Processing
- 1.5 Rare Earth Ions
- 1.6 Holmium ion
- 1.7 Judd-Ofelt Theory
- 1.8 Impedance (Dielectric) Spectroscopy
- 1.9 Surface Plasmons and van der Waals Energy
- 2. Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of Ho3+ in Sol-Gel Silica glasses
- 3. Dielectric Measurements and AC Conductivity of Ho3+ doped Sol-Gel Silica Hosts
- 4. Dielectric and AC conductivity studies of Ag+ nanoparticles/Ho3+ doped sol-gel silica Matrices
- 5. Plasmonic and van der Waals energy studies of Ag:SiO2 matrix
- Appendices