**Acknowledgements**

The authors would like to thank Prof. O.N. Srivastava and Prof. R.K. Mandal for providing lab facilities to carry out experiments. One of the authors (Dharmendra Singh) thankfully acknowledges the financial support by UGC under the scheme RGNF [2013-2014-36995], and Devinder Singh is grateful to DST, New Delhi, India, for financial support in the form of INSPIRE Faculty Award [IFA12-PH-39].

## **Author details**

Dharmendra Singh1 , Kiran Mor2 , Devinder Singh2,3\* and Radhey Shyam Tiwari1

1 Department of Physics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

2 Department of Physics, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India

3 Amity School of Applied Sciences, Amity University, Lucknow, India

\*Address all correspondence to: devinderpu@pu.ac.in

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