**Author details**

Esakki Muthu Sankaran1 \* and Arumugam Sonachalam2

1 Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts Science and Humanities, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, Coimbatore, India

2 Centre for High Pressure Research, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirapalli, India

\*Address all correspondence to: esakkimuthu.s@kahedu.edu.in

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