The free standing and dimensionally stable gel polymer electrolyte films of polyacrylonitrile (PAN): potassium iodide (KI) of different compositions, using ethylene carbonate as a plasticizer and dimethyl formamide as solvent, are prepared by adopting 'solution casting technique' and these films are examined for their conductivities. The structural, miscibility and the chemical rapport between PAN and KI are investigated using X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry methods. The conductivity is enhanced with the increase in KI concentration and temperature. The maximum conductivity at 30 • C is found to be 2.089 × 10 −5 S cm −1 for PAN:KI (70:30) wt%, which is nine orders greater than that of pure PAN (<10 −14 S cm −1). The conductivity-temperature dependence of these polymer electrolyte films obeys Arrhenius behaviour with activation energy ranging from 0.358 to 0.478 eV. The conducting carriers of charge transport in these polymer electrolyte films are identified by Wagner's polarization technique and it is found that the charge transport is predominantly due to ions. The better conducting sample is used to fabricate the battery with configuration K/PAN + KI/I 2 + C + electrolyte and good discharge characteristics of battery are observed.

We study particle production of coherently oscillating inflaton in the semiclassical theory of gravity by representing inflaton in coherent and squeezed state formalisms. A comparative study of the inflaton in classical gravity with coherent state inflaton in semiclassical gravity is also presented.

We study the semiclassical Einstein equation and inflaton in the oscillatory region of the FRW Universe. We study the relative deviation of particle production in coherent and squeezed vacuum states for a minimally coupled scalar field in the oscillatory region of flat FRW Universe. We also study the behavior of inflaton field in non-oscillatory region. We examine whether the solution obtained in slow-roll approximation satisfies Klein-Gordon equation and commutation relation as well.

In this paper, by the use of entangled and nonentangled coherent and squeezed state formalism of two-mode nonclassical states, we studied the chaotic inflationary model of a massive scalar field with quadratic potential in the semiclassical gravity, derived from canonical quantum gravity. It was found that the semiclassical quantum gravity leads to the same power-law expansion of the universe as that of the matter-dominated era [Formula: see text] in an oscillatory phase of the scalar field in all the nonclassical quantum states considered. The coherently oscillating scalar field in the expanding universe suffers from the phenomenon of particle creation which restricts the duration of stable coherent oscillations of the scalar field dependent on the parameters of the states considered and affect in a certain way the abundant particle production owing to the parametric resonance of bosonic fields coupled to this coherently oscillating scalar field.

A minimally coupled nonclassical homogeneous scalar field is examined in the flat FRW universe in the semiclassical theory of gravity. Particle production in thermal coherent and squeezed states is studied for the flat FRW universe, in the oscillatory phase of the inflaton. Solutions for the semiclassical Friedmann equations are obtained in the thermal nonclassical states. Validity of the semiclassical theory is examined in the thermal coherent and squeezed states in the oscillatory phase of inflaton. Particle creation can be enhanced due to thermal and quantum effects. Quantum fluctuations of the inflaton in thermal coherent and squeezed state formalisms are also studied. Classical gravity differ from semiclassical gravity in the thermal coherent state only by an amplitude factor.