Megha JainMs. Megha Jain is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences at Punjabi University, in India. She has 14 publications in international and national peer review journals, and is a holder of the Young Scientist Award in th National Conference on Recent Advances in Chemical, Biological and Environmental Sciences. Her research areas focus on the application of techniques such as sol-gel, combustion, co-precipitation and hydrothermal for synthesis of nanomaterials, studying structural properties of metal oxides through refinement techniques (specifically rietveld refinement of x-ray diffraction data) and x-ray absorption spectroscopy, inducing and modifying the defect states within crystal structure by various means such as varying synthesis conditions, and studying the luminescence properties, particularly, photoluminescence, electroluminescence and thermoluminescence in the defected crystals. Read More Read Less