Books Authored
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari.
Modern Thermoelectrics,
Holt Saunders Ltd. (1983)
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Thermal Conduction in Semiconductors, Wiley Eastern Ltd. (1988)
C.M. Bhandari.
Nothing But All: An enquiry into the meaning and implications of Science,
Kitab Mahal, Allahabad (1998)
Contributed Chapters
3 Review Chapters contributed in the Handbook of Thermoelectrics (ed. D.M. Rowe), CRC Press Inc., 1995.
Titles of chapters included:
M. P. Singh and C.M. Bhandari. Thermoelectric Properties of Bismuth Telluride Quantum Wires. Solid State Communications, Vol-127, 649 (2003).
M. N. Tripathi and C. M. Bhandari. High-temperature thermoelectric performance of Si�Ge alloys J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 15 (13 August 2003) 5359-5370
M. P. Singh and C. M. Bhandari. High-temperature thermoelectric behavior of lead telluride. Pramana--Journal of Physics (Accepted)
M. P. Singh and C. M. Bhandari. Electronic transport in one-dimensional systems. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, Vol. 41, No. 12, Dec. 2003
Review Papers (with D.M. Rowe as co-author)
Germanium-silicon alloys as high temperature thermoelectric materials
Contemporary Physics, Vol. 21, 219-242 (1960)
Preparation and thermal conductivity of doped semiconductors Prog. Cryst. Growth and Char. 13, 233 (1986)
A review of Lead Telluride technology at UWIST In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Arlington, U.S.A., p. 43 (1986)
Publications - Journals
C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma.
Thermal Conductivity of Ge-Si alloys at high temperature.
Phys. Rev. 138, A2888(1965).
C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Role of longitudinal and transverse phonons in lattice thermal conductivity of GaAs and InSb. Phys. Rev. 140, A2101 (1965).
N.K.S. Gaur, C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Temperature dependence of Density-of-States Effective Mass and Electronic and Phonon Contributions to Thermal Resistance of Doped Si-Ge Alloys at High Temperatures. Phys. Rev. 144, 628 (1966).
C.M. Bhandari G.S. Verma. Scattering of magnons and phonons in the thermal conductivity Yttrium Iron Garnet. Phys. Rev. 152, 731 (1966)
N.K.S. Gaur, C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Resonance scattering of phonons in GaAs. Physica 32, 1048 (1966)
C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Influence of point defects on phonon drag thermoelectric power. Il Nuovo Cimento, 47, 129 (1967).
C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Magnon drag thermoelectric power. Il Nuovo Cimento, 608, 249 (1967).
C.M. Bhandari. Effect of phonon drag on electrical conductivity in Cu and its alloys. Physica, 40, 30 (1968).
C.M. Bhandari. Ultrasonic attenuation by paramagnetic impurities. Indian J. Pure Appl. Phys. 7, 576 (1969).
R.C. Tripathi and C.M. Bhandari. Temperature dependence of the Bulk modulus of some dia-atomic halides. Physica 49, 332 (1969).
C.M. Bhandari. Magnetic behaviour of Heisenberg system of 3-level ions. Ind. J. Pure and Appl. Phys. 8, 747 (1970).
Y.P. Joshi, C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma. Role of longitudinal and transverse phonons in GaAs and InSb. Phys. Rev. 83, 3574 (1971).
L.N. Dwivedi and C.M. Bhandari. Thermodynamic properties of a three-level paramagnetic system. Indian J. Pure and Appl. Phys. Vol. 14, 699 (1976).
L.N. Dwivedi and C.M. Bhandari. Phase transitions in a Heisenberg system in presence of uniaxial and biaxial anisotropies. Phys. Chem. Solids, Vol. 38, 1411 (1977).
R.B. Pandey and C.M. Bhandari. A Green function theory of anisotropic ferromagnetics. Phys. Stat. Solids (b) 78, 821 (1976).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Thermal conductivity of highly disordered semiconductor alloys. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., Vol. 10, L59 (1977).
L.N. Dwivedi and C.M. Bhandari. Effects of random local magnetic fields in the Ising model (S=1, 3/2) Phys. Stat. Solidi B, Vol. 84, K125 (1977).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Boundary scattering of Phonons J. Phys. C., Solid Physics. Vol. 11 1787-1794 (1978).
C.M. Bhandari. Ge-Si alloys as high temperature thermal materials. Vol. 21, 219 (1980).
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari. Effect of grain size on the thermoelectric conversion efficiency of semiconductor alloys at high temperature. Applied Energy, Vol. 6, 347-351 (1980).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. The generalization of Callaway thermal conductivity equation. J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. 12, 23: L833 (1979).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Theoretical analysis of thermoelectric figure of merit. Energy Conv. & Mgmt. Vol. 20, 113 (1980).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. The effect of phonon grain boundary scattering, doping and alloying on the lattice thermal conductivity of telluride. J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 16, L75-L77 (1983).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Temperature dependence of the figure-of-merit of improved thermoelectric materials based upon lead telluride. J. Phys. D : Appl. Phys. 16, L 219 (1983).
D.M. Rowe. and C.M. Bhandari. Lattice Thermal conductivity of small-grain-size Pb-SnTe and Pb-GeTe thermoelectric material. Appl. Phys. Lett. 47(3), 255 (1985).
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Electronic contribution to the thermal conductivity of narrow band gap semiconductors: effect of non-parabolicity of bands. J. Phys. D : Applied Physics, 18, 873-883, 1985.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Towards a thermal conductivity minimum: thermoelectric considerations. Ind. J. Pure and Appl. Phys. 24, 463 (1986).
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari. Preparation and thermal conductivity of doped semiconductors. Progr. Cryst. Growth and Char. 13, 233 (1986).
V.K.Agrawal and C.M. Bhandari. Thermal and electrical conductivity of bismuth telluride. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, 1990.
C.M. Bhandari. Solid Solubility in thermoelectric semiconductors. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, 32, 786, 1994.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity of Si-Ge alloys. Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Physics, 34, 670, 1996.
C.M. Bhandari. ( - ln ( plots in thermoelectric semiconductors. Indian Journal of pure and applied Physics, 37, 434, 1999.
Publications - Conferences
Anil Kumar, C.M. Bhandari and G.S. Verma.
Phonon drag thermoelectric power in copper alloys.
In Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics and Solid State Physics Symposium, Bombay-1968, p. 234.
C.M. Bhandari and A.K. Gupta. Magnetic exchange behaviour of Heisenberg system of 3-level ions. In Proc. Of Nucl. Physics and Sol. State Phys. Symposium, Madurai 1970 (735).
R.C. Tripathi and C.M. Bhandari. Magnetic Gruneisen parameter in MnSb. In Proceedings of the Indo Soviet Conference on Solid State Materials, Bangalore, India.
C.M. Bhandari and A.K.Gupta. Pressure Dependence of Magnetization in Ni-Cu Alloys. In Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics and Solid State Physics Symposium, Chandigarh, 1972-73
C.M. Bhandari and A.K. Gupta. On the Temperature Dependence of Magnetoelastic Expansivity in a Two Level paramagnetic system. In Proceedings of the Nuclear Physics and Solid State Physics Symposium, Chandigarh, 1972-73
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari. Fine grained Si-Ge alloys as superior thermoelectric materials. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, March 22-24, 1978, Arlington, Texas.
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari. Electronic thermal transport in thermoelectric material effect of band nonparabolicity. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Arlington (1984) p 62
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Thermoelectric behaviour of multivallied semiconductors. In Proc. of 5th International Conference on Thermoelectric Energy Conversion, Arlington (1984) p 38.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Electronic thermal transport in narrow band gap semiconductors. Proc. Of 9th ETPC, Manchester, September 1984.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Minority carrier effects on the thermoelectric figure-of-merit. In Proceedings of the First European Conference on Thermoelectrics, Cardiff, September, 1987.
D.M. Rowe, C.M. Bhandari, M. Clee, X.Z. Zhang and S. Williams. Preparation and thermoelectric properties of improved PbSnTe alloys. In Proceedings of First European Conference on thermoelectrics, p 95, 1987.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Some aspects of thermoelectric material research. National Workshop on Advanced Materials, Calcutta, September 1988.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Thermoelectrics Resarch: Indo-British collaboration. Raman Centenary National seminar, Allahabad, November 1989.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Electrical and electronic thermal transport in Q1D systems. International Conference on Thermoelectrics, Cardiff, 1991.
D.M. Rowe and C.M. Bhandari. On improved figure-of-merit of disordered semicondutors. Proc. Of International Conference on Disordered Materials Indore, INDIAS 91, p 153, 1992.
Unpublished/Under Preparation Papers
C.M. Bhandari. Thermoelectric behaviour of small gap semiconductors effect of nonparabolic nature of energy bands. Unpublished.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Thermal conductivity of fine-grained sintered anisotropic semiconductors. to be published.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. High temperature thermal conductivity of lead telluride. Unpublished.
C.M. Bhandari and D.M. Rowe. Analysis of n-type thermoelectric composition of tin, lead and MnTe. Unpublished.
C.M. Bhandari. Thermoelectric behaviour of low-dimensional systems. Unpublished.
C.M. Bhandari. Tailoring materials for thermoelectric applications. under preparation.
C.M. Bhandari. Thermoelectric power in quasi-one-dimensional semiconducting structures. unpublished.
C.M. Bhandari. Thermoelectric figure-of-merit and electrical conductivity of bismuth telluride. under preparation.
M.P. Singh and C.M. Bhandari. Electronic thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity in one-dimensional systems. to be communicated.
Other Publications
25 popular science articles in the magazines Aavishkar and Vigyan (in Hindi).