Professor C D Amarasekara
Professor C D Amarasekara
BSc (Cey), MSc, PhD (Purdue), CPhys,FIP (SL)
Associate Professor
Specialized Field : Solid State Physics
Email Address : amara@kln.ac.lk
Telephone No : +94 (0)11 2 877 245 (Residence)
Superconductivity
Storage and harnessing of solar energy in salt pan solar ponds
MA Punyasena, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, PAA Perera, An Investigation of Rain and Wind Effects on Thermal Stability of Large-area Saltpan Solar Ponds, Solar Energy 74, 447 (2003)
MA Punyasena, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, PAA Perera, Construction and Commissioning of a Large-area Salt-gradient Solar Pond at Palatupana Salterns in Southern Sri Lanka, Proc. 19th Tech. Sess. Inst. Phys., Sri Lanka (2003)
PAA Perera, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, MA Punyasena, A Study of Daytime Variation of Convective and Non-Convective Zones in Salt Pan Solar PondsbProc. Annual Research Symp. 2002, University of Kelaniya (2002)
PAA Perera , CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, MA Punyasena, Daytime Variation of Temperature and Salinity Profiles in Large-Area Saltpan Solar Ponds at Palavi, Sri Lanka,Proc. 18th Tech. Sess. Inst. Phys., Sri Lanka (2002)
MA Punyasena, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, PAA Perera, A Study of Wind Effects on Thermal Stability of Salt Pan Solar Ponds,Proc. 18th Tech. Sess. Inst. Phys., Sri Lanka (2002)
PS Hewageeganage, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, MA Punyasena, Investigation of Temperature and Density Profiles of Brines in Evaporating Salt Pans at Palaviya in the North-Western Region of Sri Lanka,Proc. 16th Tech. Sess. Inst. Phys., Sri Lanka (2001)
PS Hewageegana, CD Amarasekara, JRP Jayakody, MA Punyasena, A Study of Temperature and Salinity Variations with Depth in Salt Pans at Palavi in North-West Region of Sri Lanka, Proc. Annual Research Symp. 2000, University of Kelaniya (2000)
AS Pannila and CD Amarasekara, Aging and the effect of mixing parameters on mould making processes in the ceramic industry,Proc. 44th Annual Sess., SLAAS, p. 148 (1988)
AS Pannila and CD Amarasekara, Studies on preparation and properties of Hemihydrated plaster from used plaster moulds,Proc. 44th Annual Sess., SLAAS, p. 147 (1988)
AS Pannila and CD Amarasekara, Characteristics of Sri Lanka marin gypsum and its dehydrated materials, Proc. 44th Annual Sess., SLAAS, p. 94 (1988)
AS Pannila and CD Amarasekara, Regeneration of plaster of paris from used moulds in the ceramic industry,Proc. 43rd Annual Sess., SLAAS, p. 192 (1987)
H Matsuyame, T Takano, Y Tasuke, T Stato, Y Miyako, CD Amarasekara and PH Keesom, Random Magnet of Quasi-one dimentional conductor Na0.2V2O5 bronzes, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn 52, pp. 77-80 (1983)
CD Amarasekara, Y Miyako, PH Keesom and GD Khattak, Specific heat of sodium-vandium bronzes NaxV2O5 between 0.5 and 50K, Phys. Rev.B27, pp. 978 (1983)
CD Amarasekara, RR Galazka, YQ Yang and PH Keesom,Specific heat and magnetic succeptibility of Cd1-xMnxSe at low temperature, Phys. Rev. B27, pp. 2868 (1983)
CD Amarasekara and PH Keesom, Identification of a phason heat capacity in the low-temperature specific heat of potasium, Phys. Rev. B26, pp. 2720 (1982)
GD Khattak, CD Amarasekara S Nagata, RR Galaska and PH Keesom, Specific heat, Magnetic susceptibility, and the spin-glass transition in Hg1xMnxTe, Phys. Rev. B23, pp. 3553 (1981)
S Nagata, RR Galaska, GD Khattak, CD Amarasekara, JK Furdyna and PH Keesom, Spin glass transition in a diluted frustrated lattice Cd1-xMnxTe, Hg1-xMnxTe, and Hg1-xMnxSe, Physica 107 B, pp. 311 (1981)
CD Amarasekara and PH Keesom, Evidance of phasons in the specific heat of potassium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, pp. 1311 (1981)
Physics Laboratory Manual-I on Mechanics, Properties of Matter and Optics, University of Kelaniya
Special Theory of Relativity (In Sinhala) 2002
C D Amarasekara , Waves in Physics, The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2009
C D Amarasekara , Special Theory of Relativity , The Open University of Sri Lanka, 2010
C D Amarasekara , Solid State Physics , The Open University of Sri Lanka,, ISBN 978-955-23-1281-6, 2011