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We report the first observation of high-spin states in nuclei in the vicinity of the "island of inversion", populated via the 18 O+ 18 O fusion reaction at an incident beam energy of 34 MeV.The fusion reaction mechanism circumvents the limitations of non-equilibrated reactions used to populate these nuclei. Detailed spin-parity measurements in these difficult to populate nuclei have been possible from the observed coincidence anisotropy and the linear polarization measurements.The spectroscopy of 33,34 P and 33 S is presented in detail along with the results of calculations within the shell model framework.

CdTe films with large grains were prepared by rapid thermal processing (RTP) of a room temperature evaporated CdTe film used as the precursor. RTP was carried out at different temperature ramps and the films, thus produced, were characterized by measuring the optical and microstructural properties to optimize the deposition conditions for the preparation of large grained CdTe films. Photoluminescence (PL) measurements were carried out to derive information on the defect structures in these films.