• 2D Piezotronics: Performance to Functionality 

      Yarajena, Sai Saraswathi
      In the pursuit of interactive electronic devices, there is a need for smart materials which can serve multiple functionalities. 2D (two-dimensional) layered materials have gained attention in semiconductor technology because ...
    • Internal resonances and nonlinearities in atomically thin resonators 

      Samanta, Chandan
      The advent of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and atomically thin membranes such as Graphene and layered transition metal chalcogenides (TMDs) have spurred research in the area of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) due to their ...
    • Mode Coupling and Nonlinearities in Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems 

      Arora, Nishta
      Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems have shown tremendous potential in applications ranging from sensing to obtaining ultrastable oscillators for timing. They have also opened avenues for fundamental quantum studies ...
    • Molecular Dynamics Investigations of Hybrid Nanopores for Single Molecule DNA Sequencing 

      Ramkumar, B
      High throughput methods accelerate the drug discovery, biomolecule detection and sequencing applications pipeline. Single molecule detection technique facilitates the implementation of high throughput methods by eliminating ...
    • Nanopore Based Single-molecule Sensors 

      Pal, Sohini
      In the past two decades nanopores have been used as highly sensitive detection systems for exploring the properties of analytes at single molecule resolution. The small dimensions of a nanopore permit the molecule of ...
    • Parametric Manipulation in 2D Material based NEMS Resonators 

      Prasad, Parmeshwar
      In this this thesis, I have studied dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) material based NEMS resonators with resonant frequency ranging typically from 10 MHz to 100 MHz. The experiment involved fabrication of the ...
    • Raman Spectroscopy on Few layer graphene 

      Thakur, Shraddha
      Graphene is a two-dimensional allotrope of carbon exhibiting planer honeycomb lattice structure.1 A carbon atom in graphene makes three σ-bonds with the neighbouring atoms in the plane and one π-bond perpendicular to the ...
    • Strain engineering of 2D NEMS for resonant sensing 

      More, Swapnil
      2D material-based nanoelectromechanical systems have emerged as excellent tools for force measurement with extreme sensitivity levels. Most sensing methods with 2D nanoelectromechanical (2D NEMS) systems utilize frequency ...
    • Towards an Integrated Graphene Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical System 

      Dash, Aneesh
      Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have found extensive applications in micromechanical sensing. The scaling of MEMS into nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) was spurred primarily by the expectation of higher ...
    • Towards Logic Circuit Applications Using Solution Processed CNTs 

      Yasasvi, Raghavendra G P
      With Silicon transistor technology reaching its practical limits, e orts to replace Si with new materials with better electronic transport properties have gained considerable at- tention. Single-walled carbon nanotubes ...