The study of the co-existence of singlet superconductivity and ferromagnetism in bulk materials has been a long standing and intriguing problem in condensed matter physics since the superconductivity and ferromagnetism are ...

Graphene – a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of sp2-bonded carbon atoms – has been attracting a great deal of research interest since its first experimental realization in 2004, due to its various novel properties and ...

Fast ionic conductors, i.e. materials in which charge transport mainly occurs through the motion of ions, are an important class of materials with immense scope for industrial applications. There are different classes of ...

This thesis presents results of novel methodologies applied to oriented systems. Both pure liquid crystalline materials as well as molecules oriented in liquid crystalline matrices have been studied. In particular this ...

This thesis on multicarrier effects in the magnetotransport and optical properties of Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT or HgCdTe) covers mainly: design, construction and calibration of a 12T 4K and 19T 77K pulsed high magnetic ...

Microfabricated thermal cyclers for nucleic acid amplification by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have been demonstrated by several groups over the last decade, with improved cycling speed and smaller volumes when ...

In this PhD Thesis, we have studied several problems related to statistical properties of homogeneous, isotropic and turbulent flow of conducting fluid with direct numerical simulations (DNS) of equations of magnetohydrodynamics ...