Precision positioning stages are indispensable in many branches of science and engineering, where they are employed for imaging, manipulation, fabrication, and material characterization. Compact, multi-degree-of-freedom ...

Environmental pollution and energy storage are two important issues in the modern day society. In this regard, Carbon nanomaterials have attained immense importance, due to their high surface area and electrical conductivity ...

In recent years, device manufacturing technology has been shifted from bulk and thin-film materials to nanomaterials, which are emerged as a unique class of materials. Among all the two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials, ...

The aim of this work is to develop high performance cryosorption (or cryoadsorption) pumps specifically for fusion applications. An actual cryopump for the above application will use the supercritical liquid helium flow ...

Vertically aligned carbon nanostructures are a type of carbon nanomaterial in which nanostructures are aligned lengthwise perpendicular to the plane of the substrate. In this thesis work, two vertically aligned carbon ...

Reliable, high performance integrated circuits based on thin film transistors (TFTs) on flexible substrates have a lot of advantages, especially in applications like flexible displays, spherical image sensors, wearable ...

Nowadays, two-dimensional (2D) materials have stimulated intensive research due to their intriguing physical properties and excellent electronic application. van der Waals (vdW) semiconductors are attractive for electrically ...

Sensors have always been an integral part of human life. Apart from the numerous inherent sensors which the human body possesses, there are various man-made sensors which has been studied and implemented widely to fulfill ...

Active matrix backplanes used in at panel displays are prone to line faults (opens and shorts) and pixel faults (poor transistor performance and parameter variations). These faults could occur during fabrication or ...

Buckled Thin Film Transistor (TFT) resulting from the stress induced instability of thin films realized on a exible substrate can behave di erently than that of a planar device. The aim of this thesis is twofold: To ...