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Rational Design of Advanced Hybrid Nanostructures for Catalysis and Electrocatalysis
(2017-11-28)The hybrid nanostructures exhibit excellent performances in various fields such as catalysis, sensing, and energy conversion as compared to their individual ones. The thesis deals with the new methods for the synthesis of ... -
Rational Design of Efficient Catalysts using First-Principles and Machine Learning
Rising concerns about the impending energy crisis and environmental impact have garnered tremendous research interest in developing catalysts for sustainable fuel production and pollution abatement. However, the traditional ... -
Rational Designing of Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Devices
Depleting fossil fuels, increasing environmental concerned and looming energy crisis motivates researcher around the globe to explore some of the possible eco-friendly energy alternative resources. Among various available ... -
Self-powered Broadband and Ultrafast Photoresponse using InN and InGaN grown on AlN/Si (111) by Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Group III-nitride semiconductors have enabled revolution in solid-state lighting and high-power/high-frequency electronics. Now-a-days, III-nitride based photodetectors are of great importance because of their various ... -
Semiconductor Photocatalysts For The Detoxification Of Water Pollutants
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-06-15)Water pollution is a major concern in vast countries such as India and other developing nations. Several methods of water purification have been practiced since many decades, Semiconductor photocatalysis is a promising ... -
Semipolar And Nonpolar Group III-Nitride Heterostructures By Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
(2015-09-08)Group III-nitride semiconductors are well suited for the fabrication of devices including visible-ultraviolet light emitting diodes, high-temperature and high-frequency devices. The wurtzite III-nitride based heterostructures ... -
Single/double atom catalysts for electrochemical energy conversion and storage applications
Increasing energy demands along with environmental crises have motivated the extensive investigation of alternative high efficiency energy conversion and storage devices such as metal-air batteries, fuel cells and water ... -
Size Dependence of Static and Dynamic Properties of Nanobars and Nanotubes
(2018-02-11)This thesis aims at investigating size dependence of properties of nanostructures from the point of view of a general scaling theory that smoothly connects properties of the bulk to that of nanostructures. Two different ... -
Soft X-ray Multilayers As Polarizing Elements : Fabrication, And Studies Of Surfaces And Interfaces
(2010-03-09)The exploitation of the soft x-ray/extreme ultra-violet (EUV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum is possible mainly due to the development of multilayer (ML) mirrors. This region of the electromagnetic spectrum offers ... -
Solution-Processed Optoelectronic Devices Based on Colloidal Semiconductor Nanostructures for Photodetection
(2018-06-08)Miniaturisation of electronic and optoelectronic devices have enabled the realization of system-on-a-chip technology in modern image sensors, where the photo sensor arrays and the corresponding signal processing circuitry ... -
Spectrally selective tandem absorbers for photothermal conversion in high temperature solar thermal systems
Solar energy is the inexhaustible and abundant energy resources on the earth which can be a best substitute for the fossil fuels. Over the past couple of decades, all the solar technologies are rising very steadily in two ... -
Stress and Microstructural Evolution During the Growth of Transition Metal Oxide Thin Films by PVD
(2018-05-23)System on Chip (SoC) and System in Package (SiP) are two electronic technologies that involve integrating multiple functionalities onto a single platform. When the platform is a single wafer, as in SOC, it requires the ... -
Structural and Electrochemical Investigation of Bisulfate and Hydroxysulfate based Polyanionic Cathodes
The discovery of LiFePO4 cathode for Li-ion battery ushered intensive study on polyanionic high-voltage battery insertion materials. Polyanionic materials offer rich crystal chemistry, robust framework, voltage tunability, ... -
Structural and Electrochemical Investigation of Fluoro(hydroxy)phosphate Based Cathode Materials for Secondary Batteries
Structural and electrochemical investigation of LiFePO4OH hydroxyphosphate material. The synthesis and structure of this material is explained. The hydrothermally synthesized material crystallizes in triclinic structure ... -
Structural and magnetic properties of Al-doped yttrium iron aluminum garnet and optical properties of Mn, Sr, Fe-doped ZnO prepared by solution combustion method
The structural and magnetic properties of Al substituted yttrium-iron garnet (Y3AlxFe5-xO12, x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8) ceramic powders synthesized using solution combustion method ... -
Structural, Optical And Electrical Studies On Aurivillius Oxide Thin Films
(2011-02-03)The present research work mainly focuses on the fabrication and characterization of single and multilayer thin films based on Bismuth Vanadate (BVO) and Bismuth Titanate (BTO). The multi-target laser ablation technique was ... -
Structure And Oxygen Storage Capacity Of Ce1-xMxO2-δ(M=Sn, Zr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, La, Y, Pd, Pt, Ru) : Experimental And Density Functional Theoritical Study
(2011-06-30)Ceria (CeO2) containing materials are the subject of numerous investigations recently owing to their broad range of applications in various fields. Ceria is one of the most important components of three-way catalysts (TWC). ...