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Ab-initio Modeling and Designing of Materials for Thermoelectrics, Optoelectronics and High Temperature Applications
Designing a material for a particular application requires an atomistic understanding of its properties. Recent development in first principles methods and supercomputing speeds has enabled researchers to compute materials ... -
Accelerated search for thermoelectric and topological materials using first-principles and machine learning
In summary, we have performed first-principles calculations to study the topological phase transitions in chalcopyrite compounds as a function of hydrostatic pressure. These compounds are topological insulators in the ... -
Addressing the Challenges in Designing of Efficient Thermoelectric Materials
Thermoelectric materials offer applications in conversion of waste heat to useful electrical energy and are promising sources of renewable energy. To use a material efficiently in thermoelectric application it is necessary ... -
Alluaudite Class of High-Voltage Cathodes for Sodium-Ion Battery Applications: A Synthesis, Structure, Property Correlation Study
The work presented in this thesis demonstrates alluaudites as a niche class of compounds forming the rich treasure house of sodium insertion hosts. The potential of this open frame-worked alluaudites is immense and ... -
Anodized Zirconia Nanostructures
(2018-05-01)Electrochemical anodization is a facile technique to synthesize ordered oxide nanostructures. Though the number of materials exhibiting anodized nanostructures has increased considerably in the recent years, only nanoporous ... -
Borate Based Glasses, Transparent Glass-Microcrystal Composites And Their Physical Properties
(2013-04-30)Transparent glasses embedded with ferroelectric/nonlinear optic crystallites have been in increasing demand as these exhibit promising physical properties. These could be fabricated in large sizes and shapes with high ... -
Charge-Transfer Associated Photoluminescence Of Rare-Earths Doped Oxide Phosphors
(2007-12-29)Luminescent materials can be found in a broad range of everyday applications. While in the seventies and eighties, the field of luminescent materials seemed to be fairly well covered, research in nineties has been revitalized ... -
Chemical Characterisation Of The Surfaces And Interfaces Of Barium Titanate And Related Electronic Ceramics
(2007-10-25)This thesis deals with the investigations on the atomic composition, chemical surface states and microstructural features of barium titanate and other electronic ceramics namely barium polytitantes, calcium manganites and ... -
Constructing transition metal-based heterostructure nanomaterials for electrocatalysis
Storing renewable energy into chemical bonds like hydrogen as a carbon-neutral energy carrier to deliver the energy demands is gaining attention. However, the popular hydrogen production route by water electrolysis involves ... -
Controlled Nanoscale Growth of 2D Materials and Their Heterostructures
Unique ranges of properties of two dimensional (2D) materials foster new opportunities in many scientific and technological fields. Beyond pristine 2D materials, their heterostructures provide more possibilities in real ... -
Controlled Nucleation, Growth And Directed Assembly Of Nanocrystals With Engineered Interfaces For Applications
(2014-11-14)Controlling the morphology of nanocrystals provides provides a possible pathway to tune properties and hence has been explored in depth. However, to obtain a wider spectrum of properties or for multi-functionality. Other ... -
Defect Engineering and Doping of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: A First-Principles Study
The foundation of the electronic industry is based on n-type and p-type semiconductor materials, which is obtained by the ubiquitously present point defects. The presence of defects affects the electronic and optoelectronic ... -
Design and Development of Microstereolithography (MSL) System and Its Applications in Microfabrication of Polymer and Ceramic Structures
(2017-11-30)In the present era where MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) technology is in¬evitable from the perspective of applications in non-silicon based micro-devices (such as biosensors, microfluidics, microvalves etc.), it ... -
Designed Synthesis and Electron Microscopy Investigation of Layered Materials Hybrids for Targeted Applications
Post-discovery and advancement in graphene, the field of layered materials, have gained enormous research interest. These materials have unique and diverse range of properties. Layered materials further provide an opportunity ... -
Determining Functional Parameters of Hybrid Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Storage and Conversion Applications
Generating global-scale sustainable energy systems and preserving our environment for the future at the same time are the biggest challenges. Therefore, the search for diverse energy sources which will reduce our dependency ... -
"Developing Device Quality Vanadium Dioxide Thin Films for Infrared Applications"
(2018-01-04)Vanadium oxides are being used as the thermal sensing layer because of their applications in infrared detectors. They have high temperature coefficient of resistance, favorable electrical resistance and compatibility with ... -
Development of CMOS-Compatible, Microwave-Assisted Solution Processing of Nanostructured Zine Ferrite Films for Gigahertz Circuits
(2018-04-16)The development of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), especially the dream of integrating analog, digital and radio frequency (RF) components on the same chip that is commonly known as System-on-a-Chip (SoC), is ...