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Study Of Relaxor Ferroelectric PMN-PT Thin Films For Energy Harvesting Applications
(2015-08-06)The present research work mainly focuses on the fabrication of 0.85PMN-0.15PT thin film relaxor ferroelectrics for energy harvesting applications. Chapter 1 gives a brief review about why energy harvesting is required ... -
Study Of Transport Behaviour Of P-GaAs/N-GaAs EPI-Junctions
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Synergistic Exploration of Oxide Cathode Materials for Potassium-ion Batteries
Since their inception by Sony® in 1991, Li-ion batteries have become dominant in various energy storage applications. However, the ever-growing energy demand coupled with sparsely distributed lithium resources provide ... -
Synthesis and Applications of Size and Shape Controlled Magnetic Oxide Particles for Magnetorheological Fluids
(2018-05-25)Magnetorheological fluids (MRFs) are non-colloidal stable suspensions of polarizable mesoscale soft magnetic particles, usually metallic Fe-particles, in a carrier liquid such as oil or water; the solidity of which can be ... -
Synthesis And Characterization Of One-Dimensional Oxide Nanostructures
(2010-12-08)Nanostructured materials especially, one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures have unique physical, chemical, mechanical properties and are the building blocks for a range of nanoscale devices. The procedure employed for the ... -
Synthesis and Characterization of Silica-Silica Porous Composite and Calcium Strontium Zirconium Phosphate Ceramics for Thermal Protection Applications
(2018-07-28)A porous silica –silica composite was processed with varying fiber diameters using the slurry moulding technique. The advantage of the process was that the density of the composite could be processed to the required levels. ... -
Synthesis and development of multifunctional carbonaceous nanostructures for magnetic, optical and catalytic applications
Owing to the ease of functionalization, low synthesis-cost and polymorphism, carbonaceous nanostructures such as carbon globules, nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene sheets emerged technologically as one of the most important ... -
Synthesis And Structural Characterization Of TiO2-Based Hybrid Nanostructures For Photovoltaic Applications
(2013-05-31)Increased demand of power, limited fuel resources and environmental concerns have recently prompted a huge thrust on research areas of alternative energy and photovoltaics have been hailed as energy source for future. ... -
Synthesis And Studies Of Perovskite Nanostructures
(2010-07-23)The group of materials with ABO3 type perovskite structure are very important due to their attractive electrical and magnetic properties for technological applications and have been studied in the form of single crystals, ... -
Synthesis Of Various Carbon Nanostructures And The Transport Properties Of Carbon Nanotubes
(2013-02-25)Different carbon nanostructures have different properties and different applications. It is needed to synthesize good quality and also on large scale. From the point of industrial applications, highly productive and low ... -
Synthesis, Structure And Properties Of MPB Composition In PZT- Type Ceramics
(2013-05-01)The first chapter introduces the basic principles governing the phenomenon like ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity and pyroelectricity, which influences the material properties for its device applications. An effort is ... -
Thermal Expansion And Related Studies In Cordierite Ceramics And Relaxor Ferroelectrics
(2013-07-02)The following investigations have been carried out in this thesis 1)Cordierite is already well known for its low thermal expansion behaviour. Chemical substitutions at various octahedral and tetrahedral sites have been ... -
Thermal Oxidation Strategies for the Synthesis of Binary Oxides and their Applications
(2017-12-12)Binary oxides constitute an outstanding class of functional materials with potential applications in many fields such as catalysis, gas sensing, field emission, solar cells, photodetection, etc. Due to the difference in ... -
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nucleation and Growth of Silicon Nanowires
(2017-12-10)Si nanowires have potential applications in a variety of technologies such as micro and nanoelectronics, sensors, electrodes and photovoltaic applications due to their size and specific surface area. Au particle-assisted ... -
Thermoelectric Investigations of Si/β-FeSi2 composite
This thesis focuses on thermoelectric properties of environmentally friendly, cheap and non-toxic Si/β-FeSi2 composite materials. Although thermoelectric power generation is reliable and environmentally friendly technology ... -
Thermoelectric Properties Of Manganese And Ytterbium Filled Cobalt Antimonide(CoSb3)
(2010-09-22)Thermoelectric materials are solid state devices having the capability to convert heat to electrical energy and vice versa. These materials are simple, have no moving parts and use no greenhouse gases. But the major ... -
Thin Film Semiconducting Metal Oxides By Nebulized Spray Pyrolysis And MOCVD, For Gas-Sensing Applications
(2013-04-19)The atmosphere we live in contains various kinds of chemical species, natural and artificial, some of which are vital to our life, while many others are more or less harmful. The vital gases like oxygen, humidity have to ... -
Thin Films And Sub-Micron Powders Of Complex Metal Oxides Prepared By Nebulized Spray Pyrolysis And Brillouin Scattering Investigations Of Phase Transitions In Solids
(Indian Institute of Science, 2006-06-22)The thesis consists of two parts. Part 1 deals with the preparation of thin films and sub-micron powders of complex metal oxides by nebulized spray pyrolysis (NSP) and Part 2 consists of Brillouin scattering studies of ...