Browsing Division of Interdisciplinary Research by thesis submitted date"2018"
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Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructured Antibacterial Surfaces
Bacterial antibiotic resistance is becoming wide spread due to the excessive and unregulated use of antibiotics in healthcare and agriculture. At the same time the development of new antibiotics has become slow. Adding ... -
Fast Solvers and Preconditioning Methods in Computational Electromagnetics
Method of Moments (MoM) is an integral equation based solver and is one of the most popular computational techniques to solve complex 3D Electromagnetic problems efficiently and accurately. Compared to the conventional ... -
From Independent Control to Self Propulsion of Helical Nanoswimmers : Towards All Magnetic Active Matter
There has been a surge of interest in recent years to design and fabricate various types of motile micro/nanoparticles that can be maneuvered using chemical, optical, thermal, electrical or magnetic energy sources. A ... -
Global control of mechanics on Riemannian manifolds, and applications to under-actuated aerial vehicles
We consider the problem of designing trajectory tracking feedback control laws for La- grangian mechanical systems in a Riemannian geometric framework. Classical nonlinear control techniques that rely on Euclidean ... -
Graphene and Graphyne based three dimensional porous architectures
The main objective of the thesis is to introduce porous structure into graphene/graphene oxide materials and study their effects on various physics/chemistry related applications. Introduction of porosity may be achieved ... -
Heterogeneous Integration of Thin-film Germanium on Silicon and Steel
Integration of germanium (Ge) on low cost substrates such as silicon and steel open several applications such as low cost III-V photovoltaics, beyond silicon CMOS and optoelectronics applications. However, growth of germanium ... -
High power Cascaded Raman fiber lasers
Over the last decade, fiber lasers have gained significant traction for industrial, defense and medical applications. This is owing to their superior beam quality along with power scalability, compactness, reliability and ... -
Improving Data Center Utilisation by Reducing Fragmentation
Virtualization enables better server consolidation and utilisation compared to stand-alone servers running a single workload. This enabled wide-spread cloud adoption among many organizations. Data center utilisation is ... -
Improving photoacoustic imaging with model compensating and deep learning methods
Photoacoustic imaging is a hybrid biomedical imaging technique combining optical ab- sorption contrast with ultrasonic resolution. It is a non-invasive technique that is scalable to reveal structural, functional, and ... -
Insights into signalling and crosstalk in two-component signalling systems of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), has very recently reclaimed the position of the leading cause of deaths in humans from a single infection agent. This suggests a dire need to ... -
Integration of Functional Oxide Films on Semiconducting Substrates
System-on-chip (SoC) applications have attracted the attention of the modern community due to their ability to facilitate various functionalities within a single device which can meet the requirements of day-to-day life. ... -
Integration of Graphene with Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photodetection in the UV, Visible and IR
Graphene is the thinnest material known till date, composed of a two dimensional (2D) arrangement of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice. It has interesting mechanical, electrical and optical properties, such as very high ... -
Interlinkages, Innovation, Internationalization and Economic Performance of Manufacturing SMEs in Bangalore
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) occupy a place of strategic significance in the global economy (including India) due to their significant contributions in terms of employment generation, exports, income creation, and ... -
Internal resonances and nonlinearities in atomically thin resonators
The advent of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and atomically thin membranes such as Graphene and layered transition metal chalcogenides (TMDs) have spurred research in the area of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS) due to their ... -
Investigations into the changes in biomechanics of liver cells upon HCV infection
Biomechanics is an important regulator of cell function. Active (external forces) as well as passive (substrate stiffness) mechanical stimuli from the cell microenvironment can alter fundamental aspects of cell function ... -
Materials, Processes and Device Design for High Performance, Sub-thermionic MoS2 FETs
The shrinking of the field-effect transistor (FET), commonly termed CMOS scaling, has revolutionised the semiconductor industry and impacted most aspects of human life. However, this decades-long successful trend of scaling ... -
Measurement of the viral phenomenon: New methodological exploration
Viral phenomenon in marketing refers to the rapid growth and adoption pattern of a product, akin to a biological virus. Viral phenomenon can be defined as “a word-of-mouth diffusion process wherein a message is actively ... -
Mechanistic insights into the effects and applications of shockwaves in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms
Shock waves are non-linear waves propagating at speeds greater than the speed of sound, with a unique characteristic of instantaneously increasing the pressure, temperature and density of the medium through which they ... -
Microwave synthesis of superparamagnetic cobalt-ferrite thin films for RF CMOS applications
In the era of 5G technologies, the emphasis is on getting all the devices, active or passive to work in high frequencies. Higher efficiency chips can be obtained by combining both the active and passive devices on a single ... -
Mode Engineering in Micro Ring Resonators and Their Application
Silicon Photonics (SiP) has emerged as the prominent platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). CMOS technology compatible fabrication processes, high index contrast of the waveguide core-cladding leading to sharp ...