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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 ... -
Memory Efficient Regular Expression Pattern Matching Architecture For Network Intrusion Detection Systems
(2014-06-05)The rampant growth of the Internet has been coupled with an equivalent growth in cyber crime over the Internet. With our increased reliance on the Internet for commerce, social networking, information acquisition, and ... -
Metascheduling of HPC Jobs in Day-Ahead Electricity Markets
(2018-01-03)High performance grid computing is a key enabler of large scale collaborative computational science. With the promise of exascale computing, high performance grid systems are expected to incur electricity bills that grow ... -
Methods for Improving Data-efficiency and Trustworthiness using Natural Language Supervision
Traditional strategies to build machine learning based classification systems employ discrete labels as targets. This limits the usefulness of such systems in two ways. First, the generalizability of these systems is limited ... -
Micro-carriers mediated bacteriophage delivery for targeting intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and TB prevention
Tuberculosis (TB) is a debilitating infectious disease that afflicts 10 million people every year. Treatment is particularly challenging due to prolonged treatment duration (4-6 months) consisting of an oral regimen of 4 ... -
Microporous Membranes Derived using Crystallisation Induced Phase Separation in PVDF/PMMA (Polyvinylidene Fluoride/ Polymethyl Methacrylate) Blends in Presence of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes
(2018-03-10)Segmental chain dynamics in polymer blends is a very important topic, not only from a fundamental point of view but also from technological applications. Because of the difficulties in the commercialization of new polymers, ... -
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 ... -
Migrating VM Workloads to Containers: Issues and Challenges
Modern day enterprises are adopting virtualization to leverage the benefits of improved server utilization through workload consolidation. Server consolidation provides this benefit to enterprise applications as many of ... -
Minimizing latency in data acquisition, distributed processing, storage and retrieval
Achieving low latency is of utmost importance in applications demanding real-time sensing and control as in cyber-physical systems. In this thesis, we explore three different facets of ensuring low latency in such systems. ... -
Mining Clickthrough Data To Improve Search Engine Results
(2015-02-06)In this thesis, we aim at improving the search result quality by utilizing the search intelligence (history of searches) available in the form of click-through data. We address two key issues, namely 1) relevance feedback ... -
Mitigating Domain Shift via Self-training in Single and Multi-target Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Though deep learning has achieved significant successes in many computer vision tasks, the state-of-the-art approaches rely on the availability of a large amount of labeled data for supervision, collection of which is ... -
Mode Coupling and Nonlinearities in Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems
Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems have shown tremendous potential in applications ranging from sensing to obtaining ultrastable oscillators for timing. They have also opened avenues for fundamental quantum studies ... -
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 ... -
Modeling And Evaluation Of Operational Performance Of An Aeroengine
(2012-06-26)This thesis explores methodologies of modeling and evaluating the operational performance of a typical aeroengine having field experience over two decades. Upon failure, the engine is repaired and restored to flight worthy ... -
Modeling Private Information In Bilateral Relationships For Revenue Management
(2010-12-01)This thesis addresses two issues which arise in the context of airline revenue management. In the first part of the thesis, we develop an incentive mechanism to prevent revenue leakage caused by customers buying down. In ... -
Modeling The Dynamics Of Market Potential For Spaceborne Remote Sensing Data Services
(2011-02-02)Spaceborne Remote Sensing, the observation of the features on ground from orbiting satellites is one of the expanding business areas of international space business, attracting the analysis of the markets and the growth ... -
Modelling Approaches for Planning Renewable Energy Transitions and Integrating Demand-Side Interventions in Electricity Systems
As global awareness of the devastating impacts of climate change is growing, nations are uniting to address the imperative of decarbonization. The electricity sector, known for its high carbon intensity, accounts for the ...