Browsing Division of Interdisciplinary Research by thesis submitted date"2019"
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Compositionality of letter shape in word recognition
As you read this sentence, your brain just performed a miraculous task of converting collections of letter shapes into meaning. Reading is a cultural invention that is thought to exploit the intrinsic recognition abilities ... -
Conceptualisation, Development and Validation of Energy Internet for a Transitioning Electricity System
Globally, the national electricity systems are in the midst of aggressive transitions. A shift from large-scale conventional fossil-fuel based power generation systems to large number of small-scale distributed renewable ... -
Conformal Electronics on Elastomers: Packaging Methods and Design Rules
Flexible Electronics is a multi-disciplinary domain that creates intersections among elec- tronics, materials-science, mechanics, packaging, sensor-design, etc., to build exible / stretchable / conformal electronic ... -
A Control Systems Approach to Understanding Saccadic Eye Movements
The oculomotor system is extensively studied using concepts of control theory like optimal control, feedback control, and predictive control. But these studies have largely been restricted to investigating the central ... -
Corporate Sustainability in India : Analysis of Business Performance in the Context of Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
New standards, regulations and expectations of transparency from various stakeholders are forcing corporate sustainability strategy to move into the mainstream demanding the businesses to become proactive and de-risk ... -
Cricket Inspired micro Speakers
MEMS technology has ushered in a new era of miniaturized sensors and actuators. Many smart devices and systems are being developed using these sensors. Home automation is now a widespread reality owing to the development ... -
Demand Response Planning in a Transitioning Electricity System
Globally, the electricity systems are undergoing major transitions from robust, carbon intensive, and firm power conventional systems to uncertain, intermittent and variable renewable energy integrated low carbon systems. ... -
Design and Synthesis of Low Band Gap Ambient Stable Organic Semiconductors for Photovoltaics
Organic photovoltaics is a fast-developing technology and has the potential to revolutionize the energy market. In the recent years, high photoconversion efficiency has been achieved through continuous efforts on design ... -
Development of advanced regularization methods to improve photoacoustic tomography
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a scalable imaging modality having huge potential for imaging biological samples at very high depth to resolution ratio, thereby playing pivotal role in the areas of neuroscience, ... -
Development of Copper Telluride based Thermoelectric Materials Synthesis, Microstructure and Properties
Thermoelectric materials play an important role in harvesting the waste heat into useful electrical energy. Since thermoelectricity can lead to a clean energy conversion technology, it is important to find suitable TE ... -
Electric Field Induced Phenomena: Mass Flow and Chemical Reaction-based Patterning
Numerous electric field induced phenomena have been studied, for long, at various length scales. In particular, a concentrated electric field applied across a conductor, or equivalently an electric current of very high ... -
Electro-thermal Transport through Graphene & CNT at Nano-second Time Scales and its Implications on Device Reliability
The prospects of using Graphene and MWCNT as a channel material for RF transistors and interconnects, respectively, have recently garnered much attention. E orts are being made for improvements at the material and device ... -
An Exploratory Study on Financial Resources, Scaling, and Performance of Social Enterprises in India
The limitations of the government and current economic system deprived socio-economic opportunities to certain sections of the communities. The non-profit sector, expected to fill this gap, has been afflicted with fiscal ... -
Exploring Entrepreneurial Motivations, Human Capital and Environmental Uncertainty As Antecedents of Causation and Effectuation
Entrepreneurship has been acknowledged as one of the most important drivers of growth and prosperity in modern times. Existing ways of life are creatively destroyed to make way for new ways of living. It is the process ... -
Exploring One-dimensional Micromechanical Resonators with Residual Stresses for Potential Sensing Applications and Measurement of Mechanical Properties
Recently the domain of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has seen an unprecedented rise in use of varieties of new materials other than the conventional silicon and related materials originally borrowed from semiconductor ... -
Exploring the Inherent Saliency in Visual Data through Convolutional Neural Networks
Saliency plays a key role in various computer vision tasks. Extracting salient regions from images and videos has been a well-established problem in computer vision. Determining salient regions in an image or video has ... -
Integration of Layered Materials with Group-III Nitride Semiconductors for Dual Band Photodetection
In many applications, simultaneous detection in two distinct bands, UV and IR regime is required. An instrumentation in which detection in both the bands achievable using single device would be highly desirable owing to ... -
Investigations on Joule Heating and Associated Effects during Liquid Dielectrophoresis of Aqueous Droplets
Liquid dielectrophoresis (L-DEP) is an electrokinetic phenomenon in which a dielectric liquid with higher permittivity than the surrounding medium, when placed in a non-uniform electric field, moves towards the regions of ... -
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 ... -
Multiscale Modeling of Quantum Transport in 2D Material Based MoS Transistors
Atomically thin 2D materials have ushered in a new era in the fi eld of nano-science and tech- nology and have been translated to notable advancements in the design of sensors, optoelectronic devices, exible electronics. ...