Browsing Division of Interdisciplinary Research by thesis submitted date"2020"
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Adaptive charging techniques for Li-ion battery using Reinforcement Learning
Li-ion batteries have become a promising technology in recent years and are used everywhere from low-end devices like mobile phones to high-end ones like electric vehicles. In most applications, the discharge of a battery ... -
Advances in Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for Electromechanical Characterization of Cells
Single-cell analysis is extremely important for discovering unique characteristics of individual cells, identifying cell populations of interest, and understanding their behaviour during disease conditions. With the advent ... -
Algorithms for Estimating Integrals in High Dimensional Spaces
Sampling, estimation and integration in high dimensional continuous spaces is required in diverse areas ranging from modeling multi-particle physical systems and optimization to inference from data. When the number of ... -
Applications of Magnetic Helical Nanomotors: From Cancer Biology to Dentistry
Micron/nano sized machines promise precise targeting and drug-delivery at hard to reach places inside the human body. There have been tremendous efforts in this direction and various remotely powered artificial nanomachines ... -
Architectures for enhancing bandwidth and power scalability of optical frequency combs
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) have revolutionized high bandwidth communications, spectroscopy, arbitrary RF waveform generation, LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), and astronomical spectrograph calibration. OFCs have ... -
Band-matched transport layers and intrinsically stable perovskite solar cells for application to perovskite Si tandem cells
Hybrid perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer low-cost alternatives to the commercially established silicon solar cells. In this thesis, we present the material and device optimizations of the subcells that can be ... -
Caenorhabditis elegans-Bacteria interactions: Neuronal Regulation of Innate Immune Responses
The survival of an organism depends on its ability to sense threats and execute appropriate defense mechanisms. C. elegans is a soil-dwelling nematode that feeds on bacteria in rotting vegetation. The nematode has few ... -
Coarse-grained dynamics derived structural ensemble for prediction of metal binding sites of protein and phenotypic effects of variants
Structures of proteins play a key role in determining their functions. Knowledge of structure, especially the details of specific sites of a protein can help us understand their contribution to the overall activity. ... -
Density Stratified Thermal Energy Storage System and Associated Fluid Dynamic Perturbations
The hunger of humankind for energy has reached unprecedented levels with the ever-rising industrialization and global population surge. We are witnessing a global economic evolution towards a clean, affordable, sustainable ... -
Design and development of high speed optical modulator on silicon-on-insulator platform
Optical communication has transformed information technology and enabled the present-day data explosion. The new era of data centric society is primarily driven by the ability to communicate data at high-speed. Migration ... -
Development of PZT Based PiezoMEMS for Fluid Property Sensing
The research on Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) has resulted in several practical applications which have revolutionised the fi eld of sensors and actuators. Piezoresistive pressure sensors, capacitive micro-mirror ... -
Effect of urbanisation & population density on groundwater in India using satellite remote sensing data
This work investigates the relationship of urbanization, population density and meteorological variables (temperature & precipitation) on groundwater storage for the selected study regions in India. Variations in ... -
EMF: System Design and Challenges for Disaggregated GPUs in datacenters for Efficiency, Modularity and Flexibility
With Dennard Scaling phasing out in the mid-2000s, architectural scaling and hardware specialization take centre stage to provide performance bene fits with already stalling Moore's law. An outcome from this hardware ... -
Engineering Disease Models for Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Tissues
Biomedical research aims to gain deeper insights into the mechanisms of human pathophysiology to develop improved therapies and diagnostics. Despite significant advances made in the understanding and treatment of human ... -
Exploration of New Materials and Processes for Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors
Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) find applications as front end transducers in the biomedical domain as a biosensor. The favourable characteristics of ISFETs like sensitivity, speed, miniaturization, easy ... -
Generalized local projection stabilized finite element methods for boundary value problems
The primary goal of this thesis work is to study a priori analysis based on the generalized local projection stabilized (GLPS) finite element methods for the system of linear partial differential equations of first and ... -
Generation and Bandwidth Scaling of silicon modulator based Integrated High Repetition rate Optical Frequency Combs
Optical Frequency Combs (OFC) are laser sources that consist of discrete, equally spaced lines in frequency space, have found extensive use in metrology, spectroscopy, sensing and optical communications. Generation of ... -
A Hierarchical Control Plane Framework for Integrated SDN-SFC Management in Multi-tenant Cloud Datacenters
Cloud data centers represent one of the most complex and dynamic environments in terms of network management. The multitude of hosted applications in such centers share the same fabric and yet demand easy and fast service ... -
Internal Boiling to Flame Flickering: Insights into Various Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Nanofuel Droplet Combustion
Addition of metal and metalloid particles (micron and sub-micron) to conventional fuels like Jet-A has been a ‘liquid-fuel extender’ technique i.e. increased specific energy for less amount of liquid fuels. One of the main ... -
Investigation of cell membrane dynamics: A potential marker for lipid response towards membrane-active proteins and peptides
The cell membrane is made up of lipids and proteins held together with intermolecular hydrophobic/hydrophilic interactions. These physical non-covalent interactions help in maintaining the integrity of the cell membrane, ...