Division of Interdisciplinary Research: Recent submissions
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Combustion Synthesized Cobalt Catalysts for Liquid Fuel Generation Via Fischer Tropsch Reaction
This thesis is concerned with studies on the conversion of syngas to liquid hydrocarbons. A major part of the effort is aimed at synthesising the catalyst and use of it in a speci cally designed high pressure-high ... -
Energy Efficient Flexible Baseband Processing for Mobile and Cognitive Radios
Wireless communication has become an integral part of human life, and one of the dominating applications in today’s world. Mobile communication devices are the largest consumer electronic group in terms of volume. In 2007, ... -
Development of Cu-based Intermetallic Reflector Materials for Concentrated Solar Power Application
The growing demand for energy is an important issue for the existence and development of humankind. In order to reduce the impact of conventional energy sources on the environment, attention should be paid to the development ... -
Hardware-Software Co-Design Accelerators for Sparse BLAS
Sparse Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (Sparse BLAS) is an important library. Sparse BLAS includes three levels of subroutines. Level 1, Level2 and Level 3 Sparse BLAS routines. Level 1 Sparse BLAS routines do computations ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Nano-Scale Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Organic photovoltaic devices have evinced interest due to the prospects of integrating strongly absorbing semiconducting polymers in flexible, light weight device platforms with ease of fabrication. However, there are ... -
Tailored Xylitol-based Biodegradable Polymers for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Tissue regeneration is an intricate physiological phenomenon that involves the interplay of various factors to restore tissue formation and function. Diseased or damaged tissues have often been replaced with synthetic ... -
An Accelerator for Machine Learning Based Classifiers
Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are algorithmic techniques that simulate biological neural systems. Typical realization of ANNs are software solutions using High Level Languages (HLLs) such as C, C++, etc. Such solutions ... -
Dimensions of Social Capital, Learning Culture, and Individual Performance : A Case of an IT Organization
The study explores the predictors of the individual’s learning through socialization in the context of a learning organization. The process of socialization or social learning is understood through the lens of Social Capital ... -
A New Class of Single DC-link Fed Multilevel Inverter Topologies for Grid Connected Photovoltaic Systems with Reduced Component Count and Inherent Capacitor Balancing
Grid integration of photovoltaic (PV) energy sources has been mostly governed by conventional two-level voltage source inverters. These topologies have significant switching power losses, dV/dt stress and THD level at lower ... -
Structure and Dynamics Studies on SAICAR Synthetase from Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3
Understanding the structural details of a biological macromolecule is highly essential for a clear interpretation of its functional roles. Structural biology evolved over a period of time has been able to explain various ... -
Study of Composition & Performance of Global IT Project Teams : An Analysis of Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal & Exceptional Performances
Virtual project teams, with their members distributed across onshore-nearshore-offshore locations, have been primary units of delivery for Global IT industry. While the industry has increasingly evolved towards increased ... -
The Role of Basal Ganglia and Redundancy in Supervised Motor Learning
Human sensorimotor control can achieve highly reliable movements under circumstances of noise, redundancy, uncertainty, and sensory delays. Our ability to achieve reliable and accurate movements is in the fact we have a ... -
Sustained Competitive Advantage : Strategic HRM Initiatives, Antecedents and Consequences in Indian Context
In the last two decades, researchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage. In such a context, it is important to examine some new and emerging HR roles and practices ... -
Feasible Path Prescription for Engineering Systems in a High-Index Constrained Dynamics Framework
Constrained dynamic performance and control models of complex engineering systems can be represented in the form of a Differential Algebraic Equation (DAE) system. The high-index of this DAE system poses computational ... -
Benchmarking and Modelling the Sustainability of Urban Mobility System : A Case Study of Bangalore City, India
Indian cities have dealt with the problem arising from the discordance between urbanization due to rapidly growing economies and the demand for increasing mobility services and infrastructure. However, they have failed to ... -
Study and Design of Energy Efficient Block Cipher for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs)
With the advent of better health care and medical technology, as well as miniaturized devices with built-in radios, today we can see (WBANs) emerging as one of the main research topics. The sensor nodes worn by patients ... -
Towards Design and Development of Indigenous Rate-Grade MEMS Gyroscopes
Gyroscopes sense angular speed of the body on which they are mounted. Traditional mechanical gyroscopes are big, bulky, expensive, and hence limited to a few applications. With the advent of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems ... -
Event Study Methodology Development and Its Application in Assessing the impact of Derivatives Introduction in the National Stock Exchange (NSE), India
Event Studies are one of the predominant themes of research in finance and accounting prevailing for the last eight decades. They provide a powerful setting to examine whether and to what extent a firm's valuation is ...