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Self-referencing Techniques in Optical Label-free Bio-molecular Sensing
Measurement of molecular interactions is essential for fundamental biological studies as well as for the development of health diagnostics devices. Several label-free and labeled techniques to characterize and quantify ... -
Silicon photodetector integrated silicon nitride-on-SOI platform for communication and sensor applications
Driven by the exponential growth of data tra c, current infrastructure and standards are evolved to meeting the requirements. In long haul communication, 1550/1310 nm based singlemode ber technology is a commercially ... -
A simple method for measurement of high power, inline beam quality of high-power lasers
Over the past few decades, applications of high-power fiber laser in the area of material processing, medicine, defence, high precision micro-machining etc., is rapidly increasing. The primary reason behind thriving ... -
Statistical Inference in Biological and Diagnostic Systems
Biological systems are exceptionally good at sensing their environment with extraordinary precision. Certain single cellular organisms are even capable of detecting chemicals of the order of a single molecule. To achieve ... -
Strain engineering of 2D NEMS for resonant sensing
2D material-based nanoelectromechanical systems have emerged as excellent tools for force measurement with extreme sensitivity levels. Most sensing methods with 2D nanoelectromechanical (2D NEMS) systems utilize frequency ... -
Structural, Magnetic and Electrical Studies of Multiferroic BiFeO3 and CuO Epitaxial Thin Films
The multiferroics are an important class of multifunctional material which simultaneously possess spontaneous ferroelectric polarization and magnetic ordering. If there exists a coupling between the ferroelectricity and ... -
Study and Control of Electromigration Driven Material Transport for Applications in Nanofabrication and Patterning
Transfer of mass energy is at the heart of many physical processes that form the backbone of modern science and technology. Transport studies help in understanding these processes and reveal the underlying physics that ... -
Study of Micro-and Nano-Scale Transport of Liquid Metal on Thin Solid Films
In recent times, researchers have found potential in using liquid metals in broad-spectrum applications such as processing ceramics, stretchable electronics, 3D printing, coolant technology, energy storage, and many others. ... -
Tailored Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride: Chemical Vapor Deposition and Next Generation Devices
The introduction of two dimensional (2D) materials in electronic device applications has provided a platform for several new device concepts and architectures. Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is the only insulator in the ... -
Theoretical and Experimental Study of Three-Dimensional Chiro-Optical Materials
Light-matter interactions at the nanoscale have been widely studied over the past few decades. In particular, the interaction of light with asymmetric nanostructures has harbored the interests of chemists, biologists and ... -
Towards an Integrated Graphene Nano-Opto-Electro-Mechanical System
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) have found extensive applications in micromechanical sensing. The scaling of MEMS into nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS) was spurred primarily by the expectation of higher ... -
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 ... -
Towards Design, Fabrication, Packaging, Integration, and Characterization of High-Performance MEMS Gyroscopes
MEMS vibratory gyroscopes are used to measure the angular rate of a body by sensing the Coriolis force induced motion of the sensing element vibrating in a rotating frame of reference. MEMS gyroscopes find use in a wide ... -
Towards Logic Circuit Applications Using Solution Processed CNTs
With Silicon transistor technology reaching its practical limits, e orts to replace Si with new materials with better electronic transport properties have gained considerable at- tention. Single-walled carbon nanotubes ... -
Towards the Development of MEMS g-Switches
Accelerometers are sensors that measure and record the acceleration of an object in motion. They typically contain spring and mass elements that are set into vibration upon any impressed acceleration. The characteristics ... -
Towards the development of open-chip digital microfluidics platform
Manipulating and utilizing fluid flows at microscale provides several opportunities towards technological advancement in different domains such as (but not limited to) lab-on-chip devices for mimicking biological laboratory ... -
Transition metal oxide absorbers for photovoltaics
Several oxides are non-toxic, stable, and can be deposited using inexpensive techniques on a variety of substrates. There is a compelling case for use of oxide in photovoltaics, referred to as “all-oxide photovoltaics”. ... -
Transport in Interfacial Systems: Biosensor, Polymer, Colloid & Bacteria
Life forms as we know emerged due to unique mechanical and transport properties exhibited by Soft Materials at interface. For instance, the interior of a cell is separated from outside environment by lipid bilayer which ... -
Two-dimensional materials based artificial synapses for neuromorphic applications
The need and demand for continuous high-speed, energy-efficient hardware advancement is undisputed. Traditional computing system with von Neumann architecture leads to high energy consumption and latency due to a huge ... -
Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Chemiresistive Gas Sensors: Towards Development of Breath based Diagnostics
Breath based Diagnostics (BbD) can enable a paradigm shift in the Point-of-Care Diagnostic (PoCD) devices. Exhaled human breath has been demonstrated to contain over 2000 volatile organic and inorganic compounds, some of ...