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Development of High-Performance Piezoelectric Micromachined Transducers for Near Ultrasound
Near-ultrasound refers to sound with frequencies just above the range of human hearing, from about 18 to 40 kHz. This band is rarely used for typical ultrasound applications and is ignored for all except the most demanding ... -
Development of Microsystem Platforms Towards Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
This thesis explores the development and application of microsystems to advance our understanding of disease biology. The overarching goal is to enhance diagnostic and therapeutic strategies through precise and physiologically ... -
Development of Nanomaterials as Antioxidant Enzyme Mimetics for Cellular Redox Homeostasis
Nanomaterials possess a myriad of potential in various biomedical fields such as cancer diagnostics, biosensing, imaging, immunoassay, drug delivery and therapeutics etc. In particular, the ability of the nanozymes to ... -
Development of Nanosensors and Microfluidics towards Raman Spectroscopic Applications
Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) has become a powerful method for detection of diverse analytes ranging from solution of picomolar concentration to single molecule and single cell analysis. The distinctive nature ... -
Development of organ-on-chip device for modeling the progression of cancer
Organ-on-chip devices are advanced engineered microfluidic systems that replicate human organ functions on a small scale. They utilize living cells from human tissues and combine them with biomaterials to create a dynamic ... -
Development of Photoactive and Photoelectroactive Nanomaterials for Water Remediation
(2018-07-18)Water pollution has become an environmental catastrophe due to the rapid urbanization. The treatment of dumping of waste chemicals in water bodies has contributed to the increase in pollution. In addition to the pollution ... -
Development of Piezoelectric Ultrasound Transducers for Novel Applications
Ultrasound is a scientific miracle with its magical contributions in almost all the branches of modern-day technology. It all started with the discovery of the ‘piezoelectric effect’ by the Curie brothers, who demonstrated ... -
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 ... -
Development of Recessed-gate Normally-off Al(x)Ga(1-x)N/GaN HEMTs for Power Applications
The push for higher efficiency and power density in power electronics has accelerated the development of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs). The formation of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the ... -
Diabetogenesis and Albumin Molecular Modifications Newer Biological Insights and Clinical Implications
To address the many unmet scientific needs in diabetes care (pathogenesis pathways, earliest diagnosis, efficient monitoring, safer and better therapies and importantly prevention approaches), our research focussed on: (a) ... -
Dispersive Superconducting Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, the Time-continuous Feynman’s Light Microscope and Non-Markovian dynamics in multi-mode Superconducting Circuits
This thesis is divided into three parts, with each part concerned with one of the three pillars of Theoretical Quantum Optics: ‘Microscopic models of Light-Matter Interaction’, ‘Quantum Measurements’ and finally, ‘Driven ... -
Droplet Interface Oscillations using Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (EWOD) for Open-Chip Microfluidic Applications
Droplet manipulation on microfluidic platform has gained significant importance due to its applicability to various healthcare technologies, where larger equipment can be reduced to portable handheld systems based on ... -
Droplet, Jets, and Leaky Surfaces
Surface structuring on a micro-nano scale, combined with a low surface energy coating, leads to anti-wetting properties. Such surfaces also exhibit other properties such as self-cleaning, antifouling, bacteriostatic, drag ... -
Dynamics of a Suspended Microchannel Resonator
Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) mass sensing devices have a wide variety of applications in healthcare diagnostics and biosciences. Typically, mass sensing on a MEMS device works by physisorption and chemisorption ... -
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 ... -
Electric Stimuli as Instructive Cues to Guide Cellular Differentiation on Electrically Conductive Biomaterial Substrates in vitro
(2018-08-10)Directing differential cellular response by manipulating the physical characteristics of the material is regarded as a key challenge in biomaterial implant design and tissue engineering. In developing various biomaterials, ... -
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 ... -
Electrochemical Biosensors based on Novel Receptors for Diabetes Management
(2018-01-15)To address the challenge of accurate, low cost and robust biosensors for diabetes management and early detection of diabetes complications, we have developed novel, robust sensing chemistry (or receptors) for electrochemical ... -
Electrochemical Continuous Glucose Monitoring Sensor for Effective Management of Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus, marked by elevated blood glucose levels, has been a leading contributor to global morbidity and mortality. The prolonged elevated blood glucose levels can lead to secondary complications such as renal ... -
Electronic Photonic Circuit Design for RF Transceiver
RF over fibre (RoF) based communication system combines features of mm-wave and optical fibre communication. The RoF-based system has the advantage of both optical fibre systems (such as high bandwidth, signal transparency, ...