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Antibacterial Surfaces Mechanisms, Design and Development
The spread of disease-causing microorganisms through high-touch surfaces and their increased tolerance against antimicrobials and the host immune system is responsible for several fatal diseases. By the year 2050, Antimicrobial ... -
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 ... -
Aptamer-based approaches for multiplexed sensing applications
Biosensors offer high specificity, sensitivity, real-time recognition, and rapid response across various applications, including Medical Diagnostics, Environmental Monitoring, Food Safety, agriculture, Point-of-Care ... -
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 ... -
Architectures for linewidth reduction in cascaded Raman fiber lasers and applications
Fiber lasers have been increasingly used as a high-power source due to several advantages, such as superior beam quality, better thermal management, high efficiency, and compact and reliable design. In fiber lasers, ... -
ASIC Implementation of A High Throughput, Low Latency, Memory Optimized FFT Processor
(2016-09-09)The rapid advancements in semiconductor technology have led to constant shrinking of transistor sizes as per Moore's Law. Wireless communications is one field which has seen explosive growth, thanks to the cramming of more ... -
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 ... -
Biodegradable Polymers for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
(2018-06-29)Regeneration, a spontaneous response of bones in response to injuries, infections and fractures, is severely compromised in certain clinical circumstances. Unfortunately, several shortcomings are associated with the current ... -
Biologically Inspired Electronic Nose: Innovations and Developments
The olfactory system is a highly efficient and complex network for detecting and interpreting a wide range of chemical signals. It consists of specialized sensory cells located in the nasal mucosa that detect odor molecules ... -
Bright-field Nanoscopy
This thesis discusses the design and development of a technique which focuses on visualization of nanoscale structures using a regular bright-field optical microscope without the need of any additional fluorescent tags. ... -
Broadband Ultrafast Signal Generation and Dissemination via Dynamic Fiber Optic Links
Mode-locked fiber lasers, with rare-earth-doped fibers offering numerous advantages over alternative gain media, including excellent beam quality, simple thermal management, and a compact and robust design, are in high ... -
Chemical Vapour Deposition of Tungsten Disulphide Aided by Thermodynamic and Density Functional Theory Modelling
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are versatile materials that offer a wide variety of applications in electronics, sensing, energy, etc. Tungsten disulphide (WS2) is a layered semiconductor TMD with impressive ... -
Cold Atmospheric Plasma System - Simulation, Fabrication, Diagnosis and Thinfilm deposition
(2018-05-14)In this thesis, we report the various aspects of fabricating a Cold Atmospheric Plasma system, which can be used for Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition. The greatest advantage of this system is its vacuum free ... -
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 ... -
Continuous-Wave Supercontinuum Generation using Cascaded Raman Fiber Lasers
This thesis explains architecture and techniques to generate high power, CW supercontinuum laser sources using standard Silica fibers as the nonlinear medium, pumped using high power CW Yb doped fiber lasers. Unlike the ... -
Controlling Defects in CVD Grown Graphene : Device Application Perspective
(2017-12-06)Necessity is the mother of all inventions. With Si hitting the speed bottleneck, newer materials to replace Si are being sought out. The ex-foliation based experiments on graphene by Geim and Novoselov at this point was ... -
Coupled electro-opto-mechanical oscillations in neuristors
Action potentials (AP) in biological neurons, measured through electrophysiological techniques, are electrical signals that emerge and propagate along the axonal membrane. It has been shown that close to the temperatures ... -
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 ... -
Deeply Scaled InAlN/GaN-on-Silicon High Electron Mobility Transistors for RF Applications
Wide bandgap gallium nitride (GaN) based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) are promising candidates for next-generation radio frequency (RF) power amplifier applications owing to high electron saturation velocity ... -
Deploying an Orthogonal Turn for Isolation of Rare Cell Populations from Vascular Environments
Cancer cells are shed from metastatic primary tumors, bearing the potential for blood-borne metastasis to distant vital organs. Metastasis is predominantly responsible for cancer-related deaths. These circulating tumor ...