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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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Design, Development and Testing of Cervical Dilatation Measurement System
Monitoring labour progression is of utmost importance, to avoid complications during childbirth. Frequent monitoring allows prevention, identification, and management of complications during childbirth. Improper monitoring ... -
Development and application of multi-photon microscopy in neuroscience and nanoscience
Neuroscience is at crossroads. Several interdisciplinary optical developments centred around nonlinear optical processes helps in better understanding of brain function at sub-micron and millisecond precision. Traditional ... -
Development and Characterization of Multi-finger GaN HEMT for Power switching applications
Power electronics is the branch that connects electricity and the world. Power devices play a significant role in reducing CO2 emissions and saving energy. As technology develops, the main focus is reducing energy consumption, ... -
Development and Performance Evaluation of the Flapping Wing with In-situ Piezoceramic Actuator
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are essentially automatic flight vehicles having dimensions, wingspan and airspeed, smaller than the conventional aerial vehicles. UAVs are employed widely in applications such as surveillance ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ...