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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 ... -
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, ... -
Engineering the Properties of Elemental 2D Materials using First-principles Calculations
(2017-12-13)Our vision is as yet unsurpassed by machines because of the sophisticated representations of objects in our brains. This representation is vastly different from a pixel-based representation used in machine storages. It is ... -
Exploration of Materials and Platforms for the Development of a Label-free Electrochemical DNA Sensor
The aim of the studies presented in this thesis was to explore various materials and platforms for the detection of DNA in order to develop a cost-effective, repeatable and reproducible electrical/electrochemical DNA sensor. ... -
Exploration of New Materials and Processes for Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors
Ion Sensitive Field Effect Transistors (ISFETs) find applications as front end transducers in the biomedical domain as a biosensor. The favourable characteristics of ISFETs like sensitivity, speed, miniaturization, easy ... -
Exploring One-dimensional Micromechanical Resonators with Residual Stresses for Potential Sensing Applications and Measurement of Mechanical Properties
Recently the domain of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has seen an unprecedented rise in use of varieties of new materials other than the conventional silicon and related materials originally borrowed from semiconductor ... -
Fabrication of suspended Graphene microchannels and its application in studying graphene-liquid interface
Graphene is a single layer of sp2 hybridized carbon atoms having extraordinary mechanical, optical, and electrical properties. These exotic properties make them attractive for applications in all fields of science and ... -
Finite Element Method based Model Order Reduction for Electromagnetics
Model order reduction (MOR) refers to the process of reducing the size of large scale discrete systems with the goal of capturing their behavior in a small and tractable model known as the reduced order model (ROM). ROMs ... -
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 ... -
Generation and Bandwidth Scaling of silicon modulator based Integrated High Repetition rate Optical Frequency Combs
Optical Frequency Combs (OFC) are laser sources that consist of discrete, equally spaced lines in frequency space, have found extensive use in metrology, spectroscopy, sensing and optical communications. Generation of ... -
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 ... -
Heterogeneous Integration of Thin-film Germanium on Silicon and Steel
Integration of germanium (Ge) on low cost substrates such as silicon and steel open several applications such as low cost III-V photovoltaics, beyond silicon CMOS and optoelectronics applications. However, growth of germanium ... -
High power Cascaded Raman fiber lasers
Over the last decade, fiber lasers have gained significant traction for industrial, defense and medical applications. This is owing to their superior beam quality along with power scalability, compactness, reliability and ... -
Integration of Graphene with Plasmonic Nanostructures for Photodetection in the UV, Visible and IR
Graphene is the thinnest material known till date, composed of a two dimensional (2D) arrangement of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice. It has interesting mechanical, electrical and optical properties, such as very high ... -
Integration of Layered Materials with Group-III Nitride Semiconductors for Dual Band Photodetection
In many applications, simultaneous detection in two distinct bands, UV and IR regime is required. An instrumentation in which detection in both the bands achievable using single device would be highly desirable owing to ... -
Investigations on Joule Heating and Associated Effects during Liquid Dielectrophoresis of Aqueous Droplets
Liquid dielectrophoresis (L-DEP) is an electrokinetic phenomenon in which a dielectric liquid with higher permittivity than the surrounding medium, when placed in a non-uniform electric field, moves towards the regions of ... -
Large Area MoS2 : Growth and Device Characteristics
(2018-06-26)There has been growing interest in two-dimensional (2-D) crystals beyond graphene for next-generation nano-electronics. Transition metal dichalcogenides have been most widely studied, for their semiconducting characteristics ...