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Parametric Manipulation in 2D Material based NEMS Resonators
In this this thesis, I have studied dynamics of the two-dimensional (2D) material based NEMS resonators with resonant frequency ranging typically from 10 MHz to 100 MHz. The experiment involved fabrication of the ... -
Porous Antibacterial Membranes Derived from Polyethylene (PE)/Polyethylene Oxide (PEO) Blends and Engineered Nanoparticles
(2018-06-21)The steep rise in the contamination of natural water sources, has led to an increasing demand for alternate solutions to cater safe drinking water to mankind. Water treatment by separation technology utilizes semipermeable ... -
Power Combining of Raman Fiber Lasers
Fiber lasers have become ubiquitous in industry and research for their numerous attractive properties that other lasers such as solid state lasers lack. However, conventional doped fiber lasers, though providing high power, ... -
Reconfigurable Accelerator for High Performance Application Kernels
Accelerating high performance computing (HPC) applications such as dense linear al- gebra solvers, mesh computations, stencil computations requires exploiting parallelism that is resident in loops. Typically these loops ... -
Resistive Switching and Electron Transport In Perovskite Oxide Thin Films
This work deals with the Resistive Switching (RS) properties of various perovskite oxides probed in a simple Metal - Insulator - Metal (M-I-M) configuration. The metals comprise of platinum which served as the bottom ... -
Robust Electrochemical Sensing Techniques for Serum Creatinine Biosensor
Creatinine is an important biomarker for evaluating the renal function and its concentration in serum can be utilized for early detection of kidney disease, thyroid disorders, and muscular dystrophy. Accurate, reliable, ... -
Self-organisation of bacteria through swarming
Swarming is a unique example of social behaviour in bacteria. They represent the collective effort of bacteria to translocate on moist substrates. The bacteria extract fluid from the substrate through osmosis and produces ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
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 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 ...