Browsing Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) by thesis submitted date"2020"
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Advances in Microfluidic Impedance Cytometry for Electromechanical Characterization of Cells
Single-cell analysis is extremely important for discovering unique characteristics of individual cells, identifying cell populations of interest, and understanding their behaviour during disease conditions. With the advent ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Molecular Dynamics Investigations of Hybrid Nanopores for Single Molecule DNA Sequencing
High throughput methods accelerate the drug discovery, biomolecule detection and sequencing applications pipeline. Single molecule detection technique facilitates the implementation of high throughput methods by eliminating ... -
Nanopore Based Single-molecule Sensors
In the past two decades nanopores have been used as highly sensitive detection systems for exploring the properties of analytes at single molecule resolution. The small dimensions of a nanopore permit the molecule of ... -
On-Chip Optical Sensing Platforms
Sensing has become an important field of research because of its wide variety of applications, such as; chemical sensing, biomedical diagnostics, environmental gas monitoring and oil quality monitoring. This has spurred ... -
Organic-Inorganic Heterojunctions for Application in Perovskite Based Photovoltaics
Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells (PSC’s) research has seen most notable progress in the field of photovoltaics (PV). The very first PSC was reported in the year 2009 with efficiency of 3.8%, which rapidly ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards the Development of MEMS g-Switches
Accelerometers are sensors that measure and record the acceleration of an object in motion. They typically contain spring and mass elements that are set into vibration upon any impressed acceleration. The characteristics ... -
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 ...