Browsing Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE) by Subject "Nano Science and Engineering"
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Accelerated and Accurate Alignment of Short Reads in High Throughput Next Generation Sequencing [NGS] Platforms
The genome of an organism encompasses the unique set of genetic instructions for every individual in a species. The genome, in totality, guides the course of evolution, development, genetic and epigenetic growth factors ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Nano-Scale Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of Organic Photovoltaic Devices
Organic photovoltaic devices have evinced interest due to the prospects of integrating strongly absorbing semiconducting polymers in flexible, light weight device platforms with ease of fabrication. However, there are ... -
Oxide Semiconductors for Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
In tandem solar cells two or more solar cells share the solar spectrum. The structure consists of two sub-cells on top of each other, with the top cell absorbing the blue photons and the bottom cells absorbing the red ... -
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 ... -
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 ...