Browsing Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences by thesis submitted date"2018"
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Engineering topological surface states through structural control, electrostatic gating and superconducting proximity effects
Three dimensional topological insulators are materials characterized by a gapped insulating bulk and gapless metallic states on the sample surface. This unique be- havior arises out of the non-trivial topology of the ... -
Excursions in ill condensed quantum matter from amorphous topological insulators to fractional spins
Condensed matter physics is a fascinating subject where collective properties of many particle systems show exotic emergent phenomena, practically unpredictable from the behavior of individual constituents. Many basic ... -
An experimental study on thermoelectric transport at van der Waals interfaces
When two planar atomic or molecular layers are brought to sub-nanometer proximity, they form a van der Waals interface because the van der Waals force forms the dominant attractive force between them. The van der Waals ... -
Exploration of multiferroicity, emergence of exchange bias effect and glassy magnetism in doped hexagonal rare-earth manganites
In recent days, the need for device miniaturization has led to immense research activities in the field of material science. It has become essential to discover and design new materials or to modify the existing materials ... -
Fabrication and Characterization of Multilayer MoS2 Coated Etched Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Side-hole Packaged Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors with Enhanced sensitivity for Different Applications
In summary, MoS2 coated, etched FBG sensors have been used for various applications. Firstly, the strain sensitivity has been studied; a high strain sensitivity of 6.3 pm/μɛ with a linear range of sensing response from 0 ... -
Fluctuations in quantum transport in topological insulators
Topological insulators (TIs) belong to a new class of materials characterized by linear surface states, which emerge in the bulk band gap due to non-trivial topology of the band structure. These surface states have various ... -
Frequency and Temperature Dependent Mechanical Behavior of Three-Dimensional Cellular Structures of Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes: Role of Microscopic Interfacial Interaction
Three dimensional (3D) cellular structures with high mechanical strength and stability are recently proven to provide a crucial platform for multifunctional application in various fields namely biomedical, soft robotics, ... -
Heavy flavour and direct photon probes of the gluon Sivers function
Traditionally the production of heavy quarkonia, heavy-flavour mesons as well as of direct photons, has been used to constrain the gluon density inside the proton. In this thesis, I have assessed various heavy flavour ... -
Hyperspectral and Spectropolarimetric Instrumentation for the Solar Atmosphere
The Sun is the closest star whose surface can be resolved to great a detail. Understanding the working of Sun helps in understanding a large fraction of stellar system as it falls under the spectral class G2V which is ... -
Impact of van der Waals epitaxy on structural and optoelectronic properties of layered solids
Emergence of Graphene, Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and other van der Waals materials promises to rede fine the building blocks of the future materials and technologies. These materials have gained enormous ... -
Implications in substrate recognition, catalysis and drug-design Structural basis for neutralization of ribosome-inactivating proteins by their monoclonal antibodies
Cryptic elements of proteins are not visible in unbound structures but become apparent in ligand/substrate-bound structures. These binary states of cryptic elements in protein structures can impact important aspects of ... -
Influence of local structure and network connectivity on the electrical switching of some Te-based chalcogenide glasses
Chalcogenide glass (ChG) materials have gained wide attention because of their applications in phase change non-volatile memories (PC-RAM), optical rewritable disks (CD-RW and DVD-RW), infrared detection and thermal imaging. ... -
Interplay between the Mechanics of Flexible Substrates and Performance of Thin Film Transistors: Role of Buckled Geometry
Buckled Thin Film Transistor (TFT) resulting from the stress induced instability of thin films realized on a exible substrate can behave di erently than that of a planar device. The aim of this thesis is twofold: To ... -
Interplay of Interaction and Topology From Topological Band Theory to Topological Field Theory
Classification of phases of matter has long been a central point of interest in the research community in condensed matter physics. Over the past several decades mainly two kinds of classification schemes have emerged, ... -
Living on the Edge A Study of Boundary Modes In Two-dimensional Topological Systems
In the last few decades an enormous amount of research has been carried out on some novel phases of matter called topological phases which are beyond the paradigm of Landau’s theory of symmetry breaking. One of the ... -
Modified-graphene and carbon nanodots for nitrogen dioxide sensing: Effects of interfacial electronic modulation and dimensionality on gas interaction
Currently, there is an enormous demand for the development of high performance nitrogen dioxide (NO2) gas sensors for environmental pollution monitoring. Hence, there is a constant quest to replace traditional metal oxide ... -
Novel Micro fluidic Techniques for Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Point-of-care Diagnostics (POCD) is one of the rapidly growing areas of health-care sector that avails to the needs of the patient at the point-of-care. An ideal POCD device is required to be compact, portable, offer ... -
Numerical Methods for Elliptic Variational Inequalities in Higher Dimensions
The main emphasis of this thesis is on developing and implementing linear and quadratic finite element methods for 3-dimensional (3D) elliptic obstacle problems. The study consists of a priori and a posteriori error ... -
Numerical studies of shock oscillations and MRI turbulence in accretion
In this thesis, we study two different aspects of accretion flows- (i) quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) seen in the light curves of X-ray binaries as a possible consequence of shock oscillations, (ii) global 3D ideal ... -
Observational Constraints on Global 21-cm Signal from the Epoch of Reionization
One of the most promising probes of Cosmic Dawn (CD) and Epoch of Reionization (EoR) is the rest-frame global 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen (HI) produced by the intergalactic medium (IGM) prior to the end of the EoR ...