Browsing Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences by thesis submitted date"2007"
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1H-NMR Study of Proton Glasses - Nuclear Spin Lattice Relaxation in BPxBPI(1-x) and BPxGPI(1-x) - Effects of Disorder on the Proton Group Dynamics
Mixed systems made from a combination of ferroelectric (FE) and antiferroelectric (AFE) compounds, exhibit various effects of disorder in different temperature regions. The kind of effects observed, depend on the technique ... -
All-Fiber Sensing Techniques For Structural Health Monitoring And Other Applications
(2010-03-02)In this thesis, we explore the four aspects of fiber Bragg grating sensors: mathematical modeling of Fiber Bragg Grating response/spectral characteristics, fabrication using phase mask, application and interrogation. ... -
Contributions To Venominformatics : Sequence-Structure-Function Studies Of Toxins From Marine Cone Snails. Application Of Order-Statistics Filters For Detecting Membrane-Spanning Helices
(2009-07-21)Venomous animals have evolved a vast array of peptide toxins for prey capture and defense. Nature has evolved the venoms into a huge library of active molecules with high selectivity and affinity, which could be explored ... -
Crystal Structure Of Abrus Precatorius Agglutinin-I (APA-I) : Insights Into The Reduced Toxicity Of APA-I In Relation To Abrin. Formation Of Ordered Nanotubes Through Self Assembly In The Crystal Structures Of Dipeptides Containing α. β-dehydrophenylalanine
(2009-07-22)Ribosome Inactivating Proteins (RIPs) are protein or glycoprotein toxins that bring about the arrest of protein synthesis by directly interacting with and inactivating the ribosomes. Such toxins are in general, of plant ... -
Denoising And Inpainting Of Images : A Transform Domain Based Approach
(2009-05-25)Many scientific data sets are contaminated by noise, either because of data acquisition process, or because of naturally occurring phenomena. A first step in analyzing such data sets is denoising, i.e., removing additive ... -
Design And Development Of A Liquid Scintillator Based System For Failed Fuel Detection And Locating System In Nuclear Reactors
(2009-07-02)Failed fuel refers to the breach in the fuel-clad of an irradiated fuel assembly in a nuclear reactor. Neutron detection or gamma detection is commonly used in Failed Fuel Detection and Locating (FFDL) system to monitor ... -
Design, Fabrication And Testing Of A Versatile And Low-Cost Diffuse Optical Tomographic Imaging System
(2009-06-16)This thesis reports the work done towards design and fabrication of a versatile and low cost, frequency domain DOT (Diffuse Optical Tomography) Imager. A design which uses only a single fiber for the source and a single ... -
Development And Optimization Of A Microchip PCR System Using Fluorescence Detection
(2011-02-21)Microfabricated thermal cyclers for nucleic acid amplification by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) have been demonstrated by several groups over the last decade, with improved cycling speed and smaller volumes when ... -
Development Of A Tin Oxide Based Thermoelectric Gas Sensor For Volatile Organic Compounds
(2009-09-22)Today there is a great deal of interest in the development of gas sensors for applications like air pollution monitoring, indoor environment control, detection of harmful gases in mines etc. Based on different sensing ... -
Dynamics of Warps and Lopsidedness in Spiral Galaxies
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Electrical And Magnetic Properties Of Polyvinylchloride - Amorphous Carbon / Iron Carbide Nanoparticle Comosites
(2009-05-18)The UV-Visible spectra of a-C composites and nano composites have provided a very useful information about the electronic states and band structure. The UV-Visible spectra of a-C as well as nanoparticle are qualitatively ... -
Electrical Switching And Thermal Studies On Certain Ternary Telluride Glasses With Silicon Additive And Investigations On Their Suitability For Phase Change Memory Applications
(2009-09-11)The Phase Change Memories (PCM) based on chalcogenide glasses are being considered recently as a possible replacement for conventional Non Volatile Random Access Memories (NVRAM). The main advantages of chalcogenide phase ... -
Gas Sensor-Studies On Sensor Film Deposition, ASIC Design And Testing
(2009-04-29)The widespread use of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) for cooking and as fuel for automobile vehicles requires fast and selective detection of LPG to precisely measure the leakage of gas for preventing the occurrence of accidental ... -
Geometry Optimization Of Axially Symmetric Ion Traps
(2009-05-13)This thesis presents numerical optimization of geometries of axially symmetric ion trap mass analyzers. The motivation for this thesis is two fold. First is to demonstrate how the automated scheme can be applied to achieve ... -
Growth, Transport, Magnetic And Thermal Studies On Single Crystals Of Pr1-xPbxMnO3
(2009-06-17)Mixed valence manganites with the perovskite structure R1-xAxMnO3 (where R = La, Nd, Pr and A = Ba, Ca, Sr, Pb) have been a popular subject of contemporary research because of their interesting physical properties such as ... -
High Precision Optical Frequency Metrology
(2009-07-22)Precise measurements of both absolute frequencies and small frequency differences of atomic energy levels have played an important role in the development of physics. For example, high precision measurements of absolute ... -
Investigation Of Damage Process In Current Stressed Metal Film Using Noise Spectroscopy, Scanning Thermal Microscopy And Simulation Studies
(2010-09-27)Reliability, besides the performance, is one of the important key factors of success of any technology. While a product should perform at best as desired, it must also be capable of working for intended period of life ... -
Investigations On Topological Thresholds In Metal Doped Ternary Telluride Glasses
(2009-06-16)The ability to tune the properties over a wide range of values by changing the additives, composition, etc., has made chalcogenide glassy semiconductors, most interesting from both fundamental physics as well as technology ... -
Magnetization, Magnetotransport And Electron Magnetic Resonance Studies Of Certain Doped Rare Earth Manganites
(2009-09-03)Study of rare-earth manganites has been a very active research area in the last few years in condensed matter physics. This is due to the interesting phenomena such as (1) colossal magneto resistance (2) charge, orbital ... -
Magnetization, Magnetotransport And Electron Magnetic Resonance Studies Of Certain Nanoscale Manganites
(2010-06-15)Perovskite rare-earth manganites of the form R1-xAxMnO3 (R – rare earth ion or Bi, A – Ca,Sr) have drawn an overwhelming research interest during the last few years owing to their extraordinary physical properties. Some ...