Browsing Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences by thesis submitted date"2022"
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Carbon Dots for Next-generation Artificial Lighting Devices
Energy conservation has become a major concern globally in today’s world and artificial lighting (AL) accounts to ~50% of total energy consumption. With increase in population accompanied by modern civilization there is a ... -
A cavity electromechanical device for superconducting vortex charge sensing
The penetration of magnetic fields in the form of quantized vortices in type-II superconductors is well known. However, it is not well known that such vortices can be electrically charged. The effect is quite subtle and ... -
Complexity and Entanglement: From quantum gravity to many-body systems
In recent years, complexity and entanglement have emerged as two fundamental computational measures and played a significant role in shaping our understanding of various phenomena, from the geometric nature of quantum ... -
Deep learning methods for light fluence compensation in two-dimensional and three-dimensional photoacoustic imaging
Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) employed the special properties of light or photons to obtain detailed images of organs, tissues, cells, and even molecules. The method allowed for a non-invasive or minimally invasive examination ... -
Detection of charge-neutral modes to spin-wave excitations in graphene quantum Hall, and periodic magnetic field effect on Dirac electrons
In the quantum Hall (QH) regime, the electrical transport happens along the downstream chiral edge modes (dictated by the external magnetic field) while the bulk remains a vanilla insulator. However, it has been theoretically ... -
Dynamics and Transport Properties in Polymer Nanocomposites: Role of Interfacial Entropic and Enthalpic Effects
Polymers embedded with nanoparticles polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) have emerged as a new class of hybrid materials, which combine the unique electronic, mechanical, magnetic, catalytic, and optical properties of nanoparticles ... -
Edible Battery Design for Bio-Medical applications
This thesis is focused on the development of digestible electronics for healthcare. The vision is the development of an edible pill that performs diagnosis inside the body. Any such edible device needs an energy source ... -
Effect of As and Se substitution on the Phase Change properties of GeTe based alloys
Phase-change memory (PCM) is a key enabling technology for non-volatile electrical data storage at the nanometer scale. A PCM device consists of a small active volume of phase-change material between two electrodes. In ... -
An electromagnetically actuated mesoscale ball and socket joint for applications in 3-D metrology and electrical characterization
Micro-robotics is concerned with development of robotic systems to manipulate micro-meter sized objects. To develop functional micro-robotic manipulators, it is necessary to develop joints that possess large motion range ... -
Experimental Investigation of Electrons In and Above Liquid Helium
Electrons on the surface of liquid helium form a nearly ideal 2-dimensional electron system (2DES). An electron density up to 2 × 10^9 cm-2, known as the critical electron density, can be achieved on the liquid helium ... -
Explorations in Quantum Machine Learning
Quantum Machine Learning is a rapidly developing field. In part 1 of this thesis, I benchmark common QML methods with the most popular datasets used in classical ML. I compare results from quantum and classical methods and ... -
Explorations in the Space of S-Matrices
S-matrix is one of the fundamental observables of the quantum theory of relativistic particles. The quantum dynamics of relativistic particles can be abstractly understood in terms of S-matrix bypassing a Lagrangian ... -
Hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic instabilities leading to turbulence in astrophysical accretion disks and their connection to laboratory shear flows
Accretion disks are astrophysical objects formed around a denser object, mainly in the form of a disk. In an accretion disk, matter spirals in and falls onto the central object. To match the observations, the underlying ... -
Investigation of Structural relaxation in IV - V -VI Chalcogenide glasses for Infrared applications
Chalcogenide glasses are well known for their application in infrared transmission and sensing. These glasses are usually prepared by quenching the melt. The arrangement of atoms in the liquid state gets arrested into ... -
Investigation of twisted bilayer graphene using electrical and thermoelectric transport
The ability to tune the twist angle between di erent layers of two-dimensional materials has opened up a new dimension to band engineering in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. By taking advantage of the formation of ... -
Lab to Point-of-Need Technology: Solving the A3 puzzle of in-vitro diagnostics
The role of medical diagnostics is morphing rapidly in the face of imminent challenges such as pandemic preparedness. Correspondingly, in-vitro diagnostics are evolving — growing beyond the traditional Centralized Diagnostic ... -
Learning Filters, Filterbanks, Wavelets and Multiscale Representations
The problem of filter design is ubiquitous. Frequency selective filters are used in speech/audio processing, image analysis, convolutional neural networks for tasks such as denoising, deblurring/deconvolution, enhancement, ... -
Local Projection Stabilization Methods for the Oseen Problem
Finite element approximation of fluid flow problems with dominant convection exhibit spurious oscillations. To eliminate these nonphysical oscillations one needs to incorporate stabilizations that can curb the effect of ... -
Magnetically powered helical nanoswimmers
From flocking birds to migrating cells, ‘active matter’ is ubiquitous in the natural world. Almost all known life forms are based on self-propelled entities working collectively to create large-scale structures, networks, ... -
Mechanical Properties of Nucleic Acids in Bulk and Under Confinement and Their Interaction with Peptide
Proteins, DNA and RNA are arguably the most studied biological molecules with curiously interconnected relation that appears ubiquitous in all organisms. Almost all nucleoprotein interactions and DNA manipulation events ...