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Force and Shape Estimation using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Assistance in Minimally Invasive Diagnostic and Surgical Procedures
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors have become increasingly popular for applications in biomedical engineering. Amongst these, use of FBGs in ‘smart instruments’ for minimally invasive diagnostic and surgical procedures ...
Development and Application of Fiber Optic Sensors for Structural and Flight Testing of Aircraft
Structural testing deals with sensing of health parameters such as strain, temperature, vibration, etc. of different structures like aircrafts, ships, bridges, dams, buildings, etc. and it is important from the viewpoint ...
Fiber Bragg Grating Based Sensing Devices for Novel Applications in Bio-medical and Engineering Fields
Sensors have been an integral part of human life. Various sensor technologies have contributed in their own ways to fulfill specific requirements for aiding human beings. In this context, fiber optic sensors have several ...
A Probing System for Dynamic Mode Atomic Force Microscopy Based on Specialized Probes
The dynamic mode atomic force microscope (AFM) is a versatile tool that uses a resonantly excited micro-cantilever probe to obtain a sample’s topography and to characterize its material properties. While a number of useful ...
Design, Fabrication and Development of Polymer Microcantilever for Flow Rate Measurement and Thermal Actuation
Design, fabrication and development of polymer microcantilever for flow rate measurement and thermal actuation Research Supervisors:
Prof. K. Rajanna and Dr. G. R. Jayanth Microcantilevers are sensitive micromechanical ...
Light-sheet Lithography for Generating Micro/Nano-Structures
Over the past few decades, the study of field distribution at the geometrical focus of a lens (PSF) has gained a huge research interest in field ranging from Nanolithography to microscopy. The central theme of this thesis ...
Coupled Optical and Electrochemical Properties of ZnCo2O4 for Radiation Sensitive Supercapacitor : An Approach Towards Self-powered Photosensitive Energy Storage
Recently, the fields of energy conversion and storage have drawn great interests in the research community due to the wide range of practical applications in the society. Among them, photodetector (PD) and supercapacitor ...
Material and Mechanical Aspects of Thin Film Coatings for Strain Sensing Application on Aero Engines
Aero engines are one of the most complex machines on this planet and have propelled the necessity of advanced material technologies. Health monitoring of the engine is performed by a variety of sensors and amongst these ...
Investigation of Switching mechanism, Thermal, Electrochemical and Structural properties of Solid Electrolytic, Superionic α-AgI based Silver Molybdate glass for Resistive Memory (RRAM) Applications
Developing efficient, fast performing and thermally stable AgI-Ag2O-MoO3glasses are of great interest for Resistive Random Access Memory (RRAM) applications; however there many challenges such as metallization in bulk, ...
Non-invasive Elastic Property Recovery of Tissue and Tissue-Like Objects from Ultrasound Excited Resonant Modes
This thesis is on non-invasive elastic property measurement of tissue or tissue-mimicking materials through vibro-acoustography and ultrasound assisted diffusing wave spectroscopy (UA-DWS). Towards this, a known force is ...