Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Rapid Lightsheet Volume Imaging For Developmental Biology
Optical fluorescence microscopy is one of the key tool, that is indispensable for the study of complex and dynamic biological processes. Key issues associated with the existing fluorescence imaging systems are, ... -
Electrical transport in 3-dimensional topological insulators
Topological insulators (TI) are a new class of materials in which gapped bulk states coexist with gapless surface-states having linear energy-momentum dispersion relation protected by time-reversal symmetry. These ... -
3D Dosimetry using optical tomography and electronic portal images
The primary goal of this thesis is to develop techniques to quantify the radiation dose distributions used in radiotherapy for cancer treatment. It aims at developing a physically profound calculation model for the transit ... -
Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Sheared Soft Matter and Active Granular System
In this thesis, we have studied non-equilibrium phenomena in sheared soft matter systems and in granular active matter. The surfactant systems are driven out of thermal equilibrium by applying external forcing at the ... -
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 ... -
First principles study of the structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical, thermal, and vibrational properties in pyrochlores and temperature-dependent phonon properties in pyrochlores and SrTiO3 perovskite
In this thesis, first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used to study the structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical, and thermal properties in a series of pyrochlore materials. The vibrational ... -
Cryogenic Instrumentation using Planar Inductor based Eddy Current Sensors
Cryogenic sensors have become vital in the measurement of crucial parameters in modern scientific research. This work addresses the design, development and testing of planar inductor eddy current sensors and associated ... -
Geometric invariants for a class of submodules of analytic Hilbert modules
Let $\Omega \subseteq \mathbb C^m$ be a bounded connected open set and $\mathcal H \subseteq \mathcal O(\Omega)$ be an analytic Hilbert module, i.e., the Hilbert space $\mathcal H$ possesses a reproducing kernel $K$, the ... -
A micro-robotic system with integrated force sensing capability for manipulation of magentic particles in three dimensions
Micro-robotic systems are used in various fields of science and technology for the manipulation of objects of size less than a millimeter. Magnetic tweezers can be considered as micro-robotic systems due to their ability ... -
A computational systems biology approach for elucidating molecular features of primary and metastatic melanoma
Malignant melanoma, a cancer arising from melanocytes, is reported to have one of the fastest growing incidence rates worldwide, and is considered to be one of the most aggressive human malignancies. According to the ... -
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 ... -
On-board Failure Diagnostics and Failure Prediction of High Power White Light Emitting Diodes Used in Safety Critical Applications
Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) have become a focus of global lighting community owing to their long service life, low energy consumption and environmental friendliness. The ever-increasing use of LEDs in many applications ... -
Magnetic and Dielectric Properties of Half Doped RMnO3 (R = Y, Tb)
For the last few decades, the physics of doped perovskite manganite’s (RMnO3) has been an area of intense research due to their interesting physical and electronic properties. Various exciting phenomena such as, colossal ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Thermodynamics and Statistical mechanics of loops: A Monte Carlo study
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Multi-colored Loop models in three dimensions: A Monte-Carlo study. Soumya Kanti Ganguly Department of Physics. ABSTRACT A perfectly crystalline solid is a regular ... -
Effects of Strong Electron-Electron Correlations on Band Insulators in Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium
In this thesis, several aspects of correlation effects in band insulators that were hitherto not addressed, both in equilibrium and non-equilibrium, are studied using the Ionic Hubbard model (IHM) at half-filling and ... -
A Microrobotic System with Integrated Force Sensing Capability for Manipulation of Magnetic Particles in Three Dimensions
Micro-robotic systems are used in various fields of science and technology for the manipulation of objects of size less than a millimeter. Magnetic tweezers can be considered as micro-robotic systems due to their ability ... -
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 ... -
Computation of Sparse Representations of High Dimensional Time Series Data and Experimental Applications
Obtaining a sparse representation of high dimensional data is often the first step towards its further analysis. Conventional Vector Autoregressive (VAR) modelling methods applied to such data results in noisy, non-sparse ...