Division of Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Recent submissions
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Studies on Multifrequensy Multifunction Electrical Impedance Tomography (MfMf-EIT) to Improve Bio-Impedance Imaging
(2018-04-11)Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non linear inverse problem in which the electrical conductivity or resistivity distribution across a closed domain of interest is reconstructed from the surface potentials measured ... -
Studies on Si15Te85-xGex and Ge15Te85-xAgx Amorphous Thin Films for Possible Applications in Phase Change Memories
(2018-04-06)Chalcogenide glasses are a class of covalent amorphous semiconductors with interesting properties. The presence of short-range order and the pinned Fermi level are the two important properties that make them suitable for ... -
Flavor and Dark Matter Issues in Supersymmetric Models
(2018-04-06)The Standard Model of particle physics attempts to unify the fundamental forces in the Universe (except gravity). Over the years it has been tested in numerous experiments. While these experimental results strengthen our ... -
Study of Higher Order Split-Step Methods for Stiff Stochastic Differential Equations
(2018-04-06)Stochastic differential equations(SDEs) play an important role in many branches of engineering and science including economics, finance, chemistry, biology, mechanics etc. SDEs (with m-dimensional Wiener process) arising ... -
Spatial Filtering Techniques for Large Penetration Depth and Volume Imaging in Fluorescence Microscopy
(2018-04-06)In the past two decades, Fluorescence microscopy has imparted tremendous impact in Biology and Imaging. Several super-resolution Fluorescence imaging techniques (e.g. PALM, STED, STORM, 4Pi and structured illumination) ... -
Single and Multi-player Stochastic Dynamic Optimization
(2018-04-06)In this thesis we investigate single and multi-player stochastic dynamic optimization prob-lems. We consider both discrete and continuous time processes. In the multi-player setup we investigate zero-sum games with both ... -
Electronic Transport in Low-Dimensional Systems Quantum Dots, Quantum Wires And Topological Insulators
(2018-04-05)This thesis presents the work done on electronic transport in various interacting and non-interacting systems in one and two dimensions. The systems under study are: an interacting quantum dot [1], a non-interacting quantum ... -
Investigations of Phase Change Memory Properties of Selenium Doped GeTe and Ge2Sb2Te5
(2018-04-05)GeTe and Ge2Sb2Te5 alloys are potential candidates for non-volatile phase change random access memories (PCRAM). For electrical data storage applications the materials should have stable amorphous and crystalline phases, ... -
Topics in the Exploration of New Physics at the International Linear Collider with the inclusion of Beam Polarization
(2018-04-03)The Standard Model of particle physics which attempts to describe all matter and all forces in the universe (except gravity),has been in agreement with most of the experiments till date. However theoretically and ... -
Pulsed Laser Ablated Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors and Metalic Spin Valves
(2018-04-02)Spintronics (spin based electronics) is a relatively new topic of research which is important both from the fundamental and technological point of view. In conventional electronics charge of the electron is manipulated and ... -
Development of Efficient Computational Methods for Better Estimation of Optical Properties in Diffuse Optical Tomography
(2018-04-02)Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) is one of the promising imaging modalities that pro- vides functional information of the soft biological tissues in-vivo, such as breast and brain tissues. The near infrared (NIR) light ... -
Stochastic Dynamical Systems : New Schemes for Corrections of Linearization Errors and Dynamic Systems Identification
(2018-03-23)This thesis essentially deals with the development and numerical explorations of a few improved Monte Carlo filters for nonlinear dynamical systems with a view to estimating the associated states and parameters (i.e. the ... -
Normal Spectrum of a Subnormal Operator
(2018-03-21)Let H be a separable Hilbert space over the complex field. The class S := {N|M : N is normal on H and M is an invariant subspace for Ng of subnormal operators. This notion was introduced by Halmos. The minimal normal ... -
Point-of-Care High-throughput Optofluidic Microscope for Quantitative Imaging Cytometry
(2018-03-15)Biological research and Clinical Diagnostics heavily rely on Optical Microscopy for analyzing properties of cells. The experimental protocol for con-ducting a microscopy based diagnostic test consists of several manual ... -
Design of a Vortex Tube based Refrigeration System
(2018-03-15)Vortex tube (VT) is a mechanical device with no moving parts. The fundamental principle of Vortex Tube is that it can split an incoming fluid flow of a constant pressure and constant temperature gas stream into two separate ... -
Electron Filed Emission Studies of Nanostructured Carbon Materials
(2018-03-08)Field emission is the emission of electrons from a solid under an intense electric field, of the order of 109 V/m. Emission occurs by the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons through a potential barrier to vacuum. ... -
Subnormality and Moment Sequences
(2018-03-07)In this report we survey some recent developments of relationship between Hausdorff moment sequences and subnormality of an unilateral weighted shift operator. Although discrete convolution of two Haudorff moment sequences ... -
On the Stability of Certain Riemannian Functionals
(2018-03-06)Given a compact smooth manifold Mn without boundary and n ≥ 3, the Lp-norm of the curvature tensor, defines a Riemannian functional on the space of Riemannian metrics with unit volume M1. Consider ... -
Role of Excess Fe in Pristine and Substituted Fe Chalcogenide Superconductors
(2018-03-02)Fe chalcogenides : The discovery of superconductivity in Fe based compounds trig- gered an intense research activity in this field with significant importance given to material synthesis. As a result, numerous materials ... -
Optimization of HfO2 Thin Films for Gate Dielectric Applications in 2-D Layered Materials
(2018-03-02)Recently, high-κ materials have become the focus of research and been extensively utilized as the gate dielectric layer in aggressive scaled complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. Hafnium dioxide (HfO2) ...