Instrumentation and Applied Physics (IAP)
Recent Submissions
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Trackable Edible Pill for Real Time Monitoring of Gastrointestinal Tract
Recent years have witnessed a significant rise in the footprint of electronics in variety of fields like healthcare, energy harvesting, human computer interaction etc., due to the discovery of new materials and better ... -
Military applications of Fiber Bragg Gratings
Fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) are widely used in sensing technologies due to their compact size, distributed sensing capability, immunity to electromagnetic interference, and ability to measure various physical parameters. ... -
Design and Development of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor Devices for Aerospace Applications
Optical sensors are becoming increasingly popular and gradually replacing electrical sensors due to their faster response, higher sensitivity, immunity to electromagnetic interference and electrical sparking. The advancements ... -
Planar tunneling in twisted moire heterostructures
Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon that has excited physicists for many decades. With the ability to exfoliate two-dimensional (2D) materials from the bulk, including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and transition ... -
Single molecule based Super-Resolution Microscopy for disease biology
Advances in single-molecule imaging and super-resolution microscopy have revolutionized the field of cell biology, offering unprecedented insights into complex biological processes at the nanoscale. In this thesis, we ... -
Single Molecule Based Spatio-temporal Super-resolution Microscopy for Visualizing Single Molecule Dynamics in Cellular System
Over the last decade, single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) has developed into a set of powerful techniques that have improved spatial resolution over diffraction-limited microscopy and demonstrated the ability ... -
Frequency Domain Photoacoustic Signal Analysis for Temperature Sensing
Monitoring temperature in biological tissue is vital for different therapy applications like photo-thermal therapy, high-intensity focused ultrasound therapy, etc. Photoacoustic imaging has been used for volumetric temperature ... -
Advanced Light Sheet Volume Flow Cytometry (VFC/iLIFE) and Spectroscopy System for Cell Biophysics and Clinical Biology
Optical imaging is paramount for disease diagnosis and to access its progression over time. The developed light sheet-based optical flow imaging techniques, known as Volume Flow Cytometry(VFC/iLIFE), and related techniques ... -
Linear Nanopositioning Systems for Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scanning probe microscopes (SPM) are vital for visualizing and characterizing samples of interest to various fields with nanometer resolution, such as semiconductor fabrication, microbiology, and material engineering. The ... -
Packaging and Functionalization of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Various Sensing Applications.
In our world, numerous sensors are found everywhere, making our lives simpler and more comfortable. Among these sensors, optical sensors have undergone expeditious development, providing good performance. In particular, ... -
Tailoring of fields and development of multipole expansion in planar ion trap geometries
In this research work two studies have been taken up: (1) to provide a systematic method to linearize and tailor fields in planar ion trap geometries. The proposed method is general and is demonstrated on two trap ... -
Interaction of Ionising Radiations with Nanoparticles
The interaction of ionizing radiations such as alpha, beta, gamma, and X-rays with matter-at bulk has been studied intensively for many decades. However, the interaction of ionizing radiations with matter-at-nanoscale ... -
Raman Spectroscopy Instrumentation and Its Application in Deep Tissue Imaging
Raman spectroscopy is based on inelastic scattering, which gives molecular information. Due to its weak nature, for a long-time Raman spectroscopy was limited to only study of molecular interactions, but with the advancement ... -
Solid-state planar micro-supercapacitors: materials interfaces, state-of-art electrode design and self-powered device
The demand for miniaturization of energy storage systems has accelerated the development of on-chip micro-power devices for integration into portable electronic devices. Micro-supercapacitors can suitably cater to the need ... -
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 ... -
Microscopic Analysis of Self Healing Circuits Using Image Processing
Open circuit faults are common circuit failure mechanism in Thin Film Transistor (TFT) integrated circuits or Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). Thin film Transistors are widely used in flexible electronics and are ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...