Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) fall under a special category of elastic waves that need a material medium to propagate. The energy of these waves is confined to a limited depth below the surface over which they propagate, ...

The Phase Change Memories (PCM) based on chalcogenide glasses are being considered recently as a possible replacement for conventional Non Volatile Random Access Memories (NVRAM). The main advantages of chalcogenide phase ...

Photovoltaic (PV) conversion of solar energy appears to be one of the most promising ways of meeting the increasing future energy demand. In space, photovoltaic power source is the only alternative. The demand for higher ...

The scaling down of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) transistors requires replacement of conventional silicon dioxide layer with higher dielectric constant (K) material for gate dielectric. In order to reduce ...

Today there is a great deal of interest in the development of gas sensors for applications like air pollution monitoring, indoor environment control, detection of harmful gases in mines etc. Based on different sensing ...

This thesis presents the results of studies on the problem of subharmonic oscillations in nonlinear Paul trap mass spectrometry. The objective of this thesis is to determine whether the subharmonic oscillations of ions in ...