Browsing Physics (PHY) by Subject "Research Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES::Physics"
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Investigation of DC and AC Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers and Devices
Semiconducting polymer materials have several applications in electronics and optoelectronic devices. The charge transport in these complex systems is yet to be fully understood to optimize the performance of the devices. ... -
Investigation of inter-layer charge transfer process in optically excited graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide-based heterostructures
Light-matter interaction of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals hybrids have gained significant interest in the past few years as they offer an intriguing platform for studying fundamental physical ... -
Investigation of quantum interference and quantum oscillations in 3D topological insulators
The investigations on the topological phase of the matter first started with the experimental discovery of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) back in 1980. The experimental discovery of the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) was ... -
Investigation of Structural relaxation in IV - V -VI Chalcogenide glasses for Infrared applications
Chalcogenide glasses are well known for their application in infrared transmission and sensing. These glasses are usually prepared by quenching the melt. The arrangement of atoms in the liquid state gets arrested into ... -
Investigation of the Thermoelectric Properties of Single and Double Substituted Cu12Sb4S13 Tetrahedrite
According to the current energy consumption, out of the total energy supplied as input in various sources such as power plants, factories, automobiles, etc., only around 30% of the energy is converted to useful work. The ... -
Investigation of twisted bilayer graphene using electrical and thermoelectric transport
The ability to tune the twist angle between di erent layers of two-dimensional materials has opened up a new dimension to band engineering in van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. By taking advantage of the formation of ... -
Investigations on structural, optical and electrical properties of lattice matching CdZnTe & HgCdTe colloidal quantum dot systems for possible core-shell structures in optoelectronic devices
In this work, alloyed II-VI group CdZnTe, HgCdTe colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have been synthesised and their optical, material, electrical properties are studied for optoelectronic applications. The bandgap of the alloyed ... -
Magnetically powered helical nanoswimmers
From flocking birds to migrating cells, ‘active matter’ is ubiquitous in the natural world. Almost all known life forms are based on self-propelled entities working collectively to create large-scale structures, networks, ... -
Mechanical Properties of Nucleic Acids in Bulk and Under Confinement and Their Interaction with Peptide
Proteins, DNA and RNA are arguably the most studied biological molecules with curiously interconnected relation that appears ubiquitous in all organisms. Almost all nucleoprotein interactions and DNA manipulation events ... -
Mechanistic Insights into Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Processes: Protein Unfolding and Aggregation, DNA Nanomechanics, and Drug Delivery
Biophysics has seen unprecedented progress, applying concepts from physics to study intriguing biological phenomena. Further advances in this field require fundamental understanding of various processes at the nanoscale ... -
Multi-Dimensional Solid State NMR - Methods Development and Application to Materials
In recent years, the scope of application of solid-state NMR to different areas has been witnessing a significant increase. Primarily, this is due to the possibility of routine use of proton NMR spectroscopy at ultrafast ... -
Multiscale Simulation of Nucleic Acid Nanostructures
Nucleic acids, namely DNA and RNA, are arguably the most studied biological molecules. Utilizing the key properties of nucleic acids, such as their persistence lengths and Watson-Crick base-pairing complementarity, ... -
Nanoscale spatial and temporal response of lipid membranes interacting with biomolecules and nanoparticles
The cell membrane is the first point of interaction whenever any external biomolecule or nanoparticle encounters a cell. Thus the nature of interactions between the cell membrane and various proteins, nanoparticles, and ... -
Novel Spectral Processing Methods in NMR – Wavelet Transform and Pattern Based Analysis
NMR spectroscopy provides a variety of information leading to an understanding of the properties of different materials. To extract this information from the experiments, one needs to have noise and artifacts free spectra ... -
Numerical Studies of Spiral- and Scroll-wave Dynamics in Cardiac Tissue: (1) Spiral- and Scroll-Wave Turbulence; (2) Spiral- and Scroll-Wave dynamics in Anatomically and Physiologically realistic Mathematical Models for Canine and Human Ventricular Tissue
A summary of the main results of our studies is given below. In most of our work, we use three mathematical models for cardiac myocytes, namely, the Panfilov model, the Aliev-Panfilov model, and the Hund-Rudy-Dynamic ... -
On the electrical transport of weak topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
Topological insulators have garnered enormous amount of attention owing to their unique topological properties. The surface states protected by the topology of the system hold limitless potentials including topological ... -
Phonon anomalies in pyrochlores and 2D materials under extreme conditions: Insights from Raman spectroscopic studies
In solids, electrons do not behave as separate particles but instead interact intensely to form quasiparticles, which couple with other quasiparticles such as phonon, plasmon, and exciton to generate emergent quantum ... -
Probing charge-density waves and superconductivity in low-dimensional systems
The recent advent of two-dimensional materials has led to the discovery of materials with fascinating phase diagrams. These systems have exciting electronic phases which coexist or compete with each other. Here in this ... -
Probing effect of disorder in the electrical and optical properties on van der Waals heterostructure
In this thesis, we studied the transport properties of single-layer graphene and single-layer to few-layer MoS2. We also studied the optical properties of MoS2 based single-layer, twisted bilayer devices. The main observations ... -
Probing phase transition and anisotropy in magnetic insulator based heterostructures employing magnon spin currents
Thermoelectric phenomena like the Seebeck and Peltier effects are known for more than two centuries with a wide range of applications. In 2008 Uchida et al. first demonstrated the phenomena called Spin Seebeck Effect (SSE) ...