Browsing Physics (PHY) by thesis submitted date"2016"
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Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes Investigations of Binary-Fluid Turbulence and Droplet Dynamics
(2017-12-10)The study of finite-sized, deformable droplets adverted by turbulent flows is an active area of research. It spans many streams of sciences and engineering, which include chemical engineering, fluid mechanics, statistical ... -
Collective Behaviour of Confined Equilibrium And Non Equilibrium Soft Matter Systems
(2017-11-09)Due to their diversity, soft matter systems provide a convenient platform to study a variety of physical phenomena like phase transitions and collective motion. Encompassing a wide range of equilibrium and non-equilibrium ... -
Crystal Structures of Native and AdoMet Bound rRNA Methyltransferase from Sinorhizobium meliloti : Structural Insights into rRNA Recognition. Evolutionary, Structural and Functional Studies on Nucleoid-Associated Proteins HU and IHF
DNA- and RNA-binding proteins play a central role in gene regulation, which includes transcriptional control, alternative splicing, post-translational and transcriptional modifications like methylation and acetylation among ... -
Development of a Spin-Polarized Low Energy Electron Diffraction System and Investigation on Spin-Orbit and Exchange Interactions on Ir(100) and Ultrathin Fe(100) Grown on Ir(100)
(2018-02-28)Spin-polarized electron beam has not yet been produced from an unpolarized electron beam using Stern-Gerlach type spin filter, because of the Lorentz force and Heisenberg uncertainty principle. At present, electron spin ... -
Direct Measurement of Itinerant Magnetism & Interface States in Semiconductors using Time-varying Magnetic Fields
(2017-11-28)Magnetism in a solid | dia, para, ferro, or of other forms | originates majorly from its electrons; one could, infact, ignore the nuclear contribution. There are two types of electrons in a solid: bound, and free (also ... -
Direct Numerical Simulations of Fluid Turbulence : (A) Statistical Properties of Tracer And Inertial Particles (B) Cauchy-Lagrange Studies of The Three Dimensional Euler Equation
(2017-11-09)The studies of particles advected by tubulent flows is an active area of research across many streams of sciences and engineering, which include astrophysics, fluid mechanics, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, and ... -
Electrical Transport in the Hybrid Structures of 2D Van Der Waals Materials and Perovskite Oxide
(2018-01-01)Perovskite oxides have provided a wide variety of exotic functionalities based on their unique physical and chemical properties. By combining different perovskite oxides, interesting physical phenomena have been observed ... -
Engineering Plasmonic Interactions in Three Dimensional Nanostructured Systems
(2018-02-08)Strong light matter interactions in metallic nanoparticles (NPs), especially those made of noble metals such as Gold and Silver is at the heart of much ongoing research in nanoplasmonics. Individual NPs can support collective ... -
Experimental Investigation of Multielectron Bubbles in Liquid Helium
(2017-11-28)Multielectron bubbles (MEBs) are micron sized cavities in liquid helium that contain electrons confined within a nanometer thick layer on the inner surface of a bubble. These objects present a rich platform to study the ... -
Experiments on the 852 nm D2 Line of 133Cs with a Diode Laser System and their use in Measurement of the Permanent Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron
(2018-07-14)We give a brief introduction to atomic physics and the motivation behind our experiments in the first chapter. The electron’s electric dipole moment is an interesting quantity which is yet to be measured. In the 3rd Chapter, ... -
Facile and Process Compatible Growth of High-k Gate Dielectric Materials (TiO2, ZrO2 and HfO2) on Si and the Investigation of these Oxides and their Interfaces by Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy
(2018-07-14)The continuous downscaling has enforced the device size and oxide thickness to few nanometers. After serving for several decades as an excellent gate oxide layer in complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices, ... -
Impact of Disorder and Topology in Two Dimensional Systems at Low Carrier Densities
(2018-02-15)Two dimensional (2D) systems with low carrier density is an outstanding platform for studying a wide spectrum of physics. These include both classical and quantum effects, arising from disorder, Coulomb interactions and ... -
Insights into Substrate Specificity in Sortase Enzymes from Structural Studies on a Novel Class of Housekeeping Sortase (SrtE) Identifying Functionally Important Cis-Peptide Containing Segments in Proteins and their utility in Molecular Function Annotation
(2018-02-21)Understanding protein function is fundamental to the fields of protein engineering and drug design. While most of the previous efforts in this direction have focused on the sequence-structure-function paradigm, recent ... -
Investigation of Nonlinearities in Graphene Based NEMS
(2017-10-05)Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) have drawn considerable attention towards several sensing applications such as force, spin, charge and mass. These devices due to their smaller size, operate at very high frequencies ... -
Investigations on Photophysical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots (CdxHg1-xTe,Ag2S) and their Interactions with Graphene Oxide, Organic Polymer Composites
(2018-02-07)The motivation of this thesis is to understand the physical properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) and to get insight on the basic physics of charge separation in composites made from QDs with graphene oxide ... -
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 ... -
The Many Facets of Variabilities in X-ray Binaries
(2018-02-28)More than half a decade of X-ray astronomy with various balloon borne and space orbiting X-ray instruments, have led to discoveries and detailed studies of X-ray binaries. An important property of X-ray binaries is intensity ... -
Micro-Newton Force Measurement and Actuation : Applied to Genetic Model Organisms
(2018-07-10)Mechanical forces have been observed to affect various aspects of life, for example, cell differentiation, cell migration, locomotion and behavior of multicellular organisms etc. Such forces are generated either by external ... -
Mixed Alkali Effect in Oxyfluoro Vanadate Glasses And The Effect of Rare Earth Ions on Oxyfluoro Tellurite Glasses - A Spectroscopic Study
(2017-09-20)The main motivation of this thesis is to study the long standing problem of mixed alkali effect (MAE) in oxyfluro vanadate glass systems from the point of view of structural arrangement and to investigate the effect of two ... -
Optical Tweezers and Its use in Studying Red Blood Cells - Healthy and Infected
(2017-11-29)The experiment discussed in the next chapter was to confirm the aforementioned bystander effect. In the first experiment we separated hosting and non-hosting mRBCs by the percol purification method and then measured the corner ...