Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
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Dynamics of glass forming liquids with emphasis on vibrational modes
The potential energy landscape (PEL) description is regarded as one of the fundamental landmarks in the theory of glass transition, which has found wide applications not only in the understanding of disordered materials ... -
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 ... -
Tuning the electrical and thermoelectric properties of bilayer graphene by band engineering
Graphene and its two dimensional (2D) analogues have sustained the interests of the researchers for quite some time because of the rich physics they offer including many quantum phenomena and non-trivial topological ... -
Study of Structure and Dynamics of Bioactive Natural and Synthetic Peptides by NMR Spectroscopy and In silico Methods.
The thesis covers conformational analysis of several bioactive peptides using solution and solid-state NMR along with in silico analysis of some of them compiled in five chapters. It starts with an introduction to solution ... -
Non-ergodicity in Interacting Quasiperiodic Systems and Disordered Fock Lattice Models
In this thesis, we study different aspects of many body localization in closed quantum systems. Many body localized systems are isolated interacting quantum systems that fail to thermalize on their own (non-ergodic) and ... -
First Principles Study of Oxides : Bulk, Interfaces and Defects
In the recent years, oxides have been the focus of numerous theoretical and experimental studies. This is because of a wide variety of exotic physical phenomenon, such as multiferroicity, charge ordering, metal-insulator ... -
Charge transport in functionalized carbon nanotube and composite with polyaniline at low temperature
Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a very well-known material with very high thermal conductivity, high Young modulus and high electrical conductivity. The sp2 bonded C=C π-electrons delocalize in the whole lattice give rise to high ... -
Quantum capacitance and noise measurements in van der Waals heterostructures
The discovery of graphene has revolutionized the field of condensed matter physics and opened new prospects for a wide range of other two-dimensional materials. Further with the advancement of fabrication techniques, one ... -
Study of room temperature coupling of colloidal quantum dots to plasmonic arrays and metamaterials: from single quantum dot to quantum dot assemblies
There is much current interest in coupling emitters, such as fluorescing dye molecules and semiconductor quantum dots to plasmonic systems. Controlling the electromagnetic interactions between quantum emitters and the ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Manipulating phonons and electrons in two-dimensional materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are one or few atoms thick layered materials. The interaction between the layers in their parent three-dimensional material is weak. Therefore, one can stack different 2D materials on top ... -
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 ... -
Taming Electrons in 2D Materials: Influence of Substrates, Defects and Moire Superlattices
Two-dimensional materials have been extensively studied in the last decade owing to the rich physics at reduced dimensions and their applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Controlled modifi cation of electronic ... -
Exploring one and two-channel Kondo effect and investigating dielectric properties in ferrimagentic nanocomposites of LaNiO3 and CoFe2O4
The Kondo effect is a well-known and intensely studied phenomenon in condensed matter physics. After the theoretical prediction of Zawadowski and Noizères about the two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect, several successful attempts ... -
Sculpting colloidal membranes through phase transformations
Shaping macroscopic 2-D thin elastic sheets through differential strains in the system is a widely studied phenomenon applicable in diverse areas such as flexible electronics, origami and tissue growth. In contrast, at the ... -
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 ... -
Cooling, heating and gas evolution in the circumgalactic medium
The Universe at large scales consists of gravitationally bound dark matter halos. Ordinary gas inside the halos emits and also absorbs the radiation from background sources leaving distinct signatures for multi-wavelength ... -
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 ... -
Ultrafast Study of Layered 3D Topological Insulators, Graphene-Gold Hybrid Plasmonic Nanostructure and Ultrathin Gold Nanowires
In a typical time-resolved pump-probe spectroscopy, ultrafast laser pulses (pulse width ~ 100 fs) are utilized to induce a perturbation in the material of study within a time much shorter than the characterisitic lifetime ...