Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
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Proton kinetic energy anomaly, Kauzmann temperature for nanoconfined water and design of nanoscale membrane for water desalination.
Structure, dynamics and thermodynamics of water molecules con fined inside the nanopores of various geometries are of fundamental interest owing to their potential applications in various nanofluidic devices, such as ... -
Surface Adsorption of Dendrimers: Structure, Interactions at Graphene/Water Interface and Applications in Supercapacitors
The study of structure and dynamics of geometrically con ned polymers has been an interesting topic of research. In this thesis we speci cally studied the adsorption behavior of a hyper-branched polymer called poly(amidoamine) ... -
Implications in substrate recognition, catalysis and drug-design Structural basis for neutralization of ribosome-inactivating proteins by their monoclonal antibodies
Cryptic elements of proteins are not visible in unbound structures but become apparent in ligand/substrate-bound structures. These binary states of cryptic elements in protein structures can impact important aspects of ... -
Structural and functional studies on DNA synthesis and repair proteins
The work reported in this thesis includes structural and functional studies on thymidylate kinase and RecFOR pathway proteins from Thermus thermophilus HB8. In the first part, a study was performed on the thymidylate ... -
Raman Study of gated devices in two-dimensional materials and pressure effects
This thesis presents Raman study of 2D materials of contemporary interests: 2H-MoTe_2, type-II Weyl semimetal (T_d-MoTe_2), structurally anisotropic semiconductors (1T'-ReX_2 (X=S, Se)) and Mott insulator (FePS_3) under ... -
Conductance Fluctuations in High-mobility Graphene Field Effect Transistors
In the past decade, a major fraction of the research carried out in condensed matter physics has been dedicated to address the unique physical properties of single layer graphene (SLG). Different properties of Dirac ... -
Charge Transport in Molecular Systems
Understanding charge transport in molecular systems is of fundamental interest in rapidly growing field of molecular electronics as well as to understand biological signal transfer processes which are accompanied by the ... -
Tenfold Classification for Interacting Fermions and Relation with Homogeneous Spaces
Topological classifi cation of topological insulator superconductor, various quantum Hall states are probably the most discussed topic in theoretical quantum condensed matter community as well as many mathematicians ... -
Study of Optoelectronic Properties of Quantum Emitter Assemblies Coupled to Graphene, Photonic and Plasmonic Materials
Nano-photonics deals with different ways to control light-matter interactions beyond the diffraction limit. In contrast to optics, which is the concept of light rays, including absorption, transmission, and reflection, ... -
Structural Insights into Peptide Foldamers Containing β or γ Amino Acid Residues Gained Using NMR Spectroscopy
The work reported in this thesis is focused on understanding the conformational properties of peptide foldamers containing β or γ amino acid residues. Chapter 1 includes a brief state-of-the-art literature review on peptide ... -
Tuning of Spin Reorientation and Compensation Transitions in Ferrites
Ferrites have attracted the attention of scientists and engineers in the last few years because of a combination of ferrimagnetic and insulating character. This makes them suitable for high frequency devices in telecommunication ... -
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 ...