Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
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Study of Exciton Dynamics in MoS2 Monolayer and MoS2-QD Heterostructure
The recent studies of two-dimensional semiconductors (2D) and their hybrid structure with zero-dimensional (0D) semiconductors have led to discovering of many fascinating properties that are absent in their bulk counterparts. ... -
Dielectric, Mechanical, Magnetic and Electromagnetic Shielding properties of Carbon nanomaterial embedded Polydimethylsiloxane composites
Composites are the advanced engineering materials invented by men with exceptional properties over traditional materials. These attractive and delightful materials are the result of developments in the area of engineering ... -
Experimental Studies in Quantum Optics using Diode Lasers
This thesis discusses experimental studies with vapor cells containing rubidium (Rb) or cesium (Cs) atoms. Transitions in the atoms (D1 and D2 lines) are accessed using diode lasers. Experiments are performed at room ... -
Optical, Electrical and Photo-physical Investigations of Cd(Hg)Te Nanostructures Synthesized by Solvothermal Method
The thesis investigates the optical, photo-physical, and electrical properties of CdTe and HgCdTe nano- and micro-structures synthesized by hydrothermal/solvothermal technique. Application oriented studies like fluorescence ... -
Mesoscopic Heat engines beyond the Limits of Thermodynamics
Despite the central role that Equilibrium thermodynamics has played in our understanding of many body systems, the underlying theoretical construct is strictly correct only in the ‘Thermodynamic Limit’. On the other hand, ... -
Structural Studies on Hybrid Peptides : Crystallographic Characterization of Sequences Containing Backbone Homologated, Monosubstituted, Unconstrained Gamma Amino Acid Residues
X-ray crystallographic studies of designed peptides provide definitive proof of the success of a design strategy and yield essential structural information that can be utilized in the future design of biologically and ... -
A Theoretical Study of Thermoelectric Effect for Cross-plane Transport Across Twisted Bilayer Graphene
The thermoelectric effect and the linear response theory is one of the most studied areas in condensed matter physics. In the last few years, the study of Van Der Waals heterostructure has become one of the most promising ... -
Rapid light sheet fluorescence microscopy for dynamic imaging of living organisms
The primary goal of this thesis is to develop a light sheet based microscopy system that provides non-invasive images having high spatial and temporal resolution. The fluorescence microscopy has become an indispensable ... -
Turbulent Mixing of Multiple-Passive-Scalars
We have studied the mixing of multiple forced passive scalars in 3D homogeneous and isotropic turbulence. The trends of the structure functions for a single scalar, although not very well resolved, seem to be similar to ... -
Electrical transport and noise in polycrystalline 2D van der Waals materials and their grain boundaries
The successful exfoliation of graphene in 2004 ushered in the era of 2D van der Waals materials, paving the way for a wide variety of applications in the field of electronics, optoelectronics, sensors, catalysis, flexible ... -
Physics and application of charge transfer in van der Waals heterostructures
Since the discovery of graphene, the field of 2D materials has garnered massive interest from a materials science, basic physics and device application point of view. This results from the diverse range of electronic and ... -
Dynamics and Organization of Passive and Magnetically Driven Colloids Under Optical Confinement
The physics of confined systems of interacting particles has been a subject of active research for more than a century. Such systems are ubiquitous in nature - examples include petroleum in porous rocks, cytoplasm in ... -
Electrical transport in 3-dimensional topological insulators
Topological insulators (TI) are a new class of materials in which gapped bulk states coexist with gapless surface-states having linear energy-momentum dispersion relation protected by time-reversal symmetry. These ... -
3D Dosimetry using optical tomography and electronic portal images
The primary goal of this thesis is to develop techniques to quantify the radiation dose distributions used in radiotherapy for cancer treatment. It aims at developing a physically profound calculation model for the transit ... -
Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Sheared Soft Matter and Active Granular System
In this thesis, we have studied non-equilibrium phenomena in sheared soft matter systems and in granular active matter. The surfactant systems are driven out of thermal equilibrium by applying external forcing at the ... -
First principles study of the structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical, thermal, and vibrational properties in pyrochlores and temperature-dependent phonon properties in pyrochlores and SrTiO3 perovskite
In this thesis, first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations are used to study the structural, electronic, elastic, mechanical, and thermal properties in a series of pyrochlore materials. The vibrational ... -
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 ... -
An experimental study on thermoelectric transport at van der Waals interfaces
When two planar atomic or molecular layers are brought to sub-nanometer proximity, they form a van der Waals interface because the van der Waals force forms the dominant attractive force between them. The van der Waals ... -
Thermodynamics and Statistical mechanics of loops: A Monte Carlo study
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Multi-colored Loop models in three dimensions: A Monte-Carlo study. Soumya Kanti Ganguly Department of Physics. ABSTRACT A perfectly crystalline solid is a regular ... -
Effects of Strong Electron-Electron Correlations on Band Insulators in Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium
In this thesis, several aspects of correlation effects in band insulators that were hitherto not addressed, both in equilibrium and non-equilibrium, are studied using the Ionic Hubbard model (IHM) at half-filling and ...