Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
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Magnetic and Magnetotransport Studies in Transition Metal Oxides : Role of Competing Interactions
(2018-04-12)There was a fame time for silicon in condensed matter physics, then the graphene era came and now topological insulators are gaining lot of attention, but magnetism in condensed matter physics has remained always fascinating ... -
Investigations of Phase Change Memory Properties of Selenium Doped GeTe and Ge2Sb2Te5
(2018-04-05)GeTe and Ge2Sb2Te5 alloys are potential candidates for non-volatile phase change random access memories (PCRAM). For electrical data storage applications the materials should have stable amorphous and crystalline phases, ... -
Pulsed Laser Ablated Dilute Magnetic Semiconductors and Metalic Spin Valves
(2018-04-02)Spintronics (spin based electronics) is a relatively new topic of research which is important both from the fundamental and technological point of view. In conventional electronics charge of the electron is manipulated and ... -
Electron Filed Emission Studies of Nanostructured Carbon Materials
(2018-03-08)Field emission is the emission of electrons from a solid under an intense electric field, of the order of 109 V/m. Emission occurs by the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons through a potential barrier to vacuum. ... -
Role of Excess Fe in Pristine and Substituted Fe Chalcogenide Superconductors
(2018-03-02)Fe chalcogenides : The discovery of superconductivity in Fe based compounds trig- gered an intense research activity in this field with significant importance given to material synthesis. As a result, numerous materials ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Growth and Physical Properties of Biaxial Nonlinear Optical Crystals of Ascorbic Acid Family
(2018-02-26)Saccharides, a class of organic materials, are potential candidates for nonlinear optical applications. Ascorbic acid is a sugar acid and is classified as a monosaccharide. The molecule of ascorbic acid has two chiral centers ... -
A Study of Slow Modes in Keplerian Discs
(2018-02-25)A rich variety of discs are found orbiting massive bodies in the universe. These could be accretion discs composed of gas around stellar mass compact objects fueling micro-quasar activity; protoplanetary discs, mainly ... -
Exchange Spring Behaviour in Magnetic Oxides
(2018-02-23)When a permanent magnet is considered for an application, the quantity that quantifies the usability of that material is the magnetic energy product (BH)max. In today’s world, rare earth transition metal permanent magnets ... -
Magnetisation, Phases & Phase Transitions in Frustrated and Unfrustrated XY Model
(2018-02-23)Through our whole work we study the XY model with all its entirety, a particular spin model where spins are confined in a plane. We try to bring out a good understanding of this model with all different types of phases and ... -
Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymer Devices
(2018-02-23)Understanding the fundamentals of Organic semiconductors is crucial aspect towards the technological applications. Conjugated polymers have shown many interesting physical properties. Especially the electronic and optical ... -
Modelling, Fabrication and Characterization of HgCdTe Infrared Detectors for High Operating Temperatures
(2018-02-23)In this work, we have designed, simulated, fabricated and characterized homojunction Hg1-xCdxTe detector for high operating temperature in the MWIR region. The IR photon detectors need cryogenic cooling to suppress thermal ... -
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 ... -
A Study of Superbubbles in the ISM : Break-Out, Escape of LYC Photons and Molecule Formation
(2018-02-16)Multiple coherent supernova explosions (SNe) in an OB association can produce a strong shock that moves through the interstellar medium (ISM). These shocks fronts carve out hot and tenuous regions in the ISM known as ... -
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 ... -
Hyperfine Structure-Measurement in Alkali-metal Atoms and Ytterbium Atom
(2018-02-15)Atomic precision measurements provide a strong testing ground for new theoretical ideas and fundamental laws of physics. Measurement of the Lamb shift in the hydrogen atom is one of the best examples towards this -it ... -
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 ... -
Spin Hall Effect Mediated Current Induced Magnetization Reversal in Perpendicularly Magnetized Pt/Co/Pt Based Systems
(2018-02-08)In the present thesis, magnetization reversal in both out-of-plane and in-plane magnetized thin lms and in devices fabricated out of those lms are explored. Pt/Co/Pt stacks with ultrathin Co layer were in-estimated initially ... -
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 ...