Physics (PHY): Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 462
-
Spectroscopic and Diffraction Signatures of Quantum Spin Liquids, Skyrmion Lattices and Transition Metal Dichalcogenides at Low Temperatures and High Pressures
This thesis presents experimental as well as theoretical studies on several contemporary systems like quantum spin liquids (QSLs), skyrmion lattices, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) under extreme conditions ... -
Electrical transport study of Graphene/WSe2 Heterostructure
Spintronics has emerged as a novel platform to build information storage and logic devices in the last few decades. Graphene promises a long spin propagation length even at room temperature due to its low spin-orbit ... -
A Platform for Handheld Ultrafast PCR
The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is one of the most sensitive and specific diagnostic tools available today. Yet, it stands out of reach for many vulnerable populations because commercial solutions are expensive, bulky, ... -
Study of light-matter interactions in ultra-low noise graphene-based van der Waals hybrid
The vast array of optical and electrical capabilities of graphene (Gr) and analogous two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials have piqued scientists’ interest for long. Stacking these materials to form hybrid ... -
Investigation of DC and AC Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers and Devices
Semiconducting polymer materials have several applications in electronics and optoelectronic devices. The charge transport in these complex systems is yet to be fully understood to optimize the performance of the devices. ... -
Unraveling certain high energy astrophysical features based on advective accretion disks
The presence of an accretion disk around a neutron star (NS) or a black hole (BH) is mainly responsible for the observed X-rays from the night sky. NS or BH is a part of the binary systems, and matter flows from a companion ... -
Understanding Nucleic Acid Charge Transport Properties using Multiscale Modelling Techniques
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 ... -
Role of Friction in Microswimmer and Active Filament Motion
Friction is pervasive in all fields of science. It is the key factor that emerging technologies involving autonomous motion at micron scales such as micro-bots need to overcome in order to be efficient. They fall in the ... -
Exploring carrier dynamics in van-der-Waals heterostructures with shot noise spectroscopy, thermoelectricity and opto-electronic study
In the last two decades, there has been tremendous progress in two-dimensional (2D) - material research. It is mainly due to the availability of a large selection of 2D-materials and their van-der-Waals heterostructures. ... -
Electronic structure of two-dimensional materials: Effect of point defects and moiré patterns
In the last two decades, research on two-dimensional (2D) materials has gained momentum due to their capability to host a wide range of novel phases of matter. These materials have also found applications in electronic, ... -
Fundamental aspects of the interface engineering in the heavy metal/ferromagnet-based perpendicularly magnetized systems
The ferromagnetic (FM) material finds its applications due to the property of spontaneous magnetization. An FM object can hold its state of magnetization unless any external stimuli change it. The easy manipulation of its ... -
Study of Metal and Oxide based Synaptic Transistors by Ionic liquid Gating for Neuromorphic Computing
Neuromorphic Computing (NC), which emulates neural activities of the human brain, is considered for low-power implementation of artificial intelligence. Towards realizing NC, fabrication, and investigations of synaptic ... -
Correlation, superconductivity, and topology in twisted and untwisted layered systems
This thesis is an effort to understand some of the interesting features induced by strong correlation - superconductivity, topology, non-Fermi liquid (NFL) in two dimensional (2D) layered materials. 2D layered materials ... -
Transport, localization and entanglement in disordered and interacting systems: From real space to Fock space
In this thesis, we explore some of the exciting physics of condensed matter systems manifested because of imperfection or disorder and interactions among the constituent particles. In phenomena like transport, e.g., ... -
Superconductivity in strongly correlated systems: Heavy fermions, Cuprates, Infinite-layer Nickelates
The phase diagrams of the heavy fermion, transition-metal (copper-, nickel-) oxides materials have a wide variety of different phases. It is believed that, the strong correlation among electrons governs most of the ... -
Electrical waves in mathematical models of human-ventricular tissue: effects of different modeling formalisms, electrophysiological factors, and heterogeneities on ventricular arrhythmias and the termination of these arrhythmias via a deep-learning approach
Sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains one of the significant causes of mortality in industrialized and developing countries. SCD is often caused by life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias like ventricular tachycardia and ... -
Compact objects in exotic premise and underlying gravitational waves
Einstein’s theory of general relativity and quantum mechanics were among the most startling discoveries in the 20th century. Based on these theories, the maximum mass of a non-rotating non-magnetized white dwarf is found ... -
Dynamo Action in Rotating and Shearing Flows
Magnetic fields are omnipresent in universe. They play important role in the formation of stars, galaxies and the accretion onto compact objects and the collimation of the relativistic jets of radio galaxies. It is intriguing ... -
Multiscale Simulation of Nucleic Acid Nanostructures
Nucleic acids, namely DNA and RNA, are arguably the most studied biological molecules. Utilizing the key properties of nucleic acids, such as their persistence lengths and Watson-Crick base-pairing complementarity, ... -
On the electrical transport of weak topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
Topological insulators have garnered enormous amount of attention owing to their unique topological properties. The surface states protected by the topology of the system hold limitless potentials including topological ...