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Adaptive Wideband Microwave Signal Processing Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonics
The advancement of wireless communications in domains such as satellites, radars, 5G, and future technologies necessitates the utilization of broadband microwave and millimeter wave signal processing. Unlike their electronic ... -
Analog Compute for Edge-AI: Devices, Circuits & SoC
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research has yielded models with huge computational complexities to solve a multitude of problems. These complex models require substantial computational resources to perform ... -
Chaos, entanglement, and non-equilibrium dynamics in Hermitian and non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems
Quantum chaos and entanglement have appeared as two key intertwined concepts to characterize fundamental quantum correlations of quantum many-body states and to understand the emergence of thermal and non-thermal steady ... -
Unravelling the composition space of Zr2FeNiSb2 double half-Heusler thermoelectric material
More than half of annual energy consumption in thermal power plants are released in the form of waste heat. However, this waste heat could be harnessed with the help of thermoelectric (TE) devices which can convert this ... -
Linear Nanopositioning Systems for Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scanning probe microscopes (SPM) are vital for visualizing and characterizing samples of interest to various fields with nanometer resolution, such as semiconductor fabrication, microbiology, and material engineering. The ... -
Exploring Hydrological Processes, Modeling Decisions, and Deep Learning for Improved Hydrologic Assessment
Hydrological modeling is complicated by the intricate challenges and uncertainties associated with understanding hydrological processes. This thesis aims at answering some of the key research questions related to ... -
Electro-optically Tunable General-Purpose Microwave Photonic Processors: Platforms, Device Analysis, and Auto-routing Algorithms
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) have been primarily developed as application-specific PICs (ASPICs), relying on time-consuming fabrication processes and exhibiting insertion losses between interconnected ASPICs. To ... -
In vivo mechanistic insights into the trans-splicing based expression of Hsp90 in Giardia lamblia
Giardia lamblia, a simple yet intriguing protozoan parasite, challenges conventional paradigms in gene expression through its unique mechanism of trans-splicing for Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90). As a primitive organism, ... -
Numerical Simulations of Deforming Capsules and Cells in a flow
Understanding the evolution of deforming capsules and cells in various flow configurations can assist in better diagnosis of diseases like Malaria and sickle cell anemia. Flow of deformable capsules is also useful in ... -
Investigation of multiscale biological phenomenon using kinetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations
Biological systems inherently function at multiple spatial and temporal scales by integrating information across these scales. In this thesis, we are interested in investigating two classes of biological phenomena that ... -
Exploring the Marine Algicolous Endophytic Fungi: A Promising Source of Novel Cancer Therapeutics
Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality globally, with over 6 million new cases diagnosed annually. Research on effective therapies is crucial due to the disease's complexity. Natural materials in chemotherapy have ... -
Conformational Heterogeneity, Solution Structure and Autoregulatory Roles of the MazE9 Antitoxin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The work presented in this thesis endeavors to decode the details of the dynamics of MazE9 antitoxin of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis MazEF9 toxin-antitoxin system and the transcriptional autoregulation effected by it. ... -
Studies of Feynman and Related Integrals and their Hypergeometric Connection using the Method of Brackets, Algebraic Relations and Singularity Analysis
Feynman integrals are special kind of integrals that arise in perturbative quantum field theory and are often very difficult to evaluate in terms of known functions of mathematical physics. At times some of the methods ... -
WiROS: A QoS Software Solution for ROS2 in a WiFi Network
Robot Operating System (ROS) has played a pivotal role as a communication middleware among different peripherals, including sensors and actuators of robotics and other systems, with the advancement of connected systems ... -
Micromechanical understanding of the macroscopic features of dense granular materials
The prevalence of granular materials in nature (soil, beach sand, rubble pile asteroids) and in several industries (cement, food grains, pharmaceutical powders) has motivated extensive research towards understanding the ... -
Cp2Ti(III)Cl-Mediated Endo- and Exo-Radical Cyclization: Synthesis of a Tri-nor-guaiane Sesquiterpene Isoclavukerin A, Terpenoid Bicyclic Lactones and Synthetic Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Scabrolide A
Radical cyclization strategy always gives an expedient access to complex molecular scaffolds present in many bioactive natural products. In this research work, a systematic study is undertaken to investigate the less ... -
Development and Characterization of Multi-finger GaN HEMT for Power switching applications
Power electronics is the branch that connects electricity and the world. Power devices play a significant role in reducing CO2 emissions and saving energy. As technology develops, the main focus is reducing energy consumption, ... -
End-to-end Resiliency Analysis Framework for Cloud Storage Services
Cloud storage service brought the idea of a global scale storage system available on-demand and accessible from anywhere. Despite the benefits, resiliency remains one of the key issues that hinder the wide adaptation of ... -
Longitudinal Acceleration-based Variable Speed Bio-inspired Guidance Law
Most analyses of existing interceptor guidance laws assume the interceptor speed to be constant, which simplifies mathematical analysis and enhances predictability in interception characteristics. In reality, this is not ... -
Risks of finding mates in the wild: Ecological and Behavioural Determinants of Sex-biased Predation
Sex-biased predation occurs when one sex of a prey species is consumed more than the other, irrespective of their relative availability (sex-ratio). Some of the potential factors leading to sex- biased predation are sex ...