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Studying bubbles in liquid He4 containing single and many electrons
Helium is an inert element with fully occupied orbitals and is a super fluid at low temperatures. An electron close to the surface of liquid Helium faces a long range attraction due to the finite polarizability of the ... -
Mechanistic Studies of Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Ru(ll)-Half-Sandwich and Group 6 NHC complexes
The thesis explores the mechanistic aspects of transfer hydrogenation of ketones and hydrosilylation of imines; two commonly used organic transformations catalyzed by ruthenium half-sandwich complexes of 2-oxazolidinethiones, ... -
Dissecting the role of Ataxin 2 Binding Protein 1 in sarcomeric protein stoichiometry and generation of muscle diversity in Drosophila melanogaster
Drosophila muscles are an excellent model to study muscle development, diversity and function. Drosophila muscles consist of two major types –1. Indirect Flight Muscles (IFM), that are fibrillar; as opposed to other tubular ... -
Engineering topological surface states through structural control, electrostatic gating and superconducting proximity effects
Three dimensional topological insulators are materials characterized by a gapped insulating bulk and gapless metallic states on the sample surface. This unique be- havior arises out of the non-trivial topology of the ... -
Structure property correlation studies on Ca-modified Ba(Ti, Zr/Sn)O3 piezoceramics
In this thesis we have investigated the structure, property correlation of the lead-free piezoelectric ceramic of (Ba,Ca) (Ti,Zr/Sn)O3 system. A self-consistent set of experimental techniques such as X-ray powder diffraction, ... -
Textured Gate Thin Film Transistors and Circuits
Reliable, high performance integrated circuits based on thin film transistors (TFTs) on flexible substrates have a lot of advantages, especially in applications like flexible displays, spherical image sensors, wearable ... -
Risk Estimation Strategies for Speech Signal Denoising
In automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, the recognition performance is severely affected by noise in the input speech signal [2]. One can improve the performance of ASR systems in noisy environments by denoising ... -
Production of taxol from Lasiodiplodia theobromae and biochemical characterization of its 10-deacetylbaccatin III-10-O-acetyltransferase enzyme and evaluation of anticancer activity of enzymatically synthesized baccatin III
Taxol (paclitaxel) originally identified from the inner bark of Taxus brevifolia, is a clinically approved anticancer drug for the treatment of various kinds of cancer, particularly ovarian cancer, breast cancer and Kaposi's ... -
Structural Correlates of Related Contextual Learning in Retrosplenial Cortex
The discovery of dendritic spines by Santiago Ramón y Cajal is one of the most important chapters in the history of neuroscience. Apart from establishing the neuron doctrine, it presented dendritic spines as the information ... -
Development of Graphene Based Sensors for Human Physiological Monitoring and Vacuum Measurement
Nanomaterials have emerged as a remarkable class of materials in recent years owing to their excellent electrical, chemical, and physical properties. The first two-dimensional (2D) material to be discovered, graphene, has ... -
Self-powered Broadband and Ultrafast Photoresponse using InN and InGaN grown on AlN/Si (111) by Plasma-assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Group III-nitride semiconductors have enabled revolution in solid-state lighting and high-power/high-frequency electronics. Now-a-days, III-nitride based photodetectors are of great importance because of their various ... -
Subsurface Profiling of Shallow Bedrock Sites by Integrated Approach and Site-specific 2d Site Response Analysis
Estimation of reliable site effects and amplifications are important for seismic design. There are several 1D and 2D large scale site response analyses were reported in the literature and very limited shallow bedrock small ... -
Biodiesel from Estuarine Microalgae - Diatoms
Rapidly depleting fossil fuel reserves with the burgeoning demand, associated escalating GHG footprint, and changes in the climate necessitated the exploration of alternate sustainable energy resources that are renewable, ... -
Hyperspectral and Spectropolarimetric Instrumentation for the Solar Atmosphere
The Sun is the closest star whose surface can be resolved to great a detail. Understanding the working of Sun helps in understanding a large fraction of stellar system as it falls under the spectral class G2V which is ... -
A Unified Framework For Micromechanical Damage Modeling In Laminated Polymer Matrix Composites
A unified numerical framework for progressive damage analysis in polymer matrix composite (PMC) laminates has been developed by explicitly accounting for damage progression at the micro-level. A three-dimensional repeating ... -
Stabilized finite element schemes for computations of viscoelastic free-surface and two-phase flows
Viscoelastic flows can be found in a wide range of industrial and commercial applications such as enhanced oil recovery, pesticide deposition, medicinal/pharmaceutical sprays, drug delivery, injection molding, polymer ... -
Adjacent Independent Row (Air) Matrices and Index Coding
An index coding problem, comprises a transmitter that has a set of independent messages and a set of receivers. Each receiver knows a subset of messages, called its side-information, and demands another subset of messages, ... -
Structural Reliability Estimation Using Markov Chain Splitting and Girsanov’s Transformation Based Methods
The work reported in this thesis is in the area of Monte Carlo simulation based methods for structural reliability estimation with special focus on strategies to reduce sampling variance of the estimator for the probability ... -
Water Market for Efficient Management of Water Resources in India
India sustains nearly 17% of the world's population but with only 4 % of global water resources. In India, the water sector faces enormous pressure due to increased demand resulting from population growth, industrialisation, ... -
Carbon nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications
Environmental pollution and energy storage are two important issues in the modern day society. In this regard, Carbon nanomaterials have attained immense importance, due to their high surface area and electrical conductivity ...