etd AT Indian Institute of Science: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Uncovering the role of NFS1 in Fe-S cluster biogenesis and in the development of Infantile mitochondrial complex II/III deficiency (IMC23D) disease progression and 2. Screening single domain antibody (VHH) against a membrane transporter
The mitochondrion is a double membrane-bound organelle found in all eukaryotic organisms. Mitochondria are endosymbiotic, autogenous organelles referred to as “Powerhouse” of cells due to their ability to synthesize ATP ... -
Studies on Characteristics of Stabilized Soil Compacts for Structural Applications
Earth based construction materials are identified as green and low carbon materials. There are sustained R&D efforts in developing stabilised earth products for buildings and other structural applications. The thesis ... -
Spectral Methods for different classes of Partial Differential Equations
The thesis touches numerical solutions and wave propagation analysis using spectral methods for different classes of partial differential equations (PDEs) having applications in various fields. We address the solution of ... -
Design of Planar Supersonic Wind Tunnel Nozzle
This thesis revisits the design of a planar supersonic nozzle for a supersonic wind tunnel using the method of characteristics (MOC) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). While design of a converging-diverging (CD) ... -
Economics of Venture Capital Industry in India : An Analysis of the Macro Ecosystem and Micro Decision Making
Venture Capital (VC) is regarded as one of the most powerful financial innovations of the 20th century (Schwienbacher, 2009). Venture Capitalists are financial intermediaries focused on funding projects in emerging high – ... -
Initiation of protein synthesis : Role of the three consecutive GC base pairs in the anticodon stem of initiator tRNAs
The presence of the three consecutive GC base pairs in the anticodon stems of the initiator tRNAs (3GC base pairs) are a highly conserved and a vital feature of the initiator tRNAs in all the domains of life. How this ... -
Efficient Schemes for Partitioning Based Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks in Multicore Architecture
The correctness of hard real-time systems depends not only on its logical correctness but also, on its ability to meet all its deadline. Existing real-time systems use either a pure real-time scheduler or a real-time ... -
Topoisomerase i from mycobacterium tuberculosis : Dynamics of enzyme function and inhibitor development
Inside the bacterial cell, the genetic material is maintained in a negatively supercoiled state within a compact space. The supercoiling of the genome undergoes topological perturbations during a variety of cellular processes ... -
P3 : An Effective Technique for Partitioned Path Profiling
Acyclic path profile is an abstraction of dynamic control flow paths of procedures and has been found to be useful in a wide spectrum of activities. Unfortunately, the runtime overhead of obtaining such a profile can be ... -
Studies on a New Spinning Disc-Spinning Bowl Contactor/Mixer
Increased focus on continuous synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals has led to resurgence of process intensification. In this thesis we introduce a new continuous contactor. It works on the principle of impinging ... -
Heat Transfer and Visualization Studies in the Evaporator of a Flat Loop Heat pipe
Heat pipes are extensively used in spacecraft thermal control and electronics cooling for transfer of heat from high heat flux zones to low heat flux zones. The major advantage of heat pipe is it can transfer high heat ... -
Synthesis, Characterisation and Optimisation of ZnO Thin film & Nanowire array for Dynamic Pressure Sensing Application
Piezoelectric technology based dynamic pressure sensors are widely used for the measurement of rapid pressure variations with respect to time. Quartz is the piezoelectric material ruling the dynamic pressure sensor industry ... -
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 ... -
Scalability Bottleneck Analysis of High Performance Applications
Obtaining high performance and scalability for high performance applications are challenging. There are various bottlenecks including, higher rate of memory access, complex algorithm, high rate of communication, big ... -
Rapid Lightsheet Volume Imaging For Developmental Biology
Optical fluorescence microscopy is one of the key tool, that is indispensable for the study of complex and dynamic biological processes. Key issues associated with the existing fluorescence imaging systems are, ... -
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 ... -
Towards Learning Adversarially Robust Deep Learning Models
Deep learning models have shown impressive performance across a wide spectrum of computer vision applications, including medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. One of the major concerns that these models face is their ... -
Short to Medium Range Forecasting Skills of the GFS Model
The reliable prediction of the South Asian monsoon rainfall and its variability is crucial for various hydrological applications and early warning systems. This study analyzes Global Fore- cast System (GFS) model generated ... -
Organic Transformations in the Confined Cavity of Self-Assembled Pd(II) Molecular Containers
Biological systems utilize its extraordinary ability to develop complex and functional molecular assemblies employing reversible non-covalent interactions. These natural aesthetic examples motivated synthetic chemists ...