etd AT Indian Institute of Science: Recent submissions
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Micromechanical modeling of fracture and fatigue behavior of cementitious composites
The ubiquitous use of concrete as a construction material in the civil engineering industry demands a thorough understanding of its failure process under different types of loading. The composite nature of cementitious ... -
Integration of sequences, structures, dynamics to study functional divergence in homologous proteins and their assemblies
Functions of proteins are governed by their sequences, structures, dynamics and assembly. Modulation of these factors during evolution renders functional divergence in related proteins that have originated from the common ... -
Mechanistic Insights into Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Processes: Protein Unfolding and Aggregation, DNA Nanomechanics, and Drug Delivery
Biophysics has seen unprecedented progress, applying concepts from physics to study intriguing biological phenomena. Further advances in this field require fundamental understanding of various processes at the nanoscale ... -
Optimal Code Constructions for Some Multi-sender Index Coding Problems
An instance of the multi-sender index coding problem consists of a set of senders collectively having all the messages demanded by a set of receivers. Each receiver knows a subset of messages a priori, called its side ... -
Error Correction in Index Coding And Coded Caching
In an index coding problem, there is a sender which has a set of messages and there are multiple receivers demanding possibly different subsets of these messages and possessing some other subsets of these messages as ... -
Protocols for quantum information processing on graph states
Quantum entanglement is a unique phenomenon that occurs in quantum systems and ensures the feasibility of tasks considered impossible in the classical world. Two such important tasks are superdense coding and quantum ... -
Experimental Study of Multiphase Flow in the Presence of Raceway in the Packed Beds
The lower part of the iron-making blast furnace is very important for operational stability and productivity of it. It represents a multiphase flow, including a cohesive zone. In order to reduce the coke consumption and ... -
Stereochemical studies on peptide and protein structures: Implications for validation, flexibility, and dynamics
Accuracy of 3-D structures of proteins is crucial, both in terms of its agreement with the experimental data used to determine the structure and stereochemistry, especially when they are utilized for applications like drug ... -
Honest Majority and Beyond: Efficient Secure Computation over Small Population
Secure Multi-Party Computation for small population has witnessed notable practically-efficient works in the setting of both honest majority and dishonest majority. While honest majority provides the promise of stronger ... -
Development of an Automated Test & Parameter Extraction Tool for Active Matrix Displays
Active matrix backplanes used in at panel displays are prone to line faults (opens and shorts) and pixel faults (poor transistor performance and parameter variations). These faults could occur during fabrication or ... -
Investigation into the Synthesis, Structure and Dielectric Property of Lead-Free Double Perovskite Structured Materials
Lead based materials have shown to be important materials showing high piezoelectricity, colossal dielectric constant, ferroelectricity along with their good mechanical behaviour and resistance to corrosion. As a result, ... -
Manipulating phonons and electrons in two-dimensional materials
Two-dimensional (2D) materials are one or few atoms thick layered materials. The interaction between the layers in their parent three-dimensional material is weak. Therefore, one can stack different 2D materials on top ... -
Effect of microstructure and texture on the dwell fatigue behaviour of titanium alloys
Ever since the failure of the fan blades of the Rolls Royce gas turbine engine that powered the Lockheed Martin tristar aircraft in 1972, ambient temperature dwell fatigue (DF) in titanium alloys has received considerable ... -
On Streaming Codes, Regenerating Codes and Locality-Aided Decoding
This thesis presents results relating to the application of error-correcting codes with different aims and in different settings; to achieve low-latency communication, to improve decoding performance and to enable the ... -
Linear Dynamical Systems with Sparsity Constraints: Theory and Algorithms
This thesis develops new mathematical theory and presents novel recovery algorithms for discrete linear dynamical systems (LDS) with sparsity constraints on either control inputs or initial state. The recovery problems ... -
Studies on thick-GEM UV Photon Detector
Large area photodetectors with single photon counting ability motivates to develop gaseous photomultiplier (GPM), that combine thin film photocathode with electron multipliers for efficient detection of UV photon. This ... -
Probing charge-density waves and superconductivity in low-dimensional systems
The recent advent of two-dimensional materials has led to the discovery of materials with fascinating phase diagrams. These systems have exciting electronic phases which coexist or compete with each other. Here in this ... -
New NMR Methods with high resolution and sensitivity for rapid data analysis
work is focused on: (i) Development of new fast and sensitivity enhanced NMR methods in solution state and their application to metabolomics and (ii) development of novel NMR methods in solution state for the rapid resonance ... -
Regulation of Lateral Mobility of Amyloid Precursor Protein by an Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Gene: Picalm
Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) is implicated in several functions in neurons, but the altered processing of APP in synapses holds a key to understanding the onset of the molecular progression of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). ... -
Taming Electrons in 2D Materials: Influence of Substrates, Defects and Moire Superlattices
Two-dimensional materials have been extensively studied in the last decade owing to the rich physics at reduced dimensions and their applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Controlled modifi cation of electronic ...