Category: Electrical Engineering

Study on Optical Properties of Metal Oxides for High-Efficiency Planar Optical Waveguide Coupler Transformers in Highly Concentrated Solar Light Applications

In this project students will acquire basic knowledge and hands on experience in designing and fabricating optical couplers and obtaining their optical properties. The students will design, in both ray optics and wave optics regimes, optical couplers made of various metal oxides available in our laboratory. The students will also fabricate the couplers and characterize…Continue Reading Study on Optical Properties of Metal Oxides for High-Efficiency Planar Optical Waveguide Coupler Transformers in Highly Concentrated Solar Light Applications

Study on Physical Properties of Metal Oxides for Resistive Switching Devices in Advanced Electrical Memory and Neural Computing Applications

In this project students will acquire basic knowledge and hands on experience in designing and fabricating resistive switching devices known as “memristors” and obtaining their electrical properties. The students will fabricate the devices using various combinations of metal oxides and electrode materials using atomic layer deposition and sputtering systems in our laboratory. The students will…Continue Reading Study on Physical Properties of Metal Oxides for Resistive Switching Devices in Advanced Electrical Memory and Neural Computing Applications

Study on Physical Properties of Semiconductor Nanowire Networks for High-Speed Photodetectors, Ultra-Sensitive Chemical/Biological Sensors and High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Power Generators

In this project students will acquire basic knowledge and hands on experience in obtaining optical (photoluminescence and Raman spectroscopy), electrical (current-voltage characteristics), and thermoelectric (Seebeck coefficient and thermal conductivity) properties of a network of semiconductor nanowires grown in our laboratory. The students will use an optical set up including laser light sources and a spectrometer,…Continue Reading Study on Physical Properties of Semiconductor Nanowire Networks for High-Speed Photodetectors, Ultra-Sensitive Chemical/Biological Sensors and High-Efficiency Thermoelectric Power Generators