Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic for CSIR-NPL at New Delhi: A Case Study

Solar energy is an abundant and renewable energy source and the annual solar energy incident at the ground in India is about 20,000 times the current electrical energy consumption. The use of solar energy in India has been very limited. The average daily solar energy incident in India is 5 kWh/m2 days, which can be utilize in electricity generation. There are many solar installations are already operational in India, however, due to the inefficient solar panels and their geometry limited the efficiency in terms of conversion of sunlight in to high unit power generation. In the current work, reduced the need of land to install the solar panel in the small area rather than existing larger area and increase solar panel efficiency in term of unit generation. A case study has been carried out by taking various kinds of panels (static and rotation/tracking) and 15 to 18% efficiency for static panel and 40 to 45% for tracking panel. This enhancement in efficiency was mainly due to the design and developed tracking solar panel with Light Dependent Resistors

MICROFLUIDIC DEVICES AS A TOOL FOR DRUG DELIVERY AND DIAGNOSIS: A REVIEW

Microfluidic devices are a good example of the collaboration of chemical, biological, and engineering sciences. Microfluidic devices emerge as an in fluent technology which provides an alternative to conventional laboratory methods. These devices are employed for the precise handling and transport precise quantities of drugs without toxicity. This system is emerging as a promising platform for designing advanced drug delivery systems and analysis of biological phenomena on miniature devices for easy diagnosis. Microfluidics enables the fabrication of drug carriers with controlled geometry and specific target sites. Microfluidic devices are also used for the diagnosis of cancer circulating tumor cells. In the current review, different microfluidic drug delivery systems and diagnostic devices have described

Spontaneous emission enhancement in strain-induced WSe2 monolayer based quantum light sources on metallic surfaces

Atomic monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides represent an emerging material platform for the implementation of ultra compact quantum light emitters via strain engineering. In this framework, we discuss experimental results on creation of strain induced single photon sources using a WSe2 monolayer on a silver substrate, coated with a very thin dielectric layer. We identify quantum emitters which are formed at various locations in the sample. The emission is highly linearly polarized, stable in linewidth and decay times down to 300 ps are observed. We provide numerical calculations of our monolayer-metal device platform to assess the strength of the radiative decay rate enhancement by the presence of the plasmonic structure. We believe, that our results represent a crucial step towards the ultra-compact integration of high performance single photon sources in nanoplasmonic devices and circuits

A facile approach to fabricate graphene based piezoresistive strain sensor on paper substrate

Sensors, FETs and chemi resistors are few of the devices which show potential in the area of flexible electronics for health monitoring applications. In the present work, piezoresistive strain sensors based on graphite and graphene on cellulose paper substrate has been reported. Graphite sensor has been fabricated by rubbing pencil on paper and graphene sensor by directly coating graphene ink using paint brush. The resistance of the fabricated sensor increases with outwards bending and vice-versa, further the piezoresistive effect has also been evaluated by applying variable longitudinal stress. A comparative study of gauge factor (GF) depending upon different type of strains has been presented and it has been observed that the GF of graphene piezoresistive strain sensor decreases with increase in number of layers, the GF for graphene sensor is higher as compared to graphite sensor. Fabricated piezoresistive strain sensors may find applications as human body motion detection, gait analysis etc

IDENTIFICATION OF IRON OXIDES MINERALS IN WESTERN JAHAJPUR REGION, INDIA USING AVIRIS-NG HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING

Hyperspectral remote sensing is being considered as an advanced technique for mineral identification of surficial deposits. In this research different iron oxides minerals such as limonite, goethite has been identified using AVIRIS-NG airborne hyperspectral remote sensing covering the Omkarpura, Itwa, and Chhabadiya mines area in Jahajpur Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India. AVIRIS-NG has shown robust performance in iron oxide identification in the study area. Mineral spectral signatures of the AVIRIS-NG data were compared with spectra of USGS spectral library, and field investigated mineral spectra of iron oxides and found very promising. The results allow us to conclude that due the high signal to noise ratios of the AVIRIS-NG, it is capable to identify the different iron bearing minerals in the visible and infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum

DEFORMATION MONITORING IN AND AROUND THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION OF INDIA USING DINSAR TECHNIQUE

Urbanization increases the pressure on land and ground water. Due to pressure on land and over extraction of the ground water for modernization and development, deformation of land increase. The traditional deformation monitoring techniques are costly and time taking. The Differential Interferometry Technique (DInSAR) has capability to monitor regional scale deformation. Recently Vasundra region of the NCR has experienced a road subsidence near to the multiple stories building. In the study we have attempted to identify the Vasundra and nearby region by the DInSAR technology to identify the deformation in Delhi and NCR focused on the Vasundra area of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. This is one of the developed and planned area in the Ghaziabad District. The Sentinel-1 C data has been used to monitor the deformation in that area. The Vasundra area has been deformed due to heavy rainfall and water logging in the surrounding area by which the road has been subsided up to 30 feet. Using the sentinel data we were able to identify the subsidence in Vasundra and nearby areas. Since the Sentinel scene was very big so a clear picture of the deformation indication in the NCR region are found which need more in-depth study further. Conclusively it can be said that DInSAR technique with Microwave data is a competent tool to monitor the minute deformation

IDENTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT OF DEFORMATION USING SENTINEL DATA AND PSINSAR TECHNIQUE IN COALMINES OF KORBA

Natural Resources extraction for production of goods increases the stress on land and on the environment. Coal Mines are the primary source for energy production. This process increases the continuous deformation on land by disturbing equilibrium beneath the surface. Interferometry techniques have a capability to detect the minute deformation with millimetre precision on the ground using microwave SAR data. The study area covers the largest open cast coal mines of Asia. In this study for minute deformation identification, Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Synthetic Aperture Radar (PSInSAR) technique has been used. Research focuses on the application of PSInSAR technique for terrain deformation detection using 17 SAR scene of Korba, Chhattisgarh, India acquired by the Sentinel-1 satellite of European Space Agency. This technique is capable to monitor the minute deformation in the coal mines of Korba, Chhattisgarh, India. The results predicted that the area is deformed with the velocity up to 30 mm/year in the coal mines and surroundings areas. The PSInSAR technique with the Sentinel-1 data provides the proficient tool for deformation monitoring in coal mines of Korba

Somatic Evolution in Non-neoplastic IBD-Affected Colon.

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with increased risk of gastrointestinal cancers. We whole-genome sequenced 446 colonic crypts from 46 IBD patients and compared these to 412 crypts from 41 non-IBD controls from our previous publication on the mutation landscape of the normal colon. The average mutation rate of affected colonic epithelial cells is 2.4-fold that of healthy colon, and this increase is mostly driven by acceleration of mutational processes ubiquitously observed in normal colon. In contrast to the normal colon, where clonal expansions outside the confines of the crypt are rare, we observed widespread millimeter-scale clonal expansions. We discovered non-synonymous mutations in ARID1A, FBXW7, PIGR, ZC3H12A, and genes in the interleukin 17 and Toll-like receptor pathways, under positive selection in IBD. These results suggest distinct selection mechanisms in the colitis-affected colon and that somatic mutations potentially play a causal role in IBD pathogenesis

Spontaneous emission enhancement in strain-induced WSe2 monolayer-based quantum light sources on metallic surfaces

Funding: State of Bavaria; H2020 European Research Council (ERC) (Project Unlimit-2D).Atomic monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides represent an emerging material platform for the implementation of ultracompact quantum light emitters via strain engineering. In this framework, we discuss experimental results on creation of strain induced single photon sources using a WSe2 monolayer on a silver substrate, coated with a very thin dielectric layer. We identify quantum emitters that are formed at various locations in the sample. Their emission is highly linearly polarized, stable in linewidth, and decay times down to 100 ps are observed. We provide numerical calculations of our monolayer-metal device platform to assess the strength of the radiative decay rate enhancement by the presence of the plasmonic structure. We believe that our results represent a crucial step toward the ultracompact integration of high performance single photon sources in nanoplasmonic devices and circuits.PostprintPeer reviewe