Hip replacement surgery has experienced a dramatic evolution in recent years supported by the latest developments in many areas of technology and surgical procedures. Unfortunately complications that follow hip replacement surgery remains the most challenging dilemma faced both …
This thesis is concerned with ensuring high energy resolution from the swept charge device (SCD) CCD54, essentially a non-pixellated version of the charge coupled device (CCD), for use in the Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS). Of particular interest is the effect on perfor…
The high temperature superconductivity in cuprates is realized by off-stoichiometric doping. In addition to contributing carriers to the CuO2 planes, the dopants inherently introduce local disorder into the systems. Using the X-ray diffuse scattering technique, we studied the do…
Currently the field of physics has strongly expanded into the field of time dependent non-equilibrium phenomena. While equilibrium (time independent) phenomena are well understood, theoretical understandings of time dependent phenomena is in its infancy. To experimentally invest…
X-ray polarimetry is a prime tool to investigate the unexplored compact sources and to provide crucial information that other techniques can not produce. By measuring the degree and orientation of the polarization of radiation from a cosmic source, unique inferences about the mo…
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the brightest objects in the sky. The enormous intrinsic emission of the AGN is produced by the gas accreted onto the central supermassive black hole (SMBH). Most of the AGN intrinsic emission are obscured by the material in a toroidal stru…