Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur

About: Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur is a education organization based out in Jodhpur, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Welding. The organization has 914 authors who have published 2221 publications receiving 19243 citations.

A unified framework for semantic matching of architectural floorplans

Abstract: An automatic lookup tool, which matches and retrieves similar floorplans from a large repository of digitized architectural floorplans can prove to be of immense help for the architects while designing new projects. In this paper, we have proposed a framework for the matching and retrieval of similar architectural floorplans under the query by example paradigm. We propose a room layout segmentation and adjacent room detection algorithm to represent layouts as an undirected graph. We have also proposed a novel graph spectral embedding feature to uniquely represent the layout of the architectural floorplan. This helps in effective and efficient matching of the room layouts. Room semantics in terms of both the room structures and room decor is used to retrieve similar floorplans from the repository. To match the semantic similarity between a pair of floorplans, we have proposed a two stage matching technique. We have validated the effectiveness of our proposed framework by performing experiments on publicly available floorplan dataset and achieved high retrieval accuracy.

Tuning of Microwave Absorption Properties and Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding Effectiveness of Nanosize Conducting Black-Silicone Rubber Composites Over 8-18 GHz

Abstract: In this paper, studies on broadband microwave absorption and electromagnetic shielding effectiveness are reported in flexible rubber composites with low filler content of nanosize conducting carbon over 8–18 GHz frequency range of electromagnetic spectrum. Rubber based composites are prepared by loading of 1–15 wt% nanosize conducting Carbon Black (CB) in silicone rubber matrix. Effect of percentage loading of nanosize CB on DC conductivity, dielectric & microwave absorption properties and electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness (SE) of silicone rubber composites is studied. The percolation threshold is achieved at low concentration (3 wt%) of CB in composites. The observed complex permittivity values revealed that composites with concentration of 5wt% CB can provide more than 90% microwave absorption (Reflection Loss > −10 dB) over 8–18 GHz at composite thickness of 1.9–2.7 mm. Further, composites with concentration of 15 wt% of CB shows −40 dB SE over the broad frequency range 8–18 GHz at thickness 2.8 mm. The effect of composite thickness on microwave absorption properties and shielding effectiveness is also analyzed. Thus, the prepared rubber composites with suitable concentration of nanosize CB as filler may be used as microwave absorber in stealth applications as well as for EMI shielding of electronic equipments in various civilian and military areas.

A comprehensive study of charge trapping in organic field-effect devices with promising semiconductors and different contact metals by displacement current measurements

Abstract: A systematic and comprehensive study on the charge-carrier injection and trapping behavior was performed using displacement current measurements in long-channel capacitors based on four promising small-molecule organic semiconductors (pentacene, DNTT, C10-DNTT and DPh-DNTT). In thin-film transistors, these semiconductors showed charge-carrier mobilities ranging from 1.0 to 7.8 cm2 V−1 s−1. The number of charges injected into and extracted from the semiconductor and the density of charges trapped in the device during each measurement were calculated from the displacement current characteristics and it was found that the density of trapped charges is very similar in all devices and of the order 1012 cm−2, despite the fact that the four semiconductors show significantly different charge-carrier mobilities. The choice of the contact metal (Au, Ag, Cu, Pd) was also found to have no significant effect on the trapping behavior.