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Author:: Hao, Qingzhen
Title:: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Applications
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: nanofabrication
SERS
active plasmonics
nanostructures
Fano resonance
Babinet's principle
near-field
far-field
File:: Download PhD_Thesis_Qingzhen_Hao_Version_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

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Author:: Dasilva, Ashley Marie
Title:: Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems
File:: Download thesis2.pdf
Committee Members:: Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

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Author:: Zhang, Duming
Title:: Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film
File:: Download DumingZhang-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

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Author:: Singh, Meenakshi
Title:: Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires
File:: Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

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Author:: Zou, Ke
Title:: Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure
File:: Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

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Author:: Ying, Yiqun Alex
Title:: Probing the Enhanced Superconductivity and Chiral Edge Current in Spin-triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Sr2RuO4
spin-triplet superconductivity
chiral p-wave
proximity effect
dislocation
Josephson interferometer
chiral edge current
File:: Download YAYING-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Prof Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

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Author:: Liang, Jing
Title:: Hybrid magnetic/semiconductor nanowires: synthesis and characterization
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: core/shell nanowire
spintronics
AMR effect
catalyst-free
File:: Download Jing-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

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Author:: Matthews, Maria Jane
Title:: Field Dependent Spin Dynamics in Dy2ti2o7
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Spin ice
dynamics
field
dependence
fluctuations
File:: Download MM_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

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