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Author:

Dai, Wenqing

Title:

Electron Tunneling and Point Contact Andreev Reflection Studies of Superconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Superconductor
Tunneling
Point contact
Topological superconductor
multiband superconductor
proximity effect

File:

Download Thesis_140404_Dai_rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Brom, Joseph Edward

Title:

Growth and Characterization of Bismuth Selenide Thin Films by Chemical Vapor Deposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CVD
Bi2Se3
bismuth selenide
topological insulator

File:

Download Full_Document_Final_-_Revised_05272014.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Yinghai

Title:

Fractional Quantum Hall States in Continuum and Lattice Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological phases
quantum Hall states
composite fermions
quantum gases
synthetic gauge fields

File:

Download Yinghai_Wu_Dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Joon Sue

Title:

Topological insulator systems with magnetism

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological insulator
surface state
magnetism
ferromagnetism
spintronics
molecular beam epitaxy

File:

Download JoonSueLee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Kinematic Matrix Theory, Chiral Diffusion and Chromatography of Self-propellers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kinematic matrix theory
Gaussian memory
chiral diffusion
chiral separation
swimmer
self-propeller
nanomotor
nanorotor

File:

Download Amir-Dissertation-physics-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Special Member

Author:

Hatipoglu, Gokhan

Title:

MICROMACHINED QUARTZ RESONATOR BASED HIGH SENSITIVITY MAGNETOMETERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Sensors
Magnetostriction
Quartz resonators

File:

Download Gokhan_Hatipoglu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Kandala, Abhinav

Title:

Transport studies of mesoscopic and magnetic topological insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulators
Magneto-transport
Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Magnetism
Quantum interference

File:

Download Dissertation_AbhinavKandala.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member

Author:

Thathachary, Arun V

Title:

Physics, Fabrication And Characterization Of Iii-v Multi-gate Fets For Low Power Electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

III-V
low power
CMOS
FinFET
transport
MOSFET
Hall mobility
transconductance
injection velocity

File:

Download PhD_thesis_AVThathachary_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member

Author:

Magyar, Andrew Lewis

Title:

Statistics of Single Unit Responses in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe: a Sparse and Overdispersed Code

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

theoretical neuroscience
memory
neural representation
sparse coding

File:

Download Magyar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member

Author:

Hsu, Hsiu-chuan

Title:

Theoretical study on transport properties of topological states of matter

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum anomalous Hall effect
magnetoconductance
topological insulator nanotube

File:

Download HsiuchuanHsu.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member