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Author:

Stevenson, Adam Joseph

Title:

THE EFFECTS OF SINTERING AIDS ON DEFECTS, DENSIFICATION, AND SINGLE CRYSTAL CONVERSION OF TRANSPARENT ND:YAG CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

transparent ceramics
grain growth
sintering
ceramic processing

File:

Download Stevenson_Dissertation-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member

Author:

Soukiassian, Arsen

Title:

GROWTH OF NANOSCALE BaTiO3/SrTiO3 SUPERLATTICES BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric thin films
ferroelectric superlattices
epitaxial growth
oxide MBE
ferroelectric phase transitions
UV Raman spectroscopy

File:

Download Thesis_updated5.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Kumar, Amit

Title:

SPIN-CHARGE-LATTICE COUPLING IN MULTIFERROICS AND STRAINED FERROELECTRICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multiferroics
Strained Ferroelectrics
Spin-charge coupling

File:

Download ThesisFinal_Amit.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Aravind, Vasudeva Rao

Title:

Probing local structure and dynamics of ferroelectric domain walls using nonlinear optics and scanning probe microscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoresponse force microscopy
scanning probe microscopy
optical second harmonic generation
multiferroic
ferroelectric
strontium titanate
lithium niobate

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Member

Author:

Vlahos, Eftihia

Title:

Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Multiferroics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

confocal microscopy
thin films
multiferroics
nonlinear optics
phase transitions
symmetry

File:

Download EVlahosDissertationFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Sheng, Guang

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION OF PHASE TRANSITIONS, DOMAIN STABILITIES AND STRUCTURES IN FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thin film
ferroelectric
phase-field
domain stability

File:

Download Guang_Sheng_PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, June Hyuk

Title:

GROWTH OF MULTIFERROIC OXIDES BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular-beam epitaxy
Multiferroics
Ferroelectrics
Ferromagnet

File:

Download Thesis-2010-v10.pdf

Committee Members:

L Q Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Edge, Lisa Friedman

Title:

GROWTH OF AMORPHOUS AND EPITAXIAL ALTERNATIVE GATE DIELECTRICS ON SILICON BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high-K
molecular-beam epitaxy
LaAlO3
LaScO3
Sc2O3
La2O3
molecular-beam deposition
alternative gate dielectrics

File:

Download Thesis_Lisa_Edge.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Tian, Lili

Title:

NANOSCALE PROBING AND PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS OF FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN WALLS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectrics
SPM
PFM
nanoscale
lithium niobate
lithium tantalate

File:

Download LiliThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Biegalski, Michael David

Title:

EPITAXIALY STRAINED STRONTIUM TITANATE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thin Film
Strontium Titante
Strain
Ferroelectric
Relaxor
Epitaxy

File:

Download Mike_Ph.D._THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Krishnamurthi, Mahesh

Title:

Optoelectronic materials for sub wavelength imaging and laser beam manipulation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

near-field imaging
silicon photonics
optical fiber devices
electro-optic devices
infrared imaging
chemical vapor deposition

File:

Download mxk463_PhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

OZGUL, METIN

Title:

POLARIZATION SWITCHING AND FATIGUE ANISOTROPY IN RELAXOR-LEAD TITANATE FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTALS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FERROELECTRIC
PIEZOELECTRIC
POLARIZATION
SWITCHING
DOMAIN WALLS
NONVOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
POLARIZATION FATIGUE
ELECTRICAL FATIGUE
BIPOLAR DRIVE
SINGLE CRYSTAL
RELAXOR
STRAIN
POLARIZATION RELAXATION
FATIGUE ANISOTROPY
CURRENT

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Nicholas J

Title:

Novel Approaches to the Surface Modification of Glass by Thermo-electric Poling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermal poling
surface
glass

File:

Download THESIS-NSmith-vFINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Carlo G Pantano, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Raegan

Title:

Phase transitions in Ag(TaxNb1-x)O3 thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectrics
thin film
octahedral tilting
perovskite

File:

Download RJohnson_thesis_ATN_v8.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Susan Trolier Mc Kinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Ian Reaney, Committee Member

Author:

Peppernick, Samuel John

Title:

United Atoms to Superatoms and the Isoelectronic Principle

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Alchemy
Photoelectron Imaging
Superatoms
Isoelectronic
Superposition Principle

File:

Download SJP_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member

Author:

Choudhury, Samrat

Title:

COMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN STRUCTURE AND SWITCHING USING PHASE-FIELD APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

phase-field
ceramics
switching
grain
domains
defects

File:

Download thesis-samrat-v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr C A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Dr D G Schlom, Committee Member
Dr X X Xi, Committee Member

Author:

Kochawattana, Sujarinee

Title:

Phase Formation and Sintering of YAG Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

phase formation
sintering
YAG

File:

Download thesis_sujarinee_sxk267.pdf

Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Blaine White, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Dechakupt, Tanawadee

Title:

Microstructure-Processing-Property Relations in Chemical Solution Deposited Barium Titanate Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

barium titanate
thin film capacitors
chemical solution deposition
microstructure
interface

File:

Download Tana_full_thesis6.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Amar S Bhalla, Committee Member

Author:

Winchester, Benjamin Michael

Title:

A Phase-field Investigation of Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Bismuth Ferrite Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric
diffuse interface
phase-field
bismuth ferrite

File:

Download Bens_awesome_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Che-hui

Title:

MBE Growth and Properties of Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) Ruddlesden-Popper Phases

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MBE
oxide
Ruddlesden-Popper
strain
tunable dielectrics

File:

Download Che-Hui_thesis_v5.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Special Member
Xiaoxing Xi, Special Member

Author:

Brooks, Charles M

Title:

The growth of strontium titanate and lutetium ferrite thin films by molecular-beam epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

oxide
thin film
MBE
epitaxy
SrTiO3
LuFe2O4
molecular-beam epitaxy
strontium titanate
lutetium ferrite

File:

Download 1-CMBrooks-Dissertaton.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Special Member

Author:

Leung, Jessica

Title:

The Emergent Monoclinic Phase in KNbO3 Discovered Using Optical Second Harmonic Generation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

potassium niobate
second harmonic generation
monoclinic
orthorhombic
ferroelectric
SHG
KNbO3
nonlinear optical

File:

Download jessica_leung_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cao, Ye

Title:

Phase-field simulation of defect transport, current evolution and piezoelectric response in dielectric and ferroelectric oxides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field model
defect transport
resistance degradation
ferroelectric oxides

File:

Download Ye_Cao_PhD_thesis_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member

Author:

Guo, Lu

Title:

Modification Of Metal Insulator Transition In Ultrathin Vo2 Films Via Ultra Violet Radiation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Vanadium dioxide
thin Film
UV Irradiation

File:

Download Thesis_Lu_Guo_2014__Final_Edition.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

GU, YIJIA

Title:

Phase-field Modeling of Flexoelectric Effect in Perovskite Ferroelectrics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Flexoelectric effect
ferroelectrics
phase-field method

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Yijia_Gu__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
James Chen, Special Member

Author:

Britson, Jason Curtis

Title:

Phase Field Simulation of Domain Switching Dynamics in Multi-axial Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectrics
Phase Field
Domain Switching
Thin Films
PZT

File:

Download Britson_Dissertation_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Special Member

Author:

Vanleeuwen, Brian Kevin

Title:

The symmetry and antisymmetry of distortions

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

symmetry
antisymmetry
crystallography
space groups

File:

Download VanLeeuwen_Dissertation_6-28-2015.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Daniel Bernard Litvin, Special Member

Author:

Xue, Fei

Title:

Landau Theory and Phase-field Simulations on the Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Multiferroic Bismuth Ferrite and Hexagonal Manganites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Landau Theory
Phase-field Simulation
Phase Transitions
Domain Structures
Bismuth Ferrite
Hexagonal Manganites

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Fei_Xue__final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Eaton, Craig Ernest

Title:

Engineering the Electronic Properties of Strongly Correlated Metal Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MBE
SrVO3
CaVO3
epitaxy
Hybrid

File:

Download Eaton_2015_Submit.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Sen Gupta, Arnab

Title:

Topochemical Synthesis & Characterization of Octahedral Rotation Induced Noncentrosymmetric Layered Perovskites

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

noncentrosymmetry
octahedral rotations
perovskites
second harmonic generation

File:

Download Tuesday_-_4-19-2016_Dissertation_ASG.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Wambold, Ray

Title:

OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF BOWTIE AND HETERODIMER ANTENNAS: OPTIMIZING DEVICE PROPERTIES FOR SENSING OR PHOTOHARVESTING APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

optical antennas
plasmonics
photonics

File:

Download Compiled_Thesis_Wambold_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Darin Zimmerman, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Haislmaier, Ryan Cory

Title:

Strain-induced phenomenon in complex oxide thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular beam epitaxy
ferroelectrics
superlattices
thin films
second harmonic generation
complex oxides
perovskites

File:

Download Haislmaier_PhD_Disseration_11_21_2016.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Jung In

Title:

Reliability and Aging in Patterned Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3 Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric
Reliability
Aging
HALT
Conduction mechanism
Patterned PZT thin film

File:

Download Final_thesis_Jung_In.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Hong, Zijian

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND TOPOLOGICAL PHASE TRANSITIONS IN FERROELECTRIC OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field simulation
Ferroelectrics
Topological structure and topological phase transition
Oxide thin films and superlattices
Materials by design

File:

Download Zijian_Hong-dissertation_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Lei

Title:

Correlated metals as transparent conductors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transparent Conductors
Perovskite Oxide
Complex Oxide
Molecular Beam Epitaxy

File:

Download 170627_Lei_Zhang_Dissetation_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Lei, Shiming

Title:

COUPLED PHENOMENA IN DOMAINS AND DOMAIN WALLS IN COMPLEX POLAR OXIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

domains
domain walls
complex oxides
polar
ferroelectrics
polar metals
magnetoelectric coupling

File:

Download Thesis_Shiming_20171001_v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Outside Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Special Member

Author:

Ji, Xiaoyu

Title:

Semiconductor Fabrics and Single Crystal Fibers for Optoelectronic Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Optical fiber
Silicon Photonics
Chemical vapor deposition
Laser crystallization
Crystal growth
Optoelectronics
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Photovoltaics
Flexible electronics

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Xiaoyu_Ji.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Member
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Member
Zhi-Wen Liu, Outside Member
John V. Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Haitian

Title:

GROWTH AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF VANADATE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular beam epitaxy
Thin film
Strongly correlated oxides
Transition metal oxides
Metal to insulator transition
VO2
LaVO3

File:

Download HaiTian_Zhang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Tiannan

Title:

PHASE-FIELD STUDY ON FERROELECTRIC OXIDE COMPOSITES AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric materials
ferroelectric composites
materials modeling
phase-field model

File:

Download Tiannan_Yang_PHD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Debangshu

Title:

Metrology of Ferroelectric Domain Walls with Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

scanning transmission electron microscopy
domain walls
complex oxide
metrology
ferroelectrics

File:

Download DM_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nasim Alem, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member
James Rondinelli, Special Member

Author:

Park, Yoonsang

Title:

SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY STUDY OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING METAL, STRONTIUM NIOBATE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

transparent conductor
correlated metals
electron correlation
spectroscopic ellipsometry
transmission
sheet resistance
optical constants

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_Final_Version_Yoonsang_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Yuan, Yakun

Title:

PROBING EMERGING PHENOMENA IN COMPLEX OXIDES AWAY FROM GROUND STATES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

complex oxides
nonlinear optics
phase retrieval X-ray crystallography
optical pump probe spectroscopy
polar metal

File:

Download Dissertation_YakunYuan.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Outside Member
Richard D. Averitt, Special Member
James M. Rondinelli, Special Member

Author:

Shetty, Smitha

Title:

ELECTROMECHANICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF LEAD MAGNESIUM NIOBATE BASED THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

relaxor ferroelectricity
PMN
D33
single beam laser interferometer

File:

Download Smitha_Shetty_Dissertation_final_1.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member
Thomas Shaw, Special Member

Author:

Munro, Jason

Title:

Discovering Minimum Energy Pathways via Distortion Symmetry Groups

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Symmetry
Minimum Energy Pathways
Nudged Elastic Band
Density Functional Theory
Ferroelectric Switching

File:

Download JasonMunroDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Gerald Knizia, Outside Member

Author:

Lapano, Jason

Title:

A STUDY OF STRUCTURE INDUCED PHASE PHENOMENA IN PEROVSKITE OXIDE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Perovskite
MBE
ferroelectric
oxide
thin film
Mott Insulator
TEM
STEM
XRD

File:

Download DIssertation_Jason_Lapano_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Huang, Haw-Tyng

Title:

HIGH PRESSURE SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF EXTENDED CARBON SOLIDS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High Pressure
Carbon
Pressure-induced Polymerization
Crystal Engineering
Extended Solids
Metastable Materials

File:

Download Dissertation_Haw-Tyng_Huang_v18.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Cheng, Xiaoxing

Title:

Influence of defects on polarization distribution in ferroelectrics: a phase-field study

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Defect
Ferroelectrics
Phase-field simulation
Dislocation
Flexoelectricity
Defect engineering
BiFeO3
SrTiO3

File:

Download Xiaoxing_Cheng_Dissertation_2020.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mathewson, Carly

Title:

Design of a High Thermal Expansion Coefficient, High Glass Transition Temperature Glass for Fiber Optic Use

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Coefficient of thermal expansion
Glass transition temperature
aluminosilicate
glass composition
fiber laser

File:

Download Final_Thesis_4_2_20.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Shi, Yin

Title:

Phase-Field Study of Metal-Insulator Transition in Strongly Correlated Vanadium Dioxide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field method
Metal-insulator transition
Strongly correlated material

File:

Download PhDThesis_YinShi.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Outside Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Talreja, Disha

Title:

Time-Domain Thermoreflectance Probing of Tunable Thermal Transport in Silicon Metalattices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Time-domain thermoreflectance
Silicon metalattices
Ballistic transport
Mie transition
Thermal transport metalattices
Delay stage configuration
High pressure confined chemical vapor deposition
Thermal rectification

File:

Download PhDthesisDTalreja.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Moradifar, Parivash

Title:

Plasmonic resonances in 2D and 3D nanostructures investigated by monochromated electron energy loss spectroscopy (mono-EELS)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Plasmonic
Topological Insulator
Metamaterials
Metalattice
Si-Ge Core-Shell
Silver Plasmonic
Electron Energy loss Spectroscopy
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
In-situ TEM
Mono-EELS
S/TEM
Defects
Polygonal Defects
Confinement
Interconnectivity
In-Plane Heterostructure
Bi2Te3
Sb2Te3
2D Chalcongenide
Hollow Structure
Cavity Arrays
Long-Range Ordering
High Pressure Confined Chemical Vapor Deposition
HPcCVD
Low-Loss EELS

File:

Download Parivash_Moradifar-PhD_thesis-FV.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nasim Alem, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Christopher Noel Giebink, Outside Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Bo

Title:

Phase-field study on electromechanical phenomena in ferroelectric single crystals and thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field modeling
Ferroelectric materials
Piezoelectric effect
Flexoelectric effect
Domain structure

File:

Download Dissertation-vfin.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member
Qiang Du, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Baker, Remmi

Title:

Just Keep Swimming: Designing and Fabricating Autonomous Artificial Microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

microswimmer
chemistry
physics
synthetic biology
artificial swimmer
artificial life
nanofabrication
3d printing
lithography
colloids
drug delivery
medicine
microfluidics
biology
biomimic
robotics
microrobotics

File:

Download baker_Finalizedthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor S Aronson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Igor S Aronson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Outside Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member
Ayusman Sen, Committee Member
Lauren Dell Zarzar, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Fanghanel, Julian

Title:

Semiconductor Photoelectrodes For Photocatalytic Energy Conversion & Semiconductor Nanorods For Solid State Lighting

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Photocatalysis
Photocatalytic
Hydrogen
Water Splitting
Quantum Wells
Solid State Lighting
Nanorods
Optoelectronics
Heterojunctions
Energy
Photoelectrodes

File:

Download Julian_Thesis_Final_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Raymond Edward Schaak, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair