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Author:: Likhanskii, Alexandre
Title:: STUDY OF PLASMA PHENOMENA AT HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS IN APPLICATIONS FOR ACTIVE FLOW CONTROL AND ULTRA-SHORT PULSE LASER DRILLING
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: flow control
gas discharge
Plasma physics
File:: Download Likhanskii_Final_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vladimir Semak, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vladimir Semak, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Victor P Asko, Committee Member

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Author:: Rangarajan, Badri
Title:: Nanophase Glass Ceramics for Capacitive Energy Storage
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Fresnoites
Crystallization kinetics
Dielectric Properties
Glass ceramics
Energy density
File:: Download Badri-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member

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Author:: Kumar, Chandan
Title:: MODELING AND CONTROLLING NANAOSCALE SELF-ASSEMBLY OF EPITAXIAL QUANTUM DOTS
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Thermal Field Directed Self-Assembly
Multilayer
Spectral Analysis
Surface Diffusion
Stochastic
Self-assembly
Quantum Dot
Elastic Heterogeneity
File:: Download ChandanKumar-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Lawrence H Friedman, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Lawrence H Friedman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

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Author:: Tokash, Justin Charles
Title:: A GENERAL MODEL OF ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY AND ITS APPLICATION TO HYDROGEN STORAGE MATERIALS
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: reaction mechanism
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
hydrogen storage
chemical hydride
File:: Download JTokash_Dissertation_approved.pdf
Committee Members:: Digby D Macdonald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Digby D Macdonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mirna Urquidi Macdonald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eduard S Ventsel, Committee Member
Vladimir V Semak, Committee Member
Tze Chiang Chung, Committee Member
George R Engelhardt, Committee Member

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Author:: Van Velsor, Jason Kenneth
Title:: Circumferential Guided Waves in Elastic and Viscoelastic Multilayered Annuli
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: pipe inspection
ultrsound
circumferential guided waves
dispersion curves
viscoelastic coatings
File:: Download Van_Velsor_Doctoral_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Lawrence Rose, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Ghassan Chehab, Committee Member

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Author:: Scholz, Joseph Robert
Title:: Aging Rates In PZT Ferroelectrics With Mixed Acceptor-Donor Dopants
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: PZT
PZT-SKN
aging
mixed dopants
domain walls
defects
File:: Download Scholz-Masters_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Pitt, Jonathan S
Title:: A Brittle Damage Model in Thermoelastodynamics
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Finite Element Method
Fracture
Continuum Damage Mechanics
File:: Download JonathanPitt-Thesis-PhD.pdf
Committee Members:: Francesco Costanzo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ludmil Tomov Zikatanov, Committee Member
Lawrence Friedman, Committee Member

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Author:: Shi, Jinjie
Title:: BIOFUNCTIONALIZED NANO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL-SYSTEMS (BIO-NEMS): ACOUSTIC TWEEZERS—APPLYING ACOUSTICS IN MICROFLUIDICS AND ACTIVE PLASMONICS
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: acoustic tweezers
microfluidics
plasmonics
BioNEMS
surface acoustic wave
File:: Download Dissertation_Jinjie_Shi_ESM_August_2009.pdf
Committee Members:: Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

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Author:: John, Joby
Title:: Inter-Trial Dynamics In Goal-Oriented Tasks.
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Variability in human movement
Performance
Inter-Trial Dynamics
Goal Equivalent Manifolds
Shuffleboard Experiment
File:: Download JobyJohn-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Paul Cusumano, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Maxim Newell, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Gary L Gray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

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Author:: Sarpatwari, Karthik
Title:: Toward Understanding the Electrical Properties of Metal/Semiconductor Schottky Contacts: the Effects of Barrier Inhomogeneities and Geometry in Bulk and Nanoscale Structures
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Schottky barrier diodes
Nanowire
File:: Download Sarpatwari_Compre_backup.pdf
Committee Members:: Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

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