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Start Over Year 2012 Committee Member Jorge Osvaldo Sofo

1. Atmospherics effects on events measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory surface detector

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Open Access
Author:
Criss, Adrienne Elizabeth
Title:
Atmospherics effects on events measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory surface detector
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
cosmic rays
ultra-high energy
Pierre Auger Observatory
atmosphere
atmospheric effects
File:
Download AdrienneCrissFinal.pdf
Committee Members:
Paul Sommers, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul Sommers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Tyce De Young, Committee Member
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

2. Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopic Investigations of Transition Metal Silicides and Oxides

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Open Access
Author:
Gunaratne, K. Don Dasitha
Title:
Photoelectron Imaging Spectroscopic Investigations of Transition Metal Silicides and Oxides
Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Keywords:
Photoelectron spectroscopy
Electron Imaging
Photoelectron Angular Distribution
Transition metal
Silicon
Zinc Oxide
File:
Download Thesis_-_Don_Gunaratne.pdf
Committee Members:
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

3. Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Water Dissociation and Proton Dynamics on Rutile and Cassiterite Surfaces

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Open Access
Author:
Kumar, Nitin
Title:
Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of Water Dissociation and Proton Dynamics on Rutile and Cassiterite Surfaces
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
rutile(110)
interface
rutile water interface
proton jump
cassiterite water interface
water dissociation
ab initio
File:
Download Thesis_NitinKumar_2012May_Physics.pdf
Committee Members:
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Coray M Colina, Committee Member

4. A computational investigation of the effect of alloying elements on the thermodynamic and diffusion properties of fcc Ni alloys, with application to the creep rate of dilute Ni-X alloys.

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Open Access
Author:
Zacherl, Chelsey Leanne
Title:
A computational investigation of the effect of alloying elements on the thermodynamic and diffusion properties of fcc Ni alloys, with application to the creep rate of dilute Ni-X alloys.
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Ni-base superalloys
thermodynamic modeling
self-diffusion
impurity diffusion
non-dilute impurity diffusion
first-principles
File:
Download Zacherl-Dissertation-Final.pdf
Committee Members:
Zi Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Paul Raymond Howell, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member

5. Electrodynamic and Electronic Structure Methods to Model Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Molecule-metal Nanoparticle Optical Coupling

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Open Access
Author:
Morton, Seth Michael
Title:
Electrodynamic and Electronic Structure Methods to Model Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Molecule-metal Nanoparticle Optical Coupling
Graduate Program:
Chemistry
Keywords:
surface enhanced
Raman
spectroscopy
electronic structure
hybridization
theory
plasmonics
plasmon
nanoparticle
electrodynamics
File:
Download SethMorton-PSUThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Special Member

7. Theory and Simulation of Atomic Hydrogen, Fluorine, and Oxygen on Graphene

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Open Access
Author:
Suarez, Alejandro M
Title:
Theory and Simulation of Atomic Hydrogen, Fluorine, and Oxygen on Graphene
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
graphene
adsorption
surface science
density functional theory
DFT
graphane
fluorographene
graphene oxide
File:
Download AMSuarez_Thesis_2012_v22_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

8. Electronic Band Structure Effects in Monolayer, Bilayer, and Hybrid Graphene Structures

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Open Access
Author:
Puls, Conor P
Title:
Electronic Band Structure Effects in Monolayer, Bilayer, and Hybrid Graphene Structures
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
graphene
bilayer
hybrid
band gap engineering
impurity scattering
Ca3Ru2O7
File:
Download ConorPuls-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Dr Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

9. Hybrid magnetic/semiconductor nanowires: synthesis and characterization

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Open Access
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

10. Theoretical Modelling of Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Clusters

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Open Access
Author:
Iordanov, Ivan Olegov
Title:
Theoretical Modelling of Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Clusters
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
Photo-electron Spectroscopy
Density Functional Theory
Molecular Clusters
Franck-Condon Factors
Vibrational States
File:
Download Ivan_Iordanov_thesis_postreview_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member