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Author:

Blecher, Jared Jacob

Title:

Hybrid Laser-Arc Welding of Ni-base Alloy 690

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

laser welding
hybrid welding
nickel alloy
keyhole porosity
root defect
inline coherent imaging
heat transfer and fluid flow modeling

File:

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Todd Palmer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside 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:

Zhang, Kehao

Title:

LARGE SCALE SYNTHESIS, DOPING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2D) TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D Materials
Synthesis
Doping
Heterostructures

File:

Download LARGE_SCALE_SYNTHESIS_DOPING_OF_TWO-DIMENSIONAL__2D__TRANSITION_METAL_DICHALCOGENIDES_AND_THEIR_HETEROSTRUCTURES_Kehao_Zhang_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Member

Author:

Gao, Lisheng

Title:

DESIGN OF Na-BASED PEROVSKITES BASED DIELECTRIC AND PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Lead-free
Piezoelectric
Ferroelectric
antiferroelectric
ceramics
NKN
Base metal cofiring
low pO2 sintering

File:

Download Lisheng_Gao_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Saadawi, Majed Nabil

Title:

POLYMER-POLYMER COMPOSITES: MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF INTER-REINFORCED THERMOPLASTICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Polymer-Polymer Composites
thermoplastic composite
3D printing
additive manufacturing
dual extrusion

File:

Download Thesis_Polymer-Polymer_Composites_Majed_Saadawi.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee 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:

Lei, Yu

Title:

DEFECT ENGINEERING IN LAYERED MATERIALS: ELECTROCHEMICAL APPLICATIONS IN ENERGY CONVERSION AND BIO-SENSING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
defects
electrochemistry
Hydrogen evolution reaction
Lithium-ion battery
Bio-sensing

File:

Download YuLei-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Alagic, Sven

Title:

ALUMINUM SILICON CARBIDE COMPOSITE PROCESSED BY FIELD ASSISTED SINTERING TECHNIQUE: MICROSTRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

aluminum
silicon
carbide
composite
metal
matrix
field
assisted
sintering
spark
plasma
high
volume
fraction
structural
aerospace
materials
science

File:

Download Sven_Alagic_Aluminum_Silicon_Carbide_Masters_Thesis_FINAL_-_6.pdf

Committee Members:

Jogender Singh, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Deng, Donna

Title:

Fabrication and Analysis of 2D TMD Based Devices for integration into More-Than-Moore electronic systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
TMDs
transition metal dichalcogenides
MoS2
WS2
epitaxial graphene
dielectrophoretic assembly
dielectrophoresis
self-assembly
directed assembly
heterostructure
2D
contact engineering
transistor
contacts
sensors
chemical sensing
triethylamine
chemiresistor
internet of things
more-than-moore

File:

Download thesis__post_format.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Seyedehaida Ebrahimi, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Outside Member

Author:

Campbell, Quinn Thomas

Title:

Semiconductor-Solution Interfaces From First Principles

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

first principles
semiconductor interfaces
water splitting
high throughput
computational
silicon

File:

Download QuinnCampbell-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan B Sinnott, Committee Member
Michael John Janik, Committee Member
Adri van Duin, Outside 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:

Schulman, Daniel Scott

Title:

Contact, Interface, and Strain Engineering of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Field Effect Transistors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electro-Ablation
Field Effect Transistors
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Steep Slope Transistor
Strain
Contact Resistance

File:

Download Schulman_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Saptarshi Das, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Sukwon Choi, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Xiaotian

Title:

METALORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED CHALCOGENIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional Materials
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
2D Layered Chalcogenides
Chemical Vapor Deposition
Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
Thin Film Deposition
2D Materials
CVD
MOCVD
WSe2
In2Se3

File:

Download Xiaotian_Zhang_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan M. Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua A. Robinson, Committee Member
Thomas N. Jackson, Committee Member
Susan B. Sinnott, Outside Member

Author:

Denis, Lyndsey

Title:

THE INFLUENCE OF CLAMPING AND RESIDUAL STRESS ON SCALING EFFECTS IN Pb(Zr0.3Ti0.7)O3 THIN FILMS FOR PIEZOMEMS APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Rayleigh Analysis
Dielectric Response
Domain Wall Motion
X-ray Diffraction
Residual Stress
PiezoMEMS Devices

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Lyndsey_Denis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
Jacob L. Jones, Special Member

Author:

Kim, Hongyeun

Title:

THERMODYNAMIC MODELING AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES MODELING OF LONG PERIODIC STACKING ORDERED (LPSO) PHASES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

LPSO
Hardness model
Hall-Petch

File:

Download Hongyeun-Thesis-V11.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Outside Member

Author:

Vecchio, Michael Anthony

Title:

Electrical Conduction Through Polyvinylidene Fluoride: Exploiting Interfaces as Barriers to Charge Transport

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PVDF
P(VDF-TrFE)
Interface Dominated Conduction
Hopping
Schottky
Plasma Treatment
Impurity Ion
Multilayer Dielectrics

File:

Download Full_Dissertation_Final_7-19-2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Committee Member
Amira Barhoumi Ep Meddeb, 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:

Zhao, Rui

Title:

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS FOR BEYOND COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTOR TECHNOLOGY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

TMDS: 1T-TaS2; MoS2
phase-FET
copper diffusion barrier
beyond CMOS
nanomaterials

File:

Download Dissertation_Rui_Zhao_August_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua A. Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Roman-Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member

Author:

Utomo, Nyalaliska

Title:

Rheology of Native Cellulose in Ionic Liquids

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Cellulose
Ionic Liquids
Native Cellulose
Rheology
Polymer Solutions
Green Solvents
Biopolymers
Molecular Weight Determination
Solvent Quality
Interfacial Rheology
Associating Polymers
Polymer Chain Dynamics

File:

Download 7-23-2019_Liska_Utomo_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ralph H Colby, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert John Hickey, III, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member