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Author:

Podolak, Kenneth Ryan

Title:

Weak Ferromagnetism in Dilute Manganese-Nickel Alloys

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

magnetism
ferromagnetism
spin disorder
spin glass

File:

Download Thesis_July_3.pdf

Committee Members:

Roy F Willis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Ku, Keh-Chiang

Title:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spintronics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

spintronics
semiconductor heterostructures
molecular beam epitaxy
diluted magnetic semiconductors
spin coherence

File:

Download Ku-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Ke

Title:

GRANULAR MATERIALS UNDER VIBRATION AND THERMAL CYCLES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

thermal cycles
Granular flow
vibration

File:

Download KeChenThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member

Author:

Hilt, Matthew Gordon

Title:

A SOLID-STATE HEAT PUMP USING ELECTROCALORIC CERAMIC ELEMENTS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

thermoacoustics
electrocaloric effect
ceramic processing

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

J D Maynard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
J D Maynard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Mark Jeffrey

Title:

EXCHANGE AND CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATION STUDIES OF THE III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR (Ga,Mn)As

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gallium manganese arsenide
Mn)As
(Ga
GaMnAs
spintronics
magnetic semiconductor
spin torque
magnetic tunnel junction

File:

Download Mark_Wilson_Thesis_Plus_VITA_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Ying Liu, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Rosario, Mari-Anne M

Title:

Effects of disorder and geometrical constraint on superconductivity in systems of reduced dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

mesoscopic superconductors
electrical transport in thin films
disordered superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download thesismmrfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Meng

Title:

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT STUDIES OF MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY GROWN (GA,MN)AS EPILAYERS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

random telegraph noise
Molecular beam epitaxy
Mn)As
(Ga
Diluted magnetic semiconductor
exchange biasing
tunneling magnetoresistance

File:

Download Meng_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruifang

Title:

GEOMETRICAL MAGNETIC FRUSTRATION AND DEMAGNETIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL SPIN ICE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometrical magnetic frustration
spin ice

File:

Download Thesis_Ruifang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Scheidemantel, Thomas John

Title:

Pressure Tuning of Pnicogen Chalcogenide Thermoelectrics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Semiconductor
High Pressure
Thermoelectricity

File:

Download thesis_11pt.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Yi

Title:

MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE THIN FILMS AND DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

MgB2
thin film
device

File:

Download Yi_Cui-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member