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Author:: Faryad, Muhammad
Title:: Propagation and Excitation of Multiple Surface Waves
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: surface plasmon-polariton waves
Kretschmann
grating
solar cell
sculptured thin film
rugate filter
File:: Download 11v_Thesis_Faryad.pdf
Committee Members:: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Special Member

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Author:: Poterala, Stephen F
Title:: Closing The Performance Gap Between <001>c Textured Pmn-pt ceramics And Single Crystals
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Textured ceramic
PMN-PT
piezoelectric
texture
ceramic
templated grain growth
File:: Download Poterala_Thesis_revision_1f.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

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Author:: Lee, Hyeong Jae
Title:: Low Loss 1-3 Piezocomposites for High Power Ultrasonic Transducers
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: piezocomposite
Transducer
High Power
Ferroelectric
Mechanical quality factor
File:: Download HJLee_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Shujun Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas R Shrout, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shujun Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Committee Member
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: Motyka, Michael
Title:: Effects of Microstructure and Oxidation State of Multi-valent Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for use in Infrared Microbolometers
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Vanadium oxide
thin films
spectroscopic ellipsometry
thin film deposition
magnetron sputtering
File:: Download MM-thesis-fulldraft-FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nikolas Podraza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

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Author:: Panayappan, Kadappan
Title:: Novel Frequency Domain Techniques and Advances in Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Method for Efficient Solution of Multiscale Electromagnetic Problems
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Computational Electromagnetics
Multiscale Problems
FDTD
Conformal FDTD
RUFD
DM Approach
Low Frequency
Numerical Methods
File:: Download Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Raj Mittra, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr James Breakall, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

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Author:: Dash, Priyanka
Title:: Dynamics of Space Charge Polarization and Electrical Conduction in Low Alkali Boroaluminosilicate Glasses
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Alkali Free Glass
Energy Storage
Thermoelectric Poling
Dielectric properties of Glasses
Dielectric Breakdown Field
File:: Download Priyanka_Dash-PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Eugene Furman, Special Member

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Author:: Liang, Wentao
Title:: in situ TEM study on anode materials in lithium-ion batteries
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: in situ TEM
lithium ion battery
gallium nanodroplets
nanovoid
germanium nanoparticles
fracture
File:: Download doctoral_dissertation_wentaoliang.pdf
Committee Members:: Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Barbara Shaw, Committee Member
Donghai Wang, Committee Member

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Author:: Choi, Doo Hyun
Title:: Numerical modeling of space charge dynamics and electrical breakdown in solid dielectrics
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: dielectric breakdown
low-alkali boroaluminosilicate
electrical conduction
thermal poling
depletion width
File:: Download Choi_Thesis_eTD.pdf
Committee Members:: Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member

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Author:: Sahul, Raffi
Title:: Effect of Manganese Doping on PIN-PMN-PT Single Crystals for High Power Applications
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Relaxor-PT ferroelectrics
Doped Ternary Single Crystal
High Power Applications
Engineered Domain Configurations
File:: Download RaffiSahul_Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Wenwu Cao, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shujun Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

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Author:: Dai, Wenqing
Title:: Electron Tunneling and Point Contact Andreev Reflection Studies of Superconductors
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: Superconductor
Tunneling
Point contact
Topological superconductor
multiband superconductor
proximity effect
File:: Download Thesis_140404_Dai_rev.pdf
Committee Members:: Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

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