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Author:

Liu, Xiaoming

Title:

BORON DOPING OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
boron doping
conducting films

File:

Download Xiaoming_Liu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xia

Title:

Evanescent Field Coupled Microdisk Cavities

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic molecules
photonics
microdisk
laser
semiconductor
microcavity
cavity quantum electrodynamics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Yufeng

Title:

Strain-induced magneto-transport properties of manganite thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

manganite
Strain
low-field
magnetoresistance
anisotropy
magneto-transport

File:

Download Thesis-v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, ZhaoHui

Title:

MATERIALS DESIGN OF SUBSTRATES FOR GAS ADSORPTION AND STORAGE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

hydrogen release kinetics
chemical hydrogen storage
metal aggregation

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Qingzhen

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanofabrication
SERS
active plasmonics
nanostructures
Fano resonance
Babinet's principle
near-field
far-field

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Qingzhen_Hao_Version_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Duming

Title:

Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film

File:

Download DumingZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Ke

Title:

Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure

File:

Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Sheng

Title:

Tuning geometries and interactions of artificial frustrated nanomagnets

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Geometrical frustration
Artificial spin ice
Nanomagnetism

File:

Download Dissertation_Sheng_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Special Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Kinematic Matrix Theory, Chiral Diffusion and Chromatography of Self-propellers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kinematic matrix theory
Gaussian memory
chiral diffusion
chiral separation
swimmer
self-propeller
nanomotor
nanorotor

File:

Download Amir-Dissertation-physics-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Special Member

Author:

Fraleigh, Robert Douglas

Title:

Direct Investigation of Collective Phenomena In Patterned Ising-like Arrays Using High-Resolution Kerr Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kerr Imaging
Magneto Optical Kerr Effect
Geometric Frustration
Perpendicular Anisotropy

File:

Download Robert_Fraleigh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member