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Start Over Graduate Program Materials Science and Engineering Year 2012 Committee Member Zi Kui Liu

1. First-principles Thermodynamics of Phase Transition: from Metal to Oxide

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Author:
Mei, Zhigang
Title:
First-principles Thermodynamics of Phase Transition: from Metal to Oxide
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
First-principles
thermodynamics
phase transitions
Ti
TiO2
BiFeO3
File:
Download ZhigangMei_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Zi Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member

2. Phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution in elastically inhomogeneous polycrystalline materials

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Author:
Heo, Tae Wook
Title:
Phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution in elastically inhomogeneous polycrystalline materials
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Phase-field model
Microstructure evolution
Polycrystalline materials
Diffusional processes
Structural transformations
Inhomogeneous elasticity
File:
Download PhD_Dissertation_TaeWookHeo_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
David John Green, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

3. 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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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

4. MBE Growth and Properties of Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) Ruddlesden-Popper Phases

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Author:
Lee, Che-hui
Title:
MBE Growth and Properties of Sr(n+1)Ti(n)O(3n+1) Ruddlesden-Popper Phases
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
MBE
oxide
Ruddlesden-Popper
strain
tunable dielectrics
File:
Download Che-Hui_thesis_v5.pdf
Committee Members:
Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Special Member
Xiaoxing Xi, Special Member

5. STRUCTURE EVOLUTION, DIFFUSIVITY AND VISCOSITY OF BINARY AL-BASED AND NI-BASED METAL MELTS: AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY

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Author:
Wang, Yi
Title:
STRUCTURE EVOLUTION, DIFFUSIVITY AND VISCOSITY OF BINARY AL-BASED AND NI-BASED METAL MELTS: AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
Diffusivity
Viscosity
Short rang order
Bond pair
Voronoi polyhedra
File:
Download 1-YiWang-MS-Thesis-V4.pdf
Committee Members:
Zi Kui Liu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

6. The growth of strontium titanate and lutetium ferrite thin films by molecular-beam epitaxy

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Author:
Brooks, Charles M
Title:
The growth of strontium titanate and lutetium ferrite thin films by molecular-beam epitaxy
Graduate Program:
Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:
oxide
thin film
MBE
epitaxy
SrTiO3
LuFe2O4
molecular-beam epitaxy
strontium titanate
lutetium ferrite
File:
Download 1-CMBrooks-Dissertaton.pdf
Committee Members:
Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Special Member