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Author:

Ji, Xiaoyu

Title:

Semiconductor Fabrics and Single Crystal Fibers for Optoelectronic Applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Optical fiber
Silicon Photonics
Chemical vapor deposition
Laser crystallization
Crystal growth
Optoelectronics
Hydrogenated amorphous silicon
Photovoltaics
Flexible electronics

File:

Download Final_Dissertation_Xiaoyu_Ji.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Member
Joan M. Redwing, Committee Member
Zhi-Wen Liu, Outside Member
John V. Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Haitian

Title:

GROWTH AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF VANADATE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular beam epitaxy
Thin film
Strongly correlated oxides
Transition metal oxides
Metal to insulator transition
VO2
LaVO3

File:

Download HaiTian_Zhang_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Chris Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Guan, Pinwen

Title:

Study of phase equilibria and defect chemistry of the Cu-Zn-Sn-S system from first-principles and computational thermodynamics towards photovoltaic applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thermodynamics
DFT
CALPHAD
Solar materials
Defect
Semiconductors

File:

Download Pinwen-Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John B. Asbury, Outside Member
Vincent Crespi, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Guang

Title:

SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF HYBRID ELECTROLYTES WITH TETHERED IONIC LIQUID FOR LITHIUM ION BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

lithium metal battery
octasilsesquioxane
hybrid electrolyte
polymers
ionic conductivity

File:

Download thesis_GY.pdf

Committee Members:

Qing Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qing Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert Hickey, Committee Member
Enrique Gomez, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Outside Member

Author:

Yang, Tiannan

Title:

PHASE-FIELD STUDY ON FERROELECTRIC OXIDE COMPOSITES AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric materials
ferroelectric composites
materials modeling
phase-field model

File:

Download Tiannan_Yang_PHD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Zhuqing

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION AND MODELING OF MULTIAXIAL PLASTICITY BEHAVIOR OF 304L AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL 304L PRODUCED BY ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Additive manufacturing;
Austenitic stainless steel
Martensitic transformation
Austenitic stainless steel
Martensitic transformation
Multiaxial stress state
Constitutive modeling

File:

Download ZhuqingWangThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tarasankar Debroy, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Robert Carl Voigt, Outside Member

Author:

Kumar, Kuldeep

Title:

ELECTROCHEMICAL CORROSION BEHAVIOR OF NICKEL ALLOYS IN SULFATE-CONTAINING MOLTEN SALTS AT 700 °C

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nickel alloys
Hot corrosion
Molten salts
Electrochemical corrosion measurements
Passivity
High temperature corrosion
Nickel-aluminum
Chromium addition in nickel alloys
Sulfate reduction
Potentiodynamic polarizations
LiCl-KCl-Na2SO4

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Kuldeep_Kumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hojong Kim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Member
Zi-Kui Liu, Committee Member
Barbara Shaw, Outside Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member

Author:

Alat, Ece

Title:

CERAMIC COATINGS FOR NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING TO ENHANCE ACCIDENT TOLERANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accident tolerant fuel
corrosion resistance
oxidation resistance
ceramic coatings
nuclear fuel cladding
titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN)
titanium nitride (TiN)
cathodic arc physical vapor deposition
substrate bias
cathode composition
titanium bond coating
substrate surface preparation method
substrate surface roughness
nitrogen partial pressure
coating deposition time
scratch testing
neutronic analysis
multilayer ceramic coatings
air oxidation
supercritical water testing (SCW)
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Raman spectroscopy
energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
autoclave testing

File:

Download Ece_Alat_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member

Author:

Weitzner, Stephen E

Title:

Quantum–Continuum Modeling of Electrodeposition

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Electrochemistry
Density functional theory
DFT
Solvation
Quantum-Continuum
Interface
Electrodeposition
Underpotential deposition
Thermodynamics
Statistical Mechanics
Monte Carlo
Implicit solvent
Multiscale
Alloy
Electrode
Catalysis
Electrocatalysis
UPD
Cluster expansion

File:

Download Stephen_Weitzner_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ismaila Dabo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ralph Colby, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Michael Janik, Outside Member

Author:

Mukherjee, Debangshu

Title:

Metrology of Ferroelectric Domain Walls with Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

scanning transmission electron microscopy
domain walls
complex oxide
metrology
ferroelectrics

File:

Download DM_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nasim Alem, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Outside Member
James Rondinelli, Special Member