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Author:

Zhang, Feng

Title:

Search for new optical, structural and electronic properties: from photons to electrons

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic crystals
photonic bandgap
unsaturated silicon
direct-gap germanium
ferromagnetism/paramagnetism transition

File:

Download FZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
David Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, 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:

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