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Author:

Elavambedu Prakasam, Haripriya

Title:

Towards Highly Efficient Water Photoelectrolysis

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Anodization
Iron (III) Oxide
Hematite
Ethylene Glycol
Water Photolysis
Metal oxide semiconductors

File:

Download EPHP_PSU.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig A Grimes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Yoon, Heayoung

Title:

NANOSCALE CROSSED-WIRE DEVICE FOR IN-SITU ELECTRICAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MOLECULAR JUNCTIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

molecular electronics
nanoscale
IETS
alkanethiol
OPE
oligoaniline
swtiching molecule
crossed-wire device

File:

Download Heayoung_Yoon-EE-PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Yang, Heng

Title:

Three Dimensional Finite Difference Time Domain Modeling of Schumann Resonances On Earth and Other Planets of the Solar System

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Schuamann resonances
FDTD
Lightning
Mars
ELF
Earth-ionosphere cavity

File:

Download Yangheng-Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor P Pasko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Mathews, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Gerg, Isaac

Title:

AN EVALUATION OF THREE ENDMEMBER EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS: ATGP, ICA-EEA, AND VCA

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

material abundance map
FastICA
independent component analysis (ICA)
orthogonal subspace projection
hyperspectral unmixing
atgp
least squares with constraints
Hyperspectral imagery
AVIRIS
SNR
reflectance
vertex component analysis (VCA)
VCA
orthorectifciation

File:

Download gergThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Snively, Jonathan Brian

Title:

Mesopause Airglow Modulation by Ducted Short-Period Gravity Waves

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Atmospheric waves
mesosphere
airglow
numerical simulation
aeronomy

File:

Download Snively-Dissertation_Nov_26.pdf

Committee Members:

Victor P Pasko, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John David Mathews, Committee Member
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
Sukyoung Lee, Committee Member

Author:

Gibbs, Jason David

Title:

Three Dimensional Route Planning for Medical Image Reporting and Endoscopic Guidance

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

image processing
image-guided surgery
virtual endoscopy
bronchoscopy
route planning

File:

Download GibbsThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Jonathan Edward

Title:

A Quantitative Analysis of Tunable Long Period Grating Technology and Its Application

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

long period grating
high index overlay
ITO
tunable filter

File:

Download Jonathan_Lee_-_PhD_Thesis__Final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Shizhuo Yin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Williams, Jonathan

Title:

Multi-Objective Optimization for Unmanned Surveillance Networks Using Evolutionary Algorithms

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

evolutionary strategies
differential evolution
evolutionary algorithms
underwater vehicles
sensor networks
optimization
search path generation

File:

Download Williams_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kwang Yun Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Petko, Joshua Stanton

Title:

Ultra-Wideband and Interleaved Polyfractal Antenna Arrays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ultra-wideband
autopolyploidy
genetic algorithm
array
antenna
polyfractal
fractal
multi-beam
interleaved

File:

Download Petko-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Claude W De Pamphilis, Committee Member
John Douglas Mitchell, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Douglas Henry Werner, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Sun, Jie

Title:

PECVD, SPATIAL ALD, AND PEALD ZINC OXIDE THIN FILM TRANSISTORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition
Atomic Layer Deposition
Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Depostion
Thin Film Transistors (TFTs)
Zinc Oxide (ZnO)
ZnO TFTs Circuits

File:

Download Final0729.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member