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Author:

Frantz, Elias B

Title:

Development of the Analytic Capabilities of Near-Zero Field Magnetoresistance Spectroscopy Through Experiment and Modeling of the Stochastic Quantum Liouville Equation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
EPR
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
EDMR
Near-Zero Field Magnetoresistance
NZFMR
Spin Transport
Spin Transport Modeling
Stochastic Quantum Liouville Equation
Quantum Liouville Equation
Open Quantum Systems

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sahin Ozdemir, Major Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member
Arthur H. Edwards, Special Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Paz Soldan Palma, Jorge

Title:

Thermodynamic modeling of alkaline and rare earth metal with antimonides for applications in power generation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CALPHAD
Density Functional Theory
Modified Quasichemical Model
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator
Nuclear waste recycling

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Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Sengeh, Joseph

Title:

SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION AND EVALUATION OF CARBON PRECURSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS IN CARBON FIBER, CARBON-CARBON COMPOSITES, AND GAS SORPTION SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Carbon Fibers
Carbon-Carbon Composites
Methane Storage
Carbon Precursors
Polymer Precursors
Oxidative Stability
Carbon Yield
Volumetric and Gravimetric Capacity

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Committee Members:

Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
Semih Eser, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tze-Chiang Chung, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Iams, Andrew

Title:

Microstructural Evolution in Additively Manufactured Duplex Stainless Steel Alloys

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
duplex stainless steel
microstructure
mechanical properties

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Todd Palmer, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Lucille Giannuzzi, Special Member
Robert Voigt, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hall, Nicole

Title:

Discovering Photocatalytic Materials From First Principles

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Density-functional theory
Photocatalyst
DFT+U

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Raymond Schaak, Outside Unit & Field Member
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Molina, Alex

Title:

Semiconductor Surface Passivation and Metallization for Schottky Diodes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Schottky diodes
contacts
transition metals
semiconductor structures
gallium nitride
rhenium
molybdenum carbonitride
atomic layer deposition
energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy
transmission electron microscopy
x-ray diffraction
hydrobromic acid
x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
electron beam evaporation
sputtering
surface passivation
metallization

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Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Rongming Chu, Outside Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Suzanne Mohney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Xin

Title:

MATERIALS DESIGN OF DIELECTRIC POLYMERS FOR ENERGY STORAGE, ELECTROCALORIC COOLING, AND ELECTRO-ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dielectric polymer
PVDF-based polymers
Electrocaloric cooling
electromechanical coupling
capacitors
energy storage

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Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Co-Chair of Committee
Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Qing Wang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Weihua Guan, Major Field Member
Michael Hickner, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Lin, Yinan

Title:

Mixed Modifier Effect in Aluminosilicate Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

aluminosilicate-based glass
dissolution
dynamic
mixed modifier effect.
aluminosilicate glass
mixed modifier effect
mechanical
glass transition

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Committee Members:

Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Myers, Kenneth

Title:

Novel Techniques and Modern Applications of Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Near-Zero-Field Magnetoresistance

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Semiconductors
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Near Zero Field Magnetoresistance
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance
Electron Nuclear Double Resonance
Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy
Silicon
Silicon Dioxide
Negative Bias Temperature Instability
FinFET
Hafnium Dioxide
Amorphous Boron

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Outside Unit & Field Member
Patrick Lenahan, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Mark Horn, Major Field Member
Saptarshi Das, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Mei, Wenwen

Title:

Zwitterion as Additives to Boost Dielectric Constant and Increase Conductivity for Single-ion Conducting Ionomers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

ion-containing polymer
zwitterion
dielectric relaxation spectroscopy

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Scott Milner, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Meredith, Caleb

Title:

Chemical Partitioning and the Role of Asymmetry in the Design of Droplet Microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

droplets
active matter
solubilization
emulsions
active droplets

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Major Field Member
Darrell Velegol, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Lauren Zarzar, Major Field Member
Ayusman Sen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Bang, Sun Hwi

Title:

Investigation of the cold sintering densification kinetics and microstructural evolution

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Cold sintering process
Zinc oxide
Densification
Sintering kinetics
Grain growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ruud, Christian John

Title:

Microconcentrators for Space Photovoltaics and Sputtered Nanoporous SiO2 Antireflection Coatings

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

CPV
photovoltaics
non-imaging optics
antireflection

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Sven Bilén, Outside Unit & Field Member
Noel Giebink, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Han, Aijie

Title:

Using the semidilute unentangled concentration regime to determine the molecular weights of polyelectrolytes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Polyelectrolyte solutions
polymer physics
rheology

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ralph Colby, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Urara Hasegawa, Major Field Member

Author:

Dai, Cheng

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS OF CONTROLLING AND DESIGNING FERROELECTRIC TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND HIDDEN PHASES IN SUPERLATTICE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Topological phase
Hidden phase
Superlattice
Design strategy
Control

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Sulin Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Miao, Leixin

Title:

Analytical Transmission Electron Microscopy for Nanostructure Interpretation in High-Entropy Oxides and Beyond

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Transmission Electron Mircoscopy
High Entropy Oxides
Ferroelectric
Domain Structure
Nanostructure
Image Processing
Ferrovalley Materials
Hybrid Improper Ferroelectric

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Nasim Alem, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

Phase-Field Modeling of Mobile Species Coupled with Reactions and Phase Microstructures

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Phase-field modeling
mobile species
charge
dielectric degradation
ferroelectric
alloy oxidation

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Hou, Yuchen

Title:

Novel Bio-inspired Halide Perovskite Optoelectronics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Halide perovskite
Photovoltaic
Optoelectronic system
Biomolecular engineering
Bio-inspiration

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Shashank Priya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Leng, Haoyang

Title:

Fundamental Understanding of Crystallographic Texturing and Defect Engineering for High Power Piezoelectric Ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Crystallographic texturing
Defect engineering
High power
Piezoelectric

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Qiming Zhang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Shashank Priya, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Major Field Member

Author:

Clark, Nicholas Lamar

Title:

Processing-Structure-Property Relations In Phase Separated Calcium Aluminosilicate Glasses

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Glass
Phase-sparation
Indentation Hardness
Vickers
Microstructure

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member

Author:

Ding, Dazhong

Title:

Property degradation and microstructure damage of tungsten in ultra high temperature environments

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

tungsten
plasma
microstructure
fusion materials
ultrashort pulsed laser

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jean Paul Allain, Major Field Member
Sean Knecht, Outside Unit & Field Member
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Leigh Winfrey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Campbell, Ian

Title:

Experimental and Computational Investigations of Platinum and Gallium Nitride Vapor Deposition Processes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

atomic layer deposition
chemical vapor deposition
platinum
gallium nitride
density functional theory
mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon
nuclei
particle
thin film

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kaya, Huseyin

Title:

Change in bond parameters & induced stress in the alteration layer of corroded boro-aluminosilicate glass revealed by structural analysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

glass
glass corrosion
nuclear waste glass
optical spectroscopy
ellipsometry
thin films
porous materials

File:

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Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Seong Kim, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Jorge Sofo, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

De Ceanne, Anthony

Title:

Lithium Disilicate Glass-Ceramics Containing Lithium Tantalate As A Secondary Phase

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Glass-ceramics
Lithium disilicate
Lithium tantalate
Machine learning

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Kimel, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Major Field Member

Author:

Doss, Karan

Title:

Fundamentals of Nonexponential Relaxation in Glass Forming Systems

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Glass Relaxation
Kinetics
Viscosity
Stretched Exponentials
Complex Systems

File:

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Committee Members:

Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Kotsonis, George

Title:

High-Entropy Oxides: Epitaxial Growth, Kinetic Dependencies, and Linear Optical Properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Oxides
Entropy
Epitaxy

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Committee Members:

Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Brian Foley, Outside Unit & Field Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Xu, Yifan

Title:

Nanostructured block copolymer films with responsive photonic band gap and nonlinear optical properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Block copolymer
Photonic band gap property
Nonlinear optical property
Responsive materials

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Enrique Gomez, Outside Unit & Field Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zorn, Jacob

Title:

Ferroelectric Materials by Design at the Mesoscale: Thermodynamic and Phase-Field Modeling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

phase-field
thermodynamic
ferroelectric
landau theory
TDGL
Cahn-Hilliard
Allen-Cahn

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Major Field Member

Author:

Fair, Ryan

Title:

EHANCEMENT OF CONJUGATED POLYMER CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; FROM THE INDIVIDUAL CHAIN TO MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Conjugated polymers
TEM
Persistence Length
Gel Permeation Chromatorgraphy
Light Scattering
GIWAXS
SANS
4D STEM
Organic Photovoltaic
Organic Field Effect Transistor
Organic Electronics

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Committee Members:

Robert Hickey, Major Field Member
Enrique Gomez, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Christian Pester, Outside Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Ralph Colby, Outside Unit Member