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Author:

Stewart, Robert J

Title:

Investigation of Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Organo-halide Perovskite and Colloidal Quantum Dot Semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

physical chemistry
spectroscopy
semiconductor
solar cell
quantum dot
organo-halide perovskite

File:

Download Robert_Stewart_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Van Burns, Emma Nicholson

Title:

Rate enhancement of chemical reactions using nanoscale heating generated by the photothermal effect of gold nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

photothermal heating
polyurethane
kinetics
gold nanoparticles
localized surface plasmon resonance
plasmonic heating
photothermal effect

File:

Download YourName-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Swartzfager, John

Title:

Investigation of the Optoelectronic Properties of Formamidinium Lead Bromide Perovskites Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Time-resolved spectroscopy
Formamidinium lead bromide
Lead halide perovskites
Time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Optoelectronic
Photovoltaics
Fano resonance
Transient absorption
Polaron
Electron-phonon coupling
Excited state dynamics
Charge carriers

File:

Download John_Swartzfager_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member

Author:

Munson, Kyle Thomas

Title:

Investigating the Electronic and Structural Properties of Halide Perovskite Semiconductors via Time-Resolved Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

halide perovskites
polarons
time-resolved spectroscopy
charge carrier recombination
ultrafast vibrational spectroscopy
infrared spectroscopy
inorganic semiconductors
transient absorption spectroscopy
dynamic disorder

File:

Download Munson_Kyle_PSU_Chemistry_Thesis_2020_Final_no_blank_pages.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member
Philip C Bevilacqua, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Chun Wei

Title:

Chiral Liquid-Crystalline Photonic Crystals for Advanced Photonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

liquid crystal
photonic crystal
chiral optics
nonlinear optics
ultrafast optics

File:

Download Dissertation__Chun_Wei_Chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Iam-Choon Khoo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iam-Choon Khoo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair