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Author:

Dameron, Arrelaine Allen

Title:

Controlling Molecular Assemblies

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
molecular patterning
microdisplacement printing
microcontact printing
dip-pen nanolithography
scanning tunneling microscopy
atomic force microscopy
molecular electronics
adamantanethiol

File:

Download AAD_phdthesis_013006.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Ferlauto, Andre Santarosa

Title:

PHASE DIAGRAMS FOR GUIDING SILICON THIN FILM DEPOSITION IN PHOTOVOLTAICS APPLICATIONS AS DERIVED BY REAL TIME SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

microcrystalline silicon
solar cells
thin film
microstructure
ellipsometry
amorphous silicon
surface roughness
optical properties

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert W Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Gauntt, Bryan Douglas

Title:

The nano-composite nature of vanadium oxide thin films used for infrared microbolometers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

vanadium oxide
thin films
nano-composites
microbolometer
infrared detection
transmission electron microscopy
microstructure

File:

Download BDGauntt_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Elizabeth Dickey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan�Trolier�McKinstry, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Avetta, Jr., Christopher T

Title:

Lipid Recognition and Sensing Via Fluorescent Molecular Tubes

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

molecular tube
chemical sensor
molecular recognition
lipid

File:

Download Chris_Avetta_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Scott Trent Feldman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timmothy E Glass, Committee Member
Carsten Krebs, Committee Member
Joseph M Bollinger Jr., Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

KUO, CHUNG-CHEN

Title:

HIGH PERFORMANCE SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

solution processing
silane coupling agent
organic semiconductors
organic thin film transistors
pentacene
anthradithiophene
field effect mobility

File:

Download Thesis1129.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Venkatasubramanian, Chandrasekaran

Title:

PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND POST-DEPOSITION MODIFICATION OF PULSED-DC MAGNETRON SPUTTERED VANADIUM OXIDE THIN FILMS FOR MICROBOLOMETER APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Pulsed dc sputtering
vanadium oxide
annealing
ion implantation
microbolometer
infrared imaging

File:

Download Venkatasubramanian_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

S Ashok, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S Ashok, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Duarte, David Enrique

Title:

Clock Network and Phase-Locked Loop Power Estimation and Experimentation

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CPU clock energy modeling
power estimation
PLL design
low power VLSI design

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William Evan Higgins, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Meyer, David J.

Title:

Surface Passivation Studies of AlGaN/GaN High Electron Mobility Transistors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

passivation
plasma
silicon nitride
SiNx
pulsed I-V
current recovery
XPS
RF

File:

Download MeyerPhDThesis2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Professor Joseph R Flemish, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Professor Joan M Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Lamborn, Daniel Ray

Title:

Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Hybrid Physical-Chemical Vapor Deposition of Superconducting Magnesium Diboride Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

magnesium diboride
superconductor
numerical modeling
reactor design
process development

File:

Download DRL_PhD_Thesis_080607.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Mourey, Devin A

Title:

Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition ZnO For Multifunctional Thin Film Electronics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Zinc Oxide
ZnO
ALD
PEALD
Thin Film Transistor
Thin Film Circuit

File:

Download D_A_Mourey_PhD_Thesis-Final_eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Dalong

Title:

PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION ZINC OIXDE FLEXIBLE THIN FILM ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Oxide semiconductor
plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition
thin film transistor
flexible electronics

File:

Download Thesis-final-ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Wertz, Eric Tyson

Title:

MANGANITE AND YBA2CU3O7 SPINTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Manganite
LSMO
LCMO
Spintronics
Spin diffusion
Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MTJ
Eric Wertz
YBCO
YBa2Cu3O7
STO
SrTiO3
LNO
LaNiO3
Critical Current Suppression
Colossal Magnetoresistance
CMR
High-Tc
Superconductor
Spin injection
Tunneling magnetoresistance
Pulsed laser deposition
PLD
La0.67Sr0.33MnO3
La0.67Ca0.33MnO3
GMR
Demagnetization
Non-equilibrium superconductivity
Superconductivity
High Temperature Superconductor
Bipolar spin transistor
Spin detection
Spin device
microfabrication
Sherlock Holmes
Wertz
Target Rotator
Target Carousel
PLD Heater
PLD Target Rotator
PLD Target Carousel
ion milling
perovskite
Thin films
Penn State Physics
Au/YBCO contact
Au/YBCO contact recovery.

File:

Download EricWertzThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Griggio, Flavio

Title:

Local Piezoelectric Behavior in PZT-Based Thin Films for Ultrasound Transducers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PZT
thin films
ultrasound transducer
piezo-force microscopy

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Flavio_Griggio.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Haohua

Title:

EFFECTS OF DIMENSIONALITY, SAMPLE TOPOLOGY, AND DISORDER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Global Phase Coherence
Nanowires
Sample Topology Effects
Quantum Phase Transition
Mesoscopic Superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download HWang-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jinwu Ye, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, 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:

Kim, Hyunsoo

Title:

HIGH FREQUENCY LOW VOLTAGE PIEZOELECTRIC MEMS DEVICES WITH CLOSE COUPLED ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS Devices
Ultrasound transducers
Quartz crystal oscillators
Piezoelectric thin film
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers

File:

Download dissertation_hsk.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, In Soo

Title:

FULLY INTEGRATED CMOS ULTRASOUND TRANSCEIVER CHIP FOR HIGH-FREQUENCY HIGH-RESOLUTION ULTRASONIC IMAGING SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ultrasound imaging
analog-digital converter
Ultrasound transceiver

File:

Download Insoo_PhD_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Nadine B Smith, Committee Member

Author:

Ding, Jianwu

Title:

Optical wave-mixing and photorefractivity in liquid crystals

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear optics
photorefractivity
liquid crystals
stimulted scattering

File:

Download thesis.2005.v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Ruyan Guo, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member

Author:

Lim, Jaehyun

Title:

AN ULTRA-COMPACT AND LOW-POWER OVEN CONTROLLED CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR DESIGN FOR PRECISION-TIMING APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crystal oscillator
oven controlled crystal oscillator
OCXO
quartz resonator

File:

Download dissertation_Lim.pdf

Committee Members:

Kyusun Choi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kyusun Choi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee David Coraor, Committee Member
Dr Yuan Xie, Committee Member
John Douglas Mitchell, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

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

Author:

Chen, Kan

Title:

PHOTOREFRACTIVE NONLINEARITY IN PURE AND DOPED LIQUID CRYSTALS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

liquid crystals
photorefractivity
holographic gratings
space charge field

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member

Author:

Ku, Keh-Chiang

Title:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spintronics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

spintronics
semiconductor heterostructures
molecular beam epitaxy
diluted magnetic semiconductors
spin coherence

File:

Download Ku-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Shanmugasundaram, Karthikeyan

Title:

A Study Of The Mist Deposition And Patterning Of Liquid Precursor Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

selective deposition
shadow mask patterning
liquid precursor thin films
solution processed thin films
mist deposition
quantum dot LED

File:

Download Karthikeyan_S.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Lisong

Title:

AMORPHOUS SILICON AND ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

AMORPHOUS SILICON
THIN FILM TRANSISTOR
PENTACENE

File:

Download Thesis_LZ.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Edge, Lisa Friedman

Title:

GROWTH OF AMORPHOUS AND EPITAXIAL ALTERNATIVE GATE DIELECTRICS ON SILICON BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY AND THEIR CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

high-K
molecular-beam epitaxy
LaAlO3
LaScO3
Sc2O3
La2O3
molecular-beam deposition
alternative gate dielectrics

File:

Download Thesis_Lisa_Edge.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Zugger, Michael E.

Title:

MODELING RADIOMETRIC AND POLARIZED LIGHT SCATTERING FROM EXOPLANET OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

extrasolar planets
atmospheric light scattering
polarized light
oceans on other planets

File:

Download Michael_Zugger_Final_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Russell Philbrick, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Russell Philbrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy Joseph Kane, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Kasting, Committee Member
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Rosario, Mari-Anne M

Title:

Effects of disorder and geometrical constraint on superconductivity in systems of reduced dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

mesoscopic superconductors
electrical transport in thin films
disordered superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download thesismmrfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Samantaray, Malay Milan

Title:

Effects of Microstructural Defects on the Performance of Base-metal Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

finite element modeling
microstructure
multilayer ceramic capacitors
degradation

File:

Download Thesis_Malay_Samantaray.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Uppalapati, Maruti Chandra Mouli Varma

Title:

CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF MICROTUBULES AND MANIPULATION OF KINESIN DRIVEN MICROTUBULE MOTION

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

protein patterning
microfabrication
AC electrokinetics
microtubule
kinesin
mitosis

File:

Download MarutiPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan S Clement, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Mingwei

Title:

Hybrid Integration of Nanowire Resonator Arrays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nanowire
assembly
fabrication
resonator

File:

Download Mingwei_Li_Thesis_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Graig A Grimes, Committee Member

Author:

Bintachitt, Patamas

Title:

Local Origin of Macroscopic Properties and Patterning in PbZr(1-x)Ti(x)O(3) Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectrics
Piezoelectric
Thin Films
Piezoelectric Force Microscopy (PFM)
MEMS
Lead Zirconate Titanate PZT

File:

Download PhD_thesis_patamas_bintachitt.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Susan Trolier Mc Kinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Kao, Ping

Title:

MICROMACHINED QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATOR ARRAYS FOR BIOANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

QCM
Array
Biosensor
Protein
QCR
DNA
Micromachined

File:

Download Dissertation_Ping_Kao.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Steven Joseph

Title:

MICROMACHINED SWITCHES AND CANTILEVER ACTUATORS BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT)

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
PZT
microfabrication
etching
cantilevers
xenon difluoride
ion beam etching
piezoelectric
actuators
unimorph
bimorph

File:

Download SJG-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Park, Sung Kyu

Title:

High Mobility Solution Processed Organic Thin Film Transistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Organic Thin Film Transistors
Solution Processed OTFT
Organic circuits
Molecular electronics

File:

Download Sung_Kyu-Park_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Ying-Ming

Title:

MICRO-SCALE HYBRID BIOLOGICAL-ENGINEERED DEVICES POWERED BY BIOMOLECULAR MOTORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Microtubule
Molecular motors
Microfabrication
Deep glass wet etching
Microfluidics
Protein patterning

File:

Download all.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yuyan

Title:

A MICROMACHINED THERMAL SENSOR FOR BIOCHEMICAL SENSING AND POLYMER CHARACTERIZTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

micromachined
thermopile
calorimeter
biochemical
polymer
fluidic

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Staley, Neal Edward

Title:

Effects of geometric constraints and sample topology on superconductivity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Superconductivity
Mesoscopic
nanoscopic
quantum phase transitition

File:

Download NEStaley-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Shin, Hang-beum

Title:

AMORPHOUS FILM MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS DEVICE APPLICATIONS: STRAIN SENSOR, MICROBOLOMETER, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND SOLAR CELL

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogenated amorphous silicon
PECVD
autonomous powered circuit
uncooled IR microbolometer
strain sensor array
thin film transistor
flexible substrate
TCAD simulation
high TCR
1/f noise
normalized Hooge parameter
sputtered germanium
ZnO TFT
a-Si:H solar cellcircuit
uncooled IR microbolometer

File:

Download Thesis_HB_20120515.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, 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:

Ying, Yiqun Alex

Title:

Probing the Enhanced Superconductivity and Chiral Edge Current in Spin-triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Sr2RuO4
spin-triplet superconductivity
chiral p-wave
proximity effect
dislocation
Josephson interferometer
chiral edge current

File:

Download YAYING-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

St John, David Benjamin

Title:

Optical and Electrical Characterization of High Resistivity Semiconductors for Constant-bias Microbolometer Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PECVD
silicon
germanium
infrared
ellipsometry
spectroscopic ellipsometry
infrared ellipsometry
microbolometer

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Nikolas J Podraza, Special Member

Author:

Motyka, Michael

Title:

Effects of Microstructure and Oxidation State of Multi-valent Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for use in Infrared Microbolometers

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Vanadium oxide
thin films
spectroscopic ellipsometry
thin film deposition
magnetron sputtering

File:

Download MM-thesis-fulldraft-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nikolas Podraza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Fok, Ho Him

Title:

Integrated Electronics and Fluidic MEMS for Bioengineering

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin Film Transistors
Sensors
Zinc Oxide
MEMS
Electrokinetics
Bioengineering

File:

Download Raymond_Fok_Dissertation_final_submission_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Yuanyuan

Title:

Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition ZnO thin film transistors for large area circuit applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ZnO thin film transistors
Plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition
hybrid CMOS
low-voltage operation circuits
tri-layer TFTs

File:

Download Yuanyuan_Li_--_PEALD_ZnO_TFTs_for_large_area_electronics_applications_-_eTD_-_2-_higher_dif.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yi-chun

Title:

Experimentally Calibrated Simulation Of Zno Thin Film Transistors Including Traps

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin film transistor simulation
oxide TFT simulation
oxide thin film transistor
oxide TFTs
oxide semiconductor traps.

File:

Download thesis_paris_2014_4_14_adobe_ver7.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member

Author:

BASANTANI, Hitesh Arjun

Title:

Thin Film Materials and Devices for Resistive Temperature Sensing Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Microbolometer
High TCR
1/f Noise
Infrared Imaging
Hydrogenated Germanium

File:

Download Basantani_Hitesh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Garten, Lauren M

Title:

Residual Ferroelectricity, Piezoelectricity, and Flexoelectricity in Barium Strontium Titanate Tunable Dielectrics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectricity
Ferroelectricity
Flexoelectricity
Barium Strontium Titanate
Tunable Dielectrics

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member

Author:

Chen, Yalei

Title:

Investigating the cellular functions of kinesin, microtubules and +TIPs using in vitro reconstitution, microscale engineering and novel statistical techniques

Graduate Program:

Cell and Developmental Biology

Keywords:

microtubule
kinesin
cellulose synthase
spindle
micro-fabrication
in vitro reconstitution
statistics

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Melissa Rolls, Committee Member
Christopher Martin Yengo, Committee Member
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Yao

Title:

REACTIVE SPUTTER DEPOSITION OF VANADIUM, NICKEL, AND MOLYBDENUM OXIDE THIN FILMS FOR USE IN UNCOOLED INFRARED IMAGING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

uncooled infrared imaging
microbolometer
vanadium oxide
nickel oxide
molybdenum oxide
reactive sputtering deposition

File:

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Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Wallace, Margeaux Louise

Title:

Performance of PZT Based MEMS Deviceds With Integrated ZnO Electronics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thin films
piezoelectrics
integrated electronics

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Raegan Johnson Wilke, Special Member

Author:

Yeager, Charles B

Title:

Pzt Thin Films for Piezoelectric Mems Mechanical Energy Harvesting

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric domain
e31f
energy harvesting figure of merit

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member

Author:

Michael, Elizabeth Kathleen

Title:

Bismuth Pyrochlore-Based Thin Films for Dielectric Energy Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectric energy storage
pyrochlore
thin film
bismuth zinc niobate
nanocomposite
flexible electronics

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Juyeong

Title:

Ligand-controlled electronic properties in inorganic materials

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Ruthenium complex
hydroxypyridine
TCNQ
pi-stacking
zinc oxide
coumarin 153
metal-organic framework
electronic property

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Committee Members:

Benjamin James Lear, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexander Thomas Radosevich, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Sun, Kaige

Title:

Double-Gate, Tri-Layer, and Vertical ZnO TFTs and Circuits

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

double-gate TFT
tri-layer TFT
vertical TFT
zinc oxide
circuits
modeling
PEALD
digital and analog circuits
rectifier

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Haoyu

Title:

Functional Flexible Thin Film Electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Flexible electronics
thin film transistors (TFTs)
oxide semiconductors
polymeric substrate
mechanical flexibility
VOx
OLED

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Ramirez, Jose Israel

Title:

Zno Thin Film Electronics For More Than Displays

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

zno
thin film transistors (TFT)
large-area electronics
radiation-hard ZnO TFTs
integration of ZnO electronics with PZT films

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Agrawal, Nidhi

Title:

Variation Study on Advanced Cmos Systems for Low Voltage Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

FinFET
TFET
Line Edge Roughness (LER)
Line Width Roughness (LWR)
SRAM
Rean Static Noise Margin (RSNM)
NBTI
PBTI

File:

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Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Special Member

Author:

Gong, Yiyang

Title:

THIN FILM ELECTRONICS WITH NOVEL MATERIALS: ZINC OXIDE AND 2D TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Thin Film Transistor; ZnO; Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition; High Voltage Transistor; 2D Transistion Metal Dichalcogenides; WS2; WSe2; Flexible Electronics

File:

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Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member
Ying Liu, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Dhanker, Rijul

Title:

INJECTION AND BIPOLARONIC CHARGE SPECIES AT METAL-ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR CONTACT INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

injection
internal photoemission
surface plasmons
OMAR
Bipolarons
charge modulation spectroscopy
organic magentic field effects
organic semiconductors

File:

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Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Price, Jared Scott

Title:

HIGH EFFICIENCY PLANAR SOLAR CONCENTRATORS AND NOVEL STRUCTURES FOR ORGANIC LIGHT EMITTING DIODES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

OLED
LED
CPV
Photovoltaics

File:

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Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Outside Member

Author:

Brigeman, Alyssa Nicole

Title:

Charge Transfer and Strongly Coupled States in Organic Photovoltaics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

organic semiconductors
organic photovoltaics
charge transfer states
polaritons

File:

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Committee Members:

Noel Christopher Giebink, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Xingjie Ni, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Outside Member

Author:

Walter, Timothy Noah

Title:

Processing of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfdie: oxidation, etching, and deposition on the basal plane for novel nanofabrication processes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
contact engineering
oxidation
ALD
nanofabrication

File:

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Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Wang, Dixiong

Title:

low temperature processing of electro-ceramic materials and devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric energy storage
Cold sintering process
Bismuth niobate
Lead zirconate titanate
Ceramic processing
Energy harvesting

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Chen, Yixuan

Title:

Electronic localization in 3D silicon and platinum metalattices and magnetoelectrical transport properties of Dirac nodal line semimetal ZrSiS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

disordered electronic system
weak localization
Anderson localization
magnetoelectrical transport properties
Fermi surface

File:

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Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Outside Member
Nitin Samarth, Program Head/Chair