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Author:

Cheng, An

Title:

A NOVEL DESIGN OF MICRO-SIZE TRANSDUCER BASED SINGLE CELL BIO-CHIP

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

transducer
single cell
bio-chip
quantum dots

File:

Download Final_dissertation_An_Cheng_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Bittel, Brad

Title:

STUDY OF DEFECT STRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT IN BACK END OF LINE DIELECTRICS AND SIC MOSFETS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

magnetic resonance
EPR
low-k
BEOL
SiC

File:

Download thesis_after_defense.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Billman, Curtis A

Title:

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE EPITAXIAL INTERFACE BETWEEN Ba0.7Sr0.3O AND SILICON

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

epitaxial interface
conductance technique
in situ probe station

File:

Download Billman_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Fredrick Walker, 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:

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:

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:

Li, Handong

Title:

Nano-structured PECVD Silicon Films and Their Device Applications

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

poly-crystalline silicon
thin film transistor
nano-crystalline silicon
humidity sensor

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Joseph Fonash, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, 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:

Campbell, Jason P

Title:

Atomic-Scale Defects Involved in the Negative Bias Temperature Instability in SiO2 and Plasma-Nitrided Oxide Based pMOSFETs

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Negative Bias Temperature Instability
Spin-Dependent Recombination
Spin-Dependent Tunneling
Atomic-Scale Defects
Reliability

File:

Download Campbell_PhDThesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S Ashok, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Tara Krishnan, Committee Member

Author:

Ryan, Jason Thomas

Title:

Magnetic Resonance Observations of Defects Involved in Bias Temperature Instabilities and Stress Induced Leakage Currents in HfO2 and SiO2 Based Metal-Oxide-Silicon Structures

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

stress induced leakage current
negative bias temperature instabilitiy
electron spin resonance
spin dependent tunneling
magnetic resonance

File:

Download Thesis_V4_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Suman Datta, 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:

Jiang, Jiayu

Title:

Study of Thin Silicon Oxides and High-K Materials for Gate Dielectrics in Metal-Insulator-Si Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

thin oxide
high k
gate dielectrics
characterization

File:

Download THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S Ashok, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Jaekyun

Title:

Deterministic Assembly of Functional Nanodevices onto Silicon Circuits

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanotechnology
Nanowire

File:

Download Jaekyun_Kim_Final_submission.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Craig Grimes, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, 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:

Shankar, Karthik

Title:

Effect of Architecture and Doping on the Photoelectrochemical Properties of Titania Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Photovoltaic
Nanotubes
Anodization
Electrochemical
formamide
protophilic solvents
solar cells
dye sensitized
photocatalyst
quantum efficiency
Incident Photon Conversion Efficiency
Flame Annealing
Anionic Doping
Electron Transport in TiO2
Open circuit voltage decay technique
high surface area nanostructures
ordered heterojunction

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig A Grimes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, 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:

Passmore, Lucas Jay

Title:

Development of a Complimentary Suite of Characterization Tools for the Analysis of MOS Device Degradation Using Dynamic Stimuli

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

semiconductor
pca
health monitoring
mosfet
reliability
mos
dynamic

File:

Download Passmore_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Cabassi, Marco Alberto

Title:

CHARGE TRANSPORT IN NITRO SUBSTITUTED OLIGO(PHENYLENE-ETHYNYLENE) MOLECULES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy
molecular electronics
IETS

File:

Download MAC_20070529_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Duarte, Nicolas Benjamin

Title:

Thermopower Measurement of Gold Nanowire Systems Using A Micromachined Workbench

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nanowire
MEMS
thermopower
thermoelectricity
thermotunnel
nanowire system
SThM
gold

File:

Download DuarteThesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Drummond, Patrick John

Title:

ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NEAR-SURFACE REGION OF SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS BY PHOTOCONDUCTIVE DECAY

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

recombination lifetime
minority carrier lifetime
photoconductive decay
surface electrical properties

File:

Download Drummond-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Joseph R Flemish, Committee Member

Author:

Keebaugh, Shawn Alan

Title:

The Electrical Properties of Gold Nanowires and Their Applications in Chemical Sensing

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

mercury
gold
sensor
nanowire

File:

Download Keebaugh_-_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Fonash, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stephen Fonash, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Huang, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Member

Author:

Pickering, Shawn Lewis

Title:

THE FABRICATION AND ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM-DOT THIN FILM LIGHT EMITTING DIODES FOR USE IN DISPLAYS TECHNOLOGIES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Quantum Dot
QD
Mist
Display
QD-LED
Display

File:

Download Thesis_Pickering.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, 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:

LaTempa, Thomas Joseph

Title:

Visible Light Active, Nano-Architectured Metal Oxide Photo-Catalysts for Solar Fuel Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

solar fuel
photo-catalyst
nano-structure
anodization

File:

Download LaTempa_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Wayne Roger Curtis, Committee Member

Author:

Ho, Tsung ta

Title:

Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

VLS
silicon nanowire
MOSFET

File:

Download TTH_PHD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Ji, Taeksoo

Title:

A FOUR ELEMENT PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA SYSTEM MONOLITHICALLY IMPLEMENTED ON SILICON

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

phased array antenna
MMIC
phase shifter
beam steering

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jose A Kollakompil, Committee Member
Vijay Krishna Varadan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Ting

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HYBRID NANOCRYSTAL/CONDUCTING POLYMER OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

optoelectronic devices
nanocrystal quantum dot
photovoltaic
light emitting diode

File:

Download Ting_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Yuan

Title:

The study of silicon nanowires produced by solid phase crystallization

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

solid phase crystallization
silicon nanowire

File:

Download Ph_D_dissertation_Yuan_Hao.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Joseph Fonash, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S Ashok, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, 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:

Shan, Yinghui

Title:

SILICON NANOWIRE GROWTH AND TRANSISTOR FABRICATION BY SELF-ASSEMBLING “GROW-IN-PLACE” APPROACH

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Grow-in-Place
Self-assembling
Transistor
Silicon Nanowire
Nanochannel Template

File:

Download Yinghui_Shan.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephen Joseph Fonash, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S Ashok, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yanfeng

Title:

Integration and Characterization of Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

thermal oxidation
silicon nanowire
field effect device
vapor-liquid-solid

File:

Download Thesis-YZW111.pdf

Committee Members:

Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Aliyaru Kunju, Ashkar Ali

Title:

Design Fabrication and Characterization of Antimonide MOS Transistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MOS
Low Power
Antimonide
MOSFET
High-k Dielectric
Quantum Well
CV

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_AshkarAli.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Hwang, Euichul

Title:

Device modeling, analysis and fabrication of In0.53Ga0.47As Field-effect transistors

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

InGaAs FinFET
Ballistic transport
Injection velocity
InGaAs QWFET
Solid phase regrowth
Contact

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Euichul__final.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Special Member

Author:

Kshirsagar, Aditya

Title:

Investigations into the Formation of Nanocrystalline Quantum Dot Thin Films by Mist Deposition Process

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Mist Deposition
Thin Films
Quantum Dots
Cadmium Selenide
Nanotechnology

File:

Download Aditya_Kshirsagar_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Special Member

Author:

Cochrane, Corey Jonathan

Title:

Development of New Atomic Scale Defect Identification Schemes in Micro / Nanoelectronics Incorporating Digital Signal Processing Methods for Investigating Zero/low Field Spin Dependent Transport and Passage Effects in Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

zero field spin dependent recombination
electrical transport
electrically detected magnetic resonance
magnetoresistance

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Final__psu_etd_non_editable_.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
S Ashok, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Special 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:

Eze, Melvin

Title:

Sub-50 nm Multi-Segment Interconnect Design: A treatise on Speed, Reliability and Signal Integrity

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Interconnect
Signal Integrity
Offset Switching
Variable Cycle Timing with Temporal Redundancy
NBTI

File:

Download MelvinEze-Dissertation-Final-eTD.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Special 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:

Lee, Hyeonseok

Title:

Photoactive nanostructured materials and devices: Pt photoanodes, Cu photocatalysts and SnS absorbers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Sculptured thin films
CO2 conversion
solar cells

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_by_H._Lee-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Lu

Title:

Classical And Coulomb Blockade Iii-v Multi-gate Quantum Well Field Effect Transistors For Ultra Low Power Logic Applications

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-gate
quantum well FET
single electron
Coulomb blockade
non-volatile
low power

File:

Download Dissertation_Lu_Dec22013.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Min, Hwall

Title:

study of interfacial phenomena for bio/chemical sensing application

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

quartz
resonator
quartz crystal microbalance
biosensor
chemical sensor
protein adsorption
RSA
ionic liquid
pattern recognition

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Hwall_Min_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Special 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:

Gagnon, Jarod Christopher

Title:

MOCVD growth of GaN on Si through novel substrate modification techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

III/Nitride
MOCVD
Silicon
substrate modification

File:

Download Gagnon_--_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joan Marie Redwing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Gu, Haiming

Title:

Chip-scale Cooling Devices Based On Electrocaloric Effect

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Electrocaloric Effect
Cooling Device
Chip Cooling
Chip refrigerator

File:

Download HaimingGu-Dissertation_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Brent Craven, Committee Member

Author:

Agrawal, Ashish

Title:

Physics and Technology of Strained Germanium Quantum Well FinFET for Low Power P-channel Application

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Semiconductor
Germanium
FinFET
CMOS

File:

Download Ashish-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Li

Title:

Gallium Nitride-based Electronic and Optoelectronic devices

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

gallium nitride
schottky barrier diodes
high electron mobility transistors
light emitting diodes

File:

Download Li_Wang_phd_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Jiang, Zhenyu

Title:

Light Emitting Diodes And Photodetectors Based On Iii-nitride And Colloidal Quantum Dot Materials

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

LED
Photodetector
GaN
Colloidal quantum-dot
optical communication
flexible electronics
infrared
dark current.

File:

Download Dissertation_Final_Zhenyu_Jiang_Light_Emitting_Diodes_and_Photodetectors_Based_on_III-Nitride_and_Colloidal_Quantum_Dot_Materials.pdf

Committee Members:

Jian Xu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Samia A Suliman, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Duksoo

Title:

Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport Studies in Nanomaterials Using Microfabricated Testbench

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Thermal
Thermoelectric
Nanomaterials
Testbench

File:

Download dissertation_DukSoo.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Huichu

Title:

Device Circuit Interactions for Steep Switching Slope Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunneling-field-effect-transistor
device-circuit interaction
steep subthreshold slope
energy efficiency
soft error reliability

File:

Download Ph.D_Thesis_Huichu_Liu-Final_1-12_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member

Author:

Hou, Huilong

Title:

Nanoscale Nickel-Titanium Shape Memory Alloys Thin Films Fabricated by Using Biased Target Ion Beam Deposition

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Nanoscale thin films
Shape memory alloys
Biased target deposition
Phase transformation
Structure and properties

File:

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Committee Members:

Reginald Felix Hamilton, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Reginald Felix Hamilton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Pandey, Rahul

Title:

COMPLIMENTARY III-V HETERO-JUNCTION TUNNEL TRANSISTORS FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT NANOELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Tunnel
Tunnel Transistor
Energy
Power
Efficient
Low-power
Energy efficient
low voltage
TFET
MOSFET
CMOS
Moore's law
Transistor
on-current
steep
subthreshold
switching
sub-thermal
logic
circuits
systems
memory
semiconductors
TunnelFET
complimentary
III-V
compound semiconductors
Germanium
GeSn
Hetero-junctions
tunnel barrier engineering
quantum mechanical tunneling

File:

Download Energy_Efficient_Tunnel_Transistors_by_Rahul_Pandey.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Sumeet Gupta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Barth, Michael Judson

Title:

SB-BASED MATERIALS FOR BEYOND SI FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

InAsSb
GaSb
InGaSb
Soft Error
Heavy Ion
Atomic Layer Deposition

File:

Download Barth_Dissertation_rev6.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Mutch, Michael James

Title:

MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND MAGNETORESISTANCE FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF DEFECT CHEMISTRY AND SPIN-TRANSPORT IN AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS AND DIELECTRICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Resonance
electrical engineering
materials engineering
electronic transport
quantum tunneling
trap-assisted tunneling
defects
low-k dielectrics
silicon nitride
magnetoresistance

File:

Download Mutch_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M. Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M. Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Horn, Committee Member
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Outside Member

Author:

Thakur, Yash

Title:

NANOSTRUCTURED DIELECTRIC FILMS FOR NEXT GENERATION OF ENERGY STORAGE CAPACITORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

dielectrics
capacitors
nanoparticles
energy storage
polymers

File:

Download Dissertation_Yash_Thakur_June_2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Noel Chris Giebink, Committee Member
James Runt, Outside Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Lu, Meng Chien

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY SENSITIVE MAGNETOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR BIO-MAGNETIC SIGNAL DETECTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magneto electric
Piezoelectric
Magnetostrictive
Magnetic sensor
Biomagnetic liver susceptometry
liver iron concentration
Shear mode effect
ME laminate composite
ME sensor

File:

Download MCLu_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Freeman, Eugene

Title:

MAGNETOELECTRIC AND OPTO-MECHANICAL MAGNETIC SENSING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetoelectric
Whispering Galley Mode
Passively Powered
Wireless
Quartz
Micromachined
Magnetometer
Chip-scale
Optomechanical
Glassblowing

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_E_Freeman_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Steven Schiff, 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:

Download JaredPrice-Dissertation_V3.pdf

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:

Sabeeh, Ala Hamza

Title:

MIST DEPOSITION, PATTERNING AND APPLICATIONS OF CADMIUM SELENIDE NANOCRYSTALLINE QUANTUM DOT FILMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots
Mist Deposition
Patterning
Lift-off Process
Downshifting
Silicon Solar Cell
micro-patterns
thin film

File:

Download Ala_Sabeeh_PhD_Dissertaion_SP_19_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Khawaji, Ibrahim Hussain

Title:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS OF PARYLENE C AS ELECTRICAL INSULATORS FOR FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ENGINEERED THIN FILMS
PARYLENE C
ELECTRICAL INSULATORS
FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS
low-k

File:

Download Khawaji_Dissertation_19.pdf

Committee Members:

Osama O Awadelkarim, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Outside Member

Author:

Mc Crory, Duane

Title:

Magnetic Resonance in a Wafer Probing Station

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance
Semiconductors
Semiconductor Reliability
Rapid Scan EDMR
Spatially Resolved EDMR
Electrically Detected Electron Nuclear Double Resonance

File:

Download McCrory_PhD_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Noor Elahi, Asim

Title:

ELECTRICAL AND OPTICAL STUDIES ON MODELING AND FABRICATION OF GALLIUM NITRIDE (GaN) BASED OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

GaN Optoelectronic devices
GaN microLED
Colorful microLED
GaN based Schottky Diode
GaN based MESFFET
Colloidal Quantum Dots
Nanoporous
Vertical GaN based MESFET
MESFET on LEDs
Schottky diodes on LEDs

File:

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Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jian hsu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Osama Awadelkarim, Major Field Member
Wenwu Cao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Tim Kane, Major Field Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair