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Author:

Balk, Andrew Lee

Title:

Nanoscale magnetization in ferromagnetic thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning probe
semiconductor
spintronics
Hall effect
ferromagnetism
Mn)As
(Ga
domain wall
spin ice
MOKE
cryogenics

File:

Download balkdissfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Neogi, Sanghamitra

Title:

TRANSPORT IN NONLINEAR CHAINS AND ACROSS SEVERAL CONDENSED MATTER INTERFACES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Solitons
one-dimensional lattice
pair distribution function
Kapitza resistance at interfaces

File:

Download SN-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Gerald Dennis Mahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Bei

Title:

Graphene and graphene fluoride: synthesis, properties and applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
graphene fluoride
GFET

File:

Download Bei_Thesis_Final_VITA.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Dasilva, Ashley Marie

Title:

Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Chia, Cheng Ing

Title:

Geometrically constrained nanoscale materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

DFT
graphene
topological frustration
nanoribbon

File:

Download CIChia-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Suarez, Alejandro M

Title:

Theory and Simulation of Atomic Hydrogen, Fluorine, and Oxygen on Graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
adsorption
surface science
density functional theory
DFT
graphane
fluorographene
graphene oxide

File:

Download AMSuarez_Thesis_2012_v22_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Zou, Ke

Title:

Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure

File:

Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yisi

Title:

Neural mechanisms of vocal sequence generation in songbirds

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Motor sequence
songbird
neural circuitry
syntax
temperature
auditory feedback
hemisphere

File:

Download thesis_yisizhang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Alexay Kozhevnikov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alexay Kozhevnikov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Joon Sue

Title:

Topological insulator systems with magnetism

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological insulator
surface state
magnetism
ferromagnetism
spintronics
molecular beam epitaxy

File:

Download JoonSueLee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Junjie

Title:

Improving the quality of Cvd graphene based devices and transport studies of few-layer Wse2

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Graphene
CVD
Transition metal dichalcogenides
Schottky barrier
Thermionic field emission

File:

Download 1-Dissertation_Final_JW.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric W Hudson, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member