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Author:

Rajashekhar, Adarsh

Title:

Pulsed-Laser Crystallization of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Oxide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Thin Films
Piezoelectric Thin Films
Laser Annealing
Pulsed-Laser Heating
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Laser Crystallization
Integration with polymeric substrates
Low Substrate Temperature Processing
In situ Laser Annealing
PZT Thin Films

File:

Download Adarsh_Rajashekhar_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Hong, Zijian

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS OF TOPOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND TOPOLOGICAL PHASE TRANSITIONS IN FERROELECTRIC OXIDE HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field simulation
Ferroelectrics
Topological structure and topological phase transition
Oxide thin films and superlattices
Materials by design

File:

Download Zijian_Hong-dissertation_final_.pdf

Committee Members:

Long-Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Ross, Austin Joseph

Title:

A THERMODYNAMICS BASED GUIDE TO ADDING HF TO A NI-SUPERALLOY TO IMPROVE OXIDATION RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Oxidation
Superalloys
Bond-coat
HfO2
Hafnium
external scale
TGO

File:

Download Austin-Dissertation-Final-v3.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi-Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hojong Kim, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
Vincent Crespi, Outside Member

Author:

Lei, Shiming

Title:

COUPLED PHENOMENA IN DOMAINS AND DOMAIN WALLS IN COMPLEX POLAR OXIDES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

domains
domain walls
complex oxides
polar
ferroelectrics
polar metals
magnetoelectric coupling

File:

Download Thesis_Shiming_20171001_v6.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Wenwu Cao, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Moses H. W. Chan, Outside Member
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Zhiqiang Mao, Special Member