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Author:

Wang, Fei

Title:

Optics of Slanted Chiral Sculptured Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Sculptured Thin Films
Chirality
Circular Bragg Phenomenon
Defect Mode
Dipole
Beam Shift
Coupled Wave Theory
Optical filter
Optical Sensor
Tunable Laser

File:

Download PhDthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Andia, Pedro C.

Title:

Mechanical Properties of Particle Systems Using a Molecular Dynamics Approach Inspired by Continuum Homogenization

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

multi-scale materials modeling
molecular dynamics
continuum mechanics
homogenization theory
effective stress
effective strain

File:

Download PCA-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Francesco Costanzo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary L Gray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence H Friedman, Committee Member
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Andrew Leonard Belmonte, Committee Member

Author:

Sunal, Paul

Title:

EVALUATION OF MOMENTUM EFFECTS ON MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF Ti-Si-N NANOCRYSTALLINE COMPOSITES PREPARED BY PULSED DC REACTIVE SPUTTERING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Hard Coatings
Nanocomposites
Pulsed Magnetron Sputtering
Momentum
Plasma

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Robert W Collins, Committee Member

Author:

Wolfe, Ryan Curtis

Title:

IMPARTING PASSIVITY TO VAPOR DEPOSITED MAGNESIUM ALLOYS

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

corrosion
magnesium
passivity
vapor deposition
ion bombardment
dealloying

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Shaw, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Howard W Pickering, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member