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Author:

Abdel-Motalib, Nageh Khalaf Allam

Title:

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE DOPING AND CRYSTALLINITY OF ANODICALLY FABRICATED TiO2 NANOTUBE ARRAYS: TOWARDS AN EFFICIENT MATERIAL FOR SOLAR ENERGY APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Fluoride-free
Photocurrent
Nanorode
Tantala Nanotubes
Crystallinity
Doping
Hydrogen Production
Solar Energy Conversion
Titania nanotubes
Anodization
Solar Cells

File:

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Committee Members:

Craig Grimes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Craig A Grimes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Bassiri Gharb, Nazanin

Title:

Dielectric and piezoelectric nonlinearities in oriented PYbN-PT thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric
thin film
nonlinearities
extrinsic contributions
domain walls

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Dragan Damjanovic, 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:

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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:

Eitel, Richard Edward

Title:

NOVEL PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS: DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE, HIGH PERFORMANCE PIEZOELECTRICS ON THE BASIS OF STRUCTURE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
ferroelectric
bismuth
lead titanate
perovskite
ceramic
tolerance factor
Curie temperature

File:

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Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David John Green, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member

Author:

Polcawich, Ronald Gene

Title:

DESIGN, FABRICATION, TEST, AND EVALUATION OF RF MEMS SERIES SWITCHES USING LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT) THIN FILM ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PZT
RF MEMS
Switch

File:

Download Thesis_PZT_RF_MEMS_Switch_RPolcawich_2007_07_19_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Madan Dubey, Committee Member

Author:

Johnson, Raegan

Title:

Phase transitions in Ag(TaxNb1-x)O3 thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectrics
thin film
octahedral tilting
perovskite

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Susan Trolier Mc Kinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Ian Reaney, Committee Member

Author:

Hoover, Shad Ellsworth

Title:

The Expansive Effects of Concentrated Pyritic Zones in Shales of the Marcellus Formation

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering

Keywords:

sulfates
gypsum
expansion
Marcellus
shale
pyrite
oxidation
precipitation

File:

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Committee Members:

Mian C Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member
Angelica M Palomino, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
David Lehmann, 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:

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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:

Yosenick, Timothy James

Title:

Synthesis and Colloidal Properties of Anisotropic Hydrothermal Barium Titanate

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Barium Titanate
hydrothermal synthesis
surface chemistry
colloidal properties

File:

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Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Darrell Velegol, Committee Member

Author:

Dechakupt, Tanawadee

Title:

Microstructure-Processing-Property Relations in Chemical Solution Deposited Barium Titanate Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

barium titanate
thin film capacitors
chemical solution deposition
microstructure
interface

File:

Download Tana_full_thesis6.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Amar S Bhalla, Committee Member

Author:

Tomer, Vivek

Title:

POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE: EFFECT OF STRUCTURING, INTERFACES AND FILLER TYPES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High Energy Density
Polymer Nanocomposites
Dielectric Breakdown

File:

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Committee Members:

C A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Wei-En

Title:

IMPEDANCE/THERMALLY STIMULATED DEPOLARIZATION CURRENT AND MICROSTRUCTURAL RELATIONS AT INTERFACES IN DEGRADED PEROVSKITE DIELECTRICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thermally stimulated depolarization current
Impedence
defect chemistry
electrical degradation

File:

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Committee Members:

Prof Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Poterala, Stephen F

Title:

Closing The Performance Gap Between <001>c Textured Pmn-pt ceramics And Single Crystals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Textured ceramic
PMN-PT
piezoelectric
texture
ceramic
templated grain growth

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Martin-wells, Ross Brandoch

Title:

Resonant Scattering Phase Shifts of Ultracold Cesium and Their Energy Dependence

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

laser cooling
atomic physics
atomic collisions
atomic clocks
ultracold scattering
Feshbach Resonances

File:

Download RBMW-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kurt Gibble, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Weiss, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenneth O'hara, Committee Member

Author:

Shay, Dennis Patrick

Title:

Development and Characterization of High Temperature, High Energy Density Dielectric Materials to Establish Routes towards Power Electronics Capacitive Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Dielectric
Energy Density
Ceramic
Impedance Spectroscopy
Breakdown Strength
Ellipsometry
Power Electronics

File:

Download Shay_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Nikolas J Podraza, Special Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, 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:

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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

File:

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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:

GU, YIJIA

Title:

Phase-field Modeling of Flexoelectric Effect in Perovskite Ferroelectrics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Flexoelectric effect
ferroelectrics
phase-field method

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Yijia_Gu__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
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
James Chen, Special Member

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:

Download Margeaux_Wallace_Completed_Thesis.pdf

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:

Download C_Yeager_Ph.D_THESIS_2015.pdf

Committee Members:

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