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Author:: Ugorek, Michael S
Title:: Patterned Solid State Growth of BaTiO3 Crystals
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Barium Titanate
single crystal growth
patterning
File:: Download MSUgorek_PhD_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member

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Author:: OZGUL, METIN
Title:: POLARIZATION SWITCHING AND FATIGUE ANISOTROPY IN RELAXOR-LEAD TITANATE FERROELECTRIC SINGLE CRYSTALS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: FERROELECTRIC
PIEZOELECTRIC
POLARIZATION
SWITCHING
DOMAIN WALLS
NONVOLATILE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES
POLARIZATION FATIGUE
ELECTRICAL FATIGUE
BIPOLAR DRIVE
SINGLE CRYSTAL
RELAXOR
STRAIN
POLARIZATION RELAXATION
FATIGUE ANISOTROPY
CURRENT
File:: Download mythesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Clive A Randall, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

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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:: Download Nageh-PhD_Thesis-2009.pdf
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

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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:: Download Thesis-Bassiri-Dec2005.pdf
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

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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:: Download PhD_thesis_patamas_bintachitt.pdf
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

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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:: Download thesis.pdf
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

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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

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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:: Download RJohnson_thesis_ATN_v8.pdf
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

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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:: Download Shad_Hoover_Dissertation_-_Civil_Engineering.pdf
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

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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:: Download SJG-Thesis.pdf
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

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