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Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruifang

Title:

GEOMETRICAL MAGNETIC FRUSTRATION AND DEMAGNETIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL SPIN ICE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometrical magnetic frustration
spin ice

File:

Download Thesis_Ruifang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Meenakshi

Title:

Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Coimbatore Balram, Ajit

Title:

Exotic emergent phenomena in the fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
topological phases
composite fermions

File:

Download ACB_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Cooper, Brian C

Title:

NOVEL SYNTHETIC METHODS AND CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES OF NIOBIUM-DISULFIDE IN MULTIPLE GEOMETRIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

NbS2
Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide

File:

Download BrianCCooperDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member