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Author:: Clark, Anthony C
Title:: Superflow in Quantum Solids
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: supersolid
helium
vortices
File:: Download Dissertation-Clark-072407.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Chen, Gugang
Title:: Optical properties of carbon nanotubes
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: reflectance
SWNTs
chemical doping
optical properties
DWNTs
peapods
nanotubes
transmission
Raman
HiPCO
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

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Author:: West, Joshua T
Title:: THE EFFECTS OF DISORDER ON SUPERFLOW IN THE QUANTUM SOLID He-4
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: supersolid
solid helium
quantum solids
File:: Download West_thesis_final_pdf.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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Author:: Holliday, Kito S
Title:: The Mechanical and Optical Properties of and Disordered Materials
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: photonic crystal
optimization
order-disorder phase transition
foldy-lax
File:: Download Kito-Holliday-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Kumar, Nitesh
Title:: Electrical properties of superconducting and hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet nanowires
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: superconductivity
nanowires
electrodeposition
ferromagnets
superconductor-ferromagnet
one-dimensional
File:: Download Nitesh_Kumar-Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

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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

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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

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Author:: Lin, Xi
Title:: SPECIFIC HEAT OF SOLID 4HE
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: specific heat
helium
supersolid
File:: Download Dissertation_Final_XiLin_06192008.pdf
Committee Members:: Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

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Author:: Chia, Cheng Ing
Title:: Geometrically constrained nanoscale materials
Graduate Program:: Physics
Keywords:: DFT
graphene
topological frustration
nanoribbon
File:: Download CIChia-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

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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

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