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Author:

Baksa, Steven Michael

Title:

Modeling and optimization of wurtzite ferroelectrics in memory applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectrics
heterostructures
device scaling
energy efficiency
Ferroelectrics
Heterostructures
Device scaling
Energy efficiency
Ceramics
Semiconductors
Thin films
First principles

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member

Author:

Welch, Rebecca

Title:

Oxygen Triclusters in Aluminosilicate Glasses: A Computational Approach

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass structure
oxygen triclusters
molecular dynamics
modeling
aluminosilicate

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member

Author:

Vera, Alexander

Title:

Synthesis of Air-Stable 2-Dimensional Heavy Metal Crystals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

monolayer Pb
spintronics
confinement heteroepitaxy
2D materials
superconductivity
CHet
2D-metals
2D-Pb
2D-Bi
2D alloys

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maxwell Wetherington, Major Field Member

Author:

Holoviak, Stephen

Title:

Atomistic Materials Modeling Applied to 2D Heterostructures and Electrocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Density functional theory
molecular dynamics
platinum
gallium oxide

File:

Download Holoviak_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Tipsawat, Pannawit

Title:

Released Piezoelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUT)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric thin films
PMUT
MEMS
Effective longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient
PZT
Neurostimulation
Released piezoelectric thin films
Acoustic
Ultrasound

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Arguelles, Major Field Member

Author:

Wang, Jiayang

Title:

A first-principles study of low dimensional transition metal carbides and transition metal dichalcogenides

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

2D materials
transition metal carbides
transition metal dichalcogenides
DFT
superconductivity

File:

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Krajewski, Adam

Title:

Efficient Materials Informatics between Rockets and Electrons

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

materials informatics
materials discovery
scientific computing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
database design
high entropy alloys
compositionally complex materials
functionally graded materials
extreme environments
hypersonics
data driven
thermodynamics
graphs
compositional spaces
python
nim
CALPHAD
HEA
FGM
ULTERA
pySIPFENN
MPDD
alloy design
inverse design

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Wenrui Hao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Yousefian, Pedram

Title:

Oxygen Vacancy Dynamics and Their Impact on Reliability of BaTiO3-based Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)
BaTiO3
Reliability
Oxygen Vacancy
Lifetime Prediction
Machine Learning
Common Cause Failure
HALT
TSDC

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Nordlander, Josh

Title:

Magnetron Sputtering of III-N Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
III-N
sputter deposition

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Stephanie Law, Major Field Member

Author:

Shimanek, John

Title:

Predictive Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Face-Centered Cubic Metals using Multiscale Computational Techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crystal plasticity
density functional theory
dislocation dynamics
finite element method
graph theory

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member