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Author:

Yashinski , Melisa Sue

Title:

Effect of Large Elastic Strains on Phonons in GaP Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Nanowires
Gallium Phosphide
GaP
Mechanical behavior
stress
strain
phonon
vibrational mode
Raman spectroscopy
tension

File:

Download MSYashinski-Dissertation_Final2.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Muhlstein, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member

Author:

Mendoza, Alfonso Julio

Title:

Thermal and Electrochemical Degradation of Anion Exchange Membranes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

AEMs
anion exchange membranes
GDLs
Raman spectroscopy
IR spectroscopy
Electrochemistry

File:

Download Mendoza_withCorrections_Nov192012_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qing Wang, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member
Chao Yang Wang, Special Member

Author:

Edwards, Perry S.

Title:

Novel Raman Techniques for Imaging and Sensing

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Raman spectroscopy
coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
holography
three-dimensional microscopy
resonators
optical sensing

File:

Download Edwards_2013_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member
C Russell Philbrick, Special Member

Author:

Browning, Paul Nathan

Title:

Synthesis of Few-layer Tungsten Diselenide Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
chemical vapor deposition
synthesis
electronic materials
Raman spectroscopy

File:

Download Browning_Compiled_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Ray, Paramita

Title:

Interactions of Nitrogen and Hydrogen with various 1D and 3D carbon materials probed via in-situ vibrational spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

Nitrogen perturbation
Raman spectroscopy
carbon nanostructures

File:

Download THESIS-PRAY-22-2-2016.pdf

Committee Members:

John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Angela Lueking, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harry R Allcock, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
William Blaine White, Committee Member

Author:

Ensor, Brendan Melvin

Title:

THE NATURE OF UNSTABLE OXIDE GROWTH IN ZIRCONIUM AND ZIRCONIUM ALLOYS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

zirconium
zirconium alloy
fuel cladding
corrosion
synchrotron radiation
X-ray diffraction
XANES
neutron irradiated
Zircaloy-4
hydrogen
breakaway oxidation
strain
stress
plastic deformation
oxide growth
X-ray fluorescence
Raman spectroscopy
tetragonal fraction
grain size

File:

Download Brendan_Ensor_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Tonks, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member
Ashley Lucente, Special Member
John Seidensticker, Special Member

Author:

McCreary, Amber Dawn

Title:

INVESTIGATING AND TUNING THE PROPERTIES OF 2-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS VIA DOPING, STRAIN, AND OPTICAL TECHNIQUES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
graphene
transition metal dichalcogenides
photoluminescence
Raman spectroscopy

File:

Download McCreary-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E. Mallouk, Committee Member
Eric Hudson, Committee Member
Joshua Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Domask, Anna Catherine

Title:

Reactivity and Epitaxy of Metal Thin-Films on Few-Layer Molybdenum Disulfide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Contacts
Thermodynamics
van der Waals Solid
Transition Metal Dichalcogenide
Raman spectroscopy
Transition electron microscopy

File:

Download DomaskAnna_FinalThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Outside Member

Author:

Feng, Simin

Title:

SYNTHESIS OF GRAPHENE AND TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSITIONAL METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR OPTICAL PROPERTIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Two-dimensional materials
Graphene
Transition metal dichalcogenide
Raman spectroscopy
Graphene enhanced Raman scattering
Chemical vapor deposition

File:

Download thesis-Simin_Feng-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Alat, Ece

Title:

CERAMIC COATINGS FOR NUCLEAR FUEL CLADDING TO ENHANCE ACCIDENT TOLERANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Accident tolerant fuel
corrosion resistance
oxidation resistance
ceramic coatings
nuclear fuel cladding
titanium aluminum nitride (TiAlN)
titanium nitride (TiN)
cathodic arc physical vapor deposition
substrate bias
cathode composition
titanium bond coating
substrate surface preparation method
substrate surface roughness
nitrogen partial pressure
coating deposition time
scratch testing
neutronic analysis
multilayer ceramic coatings
air oxidation
supercritical water testing (SCW)
X-ray diffraction (XRD)
scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Raman spectroscopy
energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
autoclave testing

File:

Download Ece_Alat_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Committee Member
Hojong Kim, Outside Member