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Author:

Aravind, Vasudeva Rao

Title:

Probing local structure and dynamics of ferroelectric domain walls using nonlinear optics and scanning probe microscopy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoresponse force microscopy
scanning probe microscopy
optical second harmonic generation
multiferroic
ferroelectric
strontium titanate
lithium niobate

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Member

Author:

Neese, Bret P.

Title:

Investigations of Structure-Property Relationships to Enhance the Multifunctional Properties of PVDF-based Polymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

polymer
ferroelectric
piezoelectric
electrocaloric effect
PVDF
capacitor

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qing Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

Author:

Sheng, Guang

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION OF PHASE TRANSITIONS, DOMAIN STABILITIES AND STRUCTURES IN FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thin film
ferroelectric
phase-field
domain stability

File:

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Committee Members:

Long Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

Author:

Monnell, Jason D.

Title:

MOLECULAR-SCALE PROPERTIES OF FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND MOLECULES

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

piezoelectric
atomic force microscopy
scanning tunneling microscopy
ferroelectric
self-assembled monolayers

File:

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Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Junjun

Title:

NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON FERROELECTRIC POLYMERS FOR ELECTRICAL ENERGY STORAGE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
ferroelectric
PVDF
energy storage

File:

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Committee Members:

Qing Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qing Wang, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Zhang, Jingxian

Title:

PHASE-FIELD SIMULATIONS OF MICORSTRUCTURES INVOLVING LONG-RANGE ELASTIC, MAGNETOSTATIC AND ELECTROSTATIC INTERACTIONS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

multiferroic
ferromagnetic
ferroelectric
phase-field

File:

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Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Scholm, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member

Author:

Sherlock, Nevin Paul

Title:

RELAXOR-PT SINGLE CRYSTALS FOR BROAD BANDWIDTH, HIGH POWER SONAR PROJECTORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric
piezoelectric
single crystal
sonar
transducer

File:

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Committee Members:

Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shujun Zhang, Committee Member
Thomas B Gabrielson, Committee Member

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:

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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

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:

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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

Author:

Kim, Sungwon

Title:

OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF FERROELECTRIC DOMAIN WALLS IN LiNbO3 AND LiTaO3

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

near field optical microscopy
ferroelectric
FDTD

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert E Newnham, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member

Author:

Lanning, Wade Richard

Title:

Effects of Residual Stress and Electrode Array Structure on Electromechanical Damage Response of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MLCC
capacitor
dielectric
ferroelectric
dissipation
DICT
digital image correlation and tracking

File:

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Committee Members:

Christopher L Muhlstein, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Winchester, Benjamin Michael

Title:

A Phase-field Investigation of Domain Structures in Ferroelectric Bismuth Ferrite Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric
diffuse interface
phase-field
bismuth ferrite

File:

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Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Special Member

Author:

Leung, Jessica

Title:

The Emergent Monoclinic Phase in KNbO3 Discovered Using Optical Second Harmonic Generation

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

potassium niobate
second harmonic generation
monoclinic
orthorhombic
ferroelectric
SHG
KNbO3
nonlinear optical

File:

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Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Han, Kuo

Title:

Sol-gel derived polymer composites for energy storage and conversion

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

nanocomposite
P(VDF-CTFE)
ferroelectric
piezoelectric
sol-gel
energy storage

File:

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Committee Members:

Qing Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Committee Member

Author:

Lapano, Jason

Title:

A STUDY OF STRUCTURE INDUCED PHASE PHENOMENA IN PEROVSKITE OXIDE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Perovskite
MBE
ferroelectric
oxide
thin film
Mott Insulator
TEM
STEM
XRD

File:

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Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Coleman, Kathleen Patricia

Title:

Influences of Stress on the Performance of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
thin film
ferroelectric
PZT
stress
electromechanical

File:

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Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
Raul Bermejo, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Watson, Beecher

Title:

Maximizing Strain Behavior and Minimizing Losses in Textured PIN-PMN-PT Piezoelectric ceramics

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ceramic
piezoelectric
dielectric
ferroelectric
sintering
texture

File:

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Committee Members:

Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Mark Andrew Fanton, Special Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Joseph Meyer, Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Wang, Rui

Title:

Phase-Field Modeling of Mobile Species Coupled with Reactions and Phase Microstructures

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Phase-field modeling
mobile species
charge
dielectric degradation
ferroelectric
alloy oxidation

File:

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Committee Members:

Michael Lanagan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Major Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Zorn, Jacob

Title:

Ferroelectric Materials by Design at the Mesoscale: Thermodynamic and Phase-Field Modeling

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

phase-field
thermodynamic
ferroelectric
landau theory
TDGL
Cahn-Hilliard
Allen-Cahn

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Jinchao Xu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Long-Qing Chen, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Major Field Member

Author:

Goodling, Devin

Title:

Compositional Dependence of Ferroelectric Properties in Thin Film Zn1-xMgxO

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ZnO
ferroelectric
ZnMgO
RF sputtering

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Committee Members:

Jon-Paul Maria, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor