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Author:

Wertz, Eric Tyson

Title:

MANGANITE AND YBA2CU3O7 SPINTRONIC DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Manganite
LSMO
LCMO
Spintronics
Spin diffusion
Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MTJ
Eric Wertz
YBCO
YBa2Cu3O7
STO
SrTiO3
LNO
LaNiO3
Critical Current Suppression
Colossal Magnetoresistance
CMR
High-Tc
Superconductor
Spin injection
Tunneling magnetoresistance
Pulsed laser deposition
PLD
La0.67Sr0.33MnO3
La0.67Ca0.33MnO3
GMR
Demagnetization
Non-equilibrium superconductivity
Superconductivity
High Temperature Superconductor
Bipolar spin transistor
Spin detection
Spin device
microfabrication
Sherlock Holmes
Wertz
Target Rotator
Target Carousel
PLD Heater
PLD Target Rotator
PLD Target Carousel
ion milling
perovskite
Thin films
Penn State Physics
Au/YBCO contact
Au/YBCO contact recovery.

File:

Download EricWertzThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Hayes, Gregory Richard

Title:

Mesoscale Fabrication and Design

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

colloidal processing
powder processing
drying
microfabrication
mesoscale fabrication
colloidal chemistry

File:

Download GHayes_Final_Thesis_corrected.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary I Frecker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Harriet Black Nembhard, Committee Member
Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member

Author:

Uppalapati, Maruti Chandra Mouli Varma

Title:

CONTROLLED ASSEMBLY OF MICROTUBULES AND MANIPULATION OF KINESIN DRIVEN MICROTUBULE MOTION

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

protein patterning
microfabrication
AC electrokinetics
microtubule
kinesin
mitosis

File:

Download MarutiPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Cyr, Committee Member
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan S Clement, Committee Member

Author:

Antolino, Nicholas Edward

Title:

LOST MOLD-RAPID INFILTRATION FORMING: STRENGTH CONTROL IN MESOSCALE 3Y-TZP CERAMICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

abnormal grain growth
grain size
rheology
brittle failure
processing
strength
forming
microfabrication
mesoscale
ceramic
TZP
zirconia
sintering

File:

Download Nick_Antolino_Full_Thesis_Revised.pdf

Committee Members:

James Hansell Adair, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James Hansell Adair, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Steven Joseph

Title:

MICROMACHINED SWITCHES AND CANTILEVER ACTUATORS BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT)

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
PZT
microfabrication
etching
cantilevers
xenon difluoride
ion beam etching
piezoelectric
actuators
unimorph
bimorph

File:

Download SJG-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Hyland, Jennifer Elizabeth

Title:

Design of Contact-aided Compliant Cellular Mechanisms for use as an Energy Absorbing Structure

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

contact-aided compliant mechanism
cellular structure
microfabrication
laser micro-machining
energy absorption

File:

Download Jennifer_E_Hyland_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Yeh, Yin-ting

Title:

A Microdevice For Virus Capture And detection

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

virus detection
point of care
microfabrication
carbon nanotube
microdevice

File:

Download Yin-Ting_Yeh_disseratation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Siyang Zheng, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Siyang Zheng, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jian Yang, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Member
Huaguang Lu, Committee Member

Author:

Gaddes, David Edwin

Title:

Remote Calorimetric Biosensing For Clinical Diagnostic Applications

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering

Keywords:

Biosensor
calorimetry
microfabrication
enzyme immobilization

File:

Download David_Gaddes_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas Tadgiadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Tianning

Title:

Thin-film PZT on polymer and glass substrates: breaking the rules

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

flexible devices
flexible electronics
piezoelectrics
ultrasonic transducers
PZT
PZT thin films
microfabrication
anisotropic conductive film

File:

Download final_dissertation_Tianning_Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Tom Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tom Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mehdi Kiani, Committee Member
Christopher D. Rahn, Outside Member
Kultegin Aydin, Program Head/Chair
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor