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Author:

Sloppy, Jennifer D.

Title:

ANODIZATION MECHANISM AND PROPERTIES OF BI-LAYER TANTALUM OXIDE FORMED IN PHOSPHORIC ACID

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Anodic Film
Tantalum anodization
Point Defect Model
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Kinetics of Anodization
spectroscopic ellipsometry
anodic growth laws

File:

Download sloppy_7_16_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Sarah Elizabeth Dickey, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Digby D Macdonald, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nikolas J Podraza, Committee Member

Author:

St John, David Benjamin

Title:

Optical and Electrical Characterization of High Resistivity Semiconductors for Constant-bias Microbolometer Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PECVD
silicon
germanium
infrared
ellipsometry
spectroscopic ellipsometry
infrared ellipsometry
microbolometer

File:

Download Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Nikolas J Podraza, Special Member

Author:

Motyka, Michael

Title:

Effects of Microstructure and Oxidation State of Multi-valent Vanadium Oxide Thin Films for use in Infrared Microbolometers

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Vanadium oxide
thin films
spectroscopic ellipsometry
thin film deposition
magnetron sputtering

File:

Download MM-thesis-fulldraft-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nikolas Podraza, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Special Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Petrina, Stephanie Ann

Title:

Water Sorption, Viscoelastic, and Optical Properties of Thin Nafion® Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Thin polymer films
Nafion
ionomer
water sorption
fuel cells
spectroscopic ellipsometry
quartz crystal microbalance

File:

Download S_Petrina_PhD_Thesis_July_2013_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael Anthony Hickner, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member
Nikolas Podraza, Special Member

Author:

Park, Yoonsang

Title:

SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY STUDY OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING METAL, STRONTIUM NIOBATE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

transparent conductor
correlated metals
electron correlation
spectroscopic ellipsometry
transmission
sheet resistance
optical constants

File:

Download Master_s_Thesis_Final_Version_Yoonsang_Park.pdf

Committee Members:

Venkatraman Gopalan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member