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Author:

Kurtz, James Sampson

Title:

Heat Capacity of Superconducting Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
specific heat
heat capacity
nanowires

File:

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Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Kumar, Nitesh

Title:

Electrical properties of superconducting and hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
nanowires
electrodeposition
ferromagnets
superconductor-ferromagnet
one-dimensional

File:

Download Nitesh_Kumar-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Duming

Title:

Superconductivity and Ferromagnetism in Topological Insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulator
superconductivity
ferromagnetism
proximity effect
Majorana fermions
Bismuth Selenide (Bi2Se3)
nanoribbon
MBE thin film

File:

Download DumingZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Meenakshi

Title:

Quantum transport in superconducting, ferromagnetic and normal nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
transport
confined geometry
nanowires
anti-proximity effect
proximity effect
ferromagnetic nanowires

File:

Download MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Mills, Shaun Alan

Title:

Superconductivity and vortex dynamics in nanostructures of two-dimensional crystals of niobium diselenide

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
nanostructures
vortex dynamics
Abrikosov vortex

File:

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Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cai, Xinxin

Title:

Magnetoresistance oscillations and the half-flux-quantum state in doubly connected superconducting cylinders of Sr2RuO4

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

strontium ruthenate
superconductivity
half quantum vortices
transport propertices
magnetoresistance oscillations

File:

Download XCai_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainenedra Jain, Committee Member
Kin Fai Mak, Committee Member
Suzanne Mohney, Outside Member

Author:

Iaroshenko, Oleksandr

Title:

Vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau Superconductivity Model

Graduate Program:

Mathematics

Keywords:

superconductivity
Ginzburg-Landau
variational problems
vortices
pinning

File:

Download Iaroshenko-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Leonid V Berlyand, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leonid V Berlyand, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anna L Mazzucato, Committee Member
Helge Kristian Jenssen, Committee Member
Kenneth O'Hara, Outside Member

Author:

Schirmer, Jonathan

Title:

Exotic Phases of Quantum Hall Superconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

superconductivity
topological superconductivity
Majorana modes
quantum Hall effect
skyrmions
spin-orbit coupling
vortex lattice
Chern number
Berry curvature
non-uniform
magnetic field
graphene
Landau levels
p-wave
s-wave
superlattice

File:

Download Thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Carmen Carmona Benitez, Major Field Member
Jainendra Jain, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Unit & Field Member
Mauricio Terrones, Program Head/Chair

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:

Download Dissertation.pdf

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