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1. A Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method For Modeling Fluid–structure Interaction

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Author:
Sheldon, Jason Paul
Title:
A Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method For Modeling Fluid–structure Interaction
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Navier-Stokes
Elastodynamics
File:
Download JasonSheldon-PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Jonathan S Pitt, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Scott Miller, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jonathan S Pitt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Scott Miller, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Paris R Vonlockette, Special Member

3. Reflection and Transmission of Obliquely Incident Light by Asymmetric Serial-bideposited Chiral Sculptured Thin Films

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Author:
Mcatee, Patrick D
Title:
Reflection and Transmission of Obliquely Incident Light by Asymmetric Serial-bideposited Chiral Sculptured Thin Films
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Chiral Sculptured Thin Films
Circular Bragg Phenomenon
Asymmetric Serial Bideposition
File:
Download McAtee_Patrick_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jian Xu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

4. acoustofluidics in biomedical applications

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Author:
Chen, Yuchao
Title:
acoustofluidics in biomedical applications
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Acoustic wave
Microfluidics
Biomedical applications
Cell separation
File:
Download Thesis_Yuchao_Chen_revised.pdf
Committee Members:
Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Bruce Gluckman, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

5. Optical Sensing of Analytes in Aqueous Solutions Through Surface Plasmonics and Surface Multiplasmonics

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Author:
Swiontek, Stephen Edward
Title:
Optical Sensing of Analytes in Aqueous Solutions Through Surface Plasmonics and Surface Multiplasmonics
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
sculptured thin films
surface plasmon polariton
optical sensing
Kretschmann configuration
surface multiplasmonics
File:
Download Stephen_Swiontek_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

6. Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation in Pipes with Elbows

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Author:
Breon, Luke Justin
Title:
Ultrasonic Guided Wave Propagation in Pipes with Elbows
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Guided Wave
Pipe
Elbow
Focusing
Complex Waveguides
Mode Tracing
File:
Download 1-Breon_PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Judith Todd Copley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Committee Member

9. Nonlinear ultrasonic measurements in nuclear reactor environments

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Author:
Reinhardt, Brian T
Title:
Nonlinear ultrasonic measurements in nuclear reactor environments
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Nonlinear Ultrasound
Contact Acoustic Nonlinear
Transducers
Neutron
File:
Download ReinhardtThesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Bernhard R Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Special Member

13. Studies on optimizing Cadmium Telluride solar cells through thickness reduction and the addition of a Nickel Oxide electron-blocking layer

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Author:
Waggoner, Shawn Allen
Title:
Studies on optimizing Cadmium Telluride solar cells through thickness reduction and the addition of a Nickel Oxide electron-blocking layer
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
CdTe
NiO
ALD
solar cell
PV
HTL
EBL
File:
Download saw5357_thesis_final.pdf
Committee Members:
Wook Jun Nam, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

14. Phase Control of RF Sputtered SnSx with Post-Deposition Annealing for Photovoltaic Device Applications

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Author:
Nasr, Joseph R
Title:
Phase Control of RF Sputtered SnSx with Post-Deposition Annealing for Photovoltaic Device Applications
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Tin Sulfide
Electrical Characterization
Conductivity type
Sputtering
File:
Download JosephNasrFinalVersionMSThesisESM.pdf
Committee Members:
Mark William Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Elzbieta Sikora, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member

15. AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HARSH ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS

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Author:
Suprock, Andrew David
Title:
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TEMPERATURE EFFECT ON THE PERFORMANCE OF ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS FOR HIGH TEMPERATURE AND HARSH ENVIRONMENT APPLICATIONS
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Ultrasonic Non-Destructive Evaluation
Structural Health Monitoring
Ultrasonic Transducers
High Temperature
Harsh Environment
Radiation
Materials Optimization
NDE
SHM
Piezoelectricity
Piezoelectric Materials
Piezoelectric Crystal Structures
File:
Download Andy_Suprock_PSU_MS_ESM_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Bernhard R Tittmann, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member

16. SHARP-EDGE-BASED ACOUSTOFLUIDICS

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Author:
Huang, Po-Hsun
Title:
SHARP-EDGE-BASED ACOUSTOFLUIDICS
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Microfluidics
Acoustofluidics
Acoustic streaming
Micropump
Micromixer
Chemical gradient
Sputum liquefaction
File:
Download PHHuang-Dissertation_07252016.pdf
Committee Members:
TONY JUN HUANG, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Huang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Outside Member
Corina Stefania Drapaca, Committee Member

17. Mechanics in erythrocytes and multicellular structures

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Author:
Zhang, Yao
Title:
Mechanics in erythrocytes and multicellular structures
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
red blood cell
deformability
coarse-grained modeling
traction force
multicellular structures
epithelium dispersion
File:
Download YaoZhang_dissertation_2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member
Peter J Butler, Outside Member

18. Finite Element Implementation of the Preston-Tonks-Wallace Plasticity Model and Energy Based Bonding Parameter for the Cold Spray Process

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Author:
Schreiber, Jeremy Michael
Title:
Finite Element Implementation of the Preston-Tonks-Wallace Plasticity Model and Energy Based Bonding Parameter for the Cold Spray Process
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Cold Spray
High-Strain-Rate
Preston-Tonks-Wallace
Finite Elements
File:
Download Schreiber_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:
Albert Eliot Segall, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ivica Smid, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Timothy John Eden, Committee Member
Victor K. Champagne, Committee Member
Allison Michelle Beese, Outside Member

19. A Tool and a Process for Finding a Damage Feature for Guided Waves that is Independent of Temperature

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Author:
Hakoda, Christopher Nobuo
Title:
A Tool and a Process for Finding a Damage Feature for Guided Waves that is Independent of Temperature
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Guided Waves
SAFE method
PVDF
Temperature
File:
Download ChristopherHakoda-Thesis_Dec_07_2016.pdf
Committee Members:
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clifford Jesse Lissenden III, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member

20. NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF PLANT CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AT MICRO AND NANO LEVEL

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Author:
Xi, Xiaoning
Title:
NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF PLANT CELL WALL ARCHITECTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES AT MICRO AND NANO LEVEL
Graduate Program:
Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:
Mechanical properties
Elastic modulus
Atomic force microscopy
Nanoindentation
Scanning acoustic microscopy
Plant cell wall
File:
Download Thesis_XiaoningXi.pdf
Committee Members:
Bernhard R.Tittmann, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Bernhard R.Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Samia A. Suliman, Committee Member
Seong H. Kim, Outside Member