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Author:

Liu, Derrick Shao

Title:

Growth of the III-VI Two Dimensional Chalcogenide Layered Semiconductors for Electronic Device Applications by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy
thin film
2D materials
indium selenide
growth kinetics
chalcogens

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ying Liu, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Gong, Rushi

Title:

Investigation of Atomic Environments by Computational Thermodynamics: Applications in Intermetallic Catalysts and Molten Salts

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

CALPHAD
Thermodynamics
First-principles calculations
Catalysts
Intermetallics
Molten salts
Short-range ordering
Software

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Michael Janik, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member

Author:

Britt, Cole

Title:

Integrated Experimental and Computational Approach for Heterogeneous Microstructures of Martensitic Functional Gradients

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

additive manufacturing
functionally graded materials
CALPHAD
high-strength low-alloy steels
stainless steel

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jay Keist, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hojong Kim, Major Field Member
Allison Beese, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Todd Palmer, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Baksa, Steven Michael

Title:

Modeling and optimization of wurtzite ferroelectrics in memory applications

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectrics
heterostructures
device scaling
energy efficiency
Ferroelectrics
Heterostructures
Device scaling
Energy efficiency
Ceramics
Semiconductors
Thin films
First principles

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Major Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Outside Unit, Field & Minor Member

Author:

Welch, Rebecca

Title:

Oxygen Triclusters in Aluminosilicate Glasses: A Computational Approach

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

glass structure
oxygen triclusters
molecular dynamics
modeling
aluminosilicate

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Seong Kim, Outside Unit & Field Member
John Mauro, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member

Author:

Al Hassanieh, Sultan

Title:

Influence of Sample Build Orientation and Thickness on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Stainless Steel 316L Fabricated by Laser Powder Bed Fusion

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Stainless Steel 316L
Additive Manufacturing
Lattice Structures
Mechanical Properties
Surface Roughness
Microstructure
Orientation Effects
Size Effects

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Committee Members:

Allison Michelle Beese, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Saurabh Basu, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Wesley Reinhart, Committee Member

Author:

Vera, Alexander

Title:

Synthesis of Air-Stable 2-Dimensional Heavy Metal Crystals

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

monolayer Pb
spintronics
confinement heteroepitaxy
2D materials
superconductivity
CHet
2D-metals
2D-Pb
2D-Bi
2D alloys

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Download Alexander_Vera_Final_v2_vita.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Major Field Member
Jun Zhu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Joshua Robinson, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Maxwell Wetherington, Major Field Member

Author:

Holoviak, Stephen

Title:

Atomistic Materials Modeling Applied to 2D Heterostructures and Electrocatalysis

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Density functional theory
molecular dynamics
platinum
gallium oxide

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Kristen Fichthorn, Outside Unit & Field Member
Susan Sinnott, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Tipsawat, Pannawit

Title:

Released Piezoelectric Thin Films for Piezoelectric Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers (PMUT)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Piezoelectric thin films
PMUT
MEMS
Effective longitudinal piezoelectric coefficient
PZT
Neurostimulation
Released piezoelectric thin films
Acoustic
Ultrasound

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Tom Jackson, Major Field Member
Sri-Rajasekhar Kothapalli, Outside Unit & Field Member
Andrea Arguelles, Major Field Member

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:

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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

Author:

Krajewski, Adam

Title:

Efficient Materials Informatics between Rockets and Electrons

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

materials informatics
materials discovery
scientific computing
machine learning
artificial intelligence
database design
high entropy alloys
compositionally complex materials
functionally graded materials
extreme environments
hypersonics
data driven
thermodynamics
graphs
compositional spaces
python
nim
CALPHAD
HEA
FGM
ULTERA
pySIPFENN
MPDD
alloy design
inverse design

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Chair, Minor Member & Dissertation Advisor
Allison Beese, Major Field Member
Wenrui Hao, Outside Unit & Field Member
Ismaila Dabo, Major Field Member

Author:

Yousefian, Pedram

Title:

Oxygen Vacancy Dynamics and Their Impact on Reliability of BaTiO3-based Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs)
BaTiO3
Reliability
Oxygen Vacancy
Lifetime Prediction
Machine Learning
Common Cause Failure
HALT
TSDC

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Major Field Member
Clive Randall, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Yang Yang, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Nordlander, Josh

Title:

Magnetron Sputtering of III-N Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

GaN
III-N
sputter deposition

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Rongming Chu, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
Stephanie Law, Major Field Member

Author:

Shimanek, John

Title:

Predictive Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Face-Centered Cubic Metals using Multiscale Computational Techniques

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

crystal plasticity
density functional theory
dislocation dynamics
finite element method
graph theory

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Zi-Kui Liu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Reuben Kraft, Outside Unit & Field Member
Allison Beese, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Wesley Reinhart, Major Field Member

Author:

Mc Knight, Thomas

Title:

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition and In-Situ Characterization of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition
MOCVD
2D Materials
MoS2
WTe2
WS2
In-situ Characterization
Spectroscopic Ellipsometry
SE
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Thin Films
TMDs
WSe2

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Suzanne Mohney, Major Field Member
Joan Redwing, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Douglas Wolfe, Major Field Member
Danielle Hickey, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Andrewlavage, Eric

Title:

Microstructural And Welding Impacts Of Minor Boron Additions In Austenitic Stainless Steel

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Stainless Steel
Boron
Weld Cracking
Liquation Cracking
Chromium Boride
Kinetics
Microstructural Analysis
Phase Development
Laser Welding

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Committee Members:

Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jay Keist, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Jingjing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Finch, Nicholas

Title:

Quantifying Variability in Laser Welding of Stainless-Steel Alloy 304

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Numerical modeling
heat transfer and fluid flow
welding
laser
stainless steel
process control
uncertainty
variability
thermophysical properties
material properties

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Committee Members:

Tarasankar Debroy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Darren C Pagan, Committee Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Todd Palmer, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jingjing Li, Committee Member

Author:

Rondomanski, Patrick

Title:

Toward the Fabrication of Magnesium Diboride-based Quantum Devices

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

superconductors
graphene
hybrid physical vapor deposition
intercalation
magnesium diboride
nanowires

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member
Qi Li, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Morteza Kayyalha, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Li, Bo

Title:

“structured” multi-filler nanocomposites with novel dielectric properties

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectric constant and loss
polymer clay composites
dielectric breakdown
structured composites
barrier properties

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Committee Members:

Evangelos Manias, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Evangelos Manias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Michael Anthony Hickner, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Special Member

Author:

Lloyd, Elisabeth

Title:

Tuning Structure and Properties of Porous Hydrogels Exhibiting Properties Reminiscent of Natural Tissues from the Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Hydrogels
Porous Hydrogels
Biomimicry
Amphiphilic Block Copolymers
Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

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Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Robert Hickey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Hee Jeung Oh, Outside Unit & Field Member
Urara Hasegawa, Major Field Member
Ralph Colby, Major Field Member