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Author:

Ricketts, Andrew Jonathan Sylvester

Title:

Towards Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Temperature on High Performance Digital Systems

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

High temperature relaibility
NBTI
temperature induced clock skew

File:

Download RickettsFinalDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Heller, Arthur Kevin

Title:

A Novel Neutron Computed Tomography Partial Volume Voxel Water Quantification Technique

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Neutron Imaging
Neutron Computed Tomography
Neutron Radiography
Water Quantification
Partial Volumes
Partial Volume Voxels
un-sharpness correction
deconvolution
NCT

File:

Download Heller-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Brenizer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Committee Member

Author:

Trivelpiece, Cory Luke

Title:

Thin, Free-Standing Films For High Resolution Neutron Imaging

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

stopping and range of ions in matter
geometric uncertainty
charged particle
neutron imaging
BPSG
boro-phosphosilicate glass
free-standing films
SRIM
neutron depth profiling
NDP

File:

Download trivelpiece_phd_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Brenizer Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
R Gregory Downing, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Carlo G Pantano, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Celik, Cihangir

Title:

SOFT ERROR RATE SIMULATION AND INITIAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS OF NEUTRON INTERCEPTING SILICON CHIP (NISC)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Boron
Geant4
Simulation and Modeling
Memory
Soft Error
BPSG

File:

Download Cihangir_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Tim Z Hossain, Committee Member

Author:

Hauck, Danielle Kristin

Title:

Dendrochemistry: Seeing the forest through the trees

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

trace elements
eruptions
tree rings
neutron activation analysis
dendrochemistry

File:

Download HauckDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Margot Wilkinson Kaye, Committee Member
Yousry Azmy, Committee Member
Peter I Kuniholm, Committee Member
Sturt W Manning, Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Kaoumi, Djamel

Title:

MICROSTRUCTURE EVOLUTION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE METALLIC THIN-FILMS UNDER ION-BEAM IRRADIATION

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

nanocrystalline metals
in-situ TEM
thin films
irradiation induced phase tranformation
grain growth
ion beam irradiation

File:

Download final_thesis_draft_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Robert C Birtcher, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Feihui

Title:

SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE OPTIMIZATIONS FOR NOC-BASED CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Network-on-Chip
Chip Multiprocessor
cache
optimization
power
performance

File:

Download feli-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Alim, Fatih

Title:

HEURISTIC RULES EMBEDDED GENETIC ALGORITHM FOR IN-CORE FUEL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Optimization
Nuclear
Fuel Management
Genetic Algorithm
Heuristic Rulues
PWR
VVER
reactor Core

File:

Download Fatih_Alim_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Samuel H Levine, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Patrick M Reed, Committee Member

Author:

Chen, Guangyu

Title:

Java Virtual Machine for Resource Constrained Environments

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Java Virtual Machine
Embedded Systems

File:

Download thesis-chen.pdf

Committee Members:

Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Soundar R Kumara, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Bekar, Kursat Burak

Title:

Modular Optimization Code Package:MOZAIK

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

shape optimization
modularity
TORT
beam port design
parallel computation
streaming operator

File:

Download Kursat_B_Bekar_thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Yousry Y Azmy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Lin

Title:

DESIGNING ENERGY-EFFICIENT AND RELIABLE CACHES AND INTERCONNECTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Energy-Efficiency
Reliability
Cache
Interconnect

File:

Download lin-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Habte, Melaku

Title:

Thermal Hydraulic Analysis of Two Phase Closed thermosyphon Cooling System for New Cold Neutron Source Moderator of Breazeale Research Reactor at Penn State

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Dryout Temperature
Two-phase CFD Modeling
FLUENT
Cold Neutron Source
Moderator Cooling
Nucleate Boiling
CFD
Two-Phase Heat Transfer
Two-Phase Closed Thermosyphon
Cryogenic Temperatrure
Thermodynamics of Thermosyphon
Liquid Neon Cooling

File:

Download MelakuHabteDissertation2008.pdf

Committee Members:

Savas Yavuzkurt, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Fan Bill B Cheung, Committee Member
John Harlan Mahaffy, Committee Member
Xiantao Li, Committee Member

Author:

Cetiner, Mustafa Sacit

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF AN ION TIME-OF-FLIGHT SPECTROMETER FOR NEUTRON DEPTH PROFILING

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

time-of-flight
ion time-of-flight spectrometry
neutron depth profiling
coincidence spectrometry

File:

Download Sacit-Dissertation_-_080423-FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
R Gregory Downing, Committee Member
Tim Z Hossain, Committee Member
Michael S Gordon, Committee Member

Author:

Nyathi, Mhlwazi Solomon

Title:

Evaluation of co-cokes from bituminous coal with vacuum resid or decant oil, and evaluation of anthracites, as precursors to graphite

Graduate Program:

Energy and Mineral Engineering

Keywords:

graphitization
coke
coking
coal
graphite
isotropic

File:

Download MHLWAZI_SOLOMON_NYATHI_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Harold Harris Schobert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Harold Harris Schobert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Caroline Elaine Clifford, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Randy Lee Vander Wal, Committee Member
Jonathan P Mathews, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Peter J Pappano, Committee Member

Author:

Krishnan, Ramakrishnan

Title:

Analysis of Failures in Nanoscale Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Reliability

File:

Download Ramakrishnan_Krishnan_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Yuan Xie, Committee Member
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Ram Mohan Narayanan, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Ramanarayanan, Rajaraman

Title:

SOFT ERRORS IN LOGIC CIRCUITS: ANALYSIS AND MODELING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
reliability
logic circuits
soft errors
analysis

File:

Download Thesis_RRSE.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member
Yuan X Ie, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Bae, Sungmin

Title:

CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN FPGAs AND ASICs: THE APPLICATIONS OF CLOCK SKEW SCHEDULING ON FPGAs

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

FPGA
clock skew scheduling
low power FPGA
thermal gradient
thermal gradient estimation

File:

Download Sungmin-PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kyusun Choi, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Degalahal, Vijay Sai

Title:

Soft Errors: Modeling And Interactions with Power Optimizations

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

reliability in DSM
Soft errors
Single event upsets
low power VLSI

File:

Download MYTHESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mary Jane Irwin, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Committee Member

Author:

Tuysuz, Burak

Title:

Development and Implementation of a Passive Vhf Radar System Using Software Defined Radio Techniques to Study Equatorial Plasma Instabilities Near the Peruvian Andes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

CAPRI
passive radar
coherent radar
ionospheric irregularities
software defined radio

File:

Download BurakTuysuz-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Julio Urbina, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Mathews, Committee Member
James Kenneth Breakall, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Sahin, Dagistan

Title:

Tracing footprints of Environmental events in tree ring chemistry using Neutron Activation Analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

neutron activation analysis
NAA
kzero
k0
Westcott formalism
Geant4
MCNP
Monte Carlo
tree ring
Dendrochemistry
climate

File:

Download DagistanSahinPhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Committee Member
Peter Ian Kuniholm, Special Member
Charlotte Pearson, Special Member

Author:

Foxe, Michael Patrick

Title:

Low-Energy Ionization Yield in Liquid Argon for a Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scatter Detector

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Neutrino
Liquid Argon
Ionization Yield
Nuclear Quenching
Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scatter
Dark Matter

File:

Download 1-MichaelFoxe-Dissertation-Final-Rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Professor Tyce De Young, Committee Member
Dr Kareem Kazkaz, Special Member

Author:

Ucar, Dundar

Title:

Modeling and Design of A New Core-Moderator Assembly and Neutron Beam Ports for the Penn State Breazeale Nuclear Reactor (PSBR)

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

PSBR
Breazeale
TRIGA
Neutronic
Thermal
Hydraulics
MCNP
ANSYS
Fluent
Analysis
Design
Cold
Neutron
Beam Port
CFD

File:

Download DundarUcar_PhD_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Nikolov Ivanov, Committee Member
Maria Nikolova Avramova, Committee Member
Thomas Fu Yuan Lin, Committee Member
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member

Author:

Bender, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Study of Compton Suppression For Use in Spent Nuclear Fuel Assay

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Spent fuel
Compton suppression
gamma spectroscopy
lanthanum bromide
burnup
Monte Carlo
Geant4

File:

Download Bender_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Christopher Orton, Special Member
Jon Schwantes, Special Member

Author:

Rim, Jung Ho

Title:

Development of Novel Method for Rapid Extract of Radionuclides from Solution Using Polymer Ligand Film

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

PLF
Actinide
Plutonium
Uranium
Environmental
Extraction
H2DEH[MDP]
HDEHP
Separation

File:

Download JRIM_PhD_thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Member
Danny Glynn Sykes, Committee Member
Dominic S Peterson, Special Member
Stephen La Mont, Special Member

Author:

Yin, Yanchun

Title:

Quantum Phase Amplification for Temporal Pulse Shaping and Super-resolution in Remote Sensing

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

temporal pulse shaping
super-resolution
quantum phase amplification
phase-sensitive three-wave mixing

File:

Download Yanchun-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

Author:

Couet, Adrien

Title:

Hydrogen Pickup Mechanism of Zirconium Alloys

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogen pickup
oxide electronic conductivity
electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
zirconium alloys
oxidation
corrosion

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Barbara Shaw, Committee Member
Susan�Trolier�McKinstry, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Robert Comstock, Special Member

Author:

Cazalas, Edward Jay

Title:

Radiation Sensitivity of Graphene Field Effect Transistors and Other Thin Film Architectures

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
field effect transistor
neutron
detection
radiation
thin film
hysteresis

File:

Download EdwardCazalas-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Yong Chen, Special Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Lin, Ming-wei

Title:

Direct laser electron acceleration in a density-modulated plasma waveguide

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Plasma physics
particle-in-cell simulation
electron accelerator
ultrafast measurement

File:

Download MWLin-Direct_laser_electron_acceleration_in_a_density-modulated_plasma_waveguide.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Jack Brenizer Jr., Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Gil Travish, Special Member
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Morgan, Phyllis Ko

Title:

Hybrid Interferometric/dispersive Atomic Spectroscopy for Nuclear Materials Analysis

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Uranium
Isotopes
Fabry-Perot

File:

Download PKo-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Gary Lee Catchen, Committee Member
Craig F Bohren, Committee Member

Author:

Cinbiz, Mahmut Nedim

Title:

THE EFFECT OF STRESS STATE ON ZIRCONIUM HYDRIDE REORIENTATION

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Zirconium
hydride
reorientation
dry cask storage
radial hydrides
stress
stress state
in situ
X-ray diffraction
biaxiality

File:

Download MNCinbiz_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Michael Billone, Special Member

Author:

Bischoff, Jeremy

Title:

Oxidation behavior of ferritic-martensitic and ODS steels in supercritical water

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

ODS
martensitic
ferritic
steels
corrosion
supercritical water
steam
oxide

File:

Download Bischoff_PhD_thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur T. Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Paul R. Howell, Committee Member
Elizabeth C. Dickey, Committee Member
Robert J. Comstock, Committee Member
Todd Allen, Committee Member

Author:

Koglin, Johnathon David

Title:

Measurement of Plutonium-240 Angular Momentum Dependent Fission Probabilities Using the Alpha-Alpha' Reaction

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Fission Fragment
Surrogate Reaction
Angular Distribution
Plutonium-240
Angular Momentum
Fission Probability

File:

Download JohnKoglin-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer, Committee Member
Jason Burke, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Outside Member

Author:

Ocampo Giraldo, Luis Alfonso

Title:

DEVELOPMENT AND OPTIMIZATION OF A METHOD FOR POSITION RESOLUTION IN CdZnTe DETECTORS

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

CdZnTe
semiconductor detectors
pixelated detectors
virtual frisch-grid
VFG detectors
CZT
cadmium zinc telluride

File:

Download Ocampo_PhD_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jack Brenizer, Committee Member
Marek Flaska, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Outside Member
Aleksey Bolotnikov, Outside Member

Author:

Yao, Wenqing

Title:

Data-driven sensor recalibration and fault diagnosis in nuclear power plants

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

sensor recalibration
fault diagnosis
nuclear power plants
online monitoring
autoregressive support vector regression
resistance temperature detector

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_Wenqing_Yao_20190415.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Kyle Watson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kostadin Ivanov, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Justin Kyle Watson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kostadin Ivanov, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
James A Turso, Special Member
Xin Jin, Special Member

Author:

Sarnoski, Sarah Elizabeth

Title:

Active Interrogation of Fresh Nuclear Fuel in Shipping Containers

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Nuclear
Safeguards
Active Interrogation
Fresh Fuel
Gamma Spectroscopy
Monte Carlo

File:

Download Sarnoski-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Marek Flaska, Committee Member
Azaree Tresong Lintereur, Committee Member
Luiz A De Viveiros Souza Filho, Outside Member

Author:

Greenquist, Ian

Title:

A Grand Potential Sintering Model: Derivation and Application to UO2 Thermal Sintering, Doped Sintering, and Irradiation-Enhanced Densification

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

Phase field
Sintering
Uranium Dioxide
Irradiation-enhanced densification

File:

Download Greenquist-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Nick Brown, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Outside Member

Author:

Bascom, Andrew John

Title:

Improvements to the PSBR Fuel Management and Neutronics Model in Support of the New Core Moderator Assembly

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

PSBR
Breazeale

File:

Download Bascom_Dissertation_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

William J Walters, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Azaree Tresong Lintereur, Committee Member
William J Walters, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member
Brenden Heidrich, Special Member

Author:

Logoglu, Faruk

Title:

Investigation of Thickness-Dependent Scintillator-Photosensor Interface Reflection Coefficients for Improved Light Yield Calculations in Inorganic Scintillators

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Scintillators
Light Yield
Light Transport
Monte Carlo Simulations
Interface Reflection Coefficient

File:

Download FarukLogogluDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jon Schwantes, Program Head/Chair
Marek Flaska, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member
Douglas Wolfe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Arthur Motta, Major Field Member

Author:

Kenges, Alibek

Title:

Design, Development, Characterization, and Application of a New Neutron Imaging Facility at the Penn State Breazeale Reactor

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

neutron radiography
neutron tomography
neutron imaging facility characterization
visualization of microplastics
neutron imaging facility
neutron imaging
imaging of microplastics

File:

Download A_Kenges_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Heather Preisendanz, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jeffrey Geuther, Major Field Member
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor

Author:

Grenci, Nicholas

Title:

Design of an Epithermal Neutron Chopper for the Penn State Breazeale Reactor and its Applications for Nuclear Forensics and Fundamental Nuclear Data

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mechanical neutron chopper
Epithermal neutron activation analysis
Prompt gamma activation analysis
Beamline instrumentation
Time correlated prompt gamma activation analysis

File:

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Committee Members:

Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Amanda Johnsen, Major Field Member
Marek Flaska, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member
David Chichester, Special Member
Daniel Cortes Correales, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Corak, Gokhan

Title:

Improvements on Power Calibration and Core Monitoring at the Penn State Breazeale Reactor

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

MCNP
FMESH
PSBR
Penn State Breazeale Reactor
Power Correction
Fission Matrix Method
ADVANTG
Detector Response
Fission Chamber
Gamma Ion Chamber
Compensated Ion Chamber

File:

Download Gokhan_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

William Walters, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jeffrey A Geuther, Special Member
Douglas Wolfe, Outside Unit & Field Member
Arthur Motta, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Hagopian, Victoria

Title:

Numerical Simulations of High-Z Material Ablation in Transient Conditions

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Godiva IV
Electrothermal Plasma
Dusty Plasma
ETFLOW
ANSYS
HELIOS
Tungsten Alloys
Uranium Alloys
TZM
Fast Burst Reactor
Mass Loss Mitigation

File:

Download Hagopian_PhD_Dissertation_V4.9.pdf

Committee Members:

Marek Flaska, Program Head/Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Leigh Winfrey, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Marek Flaska, Major Field Member
Kenan Unlu, Major Field Member

Author:

Ayanoglu, Muhammet

Title:

MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF 21Cr32Ni AUSTENITIC MODEL ALLOY UNDER HEAVY-ION IRRADIATION AS A SURROGATE FOR REACTOR IRRADIATION

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

austenitic stainless steels
helium
in-situ irradiation
faulted loop
cavity
RIS
BOR60
21Cr32Ni model alloy
800H
dual-ion irradiation

File:

Download Ayanoglu_M_dissertation_revised_withoutnumber.pdf

Committee Members:

Arthur Thompson Motta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member
Marek Flaska, Committee Member
Nasim Alem, Outside Member
Jean Paul Allain, Program Head/Chair