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Author:

Balk, Andrew Lee

Title:

Nanoscale magnetization in ferromagnetic thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning probe
semiconductor
spintronics
Hall effect
ferromagnetism
Mn)As
(Ga
domain wall
spin ice
MOKE
cryogenics

File:

Download balkdissfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Cooley, Benjamin Joseph

Title:

Growth, Structure, and Optical Characterization of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

diluted magnetic semiconductor
nanowire
semiconductor nanowire
nanowire growth

File:

Download BCooley-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Sheu, Ben-Li

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

ferromagnetism
magnetic semiconductors
spintronics

File:

Download Thesis-Ben-Li_Sheu.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Chuntai

Title:

Study of correlations in fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
composite fermion

File:

Download Shi_Thesis_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Haohua

Title:

EFFECTS OF DIMENSIONALITY, SAMPLE TOPOLOGY, AND DISORDER ON SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Global Phase Coherence
Nanowires
Sample Topology Effects
Quantum Phase Transition
Mesoscopic Superconductors
Superconductivity

File:

Download HWang-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jinwu Ye, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Jian

Title:

Polaried Light Scattering from Individual Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Antenna effect
Raman Scattering
Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires
Semiconductor Nanowires
Rayleigh Scattering
Stimulated Raman Scattering

File:

Download Wu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Lasse Jenson, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Jie

Title:

STUDY OF ARTIFICIAL FRUSTRATED ARRAYS OF SINGLE-DOMAIN FERROMAGNETS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

frustration

File:

Download Jie_Li_Disertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Nelson, Karl D.

Title:

Phase-Sensitive Determination of the Pairing Symmetry in Sr<SUB>2</sub>RuO<SUB>4</sub>

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

odd parity
spin triplet
Sr2RuO4
p-wave
phase-sensitive
unconventional superconductivity

File:

Download sro-pairsym.pdf

Committee Members:

Ying Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Graham, Kenneth Loran

Title:

Quantum Monte Carlo Studies of Strongly Correlated Two-Dimensional Electron Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

strongly correlated electron system
fractional quantum Hall effect
correlation function
composite fermions
Monte Carlo
quantum Monte Carlo
two dimensional electron system

File:

Download KennethLGraham-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Peter C Jurs, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Ku, Keh-Chiang

Title:

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spintronics

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

spintronics
semiconductor heterostructures
molecular beam epitaxy
diluted magnetic semiconductors
spin coherence

File:

Download Ku-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Mark Jeffrey

Title:

EXCHANGE AND CRYSTALLINE ORIENTATION STUDIES OF THE III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTOR (Ga,Mn)As

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gallium manganese arsenide
Mn)As
(Ga
GaMnAs
spintronics
magnetic semiconductor
spin torque
magnetic tunnel junction

File:

Download Mark_Wilson_Thesis_Plus_VITA_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Ying Liu, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Meng

Title:

ELECTRICAL TRANSPORT STUDIES OF MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY GROWN (GA,MN)AS EPILAYERS AND HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

random telegraph noise
Molecular beam epitaxy
Mn)As
(Ga
Diluted magnetic semiconductor
exchange biasing
tunneling magnetoresistance

File:

Download Meng_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Peihong

Title:

THEORY OF ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS: NOVEL GROUP-IV MATERIALS AND REAL SPACE METHODS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

multigrid
finite element methods
Electronic structure
real-space methods
carbon nanotubes
ab initio
band structure
semiconductor
planewave
pseudopotential

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Lu, Qiujie

Title:

A Raman and Rayleigh Scattering Study of Electrical and Phonon Properties of Semiconducting Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Raman
Rayleigh
Antenna Effect
Hot Tip Effect
FDTD simulation
Semiconducting Nanowire

File:

Download Thesis_LU_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Woodworth, Ryan

Title:

Few-body properties of interacting spins in III-V semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

semiconductor microdisk lasers
spin exchange scattering
charge diffusion
encoded quantum computation

File:

Download RyanWoodworthDissertation2.pdf

Committee Members:

Gerald Dennis Mahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Ruifang

Title:

GEOMETRICAL MAGNETIC FRUSTRATION AND DEMAGNETIZATION OF ARTIFICIAL SPIN ICE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometrical magnetic frustration
spin ice

File:

Download Thesis_Ruifang_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Sungjun

Title:

Pumping spin, singlet pairs, and light

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum pumping
spintronics
entanglement

File:

Download sungjun_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Ari Mizel, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Sharon Hammes Schiffer, Committee Member

Author:

Russin, Timothy John

Title:

Interaction of Light with Dye-Doped Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticles

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanoparticles
indocyanine green
local field effect
bioimaging
penetration depth
quantum yield
quantum efficiency
fluorescence

File:

Download thesis-tjr.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Scarola, Vito William

Title:

Phase Diagram of The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

p-wave pairing
flux quantum
composite fermion
Quantum Hall

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Xiaoming

Title:

BORON DOPING OF SINGLE WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube
boron doping
conducting films

File:

Download Xiaoming_Liu_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Xia

Title:

Evanescent Field Coupled Microdisk Cavities

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic molecules
photonics
microdisk
laser
semiconductor
microcavity
cavity quantum electrodynamics

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Hu, Yufeng

Title:

Strain-induced magneto-transport properties of manganite thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

manganite
Strain
low-field
magnetoresistance
anisotropy
magneto-transport

File:

Download Thesis-v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Tom Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, ZhaoHui

Title:

MATERIALS DESIGN OF SUBSTRATES FOR GAS ADSORPTION AND STORAGE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

hydrogen release kinetics
chemical hydrogen storage
metal aggregation

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

Author:

Hao, Qingzhen

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Metallic Nanostructures for Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Plasmonic Applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanofabrication
SERS
active plasmonics
nanostructures
Fano resonance
Babinet's principle
near-field
far-field

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Qingzhen_Hao_Version_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Huang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Committee Member

Author:

Dasilva, Ashley Marie

Title:

Transport properties of Dirac fermions in two dimensions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Dirac fermions
graphene
topological insulators
transport
two dimensional systems

File:

Download thesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, 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:

Zou, Ke

Title:

Transport studies of mono-, bi- and tri- layer graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
bilayer graphene
trilayer graphene
transport
dielectrics
band structure

File:

Download KEZOU-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Ying, Yiqun Alex

Title:

Probing the Enhanced Superconductivity and Chiral Edge Current in Spin-triplet Superconductor Sr2RuO4

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Sr2RuO4
spin-triplet superconductivity
chiral p-wave
proximity effect
dislocation
Josephson interferometer
chiral edge current

File:

Download YAYING-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Ying Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Liang, Jing

Title:

Hybrid magnetic/semiconductor nanowires: synthesis and characterization

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

core/shell nanowire
spintronics
AMR effect
catalyst-free

File:

Download Jing-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Matthews, Maria Jane

Title:

Field Dependent Spin Dynamics in Dy2ti2o7

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Spin ice
dynamics
field
dependence
fluctuations

File:

Download MM_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Sheng

Title:

Tuning geometries and interactions of artificial frustrated nanomagnets

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Geometrical frustration
Artificial spin ice
Nanomagnetism

File:

Download Dissertation_Sheng_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Special Member

Author:

Narayanaswami, Sandeep

Title:

Restricted versions of the two-local Hamiltonian problem

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Hamiltonian complexity
quantum computing
algorithms
QMA

File:

Download SNarayanaswami.diss.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Hallgren, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Weiss, Committee Member
Jason Ryder Morton, Committee Member

Author:

Rench, David William

Title:

Investigation of Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Devices

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Nanotechnology
magnetic
semiconductors
spintronics
spin
ice
topological
insulator

File:

Download DaveRench_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Roman Engel Herbert, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Dai, Wenqing

Title:

Electron Tunneling and Point Contact Andreev Reflection Studies of Superconductors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Superconductor
Tunneling
Point contact
Topological superconductor
multiband superconductor
proximity effect

File:

Download Thesis_140404_Dai_rev.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Wu, Yinghai

Title:

Fractional Quantum Hall States in Continuum and Lattice Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological phases
quantum Hall states
composite fermions
quantum gases
synthetic gauge fields

File:

Download Yinghai_Wu_Dissert.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Special Member

Author:

Lee, Joon Sue

Title:

Topological insulator systems with magnetism

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological insulator
surface state
magnetism
ferromagnetism
spintronics
molecular beam epitaxy

File:

Download JoonSueLee_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Kinematic Matrix Theory, Chiral Diffusion and Chromatography of Self-propellers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kinematic matrix theory
Gaussian memory
chiral diffusion
chiral separation
swimmer
self-propeller
nanomotor
nanorotor

File:

Download Amir-Dissertation-physics-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ali Borhan, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Special Member

Author:

Kandala, Abhinav

Title:

Transport studies of mesoscopic and magnetic topological insulators

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulators
Magneto-transport
Quantum anomalous Hall effect
Magnetism
Quantum interference

File:

Download Dissertation_AbhinavKandala.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member

Author:

Magyar, Andrew Lewis

Title:

Statistics of Single Unit Responses in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe: a Sparse and Overdispersed Code

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

theoretical neuroscience
memory
neural representation
sparse coding

File:

Download Magyar-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

John Collins, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Patrick James Drew, Committee Member

Author:

Hsu, Hsiu-chuan

Title:

Theoretical study on transport properties of topological states of matter

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum anomalous Hall effect
magnetoconductance
topological insulator nanotube

File:

Download HsiuchuanHsu.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

Author:

Du, Renzhong

Title:

Electrical Transport Studies Of Topological Insulator Bi2te3 Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Topological Insulator
Quantum Transport
Nanotubes

File:

Download Renzhong_Du-PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qi Li, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Yang

Title:

single qubit addressing

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

quantum physics
quantum computing
quantum information
qubit
AMO
optical lattice

File:

Download YW_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Nathan David Gemelke, Committee Member
Sean Hallgren, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Coimbatore Balram, Ajit

Title:

Exotic emergent phenomena in the fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
topological phases
composite fermions

File:

Download ACB_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Fraleigh, Robert Douglas

Title:

Direct Investigation of Collective Phenomena In Patterned Ising-like Arrays Using High-Resolution Kerr Microscopy

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Kerr Imaging
Magneto Optical Kerr Effect
Geometric Frustration
Perpendicular Anisotropy

File:

Download Robert_Fraleigh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kenneth O'Hara, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Giordano, Gerardo

Title:

NEUTRINO FLAVOR OSCILLATIONS IN THE ICECUBE DEEPCORE ARRAY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Tau
Neutrinos
DeepCore
IceCube
Neutrino Flavor Oscillations

File:

Download Giordano-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Irina Mocioiu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Tyce DeYoung, Committee Member
Jorge Sofo, Committee Member
Peter Meszaros, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Cooper, Brian C

Title:

NOVEL SYNTHETIC METHODS AND CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES OF NIOBIUM-DISULFIDE IN MULTIPLE GEOMETRIES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

NbS2
Layered Transition Metal Dichalcogenide

File:

Download BrianCCooperDissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Wang, Qingze

Title:

CRYSTALLINE SYMMETRY IN TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS AND SUPERCONDUCTORS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulators
topological superconductors
crystalline symmetry
quantum anomalous Hall effect
spin texture
circular photogalvanic effect
topological crystalline insulators
topological crystalline superconductors
nonsymmorphic crystalline symmetry
quantum well
quantum spin Hall effect
topological mirror superconductors
topological mirror insulators
topological classification
magnetic semiconductors

File:

Download Qingze-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Chaoxing Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Ismaila Dabo, Outside Member

Author:

Pan, Yu

Title:

Optoelectronic study of topological insulators and topological insulator - magnetic insulator heterostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

topological insulators
optoelectronics
spintronics
photo-galvanic effect
magnetism

File:

Download YP_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Outside Member

Author:

Li, Jing

Title:

A transport study of emerging phenomena in bilayer graphene nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

bilayer graphene
valleytronics
quantum Hall effect
quantum valley Hall
kink state
effective mass
quantum Hall edge tunneling

File:

Download Dissertation_Jing_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chaoxing Liu, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member