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Author:

Goyal, Abhijat

Title:

Ultrasensitive Quartz Crystal Microbalance Integrated with Carbon Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Gas Adsorption
Quality Factor
Carbon Nanotubes
Automatic Gain Control Circuit
Sensor
Etching
Quartz Crystal Microbalance
Y-cut quartz
infra red sensor
self assembled monolayers.

File:

Download Abhijat_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karen Eklund, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Charles Lee Croskey, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member

Author:

KUO, CHUNG-CHEN

Title:

HIGH PERFORMANCE SMALL-MOLECULE ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

solution processing
silane coupling agent
organic semiconductors
organic thin film transistors
pentacene
anthradithiophene
field effect mobility

File:

Download Thesis1129.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Dalong

Title:

PLASMA-ENHANCED ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION ZINC OIXDE FLEXIBLE THIN FILM ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Oxide semiconductor
plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition
thin film transistor
flexible electronics

File:

Download Thesis-final-ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Hyunsoo

Title:

HIGH FREQUENCY LOW VOLTAGE PIEZOELECTRIC MEMS DEVICES WITH CLOSE COUPLED ELECTRONICS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS Devices
Ultrasound transducers
Quartz crystal oscillators
Piezoelectric thin film
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers

File:

Download dissertation_hsk.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member

Author:

Ren, Kailiang

Title:

Approaches to Achieve Smarter Electroactive Materials and Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Polymer
Polymer Actuators
Energy Harvesting
Shape Memory Polymer
Self-healing.

File:

Download KailiangThesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Shankar, Karthik

Title:

Effect of Architecture and Doping on the Photoelectrochemical Properties of Titania Nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Photovoltaic
Nanotubes
Anodization
Electrochemical
formamide
protophilic solvents
solar cells
dye sensitized
photocatalyst
quantum efficiency
Incident Photon Conversion Efficiency
Flame Annealing
Anionic Doping
Electron Transport in TiO2
Open circuit voltage decay technique
high surface area nanostructures
ordered heterojunction

File:

Download ThesisMaster.pdf

Committee Members:

Craig A Grimes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Lisong

Title:

AMORPHOUS SILICON AND ORGANIC THIN FILM TRANSISTORS FOR ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

AMORPHOUS SILICON
THIN FILM TRANSISTOR
PENTACENE

File:

Download Thesis_LZ.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Qing Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Duarte, Nicolas Benjamin

Title:

Thermopower Measurement of Gold Nanowire Systems Using A Micromachined Workbench

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

nanowire
MEMS
thermopower
thermoelectricity
thermotunnel
nanowire system
SThM
gold

File:

Download DuarteThesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member

Author:

Joshi, Prasoon

Title:

Effect of Environment on The Transport Properties of Graphene Devices

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Substrate Effects
Chemical Sensing
Nanotechnology
Graphene
Low - Dimensional Systems

File:

Download PrasoonJoshi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member

Author:

Kao, Ping

Title:

MICROMACHINED QUARTZ CRYSTAL RESONATOR ARRAYS FOR BIOANALYTICAL APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

QCM
Array
Biosensor
Protein
QCR
DNA
Micromachined

File:

Download Dissertation_Ping_Kao.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Melik C Demirel, Committee Member

Author:

Mookerjea, Saurabh Amitabha

Title:

BAND-TO-BAND TUNNELING FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTOR FOR LOW POWER LOGIC AND MEMORY APPLICATIONS: DESIGN,FABRICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MILLER CAPACITANCE
HETERO-JUNCTION
HOMO-JUNCTION
TFET
6T SRAM

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Kingsuk Maitra, Committee Member

Author:

Gross, Steven Joseph

Title:

MICROMACHINED SWITCHES AND CANTILEVER ACTUATORS BASED ON PIEZOELECTRIC LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE (PZT)

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
PZT
microfabrication
etching
cantilevers
xenon difluoride
ion beam etching
piezoelectric
actuators
unimorph
bimorph

File:

Download SJG-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

Author:

Tuncdemir, Safakcan

Title:

DESIGN, MODELING AND CONTROL OF A NOVEL MULTI FUNCTIONAL TRANSLATIONAL-ROTARY MICRO ULTRASONIC MOTOR

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

2-dof
piezoelectric
ultrasonic motor
translation
rotary
slanted

File:

Download sut133_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenji Uchino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenji Uchino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Sheng

Title:

HIGH ELECTROMECHANICAL RESPONSE ELECTROACTIVE POLYMERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS FOR SOLID STATE ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

electroactive polymers
actuators
electromechanical
ionic polymer
electrostrictive polymers

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_-_Sheng_Liu_-_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Craig Grimes, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Yuyan

Title:

A MICROMACHINED THERMAL SENSOR FOR BIOCHEMICAL SENSING AND POLYMER CHARACTERIZTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

micromachined
thermopile
calorimeter
biochemical
polymer
fluidic

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Michael Pishko, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Zhao

Title:

Ultra Sensitive Magnetic Sensors Integrating the Giant Magnetoelectric Effect with Advanced Microelectronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

microelectronics
magnetostrictive
magnetic sensors

File:

Download Zhao-Dissertation-2011.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Qing X Yang, Committee Member

Author:

Mateti, Kiron

Title:

Flapping Wing Mechanisms for Pico Air Vehicles Using Piezoelectric Actuators

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

MEMS
compliant mechanisms
piezoelectric actuators
flapping wing air vehicles
biologically inspired robotics

File:

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Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Shin, Hang-beum

Title:

AMORPHOUS FILM MICROSTRUCTURE AND ITS DEVICE APPLICATIONS: STRAIN SENSOR, MICROBOLOMETER, THIN FILM TRANSISTOR AND SOLAR CELL

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

hydrogenated amorphous silicon
PECVD
autonomous powered circuit
uncooled IR microbolometer
strain sensor array
thin film transistor
flexible substrate
TCAD simulation
high TCR
1/f noise
normalized Hooge parameter
sputtered germanium
ZnO TFT
a-Si:H solar cellcircuit
uncooled IR microbolometer

File:

Download Thesis_HB_20120515.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Liu, Yang

Title:

Ionic Electroactive Polymer Composite Actuators

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Ionic Electroactive Polymer
Ionic Liquids
Actuator

File:

Download PhD_Thesis-Yang_Liu_revision_04272012.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Shizhuo Yin, Committee Member
Ralph H Colby, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Feng

Title:

Magnetoelectric Flexural Gate Transistors with Nanotesla Sensitivity

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetoelectric
Magnetic Sensors
Magnetostriction
Thin film Metglas，Magnetic Flux Concentration
Flicker Noise
Readout Circuit

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Feng_Li.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Yuan Xie, Special Member

Author:

Fok, Ho Him

Title:

Integrated Electronics and Fluidic MEMS for Bioengineering

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin Film Transistors
Sensors
Zinc Oxide
MEMS
Electrokinetics
Bioengineering

File:

Download Raymond_Fok_Dissertation_final_submission_revised.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
William O Hancock, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Lee, Hyeonseok

Title:

Photoactive nanostructured materials and devices: Pt photoanodes, Cu photocatalysts and SnS absorbers

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Sculptured thin films
CO2 conversion
solar cells

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_by_H._Lee-_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Member

Author:

Min, Hwall

Title:

study of interfacial phenomena for bio/chemical sensing application

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

quartz
resonator
quartz crystal microbalance
biosensor
chemical sensor
protein adsorption
RSA
ionic liquid
pattern recognition

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Hwall_Min_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member
David Lawrence Allara, Special Member

Author:

Kim, Duksoo

Title:

Thermal and Thermoelectric Transport Studies in Nanomaterials Using Microfabricated Testbench

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Thermal
Thermoelectric
Nanomaterials
Testbench

File:

Download dissertation_DukSoo.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member

Author:

Qian, Xiaoshi

Title:

MATERIAL SYSTEM ENGINEERING FOR ADVANCED ELECTROCALORIC COOLING TECHNOLOGY

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Electrocaloric effect
Cooling devices
Dielectrics
Ferroelectrics

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_Xiaoshi_Qian_April2015_QMZ4.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Special Member

Author:

Hatipoglu, Gokhan

Title:

MICROMACHINED QUARTZ RESONATOR BASED HIGH SENSITIVITY MAGNETOMETERS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Sensors
Magnetostriction
Quartz resonators

File:

Download Gokhan_Hatipoglu_dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suman Datta, Committee Member
Sumeet Kumar Gupta, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Haoyu

Title:

Functional Flexible Thin Film Electronics

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Flexible electronics
thin film transistors (TFTs)
oxide semiconductors
polymeric substrate
mechanical flexibility
VOx
OLED

File:

Download Haoyu_Li_dissertation_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Enrique Daniel Gomez, Committee Member

Author:

Madan, Himanshu

Title:

Design And Characterization Of Novel Rf Circuits Based On Emerging Material Systems

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Scanning Microwave Microscopy
Vanadium di-oxide
Insulator-to-Metal Transition (IMT)
RF switch
Graphene
Ambipolar Mixer

File:

Download Dissertation_HimanshuMadan_Sp16.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Julio Urbina, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Special Member

Author:

Lu, Meng Chien

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY SENSITIVE MAGNETOELECTRIC SENSORS FOR BIO-MAGNETIC SIGNAL DETECTION

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magneto electric
Piezoelectric
Magnetostrictive
Magnetic sensor
Biomagnetic liver susceptometry
liver iron concentration
Shear mode effect
ME laminate composite
ME sensor

File:

Download MCLu_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Qiming Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Outside Member

Author:

Freeman, Eugene

Title:

MAGNETOELECTRIC AND OPTO-MECHANICAL MAGNETIC SENSING

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetoelectric
Whispering Galley Mode
Passively Powered
Wireless
Quartz
Micromachined
Magnetometer
Chip-scale
Optomechanical
Glassblowing

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_E_Freeman_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Member
Steven Schiff, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Chenchen

Title:

EXPLORING NOVEL GLASS MICROFABRICATION TECHNIQUES FOR SENSOR APPLICATIONS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

glass etching
on-chip glass microspherical shell
WGM resonator
glass microbubble ensulation

File:

Download Ph.D_thesis_Chenchen_Zhang_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Weihua Guan, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Outside Member