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Author:

Patwardhan, Ashish Anil

Title:

Thermal Sensing Using Micromachined Y-cut Quartz Resonators

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

micromachined
thermal sensing
QCM
resonators
Quartz
mems

File:

Download Ashish_Patwardhan_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Hirsh, Andrew

Title:

Design, Fabrication, and Testing of a Piezoelectric T-Beam Actuator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

T-Beam
Actuator
Piezoelectric

File:

Download Hirsh_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Agrawal, Ashish

Title:

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF LOW-FIELD TRANSPORT IN HIGHLY CONFINED ARSENIDE-ANTIMONIDE QUANTUM WELL HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Relaxation Time Approximation
Low field transport
Arsenide Antimonides
Scattering
QMSA
Effective mass

File:

Download Ashish_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Suman Datta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suman Datta, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

Hong, Eunki

Title:

Surface Micromachined Peristaltic Pumps Using Lead Zirconate Titanate Film

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

surface micromachining
micropump
interdigitated electrode
diaphragm actuator
MEMS
PZT

File:

Download etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
S V Krishnaswamy, Committee Member

Author:

Kommepalli, Hareesh Kumar Reddy

Title:

DESIGN, MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Tbeam
unimorph
piezoelectric actuators
uniflex
flextensional
MEMS

File:

Download Hareesh_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ashok D Belegundu, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Christopher L Muhlstein, 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:

Cheong, Jongpil

Title:

DESIGN, FABRICATION, MODELING, AND EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A PIEZOELECTRIC FLEXTENSIONAL MICROACTUATOR

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Buckling
PZT
beam
flextensional
microactuator

File:

Download Ph.D._Thesis_Jongpil_Cheong_ME.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member

Author:

Miyazaki, Koichi

Title:

Essays on Public Economics

Graduate Program:

Economics

Keywords:

stochastic overlapping generations model
social security
voting
costly information acquisition

File:

Download KoichiMiyazaki-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Professor Edward J Green, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Neil Wallace, Committee Member
Ruilin Zhou, Committee Member
Edward James Green, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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:

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:

Wu, Ming-hsun

Title:

Development and Experimental Analyses of Meso and Micro Scale Combustion Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

microcombustion
micropropulsion
microfluidic
flame propagation

File:

Download etD-18Apr07.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vigor Yang, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Kendra Sharp, 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:

Bassiri Gharb, Nazanin

Title:

Dielectric and piezoelectric nonlinearities in oriented PYbN-PT thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

ferroelectric
thin film
nonlinearities
extrinsic contributions
domain walls

File:

Download Thesis-Bassiri-Dec2005.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Dragan Damjanovic, Committee Member

Author:

Sunal, Paul

Title:

EVALUATION OF MOMENTUM EFFECTS ON MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF Ti-Si-N NANOCRYSTALLINE COMPOSITES PREPARED BY PULSED DC REACTIVE SPUTTERING

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

Hard Coatings
Nanocomposites
Pulsed Magnetron Sputtering
Momentum
Plasma

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
S Ashok, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member
Robert W Collins, Committee Member