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Author:: Stevenson, Adam Joseph
Title:: THE EFFECTS OF SINTERING AIDS ON DEFECTS, DENSIFICATION, AND SINGLE CRYSTAL CONVERSION OF TRANSPARENT ND:YAG CERAMICS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: transparent ceramics
grain growth
sintering
ceramic processing
File:: Download Stevenson_Dissertation-FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Gary Lynn Messing, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Gary Lynn Messing, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Patrick M Lenahan, Committee Member

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Author:: Soukiassian, Arsen
Title:: GROWTH OF NANOSCALE BaTiO3/SrTiO3 SUPERLATTICES BY MOLECULAR-BEAM EPITAXY
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Ferroelectric thin films
ferroelectric superlattices
epitaxial growth
oxide MBE
ferroelectric phase transitions
UV Raman spectroscopy
File:: Download Thesis_updated5.pdf
Committee Members:: Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
James Patrick Runt, Committee Member

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Author:: Kumar, Amit
Title:: SPIN-CHARGE-LATTICE COUPLING IN MULTIFERROICS AND STRAINED FERROELECTRICS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: Multiferroics
Strained Ferroelectrics
Spin-charge coupling
File:: Download ThesisFinal_Amit.pdf
Committee Members:: Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member

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Author:: Aravind, Vasudeva Rao
Title:: Probing local structure and dynamics of ferroelectric domain walls using nonlinear optics and scanning probe microscopy
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: piezoresponse force microscopy
scanning probe microscopy
optical second harmonic generation
multiferroic
ferroelectric
strontium titanate
lithium niobate
File:: Download Thesis_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Member

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Author:: Bae, Chilman
Title:: ELECTRICAL, CHEMICAL, AND MECHANICAL MANIPULATION OF THE ENDOTHELIAL CELL SURFACE WITH A MULTIFUNCTIONAL NANOPIPETTE
Graduate Program:: Bioengineering
Keywords:: electroporation
mechanotransduction
micropipette
Cell membrane
endothelial cell
File:: Download Thesis_ChilmanBae.pdf
Committee Members:: Peter J Butler, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter J Butler, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member
Ryan Clement, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

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Author:: Scrymgeour, David A
Title:: Local Structure and Shaping of Ferroelectric Domain Walls for Photonic Applications
Graduate Program:: Materials
Keywords:: piezoelectric force microscopy
optical devices
lithium tantalate
lithium niobate
ferroelectrics
scanner
QPM
File:: Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Evangelos Manias, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Member
Kenji Uchino, Committee Member

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Author:: Vlahos, Eftihia
Title:: Phase Transitions and Domain Structures in Multiferroics
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: confocal microscopy
thin films
multiferroics
nonlinear optics
phase transitions
symmetry
File:: Download EVlahosDissertationFinal.pdf
Committee Members:: Venkatraman Gopalan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member

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Author:: Wang, Fei
Title:: Optics of Slanted Chiral Sculptured Thin Films
Graduate Program:: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Keywords:: Sculptured Thin Films
Chirality
Circular Bragg Phenomenon
Defect Mode
Dipole
Beam Shift
Coupled Wave Theory
Optical filter
Optical Sensor
Tunable Laser
File:: Download PhDthesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

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Author:: Sheng, Guang
Title:: PHASE-FIELD SIMULATION OF PHASE TRANSITIONS, DOMAIN STABILITIES AND STRUCTURES IN FERROELECTRIC THIN FILMS
Graduate Program:: Materials Science and Engineering
Keywords:: thin film
ferroelectric
phase-field
domain stability
File:: Download Guang_Sheng_PhD_thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Long Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member

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Author:: Calkins, Jacob Andrew
Title:: FUNCTIONALIZED BIOINSPIRED MICROSTRUCTURED OPTICAL FIBER PORES FOR APPLICATIONS IN CHEMICAL VAPOR SENSING
Graduate Program:: Chemistry
Keywords:: Light Scattering
Microstructured Optical Fibers
SERS
Waveguide Raman
Self-assembled Monolayers
File:: Download Calkins_dissertation_final_2011.pdf
Committee Members:: John V Badding, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John V Badding, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member

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