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Author:

Mei, Zhigang

Title:

First-principles Thermodynamics of Phase Transition: from Metal to Oxide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

First-principles
thermodynamics
phase transitions
Ti
TiO2
BiFeO3

File:

Download ZhigangMei_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Zi Kui Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member

Author:

Huang, Xu

Title:

Multiscale mechanics of carbon nanotubes and graphene

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

Carbon nanotube; Graphene; Multiscale Modeling; Buckling; Rippli

File:

Download Xu_Huang_Multiscale_Mechanics_of_Carbon_Nanotubes_and_Graphene.pdf

Committee Members:

Sulin Zhang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sulin Zhang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, 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:

Wang, Bei

Title:

Graphene and graphene fluoride: synthesis, properties and applications

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

graphene
graphene fluoride
GFET

File:

Download Bei_Thesis_Final_VITA.pdf

Committee Members:

Jun Zhu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jun Zhu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Mahdavi, Arash

Title:

Mechanics Of Low-dimensional Carbon Nanostructures: Atomistic, Continuum, And Multi-scale Approaches

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Finite Element
Nanomechanics
Carbon Nanotube
Multisclae
Nonlinear
Continuum Mechanics

File:

Download Thesis_Arash_Mahdavi.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric M Mockensturm, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Mary I Frecker, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Special Member

Author:

Nourhani, Amir

Title:

Dynamics of Electrocatalytic Nanomotors and Powered Random Walkers

Graduate Program:

Chemical Engineering

Keywords:

nanomotor
nanorotor
random walker
electrocatalytic
effective diffusion

File:

Download Amir-final-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Ali Borhan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Ali Borhan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Spiro Vrentas, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, 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:

Chia, Cheng Ing

Title:

Geometrically constrained nanoscale materials

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

DFT
graphene
topological frustration
nanoribbon

File:

Download CIChia-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Ganesh Jaya, Sreejith

Title:

Multipartite states and Luttinger liquids of composite fermions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

FQHE
Composite-fermions
bipartite-composite-fermions

File:

Download Sreejith-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
David Scott Weiss, Committee Member
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Member
Kirsten A Eisentrager, Committee Member

Author:

Byun, Young-moo

Title:

First-principles Theoretical Studies of Carbon Nanomaterials and New Data Analysis Methods for Catalytic Platinum Microswimmers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Fullerene
Fluorographene
Density Functional Theory
GW Approximation
Microswimmer
Chemotaxis

File:

Download Young-Moo_Byun-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, 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:

Iordanov, Ivan Olegov

Title:

Theoretical Modelling of Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Clusters

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Photo-electron Spectroscopy
Density Functional Theory
Molecular Clusters
Franck-Condon Factors
Vibrational States

File:

Download Ivan_Iordanov_thesis_postreview_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member