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1. Study of bonding and doping properties of sp^2 carbon nanostructures: numerical simulations and development of empirical interaction potentials.

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Author:
Kolmogorov, Aleksey N.
Title:
Study of bonding and doping properties of sp^2 carbon nanostructures: numerical simulations and development of empirical interaction potentials.
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
nanotube
interlayer
graphitic substrate
File:
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Committee Members:
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ari Mizel, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Member

3. Synthesis and Raman Scattering Studies of Novel Semiconductor Nanostructures: Si, Ge and GaAs Twinning Superlattice Nanowires

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Open Access
Author:
Adu, Kofi Wi
Title:
Synthesis and Raman Scattering Studies of Novel Semiconductor Nanostructures: Si, Ge and GaAs Twinning Superlattice Nanowires
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
Phonon confinement
Quantum confinement
Twinning Superlattice
Nanowires
Raman Scattering
Fano Interference Scattering
Semiconductor nanostructures
Pulsed Laser Vaporization(PLV)
Synthesis
Oxidation
File:
Download Thesis_Kofi_Wi_Adu.pdf
Committee Members:
Karen Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Paul Sokol, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member

5. MANGANITE AND YBA2CU3O7 SPINTRONIC DEVICES

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Open Access
Author:
Wertz, Eric Tyson
Title:
MANGANITE AND YBA2CU3O7 SPINTRONIC DEVICES
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
Manganite
LSMO
LCMO
Spintronics
Spin diffusion
Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MTJ
Eric Wertz
YBCO
YBa2Cu3O7
STO
SrTiO3
LNO
LaNiO3
Critical Current Suppression
Colossal Magnetoresistance
CMR
High-Tc
Superconductor
Spin injection
Tunneling magnetoresistance
Pulsed laser deposition
PLD
La0.67Sr0.33MnO3
La0.67Ca0.33MnO3
GMR
Demagnetization
Non-equilibrium superconductivity
Superconductivity
High Temperature Superconductor
Bipolar spin transistor
Spin detection
Spin device
microfabrication
Sherlock Holmes
Wertz
Target Rotator
Target Carousel
PLD Heater
PLD Target Rotator
PLD Target Carousel
ion milling
perovskite
Thin films
Penn State Physics
Au/YBCO contact
Au/YBCO contact recovery.
File:
Download EricWertzThesisFinal.pdf
Committee Members:
Qi Li, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

8. EFFECTS OF GAS INTERACTIONS ON THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

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Author:
Romero, Hugo E
Title:
EFFECTS OF GAS INTERACTIONS ON THE TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
carbon nanotubes
transport properties
nanoscale materials
thermoelectric power
electronic transport
scattering mechanisms
File:
Download thesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

9. On the Low-Energy Ramifications and a Mathematical Extension of Loop Quantum Gravity

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Author:
Willis, Joshua L
Title:
On the Low-Energy Ramifications and a Mathematical Extension of Loop Quantum Gravity
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
low energy limit
loop quantum gravity
non-compact gauge group
loop quantum cosmology
File:
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Committee Members:
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John C Collins, Committee Member
Alejandro Perez, Committee Member
Tom Abel, Committee Member

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

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Open Access
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

12. Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Semiconductor Heterostructures for Spintronics

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Open Access
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

13. A journey across time scales: accelerated atomistic simulation of surface growth

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Open Access
Author:
Miron, Radu Alexandru
Title:
A journey across time scales: accelerated atomistic simulation of surface growth
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
molecular dynamics
simulation
accelerated
surface
growth
heteroepitaxy
small barrier
parallel
File:
Download althesis.pdf
Committee Members:
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Janna Kay Maranas, Committee Member
Jayant Banavar, Committee Member

15. PP-Wave Superalgebras of Supergravity Theories in Ten and Eleven Dimensions and Their Spectra

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Author:
Fernando, Sudarshan
Title:
PP-Wave Superalgebras of Supergravity Theories in Ten and Eleven Dimensions and Their Spectra
Graduate Program:
Physics
Keywords:
pp-wave
plane-wave
superalgebra
supergravity
superstring theory
M-theory
Penrose limit
zero-mode spectra
AdS/CFT
BMN
oscillator method
File:
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Committee Members:
Murat Gunaydin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member