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Author:

Willitsford, Adam Henry

Title:

RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY IN THE ULTRAVIOLET USING A TUNABLE LASER

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ultraviolet
uv
benzene
toluene
spectroscopy
raman
resonance

File:

Download Willitsford_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Russell Philbrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Sven G Bilen, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member
Dr Hans Hallen, Committee Member
Stewart Kendall Kurtz, Committee Member
Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member

Author:

Kurland, Adam Ross

Title:

Atomic-Scale Studies of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Substrate-Mediated Interactions and Interface Structures

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

substrate-mediated interactions
low temperature
STM
catalysis
spectroscopy

File:

Download KurlandPhDThesis2010.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul S Weiss, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul S Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Benjamin James Lear, Committee Member
Seong H Kim, Committee Member
Michael V Pishko, Committee Member

Author:

Narayanan, Anand

Title:

The Origins and Evolution of Weak Low Ionization Quasar Absorption Line Systems

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

quasar absorption lines
galaxies
intergalactic medium
spectroscopy
absorption lines
circumgalactic gas
high velocity clouds

File:

Download Thesis_AN.pdf

Committee Members:

Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric D Feigelson, Committee Member
Derek Brindley Fox, Committee Member
Gordon Paul Garmire, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member

Author:

Choperena Guerra, Andrea

Title:

Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Hydrogen Bonding in Phenolic Polymers

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

temperature
poly(vinyl phenol)
ethyl phenol
polymer
phenolic polymers
spectroscopy
IR
infrared
heat
miscibility

File:

Download Thesis_Choperena_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul C Painter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Paul C Painter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kimball, Bryn Elizabeth

Title:

Biogeochemical Cycling of Copper in Acid Mine Drainage

Graduate Program:

Geosciences

Keywords:

microscopy
isotopes
iron-oxidizing microorganisms
acid mine drainage
copper
spectroscopy

File:

Download Kimball_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan Louise Brantley, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan Louise Brantley, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jennifer Macalady, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Matthew Scott Fantle, Committee Member
Brian Dempsey, Committee Member

Author:

Brown, David Michael

Title:

Multi-wavelength Differential Absorption Measurements of Chemical Species

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

remote sensing
supercontinuum
spectroscopy
differential absorption
lidar

File:

Download Brown_PhD_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

C Russell Philbrick, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Kultegin Aydin, Committee Member
Hampton Nelson Shirer, Committee Member

Author:

Sahin, Dagistan

Title:

ACTIVITY, EXPOSURE RATE AND GAMMA SPECTRUM PREDICTION FOR NEUTRON IRRADIATED MATERIALS AT RADIATION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTER

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

prediction
java
Monte Carlo
Geant-4
neutron
activity
irradiation
gamma
spectroscopy
neutron activation analysis

File:

Download sahin_MS_thesisDec3.pdf

Committee Members:

Kenan Unlu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Kenan Unlu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cederquist, Kristin Baine

Title:

Hairpin Nucleic Acid Probes for Metal Nanowire-Based Surface Studies and Biosensing.

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

surface characterization
spectroscopy
nanotechnology
fluorescence
bioconjugate synthesis
biochemical interactions
bioassays
multiplexed sensing

File:

Download kbcederquist_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christine Dolan Keating, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Philip C. Bevilacqua, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member

Author:

Kyoung, Minjoung

Title:

Molecular dynamics of biomembrane as probed by multifaceted biophotonics

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

membrane
spectroscopy
microscopy
TIR
HOT
FCS
cell
lipid

File:

Download Dissertation_MK.pdf

Committee Members:

Erin Elizabeth Sheets, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christine Dolan Keating, Committee Member
Tae Hee Lee, Committee Member
Ahmed A Heikal, Committee Member

Author:

Bianco, Nicholas Joseph

Title:

The Effects of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Solvation on the Femtosecond Dynamics of Atmosperhically Relevant Clusters

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

spectroscopy
pump-probe
decay
femtosecond
dynamics
clusters
water
formic acid
sulfur dioxide
time-of-flight
ultraviolet

File:

Download Nicholas_Bianco_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member

Author:

Edwards, Perry S.

Title:

Measurement and Analysis of Atmospheric Species using a Low Power Supercontinuum Laser

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

supercontinuum
DOAS
DIAL
atmospheric sensing
lidar
remote sensing
spectroscopy

File:

Download Edwards_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

C Russell Philbrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
C Russell Philbrick, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Morton, Seth Michael

Title:

Electrodynamic and Electronic Structure Methods to Model Surface Enhanced Spectroscopy and Molecule-metal Nanoparticle Optical Coupling

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

surface enhanced
Raman
spectroscopy
electronic structure
hybridization
theory
plasmonics
plasmon
nanoparticle
electrodynamics

File:

Download SethMorton-PSUThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lasse Jensen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Lawrence Allara, Committee Member
John B Asbury, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Special Member

Author:

Yang, Chuan

Title:

Nonlinear Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy With Ultrafast Laser Pulses

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

ultrafast laser
femtosecond laser
nonlinear optics
microscopy
spectroscopy
imaging spectrometer
FROG
pulse characterization

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Chuan_Yang.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qiming Zhang, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Committee Member
Iam Choon Khoo, Committee Member
Victor P Pasko, Committee Member

Author:

Todorov, Kamen Orlinov

Title:

Hot Jupiter Atmospheres with the Spitzer Space Telescope

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

extrasolar planets
secondary eclipse
photometry
spectroscopy

File:

Download final.pdf

Committee Members:

Kevin Luhman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
L Drake Deming, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jason Wright, Committee Member
James Kasting, Committee Member
Aleksander Wolszczan, Committee Member
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Member

Author:

Mehta, Nikhil N

Title:

Computational Methods and Applications in Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nonlinear optics
spectroscopy
ultrafast optics
two dimensional phase retrieval
coherent Raman spectroscopy
compressive sensing
ultrashort pulse characterization

File:

Download Thesis_NikhilMehta_Comp-Meth-Opt-Imag-Spect.pdf

Committee Members:

Zhiwen Liu, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Stewart, Robert J

Title:

Investigation of Charge-Carrier Dynamics in Organo-halide Perovskite and Colloidal Quantum Dot Semiconductors

Graduate Program:

Chemistry

Keywords:

physical chemistry
spectroscopy
semiconductor
solar cell
quantum dot
organo-halide perovskite

File:

Download Robert_Stewart_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

John B Asbury, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John B Asbury, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Mark Maroncelli, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Outside Member

Author:

Halverson, Samuel Peter

Title:

Photonic systems for high precision radial velocity measurements

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
spectroscopy
photonics
optical fibers
radial velocity
near-infrared
astronomy

File:

Download Halverson-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Kurt Gibble, Outside Member

Author:

Roy, Arpita

Title:

Connecting the Pale Blue Dots: Detection & Characterization of Exoplanets with Extreme Precision Spectroscopy

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

exoplanets
spectroscopy
instrumentation
radial velocity

File:

Download Roy-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Suvrath Mahadevan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suvrath Mahadevan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Lawrence William Ramsey, Committee Member
Jennifer Macalady, Outside Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Batalha, Natasha Elaine

Title:

A Synergistic Approach to Interpreting Planetary Atmospheres

Graduate Program:

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Keywords:

Exoplanets
astrobiology
planetary science
James Webb space telescope
spectroscopy
atmospheric science
transiting exoplanets
information content theory
atmospheric retrieval
mars
early mars
energy balance model
photochemical model
climate model
carbonate silicate cycle
atmospheres

File:

Download Batalha-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

James Kasting, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jason Thomas Wright, Committee Member
Eric B Ford, Committee Member
Chris Eliot Forest, Outside Member

Author:

Vamos, Michael Anthony

Title:

MICROWAVE PLASMA TORCH FOR ALUMINUM COMBUSTION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

aluminum
combustion
plasma
torch
ignition
microwave
metal combustion
plasma assisted combustion
igniter
coaxial
spectroscopy
temperature fitting
spectrometer calibration
air
steam
carbon dioxide

File:

Download Vamos_Thesis_FinalDraft.pdf

Committee Members:

Richard A Yetter, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Stefan Thynell, Committee Member