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Author:

Ferlauto, Andre Santarosa

Title:

PHASE DIAGRAMS FOR GUIDING SILICON THIN FILM DEPOSITION IN PHOTOVOLTAICS APPLICATIONS AS DERIVED BY REAL TIME SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY

Graduate Program:

Materials

Keywords:

microcrystalline silicon
solar cells
thin film
microstructure
ellipsometry
amorphous silicon
surface roughness
optical properties

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert W Collins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Roman Wronski, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Russell Messier, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member

Author:

Borawski, Brian

Title:

Multilayer Erosion Resistant Coatings for the Protection of Aerospace Components

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

impact
coating
thin film
fracture
mechanics
ceramics
erosion
physical vapor deposition
titanium nitride

File:

Download Dissertation_July_03.pdf

Committee Members:

Judith Todd, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jogender Singh, Committee Member
Albert Eliot Segall, Committee Member

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

Author:

Howell, Jane

Title:

Deposition, Characterization, and Thermomechanical Fatigue of Nickel Aluminide and Ruthenium Aluminide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Intermetallic
aluminide
thin film
thermomechanical fatigue
NiAl
RuAl

File:

Download PhD_Thesis_-_final_draft.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Muhlstein, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Joseph Flemish, Committee Member

Author:

Du, Jikai

Title:

Toward the Acoustic Evaluation of Low Modulus Thin Film Structures

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics

Keywords:

acoustic microscopy
thin film
non-destructive evaluation

File:

Download Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Bernhard R Tittmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Lawrence Rose, Committee Member
Clifford Jesse Lissenden Iii, Committee Member
Mark William Horn, Committee Member
Elizabeth C Dickey, Committee Member
Judith Todd Copley, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Jianjun

Title:

Material Property Identification of Polymer Thin Films under the Indentation Test

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

polymer
constitutive equation
nanoindentation
material property
thin film

File:

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Committee Members:

Marc Carpino, Committee Member
Timothy C Ovaert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Panagiotis Michaleris, Committee Member
Donna M Conway Jr., Committee Member
Richard C Benson, Committee Member

Author:

Fieldhouse, Nicholas M.

Title:

Effects of Processing Conditions on Vanadium Oxide Films Deposited via Pulsed DC Sputtering

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

microbolometers
vanadium
oxide
thin film
sputtering

File:

Download ms_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Mark William Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Urban, Nathan Mark

Title:

Thermodynamics and structure of fluids physisorbed on nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

semiclassical
heat capacity
low dimensional physics
restricted geometries
cylindrical geometry
nanotube bundle
thin film
nanopore
nanotube
Monte Carlo
condensed matter physics
thermodynamics
quantum mechanics
statistical mechanics
physisorption
simulation
computational physics
surface physics
surface science
surface adsorption
effective potential
Bose gas
quantum gas
quantum fluid
quantum solid
argon
hydrogen
carbon
magnesium oxide

File:

Download nurban-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Milton Walter Cole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, 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:

Johnson, Raegan

Title:

Phase transitions in Ag(TaxNb1-x)O3 thin films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectrics
thin film
octahedral tilting
perovskite

File:

Download RJohnson_thesis_ATN_v8.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Susan Trolier Mc Kinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Leslie Eric Cross, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Ian Reaney, Committee Member

Author:

Ulbricht, Ross

Title:

Growth of EuO Thin Films by Molecular-Beam Epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

epitaxy
semiconductor
magnetic
thin film
crystal
MBE
EuO
XRD
rheed

File:

Download RossUlbrichtMastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Darrell G Schlom, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chandrasekharan, Ramprasad

Title:

Numerical Modeling of Tin-based Absorber Devices for Cost-effective Solar Photovoltaics

Graduate Program:

Energy and Geo-Environmental Engineering

Keywords:

tin sulfide
numerical modeling
thin film
photovoltaics
solar cells

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation-Ramprasad.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Semih Eser, Committee Member
Sarma V Pisupati, Committee Member
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member

Author:

Cui, Yi

Title:

MAGNESIUM DIBORIDE THIN FILMS AND DEVICES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

MgB2
thin film
device

File:

Download Yi_Cui-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Xiaoxing Xi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Brooks, Charles M

Title:

The growth of strontium titanate and lutetium ferrite thin films by molecular-beam epitaxy

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

oxide
thin film
MBE
epitaxy
SrTiO3
LuFe2O4
molecular-beam epitaxy
strontium titanate
lutetium ferrite

File:

Download 1-CMBrooks-Dissertaton.pdf

Committee Members:

Long Qing Chen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Long Qing Chen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Zi Kui Liu, Committee Member
Raymond Edward Schaak, Committee Member
Darrell Schlom, Special Member

Author:

Gresh, Robert William

Title:

Characterization of Vapor Deposited Thin Films of Magnesium and Magnesium Alloys

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science

Keywords:

corrosion
magnesium
thin film
film
deposition
electrochemical
structure
morphology

File:

Download Gresh_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Barbara Shaw, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Cazalas, Edward Jay

Title:

Radiation Sensitivity of Graphene Field Effect Transistors and Other Thin Film Architectures

Graduate Program:

Nuclear Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
field effect transistor
neutron
detection
radiation
thin film
hysteresis

File:

Download EdwardCazalas-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Igor Jovanovic, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Igor Jovanovic, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Yong Chen, Special Member
Arthur Thompson Motta, Committee Member
Kenan Unlu, Committee Member

Author:

Banai, Rona Elinor

Title:

Tin Sulfide Phase Exploration: Dependence of Optoelectronic Properties on Microstructural Growth and Chemical Variations in Thin Film Material

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

thin film
optical properties
electronic properties
microstructure
photovoltaic
sputtering
semiconductor

File:

Download RonaBanai-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jeffrey Brownson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mark William Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jeffrey Brownson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark William Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joan Marie Redwing, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Michael, Elizabeth Kathleen

Title:

Bismuth Pyrochlore-Based Thin Films for Dielectric Energy Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

dielectric energy storage
pyrochlore
thin film
bismuth zinc niobate
nanocomposite
flexible electronics

File:

Download Michael_FullThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Thomas Nelson Jackson, Committee Member
Thomas R Shrout, Committee Member
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Member

Author:

Sabeeh, Ala Hamza

Title:

MIST DEPOSITION, PATTERNING AND APPLICATIONS OF CADMIUM SELENIDE NANOCRYSTALLINE QUANTUM DOT FILMS

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanocrystalline Quantum Dots
Mist Deposition
Patterning
Lift-off Process
Downshifting
Silicon Solar Cell
micro-patterns
thin film

File:

Download Ala_Sabeeh_PhD_Dissertaion_SP_19_submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Jerzy Ruzyllo, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Osama O Awadelkarim, Committee Member
Noel Christopher Giebink, Committee Member
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Outside Member

Author:

Lapano, Jason

Title:

A STUDY OF STRUCTURE INDUCED PHASE PHENOMENA IN PEROVSKITE OXIDE THIN FILMS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Perovskite
MBE
ferroelectric
oxide
thin film
Mott Insulator
TEM
STEM
XRD

File:

Download DIssertation_Jason_Lapano_2019.pdf

Committee Members:

Roman Engel-Herbert, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Roman Engel-Herbert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nasim Alem, Committee Member
Venkatraman Gopalan, Committee Member
Thomas Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Akkopru Akgun, Betul

Title:

The Role of Defect Chemistry in DC Resistance Degradation of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

PZT
thin film
defect chemistry
electrical degradation

File:

Download BetulAkkopruAkgun_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Zoubeida Ounaies, Outside Member
Michael T Lanagan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Michael T Lanagan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Coleman, Kathleen Patricia

Title:

Influences of Stress on the Performance of Lead Zirconate Titanate Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

piezoelectric
thin film
ferroelectric
PZT
stress
electromechanical

File:

Download KColeman_PhDThesis_August2020_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jon-Paul Maria, Committee Member
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Brian Foley, Outside Member
Raul Bermejo, Special Member
John C Mauro, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Cleri, Angela

Title:

Modulating Infrared Optical Response in CdO by Transport Properties and Heterostructure Design

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

plasmonics
cadmium oxide
infrared
optics
materials
transport properties
sputtering
thin film
defect chemistry
plasmon polariton
transparent conducting oxide
nanophotonics
hyperbolic
ion irradiation
high-power impulse magnetron sputtering
HiPIMS
physical vapor deposition
PVD
doping
metamaterials

File:

Download Cleri_Dissertation_20230601.pdf

Committee Members:

John Mauro, Program Head/Chair
Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Major Field Member
Jon-Paul Maria, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Noel Giebink, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joshua Caldwell, Special Member
Joshua Robinson, Major Field Member

Author:

Campbell, Ian

Title:

Experimental and Computational Investigations of Platinum and Gallium Nitride Vapor Deposition Processes

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

atomic layer deposition
chemical vapor deposition
platinum
gallium nitride
density functional theory
mesoporous nitrogen doped carbon
nuclei
particle
thin film

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Committee Members:

Suzanne Mohney, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Susan Sinnott, Major Field Member
Feifei Shi, Outside Unit & Field Member
Joan Redwing, Major Field Member
John Mauro, Program Head/Chair