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Author:

Rosado, Alexander O

Title:

Ultra-low power ZnO TFT based Ozone Sensors

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Sensor
Low-power
TMD Etching
Thin-film Transistor

File:

Download Rosado__Alexander__FINAL_THESIS.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas Nelson Jackson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Tsuji, Kosuke

Title:

CHARACTERIZATION OF LOCALIZED ELECTRONIC STRUCTURES ENABLING COLOSSAL PERMITTIVITY CERAMIC CAPACITORS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ceramic capacitors
Grain boundaries
Schottky barriers
Tunneling

File:

Download Tsuji_Thesis-final_reviced.pdf

Committee Members:

Clive A Randall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Browning, Paul Nathan

Title:

Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Refractory Metal Alloys Formed by Field Assisted Sintering Technique (FAST)

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Refractory Metals
Field Assisted Sintering
Spark Plasma Sintering
Mechanical Properties

File:

Download Compiled_Thesis__Browning_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jogender Singh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anil Kulkarni, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Todd Palmer, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Committee Member
Ivica Smid, Outside Member

Author:

Rajashekhar, Adarsh

Title:

Pulsed-Laser Crystallization of Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric Oxide Thin Films

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Ferroelectric Thin Films
Piezoelectric Thin Films
Laser Annealing
Pulsed-Laser Heating
Pulsed Laser Deposition
Laser Crystallization
Integration with polymeric substrates
Low Substrate Temperature Processing
In situ Laser Annealing
PZT Thin Films

File:

Download Adarsh_Rajashekhar_PhD_Dissertation_Penn_State.pdf

Committee Members:

Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan E Trolier-Mckinstry, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Clive A Randall, Committee Member
Long-Qing Chen, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Bhimanapati, Ganesh Rahul

Title:

Scalable Synthesis of Graphene Based Heterostructures and their use in Energy Sensing, Conversion and Storage

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

graphene
molybdenum disulfide
heterostructures
radiation
hydrogen evolution reactions
HERs
lithium ion batteries
LiBs
transition metal dichalcogenides
tungsten diselenide

File:

Download Final_Thesis_V2.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua A Robinson, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joshua A Robinson, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
James Adair, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Outside Member

Author:

Abraham, Michael

Title:

ENGINEERING OHMIC CONTACTS TO III-V, III-N AND 2D DICHALCOGENIDES: THE IMPACT OF ANNEALING AND SURFACE PREPARATION ON CONTACT RESISTANCE

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

MoS2
GaN
InGaAs
Ohmic contacts
surface preparation
annealing
alloyed
silver
TiAl
Ni
silicide
self-aligned
MoS2 FETs
intercalation
Nickel
Titanium Aluminum
GaN HEMTs

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_170507_MAbraham.pdf

Committee Members:

Suzanne E. Mohney, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E. Mohney, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Joan Redwing, Committee Member
Roman Engel-Herbert, Outside Member

Author:

Mutch, Michael James

Title:

MAGNETIC RESONANCE AND MAGNETORESISTANCE FOR THE UNDERSTANDING OF DEFECT CHEMISTRY AND SPIN-TRANSPORT IN AMORPHOUS SEMICONDUCTORS AND DIELECTRICS

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Magnetic Resonance
electrical engineering
materials engineering
electronic transport
quantum tunneling
trap-assisted tunneling
defects
low-k dielectrics
silicon nitride
magnetoresistance

File:

Download Mutch_PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Patrick M. Lenahan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Patrick M. Lenahan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Horn, Committee Member
S. Ashok, Committee Member
Jerzy Ruzyllo, Outside Member

Author:

Zhang, Fu

Title:

GROWTH AND TEM INVESTIGATION OF TWO DIMENSIONAL TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES AND THEIR HETEROSTRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

two dimensional materials
transmission electron microscopy
synthesis
transfer
transition metal dichalcogenides

File:

Download MS-Thesis_Fu_Zhang.pdf

Committee Members:

Nasim Alem, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Walker, Roger Craig

Title:

Effects Of Ionizing Radiation On The Layered Semiconductor Tungsten Diselenide

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

two-dimensional materials
tungsten diselenide
radiation
X-ray
proton
ion
plasma
radiation materials science
nanomaterials
semiconductors
silicon carbide
layered materials
space electronics
radiation tolerance

File:

Download MS_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

Joshua Alexander Robinson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member
Saptarshi Das, Committee Member

Author:

Zhou, Chanjing

Title:

Optical and Vibrational Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Homo- and Heterostructures with Twisted Orientations

Graduate Program:

Materials Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Heterostructure
Moire pattern
Electronic band engineering

File:

Download Dissertation-Chanjing_Zhou-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joshua Alexander Robinson, Committee Member
Zhiwen Liu, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Outside Member