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Author:

Clark, Anthony C

Title:

Superflow in Quantum Solids

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

supersolid
helium
vortices

File:

Download Dissertation-Clark-072407.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Henderson, Adam Dade

Title:

Loop Quantum Cosmology: A Window Into the Path Integral Representation of Quantum Gravity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Quantum Gravity
Path Integral

File:

Download Henderson-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member

Author:

Harte, Abraham

Title:

Mechanics of Isolated Extended Bodies in Classical Field Theories

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

extended bodies
equations of motion

File:

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Committee Members:

Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Victor Nistor, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Awnish K

Title:

Raman Scattering from n-Graphene Layers (nGLs; n = 1, 2, 3 ...)

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Incommensuratation
Raman Scattering
Nano Ribbions
nGLs
Graphene
Defect Scattering

File:

Download Gupta_thesis_Final_Submission_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Prof Peter C Eklund, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Angela Lueking, Committee Member

Author:

Balk, Andrew Lee

Title:

Nanoscale magnetization in ferromagnetic thin films

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

scanning probe
semiconductor
spintronics
Hall effect
ferromagnetism
Mn)As
(Ga
domain wall
spin ice
MOKE
cryogenics

File:

Download balkdissfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Jun Zhu, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Stuver, Amber Lynnell

Title:

Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Methods:<br> Design, Development and Comparison

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

General Relativity
LIGO
simulation
signal processing
MATLAB
data analysis
gravitational waves

File:

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Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Kisselev, Alexei M.

Title:

Theoretical and Computer Simulation Insights into Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Systems

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

solution thermodynamics
aqueous polymer solutions
copolymers
polymer systems
light-responsive
temperature-responsive
stimuli-responsive
phase diagrams
equation of state
hydrogen bonding
molecular dynamics

File:

Download Kisselev-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Evangelos Manias, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Leonid Berlyand, Committee Member

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:

Download main.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Ari Mizel, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Rajeev Sharma, Committee Member

Author:

Tsobanjan, Artur

Title:

Semiclassical analysis of quantum systems with constraints

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

constraint quantization
semiclassical
quantum cosmology
effective equations
relational observables

File:

Download Artur_Tsobanjan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Bojowald, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member
John Collins, Committee Member
Ping Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Vaishnav, Birjoo

Title:

Gravitational waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes: First steps toward using Numerical Relativity waveforms for LIGO data analysis

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

black holes
gravitational waves
numerical relativity
LIGO
data analysis
gravitational wave astronomy

File:

Download vaishnavthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Alan Wade, Committee Member

Author:

Ueland, Benjamin George

Title:

COOPERATIVE MAGNETIC RELAXATION IN GEOMETRICALLY FRUSTRATED RARE-EARTH PYROCHLORES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

geometric frustration
geometrically frustrated magnets
frustrated magnets
cooperative paramagnet
spin liquid
spin ice
stuffed spin ice

File:

Download bguelandThesisFinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Ari M Mizel, Committee Member
John V Badding, Committee Member

Author:

Cooley, Benjamin Joseph

Title:

Growth, Structure, and Optical Characterization of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductor Nanowires

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

diluted magnetic semiconductor
nanowire
semiconductor nanowire
nanowire growth

File:

Download BCooley-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Nitin Samarth, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nitin Samarth, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Kenneth O Hara, Committee Member
Jian Xu, Committee Member

Author:

Kelly, Bernard Joseph

Title:

The Next Generation of Binary Black Hole Head-On Collisions, and their Aftermath

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

binary black hole
merger
stability
wave forms

File:

Download PhD_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Bernd Bruegmann, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member

Author:

Atulugama, Buddhika Sanjeevi Kumari

Title:

A Study of the Elongation Rate and Air Shower Properties of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Extensive Air Showers
Mass Composition
Elongation Rate
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
Energy Estimator

File:

Download Atulugama_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Stephane Coutu, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Sommers, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jane Camilla Charlton, Committee Member

Author:

Sheu, Ben-Li

Title:

INVESTIGATION OF III-V FERROMAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

ferromagnetism
magnetic semiconductors
spintronics

File:

Download Thesis-Ben-Li_Sheu.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Darrell G Schlom, Committee Member

Author:

Krishnan, Badri

Title:

Isolated Horizons in Numerical Relativity

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Black Holes
General Relativity

File:

Download Main.pdf

Committee Members:

Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member

Author:

Van Den Broeck, Chris

Title:

Black Holes and Neutron Stars: Fundamental and Phenomenological Issues

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

neutron stars
black holes

File:

Download my_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Benjamin Owen, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Barbu, Corina Madalina

Title:

Modelling of synthetic molecular motors and self-assembled monolayers

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

self-assembled monolayers
rotary motors
electric field
dipolar rotor
power law

File:

Download Corina_Barbu-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul S Weiss, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member

Author:

Christensen, Claire Petra

Title:

INFERENCE, SIMULATION, MODELING, AND ANALYSIS OF COMPLEX NETWORKS, WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON COMPLEX NETWORKS IN SYSTEMS BIOLOGY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

systems biology
gene regulatory networks
graph theory
networks
disease dynamics
computational modeling

File:

Download Christensen_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Reka Z Albert, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Member
Costas D Maranas, Committee Member

Author:

Ha, Chang Hyon

Title:

Observation of Atmospheric Neutrino-induced Cascades in IceCube with DeepCore

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

neutrinos
cascades
oscillations

File:

Download Dissertation_ChangHyonHa.pdf

Committee Members:

Tyce De Young, Doug Cowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Tyce De Young, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Douglas Cowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter Istvan Meszaros, Committee Member
Paul Sommers, Committee Member

Author:

Shi, Chuntai

Title:

Study of correlations in fractional quantum Hall effect

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
composite fermion

File:

Download Shi_Thesis_v4.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Nitin Samarth, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member

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

Author:

Chang, Chia-Chen

Title:

Interacting Composite Fermions

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
two dimensional electron system
condensed matter physics
composite fermion

File:

Download ChiaChenChang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member

Author:

Nisoli, Cristiano

Title:

Leaves and Stems, Rotons and Solitons, Magnets and Arrays, One Ground State Lost, Many Found, and Two Fields

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

phyllotaxis
spin ice
graphene
nanotubes
elasticity
solitons
rotons
phonons

File:

Download Cristiano_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Henry C Foley, Committee Member
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member

Author:

Toke, Csaba

Title:

Fractional quantum Hall effect in higher Landau levels and in graphene

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

fractional quantum Hall effect
graphene
composite fermions
nonabelian states

File:

Download diszi.pdf

Committee Members:

Jainendra Jain, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member

Author:

Narehood, David George

Title:

A NEUTRON SCATTERING INVESTIGATION OF THE MICROSCOPIC DYNAMICS OF H2 ADSORBED ON SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Hydrogen
Nanotubes
Neutron Scattering
Dynamics

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Paul E Sokol, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Ljubisa R Radovic, Committee Member

Author:

Costantino, Daniel Jeffrey

Title:

A Study on Granular Media: Packing, Intruding, and Shocking

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

granular media
intruders
packing fraction
mechanical impacts
initiation motion

File:

Download Costantino_Daniel_Final_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Peter E Schiffer, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Peter E Schiffer, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Dezhe Jin, Committee Member
Chris J Marone, Committee Member

Author:

Fraser, David Jeffrey

Title:

Zebra Finch Vocal Development Through Reinforcement Of The Anterior Forebrain Pathway

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

songbird learning
Zebra Finch
Anterior Forebrain Pathway
biophysics
neural network
birdsong
HVC
RA
AFP
Area X
Computational neuroscience

File:

Download Fraser_2009_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Dezge Jin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dezhe Jin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Michael Wenger, Committee Member
John Collins, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Sloan, David

Title:

Loop Quantum Cosmology and the Early Universe

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Loop Quantum Cosmology
Loop Quantum Gravity
Inflation
Measures of Probability

File:

Download Sloan-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Tyce De Young, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member

Author:

Rutledge, Douglas Lowery

Title:

A Search for Neutrino-Induced Electromagnetic Showers in the 2008 Combined IceCube and AMANDA Detectors

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

IceCube
AMANDA
atmospheric neutrino

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Douglas Cowen, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Douglas Cowen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark Strikman, Committee Member
Stephane Coutu, Committee Member
Robin Bruce Ciardullo, Committee Member

Author:

Whitbeck, David Michael

Title:

Observational Consequences of Gravitational Wave Emission From Spinning Compact Sources

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

gravitational waves
recoil
LIGO

File:

Download david.pdf

Committee Members:

Benjamin J Owen, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Michael Eracleous, Committee Member

Author:

Stucke, David Patrick

Title:

CRYSTAL LATTICE OPTIMIZATION AND NEW FORMS OF SILICON

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Global Optimization
Genetic Algorithm
Crystal Structure
Silicon Multiple Bonds

File:

Download stucke-thesis-final.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Theresa Stellwag Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Stojkovic, Dragan

Title:

Novel Carbon-Hydrogen Nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

nanotube
carbon
electronic structure
simulations
new materials
graphite
schwarzite
magnetic carbon

File:

Download Dragan-thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member
Ari M Mizel, Committee Member
Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member

Author:

Garrison, David

Title:

Testing Binary Black Hole Codes in Strong Field Regimes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

numerical relativity
cosmology
black holes
partial differential equations
gravity

File:

Download mythesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Pablo Laguna, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Steinn Sigurdsson, Committee Member
Jorge Pullin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Member

Author:

Vaid, Deepak

Title:

The Cosmological Contant Problem and Many Body Physics: An Investigation

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

physics
theory
gravity
high energy
thesis
cosmological constant
many body

File:

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Committee Members:

Stephon Alexander, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Martin Bojowald, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Adrian Ocneanu, Committee Member
Jayant Bhanavar, Special Member

Author:

Zhalov, Daniel

Title:

Studies of the high momentum transfer hard quasi-exclusive pp interactions with EVA detector

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

proton
pion production
gluon bremstrahlung

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Steven Heppelmann, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Richard Wallace Robinett, Committee Member
Mark Strikman, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Margine, Elena Roxana

Title:

Modelling of electronic and vibrational properties of carbon nanostructures

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

electronic structure
nanoporous carbon
carbon nanotube
phonons
doping

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Henry C Foley, Committee Member

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

Author:

Bentivegna, Eloisa

Title:

Ringing in unison: exploring black hole coalescence with quasinormal modes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Numerical relativity
black holes

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Deirdre Shoemaker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Pablo Laguna, Committee Member
Lee S Finn, Committee Member
Yousry Azmy, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson-Ewing, Edward

Title:

Loop Quantum Cosmology: Anisotropies and Inhomogeneities

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

loop quantum gravity
cosmology

File:

Download wilsonewing-dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Abhay Vasant Ashtekar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Bojowald, Committee Member
Nigel David Higson, Committee Member
Paul Sommers, Committee Member

Author:

Kim, Eunseong

Title:

Supersolid Transition of 4He

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Bose Einstein Condensation
Superfluidity
Quantum solid
Phase Rransition

File:

Download eKthesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Jayanth R Banavar, Committee Member
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
James Bernhard Anderson, Committee Member
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Member

Author:

Fang, Fang

Title:

PROGRESS TOWARD A MEASUREMENT OF THE ELECTRON ELECTRICAL DIPOLE MOMENT USING ULTRA-COLD ATOMS

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

cold atoms
EDM

File:

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Committee Members:

David Scott Weiss, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kurt Gibble, Committee Member
Albert Welford Castleman Jr., Committee Member
Karl Todd Mueller, Committee Member

Author:

Zhang, Feng

Title:

Search for new optical, structural and electronic properties: from photons to electrons

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

photonic crystals
photonic bandgap
unsaturated silicon
direct-gap germanium
ferromagnetism/paramagnetism transition

File:

Download FZhang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
John V Badding, Committee Member
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
David Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

McGuirk, Garry M

Title:

AU(111) SURFACE RESTRUCTURING FROM SULFUR ADSORBATES

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

LEED Structure Analysis
LEED
AES
Au(111)-S phases

File:

Download GMThesisfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

Renee Denise Diehl, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Renee Denise Diehl, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Gugang

Title:

Optical properties of carbon nanotubes

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

reflectance
SWNTs
chemical doping
optical properties
DWNTs
peapods
nanotubes
transmission
Raman
HiPCO

File:

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Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
Thomas E Mallouk, Committee Member

Author:

Giordano, Gerardo

Title:

A QUASI-QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TIME-COMPRESSED SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS COURSE PEDAGOGY

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

time-compressed
physics course pedagogy
STEM

File:

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Committee Members:

Irina Mocioiu, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Richard Wallace Robinett, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Liu, Guoxing

Title:

RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY AND SOLID HELIUM RESEARCH

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

resonant ultrasound spectroscopy
Helium

File:

Download Thesis_G._Liu.pdf

Committee Members:

Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Julian Decatur Maynard Jr., Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Moses Hung Wai Chan, Committee Member
Jorge Osvaldo Sofo, Committee Member
Victor Ward Sparrow, Committee Member

Author:

Won, Hyosig

Title:

THE MEASUREMENTS OF SHEET CONDUCTANCE OF METALLIZED SILICON SURFACE BY TWO POINT TUNNELING PROBE

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Scattering
Sheet conductance
Thin Metallic Film
Schottky Barrier
Mean Free Path

File:

Download thesis_final22.pdf

Committee Members:

Roy F Willis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Qi Li, Committee Member
Suzanne E Mohney, Committee Member

Author:

Li, Hsin-I

Title:

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND INTERACTIONS OF C60 ON Ag(111)AND Pb(111)

Graduate Program:

Physics

Keywords:

vacancy
hoc
lead
silver
fullerene

File:

Download h.v30.pdf

Committee Members:

Renee Denise Diehl, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Renee Denise Diehl, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Milton Walter Cole, Committee Member
Roy F Willis, Committee Member
Kristen Ann Fichthorn, Committee Member

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:

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Committee Members:

Peter C Eklund, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Gerald Dennis Mahan, Committee Member
Vincent Henry Crespi, Committee Member
James Hansell Adair, Committee Member