Browsing by Author "Kalman Varga"
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Hu, Ying (2007-08-03)Department: PhysicsThe principles of statistical mechanics have in the past been successfully used to interpret the thermodynamic behavior of fluids from the atomic standpoint. The formulations of statistical mechanics for solids, however, ...
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Bhandaru, Shweta (2015-03-24)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceRadiation effects studies performed on electronics typically consist of electrical characterization of device performance to analyze the impact of radiation damage. Very few studies have focused on surface characterization ...
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Li, Song (2014-02-21)Department: Chemical EngineeringRoom temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) consisting solely of cations and anions are attracting rapidly increasing research interest from multidisciplinary areas because of their outstanding physiochemical properties including ...
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Nicholl, Ryan John Thomas (2017-07-31)Department: PhysicsGraphene is the simplest crystalline membrane and therefore the ideal material to test mechanics at the ultimate, atomic thickness limit. It is well known from experiments performed at high stress that graphene is one of ...
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Davidson, Roderick Belden II (2016-12-01)Department: PhysicsWe present three experiments designed to explore the physics of nanostructured materials in nonlinear optics. We utilize both photon and electron-beam excitations on systems with local densities of states specifically ...
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Goncharov, Vladimir Anatoliy (2014-04-08)Department: PhysicsFramework for ab initio calculation of nonlinear optical susceptibilities on the level of Real Time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory was developed and implemented in high performance numerical codes. Methodology ...
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Tipton, Alan Douglas (2008-12-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringSoft errors in integrated circuits (ICs) are a critical problem facing state-of-the-art technologies. In both the terrestrial and space environment, the source of soft errors is charged particle interaction with ICs. This ...
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Chynoweth, Katie Mae (2010-03-25)Department: PhysicsThis thesis addresses the origin of the High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed around the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies. Such clouds are likely created through a combination of galactic fountains, galaxy interactions, ...
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Kozakova, Iva (2008-12-11)Department: MathematicsIn the main part of this dissertation we present a method for finding the critical probability for the Bernoulli bond percolation and the critical inverse temperature for Ising model on graphs with the so-called tree-like ...
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Hallman, Kent Anson (2018-11-20)Department: PhysicsVanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits an insulator-to-metal phase transition and an associated change from a monoclinic (M1) to a rutile (R) crystal structure. Despite fifty years of research, there are important unresolved ...
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Lawrie, Benjamin J. (2011-08-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceZinc oxide films or quantum wells and plasmonic elements, comprising rough metal films and nano-cylinder arrays of Ag, Al or Au, constitute an especially interesting model system for studying plasmon-exciton interactions. ...
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Musho, Terence David (2012-04-10)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn the ongoing struggle to resolve our current energy crisis, many agencies and researchers have spearheaded the application of direct energy conversion materials, such as thermoelectric and thermionic devices for waste ...
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Cook, Brandon Girard (2012-08-12)Department: PhysicsFirst-principles simulations of quantum transport in nano-devices are presented in this dissertation. First, the extension of the complex absorbing potential quantum transport framework to the general case of N electrodes ...
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Liu, Zhengwei (2015-03-19)Department: MathematicsWe find a subfactor planar algebra whose generating funtion is undetermined and another subfactor planar algebra which is not finitely generated. We also give a complete classification of singly generated Yang-Baxter ...
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Salas, Jorge Alberto (2017-08-24)Department: PhysicsThe Stochastic Variational Method using Explicitly Correlated Gaussians was employed for calculating the energies of systems consisting of few bosons, with gravitational, coulombic, soft-core Gaussian interactions and ...
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Steigerwald, Andrew David (2010-06-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe operation and properties of semiconductor devices depends critically on a material’s electronic structure. Point defects, such as vacancy and interstitial defects that arise from operation in radiative atmospheres or ...
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Krejci, Alexander James (2013-07-15)Department: PhysicsElectrophoretic deposition (EPD) is introduced in a new light: as a process for the fabrication nanoparticle monolayers (NPMs).Using EPD, NPMs are fabricated from a variety of different types of NPs such as iron oxide, ...
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He, Weidong (2011-03-09)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceFacile one-step syntheses of colloidal EuS, EuTe and Te nanocrystals are presented in this thesis. The formation of single crystalline monodisperse nanocrystals, with sizes finely controlled by synthetic conditions, was ...
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Wade, Travis Charles (2011-10-25)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation furthers the understanding of diamond as a material for cold cathode field emission. Although diamond has proven to be an excellent emitter with orders of magnitude more current at lower fields than ...
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Russakoff, Arthur Gerald (2015-12-28)Department: PhysicsThe advent of short intense laser fields promises unprecedented quantum control over chemical reactions. Laser fields of femtosecond duration are now readily available on the tabletop. In this dissertation we investigate ...