dc.creator | Pennycook, Timothy John | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-21T20:56:44Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-01-23 | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-01-23 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-01202012-101148 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/10460 | |
dc.description.abstract | A combination of first principles density functional calculations and aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy is used to investigate a number of topical issues in condensed matter and materials physics: Structural and optical properties of magnesium doped alumina; the origin of colossal ionic conductivity in oxide multilayers; Atom-by-atom identification of point defects in single layer boron nitride with annular dark field STEM and DFT; Hybrid density functional theory applied to LCMO; Optical gaps of free and embedded Si nanoclusters; Origin of white light emission from CdSe nanoclusters. In each of these cases the underlying physics of the respective phenomena was elucidated. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | scanning transmission electron microscopy | |
dc.subject | density functional theory | |
dc.title | Density functional theory and scanning transmission electron microscopy: synergistic tools for materials investigation | |
dc.type | dissertation | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Prof. Sandra J. Rosenthal | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Prof. Kalman Varga | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dr. Mark P. Oxley | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | PHD | |
thesis.degree.level | dissertation | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Physics | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2013-01-23 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2013-01-23 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Prof. Sokrates T. Pantelides | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Dr. Maria Varela | |