Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Interdisciplinary Materials Science"
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(2022-06-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn this dissertation, radiation effects and low-frequency noise are studied in advanced FinFETs. Firstly, we evaluate the single-event effects on devices with the promising InGaAs channel material and highly-scaled fin ...
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(2015-03-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceMultilayer polymer systems are a focus of increasing research effort motivated by the possibility to realize compact and flexible energy storage and energy harvesting devices. However, the performance and stability of ...
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(2023-06-08)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceNanostructures that exhibit high quality factors, strongly enhanced and tightly confined electromagnetic fields down to subwavelength scales, and accessible hotspots are of paramount importance for photonic devices. Plasmonic ...
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(2023-06-08)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceNanostructures that exhibit high quality factors, strongly enhanced and tightly confined electromagnetic fields down to subwavelength scales, and accessible hotspots are of paramount importance for photonic devices. Plasmonic ...
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(2016-11-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAs electronic and optical devices shrink to the nanoscale, accurate methods for characterizing electromagnetic fields generated by sub-wavelength structures become increasingly important. Absorption in poly(methyl methacrylate) ...
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(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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(2013-08-07)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIntegrated silicon (Si) photonics represents one of the key technologies for developing compact high speed optical systems for computing and telecommunications. In such systems, electric buses are replaced with integrated ...
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(2018-06-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceA fundamental perception in the energy storage community is that mechanical processes accompanying electrochemical processes are an unavoidable by-product. However, the coupling between mechanics and electrochemistry termed ...
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(2006-12-11)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceFePt alloys with the CuAuI L10-ordered structure are important magnetic materials since their large uniaxial magnetocrystalline anisotropy can overcome the thermal stability problem of high-density magnetic recording media. ...
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(2015-07-24)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceElectromagnetic metamaterials are artificially fabricated structures that exhibit properties unattainable in naturally occurring materials, such as negative index, epsilon-near-zero, ultra-high index, perfect lensing, and ...
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(2008-08-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceA new deposition technique for high performance polymer films, resonant infrared laser ablation (RIR-LA) is presented. Ultraviolet laser deposition techniques have been shown to cause decomposition and depolymerization ...
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(2015-11-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn this thesis we first briefly explore the barrier properties of monolayer graphene. We investigate how films of graphene can be used to decouple underlying metallic (Cu, Ni) substrate from the environment to passivate ...
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(2020-07-29)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceOptical metasurfaces have emerged as an attractive platform for manipulating the wavefront of light based on thin film flat optics. Despite their design degrees of freedom, the functionalities that can be encoded on a ...
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(2011-08-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceSilicon photonic crystal (PhC) cavities have attracted great interest recently due to their ability to highly confine light both spatially and temporally. The small mode volumes and long photon lifetimes associated with ...
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(2022-09-12)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceA long-standing problem in thermal imaging is the inherent assumption of uniform emissivity across an entire image. Semantic segmentation of the materials in a thermal image can identify the pixel-wise emissivity, thus ...
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(2011-12-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceProperties such as high electrical conductivity; chemical and electrochemical stability over a wide range of conditions; rapid electron transfer kinetics for different redox systems; and reproducible electrical, microstructural ...
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(2018-11-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe plasma membrane is a complex, dynamic, and multifunctional microenvironment whose components mediate much of cellular communication. The size, unique properties, and ability to target and tailor nanoscale materials has ...
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(2010-04-26)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceColloidal nanoparticles in an assortment of shapes (e.g., spherical, rod-like, tube-like, sheet-like) have been the focus of far-reaching research pursuits due to their attractive material-dependent and size-dependent ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceShifts within the priorities of the Department of Defense have led to an increase in modernization efforts. The drive towards modernization and new technology has highlighted the operational need for clean, renewable ...
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(2016-07-13)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceTranslocator protein (TSPO) represents an attractive target for molecular imaging and therapy due to its prevalence and critical roles played in oncology and other pathologies. Based upon our previously optimized ...