Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Interdisciplinary Materials Science"
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(2022-05-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceReproducibility and validation of scientific work by others is a key tenet of the scientific process and is absolutely necessary to increase confidence in the validity of said work. In practice, however, it can be quite ...
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(2010-08-02)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe materials, optical and electrical properties of transparent conducting tin oxide-based thin films are investigated, with particular emphasis on their application to photovoltaics. Thin films of transparent conducting ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceMitochondrial homeostasis serves as a ‘gate-keeper’ for a cell’s viability and plays key regulatory roles in apoptotic cell death, metabolism, reactive oxygen species accumulation/defense, and various biosynthetic pathways. ...
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(2010-08-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe goal of this work was to determine the luminescent lifetime of these phosphor materials as a function of temperature. Cerium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet and europium-doped pyrochlores were synthesized using combustion ...
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(2013-04-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceINTERDISCIPLINARY MATERIALS SCIENCE PHOTOSYSTEM I FROM HIGHER PLANTS ENHANCE ELECTRODE PERFORMANCE DARLENE GUNTHER Thesis under the direction of Professor G. Kane Jennings Photosystem I (PSI) is a supramolecular protein ...
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(2010-08-20)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation investigates the incorporation of Photosystem I (PSI), a supramolecular protein complex that participates in the light reactions of photosynthesis, into electrochemical systems intended for the conversion ...
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(2016-08-03)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix are dynamic and change during biological processes such as disease progression and wound healing. Most synthetic (or man-made) tissue scaffolds have static properties. ...
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Physical Mechanisms Affecting Hot Carrier-Induced semi-ON State Degradation in Gallium Nitride HEMTs (2015-11-06)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceGallium Nitride or GaN-based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is currently the most promising device technology in several key military and civilian applications due to excellent high-power as well as high-frequency ...
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(2016-01-19)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation examines the fundamental physical properties and material processing methods required to design and fabricate the next generation of optical modulators based on the vanadium dioxide metal-insulator ...
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(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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(2021-05-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceOptical biosensors are devices that employ light to detect the presence or concentration of a biological analyte. These devices play an important role in modern society in areas that include medical diagnostics, infectious ...
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(2024-03-18)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAt just one atom thick, the pristine lattices of two dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, have unique barrier properties which enable selective transport of protons over nanoscale species. Upon introduction of ...
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(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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(2008-04-28)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation presents the radiation-induced charge trapping studies of upcoming material systems of Si and SiC for future low power and high power technologies. HfO2/Si with metal gates has already been announced as ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe mid-to long-wave infrared (λ~2.5– 12 µm) is home to a large number of fundamental molecular vibrations as well as two atmospheric transmission windows (λ ~ 3–5 and 8–12 µm). Accordingly, research focused on developing ...
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(2015-06-15)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceAbsorption loss continues to be one of the primary impediments to the application of metal-based metamaterials at optical frequencies. Dielectric metamaterials offer one potential solution to this issue by eliminating Ohmic ...
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(2021-07-19)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThe Monte Carlo technique is employed for self-consistently solving the Boltzmann-Poisson transport equations with full electronic and phonon energy bands to simulate the non-equilibrium carrier transport in materials and ...
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(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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(2009-11-23)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceThis dissertation reports the study of defects in Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) and Cadmium Manganese Telluride (CMT) nuclear detectors. In this dissertation I studied the defects associated with surface processing of ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceIn order to preserve long-term human sustainability on Earth, many researchers have focused significant efforts towards developing technologies that 1) decrease greenhouse gas emissions, and 2) utilize atmospheric carbon ...