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Title: Integration of engineering in a middle grade mathematics classroom: A conceptual framework for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) integration
Author: Pugalenthi, Premkumar
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: In recent years, student centered approaches to learning has gained interest especially STEM based learning. It has led to educational policy and standards reforms including the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which helps teachers, incor...

Title: Light-assisted drying (LAD) for anhydrous preservation of biologics: processing sample volumes comparable to a therapeutic dose
Author: Furr, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Protein-based products have been developed to treat a range of conditions and are used in vaccines and assays. A challenge in the development of these products is maintaining the protein in the folded state during processing and storage. The most ...

Title: Lithography-Free Growth of Silicon Microwires via Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition for Optoelectronic Applications.
Author: Thakur, Esha
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Materials science
Description: Realizing the next-generation electronic devices with added features, i.e., flexibility, smaller dimension, higher density (transistors per unit area), lightweight, and low-power consumption, would require extensive work to optimize the processing...

Title: Microspherical photonics: Giant resonant light forces, spectrally resolved optical manipulation, and coupled modes of microcavity arrays
Author: Li, Yangcheng
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: Microspherical photonics emerged in recent years in the context of fundamentally new optical properties of structures formed by coupled dielectric microspheres. These include coupling between whispering gallery modes (WGMs), photonic nanojets, nan...

Title: Novel Front Grid Designs and Analyses of High Efficiency Crystalline Solar Cells
Author: Rodriguez, Alan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The efficiency of a solar can be limited by reflection through both the front gridlinesand non-gridline regions. In the later, poor texturing, non-optimum thickness and refractive index of the antireflection coating (ARC), could be responsible, wh...

Title: OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INHOMOGENEITIES IN BLUE-EMITTING INGAN/GAN MQWS
Author: Li, Cheng
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growth of blue-emitting InGaN/GaN MQWs, the system setup of a low temperature PL/EL/IV system for temperature dependent PL/EL/IV spectroscopy, and the system setup of a CLSM with nanometer-scale spectrum measurement and TRPL measurement abilit...

Title: Optical Vortices and Coherence in Nano-optics
Author: Smith, Matt
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology
Description: In this dissertation, we use theory and computation to conduct three projects in the area of nano-optics. In the first project, we study optical coherence conversion using a plasmonic hole array. This work led to the discovery of the optical coher...

Title: Study of Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Graphene-Like Two Dimensional Material
Author: Elapolu, Mohan Surya Raja
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Graphene is a layer of covalently bonded carbon atoms with a honeycomb lattice structure. It has exceptional properties, due to which it became prominent in a wide range of applications. The enormous success of graphene raised curtains to a new cl...

Title: Synthesis of Asymmetric Thiazolo[5,4-d] Thiazole Derivatives for Molecular Sensing Applications
Author: Meadows, Jared
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials science
Description: This thesis outlines the synthesis and characterization of new asymmetrically substituted thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole (TTz) compounds. This class of compounds contains a central bicyclic heteroaromatic system that is electron-deficient, and when subst...

Title: TRINUCLEAR METAL CHALCOGENIDE CLUSTERS AS PRECURSORS FOR SUPERATOMIC SOLIDS AND CLUSTER ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
Author: Shott, Jessica
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Chemistry, Inorganic
Description: Inorganic molecular clusters Ni3(μ3-I)2(μ2-dppm)3 (1), Ni3(μ3-Te)2(μ2-dppm)3 (2), Ni3(μ3-Se)2(μ2-dppm)3 (3), Ni3(μ3-S)2(μ2-dppm)3 (4), Co4(μ3-S)4(PPri3)4 (5), and Mo3(μ3-S)2(μ2-S)3(PMe3)6 (6) have been used as building block precursors in the form...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE EFFECTS OF PERIPHERAL ALKYL SUBSTITUENTS ON EXCITON DIFFUSION PROPERTIES OF PORPHYRIN THIN FILMS FOR ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAIC APPLICATIONS
Author: Kaushal, Meesha
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Chemistry
Description: Understanding exciton diffusion is a crucial step in the engineering and fabrication of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. We studied a variety of organic dyes in our research lab including various derivatives of carboalkoxyphenylporphyrins in so...

Title: Understanding and Development of Cost-Effective Industrial Aluminum Back Surface Field (Al-BSF) Silicon Solar Cells
Author: Chen, Nian
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: For the long-term strategy of gradual decarbonization of the world’s energy supply, high penetration of PV electricity is critical in the future world energy landscape. In order to achieve this, solar electricity with competitive cost to fossil fu...

Title: Understanding and mitigating the light-induced degradation in screen-printed Al-BSF boron-doped Czokralski crystalline silicon solar cells by use of infrared belt furnace rapid thermal processing.
Author: Mvutu, Mayangi
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: ABSTRACTMAYANGI MA MVUTU. Understanding and mitigating the light-induced degradation in screen printed Al-BSF Cz-Si solar cell by use of IR-belt furnace Rapid Thermal Processing. (Under the direction of DR. ABASIFREKE EBONG)In this study, Rapid Th...

Title: Understanding the Path to Contact Silicon Solar Cells with 140 Ω/sq High Resistance Emitters
Author: Ren, Keming
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Solar cell electricity can only be attractive if it is cost effective. In order for it to be affordable, the cost of manufacturing the solar cell must be decreased. Both material use and improved efficiency should be addressed in order to realize ...

Title: Understanding the influence of tellurium oxide in the front silver paste on the homogenous high sheet resistance emitter
Author: Bezawada, Naga Sai Nirupama
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: To reduce the cost of solar electricity requires highly efficient solar cells. However, the manufacturing of high efficiency solar cells does not match up with the cost. The higher the efficiency, the higher the cost. Thus, the high throughput tec...

Title: WAVEGUIDE, PHOTODETECTOR, AND IMAGING APPLICATIONS OF MICROSPHERICAL PHOTONICS
Author: Allen, Kenneth
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Engineering, Physics
Description: Dielectric microspheres with diameters (D) on the order of several wavelengths of light have attracted increasing attention from the photonics community due to their ability to produce extraordinarily tightly focused beams termed "photonic nanojet...