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Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
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Author
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Ni, Kang
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering
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Description
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Gears are critical mechanical components in power transmission systems, used across a board spectrum of industries such as automobile, aerospace and renewable energy. Given the advancement of design and manufacture of gears in the past decades, th...
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DOPAMINE DETECTION VIA SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE
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Author
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Cutler, Eric
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
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Description
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Motion is controlled via the excitatory or inhibitory responses of the motor pathway by receptors in Substantia Nigra of the brain, modulated by a main neurotransmitter dopamine (DA). Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the neurological disorder effecting...
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EXTERNAL WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION OF GRATING COUPLED SURFACE EMITTING LASERS AND APPLICATIONS
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Author
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Yilmaz, Yigit
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Optics, Electromagnetism
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Description
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In this dissertation, we explore a semiconductor optical device configuration based on non-resonant diffraction grating coupler. These devices are coupled with monolithic and external wavelength selection elements to form the resonant cavity lasin...
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Electric Field Dependent Spectroscopy of Single Nanocrystal Systems
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Author
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LeBlanc, Sharonda
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
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Description
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A suite of single molecule spectroscopic techniques and data analysis methods were implemented to explore the complex role of electric fields in single semiconductor nanocrystal photophysics. This dissertation spans the synthesis, characterization...
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Metasurfaces for Field Control and Detection
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Author
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Rosenbury, Christopher
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
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Description
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Metasurfaces have been of increasing interest in the scientific community due to their consistent ability to efficiently reproduce traditional optical elements via quasi-monolithic patterning. In this dissertation I will examine various metasurfac...
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OPTICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF INHOMOGENEITIES IN BLUE-EMITTING INGAN/GAN MQWS
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Author
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Li, Cheng
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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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...
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Optical Fiber-Based Multi-Directional Fabry-Perot Interferometry Prpbe
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Author
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Shabahang, Farzaneh
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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The motivation of this thesis is to create an optical probe for the measurement of surfaces in confined spaces. This thesis presents design and operation of an optical fiber-based probe to measure a surface profile or relative displacement of exte...
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REGULATION OF ACTOMYOSIN ATPASE
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Author
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Ge, Jinghua
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics, Biophysics
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Description
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Myosin is a molecular motor that converts chemical energy to mechanical energy, thus generating force and movement in muscles and cells. Myosin interacts with two ligands, ATP (fuel) and actin filaments (motor’s tracks). Actomyosin interaction is ...
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THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
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Author
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Fullager, Daniel
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Engineering, Physics
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Description
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ABSTRACTDANIEL B. FULLAGER. Theory, characterization and applications of infraredhyperbolic metamaterials. (Under the direction of DR. MICHAEL A. FIDDY)Hyperbolic Metamaterials (HMMs) are engineered structures capable of supporting lightmatterinte...
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THERMODYNAMIC AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS OF DISULFIDE BONDS IN CXCL7 CHEMOKINE
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Author
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Singer, Christopher
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
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Description
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Chemokines are a family of signaling proteins mainly responsible for the chemotaxis of leukocytes, where their biological activity is modulated by their oligomerization state. Here, the dynamics and thermodynamic stability are characterized in mon...