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Title: REGULATION OF ACTOMYOSIN ATPASE
Author: Ge, Jinghua
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Biophysics
Description: 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 ...

Title: DOPAMINE DETECTION VIA SURFACE ENHANCED RAMAN SCATTERING FOR PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Author: Cutler, Eric
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: 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...

Title: Leveraging LLVM IR for Design Space Exploration and Modeling of Application and Domain-Specific Hardware
Author: Rogers, Samuel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The limitations of transistor scaling and the rise of power-constrained compute environments have driven a new renaissance in hardware design through hardware acceleration. Application and domain-specific hardware accelerators offer fantastic effi...

Title: Areal gear metrology with modified flanks
Author: Ni, Kang
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: 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...

Title: EXTERNAL WAVELENGTH STABILIZATION OF GRATING COUPLED SURFACE EMITTING LASERS AND APPLICATIONS
Author: Yilmaz, Yigit
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Electromagnetism
Description: 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...

Title: Metasurfaces for Field Control and Detection
Author: Rosenbury, Christopher
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: 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...

Title: Electric Field Dependent Spectroscopy of Single Nanocrystal Systems
Author: LeBlanc, Sharonda
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: 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...

Title: DISTANCE-DEPENDENCE OF PLASMON-MULTIEXCITON COUPLING BETWEEN CDSE QUANTUM DOTS AND GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES
Author: Castaneda, Jose
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Quantum confinement that semiconductors experience at the nanoscale facilitate the creation of multiexcitons. However, this same confinement also increases the efficiency of Auger recombination which result in low quantum yields from these states....

Title: The Role of Film Morphology and Defects on the Photostability and Carrier Transport of Methylammonium Lead Triiodide
Author: Castaneda, Jose
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Materials science, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites are viewed as a cost-effective alternative for photovoltaic devices, among other applications. Solution and low-temperature processing have gathered much attention for this class of materials. However, the stab...

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: THEORY, CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS OF INFRARED HYPERBOLIC METAMATERIALS
Author: Fullager, Daniel
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Physics
Description: 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...

Title: THERMODYNAMIC AND MECHANICAL EFFECTS OF DISULFIDE BONDS IN CXCL7 CHEMOKINE
Author: Singer, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Bioinformatics, Biophysics
Description: 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...

Title: THE SYNTHESIS AND PHOTOPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF PORPHYRIN PHOTOACTIVE MATERIALS FOR USE AS SENSITIZERS IN ORGANIC PHOTOVOLTAICS AND PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY
Author: Marin, Dawn
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Chemistry
Description: Solar energy conversion and photodynamic therapy (PDT) are very different applications. However, both utilize very similar photoactive molecules called porphyrins. Porphyrins are structural analogs of chlorophyll and also function as prosthetic gr...

Title: Interaction of femtosecond laser beam with atmospheric low temperature plasmas and electric fields
Author: Davda, Kirtan
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics, Power resources
Description: In this work, the influence of electric fields and atmospheric plasma on the behavior of an ultrafast femtosecond laser beam is being studied. A femtosecond laser pulse has an ability to self-focus in air and produce confined narrow channels of hi...

Title: Optical Fiber-Based Multi-Directional Fabry-Perot Interferometry Prpbe
Author: Shabahang, Farzaneh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: 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...