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Title: BORON CARBIDE NANOWIRES: SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION
Author: Guan, Zhe
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: Bulk boron carbide has been widely used in ballistic armored vest and the property characterization has been heavily focused on mechanical properties. Even though boron carbides have also been projected as a promising class of high temperature the...

Title: Characterization of Individual Straight and Kinked Boron Carbide Nanowires
Author: Cui, Zhiguang
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: Boron carbides represent a class of ceramic materials with p-type semiconductor natures, complex structures and a wide homogeneous range of carbon compositions. Bulk boron carbides have long been projected as promising high temperature thermoelect...

Title: Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Simulation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Porphyrin Molecules to Fabricate Self-Assembled Nanoparticles and Their Use for Photodynamic Therapy
Author: Loman-Cortes, Paula
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: PAULA LOMAN-CORTES. Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Simulation of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Porphyrin Molecules to Fabricate Self-Assembled Nanoparticles and Their Use for Photodynamic Therapy. (Under the direction of DR JUAN L ...

Title: Determining the Rate of Ligand-Induced Charge-Transfer Effects on Quantum Dots
Author: Bowman, Cale
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: In this report, charge carrier dynamics and rate of electron transfer is investigated between two bis(thioether)silane (R2BtsMe) ligands and 2.65 nm CdSe core quantum dots (QDs). Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) data is used to determine bin...

Title: ENGINEERING OXYGEN TRANSPORT FOR IMPROVING CELL PERFORMANCE IN HEPATIC DEVICES
Author: Shi, Gengbei
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: The bioartificial liver (BAL) advancing medical technology aims to provide temporary liver substitution for patients in dire need of liver transplants and also for drug development. Yet despite nearly fifty years of development, the approval for t...

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: Exploration of Structure-Property Relationship and Growth Mechanism of 1D Nanowires Using Transmission Electron Microscopy
Author: Akter, Manira
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: One-dimensional (1D) nanostructured materials, e.g., nanowires (NWs) have fascinating properties and applications in various fields including electronic and energy conversion devices. Despite tremendous progress in the NW research field, a thoroug...

Title: Exploring exciton and trap state recombination dynamics in cadmium sulfide quantum dots
Author: Woodall, Danielle
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: Colloidal semiconducting quantum dots (QDs) are ideal candidates for optoelectronic devices such as solar cells and LEDs because of their high photoluminescence (PL) quantum yields and photostability. In order to improve device efficiencies, we mu...

Title: FABRICATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND MODELING OF RANDOM ANTI-REFLECTIVE OPTICAL SURFACE STRUCTURES
Author: Joshi, Rajendra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
Description: RAJENDRA JOSHI. Fabrication, Characterization, and Modeling of Random Anti-reflective Optical Surface Structures. (Under the direction of DR. GREGORY J. GBUR)Optical surfaces can be fabricated to be anti-reflective (AR) by coating single- or multi...

Title: FUNCTIONALIZATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL COORDINATION COMPLEXES FOR USE IN SUPERCAPACITORS
Author: Zuczek, Justin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Power resources
Description: As society begins to move away from fossil fuel consumption and the harmful effects they entail, renewable energy sources have been studied extensively over the past decades. One obstacle with renewable energy is the ability to cheaply store it du...

Title: Four Women: Saudi Scholarship, Intensive English Programs and Self-Authoring
Author: Malcolm, Jeanne
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers
Description: This participatory qualitative inquiry explored the shifting subjectivities of three women from Saudi Arabia, as they pursued tertiary education in the United States through benefit of the King Abdullah Scholarship Program. Informed by a Vygotskia...

Title: INGAN/GAN MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES: SUBMICRON STRUCTURAL, OPTICAL, ELECTRICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
Author: Li, Ying
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
Description: In this work, a novel approach has been implemented to investigate the submicron (30nm spatial resolution) structural and optical properties of bulk GaN, InGaN/GaN Multiple Quantum Well (MQW), p-typle AlGaN capped MQW, and full Light Emitting Diod...

Title: INTERFACE STUDY OF SPIRO-OMETAD ON PASSIVATED P-, N-, AND N+-Si(111) FOR USE IN TANDEM PEROVSKITE/SILICON SOLAR CELL DEVICES
Author: Nguyen, Li
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical, Renewable energy sources
Description: The organic semiconductor 2,2’,7,7’-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)9,9’-spirobifluorene (Spiro-OMeTAD) contact properties are studied on p-, n-, and n+-type silicon. Spiro-OMeTAD is a solid state hole conductor that has notably been used in...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF THE CURRENT TRANSPORT MECHANISMS IN FIRE THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACT (FTDC) TO SILICON SOLAR CELLS BY SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSES
Author: Ren, Keming
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience
Description: This thesis work investigates the current transport mechanisms at the Si/gridline interface of the screen-printed commercial silicon (Si) solar cell with lowly doped emitter. The use of lightly doped emitter is one way to improve the efficiency of...

Title: LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR NANOWIRES: LIGHT-EFFECT TRANSISTOR AND LIGHT-INDUCED CHANGES IN ELECTRON-PHONON COUPLING AND ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Author: Marmon, Jason
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Electrical engineering, Optics
Description: This dissertation explores three related embodiments of light–matter interactions at the micro– and nano–scales, and is focused towards tangible device applications. The first topic provides a fundamentally different transistor or electronic switc...

Title: LOADED AND ELABORATED POLYESTER NANOMATERIALS FOR THE TREATMENT AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE
Author: Fowler, Anthony
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry, Nanotechnology
Description: Cancer is not one disease but many. In fact, cancer is a collection of more than 100 different diseases. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States with an estimated 1.7 million new cases expected in 2017 and approximately 60...

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: MECHANICAL BUCKLING OF INDIVIDUAL SILICON NANORIBBONS ON A COMPLIANT SUBSTRATE
Author: Chang, Siang Yee
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Materials science
Description: About a decade ago, mechanical buckling evolves as a promising metrology to rapidly measure the elastic moduli of thin films and one-dimensional (1D) nanostructures. This form of metrology translates the geometrical measurements of the buckling pr...

Title: PHYSICAL AND ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS WITHIN HYBRID NANOCOMPOSITES OF RUTHENIUM COORDINATION COMPLEXES AND SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES
Author: Alston, Jeffrey
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Nanoscience, Nanotechnology, Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
Description: The research presented in this dissertation is a study of the interaction of ruthenium coordination complexes with single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), a pursuit ultimately leading to the development of composite SWCNT materials. The work comp...

Title: Quantum Enhanced Electron Transfer in Coupled Porphyrins
Author: Pedersen, Andrew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: The role of solar power as a renewable energy source is of ever increasing importance to our future. It is inevitable then that the focus of much research would be looking at nature’s solutions to solar power with photosynthesis. A theoretical pap...