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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Synthesis and Optical Properties of Hybrid Gold Nanoparticles Coupled with Quantum Dots and Porphyrins
- Author
- Tobias, Andrew
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry, Nanotechnology
- Description
- Coupling of optically active materials, or chromphores, to plasmonic nanoparticles represents a new research area which has the ability to produce higher efficiency lighting and photovoltaic materials. The main goal of this project was to create n...
- Title
- Synthesis, photophysical characterization, and application of asymmetric thiazolothiazoles as molecular sensors
- Author
- Sayresmith, Nickolas
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Nanoscience, Chemistry
- Description
- Small molecule fluorophores are critical for fluorescence spectroscopy, and enable the measurement of a wide array of biological processes and dynamics. For many biological sensing applications, the overall efficacy of the fluorophore is closely c...
- 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
- Terahertz optical properties of metamaterials and optical components fabricated using polymer-based additive manufacturing
- Author
- Park, Serang
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- Optics
- Description
- Continuous advancement in terahertz technologies have drawn interest in manufacturing and rapid prototyping of optical components suitable for the terahertz spectral range. One of the approaches of realizing such optical components is additive man...