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Title: CONTROLLED GROWTH AND PROPERTY STUDY OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL AND TWO-DIMENSIONAL LAYERED NANOSTRUCTURES OF MOLYBDENUM OXIDE
Author: Razmyar, Soheil
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: Molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) is a versatile semiconductor material with a wide range of potential applications in photocatalysis, electrochromism/photochromism, sensing, and energy storage. Its highly anisotropic layered structure with weak van der ...

Title: Controlled growth and property measurement of one-dimensional oxide nanostructures for energy applications
Author: Sheng, Tao
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Materials science, Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Transition metal oxides (TMOs) exhibit rich structures and useful properties, and could be used in applications of solar energy harvesting (e.g., photoelectrochemistry, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics) and energy saving (e.g., electrochromism an...

Title: Effects of Edge Roughness on Optical Scattering from Periodic Microstructures
Author: Bergner, Brent
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Planar photonic crystals and other microstructured surfaces have important applications in a number of emerging technologies. However, these structures can be difficult to fabricate in a consistent manner. Rapid, precise measurements of critical p...

Title: INVESTIGATIONS INTO PHOTO-EXCITED STATE DYNAMICS IN COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOTS
Author: Singh, Gaurav
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Nanotechnology
Description: Colloidal Quantum dots (QDs) have garnered considerable scientific and technological interest as a promising material for next generation solar cells, photo-detectors, lasers, bright light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and reliable biomarkers. However, ...

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 PROPERTIES OF ONE-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRCTURES, EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENT AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION
Author: Wu, Xiaoxia
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Nanotechnology
Description: One-Dimensional (1D) nanostructures are generally defined as having at least one dimension between 1 and 100 nm. Investigations of their mechanical properties are important from both fundamental study and application point of view. Different metho...

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: 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...