Materials found in nature exhibit behaviors with certain properties such as mass density, permeability, and permittivity. Unfortunately, there are limitations and restric[...]

The reliability of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is traditionally determined via thermal lifetime acceleration stress tests. More recently it has [...]

Metasurfaces have many applications, from beam steering effects to polarization control. There are two main theories that are used in the creation of modern metasurfaces,[...]

The body of research comprising this dissertation spans the full spectrum of carbon nanotube (CNT) research: growth of CNTs, dispersion of SWNTs, controlled aggregation o[...]

The overall industrial gas turbine efficiency is known to be influenced by the pressurerecovery in the exhaust system. The design and, subsequently, the performanceof an [...]

Platinum and Palladium nanoparticles are important nanoscale materials for a variety of materials science and industrial applications. The presented research covers a bro[...]

The assembly of semiconductor nanocrystals into close packed films suitable for device engineering is critical to the development of next generation electronic and optoel[...]

This is an initial investigation of the super-atmospheric (1.5 – 2.5 bar(a)) Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) growth of InGaN materials and experimental, d[...]

Recently, there is an increasing demand for III-nitride semiconductor based optoelectronic devices, and especially for ultraviolet (UV) and Deep UV sources and sensors; h[...]

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 Multip[...]