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Giant-magnetoresistance in hybrid semiconductor/ferromagnetic nanodevices
(2010)
This thesis describes an experimental study a new class of hybrid ferromagnetic/semiconductor device that demonstrates a nonvolatile memory function, and which may permit large-scale integration of logic and memory on the ...
Terahertz detection with quantum point contacts
(2010)
A current focus of terahertz (THz) research concerns the applications of semiconductor nanostructures, whose characteristic energies lie in the THz (i.e., meV) range. Quantum Point Contacts (QPCs) are an important example ...
Novel photoactive polymer composites for use in the degradation of organic wastes
(2010)
The objective of this work was to test the feasibility of combining photoactive dyes, titania, and polymers to create various novel polymer composites. The composite materials were synthesized by functionalizing TiO 2 ...
Size estimates of Toeplitz and Hankel operators on the Bergman and Fock space.
(2010)
In this dissertation, we characterize Hankel operators [special characters omitted] and [special characters omitted] on the Fock space H 2 ([special characters omitted], dμ t ) that are simultaneously in the Schatten classes ...
In vitro imaging using stable, water dispersible luminescent silicon quantum dots capped with various cellular targeting agents
(2010)
This thesis presents research on the synthesis, functionalization, and biological applications of silicon nanocrystals, also called silicon quantum dots (Si QDs). Over the past 20 years, semiconductor nanocrystals (also ...
Three-dimensional reconstruction of blood vessel lumen from a single x-ray projection image
(2010)
Stroke and heart attack are the leading causes of death and morbidity in developed countries. The underlying cause is the occlusion of blood vessel lumen by atherosclerotic plaque. Vascular intervention is the dominant ...
On the use of excess entropy scaling to describe the dynamic properties of molecular fluids
(2010)
Relationships between thermodynamic and kinetic properties of molecular fluids have a wide variety of applications. The development of these relationships provides a means to predict one property based upon knowledge of ...
Magnetically-controlled Fano resonance in wavefunction-coupled QPCs
(2010)
In this thesis, we describe the observation of a resonant interaction between coupled quantum point contacts (QPCs) that we attribute to a Fano resonance, caused by the self-consistent formation of a bound-state (BS) in ...
Atomistic modeling of the microstructure and transport properties of lead-free solder alloys
(2010)
Damage mechanics models of lead-free solder joints in nanoelectronics continue to improve, and in doing so begin to utilize quantitative values describing processes at the atomic level, governing phenomena like electromigration ...
The contact force in generalized hertz type systems and solitary waves
(2010)
The studies of contact mechanics and solitary waves have long been exciting subjects in both engineering and physics. Somewhat surprisingly, in view of the vital importance of the subjects, theoretical progress has been ...