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Design and Fabrication of Fractal Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters and Antenna Coupled Tunnel Diode Terahertz Detectors
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Improved terahertz (THz) photoconductive antennas that are able to both emit higher THz radiation power and detect lower THz radiation signal levels than the traditional THz photoconductive antennas are presented. Also, different classes of fractals are investigated to realize whether the...
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Spring 2023
Plasmonic nanostructures have received increasing attention due to their unique ability to mediate the conversion of light into different forms of energy. This opens pathways for numerous applications from ultrasensitive surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) materials characterization to...
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Fabrication and testing of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy substrates for the detection of biomolecules
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Biosensing involves the detection of analytes using biological elements as receptor agents for the specific binding of molecules to a surface. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), a surface-sensitive vibrational spectroscopy technique used to amplify Raman signals, provides unique...
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Spring 2012
Electron Beam Lithography (EBL) is a powerful tool for structuring materials at the deep nanoscale. Modeling and simulation of electron-beam interactions at this length scale is vital to understanding and optimizing nanofabrication using EBL. The low to high voltage (5 keV – 100 keV) regimes of...
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High Surface Area Nanoelectromechanical Systems via the Integration of Glancing Angle Deposition Thin Films
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High surface area nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are fabricated using glancing angle deposition (GLAD) thin films as the high surface area layer. The GLAD films are deposited on already-released NEMS cantilevers and doubly clamped beams (DCBs) with good uniformity. The resonance frequencies...
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Fall 2013
Electron beam lithography (EBL) is the leading technology for versatile two dimensional patterning at the deep (10-100 nm) nanoscale. In addition to its reputation as an enabling technology for next generation advances in industry, its ease of use, accuracy, and cost has made it the technology of...
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Spring 2011
The field of plasmonics has offered the promise to combine electronics and photonics at the nanometer scale for ultrafast information processing speeds and compact integration of devices. Various plasmonic waveguide schemes were proposed with the potential to achieve switching functionalities and...
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Strategies for Design and Fabrication of Nanoplasmonic Metasurfaces with Extreme Geometric Features
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The ever-increasing integration density of optical components has pushed engineers and physicists to rethink the fundamentals of bulky dielectric lensing systems. Metasurfaces, which are two-dimensional, periodic arrays of metallic (plasmonic) or dielectric scatterers that exhibit exotic...
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Fall 2022
This thesis describes the theory, fabrication, and characterization of monolithic integrated membrane-in-the-middle (MIM) optomechanical Fabry-Perot resonators and elliptical birefringent Fabry-Perot optical resonators. Both types of devices were fabricated on a silicon wafer using a thin-film...