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Intrinsic Disorder Effects and Persistent Current Studies of YBCO Thin Films and Superconducting Tunnel Junctions
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This thesis studies the intrinsic disorder effects and the transport and magnetic properties of ring-shaped epitaxial thin films and superconducting tunnel junctions (STJs) of the high temperature superconductor YBa$2$Cu$3$O${7-\delta}$. We used an unconventional contactless technique that allows...
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Fall 2014
Nanoscale materials offer opportunities to employ unique physical phenomena and performance enhancement in many applications, including energy conversion. The coupling of functional materials properties and nanoscale morphologies is paramount for the successful implementation of nanostructured...
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Fall 2017
The use of organic, semiconducting polymers provides an attractive option to advance commercial solar photovoltaic technologies. These devices have the potential to be spray-coated on flexible, light-weight substrates and produced cheaply in high volumes; however, performance remains limited in...
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Fall 2014
Metamaterials are artificially engineered materials with tailored properties for applications in imaging, sensing, waveguiding and quantum optics. Even though they hold the potential for transformative impact, industrial applications have been impeded by large absorption losses in material...
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Fall 2017
Nanofabricated optically anisotropic uniaxial thin films with deep submicron feature sizes are emerging as potential platforms for low-loss all-dielectric meta-materials and for Dyakonov surface wave-based sub-wavelength optical confinement and guiding at interfaces with isotropic media. In this...
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Spring 2018
Graphene has created much excitement in the scientific community since 2004, when Novoselov and Geim developed a method to exfoliate atomic layers from graphite, earning them the 2010 Nobel prize. The great interest in graphene stems from its outstanding material properties such as atomic...
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Spring 2011
Third-generation optoelectronics, which utilize nanoscale materials, have received a considerable amount of attention in the chemical sciences and are poised to make a large impact in both fundamental research and real-world application. In order to make a contribution to the field, this thesis...
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Spring 2015
Supramolecular rosette nanotubes (RNTs) are obtained by the hierarchical self-assembly of mono and twin G^C building blocks. The mono G^C motif is a fused bicyclic ring of guanine and cytosine with six self-complementary sets of hydrogen bonding sites, while the twin G^C motif is a covalently...
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Spring 2015
This thesis is focused on the silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as well as germanium-based electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries (NIBs). In our first attempt we studied electrochemical cycling stability and degradation mechanisms of silicon nanowires (SiNWs)...