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- 1Adeyenuwo, Adegboyega P.
- 1Ahmed, Haseeb
- 1Bu, Lintong
- 1Compton, Shawn R
- 1Du, Rongbing
- 1Gheshlaghi, Behnam
- 3Dew, Steven (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 3Stepanova, Maria (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
- 1Aloke Kumar, Mohtada Sadrzadeh
- 1Cadien, Kenneth C. (Chemical and Materials Engineering)
- 1Davis, John (Condensed matter physics)
- 1Dew, Steve K. (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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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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Spring 2014
Nanomechanical torque magnetometry is emerging to become one of the most highly-sensitive methods for measuring magnetostatic interactions in mesoscopic magnetic materials. Here, advances in torque magnetometry are offered for the probing of new physics and extending the functionality of the...
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Nanofabrication Methods Towards a Photonically-Based Torque Magnetometer for Measurement of Individual Single-Crystalline Yttrium-Iron-Garnet Microstructures
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This thesis describes preparation and nanofabrication of single crystalline yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) for the purposes of ultra-clean torque magnetometry, as well as the design, fabrication, and testing of photonic crystal-based nanoelectromechanical systems for sensing applications. A focused...
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Spring 2016
Effect of rotation on dynamcis of flow in microchannels is studied. In the frist study, an analytical solution is developed for the unsteady flow of fluid through a parallel rotating plate microchannel, under the influence of electrokinetic force using the Debye–Hückel (DH) approximation....
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Spring 2010
New methods to fabricate nanometer sized structures will be a major driving force in transforming nanoscience to nanotechnology. There are numerous examples of the incorporation of nanoscale structures or materials enhancing the functionality of a device. Graphitic carbon is a widely used...
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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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Rheology of Bitumen at the Onset of Asphaltene Aggregation and its Effects on the Stability of Water-in-Oil Emulsion
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Asphaltenes are the heaviest fraction of bitumen. Asphaltenes not only play an important role in the high viscosity of bitumen but also in the water-in-oil (W/O) emulsion stability. Nevertheless, their exact function in the stability mechanism of W/O emulsion still remains unresolved. It is...
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Passive and active cooling of cavity optomechanical torque sensors for magnetometry applications
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Cavity optomechanics, the study of mechanical effects from resonant light, has recently shown remarkable sensitivities in displacements and forces (torques) --- which opened up new avenues for scientific and technological developments. One of the interesting prospects of cavity optomechanics...
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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...
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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...