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Spring 2023

Hopmann, Eric

The electrochromic (EC) effect has attracted constant research efforts since it was first described in the early 19th century. Conventionally, EC oxides (e.g., WO3, MoO3, V2O5, and NiO) are employed to modulate light transmittance in smart windows, which allow for up to 80% optical transmission...

Fall 2016

Melnyk, Aaron D

This thesis describes the fabrication and characterization of visible-range hollow Bragg waveguides. A wafer bonding method was first utilized to fabricate tapered hollow Bragg waveguides, which can function as the dispersive element of an integrated spectrometer. Etched channels coated with...

Fall 2019

Roy, Swapan

In the current state-of-the-art, a wide variety of devices, from computer clocks to smartphone accelerometers and from pressure gauges to atomic force microscope sensors, rely on mechanical resonators, either in microscale or nanoscale. Nanoscale mechanical resonators have even more potential...

Spring 2014

Sauer, Vincent T K

Nanomechanical beam resonators show much promise for use in integrated on-chip mass sensing systems. This follows from their own very small masses and also their ability to store the mechanical energy of their oscillations to produce strong measurable mechanical response signals. To achieve...

Fall 2021

Zeng, Sheng

Photocatalysis was originally inspired by photosynthetic models from nature, and now opens the window to a wider range of applications including but not limited to solar-to-chemical energy storage, water/air purification. Both photocatalytic hydrogen generation and CO2 to hydrocarbon processes...

Spring 2011

Wu, Marcelo

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...