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Fall 2023
Certain materials, like quartz, are electrically polarized when they are strained. This is called the direct piezoelectric effect. It manifests naturally by the appearance of bound electrical charges at the surfaces of strained medium. This is always accompanied by the converse effect, whereby...
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Atomic Electronics With Silicon Dangling Bonds: Error Correction, Logical Gates, and Electrostatic Environment
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With the potential to unleash a new basis for electronics that are more energy efficient, faster, and at the ultimate scale in size density, single atoms as building blocks for miniature circuity have long been a technological holy grail. Preventing significant development have been various...
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Spring 2024
Luminescent silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) are attractive nanoparticles due to the utilization of non-toxic and earth-abundant silicon. Despite these advantages, challenges in optimizing their optical properties, particularly broad luminescence bandwidths and photostability, persist. This thesis...
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Imaging Ultrafast Dynamics on the Atomic Scale with a Terahertz Scanning Tunneling Microscope
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The combination of ultrafast laser pulses with atomic resolution microscopy has been actively pursued for the last few decades. Its achievement unlocks a new age in modern science where the fundamental interactions between individual atoms and molecules can be investigated at their intrinsic...
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Fall 2019
The work presented in this thesis describes the isolation of novel low-valent Group 12 and p-block element-containing molecules. Some of these molecules are shown to exhibit reactivity which mimics that of the transition metals; specifically, with respect to strong bond activation and catalysis....
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Spring 2020
Silicon is the foundation of the electronics industry and is now the basis for a myriad of new hybrid electronics applications, such as sensing, silicon nanoparticle-based imaging and light emission, photonics, and applications in solar fuels. From interfacing of biological materials to molecular...
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Fall 2022
Silicon nanoparticles have sparked researchers’ interest as a biologically compatible and abundant quantum dot alternative. Doped silicon nanoparticles (SiNPs) offer unique optical and electronic properties that are not observed for intrinsic Si. These advantageous properties can be applied...