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- 2Anagaw, Amsalu Y.
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Spring 2020
On a perfect hydrogen-terminated Si(100)-2x1 surface, each surface silicon atom is capped with exactly one atom of hydrogen. When one of the capping hydrogen atoms is removed, the now unsatisfied orbital of the underlying silicon atom is exposed at that site. This site is better known as a...
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Fall 2017
Nanomechanics is a branch of nanotechnology where fundamental mechanical properties of nanomaterials are studied, for example nanomechanical resonators, tiny vibrating devices. These mechanical resonators are of interest and have a large number of potential sensing applications. In particular...
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Fall 2020
We investigate the production of fast ejecta from the contact interface in coalescing binary neutron stars. This ejecta expands rapidly enough (velocities > 0.6c) that the r-process freezes out, generating an ultraviolet precursor to the kilonova powered by the decay of free neutrons. Previous...
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Fall 2009
In this thesis, we have analyzed one-dimensional fermion-spin interactions in the dilute limit. The two cases we analyze represent different paradigms. For the first part, we look at the existence of “spins” for all sites as an effective model to describe the rearrangement of core electrons...