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Study of Wet-Chemically-Prepared Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon (111) Surfaces and a Novel Implementation of a High-Resolution Interferometer
(2004-04-30)
This thesis summarizes my graduate study under the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Atom-Based Dimensional Metrology Project, in which we are developing methods for measuring sub-micrometer dimensions ...
Spatially Heterogeneous Dynamics and String-Like Correlated Motion in Supercooled Liquids and Polymers
(2004-04-16)
Dense liquids above their glass transition exhibit spatially heterogeneous dynamics (SHD) in which regions within the liquid exhibit enhanced or diminished mobility relative to the average on some time scale. The spatially ...
Superfluidity in a Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas
(2003-11-25)
Dilute atomic gases have become a powerful tool for studying
many-body quantum mechanics. The best example of this is the
achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in 1995 in a gas of Bose atoms, a discovery which has ...
ORBITAL-FREE DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY OF ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND SOLIDS
(2005-11-23)
Density functional (DF) theory has proved to be a powerful way to determine the ground state energy of atoms, molecules, and extended systems. An important part of the theory requires one to determine the kinetic energy ...
Stretching Biomolecules
(2005-11-23)
Biomolecular self-assembly is the complicated processes characterized by broad and hierarchical structure of energy, length, and time scales.
Various experimental tools have, for decades, been used to understand the ...
Protein folding and amyloid formation in various environments
(2008-11-21)
Understanding and predicting the effect of various environments that differ in terms of pH and the presence of cosolutes and macromolecules on protein properties is a formidable challenge. Yet this knowledge is crucial in ...
MORPHOLOGICAL INSTABILITIES AND STEP PATTERN FORMATION ON VICINAL SURFACES
(2004-10-26)
Vicinal surfaces can exhibit a number of different instabilities and
step pattern formation that are important in directed growth and
nanofabrication. This dissertation attempts to present some theoretical
progress made ...
Organic Electronics With Polymer Dielectrics On Plastic Substrates Fabricated Via Transfer Printing
(2007-12-04)
Printing methods are fast becoming important processing techniques for the fabrication of flexible electronics. Some goals for flexible electronics are to produce cheap, lightweight, disposable radio frequency identification ...
MATRIX FIELD THEORY: APPLICATIONS TO SUPERCONDUCTIVITY
(2006-11-24)
In this thesis a systematic, functional matrix field theory is developed to describe both clean and disordered s-wave and d-wave superconductors and the quantum phase transitions associated with them. The thesis can be ...
STRUCTURE TAILORED PROPERTIES AND FUNCTIONALITIES OF ZERO-DIMENSIONAL NANOSTRUCTURES
(2009)
The field of nanoscience and nanotechnology has achieved significant progress over last thirty years. Complex nanostructures with tunable properties for novel applications have been successfully fabricated and characterized. ...