Browsing by Author "Cagin, Tahir"
Now showing items 61-80 of 117
-
Araujo, Roy A. (2010-01-14)Advancements in the semiconductor industry require new materials with improved performance. With the introduction of copper as the interconnect material for integrated circuits, efficient diffusion barriers are required ...
-
METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS WITH SPECIAL TOPOLOGY AND OPEN METAL SITES FOR IMPROVED HYDROGEN ADSORPTION Baci, Melih (2019-07-23)Hydrogen is a promising candidate as a replacement of fossil fuels due to its zero-carbon emission upon combustion. Storage of hydrogen is one of the most important technical challenges especially for on-board applications ...
-
Mews, Kathryn Ann Wright (2013-05-06)Uranium-zirconium alloy nuclear fuels have many advantages as compared with ceramic fuels, especially for fast reactor systems. However, metallic fuels aren’t currently used in commercial power production due in part to ...
-
Priye, Aashish (2015-03-27)The ability of convective flows in micro-scale confinement to direct chemical processes along accelerated kinetic pathways has been recognized for some time. However, practical applications have been slow to emerge because ...
-
Tseng, Li-Wei (2015-05-05)Fe43.5Mn34Al15Ni7.5 shape memory alloys have attracted attention as potential superelasticity alloys in server environments, capable of exhibiting good superelastic behavior with up to 5% recoverable strain over a wide ...
-
Cagin, Tahir (2018-04-09)
-
Shukla, Abhinav (2020-08-20)Recently, researchers have reported a unique solid state incandescent light emitting device (SSI-LED) made from a simple MOS capacitor with an amorphous high-k gate dielectric thin film deposited on the p-type Si substrate. ...
-
Silva Hernandez, Carlos Ardenis A. (2011-08-08)The thermal conductivity of PMMA films with thicknesses from 5 to 50 nanometers and layered over a treated silicon substrate is explored numerically by the application of the reverse non-equilibrium molecular dynamics ...
-
Chen, Di (2012-10-19)Presented in this thesis are the results from an integrated experimental and modeling study on damage cascade formation in ion bombarded solids. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were performed by using LAMMPS ...
-
Atilhan, Selma (2009-05-15)Nanocomposites refer to the materials in which the defining characteristic size of inclusions is in the order of 10-100nm. There are several types of nanoparticle inclusions with different structures: metal clusters, ...
-
Kim, Bo Hung (2010-07-14)Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of nano-scale flows typically utilize fixed lattice crystal interactions between the fluid and stationary wall molecules. This approach cannot properly model thermal interactions at the ...
-
Duan, Gang; Xu, Donghua; Zhang, Qing; Zhang, Guoyun; Cagin, Tahir; Johnson, William L.; Goddard, William A. (Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 2005)
-
Kinaci, Alper (2013-05-02)The ability to manipulate material response to dynamical processes depends on the extent of understanding of transport properties and their variation with chemical and structural features in materials. In this perspective, ...
-
Yeu, Seung Uk (2010-10-12)Over the past few decades there has been great interest in exploring alternatives to conventional separation methods due to their high cost and energy requirements. Membranes offer a potentially attractive alternative as ...
-
Huitink, David Ryan (2009-05-15)A method offering precise control over the synthesis conditions to obtain carbon nanotube (CNT) samples of a single chirality (metallic or semi-conducting) is presented. Using this nanolithographic method of catalyst ...
-
Ramirez Caballero, Gustavo (2012-02-14)Density functional theory is used to study the physico-chemical effects of two metallic thin films separated by distances in a range of 4-10 amperes. In this condition, the electrons from the metallic thin film surfaces ...
-
Brockway, Lance Robert (2014-04-14)Research aimed at enhancing the thermoelectric performance of semiconductors comprised of only earth-abundant elements has recently come under renewed focus as these materials systems offer a cost-effective path for ...
-
Villarreal, Ruben (2020-04-23)The following work presented focuses on the characterization and navigation of energy landscapes in systems that undergo solid state phase transformations; including the broad category of shape memory alloys, with extended ...
-
Metcalf, Richard R. (2010-07-14)The comparison of nuclear facilities based on their barriers to nuclear material proliferation has remained a difficult endeavor, often requiring expert elicitation for each system under consideration. However, objectively ...
-
Xing, Junwei (2016-11-28)The focus of this study is to understand the influences of blending silver (Ag) phase into barium titanate (BaTiO3) ceramic on its thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties. Silver-barium titanate (Ag/BaTiO3) active ...