Browsing by Author "Sheldon, Matthew"
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Gripp, Nicholas James (2019-07-24)Highly luminescent UV-curable nanocomposites with parallel alignment of colloidal nanorods possessing dipolar emission are desired for applications in luminescent solar concentrators. Here, we show that full alignment of ...
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Fan, Ziwei (2023-08-07)Broadband polarization-independent directional control of light has long been a grand challenge despite its immense potential in enhancing energy efficiency, improving performance of optoelectronic devices and enabling ...
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Willman, Jeremy Aaron (2020-12-07)Calixarenes are a class of “cup-shaped” macrocyclic molecules which are notable for their modularity which permits the synthesis of many derivatives and their ability to bind small molecules which allows for their use in ...
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Andrews, Justin L (2021-01-08)Charge ordering resulting from the localization of electrons in periodic potential wells is a characteristic manifestation of strongly electron correlation in periodic solids. Synthetic approaches that allow for independent ...
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Electroactive Light Metal Nanostructures for Corrosion Protection and Electrochemical Energy Storage Davidson, Rachel Dorothy (2020-10-22)Stability in electrochemical systems is governed by interactions at the local scale where isolated inhomogeneities can define system performance. This concept plays a key role in failure of battery systems and corrosion ...
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Ly, Carol Michelle (2018-11-27)The energy landscape of vanadium oxide (Vv2Ov5) showcases a rich abundance of energetically proximate minima representing different metastable phases. In addition to the multiple polymorphs of Vv2Ov5, the open-framework ...
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Wu, Shengxiang (2020-10-26)The collective oscillation of conduction band electrons in metal nanostructures, known as the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), can be engineered to absorb photons at desired wavelength. Plasmonic nanostructures ...
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Roman, Benjamin (2020-11-25)Cesium lead tribromide nanocrystals have remarkably high photoluminescence quantum yield due, in part, to their tolerance to the formation of defect states. Further, the most commonly formed defect—excess lead on the ...
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Buen, Zachary Daniel (2021-11-23)A flat plate wedge with a DC glow-discharge plasma along the leading edge was designed to introduce thermal non-equlibrium (TNE) directly into a turbulent boundary layer. Various NO laser induced fluorescence (LIF) techniques ...
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Stevens, Daniel (2020-08-12)Thermoelectricity is a promising alternative energy generation method as it captures dissipated thermal energy and converts it into useful electrical energy. The most common thermoelectric materials are inorganic semiconductors, ...
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Zhu, Yue (2020-10-12)The phenomenon of Nuclear Spin Optical Rotation (NSOR) is a member of the nuclear magneto-optic effects. This is a spectroscopic phenomenon based on observing the polarization state of a light beam after it interacts with ...
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Li, Jialuo (2020-09-11)This dissertation begins with an introduction into the development of MOFs, particularly nano-sized MOFs and MOFs based metal nano-particles. (Chapter I) The reported synthetic strategies as well as their application in ...
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Chen, Qianfan (2021-05-26)In recent years condensed matter physics is witnessing a rapid expansion of materials with (massless) Dirac fermions as low-energy excitations, with examples ranging from graphene, topological insulators to Weyl semimetals ...
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Arp, Fabian Felix (2021-01-13)A large variety of Hilliard adducts with the general motif (R3PO∙H2O2)2 and Ahn adducts with the composition R3PO∙(HOO)2CR'R" have been synthesized and fully characterized. Their single crystal X-ray structures have been ...
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Ali, Javed (2022-12-09)Solid state white light source where white light is generated by exciting phosphors using blue LEDs and lasers form most power efficient sources. To achieve long lifetime and stable sources capable of high-brightness ...
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Cheng, Hsu-Cheng (2021-04-05)Nanomaterials offer a unique platform to study the effect of morphology, light polarization, as well as quantum confinement on their photophysical properties. In this dissertation, two classes of nanomaterials – plasmonic ...
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Puthenpurayil, Joseph K (2022-10-20)The absorption cross section of lead halide perovskite nanocrystals is important for understanding their photophysical properties, especially those depending on the density of photoexcited charge carriers. Despite its ...
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Hogan, Nicki Lynne (2020-05-20)There has been significant recent interest in using the resonant absorption in plasmonic nanostructures to produce transiently excited populations of photo-excited non-equilibrium hot electrons that can then be utilized ...
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Qiao, Tian (2022-06-22)Lead halide perovskite (LHP) nanocrystal (NC) has emerged as one of the most promising materials in the last decade as the sources of photons and charges. This class of materials is naturally defect tolerant that leads to ...
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Elinski, Meagan B. (2018-06-13)A pressing financial and environmental challenge is the impact of friction and wear on energy usage, economic costs, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Globally nearly ¼ of the world’s total energy is consumed at moving ...