Theses from 2024
Gas Evolution of a Nickel-Zinc Cell, Niklas Landgraf
Theses from 2023
Investigating the Structural Properties of LiCoO2 Through Annealing in a Reducing Atmosphere and Characterization Using Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Diffraction, Mathew A. Boeser
Defect State Study and Surface Patching in ZnO Nanoparticles via Nano- Bio Interaction With DNA Bases, Ummay Honey
Structural and Magnetic Study of Epitaxial Ni/NiO Thin Films on Various Single Crystalline Substrates Using Pulsed Laser Deposition, Md Shaihan Bin Iqbal
Synthesis, Characterization, and Application of Chitosan Nanoparticles for in Vitro Studies on HeLa Cancer Cells, Rejeena Jha
Growth and Characterization of SM3HFBI5, Patrick Lambdin
A Study of Synthesis and Characterization of Naxmno2-δ as a Cathode Material for Sodium-Ion Battery, Zia Uddin Mahmud
Machine Learning Strategies for Potential Development in High-Entropy Driven Nickel-Based Superalloys, Marium Mostafiz Mou
Exploration and Synthesis of Half-Heusler and Disordered Ternary Intermetallic Single Crystals, Md Fahel Bin Noor
Development of Interatomic Potential of High Entropy Diborides With Artificial Intelligence Approach to Simulate the Thermo-Mechanical Properties, Nur Aziz Octoviawan
Reflective Freewriting as a Strategy to Improve Pre-Service Teacher’s Physics Content Knowledge and Overall Attitude Toward Physics and Physics Teaching, Kali Ann Shoaf-Laughlin
Examining Attitudinal Shifts Regarding STEM Education in Primary School Students With the Addition of Game Based Assignments, Hayden Stricklin
Synthesis and Characterization of Cage-Structured Compounds as Promising Thermoelectric Materials, NUSRAT YASMIN
Theses from 2022
Study of Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Ni/NiO Nanocomposite Thin Film, Bishwajite Karmakar
Review of Current Reactive Force Field Potentials for Use in Simulating the Atomic Layer Deposition of Alumina on Aluminum, Devon T. Romine
Pulsating Subdwarf B Stars in the Oldest Open Cluster NGC 6791, S. Sanjayan, A. S. Baran, J. Ostrowski, P. Németh, I. Pelisoli, R. Østensen, J. W. Kern, M. D. Reed, and S. K. Sahoo
Structural, Electrical and Optical Properties of Copper Oxide Phase Mixture: An Active Layer of Solar Cell, Rifat Ara Shams
On the Synthesis and Characterization of Bimagnetic CoO/NiFe2O4 Heterostructured Nanoparticles, Muhammad Sharif Uddin
Theses from 2021
Modeling of Argon Bombardment and Densification of Low Temperature Organic Precursors Using Reactive MD Simulations and Machine Learning, Kwabena Asante-Boahen
Discovery of an olivine-type lithium manganese thiophosphate, LiMnPS, a building block approach, Srikanth Balijapelly, Kartik Ghosh, Aleksandr V. Chernatynskiy, and Amitava Choudhury
Temperature-Dependent Properties of Molten LiBeF Salt Using Molecular Dynamics, Khagendra Baral, Saro San, Ridwan Sakidja, Adrien Couet, Kumar Sridharan, and Wai-Yim Ching
Space Observations of AA Doradus Provide Consistent Mass Determinations. New HW-Vir Systems Observed with TESS, A. S. Baran, R. H. Østensen, U. Heber, A. Irrgang, S. Sanjayan, J. H. Telting, Michael D. Reed, and J. Ostrowski
A search for variable subdwarf B stars in TESS full frame images - II. Variable objects in the northern ecliptic hemisphere, A. S. Baran, S. K. Sahoo, S. Sanjayan, and J. Ostrowski
An empirical analysis of COVID-19 response: comparison of US with the G7, Mahua Barari, Srikanta Kundu, and Saibal Mitra
Pulsating hydrogen-deficient white dwarfs and pre-white dwarfs observed with TESS: I. Asteroseismology of the GW Vir stars RX J2117+3412, HS 2324+3944, NGC 6905, NGC 1501, NGC 2371, and K 1-16, A. H. Córsico, M. Uzundag, S. O. Kepler, L. G. Althaus, R. Silvotti, A. S. Baran, M. Vučković, K. Werner, K. J. Bell, and M. Higgins
Zn-based physiometacomposite nanoparticles: distribution, tolerance, imaging, and antiviral and anticancer activity, Robert K. DeLong; Ryan Swanson; Megan C. Niederwerder; Pratiksha Khanal; Santosh Aryal; Ramesh Marasini; Majid Jaberi-Douraki; Heman Shakeri; Kartik C. Ghosh; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Ligands Anchoring Stabilizes Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, Maogang Gong, Bikash Timalsina, Ridwan Sakidja, Justin T. Douglas, and Judy Z. Wu
Simulation and Fabrication of All Oxide-Based ITO/TiO2/CuO/Au Heterostructure for Solar Cell Applications, Sajal Islam
Uranium carbonate complexes demonstrate drastic decrease in stability at elevated temperatures, Alexander Kalintsev; Artas Migdisov; Christopher Alcorn; Jason Baker; Joël Brugger; Robert A. Mayanovic; Nadib Akram; Xiaofeng Guo; Hongwu Xu; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
A new topological semimetal candidate: SmMnBi2, Sudha Krishnan and Tiglet Besara
Editorial: Asteroseismology in the Kepler Era, Anthony E. Lynas-Gray, Andrzej S. Baran, and Karen Kinemuchi
Transport Properties of Binary and Doped Diborides, Alin Babu Niraula
Development of a Laser-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Technique to Grow Carbon-Based Materials, Abiodun Ademola Odusanya
Evolutionary modelling of subdwarf B stars using MESA with the predictive mixing and convective pre-mixing schemes, J. Ostrowski, Andrzej S. Baran, S. Sanjayan, and S. K. Sahoo
Pulsating subdwarf B stars observed with K2 during Campaign 7 and an examination of seismic group properties, Michael D. Reed, Alyssa Slayton, A. S. Baran, J. H. Telting, Roy H. Østensen, C. S. Jeffery, M. Uzundag, and S. Sanjayan
Interplay between Oxo and Fluoro in Vanadium Oxyfluorides for Centrosymmetric and Non-Centrosymmetric Structure Formation, Prashanth Sandineni, Hooman Yaghoobnejad Asl, Weiguo Zhang, P. Shiv Halasyamani, Kartik Ghosh, and Amitava Choudhury
Spatiotemporal analysis of sea ice leads in the arctic ocean retrieved from icebridge laxon line data 2012–2018, Dexuan Sha, Younghyun Koo, Xin Miao, Anusha Srirenganathan, Hai Lan, Shorojit Biswas, Qian Liu, Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez, Hongjie Xie, and Chaowei Yang
Tuning Exchange Coupling in NiO-Based Bimagnetic Heterostructured Nanocrystals, Abdullah Al Shafe, Mohammad Delower Hossain, Robert A. Mayanovic, Vladimir Roddatis, and Mourad Benamara
EPIC 216747137: A new HW Vir eclipsing binary with a massive sdOB primary and a low-mass M-dwarf companion, R. Silvotti; V. Schaffenroth; U. Heber; R. H. Østensen; J. H. Telting; J. Vos; D. Kilkenny; L. Mancini; S. Ciceri; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Development of Eam and Rf-MEAM Interatomic Potential for Zirconium Diboride, Bikash Timalsina
Asteroseismic analysis of variable hot subdwarf stars observed with TESS: I. The mean g-mode period spacings in hot subdwarf B stars, Murat Uzundag; Maja Vučković; Péter Németh; M. Miller Bertolami; Roberto Silvotti; Andrzej S. Baran; Mike Reed; K. A. Shoaf; Roy H. Østensen; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
A search for transiting planets around hot subdwarfs, V. Van Grootel; F. J. Pozuelos; A. Thuillier; S. Charpinet; L. Delrez; M. Beck; A. Fortier; S. Hoyer; Roy H. Østensen; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Looking into the cradle of the grave: J22564-5910, a potential young post-merger hot subdwarf, Joris Vos; Ingrid Pelisoli; Jan Budaj; Nicole Reindl; Veronika Schaffenroth; Alexey Bobrick; Stephan Geier; J. J. Hermes; Roy Østensen; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Colossal intrinsic exchange bias from interfacial reconstruction in epitaxial CoFe2 O4/Al2 O3 thin films, Detian Yang, Yu Yun, Arjun Subedi, Nicholas E. Rogers, David M. Cornelison, Peter A. Dowben, and Xiaoshan Xu
Phase transitions in CaCO3under hydrous and anhydrous conditions: Implications for the structural transformations of CaCO3during subduction processes, Xueyin Yuan, Robert A. Mayanovic, and Guoliang Zhang
Pulsed Laser Annealing on the Optoelectronic Properties of ZnO Thin Films, Md Abu Zobair
Theses from 2020
Eco-Friendly Synthesis, Crystal Chemistry, and Magnetic Properties of Manganese-Substituted CoFe2O4Nanoparticles, Sumayya M. Ansari, Kartik C. Ghosh, Rupesh S. Devan, Debasis Sen, Pulya U. Sastry, Yesh D. Kolekar, and C. V. Ramana
Investigation of MnxNi1-xO Thin Films Using Pulsed Laser Deposition, Md Ashif Anwar
Performance of PLD Grown ZnO Thin Film as a Thin Film Transistor, Shahidul Asif
Role of interplay of austenite and martensite phase fractions on the magnetocaloric and magnetoresistance effects across the martensite transition in Ni45Mn44Sn7In4Heusler alloy near room temperature, T. Chabri, Kartik Ghosh, D. Mukherjee, and T. K. Nath
Superconductivity in single crystals of ZrP1.27Se0.73, K. W. Chen, G. Chappell, S. Zhang, W. Lan, Tiglet Besara, K. Huang, D. Graf, L. Balicas, A. P. Reyes, and R. E. Baumbach
Fundamental electronic structure and multiatomic bonding in 13 biocompatible high-entropy alloys, Wai Yim Ching, Saro San, Jamieson Brechtl, Ridwan Sakidja, Miqin Zhang, and Peter K. Liaw
Amino/Amido Conjugates Form to Nanoscale Cobalt Physiometacomposite (PMC) Materials Functionally Delivering Nucleic Acid Therapeutic to Nucleus Enhancing Anticancer Activity via Ras-Targeted Protein Interference, Robert K. Delong; John Dean; Garry Glaspell; Majid Jaberi-Douraki; Kartik Ghosh; Daniel Davis; Nancy Monteiro-Riviere; Parwathy Chandran; Tuyen Nguyen; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
A Study of Uranyl (VI) Chloride Complexes in Aqueous Solutions under Hydrothermal Conditions using Raman Spectroscopy, Diwash Dhakal, Nadib Akram, Robert A. Mayanovic, Hakim Boukhalfa, and Hongwu Xu
Debris Disks in Multiplanet Systems: Are Our Inferences Compromised by Unseen Planets?, Jiayin Dong, Rebekah I. Dawson, Andrew Shannon, and Sarah Morrison
Au Nanoparticles/WS2Nanodomes/Graphene van der Waals Heterostructure Substrates for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Samar Ali Ghopry, Mohammed Alamri, Ryan Goul, Brent Cook, Seyed M. Sadeghi, Rithvik R. Gutha, Ridwan Sakidja, and Judy Z. Wu
Investigation of in vacuo atomic layer deposition of ultrathin MgAl2O4 using scanning tunneling spectroscopy, Ryan Goul, Angelo Marshall, Ridwan Sakidja, and Judy Z. Wu
Quantum Critical Point in the Itinerant Ferromagnet Ni1-xRhx, C.-L. Huang; A M. Hallas; K Grube; S Kuntz; B Spiess; K Bayliff; Tiglet Besara; T Siegrist; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Synthesis of Novel CoO/MnFe2O4 Heterostructured Nanoparticles and the Effects of Variable Size and Extent of Overgrowth on Their Magnetic Properties, Mohammad Tauhidul Islam
Study of amorphous boron carbide (a-BxC) materials using Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Hybrid Reverse Monte Carlo (HRMC), Rajan Khadka, Nirmal Baishnab, George Opletal, and Ridwan Sakidja
Design, Discovery, and Characterization of Single Crystals of a Topological Semimetal Using a Self-Flux Method, Sudha Krishnan
Forming Diverse Super-Earth Systems in Situ, Mariah G. Macdonald, Rebekah I. Dawson, Sarah J. Morrison, Eve J. Lee, and Arjun Khandelwal
Kinetic Monte Carlo Investigations Involving Atomic Layer Deposition of Metal-Oxide ThinFilms, David Tyler Magness
Development of a CVD Assisted PLD System for Growing Novel Materials, Sinjan Majumder
Chains of Planets in Mean Motion Resonances Arising from Oligarchic Growth, Sarah J. Morrison, Rebekah I. Dawson, and Mariah MacDonald
Synthesis and Characterization of Carbon Coated Barium Titanate Core-Shell Nanoparticles, Moudip Nandi
PHL 417: A zirconium-rich pulsating hot subdwarf (V366 Aquarid) discovered in K2 data, R. H. Østensen, C. S. Jeffery, H. Saio, J. J. Hermes, J. H. Telting, M. Vučković, J. Vos, A. S. Baran, and Michael D. Reed
Interlayer Transition in a vdW Heterostructure toward Ultrahigh Detectivity Shortwave Infrared Photodetectors, Tailei Qi; Youpin Gong; Alei Li; Xiaoming Ma; Peipei Wang; Rui Huang; Chang Liu; Ridwan Sakidja; Judy Z. Wu; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Synthesis, characterization, and optimization of magnetoelectric BaTiO3 –iron oxide core–shell nanoparticles, Mahmud Reaz, Ariful Haque, and Kartik Ghosh
Magneto-luminescent zinc/iron oxide core-shell nanoparticles with tunable magnetic properties, M. Reaz, Ariful Haque, D. M. Cornelison, A. Wanekaya, R. Delong, and K. Ghosh
TESS observations of pulsating subdwarf B stars: extraordinarily short-period gravity modes in CD−28° 1974, Michael D. Reed, K. A. Shoaf, P. Nemeth, J. Vos, M. Uzundag, A. S. Baran, S. Saho, C. S. jeffery, J. H. Telting, and R. H. Ostensen
K2 observations of the pulsating subdwarf B stars UY Sex and V1405 Ori, Michael D. Reed, M. Yeager, J. Vos, J. H. Telting, R. H. Ostensen, A. Slayton, A. Baran, and C. S. Jeffery
Heterostructure of 2D Materials: HfS2/HfO2/Si, Christopher J. Robledo
A search for variable subdwarf B stars in TESS full frame images - I. Variable objects in the southern ecliptic hemisphere, S. K. Sahoo, Andrzej S. Baran, S. Sanjayan, and J. Ostrowski
Mode identification in three pulsating hot subdwarfs observed with TESS satellite, S. K. Sahoo; A. S. Baran; U. Heber; J. Ostrowski; S. Sanjayan; R. Silvotti; A. Irrgang; M. Uzundag; M. D. Reed; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Direct Determination of Medium Range Ordering in Amorphous Hydrogenated Boron Carbide for Low-k Dielectric Applications, Ridwan Sakidja
A square channel vanadium phosphite framework as a high voltage cathode for Li- And Na-ion batteries, Prashanth Sandineni, Pranal Madria, Kartik C. Ghosh, and Amitava Choudhury
The Structural and Magnetic Properties of NiO/Mn(Ni)-Oxide Magnetic Heterostructured Nanocrystals Synthesized Under Varying pH Values, Abdullah Al Shafe
Surface Plasmon-Driven Reversible Transformation of DNA-Bound Methylene Blue Detected In Situ by SERS, Muhammad R. Shattique and Maria Stepanova
Application of calcite, Mg-calcite, and dolomite as Raman pressure sensors for high-pressure, high-temperature studies, Xueyin Yuan, Xin Xiong, Guoliang Zhang, and Robert A. Mayanovic
Submissions from 2019
Effect of Al2O3 Seed-Layer on the Dielectric and Electrical Properties of Ultrathin MgO Films Fabricated Using in Situ Atomic Layer Deposition, Jagaran Acharya, Ryan Goul, Devon Romine, Ridwan Sakidja, and Judy Wu
Electronic structure and mechanical properties of crystalline precipitate phases M23C6 (M=Cr, W, Mo, Fe) in Ni-based superalloys, Puja Adhikari, Saro San, Caizhi Zhou, Ridwan Sakidja, and Wai Yim Ching
Fine tuning of coordination environments by anions on a series of Cu(II)dihydrazide complexes: Syntheses, structures, magnetic properties and solution phase anion exchange, Amit Adhikary and Kartik Ghosh
Concentration-Dependent Magnetic Properties of MnxNiO1-x Novel Inverted Core-Shell Nanoparticles, Md Nazmul Alam
Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles on 2D MoS2/Graphene van der Waals Heterostructures for High-Sensitivity Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Mohammed Alamri, Ridwan Sakidja, Ryan Goul, Samar Ghopry, and Judy Z. Wu
Fabrication and ferromagnetic resonance study of BZT-BCT/LSMO heterostructure films on LAO and Pt, Md Abdullah al Mamun, Ariful Haque, Anthony Pelton, Bithi Paul, and Kartik Ghosh
Synthesis of Amorphous Hydrogenated Boron Carbide from Orthocarborane Using Argon Bombardment: A Reaxff Molecular Dynamics Study, Nirmal Baishnab
Role of generated free radicals in synthesis of amorphous hydrogenated boron carbide from orthocarborane using argon bombardment: A ReaxFF molecular dynamics study, Nirmal Baishnab, Rajan Khadka, Michelle M. Paquette, Paul Rulis, Nathan A. Oyler, Jinwoo Hwang, and Ridwan Sakidja
K2 observations of the sdBV + dM/bd binaries PHL457 and EQPsc, A. S. Baran, J. H. Telting, C. S. Jeffery, R. H. Østensen, J. Vos, Michael D. Reed, and M. Vǔcković
Grüneisen divergence near the structural quantum phase transition in ScF 3, R. Bhandia, T. Siegrist, Tiglet Besara, and G. M. Schmiedeshoff
TESS first look at evolved compact pulsators: Discovery and asteroseismic probing of the g-mode hot B subdwarf pulsator EC 21494-7018, S. Charpinet; P. Brassard; G. Fontaine; V. Van Grootel; W. Zong; N. Giammichele; U. Heber; Zs Bognár; Roy H. Østensen; and For complete list of authors, see publisher's website.
Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Void Growth on Grain Boundaries in Ni-Based Superalloys, Tianju Chen, Ridwan Sakidja, Wai Yim Ching, and Caizhi Zhou
Structure and Properties of ZnO-ZnS Heterostructures, Sanchali Das
An in-situ Study of the Aqueous Speciation of Uranium (VI) Under Hydrothermal Conditions, Diwash Dhakal
