Nanoparticle Devices

Chad Barry (ECE)

Electrostatic Force Directed Integration of Nanomaterials:
Nanoxerographic Printing & Transfer

Advisor: Heiko Jacobs (ECE)

Sharon Hilchie (ECE)

Nanoparticle based transistors

Advisors: Steve Campbell (ECE), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Rebekah Ligman (ECE)

Experimental Investigations of Quantum Confined Silicon Nanoparticle Light Emitting Devices

Advisors: Steve Campbell (ECE), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Rebecca Anthony

Passivation of Plasma-Synthesized Photoluminescent Silicon Nanocrystals

Advisor: Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Zachary Holman (ME)

Plasma-synthesized silicon and germanium nanoparticles for solar cells

Advisors: Uwe Kortshagen (ME), Eray Aydil (CEMS)

Ghidewon Arefe (ME)

Silicon quantum dots for breast cancer imaging

Advisors: Allison Hubel (ME), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

William Tisdale (CEMS)

Characterization of interfacial electronic structure and dynamics in quantum dot-sensitized solar cells

Advisors: Eray Aydil (CEMS), David Norris (CEMS), Xiaoyang Zhu (Chem)

Kurtis Leschkies (CEMS)

Advisors: Eray Aydil (CEMS), David Norris (CEMS), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Stephanie Hernandez (ECE)

Synthetic antiferromagnet for hard Layer of exchange coupled composite media

Advisor: Randall Victora (ECE)

Richard Liptak (ECE)

Gas Phase Surface Passivation of Silicon Nanocrystals

Advisors: Steve Campbell (ECE) and Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Aaron Welle (ECE)

Nanoxerographic patterning of organic and inorganic nanoparticles by electrospraying

Advisor: Heiko Jacobs (ECE)

Nanostructured Films with improved electronic or mechanical properties

Curtis Anderson (ME)

Plasma Synthesis of Si Nanoparticles for Co-Deposition of Mixed Phase Thin Films

Advisors: Uwe Kortshagen (ME), Jim Kakalios (Phys)

Charlie Blackwell (Physics)

Properties of thin film amorphous silicon with nanocrystalline inclusions

Advisors: Jim Kakalios (Phys), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Jami Hafiz (ME)

Hypersonic plasma particle deposition

Advisors: Steven Girshick (ME), William Gerberich (CEMS)

Jami McLaren (ME)

Deposition of Superhard Cubic Boron Nitride and other Materials from the BCN Ternary System by Supersonic Plasma Jet Chemical Vapor Deposition

Advisors: Joachim Heberlein (ME), William Gerberich (CEMS)

Matthew Panzer (CEMS)

Nanocomposite insulators for organic thin-film transistors

Advisor: Daniel Frisbie (CEMS)

Joshua Sheffel (CEMS)

Polymer-molecular sieve nanocomposites

Advisors: Michael Tsapatsis (CEMS), Lee Penn (Chem)

Siri Thompson (ME)

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition of nanostructured silicon thin films

Advisors: Uwe Kortshagen (ME), Jim Kakalios (Phys)

Nicole Wagner (ME)

Investigation of superhard nanostructured coatings
in the Si-C-N ternary system

Advisors: Joachim Heberlein (ME), William Gerberich (CEMS)

Jason Holm (ME)

Oxide Thin Film Growth Kinetics on Aerosolized Silicon Nanoparticle Surfaces

Eric Garlid (Physics)

Advisor: Paul Crowell (Phys)

Nanoparticle Characterization

Bill Mook (CEMS)

Evaluation of the mechanical properties of common nanoscale contact geometries

Advisors: Bill Gerberich (CEMS), Joachim Heberlein (ME)

Ryan Thompson (CEMS)

Characterization of nanoparticles using electron microscopy

Advisors: C. Barry Carter (CEMS), Steve Campbell (ECE)

Julia Deneen Nowak (CEMS)

Characterization of Nanoparticles Using Transmission Electron Microscopy

Advisor: C. Barry Carter (CEMS)

Andrew Wills (CHEM)


Doping Colloidal Semiconductor Nanoparticles

Advisor: Wayne Gladfelter (Chem), David Norris (CEMS)

Nanoparticles in the Environment

Mark Emery (ME)

Evaporation Rates from Molecular Clusters formed by Nucleation in the Atmosphere

Advisors: Peter McMurry (ME), Jeff Roberts (Chem)

Jasmine Erbs (Chem)

The Reactivity and Characterization of Arsenic Doped Iron Oxide
Nanoparticles

Advisors: Lee Penn (Chem), Subir Banerjee (Geo)

Melissa Fink (ME)

Hygroscopic growth of nanoparticles

Advisors: Peter McMurry (ME), Richard McClurg (CEMS)

Amanda Nienow (Chem)

Surface properties of soot nanoparticles

Advisor: Jeff Roberts (Chem)

Computational Nanoparticle Research

Thomas J. Hatch Aguilar (ME)

Computer modeling of electrostatically-directed self assembly of Silicon nanoparticles in Argon media

Advisors: Heiko Jacobs (ECE), Uwe Kortshagen (ME)

Maren VanOtterloo (ME)

Modeling nucleation of nanoparticles in Fluorocarbon plasmas

Advisors: Steven Girshick (ME), Jeff Roberts (Chem)

Sarah Warthesen (ME)

Simulation of nanoparticle transport in a low pressure plasma

Advisors: Steven Girshick (ME), Uwe Kortshagen (ME), Jim Kakalios (Phys)

Chongai Kuang (CEMS)

Master Equation Analysis of Cluster Growth in Homogeneous Vapor Nucleation

Advisors: Alon McCormick (CEMS), Peter McMurry (ME)