Carnegie Mellon University

MSE Doctoral Dissertations - 2018

Ahmed Abdelgawad
Metal Alloy Magnetic Nanodots and Magnetic Tunnel Junctions
Advisor: Professor Sarah Majetich

Natan Aronhime
Development of Fe-Ni based Metal Amorphous Nanocomposites for Electric Motor Applications
Advisor: Professor Michael McHenry

Ross W. Cunningham
Defect Formation Mechanisms in Powder Bed Metal Additive Manufacturing
Advisor: Professor Anthony Rollett

Mauro Elias Ferreira do Nascimento
Inclusion Size Distributions After Calcium Treatment in Low Carbon Aluminum Killed Steels
Advisors: Professors P. Chris Pistorius and Richard J. Freuhan

Caroline Gorham
On the formation of crystalline and non-crystalline solid states and their thermal transport properties: A topological perspective via a quaternion orientational order parameter
Advisor: David E. Laughlin

Jenifer R. Hajzus
Semiconductor Contacts for Nanoelectronics: SnS Nanoribbons, SnS Thin Films, and Silver NanowireBased Transparent Conductors
Advisor: Professor Lisa Porter

Ryan K.S. Harrison
Investigating the Relationships Between Materials Properties and Microstructural Shapes as Quantified by Moment Invariants
Advisor: Professor Marc De Graef

Minyoung Jeong
Thermal conductance measurements across interfaces and nanostructured gaps for future heat-assisted magnetic recording technology and analysis of thermal conductivity change in metal-organic framework single crystals for adsorption applications
Advisor: Professor Jonathan A. Malen

Isha Kashyap
Quantitative Characterization of Magnetic Domain Structure in Near Eutectoid Co40Pt60 Alloys
Advisor: Professor Marc De Graef

Deepoo Kumar
Development of a Reliable Kinetic Model for Ladle Refining of Steel
Advisor: Professor P. Chris Pistorius

Ik Soo Kwon
Multimodal Control of Adhesion in Polydopamine Nanomembranes through Texture, Microstructure, and Chemistry Control
Advisor: Professor Christopher Bettinger

Derek K. Lau
Experimental Evaluation of the Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction in Co/Ni Magnetic Multilayers
Advisor: Professor Vincent Sokalski

Yu Lin
New High Toughness Ultra-Hight Strength Steels: Effects of Composition and Heat Treatment on Strength and Toughness
Advisor: Professor Warren M. Garrison

Ankita Mangal
Applied Machine Learning to Predict Stress Hotspots in Materials
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth A. Holm

Stephano P. T. Piva
The Effect of Steel, Slag and Ferroalloy Composition on the Oxide Inclusion Changes in Si-Mn Killed Steels
Advisor: Professor P. Chris Pistorius

Ellen S. Reifler
Investigation of Intrinsic and Tunable Properties of Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides for Optical Aplications
Advisor: Professor Elias Towe

Shivram Kashyap Sridhar
Study of Correleation Between Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in Nickel Titanium Used for Biomedical Applications
Advisor: Professor Anthony Rollett

Mary E. Story
Microstructural Effects on High-Temperature Selective Oxidation of CMnSi Advanced High-Strength Steels
Advisor: Professor Bryan A. Webler