2020 Doctoral Dissertations
Ian Chesser
Atomistic and continuum models of anisotropic grain boundary motion in bicrystals
Advisor: Professor Elizabeth A. Holm
Yining He
Microstructure Evaluation & Process Optimization of Ti6AI4V-xB &
Tool Steel Produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Advisor: Professor Bryan Webler
Ke-Wei Jin
Orientation Determination of Low Symmetry Materials Using Computational Polarized Light Optical Microscopy
Advisor: Professor Marc De Graef
Sumin Jin
Stepwise Adsorption on Single-wall Carbon Nanotube Networks: Towards Development of Drug Delivery System
Advisors: Professor Kris Noel Dahl
Professor Mohammad F. Islam
Geonu Kim
Carbon Concentration and the Use of Direct-Reduced Iron in Ironmaking and Steelmaking
Advisor: Professor Chris Pistorius
Maxwell Li
Magnetic Domain Wall Skyrmions: Investigating Chiral Spin Textures in Pt/Co/Ni/Ir Multi-Layers using Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy
Advisors: Professor Marc De Graef
Professor Vincent Sokalski
Rachel E. Lim
Effects of Anisotropy in Polycrystalline Ti-7Al Using Far-Field High Energy X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy
Advisor: Professor Anthony Rollett
Yang Liu
Spin-orbit Torque Driven Magnetization Switching for Non-volatile Memory and Beyond
Advisor: Professor Jimmy Zhu
Luke A. M. Lyle
Research and Development of Electrical Contacts to β-Ga2O3 for Power Electronics and UV Photodetectors
Advisor: Lisa M. Porter
Yuanzhi Ma
Formation and Evolution of Cunductive Filament in TaOx Resistive Random-Access Memory
Advisor: Professor Marek Skowronski
Timothy Rose
Towards Efficient and Robust Molecular Crystal Structure Prediction Using Genarris, GAtor and Machine Learning
Advisor: Professor Noa Marom
Wenjia Song
Influence of pH and Internal Electric Field on the Photochemical Reactivity of Oxide Catalysts
Advisors: Professor Gregory S. Rohrer and Professor Paul A. Salvador
Joseph Tessmer
Simulation of S/TEM Images for Discrete Dislocaton Dynamics and Molecular Dynamics
Advisor: Professor Marc De Graef
Han Wang
Aging and Direct Recycling of Cathode Active Materials in Comercial Li-ion Cell
Advisor: Professor Jay Whitacre