In this thesis a simple technique for controlling structure via holographic interference lithography was established and implemented. Access to various space groups including such important structures as the level set ...

High-refractive-index-contrast microphotonic devices provide strong light confinement allowing for sharp waveguide bends and small dielectric optical resonators. They allow dense optical integration and unique applications ...

Motivated by the challenges in understanding important features of protein adsorption, the interactions between (-helical peptides and a carefully selected set of model surfaces were studied. The peptide sequences contained ...

The dramatic advances in Si/SiO2-based microelectronic processing witnessed over the past several decades can largely be attributed to relatively material-independent device scaling. However, with physical and economic ...

The copper (Cu) interconnect has become the bottleneck for bandwidth scaling due to its increasing RC time constant with the decreasing gate line width. Currently, silicon based optical interconnect is widely pursued as ...

The field of texture analysis is fundamentally concerned with measuring and analyzing the distribution of crystalline orientations in a given polycrystalline material. Traditionally, the orientation distribution function ...

The electroosmotic behavior of the rutile polymorph of titanium dioxide was explored as a function of crystallographic orientation. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was employed to make high-resolution force spectroscopy ...