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 ...

Using first principles calculations the effect of electronic structure on the stability of positive electrode materials for lithium rechargeable batteries is investigated. The investigation focuses upon lithiated α-NaFeO₂ ...

Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (FSMA) have been shown in recent work to exhibit large magnetic field induced strains. The material generally requires a large threshold field (of order 3-4 kOe) to initiate the strain. ...

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 ...

Three-dimensional printing (3DP) is a state-of-the-art manufacturing technology, One of its many important applications is to fabricate the metal tooling for plastic injection molding. In order to achieve a fully dense 3DP ...