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Magnetic properties of an isolated quantum dot
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
A microfabricated solid oxide fuel cell
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
With the ever-increasing ubiquity of mobile consumer electronic devices comes the rising demand for portable electric power. Current battery technology gives a very modest energy return per weight or volume. Hydrocarbons ...
Design and fabrication of sharp bend photonic crystal slab waveguides
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
A periodic arrangement of atoms in a crystal presents a periodic potential for electrons. The bragg diffraction of electrons from the atoms may lead to a band gap, which represents a range of frequencies the electrons ...
The role of eddies in buoyancy flux
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis explores the role of eddies in determining the stratification of the ocean through a laboratory experiment. The experiment uses a dual-tank apparatus, with a smaller tank sitting inside the larger tank. Both ...
Instrumentation and algorithms for electrostatic inverse problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis describes tracking objects with low-level electric fields. A physical model is presented that describes the important interactions and the required mathematical inversions. Sophisticated hardware used to perform ...
Cavity filtered injection locking for large angle atomic interferometry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Dynamic line integral convolution for visualizing electromagnetic phenomena
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Vector field visualization is a useful tool in science and engineering, giving us a powerful way of understanding the structure and evolution of the field. A fairly recent technique called Line Integral Convolution (LIC) ...
Photon isolation and jet substructure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
We introduce soft drop isolation, a new photon isolation criterion inspired by jet substructure techniques. Soft drop isolation is collinear-safe and is equivalent to Frixione isolation at leading order in the small R ...
Signatures of hydrodynamic transport in an electron system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Electrons in strongly-correlated systems move in a neatly coordinated manner, in many ways resembling the movement of viscous fluids and leading to surprising collective behaviors. Here we explore how the hydrodynamic ...
The search for orbital decay in hot Jupiters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
We summarize our results, so far, in the search for orbital decay in exoplanets. Orbital decay is the gradual shrinkage of the planetary orbit due to tidal dissipation. We ranked currently known exoplanetary systems according ...