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Prototype Development and Simulation of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST).
(2009)
The Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) instrument is a balloon payload designed to measure the flux of primary cosmic ray electrons at energies greater than 2 TeV. As electrons at these energies lose energy ...
Dynamical Evolution of Young Embedded Stellar Clusters: Environmental Effects on the Formation of Planetary Systems.
(2009)
The dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters is studied to determine the effect cluster environment has on planetary formation in the disks surrounding cluster members. Recent infrared observations of nearby star-forming ...
Rydberg Atoms in Ponderomotive Potentials
(2009)
In this thesis, we examine the ponderomotive interaction between an applied optical field and a highly excited Rydberg electron. An atom in a Rydberg state is essentially composed of an electron loosely bound, at a relatively ...
Electron Field Emission from Boron Nitride Thin Films.
(2008)
A systematic study of electron field emission from boron nitride thin films is presented, establishing nanostructured thin film cubic boron nitride (cBN) as a robust and chemically inert material with a low effective ...
Perturbations of Cellular Membranes with Synthetic Polymers and Ultrafast Lasers.
(2009)
This dissertation examines the response of the plasma membrane to perturbations by synthetic nanoparticles and ultra-fast laser pulses. Both model membranes and living cells were examined in to characterize membrane ...
Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits.
(2009)
Quantum information research is driven by the prospect of using the features of quantum physics to tackle otherwise intractable computational problems. Systems of trapped atomic ions have proven to be one of the most ...
Optical and Magnetic Manipulation of Hybrid Micro and Nanoparticle Sensors.
(2008)
Microparticles and nanoparticles have been used in a wide variety of applications ranging from biomedical to optical and electronic technologies. The microscopic and mesoscopic size scale of single particles makes them ...
A Building Block Approach Towards Novel Nonlinear Optical Materials.
(2007)
The purpose of the present research is to develop and apply a building block approach towards the design of novel nonlinear optical materials, capable of exhibiting enhanced Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) behavior. These ...
Development of an RNA-Based Theophylline-Specific Microarray Biosensor.
(2008)
We are developing an extremely sensitive and compact biosensor that is adaptable to a variety of target analytes. Hammerhead ribozymes have been engineered such that they rearrange from a catalytically inactive to an ...
The Orbital Evolution of Planet-Disk Solar Systems.
(2008)
The extrasolar planets discovered to date possess larger eccentricities and smaller semi-major axes than similar planets in our solar system. It is not thought possible for these planets to form in situ; we propose they ...