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Methodological Advances for Drug Discovery and Protein Engineering
(2018)
Designing and engineering molecules that have specified properties not only test our understanding of nature but also play an important role in improving both human health and industrial productivity. Two such examples are ...
Modifying Single-Molecule Fluorescence with a Plasmonic Optical Antenna: Theory, Methodology, and Measurement
(2018)
Nanophotonics is the study and technological application of light on the nanometer scale. This dissertation brings together two disparate branches of nanophotonics: plasmonics and single-molecule super-resolution microscopy. ...
Optimal Control of the Advection-Diffusion Equation for Effective Fluid Mixing
(2018)
Mixing is a fundamental fluid mechanism that is crucial to the engineering of industrial processes within the chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, food, and many other industries. Mixing is also important to areas of ...
Factors Impacting Observation-Based Estimates of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(2018)
Urban areas are responsible for a large and increasing fraction of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Accurate methods for quantifying and monitoring those emissions are needed to suggest and evaluate mitigation ...
Explorations of Non-Supersymmetric Black Holes in Supergravity
(2018)
Finding a quantum theory of gravity and unifying our description of the fundamental forces in the universe has been a long-standing goal of the physics community for the last several decades. Black holes provide a setting ...
Shedding Light on the Dark: Exploring the Relation Between Galaxy Cluster Mass and Temperature Through Weak Gravitational Lensing
(2018)
The evolution of the abundance of galaxy clusters is a powerful tool for quantifying the presence of dark energy in the universe. To use this tool, it is necessary to measure precise cluster masses. As masses are difficult ...
Dependence of Radiant Optical Magnetization on Material Composition
(2018)
The realization of strong optical magnetism in nominally “non-magnetic” media could lead to novel forms of all-optical switching, energy conversion, or the generation of large (oscillatory) magnetic fields without ...
Observations of Coherence in Bacterial Reaction Centers Using Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy
(2018)
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants and photosynthetic bacteria convert absorbed sunlight into usable chemical energy. In the first steps of photosynthesis, light energy absorbed by molecules embedded in ...
Optical Studies of Indium Gallium Nitride Nanostructures
(2018)
Indium gallium nitride (InGaN) is a semiconductor material that is in widespread use in blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) and blue laser diodes and is being used in solid-state lighting, displays, and scientific applications. ...
Plasmonic Waveguide Lithography for Patterning Nanostructures with High Aspect-Ratio and Large-Area Uniformity
(2018)
The rapid development of the semiconductor industry in the past decades has driven advances in nano-manufacturing technologies towards higher resolution, higher throughput, better large-area uniformity, and lower manufacturing ...