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Understanding the Photogeneration Process in Organic Photovoltaics: From the Bulk to the Edges
(2021)
The field of organic semiconductors have been brought under great attention from both the academia and the public when high efficiency organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) quickly grew in to a huge market with a $40 billion ...
Development and Application of Numerical Methods in Biomolecular Solvation
(2021)
This work addresses the development of fast summation methods for long range particle interactions and their application to problems in biomolecular solvation, which describes the interaction of proteins or other biomolecules ...
Novel Calibration Techniques to Enable Next-Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Observations
(2021)
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) experiments like Advanced ACTPol (AdvACT) and Simons Observatory (SO) seek to uncover the physics of the early Universe, just ~10^-32 seconds after its formation, and its evolution since. ...
Calculating Fermion Yukawa Couplings in M-Theory, and Early Universe Cosmology With Axions
(2021)
In this dissertation, we discuss work done to explore the parameter space of geometric engineering with M-theory on manifolds ofG2holonomy. The local geometry of the G2 manifold is related to the Yukawa coupling constants ...
Observation of W W W Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at s = 13 TeV with the ATLAS Detector
(2021)
This thesis presents the first observation of inclusive WWW production using 139 inverse femtobarn of proton-proton collision data collected by the ATLAS detector at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV. The analysis is ...
Multidisciplinary Study of Soft Shape Morphing Systems
(2021)
Nature abounds with examples of shape morphing systems where an entity either gradually grows into a complex 3-D shape pattern or rapidly morphs into a new configuration. Inspired by the shape shifting capabilities of ...
New Applications of Satellite-Measured Tropical Cyclone Wind Speeds
(2021)
Major hurricanes are becoming more frequent due to climate change and the warming of the oceans. Now more than ever, the ability to model hurricanes accurately and provide advanced warning to affected areas is crucial. ...
Towards an Improved Neutrino Cross Section Landscape: First Measurements of ve-Argon and Monoenergetic v? Interactions
(2021)
Knowledge of neutrino cross sections is critical for understanding neutrino oscillation experiments. Existing theoretical interaction models can be improved by data-driven constraints measured across a variety of ...
Understanding the Impacts of Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere on Thermospheric Dynamics and Composition
(2021)
The Earth’s Ionosphere and Thermosphere (IT) is a highly dynamic system persistently driven by variable forcings both from above (Solar EUV and the magnetosphere) and the lower atmosphere. The forcing from below accounts ...
Radiation Hydrodynamics Experiments on Large High-Energy-Density-Physics Facilities that are Relevant to Astrophysics
(2021)
This thesis presents the design of three radiation hydrodynamics experiments at the largest high-energy-density-physics facilities in the United States. Two of these experiments explore the first measurements of photoionization ...