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Designing and Measuring Novel Van der Waals Semiconductor Photonic Devices
(2022)
Semiconductor photonic devices enable efficient optical communication using light for fast transmission and detection of information. Conventional photonic devices primarily use group III-V semiconductors. However, these ...
Radon Reduction and the First Science Results of the LZ Experiment
(2022)
Astrophysical and cosmological observations indicate that the universe is filled with nonluminous dark matter. Despite its inferred abundance, the non-gravitational interactions of dark matter have not been identified yet. ...
Thermoelectric Transport in Disordered Materials
(2022)
Material disorder comes in two forms, dynamic energetic disorder and static energetic disorder, both of which can greatly influence charge and thermoelectric (TE) transport properties by altering the energy dependences of ...
Investigating Plasma Interactions with Multiphase Surfaces using Computational Models
(2022)
Low-temperature plasmas affect multiphase surfaces in contact with the plasma, and the surfaces can in turn affect the plasma. These effects can be destructive (i.e., erosion) or productive (i.e., increased reactive species ...
Study of High-Performance Detectors for a Charged-Lepton-Flavor-Violating Muon Conversion Search
(2022)
In search of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM), the SM symmetries are put to scrutiny through seeking violations to the corresponding conservation laws. In particular, Charged Lepton Flavor Violation (CLFV) searches ...
Investigating Periodic Density Structures in the Solar Wind's Elemental and Ionic Composition
(2022)
Mesoscale periodic density structures observed in the solar wind plasma serve as an important diagnostic tool for constraining the processes that govern the formation and release of the solar wind. The aim of this thesis ...
Numerical Methods for Two-particle Fluctuations and Real-time Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
(2022)
This thesis contains a series of numerical studies of strongly correlated electron systems. In these systems, interesting emergent properties are brought about by strong electron correlations, leading to unusual fluctuations ...
An All-Sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves
(2022)
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) experiment made the first ever discovery of gravitational waves in 2016 when it detected radiation from the merger of two black holes. Since then, LIGO and ...
Diagnosing the DARHT Electron Beam-Target Interaction and Hydrodynamic Expansion
(2022)
Quantitative electron beam-target interaction studies on the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) electron linear induction accelerators have only been performed recently. This includes characterization of the ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...