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Investigations into the Optically Stimulated Luminescence Response of Various Materials.
(2011)
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dosimetry involves the illumination of an irradiated sample of an appropriate material to produce a stimulated emission of light whose intensity is indicative of the radiation dose. ...
Formation of Embedded Nitride Semiconductor Nanocrystals.
(2012)
In this thesis, the formation, phase selection, and spatial positioning of GaAs:N
(InAs:N) nanocomposite layers produced by N-implantation, focused ion beam (FIB)
irradiation, and rapid thermal annealing (RTA) of GaAs ...
Hsp70 chaperone Proteins and their Interactions with Various Drugs as Studied by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
(2011)
Chaperone proteins and their cochaperones are perhaps one of the most intriguing systems for investigation. Ubiquitous in nature, they can be found in every organism and that perhaps is the reason that their sequence shows ...
Anisotropic Diffusion of Neutral Particles in Stochastic Media.
(2009)
This work introduces a new homogenization theory for the transport of particles in stochastic media. This theory utilizes a nonclassical form of the Boltzmann equation in which the locations of the scattering centers in ...
Ultrasound-triggered Drug Delivery Using Acoustic Droplet Vaporization.
(2010)
The goal of targeted drug delivery is the spatial and temporal localization of a therapeutic agent and its associated bioeffects. One method of drug localization is acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV), whereby drug-laden ...
Probing Biological Systems using Reflectance and Fluorescence Spectroscopy.
(2010)
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a leading cause of cancer death with a five-year survival rate of only 5%. Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA), the current diagnostic standard, cannot reliably rule ...
Enhanced Light Collection from Single Trapped Ions.
(2011)
Long-range transport of quantum information across a network is most readily achieved through the use of photons as the information carriers. The nodes of such a quantum network are most naturally a quantum memory or ...
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Phase and Structural Transitions in Model Lung Surfactant Mixtures.
(2010)
Lung surfactant (LS) is a complex mixture of lipids and proteins that reduces and regulates the surface tension in the lungs, thereby decreasing the work of breathing. A thorough understanding of LS function is critical ...
Laser Fabrication of High-K Dielectrics for High Current Cathodes.
(2008)
Triple point, defined as the junction of metal, dielectric, and vacuum, is the location where electron emission is favored in the presence of a sufficiently strong electric field. Recent work at the University of Michigan ...
The Full Two-Body-Problem: Simulation, Analysis, And Application To The Dynamics, Characteristics, And Evolution Of Binary Asteroid Systems.
(2009)
The Full Two-Body-Problem (F2BP) describes the dynamics of two unconstrained rigid bodies in close proximity, having arbitrary spatial distribution of mass, charge, or similar field quantity, and interacting through a ...