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Selected Topics on the Dark Side.
(2011)
Although significant progress has been made in understanding the nature and history of our universe there are still many open questions in cosmology. The nature of the dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) are still elusive. ...
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 ...
Solid State NMR Investigations of Lipid Bilayers and Biomembrane Binding Molecules: Dendrimers and Amylin.
(2010)
The goal of this project was to investigate the interaction between lipid binding molecules, such as peptides and drug compounds, with biological lipid bilayers. The results demonstrate that human amylin, a peptide hormone ...
Cartesian Treecode Algorithms for Electrostatic Interactions in Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
(2010)
This thesis is concerned with algorithms for evaluating the Coulomb potential en- ergy and forces due to interacting charged particles in molecular dynamics (MD) sim- ulations. We consider Cartesian treecode algorithms ...
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 ...