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Optical Negative Index Metamaterials.
(2011)
Research of metamaterials focuses on unprecedented optical properties that may be obtained from composite media, and has attracted great attention since the seminal paper “Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens”. The ...
Gold Nanoparticle Chemiresistor Arrays for Micro-Gas Chromatography Applications
(2012)
Thiolate-monolayer-protected gold nanoparticle (MPN) chemiresistors were studied as the sensing devices for micro-gas chromatography (μGC) systems. Because transport through chemiresistors is dominated by tunneling, they ...
Quantum Optical Applications in Spectroscopy: Investigations of Entangled Two-Photon Absorption and Entangled Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence in Organic Dendritic Systems.
(2010)
Entangled states of light have been utilized successfully in a wide variety of experiments and applications. This dissertation will discuss the application of entangled states of light toward spectroscopy wherein entangled ...
Forward-Backward Asymmetry at High Mass in tt Production in pp Collisions at
(2011)
We present a new measurement of the inclusive forward-backward tbar{t} production asymmetry and its mass dependence. The measurements are performed with data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of L = 5.3 fb^{−1} of ...
Search for a Supersymmetry Signature with the ZY Plus Missing Transverse Energy Final State Using the D0 Detector.
(2011)
A search for a supersymmetry signature is conducted with events containing Zγ and large missing transverse energy at Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator with ppbar collisions at center of mass energy 1.96 GeV. The data used ...
Full-wave Nonlinear Inverse Scattering for Acoustic and Electromagnetic Breast Imaging.
(2012)
Acoustic and electromagnetic full-wave nonlinear inverse scattering techniques are explored in both theory and experiment with the ultimate aim of noninvasively mapping the material properties of the breast. There is ...
Exploring the Mechanics of Transcriptional Control through DNA Looping with Optical Tweezers.
(2010)
The interior of a cell is a crowded and constantly fluctuating environment, where DNA and other biomolecules are highly constrained and subject to various kinds of me-chanical forces. To unravel the role of mechanics in ...
Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson in Associated Production with W Boson at the Tevatron.
(2010)
A search for the Standard Model Higgs boson in proton-antiproton collisions with center-of-mass energy 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron is presented in this dissertation. The process of interest is the associated production of W ...
An Experimental Investigation of Reacting and Nonreacting Coaxial Jet Mixing in a Laboratory Rocket Engine.
(2009)
Coaxial jets are commonly used as injectors in propulsion and combustion devices due to both the simplicity of their geometry and the rapid mixing they provide. In liquid rocket engines it is common to use coaxial jets in ...
High Intensity Organic Light-Emitting Diodes.
(2012)
This thesis is dedicated to the fabrication, modeling, and characterization to achieve high efficiency organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for illumination applications. Compared to conventional lighting sources, OLEDs ...