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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 ...
The Orbital Evolution of Planet-Disk Solar Systems.
(2008)
The extrasolar planets discovered to date possess larger eccentricities and smaller semi-major axes than similar planets in our solar system. It is not thought possible for these planets to form in situ; we propose they ...
Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of a Single Semiconductor Quantum Dot.
(2008)
The quantum optoelectronic properties of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have featured prominently in numerous scientific proposals,
including quantum computing, single photon sources, and spintronic devices. QDs are ...
Towards a Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of Rn.
(2009)
The observed baryon asymmetry in the universe requires a greater degree of CP
violation than is contained in the CP-violating Standard Model processes discovered
thus far. Since the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) ...
Few-Cycle and Sub-Cycle Metrology for the Characterization of High Harmonics.
(2009)
The rapid advances in the generation of ultra-short optical pulses in recent decades have often outstripped the ability of metrologists to accurately measure the pulses' temporal profiles. With each reduction in pulse ...
Higgs Exempt No-Scale Supersymmetry.
(2009)
Models with acceptably small flavor changing neutral currents at the low scale require highly constrained scalar masses at the high scale. With all boundary masses small except the gauginos and Higgs bosons, the renormalization ...