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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis
Ralph Waldo Emerson

2012

Building the Nanoplasmonics Toolbox Through Shape Modeling and Single Particle Optical Studies
Emilie Ringe | Abstract |

Structural and Chemical Investigations of Nanotribology Using In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy and Defect Based Analytical Modeling
Ariel M'ndange-Pfupfu | Abstract |

2011

Surface Stabilization Mechanisms in Metal Oxides
Andres E. Becerra-Toledo | Abstract |

Corrosion Behavior of Solution-Annealed CoCrMo Biomedical Alloy
Pooja Panigrahi | Abstract |

Reconstructions on Strontium Titanate (110) Surfaces at Various Annealing Conditions
Alicia Loon | Abstract |

2010

A Chemical Approach to Understanding Oxide Surface Structure and Reactivity
James A. Enterkin | Abstract |

2009

Crystallographic perturbations to valence charge density and hydrogen-surface interactions
James Ciston | Abstract |

2008

Thermally Activated Self-lubricating Nanostructured Coating for Cutting Tool Applications
Robin Koshy | Abstract |

Nanoscale Properties and Mechanics of Cementitious Materials
Paramita Mondal | Abstract |

2007

Real and Model Oxide Surfaces
Courtney Lanier | Abstract |

Tribological Interfaces Studied by an Analytical Dislocation Model and in-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy
Arno Merkle | Abstract |

2006

Electron Microscopy Studies of Real and Model Oxide Supported Au Catalysts
Yingmin Wang | Abstract |

Model catalytic oxide surfaces: a study of the LaAlO3(001) surface
James Rondinelli | Abstract |

2005

Structure and Thermodynamics of Model Catalytic Oxide Surfaces
Ann Chiaramonti Debay | Abstract |

System Design and Verification of the Precession Electron Diffraction Technique
Christopher Own | Abstract |

Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies of Surface Phenomena in Polar Oxides
Arun Subramanian | Abstract |

2004

Quasicrystalline Thin Films: Growth, Structure and Interface
Edy Widjaja | Abstract |

2002

Structure, morphology and chemistry of catalytic transition metal oxides.
Natasha Erdman | Abstract |

2001

Nucleation and growth of metastable phases in thin films
Quan Li | Abstract |

2000

Experimental and computational study of surfaces, interfaces and thin films
Erman Bengu | Abstract |

Initial growth of ultrathin metal films on semiconductors
Daniel Grozea | Abstract |

The local variation of the critical current along YBa2Cu3O7-x grainboundary and ramp-edge Josephson junctions
Michael Carmody

1998

Initial stages of thin film deposition : metal-induced surface reconstruction on semiconductors and the nucleation of cubic boron nitride
Christopher Collazo-Davila | Abstract |

Structural and chemical characterization of thin films and crystal surfaces
Eric Landree | Abstract |

1996

Gold induced Si(111) surface reconstructions studied by ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscopy
Richard Plass

Microstructure and composition of magnetic flux pinning defects in high-temperature superconductors
Brad Storey

1995

Morphology transformations in nanoparticles
Dorai Narayanaswamy (Iyer)

Ultrahigh vacuum transmission electron microscopy studies of semiconductor surfaces
Ganesh Jayaram

The formation, transport properties and microstructure of 45 degree [001] tilt grain boundaries in YBa2Cu307-X thin films
Boris Vuchic

1992

Ultra high vacuum transmission electron microscopy of the clean surfaces of Au and Ir (001)
Derren Dunn

Electron-induced surface radiation damage in V2O5, ReO3 and CaF2
Rebecca Ai

1991

Atomic structure and sintering behavior of ultrafine ceramic particles
John Bonevich

Electron radiation damage in transition metal oxides
Mary Buckett

1990

Dynamical theory for high energy electron reflection
Yiquan Ma

1989

Phase instabilities in small particles
Pulichek Ajayan

1980

The Structure of Small Silver Particles
L. D. Marks|