Graduate Program

Recent Ph.D. Theses

2008:
• Joydeep Roy, "Magnetoresistance Oscillations and Dimensional Crossover in the Quasi 1D Compounds (TMTSF)2CIO4 and (DMET)2I3" (Prof. Naughton).
• Hari Prasad Dahal, "Correlation Effects in Dilute Fermi Liquids: Nonequilibrium Spin Systems & Graphene" (Prof. Bedell).
• Chang Jin Lee, "Nonlinear Effects in 2D & Layered Electronic Systems" (Prof. Kalman).
• Zhihui Pan, Angle-Resolved Photoemission Studies on High Temperature Superconductor Bi2Sr2CuO6+8"(Prof. Ding)

2007:
• Yong Sun, "Electrical and Mechanical Properties of Carbon Nanostructures" (Prof. Naughton).
• Sen Zhou, "Electric Correlation and Geometric Frustration in NaxCoO2" (Prof. Wang).
• Guangyong Xiong, "Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Silicon Nanowires" (Prof. Ren).
• Bed Poudel, "A Study on Thermoelectric Properties Of Nanostructured
Bulk Materials" (Prof. Ren).
• Dezhi Wang, " Thermoelectric-Figure-of-Merit Enhancement of Si-Ge Through Nanocomposite Concept " (Prof. Ren).
• Raul Chura, "A Phenomenological Approach for the Half-Metallic Ferromagnets" (Prof. Bedell).

2006:
• Yang Wang, "Nanophotonics of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes: Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals and Optical Dipole Antennas" (Prof. Ren).
• Sergio Gaudio, "Consequence of Fermi Liquid Theory Close to a Feshbach Resonance" (Prof. Bedell).
• Shuo Chen, "Structural and Transport Property Studies on Nanostructures Using Transmission Electron Microscopy" (Prof. Ren).
• Milen Raytchev, "DNA on the Femtosecond, Picosecond and Nanosecond Time Scale - A Spectroscopic Study" (Prof. Fiebig).

2005:
• Xiwen Wang, "Optical Phenomena in Photonic and Polaritonic Crystals" (Prof. Kempa).
• Jason Jackiewicz, "Unconventional Ordering in Correlated Fermi Liquids and Gases" (Prof. Bedell).
• Debasish Banerjee, "ZnO Nanostructures and Nanoengineering" (Prof. Ren).
• Hongbo Yang, "Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy Study on NaxCoO2" (Prof. Ding).

2004:
• Cyril P. Opeil, S.J., "Crossover from Anomalous to Conventional Antiferromagnetism and Probing for Quantum Critical Behavior in
U(Pt1-xPdx)3 with 0 < x < 0.02" (Prof. Graf).
• Shancai Wang, "Evolution of Electronic Structure in CA2-xSRxRUO4 Studied by Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy" (Prof. Ding).
• Heon-Ick Ha, "Triplet Superconductivity and Interference Commensurate Oscillations in the 1D Molecular Organic Conductor (TMTSF)2ClO4" (Prof. Naughton).

2003:
• Stamatios Kyrkos, "Dielectric Properties, Screening and Compressibility for Bilayer Systems" (Prof. Kalman).
• Hongbo Zhao, "Attractive Hubbard and t-J Model Studies of High-Temperature Superconductivity" (Prof. Bedell).
• Jeong Il Oh, "Magnetic Studies in Organic Superconductors
(TMTSF)2ClO4: Upper Critical Fields and Vortex Matters" (Prof. Naughton).

2002:
• Guogang Feng, "Transport and Response Properties of Non-Equilibrium Steady State Semiconductor Quantum Well Structures" (Prof. Bakshi).
• Giulio Gambarota," Osmosis and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging of In Vivo Muscle" (Prof. Graf).

2000-2001:
• Biao Zhang, "Quantum Hall Effect and Chiral Edge State Transport in Nearly Three-Dimensional 200-Layer Quantum Well Structures" (Prof. Wang/Prof. Brooks).
• Wenjin Mao, "Phase Competition in Strongly Correlated Systems" (Prof. Bedell).
• Vasiliki Plerou, "Quantifying Economic Fluctuations by Adapting Methods of Statistical Physics" (Prof. Bedell).

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