Dissertations from 2013
Solid-Supported Lipid Membranes: Formation, Stability and Applications, Haw Zan Goh
Dissertations from 2012
New Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Weakly Interacting Particles, Chien-Yi Chen
Charge Transfer between Isomer Domains on n+-Doped Si(111)-2x1: Energetic Stabilization, Randall M. Feenstra, G. Bussetti, B. Bonanni, A. Violante, P. Chiaradia, M. G. Betti, and C. Mariani
Single-Particle Tunneling in Doped Graphene-Insulator-Graphene Junctions, Randall M. Feenstra, Debdeep Jena, and Gong Gu
Structure and Electronic Spectroscopy of Steps on GaAs(110) Surfaces, S. Gaan, Randall M. Feenstra, Ph. Ebert, R. E. Dunin-Borkowski, J. Walker, and Elias Towe
Measurement of Annealing Phenomena in High Purity Metals with Near-field High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy, Christopher M. Hefferan
Formation of Graphene on SiC( 0001 ) Surfaces in Disilane and Neon Environments, Guowei He, Nishtha Srivastava, and Randall M. Feenstra
Growth of GaN on SiC(0001) by Molecular Beam Epitaxy, C. D. Lee, Ashutosh Sagar, Randall M. Feenstra, W. L. Sarney, L. Salamanca-Riba, and J. W.P. Hsu
Graphene on Carbon-face SiC{0001} Surfaces Formed in a Disilane Environment, Nishtha Srivastava, Guowei He, and Randall M. Feenstra
Interface structure of graphene on SiC(0001̅ ), Nishtha Srivastava, Guowei He, Luxmi, and Randall M. Feenstra
Graphene formed on SiC under various environments: Comparison of Si-face and C-face, Nishtha Srivastava, Guowei He, Luxmi, Patrick C. Mende, Randall M. Feenstra, and Yugang Sun
Effective field theory approach to fluctuation-induced forces between colloids at an interface, Cem Yolcu, Ira Z. Rothstein, and Markus Deserno
Submissions from 2011
Transverse Beam Spin Asymmetries at Backward Angles in Elastic Electron-Proton and Quasielastic Electron-Deuteron Scattering, F. Benmokhtar, Gregg Franklin, Brian Quinn, and G0 Collaboration
Structural Basis of Folding Cooperativity in Model Proteins: Insights from a Microcanonical Perspective, Tristan Bereau, Markus Deserno, and Michael Bachmann
Co-existence of negatively and positively buckled isomers on n+ doped Si(111)-2x1, G. Bussetti, B. Bonanni, S. Cirilli, A. Violante, M. Russo, C. Goletti, P. Chiaradia, O Pulci, M. Palummo, R. Del Sole, P. Gargiani, M. G. Betti, C. Mariani, Randall M. Feenstra, G. Meyer, and K. H. Rieder
Quantitative Determination of Nanoscale Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces by Scanning Tunnelling Spectroscopy, Randall M. Feenstra and S. Gaan
Imaging of Orientation and Geometry in Microstructures: Development and Applications of High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy, Shiu Fai Frankie Li
When beauty is only skin deep; optimizing the sensitivity of specular neutron reflectivity for probing structure beneath the surface of thin films, Charles F. Majkrzak, Elisabeth Carpenter, Frank Heinrich, and Norman F. Berk
Improved stochastic estimation of quark propagation with Laplacian Heaviside smearing in lattice QCD, Colin Morningstar, J. Bulava, J. Foley, David Lenkner, M. Peardon, and Chik Him Wong
Membrane-mediated interactions between circular particles in the strongly curved regime, Benedict J. Reynwar and Markus Deserno
Effect of the HIV-1 fusion peptide on the mechanical properties and leaflet coupling of lipid bilayers, P. Shchelokovskyy, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, and R. Dimova
Continuous distribution model for the investigation of complex molecular architectures near interfaces with scattering techniques, Prabhanshu Shekhar, Hirsh Nanda, Mathias Losche, and Frank Heinrich
The Stochastic Laplacian Heaviside Method in Lattice QCD and its First Applications to Hadron Spectroscopy, Chik Him Wong
Dipolar ferromagnetic phase transition in Fe3O4 nanoparticle arrays observed by Lorentz microscopy and electron holography, Kazuo Yamamoto, Charles R. Hogg III, Saeki Yamamuro, Tsukasa Hirayama, and Sara A. Majetich
Submissions from 2010
Transverse-Momentum and Pseudorapidity Distributions of Charged Hadrons in pp Collisions at √s=7 TeV, B. Agkun, R. Carroll, Thomas A. Ferguson, D. W. Jang, S. Y. Jun, Manfred Paulini, James S. Russ, N. Terentyev, Helmut Vogel, Igor Vorobiev, and CMS Collaboration
Strange Quark Contributions to Parity-Violating Asymmetries in the Backward Angle G0 Electron Scattering Experiment, F. Benmokhtar, Gregg Franklin, Brian Quinn, and G0 Collaboration
Nucleon, Δ, and Ω excited state spectra in Nf=2+1 lattice QCD, J. Bulava, R. G. Edwards, E. Engleson, B. Joo, H-W Lin, Colin Morningstar, D. G. Richards, and S. J. Wallace
Differential cross sections and recoil polarizations for the reaction γp→K+Σ0, B. Dey, Curtis A. Meyer, Michael E. McCracken, and CLAS Collaboration
Thickness monitoring of graphene on SiC using low-energy electron diffraction, P. J. Fisher, Luxmi, Nishtha Srivastava, S Nie, and Randall M. Feenstra
Electronic States of InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots by Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy, S. Gaan, Guowei He, Randall M. Feenstra, J. Walker, and Elias Towe
Size, shape, composition, and electronic properties of InAs/GaAs quantum dots by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, S. Gaan, Guowei He, Randall M. Feenstra, J. Walker, and Elias Towe
Location of quantum information in additive graph codes, Vlad Gheorghiu, Shiang Yong Looi, and Robert B. Griffiths
Pattern Transfer from Nanoparticle Arrays, Charles R. Hogg III
Core-Shell Magnetic Morphology of Structurally Uniform Magnetite Nanoparticles, K. L. Kryka, Ryan A. Booth, Charles R. Hogg III, Y. Ijiri, J. A. Borchers, W. C. Chen, S. M. Watson, M. Laver, T. R. Gentile, L. R. Dedon, S. Harris, J. J. Rhyne, and Sara A. Majetich
Formation of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC(0001) using Vacuum or Argon Environments, Luxmi, Nishtha Srivastava, Randall M. Feenstra, and P. J. Fisher
Comparison of Graphene Formation on C-face and Si-face SiC {0001} Surfaces, Luxmi, Nishtha Srivastava, Guowei He, and Randall M. Feenstra
Electrostatic Interactions and Binding Orientation of HIV-1 Matrix Studied by Neutron Reflectivity, Hirsh Nanda, Siddhartha A.K. Datta, Frank Heinrich, Mathias Losche, Alan Rein, Susan Krueger, and Joseph E. Curtis
Measurements of the Electric Form Factor of the Neutron up to Q2=3.4 GeV2 Using the Reaction 3He⃗(e⃗,e′n)pp, S. Riordan, M. Bellis, Gregg Franklin, and Brian Quinn
In-plane homogeneity and lipid dynamics in tethered bilayer lipid membranes (tBLMs), Siddarth Shenoy, Radu Moldovan, James Fitzpatrick, David J. Vanderah, Markus Deserno, and Mathias Losche
Submissions from 2009
Generic coarse-grained model for protein folding and aggregation, Tristan Bereau and Markus Deserno
Excited state nucleon spectrum with two flavors of dynamical fermions, John Bulava, Robert G. Edwards, Eric Engleson, Justin Foley, Balint Joo, Adam Lichti, Huey-Wen Lin, Nilmani Mathur, Colin Morningstar, David G. Richards, and Stephen J. Wallace
Nucleation and Stoichiometry Dependence of rutile-TiO2(001)/GaN(0001) Thin Films Grown by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Costel Constantin, Kai Sun, and Randall M. Feenstra
Spin transfer torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions using a conductive atomic force microscope, Erick R. Evarts, Limin Cao, David S. Ricketts, Nicholas D. Rizzo, James A. Bain, and Sara A. Majetich
A Prospective: Quantitative Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Semiconductor Surfaces, Randall M. Feenstra
The influence of the band structure of epitaxial graphene on SiC on the transistor characteristics, Gong Gu, Luxmi, P. J. Fisher, Nishtha Srivastava, and Randall M. Feenstra
Influence of surface states on tunneling spectra of n-type GaAs(110) surfaces, Nobuyuki Ishida, Kazuhisa Sueoka, and Randall M. Feenstra
First results from 2+1 dynamical quark flavors on an anisotropic lattice: Light-hadron spectroscopy and setting the strange-quark mass, Huey-Wen Lin, Saul D. Cohen, Jozef Dudek, Robert G. Edwards, Balint Joo, David G. Richards, John Bulava, Justin Foley, Colin Morningstar, Eric Engleson, Stephen J. Wallace, Keisuke Jimmy Juge, Nilmani Mathur, Michael Peardon, and Sinead M. Ryan
Morphology of Graphene on SiC(0001) Surfaces, Luxmi, P. J. Fisher, Nishtha Srivastava, Randall M. Feenstra, Yugang Sun, J. Kedzierski, P. Healy, and Gong Gu
Temperature-dependence of Epitaxial Graphene Formation on SiC(0001), Luxmi, Shu Nie, P. J. Fisher, Randall M. Feenstra, Gong Gu, and Yugang Sun
Multiscale modeling of emergent materials: biological and soft matter, Teemu Murtola, Alex Bunker, Ilpo Vattulainen, Markus Deserno, and Mikko Karttunen
Tunneling spectroscopy of graphene and related reconstructions on SiC(0001), Shu Nie and Randall M. Feenstra
Effect of cholesterol on structural and mechanical properties of membranes depends on lipid chain saturation, Jianjun Pan, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, and John F. Nagle
Novel quark-field creation operator construction for hadronic physics in lattice QCD, Michael Peardon, John Bulava, Justin Foley, Colin Morningstar, Jozef Dudek, Robert G. Edwards, Balint Joo, Huey-Wen Lin, David G. Richards, and Keisuke Jimmy Juge
Membrane composition-mediated protein-protein interactions, Benedict J. Reynwar and Markus Deserno
Partial wave analysis of the reaction γp→pω and the search for nucleon resonances, M. Williams, D. Applegate, M. Bellis, and Curtis A. Meyer
Differential cross sections and spin density matrix elements for the reaction γp→pω, M. Williams, D. Applegate, M. Bellis, Curtis A. Meyer, and CLAS Collaboration
Differential cross sections for the reactions γp→pη and γp→pη', M. Williams, Z. Krahn, D. Applegate, M. Bellis, Curtis A. Meyer, and CLAS Collaboration
Submissions from 2008
Inclusive χbJ(nP) decays to D0X, Roy A. Briere, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
Measurement of the η′-Meson Mass using J/ψ→γη′, Roy A. Briere, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
Observation of J/ψ→3γ, Roy A. Briere, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
Observation of Υ(2S)→ηΥ(1S) and Search for Related Transitions, Roy A. Briere, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
First Flavor-Tagged Determination of Bounds on Mixing-Induced CP Violation in Bs0→J/ψϕ Decays, K. Chung, J. Galyardt, S. Y. Jun, Manfred Paulini, James S. Russ, V. Tiwari, and CDF Collaboration
Measurement of ratios of fragmentation fractions for bottom hadrons in pp̅ collisions at √s=1.96 TeV, K. Chung, J. Galyardt, S. Y. Jun, Manfred Paulini, James S. Russ, V. Tiwari, and CDF Collaboration
Trans-Planckian signals from the breaking of local Lorentz invariance, Hael Collins and Richard Holman
Band offsets of InGaP/GaAs heterojunctions by scanning tunneling spectroscopy, Y. Dong, Randall M. Feenstra, M. P. Semtsiv, and W. T. Masselink
γ-ray spectroscopy of Λ16O and Λ15N hypernuclei via the 16O(K-,π-γ) reaction, Gregg Franklin, Brian Quinn, and E930('01) Collaboration
Separable operations on pure states, Vlad Gheorghiu and Robert B. Griffiths
Coarse-grained modeling of interactions of lipid bilayers with supports, Matthew I. Hoopes, Markus Deserno, Margie L. Longo, and Roland Faller
Coarse-Grained Simulation Studies of Peptide-Induced Pore Formation, Gregoria Illya and Markus Deserno
The Effect of Cholesterol on Short- and Long-Chain Monounsaturated Lipid Bilayers as Determined by Molecular Dynamics Simulations and X-Ray Scattering, Norbert Kucerka, Jason D. Perlmutter, Jianjun Pan, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, John Katsaras, and Jonathan N. Sachs
Structural Determinants of Water Permeability through the Lipid Membrane, John C. Mathai, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, John F. Nagle, and Mark L. Zeidel
Order Parameters and Areas in Fluid-Phase Oriented Lipid Membranes Using Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering, Thalia T. Mills, Gilman E.S. Toombes, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Detlef-M Smilgies, Gerald W. Feigenson, and John F. Nagle
Liquid-Liquid Domains in Bilayers Detected by Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering, Thalia T. Mills, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Frederick A. Heberle, Nelson F. Morales, Jiang Zhao, Jing Wu, Gilman E.S. Toombes, John F. Nagle, and Gerald W. Feigenson
Theory of Passive Permeability through Lipid Bilayers, John F. Nagle, John C. Mathai, Mark L. Zeidel, and Stephanie Tristram-Nagle
Electronic states of chemically treated SiC surfaces, Shu Nie, Randall M. Feenstra, Y. Ke, R. P. Devaty, and W. J. Choyke
Step Formation on Hydrogen-etched 6H-SiC{0001} Surfaces, Shu Nie, C. D. Lee, Randall M. Feenstra, Y. Ke, R. P. Devaty, W. J. Choyke, C. K. Inoki, T. S. Kuan, and Gong Gu
Cholesterol Perturbs Lipid Bilayers Nonuniversally, Jianjun Pan, Thalia T. Mills, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, and John F. Nagle
Temperature Dependence of Structure, Bending Rigidity, and Bilayer Interactions of Dioleoylphosphatidylcholine Bilayers, Jianjun Pan, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle, Norbert Kucerka, and John F. Nagle
Growth of GaN on porous SiC by molecular beam epitaxy, Ashutosh Sagar, Randall M. Feenstra, and J. A. Freitas Jr
Role of charged gauge fields in generating magnetic seed fields in bubble collisions during the cosmological electroweak phase transition, Trevor Stevens, Mikkel B. Johnson, Leonard Kisslinger, Ernest M. Henley, W.-Y Pauchy Hwang, and Matthias Burkardt
Novel Contrast Mechanism in Cross-Sectional Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of GaSb/GaAs Type-II Nanostructures, R. Timm, Randall M. Feenstra, H. Eisele, A. Lenz, L. Ivanova, E. Lenz, and M. Dahne
Submissions from 2007
Lattice QCD determination of patterns of excited baryon states, Subhasish Basak, Robert G. Edwards, G. T. Fleming, Keisuke Jimmy Juge, Adam Lichti, Colin Morningstar, David G. Richards, I Sato, and Stephen J. Wallace
Transverse Beam Spin Asymmetries in Forward-Angle Elastic Electron-Proton Scattering, A. Biselli, R. Clark, Gregg Franklin, J. Kuhn, J. Lachniet, Brian Quinn, and G0 Collaboration
Antideuteron production in Υ(nS) decays and the nearby continuum, Roy A. Briere, J. Chen, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
Measurement of absolute hadronic branching fractions of D̅ mesons and e+e-→DD̅ cross sections at the ψ(3770), Roy A. Briere, Thomas A. Ferguson, G. Tatishvili, Helmut Vogel, M. E. Watkins, and CLEO Collaboration
Contact lines for fluid surface adhesion, Markus Deserno, Martin Michael Muller, and Jemal Guven
Influence of tip-induced band bending on tunnelling spectra of semiconductor surfaces, Randall M. Feenstra, Y. Dong, M. P. Semstiv, and W. T. Masselink
Types of quantum information, Robert B. Griffiths
Field effect in epitaxial graphene on a silicon carbide substrate, Gong Gu, Shu Nie, Randall M. Feenstra, R. P. Devaty, W. J. Choyke, Winston K. Chan, and Michael G. Kane
Pulsar kicks with modified Urca and electrons in Landau levels, Ernest M. Henley, Mikkel B. Johnson, and Leonard Kisslinger
Balancing torques in membrane-mediated interactions: Exact results and numerical illustrations, Martin Michael Muller and Markus Deserno
Weak decays of Λ4He, J. D. Parker, M. J. Athanas, P. D. Barnes, G. Diebold, Gregg Franklin, Brian Quinn, F. Rozon, Reinhard A. Schumacher, I. Sukaton, V. J. Zeps, and E788 Collaboration
HIV-1 Fusion Peptide Decreases Bending Energy and Promotes Curved Fusion Intermediates, Stephanie Tristram-Nagle and John F. Nagle
Precision Fe Kα and Fe Kβ Line Spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1.9 NGC 2992 with Suzaku, Tahir Yaqoob, Kendrah D. Murphy, Richard Griffiths, Yoshito Haba, Hajime Inoue, Takeshi Itoh, Richard Kelley, and Motohide Kokubun
Submissions from 2006
Analysis of measured transport properties of domain walls in magnetic nanowires and films, Luc Berger
Glueball spectrum and matrix elements on anisotropic lattices, Y. Chen, A. Alexandru, S. J. Dong, I. Horvaith, F. X. Lee, K. F. Liu, Nilmani Mathur, Colin Morningstar, Michael Peardon, S. Tamhankar, B. L. Young, and J. B. Zhang
The renormalization of the energy-momentum tensor for an effective initial state, Hael Collins and Richard Holman
Coupling between Lipid Shape and Membrane Curvature, Ira R. Cooke and Markus Deserno
Electronic states of oxidized GaN(0001) surfaces, Y. Dong, Randall M. Feenstra, and J. E. Northrup