Former Ph.D. Students and Their Thesis Titles 


Shengguo Jia
Mechanism of the Electrophoretic Deposition of CdSe Nanocrystal Films and Their Mechanical Properties (2008)

Richard Robinson
Phase Transitions in Metal Oxide Nanoparticles as Studied by Raman Scattering (2004)

Mohammad Islam
Electrophoretic Deposition of Multifunctional Nanocrystal Films (2003)

Nick Fuller
Controlling the Relative Rates of Adlayer Formation and Removal during Etching in Inductively Coupled Plasmas (2002)

Jon Spanier
Optical and Electrochemical Properties of Nanoscale Materials (2001)

Bosang Kim
Optical Properties of Three-Dimensional Arrays of Semiconductor Nanocrystals (2000)

Jae Young Choe
Optical Modeling of Surface Adlayers by Laser-induced Thermal Desorption during the Plasma Etching of Semiconductors (1999)

Resul Eryigit
Theoretical Analysis of the Optical Properties of GaAs(001) Surfaces and the Strain-dependent Lattice Properties of Semiconductors (1997)

Sangsig Kim
The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on Light Emitting Semiconductors (1996)

Hubert Burke
Optical Spectroscopy and Growth of GeSi Alloys (1995)

Zhifeng Sui
The Effects of Strain and Confinement on the Optical Properties of Group IV Semiconductor Structures (1993)

Ari Tuchman
The Effect of Hydrostatic Pressure on II-VI Strained Layer Heterostructures (1992)

Hua Tang
The Raman Diagnostics and Process Physics of Laser-induced Surface Modifications (1992)

David Kotecki
Nucleation and Growth of Silicon Thin Film Microstructures by Localized Laser Chemical Vapor Deposition (1988)