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Plasmonic Cavities for Enhanced Spotaneous Emission
(2013-09-30)
The modification of spontaneous emission, i.e. the Purcell effect, with optical cavities has been highly studied over the past 20 years as one of the most important goals for cavity quantum electrodynamics (cQED). The ...
Aqueous Solution Synthesis of ZnO for Application in Optoelectronics
(2013-09-23)
Recently, ZnO has garnered widespread attention in the semiconductor community for its large set of useful properties, which include a wide bandgap and its resulting optical transparency, a large exciton binding energy, a ...
Fabrication and Characterization of Single-Crystal Diamond Photonic Cavities
(2013-09-19)
Cavity quantum electrodynamics provide a platform to form a quantum network which connects individual quantum bits (qubits) via photon. Optical cavity, a device which traps photons in a confined volume can enhance the ...
Modeling Cardiovascular Hemodynamics Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method on Massively Parallel Supercomputers
(2013-09-23)
Accurate and reliable modeling of cardiovascular hemodynamics has the potential to improve understanding of the localization and progression of heart diseases, which are currently the most common cause of death in Western ...
Truthful and Fair Resource Allocation
(2013-09-25)
How should we divide a good or set of goods among a set of agents? There are various constraints that we can consider. We consider two particular constraints. The first is fairness - how can we find fair allocations? The ...
Design, Manufacturing, and Locomotion Studies of Ambulatory Micro-Robots
(2013-09-27)
Biological research over the past several decades has elucidated some of the mechanisms behind highly mobile, efficient, and robust locomotion in insects such as the cockroach. Roboticists have used this information to ...
The Role of Fe(III) Oxyhydroxides in Shaping Microbial Communities Capable of Fe(III) Reduction
(2013-09-18)
Iron oxyhrdroxide exist in a range of crystallinities and subsequent bioavailabilities with the poorly crystalline Fe oxyhrdroxide, ferrihydrite, considered the most bioavailable. Yet, as a result of the instability ...
Factors Controlling Variability in the Oxidative Capacity of the Troposphere on Interannual to Interglacial Time Scales
(2013-08-21)
This thesis explores the natural forces controlling variability of the tropospheric oxidants on interannual to glacial-interglacial time scales. The oxidants (primarily OH and ozone) determine the lifetime of many trace ...
Nanophotonics in Diamond
(2013-08-21)
Diamond nanophotonics have evolved tremendously from the study of color centers in bulk single crystals and nanocrystals to their characterization in nanostructured environments. This development was facilitated by the ...
Privacy and the Complexity of Simple Queries
(2013-09-16)
As both the scope and scale of data collection increases, an increasingly large amount of sensitive personal information is being analyzed. In this thesis, we study the feasibility of effectively carrying out such analyses ...