Theses

Theses

2014

Christyn Thibodeaux, MS

Small Gold Nanostructures in Cancer Theranostics

Ali Sobhani, MS

Narrowband Photodetection in the Short-wavelength Infrared with a Plasmon-induced Hot Electron Device

Bob Zheng, MS

Fully Integrated CMOS-Compatible Photodetector with Intrinsic Gain and Red-Green-Blue Color Selectivity

Mark Knight, PhD

Optoelectronic and Ultraviolet Plasmonics

2013

Oara Neumann, PhD

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Solar and Biological Application

Shaunak Mukherjee, PhD

Engineered Plasmonic Nanostructures: Fano Resonance Response, Magnetic Plasmon Resonance for Waveguiding and Hot Electron Induced Photochemistry

Ryan Huschka, PhD

Light-Triggered Release of DNA from Plasmon-Resonant Nanoparticles

2012

Aoune Barhoumi, PhD

Gold Nanoshells for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Drug Delivery

Britt Lassiter, PhD

Complex Plasmonic Nanostructures: Symmetry Breaking and Coupled Systems

Tumasang Fofang, PhD

Optical Properties of Strongly Coupled Plasmon-Exciton Hybrid Nanostructures

2011

Jared Day, MS

Nanostructure-Mediated Launching and Detection of 2D Surface Plasmons

2010

Nathaniel Grady, PhD

Manipulation of electromagnetic fields with plasmonic nanostructures: Nonlinear frequency mixing, optical manipulation, enhancement and suppression of photocurrent in a silicon photodiode, and surface-enhanced spectroscopy

Nikolay Mirin, PhD

Novel Symmetric and Asymmetric Plasmonic Nanostructures

Rizia Bardhan, PhD

Nanostructures for Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence Sensing: From Photophysics to Biomedicine

Janardan Kundu, PhD

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Unifying Surface Raman and Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy

2009

Bruce Brinson, PhD

Nonresonant Surface Enhanced Raman Optical Activity

Joseph Cole, PhD

Photothermal Energy Conversion by Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Carly Levin, PhD

Influence of Varying Analyte Concentration, Environment, and Composition on Nanoshell-Based SERS

2008

Sri Priya Sundararajan, PhD

Plasmonic Nanostructures on Silicon

Hui Wang, PhD

Tunable Plasmonic Nanostructures: From Fundamental Nanoscale Optics to Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies

2007

Felicia Tam, PhD

Optimization of the Nanoshell Geometry for Plasmon Enhanced Fluorescence

Jeremy Dumoit, PhD

Coupling of Nanoparticle and Metallodielectric Grating Plasmons

2006

Yu Liu, PhD

Chemistry of Novel Nanoscale Carbon Materials: Nanodiamond and Carbon Nano-onions

Surbhi Lal, PhD

Profiling the Near Field of Nanoshells using Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Joseph Cole, MS

Optimization of Nanoshell Mixtures for Solar Applications

Nyein Zaw Lwin, MS

Fabrication of Plasmonic Nanoparticle Structures on Planar Substrates

2005

Nathaniel Grady, MS

Influence of Dielectric Function Properties on the Optical Response of Plasmon Resonant Metallic Nanoparticles

2004

Carla Aguirre, MS

Reshaping the Metallic Surface of a Gold Nanoshell

Corey Radloff, PhD

Concentric Nanoshells and Plasmon Hybridization

Jennifer Steele, PhD

Plasmonics of Nanostructures in Planar Geometries

Joseph Jackson, PhD

Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering with Metal Nanoshells

Cristin Moran, PhD

Fabrication of Optically Active Nanostructures by Chemical Methods

2001

Sarah Westcott, PhD

Ultrafast Electron Dynamics in Gold Nanoshells

2000

Greg Hale, PhD

Impeded Photo-Oxidation of Conducting Polymer Films using Metal Nanoshells

Joseph Jackson, MS

Metal Nanoshell Fabrication and Application to Raman Spectroscopy

Steve Oldenburg, PhD

Light Scattering from Gold Nanoshells

1999

Kevin Kelly, PhD

Investigating the Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanostructures with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

1998

Richard Averitt, PhD

Gold Nanoshells: Optical Properties and Femtosecond Electron Dynamics

Sarah Westcott, MS

Nanoparticle Assemblies and Interactions

Steve Oldenburg, MS

The Designer Optical Resonances of Metal Nanoshells

1997

Dipankar Sarkar, PhD

Vector Basis Function Solution of Maxwell's Equations

Greg Hale, MS

Triplet Exciton Dynamics in Conjugated Polymer Films

1996

Kevin Kelly, MS

Functionalization of Scanning Tunneling Microscope Probes with Buckminsterfullerenes

1995

Phillip Pippenger, MS

Photoluminescence of Crystalline Thin Film Buckminsterfullerene

1994

Richard Averitt, MS

Buckminsterfullerene Purification and Buckminsterfullerene Film Characterization

Matthew Reiten, MS

Generation of Broad Bandwidth UV Pulses via Sum Frequency Mixing

Alan Cheville, PhD

Ultrafast Carrier Relaxation in Solid Buckminsterfullerene

1993

Dipankar Sarkar, MS

Electrical Properties of Thin Film C60