Graduates:
| Name | Degree | Dept |
Major Prof. | Thesis Title |
| Ajouri, Charles M. | MS 1988 | EE | Burns | "Characterization of ICB Grown Ge-Si Heterostructures" |
| Albers, Mark | PhD 1987 | Physics | J. Shinar | "A Study of Deposition Conditions and Hydrogen Motion in r.f. Sputtered Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon" |
| Allen, Patricia E. | PhD 1990 | Physics | H. Shanks/J. Shinar | "Scanning Tunnel Microscopy Studies of Tetrahedrally Bonded Materials" |
| Avala, Kamal Babu | MS 1994 | EE | Tuttle | "Deposition and Characterization of Titanium Nitride Films from the Novel Precursor Azatitanatrane" |
| Baldwin, Greg | MS 1992 | EE | Dalal | "Analytical and Numerical Modeling of Graded Bandgap Amorphous Silicon-Germanium p-i-n Solar Cells" |
| Baldwin, Greg | PhD 1994 | EE | Dalal | "Design and Modeling of Graded Bandgap Amorphous Silicon-Germanium Solar Cells Fabricated by Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition" |
| Bezboruah, Caustoobh | M.S. 2000 | EE | Dalal | "Properties of a-(Si,Ge) films and devices deposited at high growth rates" |
| Bhowmik, Siddhartha | M.S. 1995 | MSE | K.Constant/Dalal | "Electrical and thermal characterization of nanocrystalline titanium oxide" |
| Booher, Jeremy | M.S. 2004 | EE | Dalal | "Transport properties of hydrogenated nanocrystalline germanium and germanium carbide and modeling of trap conversion instabality in hydrogenated amorphous silicon" |
| Bradley, Joe | M.S. 2001 | ME | Sarma/Bernard | "Design of surface micromachined compliant MEMS" |
| Bratland, Ken | MS 1998 | MS&E | K. Constant | "Development of Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposited Hydrogenated Microcrystalline Silicon for Thin Film Transistors" |
| Braymen, Steve | MS 1995 | MS&E | Berard | "Fluid Micro-columns in Silicon" |
| Bruhn, Russell | M.S. 1993 | EE | Weber | "Optimum Configuratin of a Foreshortened Antenna" |
| Campbell, Bryce | M.S. 2006 | MSE | Martin | " " |
| Burkland, William A. | M.S. 1986 | EE | Burns | "Development of Integrated Circuit Processing for Monolithic Oscillators Utilizing Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators" |
| Campbell, Charles | MS 1991 | EE | Weber | "Design and Perfromance of a Broadband Microwave Active Inductor Circuit with an Application to Amplifier Design" |
| Campbell, Charles | Ph.D. 1993 | EE | Weber | "Acoustically Driven Integrated Microstrip Antennas and Electromagnetic Radiation from Piezoelectric Devices" |
| CHAHAL, Premjeet | MS 1994 | EE | Dalal | "CuInSe2 films from stacked (Cu/In)/Se layers for solar cells" |
| Chen, Qi | MS 2002 | EE | Tuttle | "Effects of methanol on the wet oxidation of AlAs and AlSb" |
| Chen, Wei | M.S. 1997 | EE | Weber | "Modulation of Laser Diode Output via Thin Film Resonator" |
| Cheng, Peter | M.S. 1992 | EE | Tuttle | "Fabrication and Modeling of Indium Arsenide/Aluminum Antimonide Resonant Tunneling Diodes" |
| Cheng, Shi-Di | M.S. 1995 | EE | Tuttle/Hsieh | "Antennas on photonic band gap crystals" |
| Cheng, Shi-Di | Ph.D. 1998 | EE | Tuttle | "Wafer Bonding for Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Photonic Bandgap Crystals" |
| Chopra, Sanjiv | M.S. 1991 | EE | Dalal | "Stability studies on hydrogenated amorphous silicon films deposited using electron cyclotron resonance" |
| Choudhary, Bhaskar | Ph. D. 2005 | EE |
Dalal/Shinar |
"Organic light emitting devices (OLEDs) and structurally integrated photoluminescence based chemical and biological sensors excited by OLEDs " |
| Clayton, Jane | M.S. 1991 | MSE | Cann | "Processing of AgInO2 delafossite by cation exchange" |
| Cobbs, Jeromeo E. Sr. | M.S. 1996 | EE | Burns | "Characterization, Modeling, and Simulation of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor Memory" |
| Daub, Grady | M.S. 2000 | Physics | Biswas | |
| DeBoer, Scott | Ph.D. 1995 | EE | Dalal | "Low Temperature Epitaxial Silicon Growth Using Electron Cyclotron Resonance Plasma Deposition" |
| Decker, Micah | M.S. 2003 | EE | Tuttle | "GaAs and InAs Hall Effect devices for nondestructive evaluation" |
| deFreese, Matt | M.S. 2000 | EE | Dalal | "Parameter measurements of a germane electron cyclotron resonance plasma" |
| Dorhout, Justin | M.S. 2006 | EE | Tuttle | "Characterization of Polycrystalline Silicon Films Grown by LPCVD of Silane" |
| Drees, Dennis | M.S. 1996 | EE | Burns | "Development of a Three-port AlN Thin-film Resonator Based Phase Detection System for Biological Sensor Applications" |
| El-Kady, Ihab | M.S. 1999 | Phys | Ho/Biswas | |
| El-Kady, Ihab | Ph.D. 2002 | Phys | Ho | "Modeling of Photonic Band Gap Crystals and Applications" |
| Entringer, Anthony | Ph.D. 1990 | Phys | H. Shanks/J. Shinar | "High Resolution Electron Energy Loss Studies of O2, H, N, NO, and N2O Adsorption on Germanium" |
| Erickson, Karl | M.S. 1998 | EE | Dalal | "Growth and Characterization of Micro-Crystalline Silicon-Germanium and Silicon-Carbon Films" |
| Espinasse, Phillip | M.S. 1999 | EE | Tuttle | "Design and Fabrication of an Electron Cyclotron Resonance Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy Grown Nitride Microwave Thin Film Resonator" |
| Estwick, Rodney | M.S. 1999 | EE | Dalal | "Design and Simulation of Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells Using AMPS-1D computer Simulation Code" |
| Fastenau, Joel | M.S. 1993 | EE | Tuttle | "Epitaxial Lift-off of Thin InAs Layers" |
| Fleshner, Mark | M.S. 1986 | Physics | H. Shanks | "Construction of Two Very-high-speed Photometric Ellipsometers" |
| Garcia, David | M.S. 2002 | EE | Tuttle |
"Fabrication of giant magnetoresistant devices using electron beam evaporation" |
| Goenawan, Sofjan | M.S. 1991 | EE | Dalal/Burns | "Measurement of Electron Mobility in p-type Silicon" |
| Goff, Edward | M.S. 1991 | EE | Weber |
"Design, Fabrication, and Analysis of a Gallium Arsenide Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor" |
| Goff, Edward | Ph.D. 1995 | EE | Weber |
"Increasing the Efficiency of a Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Microstrip Resonator by Utilizing High Temperature Superconductors" |
| Graves, Josh | M.S. 2003 | EE | Dalal | "Growth and characterization of microcrystalline silicon films and devices using very frequency plasma enchanced chemical vapor deposition" |
| Gupta, Sandhya | M.S. 1994 | EE | Weber | "Design, Process Sequence Development and Analysis of High Power Devices: CLDMOS and CSIT" |
| Gupta, Sandhya | Ph.D. 1998 | EE | Tuttle | "Metallic Photonic Bandgap Structures on Flexible Substrates" |
| Haroon, Sohail | M.S. 1998 | EE | Dalal | "Effect of Deposition Conditions on Properties of a-(Si,Ge):H Films and Devices Using ECR-Plasma Deposition" |
| Heim, Daniel | M.S. 1988 | EE | Lakin | "In Situ Ellipsometry in an Ionized Cluster Beam System" |
| Herrold, Jason | M.S. 1998 | EE | Dalal |
"Growth and characterization of polycrystalline GE1-xCx thin films" |
| Herrold, Jason | Ph.D. 2000 | EE | Dalal |
"Growth and characterization of crystalline GE1-xCx thin films and devices" |
| Hoffmann, Tyson | M.S. 2006 | Phys |
J. Shinar |
Nonthesis MS |
| Huang, Xi | M.S. 1999 | EE | Dalal |
" Chemical and inert gas annealing of a-Si:H films and devices" |
| Huh, Yung Moo | Ph.D. 2001 | Phys | Finnemore |
"Thermodynamic critical field and superconducting fluctuation of vortices for high temperature cuprate superconductor: La-214" |
| Huh, Yung Moo | M.S. 2002 | EE | Dalal |
"The growth of microcrystalline thin films using ECR-PECVD: Silicon and Silicon-Germanium" |
| Imam, Zafar | M.S. 1996 | EE | Tuttle | "Design, fabrication and testing of GaAs/(Al,Ga)As transverse Fabry-Perot reflection modulators" |
| Irwin, Mike | M.S. 2000 | EE | Tuttle |
"Design and fabrication of metallic photonic bandgap structure based on germanium dielectric layers" |
| Jarrett, Mark | M.S. 1987 | Physics | H. Shanks/Harmon | "Development of an Ionized Cluster Beam Source for Epitaxial Growth" |
| Johnson, Raegan | M.S. 2005 | EE |
Weber |
"Characterization of piezoelectric ZnO thin films and the fabrication of piezoelectric microcantilevers " |
| Kandalaft, Nabeeh | M.S. 1992 | EE | Dalal |
"Stability studies on hydrogenated amorphous silicon films deposited using reactive plasma beam epitaxy" |
| Kaushal, Sanjeev | M.S. 1995 | EE | Dalal | "Growth of High Quality a-(Si,Ge):H Films Using Low Pressure, Remote ECT Plasma Technique" |
| Kaushal, Sanjeev | Ph.D. 1997 | EE | Dalal | "Stability and Electronic Properties of Amorphous Silicon p-i-n Devices Fabricated Using ECR Plasma Enhanced Chemical Deposition" |
| Kavanaugh, Jonathan | Ph.D. 2001 | EE | Tuttle |
"Photonic bandgap resonators and waveguides" |
| Kavanaugh, Jonathan | M.S. 1995 | EE | Tuttle |
"Design and characterization of (Al,Ga)Sb distributed bragg reflectors" |
| Keen, Roger | M.S. 2001 | EE | Dalal |
"Low temperature growth of fluorinated oxides using electron cyclotron resonance plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition" |
| Ketcham, Richard | M.S. 1984 | EE |
Burns/Lakin | "Design and Performance of Fundamental-mode UHF Oscillators Utiliziing Bulk-Acoustic-Wave Resonators" |
| Koch, Joshua | M.S. 2003 | EE | Dalal | "Capacitance-Voltage techniques used to determine defect densities in amorphous germanium and microcrystalline-silicon" |
| Kohli, Preeti | M.S. 2005 | EE |
Tuttle |
"Cavities and waveguide-cavity coupling in a three-dimensional layer-by-layer photonic crystal " |
| Kooiman, Jeffrey | M.S. 1995 | EE |
"Design, Fabrication and Testing of Lateral Double Diffused MOS Transistors" | |
| Kramer, Bradley | M.S. 1990 | EE |
Weber |
|
| Kramer, Bradley | Ph.D. 1993 | EE |
Weber |
|
| Kwon, Inhee | Ph.D. 1993 | Biswas | Thin film growth and metastability of amorphous silicon | |
| Latwesen, Annette | M.S. 1992 | ME |
Brown/Weber |
|
| Latwesen, Annette | Ph.D. 1996 | EE |
Brockman/Patterson | |
| Leksano, Moeljanto | Ph.D. 1991 | "Diamond Thin Films Grown by Microwave Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition" | ||
| Li, Shi Feng | M.S. 2001 | IMSE |
S.Chen |
|
| Liners, William | Ph.D. 1995 | "Growth Optimization and Characterization of Gallium INdium Nitride Grown by Electron-Cyclotron-Resonance Plasma-Assisted Molecular-Beam Epitaxy" | ||
| Liu, Yong | Ph.D. 2002 | EE |
Dalal |
"High growth rate deposition of hydrogenated a-SiGe films and devices using ECR-PECVD" |
| Mariano, Gonzalo | M.S. 1984 | "Energy Trapping Modeling in Bulk Acoutic Wave Resonators" | ||
| Martin, John | M.S. 1986 | "The deposition and characterization of lithium niobate thin films" | ||
| Maxon, Tim | M.S. 1994 | "CuInSe2 Thin Film Solar Cells from Se Vapor Selenization of CuIn Films" | ||
| McCalmont, Scott | M.S. 1986 | EE |
"Germanium Thin Films Deposited by the Ionized-Cluster Beam Method" | |
| McDonald, Jarrod | M.S. 2004 | EE | Dalal | "The design and development of nanocrystalline silicon thin film transistors" |
| Meeder, Mike | M.S. 2000 | EE |
Tuttle |
Nonthesis MS |
| Mercer, Mark | M.S. 1989 | "Design and Performance of UHF Semicustom Integrated Circuit Amplifiers Using Pole-Zero Compensation" | ||
| Michel, Erick | M.S. 1993 | "Fabrication of W-band Photonic Bandgap Crystals" | ||
| Mohanavelu, Ravindran | M.S. 2000 | MSE |
Cann |
"Investigation into the suitability of pyrochlore for transparent conducting coating applications" |
| Moradi, Behnam | Ph.D. 1993 | "Growth and Characterization of Polysilicon Films Deposited by Reactive Plasma Beam Epitaxy" | ||
| Neginhal, Srinivas | M.S. 2006 | CpRE |
Kothari/Biswas |
|
| Niu, Xuejun (Andy) | M.S. 1999 | MSE |
Gschneidner |
|
| Oliver, Bryan | M.S. 1999 | "Growth and Characterization of Polycrystalline Silicon and Microcrystalline Silicon Carbide Thin Films Using ECR-PECVD" | ||
| Oliver, Bryan | Ph.D. 2003 | EE | Tuttle | "Ultra-thin alumina barrier magnetic tunnel junctions" |
| O'Toole, Ronald | M.S. 1991, Ph.D. 1994 | "Characterization and Analysis of Viscoelastically Loaded Thin Film Piezoelectric Resonators Incorporated in an Oscillator Microsensing System" | ||
| Panda, Durga | Ph.D. 2006 | EE | Dalal | "Nanocrystalline silicon thin film transistor " |
| Pates, Daniel | M.S. 2006 | EE |
Dalal |
"Low-pressure chemical vapor deposition by thermolysis of disilane for low-temperature fabrication of pn junction solar cells " |
| Paulsen, Bradley | Ph.D. 1987 | "Use of Sol-Gels in the Application of Ceramic Oxide Thin Films" | ||
| Petersen, Mark | M.S. 1985 | "Monolithic Processing Compatibility of a Bipolar Junction Transistor with a Thin-Film Bulk-Acoustic-Wave Resonator" | ||
| Petersen, Michael | M.S. 2001 | EE |
Dalal |
"Numerical simulation of the performance characteristics, instability, and effects of bandgap grading in cadmium telluride based photovoltaic devices" |
| Ping,ErXuan | Ph.D. 1995 | EE |
Dalal |
"Dlectronic and Photonic Devices: Experimental Investigations of Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Substrate N+/i/p= Solar Cell and Fundamental Properties of Quantum Wells with Cylindrical Geometry and Applications to Electronics and Photonics" |
| Pontoh, Marsela | M.S. 2002 | EE |
Dalal |
"ECR plasma analysis: Correlation between plasma conditions and growth rate" |
| Ring, Matt | Ph.D. 2004 | EE | Dalal | "The effects of ion bombardment during deposition upon the properties of hydrogenated amorphous silicon-germanium thin films and photovoltaic devices" |
| Ridgeway, Shane | M.S. 2002 | ME |
Cao |
|
| Rover, Diane | M.S. 1986 | "Implementation of a Multiple Processor Architecture for Boundary Value Problems" | ||
| Sanford, Adam | Ph.D. 2002 | EE |
Dalal |
"RF magnetron triode sputtering of CdTe and ZnTe films and solar cells" |
| Sathawane, Hrishikesh | M.S. 1999 | "Comparison of a-Si:H and a-SiGe:H Devices Under Light Soaking" | ||
| Schaefer, Tom | M.S. 1993 | EE |
Burns |
"Characterization and Modeling of Amorphous Silicon-based Thin Film Transistor Topologies for ULSI Memories" |
| Seberger, Paul | M.S. 2002 | EE | Dalal | "Novel techniques for growth of amorphous silicon" |
| Sehari, Babak | M.S. 1994 | EE | Burns | "3-dimensional integration (3 DI): proposed new devices, fabrication steps and review of current state of 3 DI technology" |
| Sehari, Babak | Ph.D. 1998 | EE | Burns | |
| Sell, Curtis | M.S. 2001 | EE | Tuttle | Gallium arsenide antimonide grown by low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy" |
| Sell, Curtis | Ph.D. 2003 | EE | Tuttle | |
| Sharma, Puneet | Ph. D. 2005 | EE |
Dalal |
"Study of nano-crystalline silicon deposited by vhf-pecvd for solar cell devices " |
| Sipahi, Levent | M.S. 1992 | Phys |
Finnemore/Jiles |
|
| Stinaff, Eric | Ph.D. 2002 | Phys |
Wolford |
"Optical properties of nitrogen doped gallium arsenide under pressure" |
| Subramania, Ganapathi | M.S. 1994 | Phys |
J. Shinar |
|
| Subramania, Ganapathi | Ph.D. 2000 | EE/Phys |
Ho/Biswas |
Photonic band gaps in self-assembled colloidal structures |
| Tanadi, Rius | M.S. 2004 | EE | Tuttle | "Design of a 5-GHz two-stage cascode CMOS low noise amplifier" |
| Tanadi, Tris | M.S. 2002 | EE |
Tuttle |
"Feasibility study of silicon pixel detector" |
| Thompson, Philip | M.S. 1989 | EE |
Burns |
"Design and Characterization of Voltage Controlled Oscillators Using Thin Film Resonator Based Filters" |
| Thorson, Gregory | M.S. 1985 | "A Solar Cell Simulator for Personal Computers" | ||
| Turner, Dave | Ph.D. 1991 | "Analysis of Ionized Cluster Beam Thin Film Deposition" | ||
| Tuttle, Gary | M.S. 1985 | "A Technique for Silicon Nitride and Aluminum Nitride Masked Deep Zinc Diffusions in Gallium Arsenide" | ||
| Ulmer, Kurt | M.S. 2002 | MSE |
A. Constant |
"Investigation into the suitability of a reactive pulsed laser process for the deposition of iron nitride thin films" |
| Vu, VuAnh | M.S. 2000 | EE |
Dalal |
"Amorphous silicon carbide solar cells fabricated using ECR-PECVD" |
| Wallingford, Richard | M.S. 1987 | "Design and Fabrication of Monolithic Broadband Matching and Equialization Networks for a Microwave Acoustic Delay Line" | ||
| Wang, Chieh-Hsiao | Ph.D. 2002 | EE |
Weber |
|
| Wang, Nanlin | M.S. 2002 | MSE |
A. Constant |
"Investigation of the phase formation and magnetic properties of the Fe-N thin films deposited by reactive pulsed laser deposition" |
| Wang, Nanlin | Ph. D. 2006 | EE |
Dalal |
"Improving the stability of armorphous silicon solar cells by chemical annealing " |
| West, James | M.S. 1986 | "Design and Performance of a Comb-line TEM Band-pass Filter in a High Dielectric Medium Utilizing an Inhomogeneous Resonator Coupling Structure" | ||
| Williams, Jonathan | M.S. 2003 | EE | Tuttle | "Design, development and Fabrication of circuits using the CMOS-70 process" |
| Wills, Matt | M.S. 2004 | MSE | A. Constant | "Preparation of metastable germanium-carbon thin films using pulsed laser deposition" |
| Woodbury, Russell | M.S. 2004 | EE | Tuttle/Biswas | Antennas on photonic crystals |
| Wu, Xiao-Lin | Ph.D. 1991 | "Experimental Studies of Long-range Atomic H Motion and Desorption in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon and Germanium" | ||
| Wyse, Russell | M.S. 1995 | "Design and Analysis of an Arrayed Thin-Film Resonator Based UHF Oscillator System for Chemical Sensing" | ||
| Xia, Jie | Ph.D. 1996 | "Modeling, Characterization and Integration of Thin Film Resonator Microsensors" | ||
| Xu, Jun | M.S. 1996 | EE |
Dalal |
Nonthesis MS |
| Xu, Xiaofeng | Ph.D. 2006 | EE | Woods | "Piezoelectric coupling constant in epitaxial Mg-doped GaN and design of pentacene acoustic charge transfer devices " |
| Zheng, Li | M.S. 1999 | EE |
Tuttle |
|
| Zheng, Wei | M.S. 2001 | IMSE |
S. Chen |
|
| Zhou, Zhiyang | Ph.D. 2000 |
EE |
Dalal |
"Low bandgap a-(Si,Ge):H and a-(Ge):H devices" |
| Zhu, Jianhua(Jason) | Ph.D. 2003 |
EE |
Dalal |
"Hydrogenated microcrystalline silicon germanium material and photovoltaic devices prepared using ECR-PECVD" |
| Zou, Lijuan | Ph.D. 2003 | Phys |
J. Shinar |
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