Electron transport in the mesoscopic regime is of great interest to the academic community and the semiconductor industry as a fundamental understanding of conduction in narrow wires is essential for the continued downscaling ...

A possible metal-insulator transition in the Cr1-xAlxN alloy system was explored using electronic transport and optical measurements on epitaxial Cr1-xAlxN(001)/MgO(001) layers which form a cubic solid-solution rock salt ...

A reduction in the size of unwanted polycrystalline GaN grains was achieved by growth at high nitrogen to gallium (V/III) ratios without affecting cubic GaN nucleation. Grain sizes decreased from 0.5 to 0.02 µm² as the ...

Surface roughness effects are analytically and computationally investigated by modeling electron reflection at discrete step edges. A Landauer formalism for incoherent scattering leads to a parameter-free expression for ...

This work demonstrates that inserting nanomolecular layers (NMLs) can profoundly change and/or lead to novel electronic and mechanical properties of metal-ceramic interfaces. The first set of results demonstrate that ...

Raman measurements from the Si-FIB and the Si-broad beam implants in their as-implanted states show a decrease in Raman peak height, and an increase in peak shift, with dose, implying greater structural damage and stress ...

In this dissertation, we present a technique that provides full control of refractive index and surface structure at the LED surface: LEDs having patterned graded-refractive-index (GRIN) coatings (GRIN LEDs). Micro-patterned ...

The focus of this thesis is on understanding the phase stability as well as the structural and mechanical properties of transition metal nitrides using first principles calculations including detailed studies on (i) the ...