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Modeling, Design And Demonstration Of Large 2.5D Glass BGA Packages For Balanced Chip- And- Board-Level Reliability
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-28)Transistor scaling, driven by Moore’s Law, has enabled the integration of billions of transistors on a single integrated chip (IC); thereby enabling rapid miniaturization of microprocessor devices such as smartphones, ... -
Thermal Transport in P3HT Nanostructures and Nanocomposites
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-17)Consumers continue to pressure electronic device manufacturers to produce smaller and higher performance products. By decreasing size and increasing computational power, electronic devices get hotter and fail faster and ... -
Design and Fabrication of Multilayer Structures in Dynamic Sensing and Transparent Nanocomposite Scintillators for High Energy Detection
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-05)The development and exploitation of materials science, such as chemical synthesis, physical processes such as diffusion and transport, and the understanding of the thermodynamics that drives these processes are the foundation ... -
Synthesis of Large-Area Two-Dimensional Materials for Vertical Heterostructures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-04-04)Due to their intrinsic bandgap and thickness-dependent properties, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted significant attention for applications in digital and analog electronics, flexible electronics, ... -
MODELING, DESIGN AND DEMONSTRATION OF ULTRA-SHORT, FINE-PITCH SOLDER-BASED INTERCONNECTION SYSTEMS WITH HIGH-THROUGHPUT ASSEMBLY
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-15)Emerging high-performance computing systems have been driving the need for advanced packaging solutions such as high-density 2.5D interposer packages with escalating pitch, performance, and reliability requirements for ... -
ROLE OF SURFACE-LIKE ELASTIC CONSTANTS IN THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONFINED NEMATICS
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-13)Confined nematics are a natural setting to study aspects relating to phenomenology of symmetry breaking, evolution and dynamics of topological defects. In this study we highlight the interplay of the surface-like elastic ... -
CONTROLLING LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS USING LOCAL-ASSEMBLIES AND LARGE-SCALE ARRANGEMENTS OF PLASMONIC AND QUANTUM-CONFINED NANOSTRUCTURES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-13)The primary goal of this research is to develop an understanding of how the confinement mechanisms and resulting light-matter interactions of plasmonic and quantum dot nanostructures depend on three levels of system ... -
Hybrid computational modeling of thermomagnetic material systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-28)Current knowledge of computational material modeling for engineering demands accurate prediction of thermo-magnetic properties of material. Different of computational modeling approaches should be considered and selected ... -
Exploring interfacial and nanoscale electrical effects in solid state ionic conductors for application in low temperature solid oxide fuel cells and solid state batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-16)High-performance solid-state energy storage and conversion devices are a vital technology component of the U.S. Department of Energy’s clean and renewable energy implementation strategy. Solid-state fuel cells are important ... -
Investigation into the Surface Chemistry of Passivated Carbon Fiber/LiMn2O4 Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-02-29)Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most energy dense electrochemical energy storage systems available today and for the foreseeable future will be the dominant secondary battery type for applications needing large energy ... -
Piezotronics/Piezo-phototronics: Devices and Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-02-22)Piezoelectric effect has been widely used in electromechanical sensing, actuation and energy harvesting, which produces polarization charges under mechanical deformation in materials lacking inversion symmetry or with ... -
Ultra-Robust Graphene Based Bio-Nanocomposites and Their Electronic Applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-15)This study is focused on the fundamental principles of fabricating polymer nanocomposite materials and optimizing their structural and functional properties. The status of the research on polymer nanocomposites has been ... -
Development and validation of dissipative particle dynamics with energy conservation particle method to simulate shock response of high energetic materials at micrometer length scales
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014-10-22)There is a need for a unified simulation framework to simulate meso-scale response of HE materials. DPDE, a relatively recently introduced particle method holds great promise due to built in conservation of mass, momentum ... -
Polymer-templated functional organic-inorganic nanocomposites for lithium ion batteries, capacitors and ferroelectric devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-11-03)Functional hybrid organic-inorganic nanocomposites, formed by integrating two or more materials at the nanoscale with complementary properties, offer the potential to achieve performance, functionality and architecture far ... -
INTERFACES, INTERPHASES, AND OTHER MATERIAL INTERACTIONS IN LITHIUM ION BATTERIES
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-27)Performance and long-term cycle stability of composite battery electrodes depends on interactions of active materials with electrolyte, binders and conductive additives. This thesis investigates how such interactions affect ... -
Impact of Materials Disorder on Graphene Heterostructure Devices
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-08-18)This work is focused on characterizing the impact of material based disorder on the properties of graphene based vertical tunneling heterostructures. The motivation and challenges for replacing silicon for low power digital ... -
MULTI-SCALE MODELING OF POLY(3-HEXYLTHIOPHENE) AND [6,6]-PHENYL-C61-BUTYRIC ACID METHYL ESTER USING COARSE GRAINED FORCE FIELD DERIVED FROM DFT BASED ATOMISTIC FORCE FIELD
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-12-02)The power conversion efficiencies for the organic photovoltaic cells containing active layers of electron donors and acceptors are dependent of three morphological properties, namely the domain size of the electron donor ... -
Auxetic behavior in some fiber network structures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-16)Auxetic materials are a rare class of materials that exhibit negative Poisson’s ratio. While most substances (like a rubber band) become thinner in lateral direction when stretched, auxetic materials grow thicker. The broad ... -
Perspectives on Degradation in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Using X-ray Spectroscopies and Scattering
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-16)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) represent a major piece of a next-generation, renewable, clean energy economy and contribute to combating anthropogenic climate change by efficiently converting chemical energy into electrical ... -
Structure Property Relationships in Polyethylene Blown FIlms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-11-16)The fabrication of blown films is a complex industrial process that has received some attention in the past from both industry and academia with the intention to establish detailed property-structure-processing linkages ...
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