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  • The optical properties of multi-scale plasmonic structures and their applications in optical characterization and imaging

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    Kuhta, Nicholas Anthony
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    The optical response of metallic structures is dominated by the dynamics of their free electron plasma. Plasmonics, the area of optics specializing in the electromagnetic behavior of heterogeneous structures with metallic inclusions, is undergoing rapid development, fueled in part by recent progress in experimental fabrication techniques and novel theoretical approaches....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nicholas Anthony Kuhta for the degree

  • Computational nanooptics in hyperbolic metamaterials and plasmonic structures

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    Thongrattanasiri, Sukosin
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    This dissertation concerns several problems in the fields of light interaction with nanostructured media, metamaterials, and plasmonics. We present a technique capable of extending operational bandwidth of hyperbolic metamaterials based on interleaved highly-doped InGaAs and undoped AlInAs multilayer stacks. The experimental results confirm theoretical predictions, exhibiting broadband negative refraction response...
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    corrugations. We show that the light emitted by the structures forms a prolonged focal range that may extend

  • Multi-scale Investigation of Bidirectional Feedback Mechanism Between Breast Cancer Cells and Extracellular Matrix

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    Kim, Jihan
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    Cell migration is fundamental for physiological processes such as immune re-sponses, wound healing and development. It is also a critical characteristic of metastatic cancer cells. An extensive amount of studies have focused on 2D sub-strates in order to understand the mechanism of cancer metastasis. However, much less is known about...
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    Alobaidi performed confocal microscopy, sample preparation, and performed data analysis. Nicholas Scott

  • Innovative Bioanalytical Tools & Methods for Combinatorial Non-Coding RNA Analysis

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    Zhang, Lulu
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    Recently researchers have discovered that groups of small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play regulatory roles in gene expression and participate in various biological processes. For example, pathogenesis of many diseases, cell cycle regulation, and signaling pathways. Intracellular and live cell imaging of small ncRNA groups will reveal their relative expression levels...
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    Ziebart, Margie Haak, Paula Weiss, and Kristi Edwards. I would like to thank my lab mates Nicholas

  • Multicellular monolayer’s self-organization under external stimuli

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    Li, Guanyu
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    Cell signaling under external stimulation is a critical mechanism that governs many biological processes such as cell proliferation, cell migration, and cell apoptosis, etc. For multicellular organisms, the ability to synchronize heterogeneous individual cellular responses through intercellular communication is crucial to maintain normal functionality. However, even though the biological pathways...
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  • Gene Activation Strategies in Filamentous Fungi for Natural Products Discovery

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    Adpressa, Donovon A.
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    Fungi have long been a prolific source of clinically approved drugs. The antibiotic penicillin, the cholesterol lowering statins, and the immunosuppressant cyclosporine have changed the treatment of human diseases in the last century. Recently, genome analysis of filamentous fungi has revealed that the biosynthetic potential for natural product expression is...
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    may provide defense mechanisms for the organism themselves (chloramphenicol, left). 1.2 Fungal

  • Subwavelength light confinement and quantum chaos in micro- and nano-structured metamaterials

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    Govyadinov, Alexander A.
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    This dissertation concerns a broad range of unique phenomena related to the light propagation at nano- and micro-scales. To access the nano-domain, we introduce anisotropy-based waveguides with positive- and negative-index modes. These novel structures allow energy propagation in subwavelength regions and, in contrast to surface waves, have the mode structure...
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    group, especially Robyn Wangberg, Justin Elser and Nicholas Kuhta, for valuable discussions and input

  • Photophysics of organic semiconductors at the nanoscale

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    Grollman, Rebecca R.
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    Organic semiconductors are used in a wide variety of applications including transistors,solar cells, and light emitting diodes. These materials are solution-processable,low cost, and tunable. Many successful organic optoelectronic materials utilizeblends of several types of molecules (such as donors and acceptors) in order topromote charge generation. As blends are an inherently...
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