This dissertation investigates gas surrounding galaxies. We started by running hydrodynamic simulations with the FLASH computational code. We modeled how cold, dense clou[...]

The study of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data hinges on a strong methodological foundation. With improvements in data collection, methodologies must evolve to keep p[...]

Potassium Niobate (KNbO3) doped with Iron is a well known photorefractive material in theoptical region. There is, however, a need for photorefractive materials in the ne[...]

High velocity clouds (HVCs) are clouds of gas moving at high relative speeds through galaxies, including our own. They play an important role in the evolution of the gal[...]

In this dissertation, we investigated Eu2+ ion in CsCaF3 and Rb2MP2O7 with M=Ca,Sr. The emission spectra of Eu2+ ion doped in CsCaF3 shows a very unique behavior. Dependi[...]

Metal oxides (MOs) nanostructures, as visible light active photocatalysts, are widely used in applications such as solar energy conversion, biocidal coating, and environm[...]

This work investigates atomic hydrogen emission line spectra at 1420 MHz from the 100 meter Green Bank Telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia using the technique of Gauss[...]

Atmospheric models have been calculated for M dwarf stars found in post- common envelope binary systems and extra-solar giant planets (EGPs) which have very small orbital[...]

This study was conducted to determine the distribution and abundance of two key prebiotic organic molecules, H2CO and HCN, in outer Galaxy giant molecular clouds. Both H[...]

The performance of KNbO$_3$, as a photorefractive crystal in the visible region, can be dramatically improved when impurities are incorporated into the host by doping. Th[...]

Nitric Oxide (NO) plays an important role in areas such as Chemistry, Physics and Biology.In order to better understand the interactions of NO, its van der Waals complexe[...]

Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has been proven to be a promising and powerful analytical tool in environment monitoring, chemical and biological sensing, diseas[...]

A Metropolis-Type Dynamics and the Monte Carlo Damage Spreading technique are proposed to study Ising,mixed-spin Ising,and Blume-Capel models on the 2- dimensional square[...]

This study focuses on the spectroscopic characteristics of novel optical impurity sites oflithium tantalate synthesized via the sol gel process. The intrinsic Li+ decit o[...]

Fundamental understanding of structure forming processes in the context of mesoscopicpolymer systems is relevant for a number of technological and biomedical applications[...]

Collisions between atoms, ions, and molecules play a fundamental role in a number of astrophysical contexts. In this work, we perform quantum mechanical close-coupling sc[...]

The photodissociation of most molecules is typically obtained through pre-computed,exponentially-attenuated fitted photo rates, whose assumptions are likely to describe f[...]

A well-known statistical model -the Bass new product di .usion model is intro- duced to describe the di .usion of an innovation.The basic assumption of the model is that [...]

We study the static and dynamic properties of the compressible Ising models under constant pressure. Our system of study is a two-dimensional triangular-net Ising model w[...]

The hydrophobic-polar (HP) model is a simplified lattice model for simulating protein folding. With a minor modification, it can be used to study general categories of su[...]

Cross sections for single electron capture (SEC), or charge exchange (CX), in collisions of Ne^{(810)+} and Mg^{(812)+} with H and He, and Fe^{(89)+} with H, H_2 , He, H_[...]

Glancing angle deposition (GLAD) is a powerful and versatile nanofabrication technique to produce nanorod arrays with different shape, size, composition, and heterostruct[...]

As chiral metamaterials become increasingly more technologically relevant, scalable yet proficient nanofabrication methods will be needed for their production. Dynamic s[...]