Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Radovanovic, Pavle"
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Casting Shadow on the Photocatalytic Activity of Plasmonic Antimony Doped Tin Oxide Nanoparticles in Degrading Rhodamine 590
(University of Waterloo, 2018-06-04)Increasing the feasibility of water purification systems at the manufacturing, technical and material engineering level is an urgent matter that is of global interest. Concerning materials engineering for water purification ... -
Exploring the Design of Multiferroic Materials by Nanocrystal Building Block Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)Multiferroic materials have been extensively studied as they exhibit both magnetic and electric properties simultaneously, and could be potential candidate materials for the new generation of magnetoelectric (ME) devices. ... -
Manipulating Carrier Polarization in Pure and Doped Metal Oxide Semiconductor Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-19)Moore's Law will soon be inadequate to keep up with the needs of technological developments as the currently used materials have reached their natural performance limits. Hence, the development of a new technology to replace ... -
Manipulation of Conducting Oxides and Their Rational Design for Use in Photonics
(University of Waterloo, 2022-06-02)Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have been largely studied for their applications in light emitting diodes (LEDs), photodetectors, solar cells, and other photonic uses. TCOs are useful as they can be doped or alloyed ... -
Manipulation of Defect Formation in Semiconductor Nanocrystals for Photocatalysis and Magneto-optics
(University of Waterloo, 2020-06-01)Defects play a significant role in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) as they can influence their electrical and optical properties via vacancy doping or aliovalent doping. Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR), the ... -
Manipulation of electronic band structure by doping colloidal gallium oxide nanocrystals and its impact on photocatalysis
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-23)Semiconductor photocatalyst have been of interest due to its robust nature, non-selectivity, low toxicity, and high tunability. Its various applications such as water splitting, water purification, anti-microbial, etc make ... -
Manipulation of Ga2O3 Nanocrystals for the Design of Functional Phosphors
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)Transparent conducting oxides are of great interest in semiconductor research and industry. Their ability to carry electricity while remaining transparent allows them to be used for different applications including ... -
Manipulation of the Plasmonic Properties of n-Type Doped Colloidal Indium Oxide Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)Plasmonic nanocrystals (NCs) have been a focus of intense research over the past decade due to their unique optical properties and wide applications. Indium (III) oxide (In2O3) is an ideal host lattice for plasmonic NCs, ... -
Modeling Photoluminescence Decay Dynamics in Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Photoluminescence resulting from donor-acceptor recombination in gallium oxide nanocrystals was studied at short and long time scales for different nanocrystal sizes. A model for the intensity decay was formulated with two ... -
Modulating Optical and Photocatalytic Properties of Transparent Metal Oxide Nanostructures via Defect Engineering
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-15)The chemistry of nanostructure has increasingly drawn attention as a compelling branch of semiconductor research. Billions of dollars are annually spent to intentionally incorporate dopants into nanomaterials to enhance ... -
Plasmon Induced Carrier Polarization in Semiconductor Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Currently used technologies are reaching the natural performance limit, invigorating the development of different quantum technologies. Spintronics and valleytronics are emerging quantum electronic technologies that rely ... -
Plasmonic and Magneto-Optical Properties of Nonstoichiometric Indium Nitride Nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2019-10-23)Localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in semiconductor nanostructures have attracted intense attention recently for its broad application in bio-imaging, chemical sensing, photocatalysis, and photovoltaics. Compared ... -
Probing the Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Transparent Semiconductor Nanowires using X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-16)Control of electron spins in individual magnetically doped semiconductor nanostructures has considerable potential for quantum information processing and storage. The manipulations of dilute magnetic interactions have ... -
Studies of the Growth Conditions, Plasmonic and Magnetoplasmonic Properties of Semiconductor Nanostructures
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-22)Magnetoplasmonic nanostructures, as a branch of multifunctional materials, have recently attracted research interests due to the coexistence of magnetic and plasmonic properties.1-4 To accomplish the simultaneous control ... -
Study of Plasmonic and Magneto-Optical Properties of Transition Metal Doped Indium Oxide Nanocrystals
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-25)Plasmonic nanostructure materials have been widely investigated recently because of their considerable potential for applications in biological and chemical sensors, nano-optical devices and photothermal therapy. Compared ...