List of Theses Completed
Name Degree Year Title Other Degrees at UIUC (from group)
Fay, Roberta Mary M.S. 1977 PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF BISMUTH TUNGSTATE
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Park, Sang Moo Ph.D. 1977 LIQUID PHASE SINTERING OF HETEROPHASIC DIELECTRICS IN THE SYSTEM BaTiO3-Pb5Ge3O11  
Doser, Richard William M.S. 1978 RECRYSTALLIZATION STUDIES OF BASALT COMPOSITIONS B.S. 1977
Streicher, William Laverle M.S. 1978 FABRICATION AND PROPERTIES OF HOT PRESSED BISMUTH TUNGSTATE B.S. 1977
Tuttle, Bruce Andrew M.S. 1978 DIELECTRIC DISPERSION ANALYSIS OF ZINC OXIDE BASED CERAMIC VARISTORS Ph.D. 1981
Park, Hyun Duk M.S. 1979 PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF DEIELCTRIC MIXTURES IN THE SYSTEM BaTiO3-Bi2(SnO3)3 Ph.D. 1981
Amarakoon, Vasantha Rohana Wijewardena M.S. 1980 PREPARATION OF POLYCRYSTALLINE SrTiO3 ELECTRODES FOR THE PHOTOASSISTED ELECTROYLSIS OF WATER Ph.D. 1984
Rook, Larry Edward M.S. 1975 PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SINGLE COMPONENT BiMoO6 AND BiWO6 CERAMICS AND LIQUID PHASE SINTERING WITH BaTiO3 B.S. 1975
Park, Hyun Duk Ph.D. 1981 CHARACTERIZATION OF INTERNAL BOUNDARY LAYER CAPACITORS BASED UPON BARIUM TITANATE AND STRONTIUM TITANATE M.S. 1978
Tuttle, Bruce Andrew Ph.D. 1981 POLARIZATION REVERSAL AND ELECTROCALORIC MEASUREMENTS FOR FIELD-ENFORCED TRANSISTIONS IN THE SYSTEM LEAD ZIRCONATE-LEAD TITANATE-LEAD OXIDE:TIN OXIDE M.S. 1978
Desu, Seshubabu Ph.D. 1982 INTERFACIAL SEGREGATION IN PEROVSKITES AND APPLICATIONS TO BOUNDARY LAYER DEVICES  
Knickerbocker, John Ulrich Ph.D. 1982 ORIENTATION OF CERAMIC MICROSTRUCTURES BY HOT-FORMING METHODS  
Budd, Kenton Derek M.S. 1983 PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF TUNGSTEN-DOPED STRONTIUM TITANATE CERAMICS Ph.D. 1986, B.S. 1981
Gensse, Chantal Ph.D. 1983 INFLUENCE OF POWDER SURFACE CHEMISTRY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CERAMIC MICROSTRUCTURES  
Mehrotra, Arun Kumar Ph.D. 1983 MICROSTRUCTURE AND DIELECTRIC BEHAVIOR FOR PURE AND BISMUTH DOPED STRONTIUM TITANATE POLYCRYSTALLINE CERAMICS  
Amarakoon, Vasantha Rohana Wijewardena Ph.D. 1984 INTERFACIAL PHENOMENA IN ELECTRICAL CERAMICS AND THE DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SEMICOUNDUCTING CERAMICS M.S. 1980
Drozdyk, Lorri M.S. 1984 MICROSTRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ZINC-BARIUM-COBALT-OXIDE VARISTORS Ph.D. 1989
Helgeland, Jon Lewis M.S. 1984 PROCESSING AND PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTING CERAMICS B.S. 1981
Carter, David Charles M.S. 1985 ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF CHEMICALLY MODIFIED SrTIO3 CERAMICS B.S. 1982
Budd, Kenton Derek Ph.D. 1986 STRUCTURE EVOLUTION IN SOL-GEL DERIVED LEAD TITANATE-BASED MATERIALS, AND APPLICATION TO THE PROCESSING OF THIN DIELECTRIC LAYERS M.S. 1983, B.S. 1981
Eichorst, Dennis John M.S. 1986 THE ROLE OF PRECIPITATION PARAMETERS IN DETERMING PARTICLE SIZE AND MORPHOLOGY OF PLZT-HYDROXIDE POWDERS Ph.D. 1991, B.S. 1984
Neergaard, Lynn James M.S. 1986 HIGH DIELECTRIC CONSTANT AND LOW THERMAL EXPANSION CAPACITOR MATERIALS IN THE MODIFIED PZT SYSTEM  
Falter, Lorraine Mae M.S. 1987 DIELECTRIC CONSTANT STABILIZATION IN MIXTURES BASED ON STRONTIUM LEAD TITANATE Ph.D. 1991
Greenwald, Frank Toby M.S. 1987 SOL-GEL FABRICATION OF COMPOSITE SUBSTRATES FOR ADVANCED MICROELECTRONIC PACKAGING B.S. 1984
Kim, Nam Kyoung Ph.D. 1988 PREPARATION, CRYSTALLIZATION AND PROPERTIES OF AMORPHOUS LEAD IRON TUNGSTATE CERAMICS  
Leigh Jr., Donald Wayne M.S. 1988 THE ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF HARDENED DSP CEMENT PASTES AND MORTARS B.S. 1986
Suchicital, Carlos Tres Ayala Ph.D. 1988 FLUX GROWTH OF SINGLE CRYSTAL LEAD TITANATE AND PROPERTY MEASUREMENTS  
Drozdyk, Lorri Ph.D. 1989 EVOLUTION OF STRUCTURE AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES DURING CRYSTALLIZATION OF RAPIDLY SOLIDIFIED Bi4Ti3O12 M.S. 1984
Fahrenholtz, William Gene M.S. 1989 PREPARATION OF YBa2Cu3O7-d FROM HOMOGENEOUS METAL ALKOXIDE SOLUTION B.S. 1987
Schwartz, Robert William Ph.D. 1989 CHEMICAL PROCESSING OF PbTiO3 BY CO-PRECIPITATION AND SOL-GEL METHODS: THE ROLE OF POWDER AND GEL CHARACTERISTICS ON CRYSTALLIZATION BEHAVIOR  
Eichorst, Dennis John Ph.D. 1991 EVOLUTION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE DURING THE SOL-GEL PROCESSING OF LITHIUM NIOBATE AND THE DEVELOPMENTOF MICROSTRUCTURE IN ALKOXIDE DERIVED THIN-LAYERS M.S. 1986, B.S. 1984
Francis, Lorraine Falter Ph.D. 1991 SOL-GEL PROCESSING, PEROVSKITE PHASE DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTIES OF RELAXOR-BASED THIN LAYER FERROELECTRICS M.S. 1987
Hagberg, Daniel Scott M.S. 1991 EPITAXIAL EFFECTS IN SOL-GEL DERIVED LITHIUM NIOBATE THIN LAYERS B.S. 1988
Lakeman, Charles David Edward M.S. 1991 AN INVESTIGATION INTO FACTORS AFFECTING THE SOL-GEL PROCESSING OF PZT THIN LAYERS Ph.D. 1994
Xu, Zhengkui Ph.D. 1991 ELECTRON MICROSCOPY STUDIES IN ELECTRICAL CERAMICS: DIELECTRIC COMPOSITES AND HIGH TC SUPERCONDUCTORS  
Asthana, Ashish Ph.D. 1992 PROCESSING-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS FOR HIGH TC CERAMIC SUPERCONDUCTORS IN THE Bi-Ca-Sr-Cu-O SYSTEM  
LaGraff, John Robert Ph.D. 1992 CHEMICAL DIFFUSION OF OXYGEN IN YBa2Cu3O6+X  
Yang, Pin Ph.D. 1992 ELECTRICALLY INDUCED ANTIFERROELECTRIC-FERROELECTRIC PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN LEAD-ZIRCONATE TITANATE STANNATE CERAMICS  
Huang, Yutung Ph.D. 1993 FLUX GROWTH, CHARACTERIZATION, AND STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS FOR INORGANIC OXIDE CRYSTALS: LiB3O5, KTiOPO4 AND PbTiO3  
Roubik, Jeffrey Ronald M.S. 1993 FABRICATION AND EVALUATION OF SOL-GEL DERIVED (Ba1-XPbX)TiO3 THIN LAYER CAPACITORS B.S. 1991
Lakeman, Charles David Edward Ph.D. 1994 THERMAL PROCESSING AND THE EVOLUTION OF COMPOSITION, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES FOR SOL-GEL DERIVED PZT THIN LAYERS M.S. 1991
Tani, Toshihiko Ph.D. 1994 PHASE DEVELOPMENT AND TEXTURE FOR LEAD-BASED PEROVSKITE THIN LAYERS PREPARED BY SOL-GEL PROCESSING M.S. 1993
Clem, Paul G. Ph.D. 1996 CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, HETEROEPITAXY, AND MONOLAYER PATTERNING OF SOLUTION-DERIVED LiNbO3 THIN LAYERS  
Frey, Matthew Henry Ph.D. 1996 GRAIN SIZE EFFECT ON STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES FOR CHEMICALLY PREPARED BARIUM TITANATE B.S. 1992
Sengupta, Samit Sushil Ph.D. 1996 EVOLUTION OF LOCAL STRUCTURE AND STRESS DEVELOPMENT DURING THERMAL TREATMENT OF SOL-GEL DERIVED PZT-BASED THIN LAYERS  
Lu, Xinliang Ph.D. 2000 CRYSTAL GROWTH AND STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS FOR FERROELECTRIC STRONTIUM BISMUTH TANTALATE, SrBi2Ta2O9  
Ong, Ryan Jason M.S. 2001 CHEMICAL-SOLUTION DERIVED Pb(Zr0.53Ti0.47)O3 THIN LAYERS: DENSIFICATION AND STRESS EVOLUTION B.S. 1998
Hemjinda, Sarunya Ph.D. 2001 PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION 0F Ta2O5-TiO2: CERAMICS AND THIN FILMS M.S. 2000
West, David Ph.D. 2002 STUDIES OF "REACTIVE-TEMPLATED GRAIN GROWTH"IN SOME COMPLEX-OXIDE PEROVSKITES
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Mikalsen, Erik Ph.D. 2003 MEDIATED PATTERNING OF SOL-GEL THIN LAYERS: SHRINKAGE, DE-COHESION, AND LIFT-OFF
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Clothier, Brent Allen Ph.D. 2005 THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALKOXY-BASED SOL-GEL PROCESSING FOR MAGNETORESISTIVE MANGANITE THIN FILMS
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Ong, Ryan Jason Ph.D. 2005 PROCESSING EFFECTS FOR INTEGRATED PZT: RESIDUAL STRESS, THICKNESS, AND DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES M.S. 2001
Kurata, Miye Alice M.S. 2005 EFFECT OF PROCESSING ON MAGNETOCOLUMBITE, PEROVSKITE AND PYROCHLORE PHASE EVOLUTION IN LEAD MAGNESIUM NIOBATE
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Sehirlioglu, Alp Ph.D. 2005 MULTI-SCALE EFFECTS OF POLING ON STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONSHIPS IN LEAD MAGNESIUM NIOBATE-LEAD TITANATE SINGLE CRYSTALS
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Tian, Jian M.S. 2006 MEASUREMENTS ALONG THE GROWTH DIRECTION FOR PMN-PT CRYSTALS: DIELECTRIC, PIEZOELECTRIC, AND ELASTIC PROPERTIES
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Brennecka, Geoffrey Lee Ph.D. 2006 ORIGINS OF ENHANCED DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES IN TITANIA-MODIFIED TANTALUM PENTOXIDE CERAMICS
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