Schwab, Keith C.

Committee Member — 80 thesises

• Cornell, Brett Durcan — A Dark Matter Search Using the Final SuperCDMS Soudan Dataset and the Development of a Large-Format, Highly-Multiplexed, Athermal-Phonon-Mediated Particle Detector (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moore, David Craig — A Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search and the Development of Highly Multiplexed Phonon-Mediated Particle Detectors (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hung, Peter Shek-Ho — Advanced Applications of Nanoelectromechanical Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Popescu, Paula Flor — An Optofluidic Ring Resonator Platform for Rapid and Robust Sensing (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosenberg, Jessie C. — Applications of Micro/Nanoscale Optical Resonators: Plasmonic Photodetectors and Double-Disk Cavity Optomechanics (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hong, Ting — Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meenehan, Sean Michael — Cavity Optomechanics at Millikelvin Temperatures (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Eichenfield, Matthew S. — Cavity Optomechanics in Photonic and Phononic Crystals: Engineering the Interaction of Light and Sound at the Nanoscale (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wilson, Dalziel Joseph — Cavity Optomechanics with High Stress Silicon Nitride Films (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Akbari, Hamidreza — Characterization and Tuning of Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lei, Chan U — Circuit Cavity Electromechanics in the Quantum Regime (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mukasa, Daniel — Computational Design of Wearable Chemical Sensors for Personalized Healthcare (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nandi, Debaleena — Coulomb Drag and Tunneling Studies in Quantum Hall Bilayers (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suh, Junho — Coupled Dynamics of a Nanomechanical Resonator and Superconducting Quantum Circuits (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Date, Aditya Ghanashyam — Coupled Oscillators with Generalized Dissipation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burgos, Stanley P. — Coupled Plasmonic Systems and Devices: Applications in Visible Metamaterials, Nanophotonic Circuits, and CMOS Imaging (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yeaton-Massey, David Joseph — Cryogenic Silicon Optical Reference Cavities (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Floyd, Michael Cameron Dawley — Development of Ferromagnetic Metallic Glasses into Low Loss Power Transformer Cores (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hirokawa, Soichi — Dynamics of Protein-Mediated Polymer Coupling and their Implications in Antibody Production and Emergent Patterning (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Whitney, William Schuyler — Electrically-Tunable Light-Matter Interactions in Quantum Materials (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Corona, Sydney Lea — Emerging Evidence of a Second Glass Phase in Strong to Ultra-Fragile Bulk Metallic Glass-Forming Liquids (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stenson, Eve Virginia — Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Dongwan — Frequency Noise Control of Heterogeneous Si/III-V Lasers (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Standley, Brian Lawrence — Graphene as a Platform for Novel Nanoelectronic Devices (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Christopher Tien — Heteroepitaxy of Group IV and Group III-V semiconductor alloys for photovoltaic applications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Fred Chae-Reem — High Temperature Electron-Phonon and Magnon-Phonon Interactions (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Ruo-Gu — High-Performance Silicon Nanowire Electronics (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Katti, Raj Michael — Josephson Inductance Thermometry in Resonantly-Coupled Van-der-Waals Heterostructures (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chan, Jasper — Laser Cooling of an Optomechanical Crystal Resonator to Its Quantum Ground State of Motion (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ward, Robert Lawrence — Length Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Narang, Prineha — Light-Matter Interactions in Semiconductors and Metals: From Nitride Optoelectronics to Quantum Plasmonics (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Heinz, Nicholas A. — Microstructure Control and Iodine Doping of Bismuth Telluride (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rochman, Jake Herschel Lebi — Microwave-to-Optical Transduction Using Rare-Earth Ions (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Korth, William Zachary — Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Allmaras, Jason Paul — Modeling and Development of Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miyazono, Evan Tsugio — Nanophotonic Resonators for Optical Quantum Memories based on Rare-Earth-Doped Materials (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fleischman, Dagny — Nanophotonic Structures: Fundamentals and Applications in Narrowband Transmission Color Filtering (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Rose, Lucía Belén — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices for High-Temperature and High-Frequency Operation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Matheny, Matthew Hayward — Nonisochronous Oscillations in Piezoelectric Nanomechanical Resonators (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lydon, Joseph John II — Nonlinear Effects in Granular Crystals with Broken Periodicity (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hill, Jeffrey Thomas — Nonlinear Optics and Wavelength Translation Via Cavity-Optomechanics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jiang — Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Laura — Novel Light Emitting Mechanisms Originating from Graphene Plasmons Near and Far from Equilibrium (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kosten, Emily Dell — Optical Designs for Improved Solar Cell Performance (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Michael, Christopher Paul — Optical Material Characterization Using Microdisk Cavities (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Papadakis, Georgia Theano — Optical Response in Planar Heterostructures: From Artificial Magnetism to Angstrom-Scale Metamaterials (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Phelan, Megan Elisabeth — Optimization of Photovoltaic Performance for Luminescent Solar Concentrator Systems (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Lorenzo, Laura Anne — Optomechanics with Superfluid Helium-4 (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Emmer, Hal S. — Paths Towards High Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Herriman, Jane Elizabeth — Phonon Thermodynamics and Elastic Behavior of GaN and GaAs at High Temperatures and Pressures (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ladygin, Vladimir Vladimirovich — Phonon-Phonon Interactions in Highly Anharmonic Systems (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jahelka, Phillip Robert — Progress in Low-Cost Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weinstein, Aaron Jacob — Quantum Electromechanics with Two Tone Drive (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Safavi-Naeini, Amir Hossein — Quantum Optomechanics with Silicon Nanostructures (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wollman, Emma Edwina — Quantum Squeezing of Motion in a Mechanical Resonator (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kennedy, Kathleen Marie — Renewable Energy Generation and Storage: From Microwires to Macro-Energy Systems (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mauser, Kelly Ann Weekley — Resonant Thermoelectric Nanophotonics: Applications in Spectral and Thermal Sensing (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bukowsky, Courtney Roberta — Scalable Nanophotonic Light Management Design for Solar Cells (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xie, Tian — Scalable On-Chip Platforms for Quantum Microwave-Optical Interface with Solid-State Ensembles (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ardizzi, Anthony Joseph — Self-Heating of HEMT Low-Noise Amplifiers in Liquid Cryogenic Environments and the Limits of Microwave Noise Performance (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Dennis Sungtae — Silicon Revisited: Understanding Pure Phonon Anharmonicity and the Effects on Thermophysical Properties (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Im, Cheolmin — Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Distortion Relevant to Liquid Metal Ion Sources (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Albertson, Theodore Glenn — Simulations of Conic Cusp Formation, Growth, and Instability in Electrified Viscous Liquid Metals on Flat and Curved Surfaces (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kaifu, Hiroki — Structural and Dynamical Correlations Linked to Smaller Thermal Resistance at a Classical Liquid/Solid Interface (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lan, Tian — Studies of Phonon Anharmonicity in Solids (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kher, Aditya Shreyas — Superconducting Nonlinear Kinetic Inductance Devices (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Helou, Bassam Mohamad — Testing Alternative Theories of Quantum Mechanics with Optomechanics, and Effective Modes for Gaussian Linear Optomechanics (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vasilyev, Arseny — The Optoelectronic Swept-Frequency Laser and Its Applications in Ranging, Three-Dimensional Imaging, and Coherent Beam Combining of Chirped-Seed Amplifiers (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mauger, Lisa Mary — The Phonon Thermodynamics of Iron and Cementite (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bartolotta, Anthony Leo — The Union of Quantum Field Theory and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pang, Belinda Heyun — Theoretical Foundations for Quantum Measurement in a General Relativistic Framework (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Saunders, Claire Nicole — Thermal Behavior of Cuprous Oxide: a Comprehensive Study of Three-Body Phonon Effects and Beyond (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chiu, Hsin-Ying — Thermal Properties and Nanoelectromechanical System Based on Carbon Nanotubes (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chickering, William Elbridge — Thermopower in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Omelchenko, Stefan Thomas — Towards a Net-zero Carbon Energy System: High Efficiency Photovoltaics and Electrocatalysts (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anjum, Sara — Towards Sustainable, Scalable, Low-Cost InP Space Solar Power (2026, Engineer's thesis)
• Quine, Cullen Mackenzie — Tunability of Gas Adsorption Enthalpies in Carbonaceous Materials for Energy-Related Applications (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Tong — Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Turner-Evans, Daniel B. — Wire Array Photovoltaics (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))