Construction Materials (Civil & Environmental Engineering)
WITHEE, J. Effects of rail end beveling on thermite welding. M.S. thesis, F. Lawrence, adviser (1998).

Electrical Ceramics
TAN, Q. Structure-property relationship investigations of higher and lower valent modified lead zirconate titante ceramics. Ph.D. thesis, D. Viehland, adviser (1998).

Phase Transformation and Microcharacterization
POLLARD, M. A TEM study of the effect of coherency strain on the coarsening rate of the g precipitates in Ni-Al-Si alloys. M.S. thesis, H. Chen, adviser (1998).

Polymers
BRAUN, P. Direct templating of semiconductor nanostructures with lyotropic liquid crystals. Ph.D. thesis, S. Stupp, adviser (1998).
EFTEKHARZADEH, S. Synthesis of nanostructured organic and inorganic materials by self assembly. Ph.D. thesis, S. Stupp, adviser (1998).
HART, B. Synthesis and evaluation of high-performance liquid crystalline copolyester fibers. M.S. thesis, J. Economy, adviser (1998).
OSENAR, P. Synthesis, characterization, and utilization of polyol amphiphilic molecules. Ph.D. thesis, S. Stupp, adviser (1998).

Thin-Film Electronics
CHUNG, K.-S. Interface structures studies of copper thin films on c-plane sapphire by crystal truncation rod analysis using synchrotron x-ray. Ph.D. thesis, H. Chen, adviser (1998).
KIM, H. H-mediated film growth and dopant incorporation kinetics during Si1-x Gex(001): B gas-source molecular beam epitaxy. Ph.D. thesis, J. Greene, adviser (1998).
KIM, W. Growth of wurtzite gallium nitride expitaxial films on sapphire substrate by reactive molecular beam epitaxy and material characterization. Ph.D. thesis, H. Morkoc, adviser (1998).
LAI, S. Studies on thermodynamic properties of nanoclusters with thin-film nanocalorimetry. Ph.D. thesis, L. Allen, adviser (1998).
WANG, Z. Dielectrics on GaAs using Si as a sacrificial layer: formation kinetics and interface state densities. Ph.D. thesis, A. Rockett, adviser (1998).
ZHOU, G. Heteroepitaxial growth and morphology of thin metal films. Ph.D. thesis, C. P. Flynn, adviser (1998).

Tunneling Microscopy (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
MENG, T. Cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy of silicon-based heterostructures and P-N junctions. Ph.D. thesis, J. Lyding, adviser (1998).