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Biomolecular and Biological Physics
^ Portman, J. J.. Chain dynamical theories of protein folding. (Ph.D. thesis) P. G. Wolynes, adviser (2000).

Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
^ Abeyta, A. C.. Planar tunneling spectroscopy of thin-film Nb, Nb/normal metal and Nm/semiconductor structures. (Ph.D. thesis) L. H. Greene, adviser (2000).

^ Fanning, D. M.. Structure property relations in ferroelectric materials. (Ph.D. thesis) I. K. Robinson, adviser (2000).

^ Gall, D.. Crystal growth and physical properties of polycrystalline and epitaxial scandium nitride layers. (Ph.D. thesis) J. E. Greene, adviser (2000).

^ Gordon, C. A.. Equilibrium concentration of interstitials in aluminum just below the melting temperature. (Ph.D. thesis) A. V. Granato, adviser (2000).

^ Henstrom, W. L.. Quantitative electron microscopy studies of Si1-xGex/Si(001). (Ph.D. thesis) J. M. Gibson, adviser (2000).

^ Luh, D.. Core-level photoemission studies of the structure of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces. (Ph.D. thesis) T. C. Chiang, adviser (2000).

^ Merithew, R. D.. Mesoscopic noise probe of an inhomogeneous colossal magnetoresistance phase. (Ph.D. thesis) M. B. Weissman, adviser (2000).

^ O'Donovan, K. V.. Magnetic studies of epitaxial neodymium. (Ph.D. thesis) M. Salamon, adviser (2000).

^ Pitney, J. A.. Coherent x-ray diffraction. (Ph.D. thesis) I. K. Robinson, adviser (2000).

^ Plourde, B. L.. Vortex distributions and dynamics in superconductors near surface steps and sample edges studied by scanning SQUID microscopy and critical current measurements. (Ph.D. thesis) D. J. Van Harlingen, adviser (2000).

^ Reese, P. J.. Derivative photoelectron holography studies of metal-terminated semiconductor surfaces. (Ph.D. thesis) T. C. Chiang, adviser (2000).

^ Roshchin, I. V.. Electronic and optical properties of thin-film superconductors and superconductor-semiconductor interfaces. (Ph.D. thesis) L. H. Greene, adviser (2000).

^ Yamani, Z. H.. Optical properties of size-selected nanocrystallites in porous silicon. (Ph.D. thesis) M. H. Nayfeh, adviser (2000).

^ Yanoff, B. D.. Temperature dependence of the penetration depth in the unconventional superconductor Sr2RuO4. (Ph.D. thesis) D. J. Van Harlingen, adviser (2000).

Experimental Nuclear Physics
^ Bains, B. S.. A measurement of nucleon quark spin distributions at HERMES. (Ph.D. thesis) A. M. Nathan and C. K. Sinclair, advisers (2000).

^ Grames, J. M.. Measurement of a weak polarization sensitivity to the beam orbit of the CEBAF accelerator. (Ph.D. thesis) D. H. Beck and C. K. Sinclair, advisers (2000).

Experimental Particle Physics
^ Bergfeld, T. J.. D0 decays from e+e- collisions: precision, rare and substructure results. (Ph.D. thesis) M. Selen, adviser (2000).

^ Rahimi, A.. Amplitude analyses of the D+, Ds+ → K-K+pi+ and D0 → Ks0K+K- final states. (Ph.D. thesis, adviser) J. E. Wiss, adviser (2000).

Optical and Discharge Physics
^ Zhang, D.. Surface reaction mechanisms in plasma etching processes. (Ph.D. thesis) M. J. Kushner, adviser (2000).

Plasma Physics
^ Juliano, D. R.. Modeling and measurements of an ionized physical vapor deposition device plasma. (Ph.D. thesis) D. Ruzic, adviser (2000).

Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
^ Fine, B. V.. Theory of high-temperature spin dynamics. (Ph.D. thesis) A. J. Leggett, adviser (2000).

^ Kim, Y.. Density-functional study of molecules, clusters, and quantum nanostructures: development of nonlocal exchange-correlation approximation. (Ph.D. thesis) R. M. Martin, adviser (2000).

^ Martin, I.. Quantum phenomena in disordered conductors. (Ph.D. thesis) P. Phillips, adviser (2000).

^ Militzer, B.. Path integral Monte Carlo simulations of hot dense hydrogen. (Ph.D. thesis) D. M. Ceperley, adviser (2000).

^ Richie, D. A.. A dynamic self-adaptive wavelet-based method for multiscale electronic structure calculations. (Ph.D. thesis) K. Hess, adviser (2000).

^ Shieh, L. Y.. Topics in cuprate superconductors. A. J. Leggett, adviser (2000).

^ Souza, I. N.. Theory of electronic polarization and localization in insulators with applications to solid hydrogen. (Ph.D. thesis) R. M. Martin, adviser (2000).

^ Trellakis, A.. Computational approaches to silicon-based nanostructures. (Ph.D. thesis) U. Ravaioli and R. Martin, advisers (2000).

^ Turlakov, M.. Transport properties and noise of low-dimensional conductors. (Ph.D. thesis) A. J. Leggett, adviser (2000).

^ Walko, D. A.. Structure and faceting of low-symmetry metal surfaces. (Ph.D. thesis) I. K. Robinson, adviser (2000).


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