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Strain-Enhanced Coherent Exciton-Polaron States In 1d Phthalocyanine Crystalline Thin Films, Libin Liang
Strain-Enhanced Coherent Exciton-Polaron States In 1d Phthalocyanine Crystalline Thin Films, Libin Liang
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Organic semiconductors are at the forefront of materials research, due to their desired electric and mechanical properties. They offer the unique opportunity to modify material properties during synthesis process, opening an avenue to the development of novel flexible and wearable electronic and photonic devices.Molecular excitons are of importance in organic semiconductor properties. While majority of research studies are centered on achieving good control of amorphous or polycrystalline thin film properties, the static disorder effect leads to poor device performance when compared to inorganic semiconductors with superior crystalline ordering. On the other hand, the macroscopic molecular long-range ordering can enhance device …
Variational Approach To The Volume Viscosity Of Fluids, Allan J. Zuckerwar, Robert L. Ash
Variational Approach To The Volume Viscosity Of Fluids, Allan J. Zuckerwar, Robert L. Ash
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications
The variational principle of Hamilton is applied to develop an analytical formulation to describe the volume viscosity in fluids. The procedure described here differs from those used in the past in that a dissipative process is represented by the chemical affinity and progress variable (sometimes called "order parameter") of a reacting species. These state variables appear in the variational integral in two places: first, in the expression for the internal energy, and second, in a subsidiary condition accounting for the conservation of the reacting species. As a result of the variational procedure, two dissipative terms appear in the Navier-Stokes equation. …