The optical bleaching of the U band in potassium bromide crystals at 78°K has been investigated. The nature of the secondary bands, the U' and the Ul bands, was studied. The U' band consisted of component bands, including ...

In this thesis, I describe uAssign, an assignment system for teaching and assessing command line terminal skills. It allows an instructor to create terminal assignments where students complete a sequence of operations to ...

The late imperial period saw the development of a significant and substantial, although somewhat small, civil society in Kiev. After 100 years, the fall of communism gave way to increasing growth of the public sphere again. ...

This dissertation presents an alternative route to achieve ultralow thermal conductivity in a dense solid. Thin films of disordered layered crystalline materials were deposited using Modulated Elemental Reactants (MER) ...

In the second half of the dissertation, we investigate the problem of vortex trapping in cyclically coupled Bose-Josephson junctions. Starting with N independent BECs we couple the condensates through Josephson links and ...

Surface Analytical Techniques have been used to probe the structure and surface chemistry of model boundary layer lubricants adsorbed onto single-crystal metal surfaces under ultra-high vacuum conditions. Chapter 3 presents ...