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Johnson, Harley T. Ghale, Purnima 2016-03-02T19:34:31Z 2016-03-02T19:34:31Z 2015-12-08 2015-12 Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-03-02 without embargo terms The student, Purnima Ghale, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-07 at 18:57. The student, Purnima Ghale, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-12-07 at 19:05. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-12-08 at 16:52. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8958 on 2016-03-02 at 12:51:46 Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T19:34:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 GHALE-THESIS-2015.pdf: 10162001 bytes, checksum: f29b5ddb7ffe64df4da21ac1d0399799 (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: b0d415ff1c3f49ac9863b87667916674 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-08 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89064 en Copyright 2015 Purnima Ghale tight-binding defect formation Kernel Polynomial Method Application of the tight-binding electronic structure method to study defect formation and optical absorption in covalently bonded materials text text Mechanical Science & Engineering Mechanical Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.