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A great deal of interest has emerged in recent years to design novel compound semiconductor materials to fulfill the growing societal needs of efficient light sources, powerful solar cells, miniaturized-electronic-circuitry for lab-on-chip equipment, and a plethora of handheld o…

The decay properties of the low-lying levels of 207Pb and 116Cd have been investigated with the (n,n′ γ) reaction. Gamma-ray excitation functions, angular distributions, and coincidence measurements were used to establish the lower-energy portions of the level schemes of both is…

In this thesis, we have used temperature-sensitive microgel colloidal particles to create crystals that combine topological order and interaction disorder. We directly calculate the vibrational density of states and normal modes' structures from instantaneous particle fluctuatio…