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Physics Graduate Students 2018-2019

Nouf Alharbi
Ellie Alipour
Eric Chapman
TJ Colvin
Ali Daraei
Richard Dudley
Sarah Fisher
Leda Gao
Siahmazgi Gholizadeh
Lindsey Gray
Eric Grotzke
Hamna Haneef
Hyunsu Lee
Peiyun Li
Yan Li
Gabriel Marcus
Lauren Nelson
Ian Newsome
Taylor Ordines
Haardik Pandey
Melissa Pashayan
Laxman Poudel
Tong Ren
Kevin Roebuck
Tianxiao Shen
Ryan Sullivan
Colin Tyznik
Daniel Vickers
Matthew Waldrip
Dizhou Wu
Andrew Zeidell

Physics Graduate Alums

Year	Name	Title of Thesis	Degree
2018	Al-Qawasmeh, Ahmad	AB Initio Simulations of Idealized Solid Electrolytes in Lithium Ion Batteries	Ph.D.
2018	Henderson, Eric	Effects of Gate Thickness, Gate Morphology and Emissive Layer Material on Organic Light Emitting Varactor Capacitor Performance	M.S.
2018	Howard, Jason	First-Principles Simulations of Solid State Battery Materials	Ph.D.
2018	Lamport, Zachary	Charge Transport in Organic Electronic Devices: From Nano to Macro-Scale	Ph.D.
2018	Melvin, Ryan	Bias, Uncertainty, and Ions	Ph.D.
2018	Montgomery, David	Non-Traditional Study of Renewable Generators in Thermoelectric and Piezoelectric Meta Structures	Ph.D.
2018	Onken, Drew	Applying Novel Material Characterization Techniques Using Ultrafast Laser Excitation and Neutron Diffraction in Radiation Detector Crystal	Ph.D.
2018	Xiao, Jiajie	Understanding Generalized Allostery in Thrombin	Ph.D.
2018	Xu, Junwei	Charges and Excitons in Field-Induced Organic and Pervoskite Light Emitting Devices	Ph.D.
2017	Bolden, Crystal	Interaction between RSNO and H 2 S: The formation, stability, and NO-donating capacity of SSNO* and the effects of SSNO* on platelet activation	Ph.D.
2017	Dun, Chaochao	Low-Dimensional Chalcogenide Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Composites	Ph.D.
2017	Godwin, Ryan	Binding NEMO: Adventures in Molecular Dynamics	Ph.D.
2017	Harrison, David	Improving Existing and Discovering New Hydrogen Storage Materials Using Computational Materials Modeling	Ph.D.
2017	Huang, Wenxiao	Earth-Abundant Metal Chalcogenides: Synthesis, Interface Modification, and Applications in Energy Conversion Devices	Ph.D.
2017	Liu, Xiaohua	Effects of Red Blood Cells on Nitric Oxide Bioactivity	Ph.D.
2017	Rush, Larry E. Jr.	First-principles investigation of electronic properties in sodium-ion electrolytes for solid-state battery materials	M.S.
2017	Welchman, Evan	Understanding and Improving Hydrogen Storage Materials with ab initio Methods	Ph.D.
2016	Arter, Calvin	First-Principles Modeling of MOF74 for Gas Sequestration and Storage Applications	M.S.
2016	Diemer, Peter	Reduction of Electronic Traps in Organic Semiconductors by Novel Processing Methods	Ph.D.
2016	Goetz, Katelyn	Structure-Function Relationships in Organic Charge-Transfer Complexes	Ph.D.
2016	Lu, Xinfu	Coupled rate and transport equations modeling light yield, pulse shape and their proportionality to energy in electron tracks: a study of CsI and CsI:Tl scintillators	Ph.D.
2016	Mei, Yaochuan	Charge Transport in Organic and Hybrid Perovskite Field Effect Transistors	Ph.D.
2016	Taylor, Alex	Plasmonic Nanoparticles as Versatile Nanorulers for Sensing Applications: Developing the Nanoparticle-on-mirror Architecture	Ph.D.
2016	Walb, Matthew	Low Dose Dosimetry and Radiation Response in Rodent Models	Ph.D.
2016	Zalutskiy, Maxim	Investigations of Black-Hole Spectra: Purely-Imaginary Modes and Kerr Ringdown Radiation	Ph.D.
2015	Baker, Stephen	Single Fiber Nanomechanical Properties of Electrospun Fibers and Modified Fibrin Fibers using Atomic Force Microscopy	Ph.D.
2015	Belanger, Andrea	Biophysical studies of potential therapies of hemoglobin-associated diseases	Ph.D.
2015	Guo, Xinyi	Characterizing the micro-scale mechanical properties of hydrogels and cancer cells	Ph.D.
2015	Lepley, Nicholas	First principles investigations of solid-solid interfaces in lithium battery materials	Ph.D.
2015	Li, Rongzhong	Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Bio-Molecular Dynamics, Folding, and Assembly	Ph.D.
2015	Li, Wei	Single Fibrin Fiber Mechanical Property and Lysis	Ph.D.
2015	Liu, Jie	X-Ray Scatter Computation and Simulation in Cone Beam Computed Tomography	Ph.D.
2015	McGowin, Inna	Head Motion Evaluation and Correction in Magnetoencephalography	Ph.D.
2015	McKell, Chad	Confinement and Tracking of Brownian Particles in a Bessel Beam Standing Wave	M.S.
2015	Smith, Greg	Field Induced Polymer Electroluminescence	Ph.D.
2015	Ward, Jeremy	Enhancing the Electrical Performance of Organic Field-Effect Transistors Through Interface Engineering	Ph.D.
2014	Dorand, Jennifer	A SR-90 Irradiation Device for the Study of Cutaneous Radiation Injury from a Radiological Incident	Ph.D.
2014	Li, Qi	Toward a User’s Toolkit for Modeling Scintillator Proportionality and Light Yield	Ph.D.
2013	Belavia, Landon	Reactions of Nitroxyl and Nitrite In Blood	Ph.D.
2013	Hewitt, Corey	Carbon Nanotube Based Organic Thermoelectric Composites: Synthesis, Characterization, Performance	Ph.D.
2013	Lepley, Nicholas	An Investigation of Lithium Solid Electrolyte Materials with First Principles Calculations	M.S.
2013	Liu, Chen	The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Blood Storage Lesion	Ph.D.
2013	Lopez, Graham	Calculating Magnetic Properties of Materials using Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.
2013	Sigley, Justin	Measuring the Microscale Mechanical Properties of Fibrin Fibers and Cancer Cells	Ph.D.
2012	Bates, Jason	Quantum Effects of Scalar Fields in Black Hole and Cosmological Spacetimes	Ph.D.
2012	Best, Ryan	Monte Carlo Modeling of the Gamma Knife Perfexion™	Ph.D.
2012	Ding, Xuanfeng (Leo)	Feasibility Study of Multi-Application, Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging Guided Laster Induced Thermal Therapy	Ph.D.
2012	Grim, Joel	Experimental and Computational Studies of Nonlinear Quenching in Materials Used as Radiation Detectors	Ph.D.
2012	Kolb, Brian	A Survey of Several van der Walls-Rich Systems and a Machine Learning Approach to Improving Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.
2012	Li, Yuan	Three Dimensional Solar Cells Based on Optical Confinement Geometries	Ph.D.
2012	Nie, Wanyi	Organic Photovoltaic Device Optimization	Ph.D.
2012	Peterson, Eric	Nanocomposites for Enhancing Current Collection in Organic Solar Cells	M.S.
2011	Azarov, Ivan	Nitric oxide bioavailability regulation by hemoglobin	Ph.D.
2011	Bjerke, Jillian	Characterization of Carbonaceous Exsolvate from Metal Melts	M.S.
2011	Dutta, Samrat	Studying the Interaction of Cancer & Thrombosis Therapeutics with Protein and DNA	Ph.D.
2011	Kielbasa, Jerrold	Fabrication and Optical Response of Silver Nanowire Metamaterials	Ph.D.
2011	Xu, Xiao	Hartree-Fock and KLI Atom Projector Augmented Wave Method Implementation	Ph.D.
2010	Best, Ryan	Monte Carlo Modeling of the Gamma Knife Perfexion™	M.S.
2010	Carlisle, Christine	The Mechanical Properties of Individual Electrospun Fibers and Fibrin Fibers	Ph.D.
2010	Fallesen, Todd	Kinesin-Microtubule Interactions During Gliding Assays Under Magnetic Force	Ph.D.
2009	Grigsby, Jason D.	Analyzing and Improving Initial Data for Binary Black Holes	Ph.D.
2009	Hirsch, William H.	Quantum Effects of the Massless Spin One-Half Field in Static Spherically Symmetric Black Hole and Wormhole Spacetimes	Ph.D.
2009	Yuan, Ye	Studies of the Electrostatic Properties of Peroxiredoxins	Ph.D.
2008	Bonessi, Douglas K.	Optical Forces and Torques: Theory and Experiment	Ph.D.
2008	Coldren, Faith	Theoretical and Experimental Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Staphylococcus Aureus	Ph.D.
2008	Conley, Kevin	A Dirac All-Electron Basis and Spin-Orbit Coupled Projector Implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave Method for Atomic Systems	Ph.D.
2008	Hodge, William B.	Constrained Variational Calculation of Second-Order Reduced Density Matrices for Hubbard Rings	Ph.D.
2007	Jeffers, Anne	Nitric Oxide Scavenging by Cell-free Hemoglobin	M.S.
2007	Rave, Matthew J.	Aspects of Berry’s Phase in Solid State Physics	Ph.D.
2006	Evanich, David	Aspects of Parametric Resonance in Chaotic Inflation	M.S.
2006	Huang, Kris		Ph.D.
2006	Liu, Wenhua	Determining the Mechanical Properties of Individual Fibrin Fibers	Ph.D.
2006	Lu, Peng	Nanoselection – A Single-Cycle Method, Based on a Combined AFM/FM instrument, to Select Individual Aptamer Species from a Pool of Random Oligonucleotides	Ph.D.
2006	Tang, Ping	Computational Research on Lithium ion Battery Materials	Ph.D.
2005	Jeffers, Anne Bouldin	Activation of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase by Nitrite	M.S.
2005	Qiu, Yong	Subpicosecond Absorption Study of an Electron Polaron and Its Formation Time in Knb03 and LiNb03	Ph.D.
2004	Abraham, Yonas Beyene	Electronic States near Surfaces – a) Analysis of calculation methods using semi-infinite boundary conditions; b) Sensitive detection using laser photoelectron spectroscopy	Ph.D.
2004	Chen, Kejing	Light Scattering Study on the Polymerization and Aggregation of Hemoglobin in High Concentration Phosphate Buffer	Ph.D.
2004	Czerw, Richard	Nano-Composite Organic Devices	Ph.D.
2004	Lockamy, Virginia L.	The Search for the Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Release in Hydroxyurea Therapy	Ph.D.
2004	Singleton, Chanté L.	Radiation Surface Dose with the DignicapTM Hypothermic Cap during Whole-Brain Radiation Treatment	M.S.
2004	Xiong, Gang	Toward a New Diode Laser: ZNO Photoluminescence and P-Type Doping, Theory of Giant Oscillator Strength	Ph.D.
2004	Xu, Xiuli	Study of the Effects of Nitric Oxide on Sickle Cell Disease	Ph.D.
2003	Groves, Peter Bernard	Method to Compute the Stress-Energy Tensor of a Spin ½ Field in a Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetime	Ph.D.
2003	Hill, David B.	Changes in the Number of Molecular Motors Driving Vesicle Transport in PC12	Ph.D.
2003	Webster, Scott M.	Optical Properties of Nanostructured Materials	Ph.D.
2003	Wilkinson, John H. IV	Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Zinc Oxide Single Crystals, Films and Nanoparticles	Ph.D.
2002	Aroutiounian, Svetlana	Mechanisms and Kinetics of Melting of HBS Aggregates Studies in High Concentration Phosphate Buffer	Ph.D.
2002	Ballard, Adam C.	Absolute Measurement of The Polarizability of C60 Clusters in the Gas Phase	Ph.D.
2002	Dunning, Rodney B.	Ab Initio Modeling of the F-Center in Light Alkali-Halides	Ph.D.
2002	Huang, Zhi (James)	Effect of No On Deformability of Sickle Erythrocytes	Ph.D.
2002	Kourmanov, Bakhitjan	Light Torque Induced by a Linearly Polarized Laser Beam in an Optical Trap	M.S.
2001	Huang, Zhi	Hydroxyurea Affects the Deformability of Sickle Erythrocytes in Vitro	M.S.
2000	Grow, Kerry L.	Evaluation of Emission Tuned-Aperture Computed Tomography	M.S.
1999	Bergquist, Kyle J.	A Characterization of Radicals in hard Keratin	M.S.
1999	Binkley, Mathew	Zero Temperature Black Holes in Semiclassical Gravity	M.S.
1999	Brockway, Jack Wolston III	Astrophysical Limits on Additional U(1) Gauge Couplings	Ph.D.
1999	Charnock, Forrest Taylor	Dynamics of Dipolar Defects in Rare Earth Doped Alkaline-Earth Fluoride Crystals	Ph.D.
1999	Graham, Andrew J.	Nucleation Rates for One-Dimensional Stochastic Systems with Asymmetric Quartic Potentials, Brownian Noise and Damping	Ph.D.
1999	Hinson, William Howell	Dose Calculations of Photon Beams Using a Finite-Size Pencil Beam Model	Ph.D.
1999	Yochum, Henry M. III	Picosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of the Oxide Crystals LiNbO3, KNbO3, KTiOPO4, CdWO4, PbWO4, and Sc2O3	Ph.D.
1998	Hatcher, Ryan M.	An Order N Generalized Gradient Approximation to the Exchange-Correlation Potential in Density Functional Theory	M.S.
1998	Lopresti, Janice L.	Picosecond and Subpicosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Laser-Excited ZnTe, ZnSe, GaN and GaP	Ph.D.
1998	Tackett, Alan	Spacial Implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave Method for Electron Structure Calculations	Ph.D.
1997	Harder, Scott Vance	Sub-Micrometer Studies of Optical and Positioning Elements for an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Confocal Microscope	M.S.
1997	Thoma, Eben D.	Subpicosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Alkali Halide Crystals	Ph.D.
1997	Zeng, Yueping	Computer Simulations of Crystal Structures using Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.
1996	Cosentine, Louis Arthur	Production and Annihilation of Surface Radicals in Cleaved Keratin	M.S.
1996	Himes, Charles W.	Laser Driven Metallic Bonding of Thin Films	M.S.
1996	Thoma, Rebecca K. Reed	Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Defect States in GaP(110) and KI	Ph.D.
1995	Burleigh, Brian G.	A Search for Anomalous Radiation in Deuterium-Loaded Palladium	M.S.
1995	Parks, Christine C.	Observation of Water Adsorption on BaF2 (111) and CaF2 (111) using Atomic Force Microscopy	M.S.
1995	Pu, Xiao	Pulsed Electron Gun for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy	M.S.
1995	Williams, D. J.	Spacetime Geometry of the Kerr Metric	M.S.
1995	Wilson, R. Mark	Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Radiation Damage on Ionic Crystal Surfaces	Ph.D.
1994	Liu, Hanli	Picosecond time-resolved spectroscopy of self-trapped excitons and defect formation in ionic insulators	Ph.D.
1994	Wu, Anqi	Deposition of High Temperature Superconducting Thin Films on Metallic and Nonmetallic Substrates by Laser Ablation	Ph.D.
1993	Dillon, Alan	An ESR Study of Irradiated Keratin Proteins	M.S.
1993	Hutson, M. Shane	Molecular Weight Dependence of DNA Motion During 120° Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1993	Neitzey, Lynn M.	The Angle Dependence of DNA Velocity During Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1993	Sabanayagam, Chandran R.	A Quantitative Analysis on the Dynamics of Deoxyribonucleic Acid During Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1992	Eggleston, Thomas Wesley	An ESR Study of the Phase Transition in Calcium Cadmium Acetate Hexahydrate	M.S.
1991	Keiner, Louis Edward	The Velocity and Relaxation of DNA During Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1991	Platt, Kevin J.	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lattice Dynamical Model with Three-Fold Symmetry in the On-Site Potential	M.S.
1991	Rave, Matthew J.	Mean-Field Theory of Phase Transitions for a Lattice with an Asymmetric On-Site Potential	M.S.
1991	Rowe, Mark W.	Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Si(111) 7×7, Si(111):B√3x√3 R30°, Si(100) 2×1, and Si(111) 1×1	M.S.
1990	Kleman, Todd George	ESR Studies of Cu2+ Concentration Dependent Phase Transitions in Cadmium Calcium Acetate Hexahydrate	M.S.
1990	Liu, Hanli	Heating of Materials by Laser Pulses—Thermal Calculations and Picosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy	M.S.
1989	Shattuck, Mark David	The Kinetics and Diffusion of Radicals in X-Irradiated L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid Hydrochloride with L-Cysteine Hydrochloride as Impurity	M.S.
1989	Whitcomb, Richard Whitney	The Velocity and Orientation of Linear DNA during Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1988	Yi, Ma	The Mechanisms of Free Radical Reactions in Irradiated L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid HCL Plus L-Cysteine HCL	M.S.
1987	Durham, Mark Allen	ITC: A Computer Model Defect-Defect Interactions in Gadolinium Doped Calcium Fluoride	M.S.
1987	Wilson, R. Mark	Photoemission Studies of GaAs using Synchrotron and Laser Radiation	M.S.
1987	Wortman, Deborah A.	The Effect of Defect Interactions on Ionic Thermocurrent Peak Widths	M.S.
1986	Itoh, Masahiro	Decay and Diffusion of Radicals in L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid HCL	M.S.
1986	Gardner, Jeffrey Ray	A Solution to the Inverse Atomic Pseudopotential Problem	M.S.
1985	Reid, Scott Warner	An ESR Study of the Effects of Ionizing Irradiation on DL-Aspartic Acid	M.S.
1984	Beaver, Guy M., III	The Diffusion Mechanism of Silver Ions in Alpha Silver Iodide and Its Effect on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering	M.S.
1984	James, Lawrence Hoy	Defect Aggregation in Rare Earth Doped Calcium Flouride	M.S.
1984	Loggins, Amanda Joy	The Application of Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy to Difficult Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Considerations	M.S.
1983	Dishman, Michael Ray	Defect Aggregation in Rare-Earth Doped Calcium Fluoride	M.S.
1983	McHugh, Martin James	Charge Emission Kinetics of the Gallium Vacancy in Gallium Phosphide	M.S.
1983	Williams, Mark B.	Symmetry Properties of the Strange Attractor for the Damped, Driven Pendulum	M.S.
1982	Lofton, William F., Jr.	An Investigation of the Properties of Spherically Symmetric Space-Time	M.S.
1982	Atherton, James V.	Spectral Analysis of Ultrasound Reflected from Arteries	M.S.
1982	Carter, Pamela Lynn	Dependence of Defect Relaxation Kinetics on Lanthanide Dopant Ion Size	M.S.
1978	Arcilla, Maria Felicidad G.	Detection of Cavitation by Sound Scattering	M.S.
1978	Love, L. Alan	Intracellular Temperature Distribution Produced by Ultrasound	M.A.
1977	Hull, Roger A.	Vacancy Pair Formation in Quenched RbC1	M.A.
1976	Bartolome, Maria Lourdes P.	Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Structural Phase Transitions	M.A.
1976	Murray, Frank C.	Stress Relaxation in Magnesium Oxide	M.A.
1975	Mast, David Baird	Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Investigations in N-Acetylglycine, DL-Serine and Hydroxyurea	M.A.
1975	Tomyn, J. Sseton N.	Reorientation Kinetics of the Impurity Dipole in CaF2:Y+3	M.A.
1974	Jordan, William Marcellus III	Irradiation Damage to Aspartic Acid	M.A.
1974	Nielsen, Charles H.	The Internal Friction of Lead Doped with Noble Metals	M.A.
1973	Spell, Charles R., Jr.	Thermal Release of Electric Charges in –Irradiated Amino Acids	M.A.
1973	Mullis, Dean R.	A Dielectric Loss and Ionic Thermocurrents Study of Dipolar Defect in Pure RbC1 and RbC1: Sr2+	M.A.
1972	Murphy, Cornelius J. III	A Study of the V- Band and the Deformation Induced 306NM Band in Single Crystal Magnesium Oxide	M.A.
1971	Hambrick, Larry N.	Tachyon Model of the Stress Tensor	M.A.
1971	Painter, Sankey R.	An Interal Friction Study of Interstitial Diffusion in Lead	M.A.
1970	Marsh, William Martin	Coloration in X-Irradiated Single Crystals of Some Organic Compounds	M.A.
1970	Morton, James W.	Dielectric Loss Study of the Kinetics of Dipole Migration in Strontium-Doped Rubidium Chloride Induced by Quenching and Deformation	M.A.
1969	Reed, William C.	Space Charge Layers and Photoconductivity in Colored Potassium Chloride Crystals	M.A.
1969	Wilkinson, Wyndham L.	Pre-Exponential Factors for Diffusion of Oxygen in ZnO Crystals in Equilibrium with a Gas Atmosphere	M.A.
1968	Everett, James H., Jr.	A Resistivity Study of the Kinetics of Short-Range-Order and Vacancy Annihilation in Quenched Gold-Silver Alloys	M.A.
1968	Bailey, Robert B. , Jr.	Dielectric Losses in Pure and Strontium-Doped Rubidium Chloride	M.A.
1968	Cheves, Keywood Carnell , Jr.	Hindered Rotation of the Methyl Group in Organic Solids	M.A.
1968	Moore, Wayne	General Relativity : A Two Dimensional Approach	M.A.
1968	Richards, Thomas J.	Trapping and Release of Electrons by F Centers in Potassium Chloride	M.A.
1968	Sanders, Richard C.	Dislocation Interstitial Interactions in Single Crystal Tantalum	M.A.
1968	Thomas, K. N.	Polarization of Luminescence of M Centers in Sodium Fluoride	M.A.
1967	Bennett, Charles Howard	Electron Spin Resonance Study of Free Radicals Formed by Ionizing Radiation in Single Crystals of Thiourea	M.A.
1967	DeLaigle, Johnny Dean	An Electron Spin Resonance Study of the Free Radicals Formed by Ionizing Radiation in Single Crystals of Valine	M.A.
1967	Harris, E. Franklin	The Trapping and Release of Electrons by Color Centers in Potassium Chloride	M.A.
1967	Oh, Yaw T.	Symmetry and Conservation	M.A.
1966	Dozier, Charles M.	An Internal Friction Study of Atomic Mobilities in Alpha-Phase Silver-Cadmium Alloys	M.A.
1966	Plitnik, George R.	The Configuration Coordinate Curves for the M Center in Alkali Fluorides	M.A.
1965	Klein, Bert Jack, Jr.	Annealing Kinetics of Quenched Defects in AU-AG Alloys by Resistivity Techniques	M.A.
1965	Entemann, Carl W.	Gravitation and Curved Space-Time	M.A.
1965	Hazelton, George L.	Electrical Conductivity in Organic Solids	M.A.
1965	Watts, J. Fred	Radiation Damping	M.A.
1964	Gerlach, John P.	Internal Friction in Ionic Single Crystals	M.A.
1963	Thornton, James Ronald	An Investigation of the Formation and Migration of Vacancies in an 88% AU-AG Alloy by Resistance Measurements	M.A.

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