Dissertations

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Name
Degree
Dissertation Title
Narayanasamy, Ganesh
2009
Stabilized 3D Ultrasound Imaging for Semi-automated and Visual Assessment of Anatomic and Physiologic Change
Edmondson, Justin
2009
Theory of Three-Dimensional Interchange Reconnection And The Dynamic Evolution Of The Global Solar Coronal Magnetic Field Structure: A Mechanism For The Origin And Generation Of The Slow Solar Wind
Knuffman, Brenton
2009
Rydberg Atoms in Ponderomotive Potentials
Kelly, Christopher Vaughn-Daigne
2009
Perturbations of Cellular Membranes with Synthetic Polymers and Ultrafast Lasers.
Haworth,
Kevin Joseph
2009
Medical Ultrasound Aberration Correction via Acoustic Droplet Vaporization and Time-Reversal Acoustics.
Diehr, Peter
2009
An Ultrafast Photo-Electron Diffractometer
Ojaruega, Mitaire
2009
Fast Neutron Measurements using Deuterated Liquid Scintillators
Kuranz, Carolyn Christine
2009
Blast-wave-driven, multi dimensional Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments
Kim, Erik Daniel 
2009
The Coherent Optical Spectroscopy and Control of an Electron Spin in a Self-Assembled Quantum Dot for Quantum Computing
Kok, Jasper
2009
Understanding Wind-Blown Sand And The Electrification Of Granular Systems
Mechtenberg, Abigail
2009
Understanding the Importance of an Energy Crisis
Ngom, Moussa
2009
Novel Approach to the Study of Surface Plasmon Resonance and Field Enhancement Properties of Noble Metal Nanostructures
McClelland, Arthur, Alexander
2009
Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy Investigation of Buried Polymer and Organic Interfaces
Kumah, Divine Philip
2009
Direct X-ray Studies of Epitaxial Semiconductor Quantum Dots.
Trigo, Mariano
2008
Ultrafast Dynamics of Folded Acoustic Phonons from Semiconductor Superlattices.
Reed, Stephen
2008
Electron and Proton Acceleration Using the 30 TW, 30 fs Hercules Laser.
Herne, Catherine Michel
2008
Shaping Terahertz Fields for the Orientation of Asymmetric Top Water Molecules.
Agayan, Rodney
2008
Optical and Magnetic Manipulation of Hybrid Micro and Nanoparticle Sensors.
Hecker, Louise
2008
Development of Functional Bioengineered Muscle Models and a Novel Micro-Perfusion System.
Mhaskar, Rahul Ramdas
2008
Towards an Atom Laser: Cold Atoms in a Long High-gradient Magnetic Guide.
Stickrath, Andrew Blaine
2008
Ultrafast Transient Absorption Studies of Environment Influence on the Photolysis of B12 Complexes and the Subsequent Recombination and Escape of Caged Radicals.
Landmark, Kevin James
2008
Dendrimer-Coated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as Targeted MRI Contrast Agents.
Jackson, J Bianca
2008
Terahertz Time-domain Reflectrometry of Multilayered Systems.
Grannell, Shawn
2008
The Operating Features of a Stoichiometric, Ammonia and Gasoline Dual Fueled Spark Ignition Engine.
Carroll,
Elizabeth C.
2007
Coherent Control of Resonant Nonlinear Interactions in Ultrafast Solution-Phase Photochemistry
McNaughton, Brandon Howard
2007
Magnetic Micro and Nano Nonlinear Oscillators with the Dynamic Detection of a Single Bacterium and to Physical and Chemical Sensing.
Liebisch, Tara Elizabeth
2007
Study of Coherent Properties of Rydberg-atom Systems.
McDonald, Joel Patrick
2007
Near Threshold Femtosecond Laser Interactions with Materials: Ablation Thresholds, Morphologies, and Dynamics.
Chien, Yi-Jiunn
2007
Transition Metal-Doped Sb2Te3 and Bi2Te3 Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors.
Manasson, Alexander
2006
III-Nitride Based Superlattice Sub-Millimeter Wave Source.
Zhong, Cheng
2006
Quantitative Two-photon Flow Cytometry In Vitro and In Vivo.
Harris, Don Ahmasi
2006
Studies of Solvent Effects on Reaction Dynamics Using Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy.
Deslauriers, Louis
2006
Cooling and Heating of the Quantum Motion of Trapped Cd+ Ions.
Perez Rodriguez, Benny
2006
Alloys Containing Antimony as Metamorphic Buffer Layer for DeviceApplications.
Mi, Zetian
2006
High Performance Quantum Dot Lasers on GaAs and Silicon.
Cionca, Codrin Nicolae
2005
Imaging Interfaces in Epitaxial Heterostructures.
Anker, Jeffrey Nathan
2005
Modulated Optical Nanoprobes (MOONs) in the NanoKitchen.
Cavalieri, Adrian
2005
Electro-Optic Characterization of Femtosecond Electron Bunches.
Micheau-Cunningham, Jevne B
2005
Studying the Dynamics of Magnetorheological Materials Using X-Ray Photon Correlation
Wahlstrand,
Jared K
2005
Impulsive Generation of Coherent Hybrid Modes by Light Pulses.
Potdevin, Titaina Colette Upa
2005
Ultrasonic Measurements and Modeling of Blood Flow Properties.
Vishwanath, Karthik
2005
Computational Modeling of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Transport in Turbid Media for Non-Invasive Clinical Diagnostics.
Topolancik, Juraj
2005
Photonic Crystal Light Sources and Microsensors.
Daniel, Abishai
2005
Electrical Studies on Cubic Boron Nitride MIS Structures.
Deibel, Jason Allen
2004
A Study of Nonlinear Optical Polymers for Use in Ultrafast Electro-Optic Sampling Measurements.
Kim, Kyoungsik
2004
Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of InGaAs Quantum Dots in the High Carrier Density Regime.
Clay, Kathryn Grover
2004
An Analysis of the Energy Efficiency, Range, and Attributable Emissions of Electric Vehicles and an Assessment of the U.S. Department of Energy Electric and Hybrid Vehicle
Stiff-Roberts, Adrienne Diarra
2004
Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of In(Ga, Al)As/(Ga, Al) As Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors for High-Temperature Operation.
Franke, Mira Adinda
2004
A Wavelet Transform Cross-Spectral Analysis of 11-Year (Schwabe) Solar Climate Forcing.
Myaing, Mon Thiri
2004
Conventional and Photonic Crystal Fiber Based Two-photon Fluorescence Biosensing.
Lewis, Kim Michelle
2004
Development of Single Electron Devices and Their Application as Low Noise Electrometers.
Walz-Flannigan, Alisa Ingrid
2004
Cold Rydberg Gas Dynamics.
Smerdon, Jason Edward
2004
Spatial and Temporal Analyses of Geothermal Climate Signals:  Implications for Borehole Paleoclimatology.
Van Rompay, Paul Alfonso
2003
Mass Separation for Ions in Ultrafast Ablation Plumes.
Peltier, Scott J
2003
Characterization and Compensation of Systematic Noise in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
Kruecker, Jochen
2003
Image-Based Registration For 2D and 3D Ultrasound Imaging.
Bao, Jiming
2003
Optically Induced Coherent Intersubband Excitations and Spin-Entangled States in Semiconductor Nanostructures.
Search, Christopher Paul
2002
The Interaction of Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates with Electromagnetic Fields.
Cabrera, Delia
2002
Computational and Analytical Modeling of Eye Refractive Surgery.
Kripfgans, Oliver Daniel
2002
Acoustic Droplet Vaporization for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Applications.
Cabauy, Peter
2002
Cyclic Networks of Quantum Gates.
Florea, Catalin Mihai
2002
Novel Waveguide Techniques and Devices in Rare-Earth Doped Glass and Rare-Earth Indiffused Lithium Niobate.
Buma, Takashi
2002
Thermoelastic Generation Of Ultrasound for High Frequency Phased Arrays.
Zeek, Erik Charles
2001
Pulse Shaping for High-Harmonic Generation
Zhang, Yifei
2001
Device Design and Transport Issues in Nitride and Ferroelectric Heterostructure Devices.
Stutzman, Brooke Suzanne
2001
Correlation of Process with Topography Evolution During reactive Ion Etching.
Mellody, Maureen
2001
Signal Analysis of the Female Singing Voice:  Features for Perceptual Singer Identity.
Ruffin, Alranzo
2001
An Experimental Study of Diffraction-induced Effects on Single-cycle Terahertz Pulses.
Krishna, Sanjay
2001
Study of Quantum Confined Energy Levels in Self-Organized In(Ga, A1)As/(Ga, A1) As Quantum Dots and their Application to Mid-Infrared Sources and Detectors.
Garrett, Gregory Alan
2001
Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Excitation of Coherent and Squeezed Phonon Fields.
Cohen, Jayson L
2000
Atom Optics with Standing Wave Fields.
He, Yi
2000
Polyfluorene Light-Emitting Devices and A-SI:H TFT Pixel Circuits for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Displays.
Guest, Jeffrey Randall
2000
Near-Field Coherent Optical Spectroscopy and Microscopy of a Mesoscopic Quantum System.
Fischer, Christopher James
2000
Applications of Tryptophan Triplet State Spectroscopy to Studies of Protein Dynamics.
Litvinov, Dmitri
1999
Growth of Semiconducting Cubic Boron Nitride Thin Films.
Bonadeo, Nicolas Hernan
1999
Nano-Optics: Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots.
Monson, Eric Eugene
1999
Nano-Scale Spatial and Temporal Fluorescence Fluctuations in Near-Field Microscopy, Photobleaching Recovery, and Non-Classical Elementary Reaction Kinetics.
Williams, Guy Raymond
1999
Laser Phosphors.
Jiang, Hongtao
1999
Strain Induced Physical Phenomena in InGaAs/GaAs Heterostructures.
Wang, Hai-Wen
1999
Development and Application of High Peak Power Ultrafast Lasers.
Kuditcher, Amos
1999
Luminescent Instabilities In Dense Rare Earth Ion Systems.
Wellman, Joanne Marie
1998
Growth and Annealing Study of MBE-Grown Rh(111) Films.
He, Jian
1998
Development of a Six Degree-of-Freedom Laser Measurement System for Machine Geometric Error Measurement.
Wagner, Robert Loren
1998
Laser-Plasma Electron Accelerators and Nonlinear, Relativistic Optics.
Raman, Chandra Shekar
1997
Rydberg Wave Packets and Half-Cycle Electromagnetic Pulses.
Raman, Chandra Shekar
1997
Rydberg Wave Packets and Half-Cycle Electromagnetic Pulses.
Goodwin, Robert Wayne
1997
A Model of Automobile Exhaust Emissions During High-Power Driving Episodes and Related Issues.
Rosenblum, Steven S
1997
High Pressure Raman Scattering Studies of Magnon-Phonon Interactions and Ferroelastic Phase Transitions.
Abbott-Morse, Tracy Ann
1997
Design, Fabrication, and Performance Evaluation of Field Effect Transistors.
Kane, Steven John
1996
High-Order-Dispersion Control for the Amplification and Compression of Femtosecond Laser Pulses.
Barnett, Brandon Craig
1996
Fiber Lasers and All-Optical Logic Gates for Header Processing in High Bit Rate Optical Networks.
Taylor, Charles A
1996
Growth and Optical Studies of Boron Nitride Films on Silicon Substrates.
Subramaniam, Vinod
1996
Application of Time-Resolved Tryptophan Phosphorescence Spectroscopy to Protein Folding Studies.
Shu, Qize
1996
Cooperative Optical Nonlinearites in LiYF4.
Zhang, Kaiyan
1996
Defect Propagation in Strained Semiconductor Heterostructures and its Impact on Design of InP-based HBTs.
Walton, Donnell Thaddeus
1996
Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Novel Fiber Lasers.
Weinberg, Beth Lynn
1996
Wavelet Analysis and Visualization of The Formation of Episodic Events of Extremely Low Total Ozone.
Smith, Steven James
1996
Time Resolved Near-Field Microscopy of Ga-As Thin Films.
Foster, John Edison
1996
An Investigation of the Influence of a Transverse Magnetic Field on the Formation of Large Anode Fall Voltages in Low-Pressure Arcs.
Zhao, Lei
1995
Atomistic Simulation Study of Vacancy Diffusion in Binary Solid Solutions.
Arons, Eric Alexander
1995
Holographic Spatial and Temporal Coherence Methods for Optical Discrimination.
Liu, Xinbing
1994
Topics in High-Peak Intensity, Ultrashort Pulse Laser-Plasma Interactions.
Johnson, Mark Donald
1994
Surface Dynamics of GaAs(001) During MBE Growth and Equilibrium.
Brown, Steven Winthrop
1994
Optical Studies of Wide Bandgap Semiconductors:  Diamond, Gallium Nitride and Boron Nitride.
Xie, Ping
1993
Continous-Wave, Cooperative Upconversion Lasers (Quantum Efficency, Energy Transfer)
Lenef, Alan L
1993
Ultrafast Photon Echo Spectroscopy of Luminescent Centers:  NV:Diamond and TM3+:YA103.
Amman, Mark Steven
1993
The Theory and Measurement of Coulomb Blockade Effects in Mesoscopic Tunnel Junction Systems.
Sha, Weijian
1992
Femtosecond Time-Resolved High-Field Transport In Gallium Arsenide Bulk and Quantum-Well Structures (High Field Transport, Gallium Arsenide Bulk Structures)
Snyder, Christopher W
1992
A Critical Study of the Initial Growth Stages of Highly Strained Indium Gallium Arsenide on Gallium Arsenide (Gallium Arsenide, Indium Dallium Arsenide)
Cundiff, Steven Thomas
1992
Picosecond Excitonic Optical Nonlinearites: The Effects of Disorder In Quantum Wells (Excitpms, Electronic Excitations)
An, Feng
1992
Automobile Fuel Economy and Traffic Congestion (Engine Map, Tractive Energy, Driving Patterns, Speed Limit)
Chen, Yi
1991
Development of Detectors And Modulators For Multi-Hundred Gigahertz Operation (Optoelectronics)
Yan, Hong
1991
Scaling and Phase Trnasitions in Nonequilbrium Surface Growth
Liu, Lizhong
1991
Electron Spectroscopy of F-Electron Materials