Student Thesis Archive

2000s

2001

  • Evanko, Liberty Rae, “Baade-Wesselink Radii and Absolute Magnitudes for Ad Canis Minoris and Eh Librae,” Advisor: Benjamin Taylor (Masters Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Garvin, Matthew Bodell, “Restoring the BYU Spectograph to Service on the 24 inch Telescope at West Mountain Observatory ,” Advisor: Benjamin Taylor (Masters Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Ludwigsen, Daniel O, “Physical Modeling of the Lips in a Player/Trombone Simulation,” Advisor: William Strong (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2001).
  • Madsen, John Benson, “Experiments in Laser High Harmonic Genereation with Multiple Laser Beams,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Masters Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Terry, Nathan Burrett, “Production of Correlated Photon Pairs Through Laser Down Conversion in a BBO Crystal ,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Masters Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Ware, Michael J, “Optical Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Systems,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2001).
  • Pack, Michael (Vern), “A Single-Lens Interferometer for Introducing Gaussian Laser Beams,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Titensor, Jamie, “Creating Shaped Counter-Propagating Laser Pulses to Increase High Harmonic Production,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, Dec 2001).
  • Hicken, Malcolm Stuart, “Wave Functions, Energy Levels, Oscillator Strengths and Lifetimes of Confined Hydrogen and Sodium Atoms ,” Advisor: Manuel Berrondo (Masters Thesis, Aug 2001).
  • Squires, Matthew B, “The Measurment (58.4-164.0 nm) and Analysis (40.0- 600.0 nm) of the Atom Scattering Factors of Diamond and Graphite ,” Advisor: David Allred (Masters Thesis, Aug 2001).
  • McKnight, Thomas, “Absolute Gamma Efficiency and Its Evaluation for Lithium Gadolinium Borate,” Advisor: Branton Campbell (Senior Thesis, Aug 2001).
  • Anderson, Brian, “The Effect of Inharmonic Partials on Pitch of Piano Tones,” Advisor: William Strong (Senior Thesis, Jul 2001).
  • Kitchen, Dale, “A Proposed Thin Film Process for Shortening Carbon Nanotube AFM Probes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Senior Thesis, Jul 2001).
  • Choi, Joseph S., “In Situ Ellipsometry of Surfaces in an Ultrahigh Vacuum Thin Film Deposition Chamber,” Advisor: David Allred (Honors Thesis, Jun 2001).
  • Du Toit, Philip, “Spin Current: The Contribution of Spin to the Probability Current for Nonrelativistic Particles,” Advisor: Jean-Francois Van Huele (Honors Thesis, Jun 2001).
  • Housley, Matthew, “Direct CVD Growth of Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon Nitride AFM Probes,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, Jun 2001).
  • Wacaser, Brent Alan, “Assembly of Groups of Au and CdSe/ZnS Nanocrystals Chemically Linked by 1,4-Benzenedimethanethol,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, May 2001).
  • Monson, Ryan, “Growth and Characterization of a Cadmium Selenide Nanocrystal Monolayer,” Advisor: Robert Davis (Honors Thesis, May 2001).
  • Balogh, David Paul, “Student Attitudes and Performance in an Online General Education Physical Science Course ,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Apr 2001).
  • Smith, Anthony Dale, “Nonlinear Dynamics in Systems of Discrete Symmetry ,” Advisor: Harold Stokes (Masters Thesis, Apr 2001).
  • Wang, Quan, “Experiments on Laser-Produced Plasmas and Laser Plasma-Wall Interactions,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Apr 2001).
  • Crookston, Matthew Byron, “Spatial Measurements of a Capillary Discharge Plasma with a Toroidal Mirror and a Grazing Incident Spectrograph,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2001).
  • Johnson, Cort, “Developing an Improved Extreme Ultraviolet Filter,” Advisor: David Allred (Senior Thesis, Apr 2001).
  • Jensen, Kathryn A., “Laser Tracking Using Closed Loop Feedback Control,” Advisor: Scott Bergeson (Senior Thesis, Apr 2001).
  • Simmons, Jed, “Grazing Incidence Spectrometer for Measuring Laser High-Order Harmonics,” Advisor: Justin Peatross (Senior Thesis, Mar 2001).
  • Mills, Cynthia, “Multi-Angle Reflectance Measurements in the EUV,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, Mar 2001).