2020s
2025
- Homer, Levi, “A Method to Measure the Circular Dichroism of Metal-Halide Perovskite Thin-Films,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2025).
- Poulin, Amelia, “Using Electroabsorption to Measure Changes in Exciton Binding Energy in Organic and Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Materials,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2025).
2024
- Murdock, Michael, “High-Efficiency Frequency Conversion through Pulsed-Source Bragg Scattering Four-Wave Mixing in a Silicon Waveguide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Dec 2024).
- Baldwin-Bott, Dorian, “Evaluating a Physics Problem Tutorial Format in Upper-Level Undergraduate Electromagnetism Courses,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, Aug 2024).
- Whipple, Sierra, “Terahertz circular dichroism of R/S-MBA$_2$PbI$_4$,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Jun 2024).
2023
- Lindsay, Chapman, “Impedance Spectroscopy on Metal Halide Perovskites to Produce a Temperature Dependent Series,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2023).
- King, Daniel, “Simulating the TE01δ Mode of a Dielectric Resonator in Free Space,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2023).
- Jeppson, Sam, “Electroabsorption as a method to accurately measure the band gap and exciton binding energy in 2D metal halide perovskites,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).
- Miller, Grant, “Designing Upper-Division Undergraduate Physics Course Problem Tutorials,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, Apr 2023).
- Romrell, Blake, “Metal Halide Perovskite Exciton Tuning Through Composition Variations and Alloying,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).
2022
- McClure, Emma, “Dielectric spectroscopy on 2D and 3D metal halide perovskites using an interdigitated electrode geometry,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2022).
- Mumford, Alex Thomas, “Developing a system for automated crop steering in cannabis,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, Apr 2022).
2021
- King, Spencer, “Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis in Apoferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
- Schwartz, Nathan, “Neural Network Solutions to Cylindrical Microwave Cavities,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
2020
- Lewis, Charles, “Neural Network Approximations of the Temperature of CdTe Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Jun 2020).
- Erikson, James, “Photoluminescence Lifetime as an Indicator of Temperature in Materials,” Advisor: David Allred, John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).
- Christensen, Alexandra, “Brachytherapy Implant Evaluation Using New Isodose Surface Metrics,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).
2010s
2019
- Boyce, Daniel, “Using platinum nanoparticles on ferritin to form hydrogen gas from methyl viologen and organic acids,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2019).
- Shelley, Micah, “RF magnetron sputtering of arsenic-doped p-type zinc oxide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2019).
- Stewart, Colter, “Optical Constants of Amorphous Zinc Arsenide (Zn3As2) via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2019).
- Richards, Matthew, “Ferritin-bound Platinum Nanoparticles in Hydrogen Production,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2019).
2018
- Crossen, Scott, “Optically Detected magnetic Resonance: Computational Predictions and Experimental Results,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2018).
- Peterson, J. Ryan, “Sputtering p-Type Arsenic-doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2018).
- Hogg, Heather, “Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Lifetime of Rhodamine B,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2018).
2017
- Hansen, Kameron, “Ferritin encapsulated PbS, PbSe, and MoS$_2$ Nanocrystals for Photovoltaic Applications,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2017).
2016
- Meehan, Michael, “Continous Wave Operation and Mode-Locking of Ti:Sapph Lasers,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Jun 2016).
- Embley, Jacob, “Electron Spin Coherence in Silicon Vacancy Defects of Proton-irradiated Silicon Carbide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).
- Olsen, Cameron, “Permanganate-Based Synthesis of Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in the Protein Ferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).
2015
- Erickson, Stephen, “Tunable Band Gaps of Nanocrystals Encapsulated by the Protein Ferritin,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2015).
- Miller, Kyle, “Electron Spin Echo and Coherence Times in Silicon Carbide Defects,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2015).
2013
- Park, Tyler Drue, “Characterization of InGaAs Quantum Dot Chains,” Advisor: John Colton (Masters Thesis, Jul 2013).
- Craft, Daniel, “Non-Exponential Electron Spin Decay in Indium Arsenide Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Apr 2013).
- Tanner, Jane, “Off-line Prototype of an On-line Sheet Shape Measurment System,” Advisor: John Colton (Honors Thesis, Apr 2013).
2012
- Meyer, David, “Spin Lifetime Measurements in a 14nm GaAs Quantum Well,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2012).
2011
- Thalman, Scott, “Photoluminescence Lifetimes of Quantum Dots,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2011).
- Smith, Dallas, “Optical Measurement of Electron Spin Lifetimes in Gallium Arsenide,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Jun 2011).
2010
- Brown, Stephen, “An Object-Oriented Framework for Experimental Control in the Colton Spin Dynamics Laboratory,” Advisor: John Colton (Capstone, Aug 2010).
- Allen, Steven, “Phase-Sensitive And Dual-Angle Radiofrequency Mapping In 23na Magnetic Resonance Imaging,” Advisor: John Colton (Honors Thesis, Jul 2010).
- Jones, Aaron, “Photoluminescence Of Indium Gallium Arsenide Quantum Dots And Dot Chains,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, May 2010).
2000s
2009
- Heaton, Benjamin, “Nuclear-Electron Coupling In GaAs Spin States And Control Of The Effects,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Aug 2009).
2008
- Jenson, Daniel, “A System For Simultaneously Driving Three Discrete Nuclear Resonances In GaAs: Theory And Experiment,” Advisor: John Colton (Senior Thesis, Dec 2008).