Student Thesis Archive

1990s

1996

  • Huang, Ke, “An EPR Investigation of the Tetragonal Phase in BaTiO3 Along the Tetragonal-Cubic Phase Line,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1996).

1991

  • Chen, Wei, “High Precision Measurement of Electrical Resistivity of Nickel Near the Ferromagnetic Phase Transition at High Pressure,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1991).

1980s

1985

  • Olsen, Randy Dick, “Effect of Pressure on Peltier Cooling,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Aug 1985).

1982

  • Olsen, Kathleen, “Dielectric Measurements Along the Calcite-CaCO3(II) Phase Line in Pursuit of a Tricritical Point,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Dec 1982).

1970s

1977

  • Melville, John G., II, “Dehancement of Gold Diffusion in Lead by Small Concentrations of Impurities in the Lead,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1977).

1974

  • Lillywhite, Harold F, “A Preliminary Investigation into the Diffusion of Cobalt into Solid Lead,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Apr 1974).
  • Ross, Ronald Allen, “The Diffusion of Zinc into Solid Lead at Pressures to Fifty-Two Kilobars,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1974).

1972

  • Gunter, John Lee, “The Variation of the Magnetization of Iron with Temperature and Pressure: Amossbauer Effect Experiment,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, May 1972).
  • Stokes, John Loyal, “Calibration of a Thermocouple at High Pressures Using the Mossbauer Effect,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1972).

1960s

1968

  • Lortz, Larry Evans, “The Lamb-Mossbauer Factor for Iron in Sodium Ferrocyanide,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Jan 1968).
  • Merrill, Ronald B, “Thermal Conduction through an Evacuated Idealized Powder over the Temperature Range of 100 to 500˚ K,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, May 1968).
  • Millet, Lorin E., “Experimental Melting Curves of Cadmium, Indium, Lead, Tin, and Zinc and Mossbauer Measurements in Iron to 90 Kilobars,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1968).

1967

  • Peel, John Lloyd Jr, “Annealing of Vacancies in Gold Under High Pressure,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, May 1967).
  • Worlton, Thomas G., “Neutron Diffraction Studies on a-Fe2O3 and Cr2O8 at High Pressures,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1967).

1966

  • Southwell, William H., “Measurements of the Recoilless Fraction and Other Mossbauer Effects of Fe57 in Iron at High Pressures,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (PhD Dissertation, Jan 1966).

1964

  • Obarr, Gerald Leroy, “Diffraction of Laser Light by Wedges of Various Edge Parameters,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Aug 1964).
  • Shelley, Robert D., “An Investigation of the Formation of Defects in Silver at High Pressures,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Jan 1964).

1962

  • Merrill, Ronald B, “Investigation of Chemical Diffusion at Ultra-High Pressures,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, May 1962).

1961

  • Cook, William A, “Attempts to Quantize the Hydrogen Atom by Classical Analysis,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Jun 1961).
  • Green, James Montel, “An Eddy Current Measurement of Magnetoresistance,” Advisor: Daniel Decker (Masters Thesis, Aug 1961).