Student Thesis Archive

2025

Hawkins, Blake, “Magnetostructural Coupling in Magnetocaloric MnSb via X-ray and Neutron Scattering,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2025).

2024

Robinson, Ethan, “Investigating the Internal Magnetic Field of CoTa2O6 Using Muon Spin Relaxation,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Dec 2024).
Hilbig, Mitchell, “Uncovering the Local Structure of Amorphous Topological Insulator Bi₂Se₃ with X-ray Scattering,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2024).

2023

Jones, Braedon Craig, “Local Atomic and Magnetic Structure of Multiferroic (Sr,Ba)(Mn,Ti)O3,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Masters Thesis, Dec 2023).
Tidd, Elliot, “Magnetic Pair Distribution Function Software Development and Application to Manganese Telluride,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Dec 2023).
Hamilton, Parker Kip, “Enhanced Capabilities for Investigating Local Structure and Magnetism: Three Dimensional Magnetic Pair Distribution Function and Symmetry Mode Analysis,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Masters Thesis, Aug 2023).
Nuttall, Kristina, “Magnetic Spin Correlations in NaYbO2 at Near-zero Temperatures,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).
Zappala, Emma, “Exploring the Magnetic Dynamics of CrMnFeCoNi,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).
Anderson, Russel, “Source-Gap Analysis: A New Method for Analyzing Environmental Problems,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, Apr 2023).

2022

Baral, Raju, “Short-Range Magnetic Correlations, Spontaneous Magnetovolume Effect, and Local Distortion in Magnetic Semiconductor MnTe,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2022).
Fanning, Kane, “Deconvolution and the Magnetic Pair Distribution Function,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2022).
Christensen, Jacob, “Pair Distribution Function Analysis of the Short-Range Magnetic and Atomic Correlations in Manganese Telluride,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2022).

2021

Stevens, Jade, “Analysis of 𝜇SR Data From 5nm and 20nm Magnetite Nanoparticles,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, Aug 2021).
Fletcher, Ethan, “Clarifying the role of the lattice degree of freedom in the canonical metal to insulator transition in V2O3,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
Read, Charlotte, “Fe3O4 nanoparticles investigated by vibrating sample magnetometry and muon spin relaxation,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).
Gibson, Ethan Jacob, “Numerical Renormalization of Divergences in QED,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2021).

2020

Hughes, Jake, “A New Approach to PDF Symmetry Mode Calculations,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Capstone, Aug 2020).
Ducharme, Nicolas, “Connections between magnetic correlations and local crystalline structure in two dilute magnetic semiconductors: Li(Zn,Mn)As and (Ba,K)(Zn,Mn)2As2,” Advisor: Benjamin Frandsen (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).