Student Thesis Archive

2010s

2011

  • Nilsen, Matthew, “Description of Wide Range Spectrometer Development,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Capstone, Aug 2011).

2010

  • Lopez, Jershon, “Characterization of a Transmission Grating for a Wide-Range Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Aug 2010).

2000s

2009

  • Allred, Bryce, “Absolute Calibration Of A Wide Range Spectrometer To Determine Electron Energy And Plasma Temperature,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Apr 2009).
  • Kemp, Jeffrey, “A New Method For The Diagnosis Of High Energy Plasmas From A Broadband Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Apr 2009).

2008

  • Gray, Nathan, “Extreme Ultraviolet To Visible Wide-Range Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Apr 2008).

2007

  • Harrison, Matthew, “Using Conical Spectrometers to Monitor X-ray Emission from Laser Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Capstone, Apr 2007).
  • Packard, Nathan, “Conical Soft x-ray Spectrometer,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Capstone, Apr 2007).

2004

  • Johnson, Jon, “Estimating the Absolute Brightness of Magnesium Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Aug 2004).

2002

  • Strong, Joshua A., “X-Ray Fluorescence of Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Dec 2002).
  • Daily, Jared Estus, “Development and Characterization of a Field Electron Emission X-Ray Source,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Apr 2002).

2001

  • Wang, Quan, “Experiments on Laser-Produced Plasmas and Laser Plasma-Wall Interactions,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Apr 2001).

2000

  • Cornaby, Sterling W, “Using a Charged-Coupling Device (CCD) to gether X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) Information Simultaneously,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 2000).

1990s

1998

  • Mumford, Jason W., “Flame Deposition as a Mechanism for Diamond Snthesis,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Apr 1998).

1997

  • Hansen, Douglas Paul, “Order-Parameter Profiles Across Domain Walls Arising in Ferroelastic Phase Transitions ,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1997).

1996

  • Olsen, Bryan R, “High Voltage for a Capillary Discharge X-Ray Laser,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Dec 1996).
  • Williams, B. Scott, “On Photo-Assisted Atomic Layered Epitaxy of Iron Pentacarbonyl,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Aug 1996).
  • Christiansen, David, “Development of Diagnostics for an X-Ray Laser,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, May 1996).

1995

  • Larsen, Mitch, “Construction of Optical Components by Ultrastructure Processing,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Senior Thesis, Feb 1995).

1994

  • Pew, Hans Konrad, “The Development of Water Window Soft X-Ray Multilayers for X-Ray Microscopy,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Dec 1994).
  • Stark, Thomas Troy, “Time Resolution of Current and Temperature in a Capillary Discharge Plasma,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Dec 1994).
  • Liu, Jun, “Design of Soft X-Ray Focusing Reflector Based on Etched Film/Substrate Structure,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Apr 1994).

1993

  • Hasan-Sajadeia, Khader Mahmoud, “Fabrication & Characterization of Ultrasharp Tungsten Tips:An Application to Imaging Surface Local Density of States of Highly Ordered Pyrolytic Graphite Using the Topometrix 2000 Scanning Tunneling Microscope at Ambient Atmospheric Pressure & Temperature,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Dec 1993).
  • Karain, Wael Ishaq, “The Manufacture and Characterization of Arrays of Atomically Sharp Silicon Tips, and Their Use as Photo cathodes and Electron Sources for X-Ray Generation,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1993).
  • Short, Steven Lee, “Concentrational Analysis of Carbon Monoxide in Blood Using FFT Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 1993).

1992

  • Hilton, Nathan Rhead, “Characterization of Multilayers Using a Scanning Probe Microscope,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Honors Thesis, May 1992).
  • Hansen, Evan D., “High Purity Crystalline Silicon,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Honors Thesis, Apr 1992).

1991

  • Shi, Yinghua, “Development and Modeling of Cylindrically Shaped Multilayer X-Ray Reflectors,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1991).

1990

  • Wang, Qi, “Raman Study of Amorphous Carbon,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Dec 1990).
  • Karain, Wael Ishaq, “The Use of Photosensitive Field Emission Arrays as Photocathodes,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 1990).

1980s

1989

  • Gray, Kevin J., “Simulated and Measured Response of Robust Multilayer X-Ray Reflectors,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1989).
  • Nelson, Robert James, “Simulated Performance Comparisons for Various Compositions of Thin Film Multilayer X-ray Reflectors: Degraded With 9.5A Radiation,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 1989).
  • Ross, Toby Sean, “Microlithography for Multilayer Phase Gratings,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 1989).

1987

  • Mills, Paul S, “Display Holograms by Zone Plate Coded Imaging,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Dec 1987).

1986

  • Cross, George Samuel, “A Pixe Facility for the Characterization of Multilayer Reflectivity,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Dec 1986).
  • Zhang, Xiao Mao, “*Calculation of Imaging Properties of Curved Multilayers,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Aug 1986).

1984

  • Walsh, Dwight Michael, “Transverse Modes of an Optical Resonator with Gaussian Mirrors: A Theoretical Study,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Dec 1984).

1982

  • Cook, Grant Osmond Jr, “Development of a Magnetohydrodynamic Code for Axisymmetric, High-B Plasmas with Complex Magnetic Fields,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Dec 1982).
  • Gaines, David P., “X-Ray Emission from Laser-Produced Plasmas,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1982).
  • Perkins, Raymond, “Modeling Evaporated/Sputtered Multilayers as X-Ray Diffractors,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1982).
  • Petersen, Ole Johnny, “Determination of vanadium resonance correction near the x-ray k-absorption edge using a vanadium-carbon LSM,” Advisor: Larry Knight (PhD Dissertation, Aug 1982).

1981

  • Sheldon, Stanley J, “The Laser Induced Thermal Lens Effect,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Apr 1981).
  • Stradling, Gary Lane, “A soft x-ray streak camera for laser fusion applications,” Advisor: Larry Knight (Masters Thesis, Apr 1981).