Student Thesis Archive

Advisor:

2011

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

2010

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

2009

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

2008

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

2007

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

2004

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

2002

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

2001

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

2000

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

  • Khader Mahmoud Hasan-Sajadeia, “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 V Knight (Masters Thesis, December 1993).
  • Wael Ishaq Karain, “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 V Knight (PhD Dissertation, August 1993).
  • Steven Lee Short, “Concentrational Analysis of Carbon Monoxide in Blood Using FFT Raman and FTIR Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Larry V Knight (Masters Thesis, August 1993).

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1987

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

1986

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

1984

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

1982

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

1981

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