Student Thesis Archive

Hodge, Daniel Steven, “[Title],” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (PhD Dissertation, Aug 2026).
Leininger, McKenzie, “Single-Shot Imaging of Shock Propagation in Materials Under Extreme Conditions,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Aug 2026).
Lewis, David, “Evaluating Mechanical Drift,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2026).
Hancock, Levi, “Determining the Nanostructure of Polymer Foams using 3D Ptycho-tomography for Inertial Fusion Energy Applications,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Feb 2026).

Taylor, Hyrum, “Methods for Improving Tabletop Ptychography,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Aug 2025).
Herrera Chacon, Jesus, “Overcoming X-ray Radiation Pressure Challenges to Study Dislocation Dynamics in Metals,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Apr 2025).
Carpenter, Abi Mae, “Atomic Resolution Coherent X-ray Imaging with Phase Retrieval: Incorporating Changes in Temperature,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Apr 2025).

Meziere, Jason Alexander, “[Title],” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2024).
Hoffman, Michael, “Comparison of Masks for an Illuminated Probe,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Dec 2024).
Redd, Aaron, “A COMPARISON OF PTYCHOGRAPHY PROGRAMS FOR LENS-LESS IMAGING WITH A HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION SOURCE,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2024).

Porter, J. Nicholas, “Tipping the Mesoscales: Advances in Multipeak Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Masters Thesis, Dec 2023).
McCombs, Christian, “Comparison between x-ray free electron laser phase contrast imaging (PCI) and hydrodynamic simulations of void collapse in PETN single crystals,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Jun 2023).
Ricks, Matthew, “Dynamic probing of the high pressure and temperature phase transitions of Iron on millisecond timescales,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Jun 2023).
Feltman, Jacob Michael, “Hard X-ray, Optical Transient Grating for Probing Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).
Schnebly, Landon, “Development of Robust Gold Nanoparticle Samples for Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging at Modern Beamlines with Increased X-ray Flux,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2023).

Hodge, Daniel Steven, “Single-Shot, Ultrafast, Multi-Frame X-Ray Imaging of Defect-Bearing Ablator Materials in Extreme Conditions,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Masters Thesis, Dec 2022).
Buckway, Taylor Jordan, “Tabletop Extreme-Ultraviolet Source Using High Harmonic Generation for Polarization Sensitive Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Masters Thesis, Jun 2022).
Anderson, Bryce, “Developing Improvements to the Teaching of Lock-In Amplifiers in Physics 245,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Jun 2022).
Anderson, David, “Teaching the Practical Principles of Fourier Optics in an Undergraduate Laboratory,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Apr 2022).
Maciel, Corbin, “A Compilation of Dose Studies in Particle Therapy Treatment for Cancer,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2022).

Townsend, McKayla, “Bragg Coherent Diffraction Strain Imaging of Temperature-Varied 14YWT Microcrystals,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Capstone, Aug 2021).

Porter, J. Nicholas, “Etalon interference wavelength metrology using webcams,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Dec 2020).
Day, Carter, “Effects of Illumination Shadows in Interference Pattern Structured Illumination Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Jun 2020).
Whetten, Benjamin, “Wavenumber Error in Interference Pattern Lensless Imaging,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).
Petersen, Dallen, “Motorized Mirror Controller with 3D Printed Parts,” Advisor: Richard Sandberg (Senior Thesis, Apr 2020).