Student Thesis Archive

2020s

Marx, Joshua, “Determining Surface Roughness Using Extreme Ultraviolet LIght,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2014).
Petrie, Cody, “Determining thin film roughness with EUV reflection,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2014).
Scott, Liz, “Measuring the Index of Refraction of Y2O3 in the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2014).

Hart, Gregory, “Correcting for Reflection Attenuation in the Extreme Ultraviolet Due to Surfce Roughness,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2012).
Vaterlaus, Zephne, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2012).

Keller, Samuel, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Dec 2011).
Rockwood, Alex, “Modeled Roughness Of A Sputtered Surface And Its Effects On Extreme Ultraviolet Reflection,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2011).

Rockwood, Alex, “,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2010).
Willey, Anthony, “Increasing Plasma Intensity in a Hollow Cathode Plasma Source with a Magnetic Field,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Oct 2010).

Muhlestein, Joseph, “Optical Constants for Y₂O₃ in the Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Feb 2009).

Adamson, Marian, “Detection Of Trace Metal Contaminants In Model Biological Tissue With Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2007).
Grigg, Amy, “Oxidation Effects On The Optical Constants Of Heavy Metals In The Extreme Ultraviolet,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, Aug 2007).
Martin, Elise, “Surface-Roughness Corrections To Extreme Ultraviolet Thin-Film Reflectance Measurements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2007).
Stellman, Marie, “Improvement Of Automation For Collection Of Reflectance Vs. Angle Measurements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2007).

Urry, Marie, “Determining Optical Constants of Uranium Nitride Thin Films in the Extreme Ultraviolet (1.6-35 NM),” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2004).

Brown, Danelle Elaine, “Atomic Granularity and Molecular Optics Computational Studies of Atomic Structure Effects in the EUV and Soft X-Ray,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2003).
Jackson, Elke, “Rectifying Synchrotron and Monochromator Measurement Differences and Monochromator Improvements,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2003).
McDonald, Matthew, “Finding Optical Constants of Uranium Oxide Mirrors Using Fortran,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2003).

Anderson, Ryan Robert, “Focusing Optics with a Constant Angle Grazing Incidence Spectrograph for Spatian and Spectral Resolution of Capilary Discharge Plasmas,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2002).
Lunt, Shannon, “Determining the Indices of Refration of Reactively Sputered Uranium Dioxide Thin Films from 46 to 584 Anstroms,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Dec 2002).
Walter, Fabian Thomas, “Obtaining Soft X-Ray Constants Across the 2P Edge of Fe in Thin Films by Resonant Magnetic Scattering Experiments of Polarized Soft X-Rays,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 2002).

Balogh, David Paul, “Student Attitudes and Performance in an Online General Education Physical Science Course ,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Apr 2001).
Crookston, Matthew Byron, “Spatial Measurements of a Capillary Discharge Plasma with a Toroidal Mirror and a Grazing Incident Spectrograph,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Apr 2001).
Mills, Cynthia, “Multi-Angle Reflectance Measurements in the EUV,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, Mar 2001).

Hullinger, Derek, “Characterization and Enhancement of a Transmission Line Driven Capillary Discharge ,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Apr 2000).
Oliphant, David Toone, “Characterization of Uranium, Uranium Oxide and Silicon Multilayer Thin Films,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Dec 2000).

Bradford, Robert K., “Characterization of Pi-Proton Events Producing Charged Tracks and Four Gammas,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, May 1999).
Lunt, Shannon, “The Use of Genetic Algorithms in Multilayer Mirror Optimization,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, Mar 1999).

Crawford, Christopher Blair, “Spectroscopic Investigations of Soft X-Ray Amplification in a Capillary Discharge,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Masters Thesis, Apr 1998).
Oliphant, David, “Scalar Wave Scattering from a Clinder with Dirichlet Boundary Conditions Unsiong High-Order Basis Plynomials,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Senior Thesis, Aug 1998).

George, Renee, “High-Order Basis Functions on Wires,” Advisor: Steve Turley (Honors Thesis, Feb 1997).