Publications

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Theses and Dissertations

• Dorian Baldwin-Bott, "Evaluating a Physics Problem Tutorial Format in Upper-Level Undergraduate Electromagnetism Courses" (Capstone, 2024). Full Text PDF
• Sierra Whipple, "Terahertz circular dichroism of R/S-MBA$_2$PbI$_4$" (Senior Thesis, 2024). Full Text PDF
• Chapman Lindsay, "Impedance Spectroscopy on Metal Halide Perovskites to Produce a Temperature Dependent Series" (Senior Thesis, 2023). Full Text PDF
• Daniel King, "Simulating the TE01δ Mode of a Dielectric Resonator in Free Space" (Senior Thesis, 2023). Full Text PDF
• Sam Jeppson, "Electroabsorption as a method to accurately measure the band gap and exciton binding energy in 2D metal halide perovskites" (Senior Thesis, 2023). Full Text PDF
• Grant Miller, "Designing Upper-Division Undergraduate Physics Course Problem Tutorials" (Capstone, 2023). Full Text PDF
• Blake Romrell, "Metal Halide Perovskite Exciton Tuning Through Composition Variations and Alloying" (Senior Thesis, 2023). Full Text PDF
• Emma McClure, "Dielectric spectroscopy on 2D and 3D metal halide perovskites using an interdigitated electrode geometry" (Senior Thesis, 2022). Full Text PDF
• Alex Thomas Mumford, "Developing a system for automated crop steering in cannabis" (Capstone, 2022).
• Spencer King, "Zinc Oxide Nanoparticle Synthesis in Apoferritin" (Senior Thesis, 2021). Full Text PDF
• Nathan Schwartz, "Neural Network Solutions to Cylindrical Microwave Cavities" (Senior Thesis, 2021). Full Text PDF
• Charles Lewis, "Neural Network Approximations of the Temperature of CdTe Quantum Dots" (Senior Thesis, 2020). Full Text PDF
• James Erikson, "Photoluminescence Lifetime as an Indicator of Temperature in Materials" (Senior Thesis, 2020). Full Text PDF
• Alexandra Christensen, "Brachytherapy Implant Evaluation Using New Isodose Surface Metrics" (Senior Thesis, 2020). Full Text PDF
• Daniel Boyce, "Using platinum nanoparticles on ferritin to form hydrogen gas from methyl viologen and organic acids" (Senior Thesis, 2019). Full Text PDF
• Micah Shelley, "RF magnetron sputtering of arsenic-doped p-type zinc oxide" (Senior Thesis, 2019). Full Text PDF
• Colter Stewart, "Optical Constants of Amorphous Zinc Arsenide (Zn3As2) via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry" (Senior Thesis, 2019). Full Text PDF
• Matthew Richards, "Ferritin-bound Platinum Nanoparticles in Hydrogen Production" (Senior Thesis, 2019). Full Text PDF
• Scott Crossen, "Optically Detected magnetic Resonance: Computational Predictions and Experimental Results" (Senior Thesis, 2018). Full Text PDF
• J. Ryan Peterson, "Sputtering p-Type Arsenic-doped Zinc Oxide Thin Films" (Senior Thesis, 2018). Full Text PDF
• Heather Hogg, "Temperature Dependence of Photoluminescence Lifetime of Rhodamine B" (Senior Thesis, 2018). Full Text PDF
• Kameron Hansen, "Ferritin encapsulated PbS, PbSe, and MoS$_2$ Nanocrystals for Photovoltaic Applications" (Senior Thesis, 2017). Full Text PDF
• Michael Meehan, "Continous Wave Operation and Mode-Locking of Ti:Sapph Lasers" (Senior Thesis, 2016). Full Text PDF
• Jacob Embley, "Electron Spin Coherence in Silicon Vacancy Defects of Proton-irradiated Silicon Carbide" (Senior Thesis, 2016). Full Text PDF
• Cameron Olsen, "Permanganate-Based Synthesis of Semiconducting Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in the Protein Ferritin" (Senior Thesis, 2016). Full Text PDF
• Stephen Erickson, "Tunable Band Gaps of Nanocrystals Encapsulated by the Protein Ferritin" (Senior Thesis, 2015). Full Text PDF
• Kyle Miller, "Electron Spin Echo and Coherence Times in Silicon Carbide Defects" (Senior Thesis, 2015). Full Text PDF
• Tyler Drue Park, "Characterization of InGaAs Quantum Dot Chains" (Masters Thesis, 2013). Full Text PDF
• Daniel Craft, "Non-Exponential Electron Spin Decay in Indium Arsenide Quantum Dots" (Senior Thesis, 2013). Full Text PDF
• Jane Tanner, "Off-line Prototype of an On-line Sheet Shape Measurment System" (Honors Thesis, 2013).
• David Meyer, "Spin Lifetime Measurements in a 14nm GaAs Quantum Well" (Senior Thesis, 2012). Full Text PDF
• Scott Thalman, "Photoluminescence Lifetimes of Quantum Dots" (Senior Thesis, 2011). Full Text PDF
• Dallas Smith, "Optical Measurement of Electron Spin Lifetimes in Gallium Arsenide" (Senior Thesis, 2011). Full Text PDF
• Stephen Brown, "An Object-Oriented Framework for Experimental Control in the Colton Spin Dynamics Laboratory" (Capstone, 2010). Full Text PDF
• Steven Allen, "Phase-Sensitive And Dual-Angle Radiofrequency Mapping In 23na Magnetic Resonance Imaging" (Honors Thesis, 2010). Full Text PDF
• Aaron Jones, "Photoluminescence Of Indium Gallium Arsenide Quantum Dots And Dot Chains" (Senior Thesis, 2010). Full Text PDF
• Benjamin Heaton, "Nuclear-Electron Coupling In GaAs Spin States And Control Of The Effects" (Senior Thesis, 2009). Full Text PDF
• Daniel Jenson, "A System For Simultaneously Driving Three Discrete Nuclear Resonances In GaAs: Theory And Experiment" (Senior Thesis, 2008). Full Text PDF

Selected recent presentations

• "Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Using Ferritin-Encapsulated Quantum Dots With Various Staining Methods" talk given by Luis Perez at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 13, 2017
• "Electron Spin Coherence of Silicon Vacancies in Proton-Irradiated 4H-SiC" talk given by John Colton at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 14, 2017
• "Nanocrystals Inside Ferritin Inside Photovoltaic Cells" talk given by Kameron Hansen at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 15, 2017
• "Tunability and Stability of Lead Sulfide Quantum Dots in Ferritin" talk given by Ryan Peterson at the APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 15, 2017
• "Cavities for electron spin resonance: predicting the resonant frequency" talk given by John Colton at the 2016 APS March Meeting in Baltimore MD, Mar 2016
• "Electron Spin Coherence in Silicon Carbide" talk given by Scott Crossen at the Joint Meeting of the Four Corners and Texas Sections of the APS, Las Cruces, NM, Oct 22, 2016
• "Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Using Native and Non-Native Nanocrystals in Ferritin as the Dye" talk given by Alessandro Perego at the AIChE Rocky Mountain Regional Conference, Tucson AZ, Apr 2, 2016.
• "Ferritin-based semiconductor nanocrystals for solar energy harvesting" invited talk given by John Colton at the University of Utah Materials Science and Engineering Graduate Seminar, Salt Lake City UT, Jan 13, 2016
• "Harvesting solar energy using bioinorganic nanoparticles" talk given by Cameron Olsen at the Governor's Energy Development Summit, Salt Lake City UT, May 25, 2016
• "Lead Sulfide Quantum Dot Band Gap Investigations" talk given by Ryan Peterson at the Joint Meeting of the Four Corners and Texas Sections of the APS, Las Cruces, NM, Oct 21, 2016
• "Measurement of Spin Coherence Times in Proton-Irradiated 4H-SiC" talk given by Jacob Embley at the 2016 APS March Meeting in Baltimore MD, Mar 2016
• "Optically-measured electron spin lifetimes and spin relaxation in GaAs and SiC" invited talk given by John Colton at the EMN (Energy, Material, & Nanotechnology) Meeting on Quantum Communication & Quantum Imaging, Berlin, Germany, Aug 25, 2016
• "The physics of musical scales: theory and experiment" BYU Physics Department colloquium given by Dallin Durfee and John Colton, Provo UT, Feb 24, 2016
• "Using Ferritin Quantum Dots to Harvest Solar Energy" talk given by Kameron Hansen at the Joint Meeting of the Four Corners and Texas Sections of the APS, Las Cruces, NM, Oct 22, 2016
• "Fabrication of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Using Fe-, Mn- and Co-oxyhydroxide nanocrystals in ferritin as the dye" talk given by Alessandro Perego at the 2015 APS Four Corners Meeting in Tempe, AZ, Oct 2015
• "Ferritin-based nanocrystals for solar energy harvesting" talk given by John Colton at the 2015 APS March Meeting in San Antonio, TX, Mar 2015
• "Temperature and sample dependence of spin echo in SiC" talk given by Kyle Miller at the 2015 APS March Meeting in San Antonio, TX, Mar 2015
• "Band gap measurements and tunability of ferritin enclosed nanocrystals" talk given by Stephen Erickson at the 2014 APS March Meeting in Denver, CO, Mar 2014
• "Band gap variations in ferritin-templated nanocrystals" talk given by John Colton at the 2014 APS March Meeting in Denver, CO, Mar 2014
• "Optically detected magnetic resonance of silicon vacancies in SiC" talk given by Kyle Miller at the 2014 APS Four Corners Meeting in Orem, UT, Oct 2014
• "Oxidation-reduction potential of iron encapsulated by ferritin" talk given by Jacob Embley at the 2014 APS Four Corners Meeting in Orem, UT, Oct 2014
• "Tunable band gaps of protein enclosed nanocrystals for high efficiency solar energy conversion" talk given by Stephen Erickson at the 2014 APS Four Corners Meeting in Orem, UT, Oct 2014
• "Characterizing epitaxially-grown InGaAs quantum dot chains using transmission electron microscopy" talk given by Tyler Park at the 2013 APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD, Mar 2013
• "Long-lived electron spins in a modulation doped (100) GaAs quantum well" talk given by John Colton at the 2013 APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD, 21 Mar 2013
• "Properties of protein-based ferrihydrite nanoparticles" talk given by Stephen Erickson at the 2014 APS Four Corners Meeting in Denver, CO, Oct 2013
• "Studies of Electron Spin in Gallium Arsenide Quantum Dots" talk given by Daniel Craft at the 2013 APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD, Mar 2013
• "Charactarizatoin of Quantum Dot Chains Using Transmission Electron Microscopy" talk given by Tyler Park at the 2012 APS March Meeting in Boston, MA, Feb 2012
• "Characterizing InGaAs quantum dot chains" talk given by Tyler Park at the 2012 APS Four Corners Meeting in Socorro, NM, Oct 2012
• "T1 spin lifetimes in n-doped quantum wells and dots" talk given by John Colton at the 2012 APS March Meeting in Boston, MA, 27 Feb 2012
• "Photoluminescence spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy imaging of InGaAs quantum dot chains" talk given by Tyler Park at the 2011 APS Four Corners Meeting in Tucson, AZ, Oct 2011
• "Photoluminescent Properties of InGaAs Quantum Dot Structures" talk given by Kenneth Clark at the 2011 APS Four Corners Meeting in Tucson, AZ, Oct 2011
• "Universal scheme for optically-detected T1 measurements" talk given by John Colton at the 2011 APS March Meeting in Dallas, TX, 22 Mar 2011
• "Optically-Detected Electron Spin Resonance of Self-Assembled InAs Quantum Dots" talk given by John Colton at the 2010 APS March Meeting in Portland, OR, 15 Mar 2010
• "Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting" talk given by Scott Thalman at the 2010 APS Four Corners Meeting in Ogden, UT, Oct 2010
• "Nuclear Effects on Electron Spin Resonance in Gallium Arsenide" poster presentation given by Mitch Jones at the 2009 APS March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, 18 Mar 2009
• "Nuclear effects in the optically-detected magnetic resonance of electron spins in n-GaAs" talk given by Benjamin Heaton at the 2009 APS March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, 20 Mar 2009
• "Optically-detected magnetic resonance studies of n-GaAs" talk given by John Colton at the 2009 APS March Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, 20 Mar 2009
• "Quantum Computing and Electron Spins in Semiconductors" talk given by John Colton at Utah Valley University, 25 Mar 2009