Recent Graduate Theses and Dissertations in Physics

James Maloney, Ph.D., April 2013, Parametric-Resonance Ionization Cooling for Muon Beams in the Twin Helix Channel, advisor: Bela Erdelya and Rol Johnson (Muons, Inc).

Hamoud Somaily, M.S. April 2013, Structural and thermoelectric properties of a-site substituted (Sr_1-x-yCa_x Nd_y)Ti0₃ Perovskites, advisor: Omar Chmaissem

Brad Kreydick, M.S. March 2013, A new quality control system for detecting defects in proton range modifiers for proton therapy, advisor: Dr. George Coutrakon

Robert Calkins, Ph.D. December 2012, Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section and branching ratio to a W-boson and bottom quark using the semi-leptonic and dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC, advisor: Dr. Dhiman Chakraborty

Qiong Luo, Ph.D. August 2012, Superconducting Nanowire Networks Formed on Nanoporous Membrane Substrates, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao.

Seyed A. Sabok-Sayr, M.S. May 2012, Synthesis, P-T phase diagram,  and T_c of R2Ba4Cu7O15, advisor Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

Curt DeCaro, Ph.D. May 2012, Structure of lipid membranes at solid/liquid and liquid/vapor interfaces, advisor: Dr. Laurence Lurio.

Danairis Hernandez, M.S. May 2012, Charge density estimations for particle beams based on orthogonal polynomial series, advisor: Dr. Bela Erdelyi

Timothy Maxwell, Ph.D. May 2012, Measurement of sub-picosecond electron bunches via electro-optic sampling of coherent transition radiation, advisor: Dr. Philippe Piot

Diego Menezes, M.S. May 2012,  Measurement of the cross section for proton-antiproton to top-antitop in the tau plus jets channel by the D0 experiment at Run II of the Tevatron Collider, advisor: Dr. Dhiman Chakraborty.

James Younkin, Ph.D. May 2012, Topics in supersymmetry, advisor: Dr. Stephen Martin.

Mark E. Servantes, M. S. December 2011, A Study of Supported Lipid Multilayers in a Humidity Controlled Environment, advisor: Dr. Laurence Lurio

Jonathan W. Maloney, M.S. December 2011, Solid Helium in Vycor Glass, advisor: Dr. Laurence Lurio

Fayez Abu-Ajamieh, M.S. December 2011, Evaluation of an Integrated Readout Layer Prototype, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey

Don Johnson, M.S. August 2011, Structural, Transport, and Magnetic Properties of A-Site Substituted Perovskite Manganites, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski

Nelson R. Voldeng, M.S. August 2011, Perforated Superconducting Niobium Nitride Films Formed on Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membranes, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao

Edward Nissen, Ph.D. August 2011, Differential Algebraic Methods for Space Charge Modeling and Applications to the University of Maryland Electron Ring, advisor: Dr. Bela Erdelyi

Robert Shea, M.S. August 2011, Studies of Long Scintillation Counters, advisor: Dr. David Hedin

Aaron Morris, M.S. August 2011, Physics Validation Studies for Muon Collider Detector Background Simulations, advisor: Dr. David Hedin

Marwan Rihaoui, Ph.D. August 2011, Phase Space Manipulation in High-Brightness Electron Beams, advisor: Dr. Philippe Piot

Steve Remsen, Ph.D. May 2011, Properties of Transition Metal Oxides for Gas Separation and Oxygen Storage Applications, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

Matt Wiesner, M.S. December 2010, On the Properties of Ten Strong-Lensing Systems Found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, advisors: Dr. Michael Fortner and Dr. Huan Lin.

David Danaher, M.S. December 2010, The growth and analysis of transition metal oxide superlattices using advanced magnetometry techniques, advisor: Dr. Omar Chmaissem.

Martin Braunlich, M.S. December 2010, Upgrades to the D0 Muon System, advisor: Dr. David Hedin.

Josh Ernst, M.S. August 2010, Investigations of beam Property Correlation in a Mixed Field Beam using Collimators of Different Composition, advisor: Dr. Thomas Kroc (Fermilab).

Stephen Boona, M.S. August 2010, Thermoelectric properties of doped transition metal perovskites, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

Justin Berry, M.S. May 2010, Soft Matter Studies of Phospholipid Membranes, advisor: Dr. Larry Lurio.

Janae DeBartolo, M.S., May 2010, X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Measurements of Dynamics within Concentrated Eye Lens Protein Suspensions, advisor: Dr. Larry Lurio.

Sevda Avci, Ph.D., May 2010, Superconducting Properties and Vortex Dynamics of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8 Nanoribbons with and without Periodic Array of Nanoscale Holes, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao.

Kurt Francis, Ph.D., May 2010, Results of Beam Tests of a Prototype Calorimeter for a Linear Collider, advisor: Dr. Jerry Blazey. Initial position: Detector physicist, Argonne national Laboratory.

Christopher Hoffmann, M.S. May 2010, An X-ray diffraction investigation of lanthanum(1-x) strontium(x) manganite (x = 0.55) and lanthanum(1-x) barium(x) manganite (x = 0.5, 0.52) under an applied magnetic field, advisor: Dr. Dennis Brown.

Christopher Prokop, M.S. December 2009, Numerical Simulations of a Smith-Purcell Free-Electron Laser Operating in the Backward Wave Oscillator Regime, advisor: Dr. Philippe Piot.

Alex Lee, M.S., August 2009, Simulation of the propogation of light in small scintillator cells, advisor: Dr. David Hedin.

Kent Wong, M.S., August 2009, Evaluation of Protons' Most Likely Paths in Inhomogeneous Phantoms for Proton Computed Tomography, advisor: Dr. Bela Erdelyi.

Laura Bandura, Ph.D., August 2009, Next-Generation Fragment Separators for Exotic Beams, advisor: Dr. Bela Erdelyi. Intital position: Research Associate, National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab, Michigan State University.

Suhong Yu, M.S., August 2009, Fabrication and Properties of Nanoscale Superconducting Loops, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao.

Umeshkumar Patel, Ph.D., May 2009, Synthesis, Characterization and Physical Properties of CDW Material NbSe3 and Superconducting NbN Nanostructures, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao. Initial position: post-doc NIU-Argonne.

Michael Himes, M.S., December 2008, Thermoelectric Properties of Cobalt Doped Perovskites, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

Jason Churilla, M.S. December 2008, X-ray Diffraction Studies of Sr2FeMo6 Thin Films, advisor: Dr. Dennis Brown.

Benjamin Sprague, M.S., August 2008, Wavelet-space solution of the Poisson equation: An algorithm for use in particle-in-cell simulations, advisor: Dr. Balsa Terzic.

Curt DeCaro, M.S., August 2008, X-ray Scattering from Biological Membranes, advisor: Dr. Larry Lurio.

John Powell, M.S., May 2008, High Resolution 2D Scanning for Scintillator Characterization, advisor: Dr. Vishnu Zutshi.

Voltaire Teodurescu, Ph.D., May 2008, Magnetic orbit Rotations and Spintronics advisor: Dr. Roland Winkler.

Jiong Hua, Ph.D., May 2008, Commensurate Effect in Superconducting Niobium Films Containing Arrays of Nanoscale Holes, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao. Initial position: post-doc NIU-Argonne.

Mikhail Arov, Ph.D., May 2008, A measurement of the top quark cross section in the tau channel at D0, advisor: Dr. Dhiman Chakraborty. Initial position: post-doc Louisiana Tech.

Erich Schoedl, M.S., December 2007, Importance of Detector Baseline Lengths for the Study of Neutrino Oscillations, advisor: Dr. David Hedin.

Tim Maxwell, M.S., December 2007, Diffraction Analysis of Coherent Transition Radiation Interferometry in Electron Linacs, advisor: Dr. Philippe Piot.

Xuegang Xia, M.S., December 2007, Study of radiation effects in the CMS tracker from beam-beam and beam-gas interactions in the LHC, advisor: Dr. Pushpa Bhat (Fermilab).

Kujtim Latifi, M.S., August 2007, A Study of the Effect of the Ferroelectric Phase Transition on the Surface Morphology of PbTiO3 Films Grown by Organo-Metallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy, advisor: Dr. Carol Thmpson.

Ngoc Tran, M.S., August 2007, Pedestal Stability of a New Calorimeter Technology for an ILC Detector, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey.

Donna Kubik, M.S., August 2007, Strong Gravitational Lensing Systems Found in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, advisor: Dr. Huan Lin (Fermilab).

Edward Nissen, M.S., August 2007, Chaos and its Role in Emittance Growth in Fixed Field Alternating Gradient Accelerators, advisor: Dr. Balsa Terzic.

Shafaq Moten, M.S., August 2007, Construction and Initial Chacterization of a Low Energy Photoemission Electron Source for Electron Microscopy, advisor: Dr. Nickolay Vinogradov.

Marwen Rihaoui, M.S., August 2007, Impact of a Photocathode Drive Laser Transverse Density Perturbation on a High Charge Electron Beam Produced in a Photoinjector, advisor: Dr. Philippe Piot.

Daniel Rosenmann, M.S., May 2007, Synthesis and Characterization of the Graphite Intercalation Superconductor CaC6, advisor: Dr. Zhili Xiao.

Rob McIntosh, M.S., May 2007, Evaluation of a Clustering Algorithm for the Electromagnetic and Hadronic Sections of a Calorimeter for the International Linear Collider, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey.

Ben Stillwell, M.S., May 2007, Evaluation of Potential Cathode Materials for Reduced-Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

Zhiyong Shen, M.S., December 2006, The Motion of a Satillite between the Earth and the Moon, advisor: Dr. Michael Fortner.

Manassa Majjiga, M.S., December 2006, Synthesis, Thermal and Resistivity Properties of Cathode Materials for Fuel Cells, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.

James Maloney, M.S., December 2006, Application of Symmetry Theories to Design of Fragment Separators for Exotic Isotope Accelerators, advisor: Dr. Bela Erdelyi.

Sergey Uzunyan, Ph.D., August 2006, A Search for Charge 1/3 Third Generation Leptoquarks in the Muon Channel advisor: Dr. David Hedin. Initial position: postdoc, NIU.

Andriy Zatserklyaniy, Ph.D., August 2006, A Search for Third Generation Leptoquarks, advisor: Dr. David Hedin. Initial position: detector scientist, Fermilab.

Elizabeth Holden, M.S., August 2006, The Accuracy of the Photometric Redshift of Galaxy Clusters, advisors: Dr. Court Bohn and Dr. James Annis (Fermilab).

Andrew Morrison, Ph.D., December 2005, Acoustical Studies of the Steelpan and HANG: Phase-Sensitive Holography and Sound Intensity Measurements, advisor: Dr. Thomas Rossing. initial position: faculty, Illinois Wesleyan University

Junahee Yoo, Ph.D., December 2005, Acoustics of Korean Percussion Instruments: Pyeongyeong and Pyeonjong, advisor: Dr. Thomas Rossing. initial position: faculty, Seoul National University

Xiaofei Song, Ph.D., December 2005, Search for Second Generation Leptoquarks in mumujj Channel at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV in pbarp Collisions, advisors: Dr. Pushpa Bhat (Fermilab) and Dr. David Hedin. initial position: postdoc, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Greg Betzel, M.S., December 2005, Chaos in Time-Dependent Space-Charge Potentials, advisor: Dr. Court Bohn.

Laura Layton, M.S., August 2005, physics education (with astronomy emphasis), advisor: Dr. David Hedin. first position, associate editor Astronomy magazine.

LaTanya Malone, M.S., August 2005, physics education, advisor: Dr. Michael Fortner.

Wesley Fabella, M.S., August 2005, Ab-Initio Supercell Calculation of an Isolated Neutral Silicon Vacancy for Investigation of the Properties Relating to Deep Centers, advisor: Dr. Yasuo Ito.

Jarrett Stark, M.S., August 2005, The Glass Transition in Thin Film Supported Polystyrene Films, advisor:Dr. Larry Lurio.

Michael Eads, Ph.D., August 2005, A Search for Charged Massive Stable Particles at D0, advisor: Dr. David Hedin. Initial position: postdoc, Univ. of Nebraska.

Srinivas Totapally, M.S., May 2005, Epitaxial Thin Films of Sr2FeMoO6, advisor: Dr. Dennis Brown.

Dan Bollinger, M.S., May 2005, A Possible Cure of Phase Shift in a Nonlinear Plasma Wakefield Accelerator, advisor:Dr. Court Bohn.

Linda Bagby, M.S., May 2005, Higgs Physics and the Layer Zero Upgrade for D0, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey.

LeiLei Yin, Ph.D., December 2004, Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polaritons by Nano-hole and 2-D Active Optics by Nano-hole Arrays, advisor: Dr. Ulrich Welp (Argonne). Initial position: postdoc, Univ. of Illinois.

Usha Gururajarao, M.S., December 2004, X-Ray Magnetic Dichroism, advisor: Dr. Michel van Veenendaal.

Durga Kafle Nath, M.S., December 2004, Mossbauer Study of Eu14MnSb11 and Yb14MnSb11 Compounds, advisor: Dr. Dennis Brown.

Dmitri Beznosko, M.S., August 2004, Study of New Silicon Photodetectors for a Linear Collider Digital Hadron Calorimter, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey.

Lyle Marschand, M.S., August 2004, Surface Critical Phenomena in Binary Fluids, advisor: Dr. Lawrence Lurio.

Kurt Francis, M.S., May 2004, Evaluating Small Scintillating Cells for Digital Hadron Calorimeters, advisor: Dr. Gerald Blazey.

Phillip Prior, M.S., May 2004, Investigation of Standard Approximations in Clinical Treatment Planning Systems, advisor: Dr. Arlene Lennox (Fermilab).

Laura Bandura, M.S., August 2003, Convection in Response to Electron Beams, advisor: Dr. Mary Anne Cummings.

James Mais, M.S., August 2003, Synthesis Rules, Structures, and Properties of the Sr(1-x)CaxMnO3 System, advisor: Dr. Bogdan Dabrowski.