Alumni

NameYearDissertation Topic
Andrew Blaikie2020Graphene Electromechanical Resonators and their use in Thermal Detectors
David Miller 2020Shaping, Tuning, and Playing Nanodrums: Towards Scalable and High Quality Factor Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Rudy Resch2020Field Emission Based Displacement Sensing Using a Carbon Nanotube Enhanced Electromechanical Probe
Josh Ziegler2020Engineering and characterization of single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride
Kahli Burke2020Boundary Integral Method and Applications for Chaotic Optical Microcavities
Tzula Propp2020 
Wesley Erickson2020Lévy Motion and Laser-Cooled Atoms
Alexis Kiessling2020Time-Dependent Approaches and Their Utility: Dynamical Formulations of Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Signals and Electronic Structure Theory
Richard Wagner2019Position and Temperature Measurements of a Single Atom via Resonant Flourescence
Fehmi Yasin2019Electron Interferometry Using an Amplitude Dividing Grating Beamsplitter: Development and Application
Andrea Goering2019Design and Control of Tunable Optical Resonances in Plasmonic Nanoparticle Ensembles
Loni Kringle2018 
Spencer Alexander2018 
Jordan Pierce2018Holographic Sculpting of Electron Beams with Diffraction Gratings
Huiying Ji2018Local Nucleic Acid Base Conformation Study by Guanine Fluorescent Analogue 6-Methyl Isoxanthopterin (6-MI) Labeled DNA
Mayra Amezcua2018Optical and Mechanical Quantum Control of Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Mark Kuzyk2018Hailin Wang, “Multimode Optomechanical Systems and Phononic Networks
Dileep Reddy2017Temporal-Mode Interferometry: A Technique for Highly Selective Quantum Pulse Gating via Cascaded Frequency Conversion in Nonlinear Optical Waveguides
Andrew Golter2014 
Xiaolu Cheng2013Mixed Quantum/Semiclassical Theory for Small-Molecule Dynamics and Spectroscopy in Low-Temperature Solids
Lawrence Davis2012Understanding Morphology Dependent Luminescence in Nanostructured Silver Films: Experiments, Modeling, and Numerical Simulations
Jeremy Thorn2012Dissipative Control and Imaging of Cold Atoms
Nima Dinyari2012Coupling Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond Nanopillars to Whispering Gallery Microresonators
Andrew Cook2012Dirac Metamaterials: Electromagnetic Epsilon-Near-Zero Metamaterials That Mimic Relativistic Quantum Particles
Carey Phelps2011Ultrafast Coherent Electron Spin Control and Correlated Tunneling Dynamics of Two-Dimensional Electron Gases
Tim Sweeny2011Coherent Control of Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Wells
Hayden McGuinness2011The creation and frequency translation of single-photon states of light in optical fiber
Jun Yin2011Practical issues in theoretical descriptions of experimental quantum state and entanglement estimation
Yan Guo2011Nonlinear Surface Plasmon Polaritons: Analytical and Numerical Studies
Chunbai Wu2010Numerical modeling of free surface and rapid solidification for simulation and analysis of melt spinning
Justin Hannigan2010Hemispherical optical microcavity for cavity-QED strong coupling
Aiqing Chen2010Optical properties of nanostructured disordered and ordered metal-dielectric thin films
Elizabeth Schoene2010 
Cody Leary2010 
Jason Biggs2010Theoretical studies of the external vibrational control of electronic excitation transfer and its observation using polarization- and optical phase-sensitive ultrafast spectroscopy
Geoffrey Lott2010 
Craig Chapman2010Vibrational wave packets : molecular state reconstruction in the gas phase and mixed quantum/semiclassical descriptions of small-molecule dynamics in low-temperature solid media
Eric Senning2010Mitochondrial dynamics and optical conformation changes in DsRed as studied by Fourier imaging correlation spectroscopy
Bert Schumann2009Surface Plasmon Random Scatterin Related Phenomena
Young-Shin Park2009Radiation pressure cooling of a silica optomechanical resonator
Guoqiang Cui2008An external optical micro-cavity strongly coupled to optical centers for efficient single-photon sources
Tao Li2008Manipulation of coManipulation of cold atoms using an optical one-way barrierld atoms using an optical one-way barrier
Chuck Rhode2008 
Shannon O'Leary2008 
Keisuke Hasegawa2008The effect of geometry and surface morphology on the optical properties of metal-dielectric systems
Brian Smith2007Photon wave mechanics and experimental quantum state determination
Yumin Shen2007Coherent nonlinear optics of electron spins in semiconductors
Molly Emmons2007 
Wenhai Ji2007Stimulated Raman scattering in atomic ensembles : toward quantum state entanglement
Susanta Sarkar2006 
Patrick Frank Tekavec2006Phase modulation wave packet interferometry in one and two dimensions
David Foster2006Fabry-Perot and whispering gallery modes in realistic resonator models
Ken Adair2006Diffusive, reactive and orientational dynamics of molecular systems using molecular Fourier imaging correlation spectroscopy
Sasha Tavenner- Kruger2006Homogeneous linewidth and spectral diffusion in semiconductor nanocrystals
Michael Fink2006Molecular Fourier imaging correlation spectroscopy for studies of molecular diffusion
Mary Rohrdanz2005Intermolecular communication via lattice phonons, probed by ultrafast spectroscopy
Travis Humble2005Nonlinear wave-packet interferometry and molecular state reconstruction
Andy Funk2004Cryptography using two-mode quantum mechanically squeezed optical pulses