Recent Condensed Matter Experiment PhD Dissertations
| Name | Thesis Title | Advisor |
| 2012 | ||
| Thomas J. Grimsley | "Planar Opto-Acoustic Microscopy Applied to the Metrology of Periodic Nanostructures" | Prof. H. Maris |
| Helen Hanson | “The Crystallography of Vortex Matter in a Niobium Crystal” | Prof. X. S. Ling |
| Dafei Jin | “Studies of Electron Bubbles and Quantized Vortices in Superfluid Helium-4” | Prof. H. Maris |
| Hyeyun Jung | “Thermal Diffusion Shock Waves in a Linear Temperature Field and Comparison of Ultrasonic Distillation to Sparging of Liquid Mixtures” | Prof. G. Diebold |
| Sungcheol Kim | “Transport of Charged Colloids and DNA in Micro-Channels” | Prof. X. S. Ling |
| Steven Palefsky | “Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Diamond Nanowires” | Prof. J. Xu |
| Xi Wang | “3D Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Vortex Lattice” | Prof. X. S. Ling |
| Wanchun Wei | “Studies of the Fast and Exotic Ions in Superfluid Helium-4” | Prof. H. Maris |
| Wenzhe Zhang | “Noise and Spin-Dependent Transport in MgO-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions” | Prof. G. Xiao |
| 2011 | ||
| Georgios Koutroulakis | “Unravelling the Mysteries of Unconventional Superconductivity with NMR: The Curious Case of CeCoIn5” | Prof. V. Mitrovic |
| Jeffrey Shainline | "Light Generation, Size Constraints, and Dynamic Cavities in Silicon Photonics" | Prof. J. Xu |
| 2010 | ||
| Cuong Dang | “CdSe-based Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystal Quantum Dots: From Single Photon Emitters to Lasers” | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Rongwei Hu | "Investigation of a De-Electron Kondo Insulator FeSb2" | Prof. V. Mitrovic |
| Hyunjin Kim | “Interface Studies on Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Heterojunctions and Device Applications of Nanowire Materials” | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Tongsik Lee | "Monte Carlo Simulations of Structural Phase Transitions in Metals and Alloys" | Prof. J. Doll |
| Jing Ma | “Localized Modes and the Vibrations of Nanostructures” | Prof. H. Maris |
| Hung Quoc Nguyen | "Experiments on a Cooper Pair Insulator" | Prof. J. Valles |
| Leslie Shelton | "Liquid Crystal and Polymeric Coupling, and Stressed Liquid Crystal Technology for Fourier Transform Spectroscopy" | Prof. G. Crawford |
| Heng Xu | "Optical Recording and Photo Modulation in the Study of Dynamics in Neural Circuits" | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Fan Yang | "Study of Gigahertz Ultrasound Propogation in Water Using Picosecond Ultrasonics" | Prof. H. Maris |
| Xiaojing Zou | "Magnetic domain configurations and huge wall resistivity in half-metallic chromium dioxide (CrO2) nanostructures" | Prof. G. Xiao |
| 2009 | ||
| Tolga Atay | "Nanoscale Optics by Localized Surface Plasmon Polaritons" | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Hiroshi Eguchi | "Study of Vapor-Deposited Au: Er Films and Development of Metallic Magnetic Calorimeter for Future X-ray Astronomy Missions" | Prof. G. Seidel |
| Wei Guo | "Optical Absorption Properties of Electron Bubbles and Experiments on Monitoring Individual Electron Bubbles in Liquid Helium" | Prof. H. Maris |
| Yanqiu Li | "Ultrafast Phenomena on the Nanoscale in Solids: From Magnetic to Acoustic Phenomena" | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Cuong Kieu Nguyen | "Ultrasonic Vibration Potential Imaging: Theory and Experiment" | Prof. G. Diebold |
| Marc-Andre Vachon | "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Magnetism in the 2D Frustrated Quantum Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Cs2CuC14" | Prof. V. Mitrovic |
| 2008 | ||
| Nikolaos Daniilidis | “Experimental Studies of the Bragg Glass Transition in Niobium” | Prof. X.S. Ling |
| Dipanjan Mazumdar | “Coherent Magnetotunneling Based on (001) Magnesium Oxide Barrier” | Prof. G. Xiao |
| Michael Stewart | "Superconductor to Insulator Transitions in Amorphous Nanohoneycomb Films" | Prof. J. Valles |
| Dapeng Wang | "Electronic Transport and Potential Applications of 1D and 2D Granular Nanotubes and Metals” | Prof. A. Zaslavsky |
| Scott Woltman | "Tunable Liquid Crystal Lasers" | Prof. G. Crawford |
| 2007 | ||
| Ivo Dimitrov | "Ultrasonic Attenuation, AC Magnetic Susceptibility and Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Vortex States in Single-Crystal Nb and V-Ti Alloys" | Prof. X.S. Ling |
| Bhaskar Sethumadhavan | "Electrical Breakdown in Helium Cells at Low Temperature" | Prof. G. Seidel |
| Weifeng Shen | "Ultra-Sensitive MgO-Based Magnetic Tunnel Junctions for Spintronic Immunoassay" | Prof. G. Xiao |
| 2006 | ||
| Artur Adib | "Exact Results in Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Formalism and Applications in Chemical Kinetics and Single-Molecule Free Energy Estimation" | Prof. J. Doll |
| Yipeng He | "Physics of Novel Nitride Semiconductor Light Emitters" | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Guo-Xing Miao | "Influences of Electron Spin Ordering on Spin Dependent Transport" | Prof. G. Xiao |
| Sowmya Venkataramani | “Compact Semiconductor Light-Emitting Diodes for Dynamic Imaging of Neuronal Circuitry” | Prof. A. Nurmikko |
| Guohua Wang | "The Physics of Inhomogenous Strain-Induced SiGe Quantum Rings and Ellipses" | Prof. A. Zaslavsky |
| Peter Zannitto | “Generation and Detection of Surface Acoustic Waves in Al” | Prof. H. Maris |