Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Experimental Validation Techniques for the HELEEOS Off-Axis Laser Propagation Model, John D. Haiducek
An Evaluation of a Networked Radiation Detection System, Leif A. Hansen
Optical Properties of Si, Ge, GaAs, GaSb, InAs, and InP at Elevated Temperatures, Thomas R. Harris
AFM-Patterned 2-D Thin-Film Photonic Crystal Analyzed by Complete Angle Scatter, Nicholas C. Herr
The Material Properties of CsSnBr3 and CsBr:Sn-1% and Their Potential as Scintillator Detector Material, Neal B. Kleinschmidt
Passive Ranging Using Infra-Red Atmospheric Attenuation, Douglas J. Macdonald
Application of Satellite-Derived Wind Profiles to Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) Operations, David C. Meier
In-situ, Gate Bias Dependent Study of Neutron Irradiation Effects on AlGaN/GaN HFETs, Janusz K. Mikina
Rubidium Recycling in a High Intensity Short Duration Pulsed Alkali Laser, Wooddy S. Miller
Development and Demonstration of a Field-Deployable fast Chromotomographic Imager, Daniel C. O'Dell
Collisional Dynamics of the Cesium D1 and D2 Transitions, Greg A. Pitz
Realistic Vertical Atmospheric Profiles and Effects from Limited Surface Observations, Dane P. Ranney
Nuclear Forensics: Measurements of Uranium Oxides Using Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), Wesley A. Schuler
Improved Modeling of Midlatitude D-region Ionospheric Absorption of High Frequency Radio Signals during Solar X-ray Flares, Evelyn A. Schumer
Positron Annihilation Ratio Spectroscopy (PsARS) Applied to Positronium Formation Studies, Robert C. Slaughter
Improving Low Order, Linear, Positive Spatial Quadratures for the Partial Current Neutron Transport Method, John M. Snyder
Laser Demonstration and Performance Characterization of an Optically Pumped Alkali Laser System, Clifford V. Sulham
Hard Collisions in Rubidium using Sub-Doppler Spectroscopy, Douglas E. Thornton
Uncertainty Quantification of Multi-Component Isotope-Separation Cascade Model, Khoi D. Tran
All Solid-State Mid-IR Laser Development, Nonlinear Absorption Investigation and Laser-Induced Damage Study, Torrey J. Wagner
Three Dimensional Positron Annihilation Momentum Measurement Technique (3DPAMM) Applied to Measure Oxygen-Atom Defects in 6H Silicon Carbide, Christopher S. Williams
Electronic Structure of Lithium Tetraborate, David J. Wooten
Scene Change Artifacts in Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Temporally Changing Sources, Anthony M. Young
Gadolinium Oxide/Silicon Thin Film Heterojunction Solid-State Neutron Detector, Christopher M. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Thermal Inactivation of Bacillus anthracis Using Laser Irradiation of Micro-Etched Platforms, Jeffrey B. Bacon
A Comparative Study of the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function of Several Surfaces as a Mid-wave Infrared Diffuse Reflectance Standard, Bradley Balling
Production of Recombinant Injectosome and Outer Membrane Proteins from Yersinia Pestis KIM5, Jeremiah N. Betz
Hyperspectral Imaging of a Turbine Engine Exhaust Plume to Determine Radiance, Temperature, and Concentration Spatial Distributions, Spencer J. Bowen
Midwave Infrared Imaging Fourier Transform Spectrometry of Combustion Plumes, Kenneth C. Bradley
Production and Characterization of High Repetition Rate Terahertz Radiation in Femtosecond-Laser-Induced Air Plasma, Michael L. Dexter
Assessment of Weather Sensitivities and Air Force Weather (AFW) Support to Tactical Lasers in the Lower Troposphere, Francesco J. Echeverria
The Effective Potential Energy Surfaces of the Nonadiabatic Collision B(2Pja) + H2(1Σ+g,ν,j) ↔ B(2Pj'a) + H2(1Σ+g,ν',j'), Matthew B. Garvin
Investigation of Electrical and Optical Properties of Bulk III-V Ternary Semiconductors, Travis C. Gomez
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Aerospace Composites, Jeremy D. Johnson
In Vitro Toxicity of Silver Nanoparticles in Human Lung Epithelial Cells, Christina R. Kearns
A Wigner Distribution Analysis of One Dimensional Scattering, Brent R. Lacy
Analysis and Application of the Bi-directional Scatter Distribution Function of Photonic Crystals, Robert B. Lamott
Analysis of Expedient Field Decontamination Methods for the XMX/2L-MIL High-Volume Aerosol Sampler, Brandon C. LaRoche
Theoretical Model Analysis of Absorption of a Three Level Diode Pumped Alkali Laser, Charlton D. Lewis II
A Computational Tool for Evaluating THz Imaging Performance in Brownout Conditions at Land Sites throughout the World, Seth L. Marek
The Use of Spider Webs as Passive Bioaerosol Collectors, Daniel I. Mattei
Electrostatic Discharge Properties of Irradiated Nanocomposites, Joshua D. McGary
The Effects of Temperature and Electron Radiation on the Electrical Properties of AlGaN/GaN Heterostructure Field Effect Transistors, Jeffrey T. Moran
Estimation of Weapon Yield from Inversion of Dose Rate Contours, Buckley E. O'Day III
Electron Multipactor: Theory Review, Comparison and Modeling of Mitigation Techniques in ICEPIC, Neil G. Rogers
Advanced Radiometry for High Discrimination Explosive Fireball Discrimination, Steven E. Slagle
Predicting Solar Protons: A Statistical Approach, Jonathan C. Spaulding
Q-Switched and Mode Locked Short Pulses from a Diode Pumped, Yb-Doped Fiber Laser, Seth M. Swift
Wave Optics Simulation of Optically Augmented Retroreflections for Monostatic/Bistatic Detection, John J. Tatar III
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Production and Characterization of Femtosecond-Laser-Induced Air Plasma, David R. Armbruster
Neutron Detection Utilizing Gadolinium Doped Hafnium Oxide Films, Bryan D. Blasy
A Study of the Irradiance-and-Temperature-Dependence of Mid-Wave-Infrared (MWIR)Absorption in Indium Antimonide (InSb), John M. Callahan
Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Mid-Infrared Semiconductors Using the Signal and Idler Beams of a Synchronous Optical Parametric Oscillator, Richard M. Derbis
Demonstration of a Strategy to Perform Two-Dimensional Diode Laser Tomography, Ryan N. Givens
Modulation Response of Twin Optically Coupled Diode Lasers, Eric M. Golden
Measuring Dispersion in Laser Cavity Mirrors Using White-light Interferometry, Allison S. Goodspeed
An Image Based Bidirectional Reflectivity Distribution Function Experiment, Michael T. Hagg
Micro-Etched Platforms for Thermal Inactivation of Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringiensis Spores, Leslie S. Hawkins
Electronic State Distributions of Y Ba2Cu3O7-x Laser Ablated Plumes, Patrick D. Kee
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Phase Conjugation in Fiber Optic Waveguides, Steven M. Massey
Discrete Counting of Short Lived Isotopes with Low Background Detectors, David E. Mather
The Effect of Radiation on the Electrical Properties of Aluminum Gallium Nitride/Gallium Nitride Heterostructures, John W. McClory
Nano-Mechanical Properties of Heat Inactivated Bacillus Anthracis and Bacillus Thuringiensis Spores, Jessica L. Poindexter
Distribution Iteration: A Robust Alternative to Source Iteration for Solving the Discrete Ordinates Radiation Transport Equations in Slab and XY- Geometries, Nicholas J. Prins
Evaluating the Response of Polyvinyl Toluene Scintillators used in Portal, Kelly D. Rakes
Ionospheric Response to Solar Flares Using an Improved Version of SAMI2, Joseph P. Reich III
Modeling of SBS Phase Conjugation in Multimode Step Index Fibers, Justin B. Spring
Nondestructive Evaluation of Aircraft Composites Using Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy, Christopher D. Stoik
Nonmechanical Multizoom Telescope Design Using a Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator and Focus-Correction Algorithm, Eric W. Thompson
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
A General Quantum Mechanical Method to Predict Positron Spectroscopy, Paul E. Adamson
Direct Diode Pumped Raman Amplifier Based on a Multimode Graded Index Fiberr, Charles James Baird
A Multireference Density Functional Approach to the Calculation of the Excited States of Uranium Ions, Eric V. Beck
Cobalt Doping of Semiconducting Boron Carbide Using Cobaltocene, Lonnie Carlson
Time Dependent Discrete Ordinates Neutron Transport Using Distribution Iteration in XYZ Geometry, James R. Dishaw
Anisotropy in the South Atlantic Anomaly, Shaun M. Easley
Time Resolution of Collapse Events During the Progation of Ultraviolet Filaaments, Teresa J. Fondren
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Beam Cleanup and Beam Phasing Through Two Passive Channels, Omar Gamboa
Phenomenological Model for Infrared Emissions from High-Explosive Detonation Fireballs, Kevin C. Gross
A Study of Bi-Directional Reflectance Distribution Functions and Their Effects on Infrared Signature Models, Samuel I. Harkiss
Precise Calculation of Complex Radioactive Decay Chains, Logan J. Harr
High Resolution Mesoscale Weather Data Improvement to Spatial Effects for Doserate Contour Plot Predictions, Christopher P. Jones
Portable Diode Pumped Femtosecond Laser, David A. Jones
Investigation of Radio Frequency Discharges and Langmuir Probe Diagnostic Methods in a Fast Flowing Electronegative Background Gas, Nathaniel P. Lockwood
Parallel Fast Multipole Method for Molecular Dynamics, Reid G. Ormseth
Collision Broadening Using Alkali-Filled, Hollow Core Fibers, Luke P. Rodgers
Optical Parametric Oscillation in Orientation-Patterned Gallium Arsenide, Scott A. Shell
Holes: Ionospheric Scintillation, GPS and Imputation, Robert A. Steenburgh
Raman Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers based on Multimode Fibers and their Applications to Beam Cleanup, Nathan B. Terry
Assessment of the Impact of Various Ionospheric Models on High Frequency Signal Raytracing, Joshua T. Werner
Assessment of Optical Turbulence Profiles Derived from Probabilistic Climatology, Brett W. Wisdom
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The Simulation of Off-axis Laser Propagation Using HELEEOS, Scott L. Belton
Passive Multiple Beam Combination in Optical Fibers via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, Kirk C. Brown
Computational Modeling of the Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) Device for Aeronautical Applications, Christopher S. Charles
Characteristics of Two-Dimensional Triangular and Three-Dimensional Face-Centered-Cubic Photonic Crystals, Jeffery D. Clark
Carrier Lifetime Dynamics of Epitaxial Layer HVPE Gallium Arsenide Using Time-Resolved Experiments, Wayne E. Eikenberry
Development of a Multiple Beam Combiner Using Stimulated Raman Scattering in Multimode Fiber, Brian M. Flusche