Sector 7: Theses

Find below a list of theses where work was done in part at Sector 7.
They may be viewed in pdf format by clicking on the links.

• Ultrafast Dynamics of folded acoustic phonons from semiconductor superlattices
  Mariano Trigo
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Roberto Merlin
  Department of Physics, the University of Michigan, February 2008.
  
• Studies of Nanoparticle Marker Motion in Ultra Thin Polymer Films With X-ray Standing Waves
  Aleta Hagman
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Kenneth Shull
  Department of Material Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, December 2007.
  
• Investigation of Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricicty in Ferroelectric Thin Film Capacitors
  Using Synchrotron X-ray Microdiffraction
  Dal-Hyun Do
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Paul Evans
  Department of Material Science, University of Wisconsin, Dec. 2006.
  Click here for Dal-Hyun's thesis on his UofW Web site.
• Time-Resolved X-ray Measurements of Energy Relaxation in Ultrafast Laser Excited Semiconductors
  Soo Heyong Lee
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. David Reis
  Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Feb. 2006.
• A study of MR materials with XPCS.
  Jevne Michaud-Cunningham
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Roy Clarke
  Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 2005.
• Focusing Optics for X-ray Applications
  Kristina Young
  Thesis Advisor: Philip Nash and Ali Khounsary
  Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering
  Illinois Institute of Technology
  July 2005
• Imaging Interfaces in Epitaxial Heterostructures.
  C. Cionca
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Roy Clarke
  Department of Physics, University of Michigan, 2005.
• Investigation of solid-solid interface structure using a novel X-ray diffraction method.
  M. Sowwan
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Y. Yacoby
  November 2002
  Department of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
• Seeing Sound: Dynamical Effects in Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction
  Matthew F. Decamp
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. Phil Bucksbaum
  Ph.D Thesis, The University of Michigan, 2002
  
• Studies of Static and Dynamic Critical Behavior of Simple Binary Fluids and Polymer Mixtures
  Using X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy(full text) or its abstract
  T.S. Nurushev
  Thesis Advisor: Prof. S.B. Dierker
  October 2000
  Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI USA.