Advisor: Bellan, Paul, Thesis and Dissertations from CaltechTHESIS

• Zhou, Yi 2023 (PHD) Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Unstable Dynamics of Caltech’s Plasma Jet: X-Rays, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light 10.7907/yfha-cs19
• Marshall, Ryan Scott 2020 (PHD) Developing Plasma Spectroscopy and Imaging Diagnostics to Understand Astrophysically-Relevant Plasma Experiments: Megameters, Femtometers, and Everything in Between 10.7907/gfcd-4q50
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn 2020 (PHD) Dynamics of an Arched Magnetically-Twisted Current-Carrying Plasma 10.7907/6Q9D-JH07
• Yoon, Young Dae 2020 (PHD) Probing the Progression, Properties, and Progenies of Magnetic Reconnection 10.7907/hqwx-r892
• Haw, Magnus Albert 2018 (PHD) Experimental and Numerical Studies of Cavities, Flows, and Waves in Arched Flux Ropes 10.7907/3AX5-EN61
• Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen 2016 (PHD) Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory 10.7907/Z99G5JR6
• Chaplin, Vernon Hampden 2015 (PHD) Battery-Powered RF Pre-Ionization System for the Caltech Magnetohydrodynamically-Driven Jet Experiment: RF Discharge Properties and MHD-Driven Jet Dynamics 10.7907/Z9T43R08
• Zhai, Xiang 2015 (PHD) Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves 10.7907/Z90G3H3Q
• Moser, Auna Louise 2012 (PHD) Dynamics of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets: An Instability of an Instability, Gas Cloud Impacts, Shocks, and Other Deformations 10.7907/V7P0-AW84
• Stenson, Eve Virginia 2012 (PHD) Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures 10.7907/24HR-J675
• Perkins, Rory James 2011 (PHD) Experimental and Analytical Studies of Merging Plasma Loops on the Caltech Solar Loop Experiment 10.7907/Z1PS-YB20
• Kumar, Deepak 2009 (PHD) Experimental Investigations of Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Jets 10.7907/ENZ7-QV92
• Yun, Gunsu Soonshin 2008 (PHD) Dynamics of Plasma Structures Interacting with External and Self-Generated Magnetic Fields 10.7907/9CMD-C377
• Pracko, Steven Edmund 2007 (PHD) Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas 10.7907/KHG6-DH51
• Romero-Talamás, Carlos Alejandro 2005 (PHD) Investigations of Spheromak Plasma Dynamics: High-Speed Imaging at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment and Magnetic Diagnostics at the Caltech Spheromak Experiment 10.7907/Z21H-6A46
• Sverdrup, Lawrence Henry 2002 (PHD) Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiments on the Encore Tokamak 10.7907/27RZ-SM06
• Hansen, John Freddy 2001 (PHD) Laboratory simulations of solar prominences 10.7907/SACS-CK16
• Yee, Jimmy 2000 (PHD) Experimental investigations in spheromaks : injection into a tokamak and formation in an unbounded environment 10.7907/Y45X-9C19
• Sanders, Steven Jay 1998 (PHD) Plasma ion dynamics in large-amplitude drift waves : stochasticity, collisions, orbit loss, and recycling 10.7907/11sj-hm29
• Bailey, Andrew Dewey 1993 (PHD) Drift wave ion fluid velocity field measured by planar laser induced fluorescence 10.7907/0437-H138
• Chen, Howard ZeHua 1990 (PHD) GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Well Lasers Grown on GaAs and Si by Molecular Beam Epitaxy 10.7907/thfh-4627
• Brady, David Jones 1990 (PHD) Photorefractive Volume Holography in Artificial Neural Networks 10.7907/1YB6-SE42
• Baskin, John Spencer 1990 (PHD) Real-Time Observation and Analysis of Coherence and Alignment in Molecular Systems: Isolated Molecules and Chemical Reactions 10.7907/H8TF-EE69
• Lu, Lun-Tseng 1989 (PHD) Dynamics, Noise Properties, and Spectral Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers with External Coupling 10.7907/frs6-t936
• Chow, David Hsingkuo 1989 (PHD) Growth, Characterization, and Simulation of Novel Semiconductor Tunnel Structures 10.7907/96gc-kc14
• Maboudian, Roya 1989 (PHD) In-Situ Observation of Surface and Near-Surface Modification Using Scattering of Ballistic Phonons 10.7907/w5xh-p756
• Lo, Davy 1989 (PHD) Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sputtering 10.7907/EVKV-AW57
• McChesney, Jon Mearns 1989 (PHD) Observations of Stochastic Ion Heating by Low Frequency Drift Waves 10.7907/vyaq-ye14
• Schalit, Mark Alan 1989 (PHD) Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Schemes for Tokamaks 10.7907/xjrw-pq56
• Derry, Pamela Louise 1989 (PHD) Properties of Buried Heterostructure Single Quantum Well (Al,Ga)As Lasers 10.7907/WSZC-4R60
• Miles, Richard Henry 1989 (PHD) Structural and Optical Properties of Strained-Layer Superlattices 10.7907/042y-d234
• Mittelstein, Michael 1989 (PHD) Theory and Experiments on Unstable-Resonator and Quantum Well GaAs/GaAlAs Lasers 10.7907/p3k2-pp58
• Johnson, Matthew Bruce 1989 (PHD) Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies of GaAs 10.7907/9WE7-AP87
• Crouch, David Dale 1988 (PHD) A Theoretical Study of the Generation of Squeezed-State Light via Degenerate Parametric Amplification 10.7907/55jn-f921
• Wu, Yu-shu George 1988 (PHD) Electronic Properties of II-VI Superlattices and III-V Tunnel Structures 10.7907/7sag-9t91
• Woodward, Ted Kirk 1988 (PHD) Experimental Studies of Heterostructure Devices: Resonant Tunneling Transistors and GaAs/AlAs/GaAs Capacitors 10.7907/cwz8-my71
• Anlage, Steven Mark 1988 (PHD) Icosahedral Order in Metastable Metallic Alloys 10.7907/mjqp-qr45
• Meng, Wen Jin 1988 (PHD) Solid State Amorphization Reactions in thin Film Diffusion Couples 10.7907/E13T-CN40
• Bonnefoi, Alice Renée 1987 (PHD) Electronic Properties and Device Applications of GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Barrier and Quantum Well Heterostructures 10.7907/c4q6-2176
• Schlesinger, Tuviah Ehud 1986 (PHD) Optical and Opto-Electronic Investigations of Semiconductor Defects and Heterostructures 10.7907/0ydw-cg53
• Fredrickson, Eric Donald 1985 (PHD) An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Finite Beta Modified Drift Wave 10.7907/fdcx-m289