Guide to the Stanford University, Department of Physics, Honors Theses

Aiello, W. A., Flight dynamics of ring airfoil toys. 1983

Babbitt, William Randall, The effects of additional harmoics, FM, and Am in the RF cavity of an electron storage ring. June 1982

Bolton, Tim, The physics of radiological warfare. June 1982

Brock, Joel D., Tight-binding theory in ionic crystals. March 1981

Brown, Stephen James, Experiments with a simplified energy balance mode of the earth's climate. 1991

Cheu, Elliott, A prototype vertex chamber for the Mark III Experiment. May 1986

Cornell, Eric, Ultra low pressure vapor pressure measurements on surface-adsorbed helium-4. June 1985

Cribbs, Randolph K., Fluorescence lifetime measurements of rare earth metals used in fluoroimmunoassay techniques. June 1986

Dale, Daniel S., Picosecond laser excitation in crystalline silicon. 1984

Dandliker, Richard B., An investigation of carbide formation in diamond thin films using transmission electron microscopy. May 1992

Dempsey, Jed, A method for visual pattern recognition in a self-organizing system. September 1981

Edwards, Henry L., Background due to cosmic protons in gamma-ray telescopes. June 1990

Ehrichs, Edward E., A thin film circuit for gravitational wave detection. June 1986

Eisgruber, Ingrid, Hall effect characterization of semiconductor thin films. 1989

Evans, Scott, Time evolution of solar magnetic fluxtube strength. June 1990

Feffer, Paul T., Site selective doping and high temperature superconductivity in (La1-7Pry)(Ba2-xLax)Cu3O7). 1988

Freeman, William T., Light-paths through oblate planet atmospheres; calculations for Voyager. June 1979

Frieman, Josh, Lost horizon: galazy formation in an inflationary universe. May 1981

Ganz, Eric, Two dimensional spin systems. Spring 1982

Gibson, Sarah, Supergranule power leakage into modes of solar oscillation. 1989

Gooding, Andrew K., A test levitator for niobium spheres. August 1986

Green, James C., Venus and tectonics. March 1982

Haakenaasen, Randi, Construction of a scanning tunneling microscope. 1988

Hamilton, Douglas P., Theoretical optical and UV line intensities from intracluster plasmas. May 1988

House, Michael, Physical and Medical Problems of Laser Angioplasty. June 1986

Hwa, Terence Tai-Li, Proposals to determine the electroweak contribution to Muon's g-2 anamoly. 1986

Jacobs, Polly, Power loss measurements on proton-exchanged LiNb03 waveguides using the Fabry Perot technique. June 1992

Jernigan, Tamara Elizabeth, Transmission of black body radiation through sapphire fibers for remote temperature measurements. June 1981

Kim, Nam Hoon, Study of frequency dependence of eddy-current loss and signal-to-noise ration in MRI. September 1985

King, Richard Roland, Hot prospects in solar cavity receivers. May 1985

Kirk, Randolph, Enhancement algorithms for coronary angiography by means of digital synchrotron dichromography. June 1981

Koh Towsian, Danny, Quasi-elastic electron scattering at high momentum transfer in nuclei and nucleons. June 1990

LaBelle, James, Investigations of the trimpi effect: whistler-induced perturbation of signals propagating in the earth-ionosphere waveguide. June 1980

Labrador, Allan W., Temperature dependence of the contact potential of copper. June 1989

Langenbrunner, James, Crystal counters KRS-5 T1Br T1C1. 1983

Larson, Melora, A thermal model of the gimballed gyroscope test facility. June 1986

Lawall, John R., Laser spectroscopy using radio-frequency optogalvanic detection in neon, helium and sodium. 1983

Lederman, David, Diffusive thermal conductivity in superfluid helum. 1988

Lesko, Kevin Thomas, The development of a recoil doppler apparatus to measure lifetimes and magnetic moments of short lived nuclear states. June 1978

Lim, Eric J., Optical absorption in sapphire. June 1986

Luu, Jane, Anomalous thermal noise in SQUID magnetometers, or (Jane meets the SQUID). March 1984

Marcus, Charles, The effect of low frequency ambient magnetic fields on the control unit and RF head of a commercial SQUID magnetometer. 1984

Markwardt, Craig, Simulation of light collection by thin scintillator. June 1992

Marshall, Jill Ann, Silicon-on-sapphire 4-point thermometer. 1980

McEachern, Randall L., The search on niobium fragments for fractionally charged particles produced in heavy ion collisions. June 1983

Moler, Kathryn A., Construction of a scanning tunneling microscope. 1988

Navarro, Jose, Deviations of matter from charge neutrality. June 1988

Nelson, Ann, A bizarre star: or, a detailed study of models for the Weird Object SS433. June 1980

Noack, Reinhard M., A normal modes solution for a string with an absorbing boundary. May 1985

Omohundro, Stephen, Some topological excitations in physics. May 1980

Orth, Karen, A passive solar water still. May 1990

Patience, Jennifer L., Modeling coronal bright points as small X-ray emitting loops. 1992

Phillips, Thomas J., Measuring the energy dependence of the time constant for buildup of polarization at SPEAR. 1979

Quake, Stephen, The elastic spring properties of DNA. 1991

Rahn, Jeffrey T., Statistical evidence for pulsar alignment. August 1991

Read, Kenneth F., PSI' ---> PI+ PI- PSI Charmonium decay in SLAC's crystal ball. June 1981

Regan, Brian Christopher, Lightning-induced perturbations of the earth-ionosphere waveguide. June 1992

Roy, Mousumi, SLC moller polarimeter target foil polarization measurements. 1989

Sakazaki, Lloyd Eugene, Solitons and the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam problem. June 1980

Seiffert, Mike, Investigations of ballistic phonon propagation. June 1986

Sethuraman, Srinivasan, Determination of flame temperature using degenerate four-wave mixing. June 1992

Shevitz, Danny, Cosmological constraints on massive neutrinos. June 1985

Shrauner, Jay Arthur, Solar cycle variation in photospheric magnetic field inclination. June 1991

Sobon, Wayne, Coincidence detection of gravitational radiation: a collaboration between the University of Maryland and Stanford University. May 1985

Swift, Peter, The oscillation of a scalar field-dominated universe. June 1990

Sze, Hsuan, Magnetic penetration depth measurements in superconducting thin films. June 1989

Terman, Martin, Determination of the collision center of mass energy of the SLC. 1989

Thomas, Jim, Low energy gamma ray spectroscopy at the J/?. June 1982

Thompson, Peter Alan, A parallel plate avalanche detector for heavily ionizing recoils in gaseous 4heat 1 ATM and 5-degree K. December 1984

Wai, Lawrence Lee, The effect of trapped magnetic flux quanta on the London readout in GP-B. June 1989

Wales, Carolyn, Time resolved measurements of electron energy spectra at the SCA/FEL. March 1990

Widrow, Lawrence Marc, Hydromagnetic phenomena in the sun and stars. May 1984

Wooding, Michael A., Computer simulation of helium gas spinup of cryogenic gyroscope for the relativity gyroscope experiment and a planned experimental parametric test . 1986

Yeh, Sabrina and Robert Liu, Building a high-q, low frequency torsional oscillator (or How we became the gravity twins). 1991

Zingmond, David Scott, Picosecond pulse compression and amplification. September 1986

Abrams, Daniel S., Random motion, quantum chaos, and Ohm's law. June 1994

Adam, Shaffique, Acoustic detection of the highest energy cosmic rays. March 2000

Balick, Daniel, Inflation from a sequestered brane scenario. 2006

Barkats, Denis, Luminosity profiles of spiral and elliptical galaxies. June 1998

Beem, Christopher J., Controlling lambda in IIB flux compactifications. June 2006

Bhatnagar, Aparna, Thin film measurement for AFM in liquids. 1999

Bien, Jacob, Protein motions and mutation from a molecular dynamics viewpoint. June 2006

Birnbaum, Kevin Michael, Open quantum dot in a parallel magnetic field. June 1999

Bleszynski, Ania, Polymers and near shear flows. June 2000

Bokenkamp, Nathaniel, Statistical relationships between solar active region photospheric magnetic properties and flare events. June 2007

Bozovic, Dolores, Optical labeling using plasmon-resonant silver spheres. June 1995

Brizius, Alison R., Modeling and characterization of feedhorns for the Sunyaev Zel'dovich infrared experiment. [2 copies] June 2004

Brooks, Peter, Pulse fitting and energy resolution in the cryogenic dark matter search experiment. June 2007

Chan, Ian Hun Yun, Ballistic conductance fluctuations in shape space.

Chong, Y.D., Metallic nature of the four-dimensional quantum hall edge. June 2003

Coleman, Stuart, Ultra-low background alpha counting and analysis. 2009

Connolly, Colin, Resolution enhancement in capacitance pressure gauges for use in melting curve thermometry. [2 copies] June 2004

Datta-Barua, Seebany, Test-bed design for measurement of bolometer optical efficiency at millimeter wavelengths.

Deaconu, Cosmin, Analysis of the effect of precise vertexing on tall polarization measurements in the SiD. June 2009

Donaghy, Timothy Q., The stochastic acceleration of plasma particles in solar flares. June 1999

East, William, Heating and acceleration of electrons in the intracluster medium of clusters of galaxies. June 2008

Eclov, Neville, Testing the "blazar sequence" with CGRaBS blazars. June 2009

Fang-Yen, Chris, Fluctuational electric field and many-electron magnetotransport in a nondegenerate 2D electron system. June 1995

Fei, Edward, Data analysis for GP-B gyroscope charge measurement. June 2007

Goel, Anita, The use of the optical tweezers tool to visualize real time transcription by single molecules of RNA polymerase.

Grefenstette, Brian, Overview of a TES instrument and data acquisition system. June 2004

Hall, Christina, Creating and testing a dynamic model of human thermoregulation. June 2008

Hart, Sean, Quasiparticle transport and phase separation in transition edge sensors. June 2009

Hartman, Joel, Correction of nanoflare statistics for truncation bias.

Hegyi, Alex, Tuning of optical microdisk resonant wavelength by nitrogen condensation. June 2008

Hoedl, Seth A., The luminosity functions of three Abell clusters. 1998

Holme, Timothy P., On the magnetic and transport properties of single-crystal R6Mo4Al43 (R=Y, Gd-Ho, Lu). May 2003

House, Michael, Physical and medical problems of laser angioplasty. June 1986

Hsieh, David, Making a Bose-Einstein condensate of dilute rubium-87 gas. June 2003

Hunt, Tom, Atomic force microscope lithography. May 2001

Husen, Annalise Noelle, The current levels and conductance of the voltage-gated K channel G87R from squid stellate ganglion. [2 copies] June 1999

Irvin, Casey, Carbon nanotube to the tip of an etched Tungsten tip for electron field emission research under DC voltage. June 2007

Kaplan, Jared, Anthropic fine tuning via vacuum stability. May 2005

Kasen, Daniel, The rotation of spiral galaxies. June 1997

Kato, Saul, Schrodinger waves, antiferromagnetism, and "electron" decay. June 1995

Keeler, Cynthia, Approximation methods for exclusive Higgs Boson production processes in proton and heavy ion collisions. May 2003

Kirby, Evan, Complete characterization of one pixel of the quad prototype. [2 copies] May 2004

Kozaczuk, Jonathan A., Precise determination of the spin speed and spin down rate of gravity probe B gyroscopes. May 2007

Kumar, Ashok, Micro-magnetic tweezers: the development and characterization of a useful probe for the biophysicist's toolbox. May 2007

Landhuis, David P., Picosecond infrared photon echoes and the study of vibrational dynamics in a molecular crystal. June 1994

Leistra, Andrea, Large-scale structure at z~2. June 1998

Leyton, Michael, The silicon tracker of the gamma ray large area space telescope. May 2003

Libby, Elizabeth, Characterization of grating substrates for LISA. May 2005

Ligon, Aaron, A microwire grid for the manipulation of superparamagnetic beads. June 2006

Livnat, Noam and Michael Okun, Observation of the Sagnac effect in a nonplanar ring oscillator. June 1998

Lo, Dennis, Search for the Sgoldstino Boson in E+E- collisions. June 2008

Luna, Katherine, Modeling superconducting microwave oscillators to test for Lorentz violations. 2005

Mainzer, Amanda K., A definitive signature of black holes. June 1995

Maloney, Alexander, The evolution and luminosity function of quasars from complete optical surveys.

Mancoff, Frederick Bennett, Two-dimensional electron transport and magnetoresistance effects in a random magnetic dipole array. June 1995

Mandel, Ilya, Precise trapped flux signal analysis in gravity probe B experiment. June 2000

Manhart, Michael, A model-independent search for new physics at the Large Hadron Collider. June 2009

Mann, E.C., Fabry-Perot imaging of the nearest millisecond pulsar bowshock. June 2001

Mar, Thomas, Dynamics of the moving vortex lattice in two-dimensional disordered superconductors. August 1997

McConnell, Robert, Piezo-induced uniaxial stress in superconducting samples. June 2005

McQuinn, Matthew, The curvature effect and the intrinsic light curves and spectra in GRBs. [2 copies] 2004

Meyer, Jennifer, Dynamical instability and accretion in systems of closely spaced inner moons. May 2006

Monstavicius, Dion, Non-contact charge control using field emission cathodes. June 1998

Morgan, Robert, Snoluminescence and differential light scattering.

Murphree, Dennis H., Jr., The design and implementation of a fast programmable trigger for the Kamioka liquid scintillator anti-neutrino detector. June 2000

Nakagawa, Wataru, Low-temperature characterization of avalanche photodiode (APD) in gain mode. June 1996

Niell, Cris, Confocal fluorescence measurement of DNA diffusion. June 1995

Norte, Richard, First-order perturbation solution to the Schrodinger equation for a massive particle's time-dependent sphere of influence. 2007

Nowadnick, Elizabeth, Study of the decay B--> λc + p π-. June 2006

Olding, Benjamin, Computer modeling superconduction magnetic shields. June 1998  

Patterson, Brad, An automatic nuclear emulsion scanning system with track recognition. June 2000

Persh, Steven E., Quasar absorption lines as probes for high redshift superclusters. June 1994

Phelps, Steven, The growth of C60 crystals and measurement of their thermal expansion. June 1993

Podolsky, Daniel, Dalitz plot analysis of the decay D+ --> K-π+π+. June 1998

Popovici, Andrei, The scaling of the entanglement spacing in semidilute DNA solutions. June 1995

Risca, Viviana I., "Magneto-optical tweezers": design and construction fo a magnetic tweezers device compatible with an optical trap. [2 copies] June 2004

Rose, Mark and Glenn Wong, Construction of ap hoton scanning tunneling microscope. June 1993

Rosen, Michael J., Charge Kondo effect and enhanced superconductivity in (PbySn1-y)1-xInxTe. June 2006

Rozler, Michael, Use of an STM as a microcontactor to study micron-scale mo/amorphous Si/Mo tunnel junctions. June 1996

Ruderman, Joshua, Simulating universal extra dimensions. 2006

Santos, Edward, Optimizing selection criteria for B-->λcl. June 2009

Schlafly, Eddie, Search for high-redshift CGRaBS blazars. June 2007

Sciambi, Adam R., A simple apparatus for the observation of quantized conductance. May 2005

Shapiro, Alexander L., Techniques in low-temperature calorimetry and the heat capacity of silicon carbide (SiC). April 1993

Simon, Joshua, Probing bulk flows with spiral galaxy rotation curves and the Tully-Fisher relation. June 1998

Solotaroff, Jacob, An investigation of the multiparameter properties and their effect on supernova spectra and distances using multivariate analysis. June 1996

Sommer, Ariel, Optimizing the search for Τ- -->λπ- using multivariate analysis. 2007

Stockton, John Kenton, Superconductor-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures. [2 copies] June 1999

Suh, Sunok josephine, Little Higgs models and their classification. June 2009

Tanedo, Philip, Split supersymmetry in the Higgs resonance region. February 2006

Thompson, Matthew C., Development of an atomic interferometry-based gravity gadiometer. June 1997  

Tunguz, Bojan, The production of aerogels and the measurement of their surface area using the BET technique. June 1997

Vishik, Inna, Qunatum impurities in the electron-doped high-temperature superconductor neodymium cerium copper oxide: crystal growth, characterization, and magnetic neutron scattering . June 2006 

Wai, Lawrence L., The effect of trapped magnetic flux quanta on the London readout in GP-B. June 1989

Wang, Mark M., Examination fo the order parameter symmetry in high temperature superconductors through a study of Josephson coupling. June 1994

White, Olivia L., Studies of exactly-solvable quantum antiferro-magnets. June 1997

Williams, Christopher, Imaging and analyzing EGRET pulsar candidates with the GMRT. June 2005

Williams, Tess, Construction and early stage testing of a Sunyaev Zel'dovich receiver. June 2005

Wohns, Dan, Sequestered inflation. 2006

Yang, Bo, Fabrication and measurement of graphene devices. May 2007

Yeo, Wenzheng, Measurement of T1 electron spin relaxation time in a high-purity n-type GaAs semiconductor. June 2006

Yong, Ee Hou, Relic abundance of the lightest neutralino. June 2003

Zaks, Julia, Investigation of the mobility of regioregular poly-3-hexylthiophene when infiltrated into nanopores. 2007

Zhao, Yue, Measurement of natural widths of Σc++ and Σc0 charmed baryons. [2 copies] May 2004

Zielinski, Lukasz J., Electronic transport in low dimensional GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. July 1997

DiDonna, Brian, Suspension torque predictions for the relativity gyroscope experiment. 1994

Vandenbroucke, Justin, Acoustic detection of extremely high energy cosmic ray neutrinos: results from an undersea microphone array. 2002

Berger, Seth David, The effect of lower dimensionality on angle-resolved photoemission . 1993 Jun

Bernevig, B. A., Hall transition in an anyon gas : non-zero temperature. 2000 Aug 10

Chao, Lambert Key, Low temperature dielectric behavior of silica aerogel. 1998 Jun 14

Cronenwett, Sara Marie, Mesoscopic fluctuations with strong interactions : universal conductance fluctuations of elastic cotunneling. 1996 Jun

Cronin, Alex D. and Enadal C. Burns, Experimental observation of electromagnetic emissions due to the fracture of quartz, feldspar, and granodiorite. 1993 Jun 2

Dempsey, Jed, A method for visual pattern recognition in a self-organizing system. 1981

Estrada, Paul R., Voyager observations of the color of Saturn's rings. 1994

Elteto, Klara and Roger W. Romani, Gamma-Ray pulsars as candidates for the unidentified EGRET sources 2001 June

Felson, Wayne Steven, Magnetic dipole and quadrupole readout for ground-based testing of the relativity gyroscope. 1993 Mar

Gershow, Marc, An automated wafer inspection system for the cryogenic dark matter search. 2001 Jun 7

Goldman, Mark, Nonlinear dynamics of coupled Josephson Junctions : spatial vs. temporal modes. 1993 Jun 3

Gimon, Eric G., Particle production and radiation from an accelerated mirror. 1993 Jun

Hampton, Marshall, The electronic structure and spin-spin coupling of Mn(III)(2)([mu]-oxo)(bis-[mu]-carboxylato) core models of manganese redox enzymes . 1994

Hiatt, Jeremy, Methods of synthesis and characterization of nanostructures bridged by single molecules. 2008 Jun

Hohlfeld, Evan B., Quantum phase transitions and black hole vent horizons. 2001 Jan 30