Theses and dissertations published by graduate students in the Department of Physics, College of Sciences, Old Dominion University, since Fall 2016 are available in this collection. Backfiles of all dissertations (and some theses) have also been added.
In late Fall 2023 or Spring 2024, all theses will be digitized and available here. In the meantime, consult the Library Catalog to find older items in print.
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron Measured with CLAS in and Above the Resonance Region, Kahanawita G. Vipuli G. Dharmawardane
Dissertation: Electron Scattering From a High Momentum Neutron in Deuterium, Alexei V. Klimenko
Dissertation: Some Aspects of Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering, Elena Kuchina
Thesis: Neutron Star Electromagnetic Field Structure, Hugh O. Thurman III
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
Dissertation: Measurement of Proton Transfer Reaction Rates in a Microwave Cavity Discharge Flowing Afterglow, George M. Brooke IV
Thesis: A Measurement of the 15ND3 Deuteron Target Polarization for the EG1 Experiment, Sara Amanda. Comer
Dissertation: Field Emission Based Sensors Using Carbon Nanotubes, Changkun Dong
Dissertation: Nucleon-Nucleon Spin Dependent Scattering Amplitudes to Describe Final State Interactions in Electromagnetic and Electroweak Nuclear Processes, William P. Ford
Dissertation: Shock Wave Dispersion in Weakly Ionized Gas, Prasong Kessaratikoon
Dissertation: Coherent Backscattering of Light From an Ultra Cold Gas of Rubidium-85 Atoms, Pasad B. Kulatunga
Dissertation: Measurments of Correlated Pair Momentum Distributions in 3He(e,e'pp)n With CLAS, Rustam Niyazov
Theses/Dissertations from 2002
Dissertation: Decomposition of Carbon Dioxide in a Capacitively Coupled Radio Frequency Discharge, Thao Hoang Dinh
Dissertation: Spin Structure Functions of the Deuteron, Junho Yun
Theses/Dissertations from 2001
Dissertation: Measurement of Virtual Compton Scattering Below Pion Threshold at Invariant Four-Momentum Transfer Squared Q²=1.(GEV/C)², Christopher Jutier
Dissertation: Measurement of the gπNN(t) Form Factor, Kelly Gene Vansyoc
Theses/Dissertations from 2000
Dissertation: Generalized Compton Amplitudes in Quantum Chromodynamics, Ignati Grigentch
Dissertation: Electroweak Structure of Three-and Four-Body Nuclei, Laura Elisa Marcucci
Dissertation: Phenomenological Description of Double-Pion Photoproduction, Andry M. Rakotovao
Dissertation: Experimental Investigation of Long-Lived "ZEKE" Rydberg States in Ultracold Argon, Gambhir Ranjit
Dissertation: Detection and Modeling of Radiation Induced Effects in Tissues by Dielectric Spectroscopy, Dorin A. Todor
Dissertation: Virtual Compton Scattering in the Nucleon Resonance Region, Luminita Anca Todor
Dissertation: Precision Measurement of the Spin Structure of the Proton and the Deuteron, Frank R. Wesselmann
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
Dissertation: Surface Resistance Measurements of Superconducting Niobium Samples with a Triaxial Cavity, Paul Martin Boccard
Dissertation: Virtual Compton Scattering Processes in Quantum Chromodynamics, Igor V. Musatov
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
Thesis: Phenomenological Study of Strong Decays of Heavy Hadrons in Heavy Quark Effective Theory, Nicolas. Trégourès
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Thesis: Direct Current Hollow Cathode Discharge for Proton Donor Production, George Mercer. Brooke
Dissertation: The Use of Operator Regularization in the Computation of Effective Field Theories, Jeffrey M. Hersh
Dissertation: Characterization of Iron Oxides and Atmospheric Corrosion of Steel, Sei Jin Oh
Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Dissertation: Two-Photon Quantum Interference Polarization Spectroscopy: Measurements of Transition Matrix Elements in Atomic Rubidium, Alexander I. Beger
Dissertation: Pion Absorption on Polarized Lithium-7 at 165 MeV, Thomas A. Greco
Thesis: Dust Dynamics in Nascent Protoplanetary Disks, John H. Kressel
Dissertation: Gamma-Ray Optical Studies of ⁷³Ge and ⁵⁷Fe, Walter Carlton McDermott III
Thesis: A Thirty-Six-Cell Prototype for the CEBAF Large Acceptance Spectrometer Region II Drift Chambers, T. David. Pyron
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Dissertation: Theoretical Investigation of Two-Color, Two-Photon, 6s(2)S(1/2) → 5d(2)D(j) → 11p(2)P(3/2) Excitation and Depolarization Spectra in Atomic Cesium, Boris Dobrydnev
Dissertation: The Study of Pion Absorption on -4He at 355 MeV/C with LADS (Large Acceptance Detector System), Thomas A. Dooling
Dissertation: Heavy-Ion Interaction Models for Radiation Transport, Rajendra R. Dubey
Dissertation: Identification and Characterization of the Iron-Zinc Intermetallics Formed in Galvanneal steel, Richard Frederick George Grant
Dissertation: Nuclear Forward-Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation From Krypton: First Observation and Application to the Study of Lattice Dynamics in Near-Monolayer Krypton-on-Graphite, David Eric Johnson
Dissertation: Excited-State Magnesium-Rare Gas Optical Collisions, Rosemary A. Lasell
Dissertation: Precision Measurement of Relative Dipole Matrix Elements in Atomic Sodium, Rodney P. Meyer
Dissertation: Measurement of Hyperfine Coupling Constants of the 5d²D₃/₂ and 5d²D₅/₂ Levels in Atomic Cesium Using Polarization Quantum Beat Spectroscopy, Wo Yei
Dissertation: A Relativistic Model for Heavy Mesons, Jialin Zeng
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Dissertation: Dosimetry of High-Energy Heavy-Ion Beams Using Energy-Dependent Green's Functions, Sang Yull Chun
Dissertation: High Energy Coupled Nucleon Tranpsort in One Dimension, Stanley L. Lamkin
Dissertation: Strong Magnetic Field Effects and Molecular Processes with Applications to White Dwarfs, Phillip C. Stancil
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Dissertation: The Effects of Electron Radiation on the Glass Transition Temperature of a Polyetherimide, Kristen Tulloch Kern
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Dissertation: Investigation of Alignment Dynamics in Mg-Ne and Mg-Ar Two-Photon Fractional Collisions, David Allen Olsgaard
Dissertation: Search for the Mössbauer Effect in 109Ag, Shokrollah Rezaie-Serej
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
Dissertation: Rotationally Resolved Laser Spectroscopy of the 3s2Σ+ ← 2p2II Transition in 6Li20Ne and 7Li20Ne Van Der Waals Molecules, Chang Jae Lee
Thesis: Study of the Heavy Fermion/Spin-Glass System, Ce1-x Gdx Al3, Using 155Gd Mossbauer Spectroscopy, Nicholas G. Ruggiero
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Thesis: The Study of Oxygen Transport Through Polycrystalline, Single Crystal and Alloyed Silver, Dongchuan Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Dissertation: Nuclear Fragmentation Energy and Momentum Transfer Distributions in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions, Ferdous Khan
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Thesis: The Effects of Low Doses (1 to 500 Kilograys) of 100-KEV Electrons on Four Polymers, Cynthia Anne Bradbury
Dissertation: Theory of Alpha-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies, Francis A. Cucinotta
Theses/Dissertations from 1987
Dissertation: Studies of Radiation Effects in Three High Polymers, Heidi Rene-Mitchell Ries
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Thesis: Feasibility Studies of Conversion Electron Mossbauer Spectroscopy (CEMS) of Iron-Doped InP, Edward Agyekum
Thesis: Absorption Cross-Sections of Sodium Diatomic Molecules, Zeng-Shevan Fong
Thesis: Mossbauer Study of Gadolinium Iron Garnet, Jun Li
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Dissertation: Partial Radiative Recombination Cross Sections for Excited States of Hydrogen, Patricia M. Fazio
Thesis: Radiation Damage to GaAs Solar Cells Including Isotropic Effects, Larry Victor Stock
Dissertation: A Theoretical Model for Calculation of Molecular Stopping Power, Yuan-Jian Xu
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Dissertation: Close-Coupling Calculations for NaAr, NaNe, and NaHe, Linda Lindroth Vahala
Thesis: Collision-Induced Bands of Lithium-Rare Gas Molecules, Wen Jong Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
Thesis: Absorption Coefficients of Ozone at Low Temperature in the Visible Region, Hessameddin Ghiassi
Thesis: Modeling Charge Diffusion from Proton-Induced Ionization Tracks in Silicon Photodiode Arrays, Lee Cole Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Thesis: High Resolution Laser Absorption Spectroscopy of Ozone Near 1129.4 CM-1, Lawrence N. Majorana
Thesis: Sound Absorption in N2-H2O Gas Mixtures at Elevated Temperatures, Roger W. Meredith
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
Thesis: Franck Condon Factors and R-Centeroids for Six Diatomic Molecules, Patricia M. Fazio
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
Thesis: The Effects of Electron Irradiation on MOSFETs, Mark D. Skeldon
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Thesis: Sensitivity of a Gas Filter Correlation Instrument to Variations in Atmospheric Profile and Earth Surface Temperatures, Joseph C. Casas
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: Spectroscopic Measurement of the Electron Temperature in the Tenuous Argon Ion Laser Plasma, Dane Danijel Bicanic
Thesis: An Application of Spectroscopic Techniques to the Measurement of Electron Density and Temperature in a Brush Cathode Plasma, Ramabhai M. Patel
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: An Investigation of a Gas Measurement Technique Employing Ultraviolet Excitation, Alphonso Vincent Diaz
Thesis: Excitation of Hydrogen Atoms by Fast Protons, Edward Ellis Fitchard
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Thesis: Population Excitation Mechanism of the First Negative System of Nitrogen, Robert Lynn Bridigum