Graduate Students -- WFU Physics

Year	Name	Title of Thesis	Degree	Status Updates
2017	Crystal Bolden-Rush	Interaction between RSNO and H2S: The formation, stability, and NO-donating capacity of SSNO* and the effects of SSNO* on platelet activation	Ph.D.
2017	Xiaohua (Nina) Liu	Effects of Red Blood Cells on Nitric Oxide Bioactivity	Ph.D.
2017	Larry Rush	First-principles investigation of electronic properties in sodium-ion electrolytes for solid-state battery materials	M.S.
2017	Ryan Godwin	Binding NEMO: Adventures in Molecular Dynamics	Ph.D.
2017	David Harrison	Improving Existing and Discovering New Hydrogen Storage Materials Using Computational Materials Modeling	Ph.D.
2017	Evan Welchman	Understanding and Improving Hydrogen Storage Materials with ab initio Methods	Ph.D.
2017	Wenxiao Huang	Earth-Abundant Metal Chalcogenides: Synthesis, Interface Modification, and Applications in Energy Conversion Devices	Ph.D.
2017	Chaochao Dun	Low-Dimensional Chalcogenide Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Composites	Ph.D.
2016	Alex Taylor	Plasmonic Nanoparticles as Versatile Nanorulers for Sensing Applications: Developing the Nanoparticle-on-mirror Architecture	Ph.D.
2016	Xinfu Lu	Coupled rate and transport equations modeling light yield, pulse shape and their proportionality to energy in electron tracks: a study of CsI and CsI:Tl scintillators	Ph.D.
2016	Maxim Zalutskiy	Investigations of Black-Hole Spectra: Purely-Imaginary Modes and Kerr Ringdown Radiation	Ph.D.
2016	Katelyn Goetz	Structure-Function Relationships in Organic Charge-Transfer Complexes	Ph.D.
2016	Peter Diemer	Reduction of Electronic Traps in Organic Semiconductors by Novel Processing Methods	Ph.D.
2016	Matthew Walb	Low Dose Dosimetry and Radiation Response in Rodent Models	Ph.D.	Medical Physics Fellow in Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic
2016	Yaochuan Mei	Charge Transport in Organic and Hybrid Perovskite Field Effect Transistors	Ph.D.
2016	Calvin Arter	First-Principles Modeling of MOF74 for Gas Sequestration and Storage Applications	M.S.
2015	Chad McKell	Confinement and Tracking of Brownian Particles in a Bessel Beam Standing Wave	M.S.
2015	Nicholas Lepley	First principles investigations of solid-solid interfaces in lithium battery materials	Ph.D.
2015	Greg Smith	Field Induced Polymer Electroluminescence	Ph.D.
2015	Jie Liu	X-Ray Scatter Computation and Simulation in Cone Beam Computed Tomography	Ph.D.
2015	Wei Li	Single Fibrin Fiber Mechanical Property and Lysis	Ph.D.
2015	Stephen Baker	Single Fiber Nanomechanical Properties of Electrospun Fibers and Modified Fibrin Fibers using Atomic Force Microscopy	Ph.D.
2015	Jeremy Ward	Enhancing the Electrical Performance of Organic Field-Effect Transistors Through Interface Engineering	Ph.D.
2015	Inna McGowin	Head Motion Evaluation and Correction in Magnetoencephalography	Ph.D.
2015	Andrea Belanger	Biophysical studies of potential therapies of hemoglobin-associated diseases	Ph.D.
2015	Rongzhong Li	Molecular Dynamic Simulation of Bio-Molecular Dynamics, Folding, and Assembly	Ph.D.
2015	Xinyi Guo	Characterizing the micro-scale mechanical properties of hydrogels and cancer cells	Ph.D.
2014	Qi Li	Toward a User's Toolkit for Modeling Scintillator Proportionality and Light Yield	Ph.D.
2014	Jennifer Dorand	A SR-90 Irradiation Device for the Study of Cutaneous Radiation Injury from a Radiological Incident	Ph.D.
2013	Corey Hewitt	Carbon Nanotube Based Organic Thermoelectric Composites: Synthesis, Characterization, Performance	Ph.D.	Postdoc, WFU
2013	Nicholas Lepley	An Investigation of Lithium Solid Electrolyte Materials with First Principles Calculations	M.S.
2013	Chen Liu	The Role of Nitric Oxide in the Blood Storage Lesion	Ph.D.
2013	Justin Sigley	Measuring the Microscale Mechanical Properties of Fibrin Fibers and Cancer Cells	Ph.D.
2013	Graham Lopez	Calculating Magnetic Properties of Materials using Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.
2013	Landon Belavia	Reactions of Nitroxyl and Nitrite In Blood	Ph.D.
2012	Joel Grim	Experimental and Computational Studies of Nonlinear Quenching in Materials Used as Radiation Detectors	Ph.D.
2012	Wanyi Nie	Organic Photovoltaic Device Optimization	Ph.D.
2012	Brian Kolb	A Survey of Several van der Walls-Rich Systems and a Machine Learning Approach to Improving Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.
2012	Ryan Best	Monte Carlo Modeling of the Gamma Knife Perfexion™	Ph.D.
2012	Xuanfeng Leo Ding	Feasibility Study of Multi-Application, Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging Guided Laster Induced Thermal Therapy	Ph.D.
2012	Jason Bates	Quantum Effects of Scalar Fields in Black Hole and Cosmological Spacetimes	Ph.D.
2012	Yuan Li	Three Dimensional Solar Cells Based on Optical Confinement Geometries	Ph.D.
2012	Eric Peterson	Nanocomposites for Enhancing Current Collection in Organic Solar Cells	M.S.
2011	Samrat Dutta	Studying the Interaction of Cancer & Thrombosis Therapeutics with Protein and DNA	Ph.D.
2011	Xiao Xu	Hartree-Fock and KLI Atom Projector Augmented Wave Method Implementation	Ph.D.
2011	Jillian Bjerke	Characterization of Carbonaceous Exsolvate from Metal Melts	M.S.
2011	Jerrold Kielbasa	Fabrication and Optical Response of Silver Nanowire Metamaterials	Ph.D.
2011	Ivan Azarov	Nitric oxide bioavailability regulation by hemoglobin	Ph.D.
2010	Ryan Best	Monte Carlo Modeling of the Gamma Knife Perfexion™	M.S.
2010	Todd Fallesen	Kinesin-Microtubule Interactions During Gliding Assays Under Magnetic Force	Ph.D.
2010	Christine Carlisle	The Mechanical Properties of Individual Electrospun Fibers and Fibrin Fibers	Ph.D.
2009	Ye Yuan	Studies of the Electrostatic Properties of Peroxiredoxins	Ph.D.
2009	Jason D. Grigsby	Analyzing and Improving Initial Data for Binary Black Holes	Ph.D.
2009	William H. Hirsch	Quantum Effects of the Massless Spin One-Half Field in Static Spherically Symmetric Black Hole and Wormhole Spacetimes	Ph.D.	Marquette University
2008	Faith Coldren	Theoretical and Experimental Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Staphylococcus Aureus	Ph.D.
2008	Douglas K. Bonessi	Optical Forces and Torques: Theory and Experiment	Ph.D.
2008	William B. Hodge	Constrained Variational Calculation of Second-Order Reduced Density Matrices for Hubbard Rings	Ph.D.
2008	Kevin Conley	A Dirac All-Electron Basis and Spin-Orbit Coupled Projector Implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave Method for Atomic Systems	Ph.D.	Forsyth Technical Community College
2007	Anne Jeffers	Nitric Oxide Scavenging by Cell-free Hemoglobin	M.S.
2007	Matthew J. Rave	Aspects of Berry's Phase in Solid State Physics	Ph.D.	Western Carolina University
2006	Wenhua Liu	Determining the Mechanical Properties of Individual Fibrin Fibers	Ph.D.	Postdoc, Cornell
2006	Peng Lu	Nanoselection - A Single-Cycle Method, Based on a Combined AFM/FM instrument, to Select Individual Aptamer Species from a Pool of Random Oligonucleotides	Ph.D.	WFU Accounting Grad Student
2006	Ping Tang	Computational Research on Lithium ion Battery Materials	Ph.D.	Software Engineer at Cryo-Cell International
2006	David Evanich	Aspects of Parametric Resonance in Chaotic Inflation	M.S.	RBC, Medical Equipment Engineering Firm
2006	Kris Huang		Ph.D.
2005	Yong Qiu	Subpicosecond Absorption Study of an Electron Polaron and Its Formation Time in Knb03 and LiNb03	Ph.D.
2005	Anne Bouldin Jeffers	Activation of Soluble Guanylate Cyclase by Nitrite	M.S.
2004	Yonas Beyene Abraham	Electronic States near Surfaces – a) Analysis of calculation methods using semi-infinite boundary conditions; b) Sensitive detection using laser photoelectron spectroscopy	Ph.D.	Targacept, Inc.
2004	Richard Czerw	Nano-Composite Organic Devices	Ph.D.	President and CEO of Nanotech Laboratories
2004	Gang Xiong	Toward a New Diode Laser: ZNO Photoluminescence and P-Type Doping, Theory of Giant Oscillator Strength	Ph.D.	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2004	Chanté L. Singleton	Radiation Surface Dose with the DignicapTM Hypothermic Cap during Whole-Brain Radiation Treatment	M.S.
2004	Xiuli Xu	Study of the Effects of Nitric Oxide on Sickle Cell Disease	Ph.D.	National Institute of Health
2004	Kejing Chen	Light Scattering Study on the Polymerization and Aggregation of Hemoglobin in High Concentration Phosphate Buffer	Ph.D.	Research Associate, Johns Hopkins University
2004	Virginia L. Lockamy	The Search for the Mechanism of Nitric Oxide Release in Hydroxyurea Therapy	Ph.D.	Resident in Medical Physics, U. Minnesota
2003	John H. Wilkinson IV	Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoluminescence of Zinc Oxide Single Crystals, Films and Nanoparticles	Ph.D.	Research Associate, Naval Research Laboratory
2003	Scott M. Webster	Optical Properties of Nanostructured Materials	Ph.D.	Research Associate, College of Optics and Photonics, UCF
2003	David B. Hill	Changes in the Number of Molecular Motors Driving Vesicle Transport in PC12	Ph.D.	Research Associate, Dept. of Physics, UNC, Chapel Hill
2003	Peter Bernard Groves	Method to Compute the Stress-Energy Tensor of a Spin ½ Field in a Static Spherically Symmetric Spacetime	Ph.D.
2002	Zhi (James) Huang	Effect of No On Deformability of Sickle Erythrocytes	Ph.D.	Research Associate, NIH
2002	Svetlana Aroutiounian	Mechanisms and Kinetics of Melting of HBS Aggregates Studies in High Concentration Phosphate Buffer	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Dillard University
2002	Bakhitjan Kourmanov	Light Torque Induced by a Linearly Polarized Laser Beam in an Optical Trap	M.S.	Instructional Technology Consultant, Wake Forest University
2002	Adam C. Ballard	Absolute Measurement of The Polarizability of C60 Clusters in the Gas Phase	Ph.D.	Wake Forest University School of Medicine
2002	Rodney B. Dunning	Ab Initio Modeling of the F-Center in Light Alkali-Halides	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Longwood University
2001	Zhi Huang	Hydroxyurea Affects the Deformability of Sickle Erythrocytes in Vitro	M.S.
2000	Kerry L. Grow	Evaluation of Emission Tuned-Aperture Computed Tomography	M.S.
1999	Kyle J. Bergquist	A Characterization of Radicals in hard Keratin	M.S.
1999	William Howell Hinson	Dose Calculations of Photon Beams Using a Finite-Size Pencil Beam Model	Ph.D.	WFU Medical School, Dept. of Radiology
1999	Jack Wolston Brockway III	Astrophysical Limits on Additional U(1) Gauge Couplings	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Radford University
1999	Henry M. Yochum III	Picosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy of the Oxide Crystals LiNbO3, KNbO3, KTiOPO4, CdWO4, PbWO4, and Sc2O3	Ph.D.	Assistant Professor, Sweet Briar College, VA
1999	Andrew J. Graham	Nucleation Rates for One-Dimensional Stochastic Systems with Asymmetric Quartic Potentials, Brownian Noise and Damping	Ph.D.	Appalachian State University
1999	Mathew Binkley	Zero Temperature Black Holes in Semiclassical Gravity	M.S.
1999	Forrest Taylor Charnock	Dynamics of Dipolar Defects in Rare Earth Doped Alkaline-Earth Fluoride Crystals	Ph.D.
1998	Ryan M. Hatcher	An Order N Generalized Gradient Approximation to the Exchange-Correlation Potential in Density Functional Theory	M.S.
1998	Janice L. Lopresti	Picosecond and Subpicosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Laser-Excited ZnTe, ZnSe, GaN and GaP	Ph.D.	Knowles Electronics, Chicago, IL
1998	Alan Tackett	Spacial Implementation of the Projector Augmented Wave Method for Electron Structure Calculations	Ph.D.	Vanderbilt University
1997	Yueping Zeng	Computer Simulations of Crystal Structures using Density Functional Theory	Ph.D.	Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., Plantation, FL
1997	Scott Vance Harder	Sub-Micrometer Studies of Optical and Positioning Elements for an Ultrahigh Vacuum Scanning Confocal Microscope	M.S.
1997	Eben D. Thoma	Subpicosecond Time-Resolved Absorption Spectroscopy of Alkali Halide Crystals	Ph.D.	EPA, Raleigh, NC
1996	Rebecca K. Reed Thoma	Laser Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Defect States in GaP(110) and KI	Ph.D.
1996	Louis Arthur Cosentine	Production and Annihilation of Surface Radicals in Cleaved Keratin	M.S.	Andersen Consulting, Chicago & Charlotte
1996	Charles W. Himes	Laser Driven Metallic Bonding of Thin Films	M.S.
1995	Brian G. Burleigh	A Search for Anomalous Radiation in Deuterium-Loaded Palladium	M.S.
1995	Christine C. Parks	Observation of Water Adsorption on BaF2 (111) and CaF2 (111) using Atomic Force Microscopy	M.S.
1995	D. J. Williams	Spacetime Geometry of the Kerr Metric	M.S.
1995	Xiao Pu	Pulsed Electron Gun for Time-Resolved Spectroscopy	M.S.
1995	R. Mark Wilson	Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Radiation Damage on Ionic Crystal Surfaces	Ph.D.	Associate Editor, Physics Today
1994	Anqi Wu	Deposition of High Temperature Superconducting Thin Films on Metallic and Nonmetallic Substrates by Laser Ablation	Ph.D.
1994	Hanli Liu	Picosecond time-resolved spectroscopy of self-trapped excitons and defect formation in ionic insulators	Ph.D.	Professor, U. Texas
1993	Chandran R. Sabanayagam	A Quantitative Analysis on the Dynamics of Deoxyribonucleic Acid During Field Inversion Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1993	Alan Dillon	An ESR Study of Irradiated Keratin Proteins	M.S.
1993	M. Shane Hutson	Molecular Weight Dependence of DNA Motion During 120° Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1993	Lynn M. Neitzey	The Angle Dependence of DNA Velocity During Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1992	Thomas Wesley Eggleston	An ESR Study of the Phase Transition in Calcium Cadmium Acetate Hexahydrate	M.S.
1991	Louis Edward Keiner	The Velocity and Relaxation of DNA During Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1991	Matthew J. Rave	Mean-Field Theory of Phase Transitions for a Lattice with an Asymmetric On-Site Potential	M.S.
1991	Kevin J. Platt	Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Lattice Dynamical Model with Three-Fold Symmetry in the On-Site Potential	M.S.
1991	Mark W. Rowe	Picosecond Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Si(111) 7x7, Si(111):B√3x√3 R30°, Si(100) 2x1, and Si(111) 1x1	M.S.
1990	Hanli Liu	Heating of Materials by Laser Pulses—Thermal Calculations and Picosecond Photoelectron Spectroscopy	M.S.	Professor, U. Texas
1990	Todd George Kleman	ESR Studies of Cu2+ Concentration Dependent Phase Transitions in Cadmium Calcium Acetate Hexahydrate	M.S.
1989	Richard Whitney Whitcomb	The Velocity and Orientation of Linear DNA during Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis	M.S.
1989	Mark David Shattuck	The Kinetics and Diffusion of Radicals in X-Irradiated L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid Hydrochloride with L-Cysteine Hydrochloride as Impurity	M.S.
1988	Ma Yi	The Mechanisms of Free Radical Reactions in Irradiated L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid HCL Plus L-Cysteine HCL	M.S.
1987	R. Mark Wilson	Photoemission Studies of GaAs using Synchrotron and Laser Radiation	M.S.
1987	Mark Allen Durham	ITC: A Computer Model Defect-Defect Interactions in Gadolinium Doped Calcium Fluoride	M.S.
1987	Deborah A. Wortman	The Effect of Defect Interactions on Ionic Thermocurrent Peak Widths	M.S.
1986	Masahiro Itoh	Decay and Diffusion of Radicals in L-α-Amino-n-Butyric Acid HCL	M.S.
1986	Jeffrey Ray Gardner	A Solution to the Inverse Atomic Pseudopotential Problem	M.S.
1985	Scott Warner Reid	An ESR Study of the Effects of Ionizing Irradiation on DL-Aspartic Acid	M.S.
1984	Lawrence Hoy James	Defect Aggregation in Rare Earth Doped Calcium Flouride	M.S.
1984	Guy M. Beaver, III	The Diffusion Mechanism of Silver Ions in Alpha Silver Iodide and Its Effect on Quasielastic Neutron Scattering	M.S.
1984	Amanda Joy Loggins	The Application of Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy to Difficult Systems: Theoretical and Experimental Considerations	M.S.
1983	Michael Ray Dishman	Defect Aggregation in Rare-Earth Doped Calcium Fluoride	M.S.
1983	Mark B. Williams	Symmetry Properties of the Strange Attractor for the Damped, Driven Pendulum	M.S.
1983	Martin James McHugh	Charge Emission Kinetics of the Gallium Vacancy in Gallium Phosphide	M.S.
1982	James V. Atherton	Spectral Analysis of Ultrasound Reflected from Arteries	M.S.
1982	William F. Lofton, Jr.	An Investigation of the Properties of Spherically Symmetric Space-Time	M.S.
1982	Pamela Lynn Carter	Dependence of Defect Relaxation Kinetics on Lanthanide Dopant Ion Size	M.S.
1978	L. Alan Love	Intracellular Temperature Distribution Produced by Ultrasound	M.A.
1978	Maria Felicidad G. Arcilla	Detection of Cavitation by Sound Scattering	M.S.
1977	Roger A. Hull	Vacancy Pair Formation in Quenched RbC1	M.A.
1976	Maria Lourdes P. Bartolome	Molecular Dynamics Investigation of Structural Phase Transitions	M.A.
1976	Frank C. Murray	Stress Relaxation in Magnesium Oxide	M.A.
1975	David Baird Mast	Electron Nuclear Double Resonance Investigations in N-Acetylglycine, DL-Serine and Hydroxyurea	M.A.
1975	J. Sseton N. Tomyn	Reorientation Kinetics of the Impurity Dipole in CaF2:Y+3	M.A.
1974	Charles H. Nielsen	The Internal Friction of Lead Doped with Noble Metals	M.A.
1974	William Marcellus Jordan III	Irradiation Damage to Aspartic Acid	M.A.
1973	Dean R. Mullis	A Dielectric Loss and Ionic Thermocurrents Study of Dipolar Defect in Pure RbC1 and RbC1: Sr2+	M.A.
1973	Charles R. Spell, Jr.	Thermal Release of Electric Charges in –Irradiated Amino Acids	M.A.
1972	Cornelius J. Murphy III	A Study of the V- Band and the Deformation Induced 306NM Band in Single Crystal Magnesium Oxide	M.A.
1971	Sankey R. Painter	An Interal Friction Study of Interstitial Diffusion in Lead	M.A.
1971	Larry N. Hambrick	Tachyon Model of the Stress Tensor	M.A.
1970	James W. Morton	Dielectric Loss Study of the Kinetics of Dipole Migration in Strontium-Doped Rubidium Chloride Induced by Quenching and Deformation	M.A.
1970	William Martin Marsh	Coloration in X-Irradiated Single Crystals of Some Organic Compounds	M.A.
1969	Wyndham L. Wilkinson	Pre-Exponential Factors for Diffusion of Oxygen in ZnO Crystals in Equilibrium with a Gas Atmosphere	M.A.
1969	William C. Reed	Space Charge Layers and Photoconductivity in Colored Potassium Chloride Crystals	M.A.
1968	Robert B. Bailey, Jr.	Dielectric Losses in Pure and Strontium-Doped Rubidium Chloride	M.A.
1968	James H. Everett, Jr.	A Resistivity Study of the Kinetics of Short-Range-Order and Vacancy Annihilation in Quenched Gold-Silver Alloys	M.A.
1968	Wayne Moore	General Relativity : A Two Dimensional Approach	M.A.
1968	Richard C. Sanders	Dislocation Interstitial Interactions in Single Crystal Tantalum	M.A.
1968	Keywood Carnell Cheves, Jr.	Hindered Rotation of the Methyl Group in Organic Solids	M.A.
1968	Thomas J. Richards	Trapping and Release of Electrons by F Centers in Potassium Chloride	M.A.
1968	K. N. Thomas	Polarization of Luminescence of M Centers in Sodium Fluoride	M.A.
1967	Yaw T. Oh	Symmetry and Conservation	M.A.
1967	Charles Howard Bennett	Electron Spin Resonance Study of Free Radicals Formed by Ionizing Radiation in Single Crystals of Thiourea	M.A.
1967	Johnny Dean DeLaigle	An Electron Spin Resonance Study of the Free Radicals Formed by Ionizing Radiation in Single Crystals of Valine	M.A.
1967	E. Franklin Harris	The Trapping and Release of Electrons by Color Centers in Potassium Chloride	M.A.
1966	Charles M. Dozier	An Internal Friction Study of Atomic Mobilities in Alpha-Phase Silver-Cadmium Alloys	M.A.
1966	George R. Plitnik	The Configuration Coordinate Curves for the M Center in Alkali Fluorides	M.A.
1965	George L. Hazelton	Electrical Conductivity in Organic Solids	M.A.
1965	Bert Jack Klein, Jr.	Annealing Kinetics of Quenched Defects in AU-AG Alloys by Resistivity Techniques	M.A.
1965	J. Fred Watts	Radiation Damping	M.A.
1965	Carl W. Entemann	Gravitation and Curved Space-Time	M.A.
1964	John P. Gerlach	Internal Friction in Ionic Single Crystals	M.A.
1963	James Ronald Thornton	An Investigation of the Formation and Migration of Vacancies in an 88% AU-AG Alloy by Resistance Measurements	M.A.

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