Bellan, Paul Murray

Advisor — 44 thesises

• Zhou, Yi — Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Unstable Dynamics of Caltech’s Plasma Jet: X-Rays, Ultraviolet, and Visible Light (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nicolov, André — A Song of Ice and Plasma: The Formation and Behavior of Ice-Dusty Plasmas, from the Laboratory to the Edge of the Universe (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Nikzad, Shouleh — A Study of Ion Beam Sputtering of Compound Materials with Laser Spectroscopy (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Crouch, David Dale — A Theoretical Study of the Generation of Squeezed-State Light via Degenerate Parametric Amplification (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fredrickson, Eric Donald — An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of a Finite Beta Modified Drift Wave (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chaplin, Vernon Hampden — Battery-Powered RF Pre-Ionization System for the Caltech Magnetohydrodynamically-Driven Jet Experiment: RF Discharge Properties and MHD-Driven Jet Dynamics (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Marshall, Ryan Scott — Developing Plasma Spectroscopy and Imaging Diagnostics to Understand Astrophysically-Relevant Plasma Experiments: Megameters, Femtometers, and Everything in Between (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bailey, Andrew Dewey — Drift wave ion fluid velocity field measured by planar laser induced fluorescence (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wongwaitayakornkul, Pakorn — Dynamics of an Arched Magnetically-Twisted Current-Carrying Plasma (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Moser, Auna Louise — Dynamics of Magnetically Driven Plasma Jets: An Instability of an Instability, Gas Cloud Impacts, Shocks, and Other Deformations (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yun, Gunsu Soonshin — Dynamics of Plasma Structures Interacting with External and Self-Generated Magnetic Fields (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Lun-Tseng — Dynamics, Noise Properties, and Spectral Characteristics of Semiconductor Lasers with External Coupling (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bonnefoi, Alice Renée — Electronic Properties and Device Applications of GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Barrier and Quantum Well Heterostructures (1987, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yu-shu George — Electronic Properties of II-VI Superlattices and III-V Tunnel Structures (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Perkins, Rory James — Experimental and Analytical Studies of Merging Plasma Loops on the Caltech Solar Loop Experiment (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Haw, Magnus Albert — Experimental and Numerical Studies of Cavities, Flows, and Waves in Arched Flux Ropes (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yee, Jimmy — Experimental investigations in spheromaks : injection into a tokamak and formation in an unbounded environment (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kumar, Deepak — Experimental Investigations of Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Jets (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Woodward, Ted Kirk — Experimental Studies of Heterostructure Devices: Resonant Tunneling Transistors and GaAs/AlAs/GaAs Capacitors (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhai, Xiang — Experimental, Numerical and Analytical Studies of the MHD-Driven Plasma Jet, Instabilities and Waves (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Stenson, Eve Virginia — Fields, Forces, and Flows: What Laboratory Experiments Reveal About the Dynamics of Arched Plasma Structures (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Howard ZeHua — GaAs/AlₓGa₁₋ₓAs Quantum Well Lasers Grown on GaAs and Si by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chow, David Hsingkuo — Growth, Characterization, and Simulation of Novel Semiconductor Tunnel Structures (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anlage, Steven Mark — Icosahedral Order in Metastable Metallic Alloys (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maboudian, Roya — In-Situ Observation of Surface and Near-Surface Modification Using Scattering of Ballistic Phonons (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Romero-Talamás, Carlos Alejandro — Investigations of Spheromak Plasma Dynamics: High-Speed Imaging at the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment and Magnetic Diagnostics at the Caltech Spheromak Experiment (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hansen, John Freddy — Laboratory simulations of solar prominences (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Pracko, Steven Edmund — Laser Induced Fluorescence Measurements of Spheromak Plasmas (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sverdrup, Lawrence Henry — Lower Hybrid Current Drive Experiments on the Encore Tokamak (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lo, Davy — Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sputtering (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McChesney, Jon Mearns — Observations of Stochastic Ion Heating by Low Frequency Drift Waves (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlesinger, Tuviah Ehud — Optical and Opto-Electronic Investigations of Semiconductor Defects and Heterostructures (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schalit, Mark Alan — Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Schemes for Tokamaks (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brady, David Jones — Photorefractive Volume Holography in Artificial Neural Networks (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sanders, Steven Jay — Plasma ion dynamics in large-amplitude drift waves : stochasticity, collisions, orbit loss, and recycling (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen — Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoon, Young Dae — Probing the Progression, Properties, and Progenies of Magnetic Reconnection (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Derry, Pamela Louise — Properties of Buried Heterostructure Single Quantum Well (Al,Ga)As Lasers (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baskin, John Spencer — Real-Time Observation and Analysis of Coherence and Alignment in Molecular Systems: Isolated Molecules and Chemical Reactions (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meng, Wen Jin — Solid State Amorphization Reactions in thin Film Diffusion Couples (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miles, Richard Henry — Structural and Optical Properties of Strained-Layer Superlattices (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mittelstein, Michael — Theory and Experiments on Unstable-Resonator and Quantum Well GaAs/GaAlAs Lasers (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Johnson, Matthew Bruce — Ultrafast Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies of GaAs (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Yang — Understanding the Plasma Universe through Laboratory Experiments and Related Models (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))