Bellan, Paul Murray

Committee Member — 68 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.))
• 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.))
• Moeller, Robert Carlos — Current Transport and Onset-Related Phenomena in an MPD Thruster Modified by Applied Magnetic Fields (2013, 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.))
• Wirz, Richard Edward — Discharge Plasma Processes of Ring-Cusp Ion Thrusters (2005, 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.))
• 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.))
• Li, Bohan — Frequency Stabilization and Frequency Conversion in High-Q Silicon Nitride Microresonators (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kolasinski, Robert David — Fundamental Ion-Surface Interactions in Plasma Thrusters (2007, 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.))
• Standley, Brian Lawrence — Graphene as a Platform for Novel Nanoelectronic Devices (2012, 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.))
• Greene, Glenn Joel — ICRF Antenna Coupling and Wave Propagation in a Tokamak Plasma (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maboudian, Roya — In-Situ Observation of Surface and Near-Surface Modification Using Scattering of Ballistic Phonons (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neikirk, Dean Paul — Integrated Detector Arrays for High Resolution Far-Infrared Imaging (1984, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Elliott R. — Investigation of Bulk Indium Antimonide as Heterodyne Detector for the Submillimeter Wavelength Region (1985, 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.))
• Wang, Heming — Kerr Solitons and Brillouin Lasers in Optical Microresonators (2021, 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.))
• Tokman, Mayya — Magnetohydrodynamic modeling of solar magnetic arcades using exponential propagation methods (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hedemann, Mark Allen — Measurements of Magnetic Field Fluctuations in the Caltech Research Tokamak (1982, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tong, Peter Ping Tak — Millimeter-Wave Integrated-Circuit Antenna Arrays (1985, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lo, Davy — Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Sputtering (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Regehr, Wade Gordon — Neuron-Microdevice Connections (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bachman, David Alan — Nonlinear Phenomena in a Pure Electron Plasma Studied with a 2-D Fluid Code (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Qifan — Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• McChesney, Jon Mearns — Observations of Stochastic Ion Heating by Low Frequency Drift Waves (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ponnada, Sam Bharat Vijay K. — On the Non-Thermal Physics of Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Rays in Galactic Ecosystems (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Hyuk — Optical Interactions in a Dielectric Material with Multiple Perturbations (1986, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gabriel, Andrew Keith — Optogalvanic Spectroscopy and Cataphoretic Laser Isotope Separation (1981, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schalit, Mark Alan — Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Schemes for Tokamaks (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Naijian — Part I: The Equations of Plasma Physics and the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Magnetohydrodynamics. Part II: Evolution of Perturbed Planar Shockwaves. (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brady, David Jones — Photorefractive Volume Holography in Artificial Neural Networks (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Maodong — Physics and Applications of Compact Optical Frequency Comb (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ha, Quoc Bao Nguyen — Plasma Loop and Strapping Field Dynamics: Reproducing Solar Eruptions in the Laboratory (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Capece, Angela Maria — Plasma-Surface Interactions in Hollow Cathode Discharges for Electric Propulsion (2012, 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.))
• Im, Cheolmin — Simulation of Electrohydrodynamic Distortion Relevant to Liquid Metal Ion Sources (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Albertson, Theodore Glenn — Simulations of Conic Cusp Formation, Growth, and Instability in Electrified Viscous Liquid Metals on Flat and Curved Surfaces (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barsic, David Nicholas — Small-Scale Liquid-State Dynamics in Nanometer Size Devices (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Meng, Wen Jin — Solid State Amorphization Reactions in thin Film Diffusion Couples (1988, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rufat, Dzhelil Sabahatin — Spectral Exterior Calculus and its Implementation (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miles, Richard Henry — Structural and Optical Properties of Strained-Layer Superlattices (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Yi Hua — Studies of the Evolution and Stability of the Thin Film Equation for Externally Modulated Control of Electrohydrodynamic and Thermocapillary Patterning (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sullivan, Regina Mariko — The Physics of High-Velocity Ions in the Hall Thruster Near-Field (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Jiansong — The Physics of Superconducting Microwave Resonators (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sherman, Myles Bradford — The Unique Formation and Evolution of Magnetars and Constraining Fast Radio Burst Progenitors with Polarization (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mittelstein, Michael — Theory and Experiments on Unstable-Resonator and Quantum Well GaAs/GaAlAs Lasers (1989, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mendoza, Sean A. — Toroidal Plasmoid Generation via Extreme Hydrodynamic Shear: Optical and Magnetic Studies (2026, 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.))