Theses and Dissertations
William E. Amatucci
Experimental Observation of Ion-Cyclotron Turbulence in the Presence of Transverse-Velocity Shear
PhD, 1994
Valeriy Gavrishchaka
Collective Phenomena in a Magnetized Plasma with a Field-Aligned Drift and Inhomogeneous Transverse Flow
PhD, 1997
James J. Carroll III
Electrostatic Instabilities Modified by Inhomogeneous Magnetic-Field-Aligned Ion Flow
PhD, 1997
Matthew M. Balkey
Effects of Gap Width on EUV Transmission Through Sub-Micron Period, Free-Standing, Transmission
MS, 1998
John L. Kline
Resonant Ion Heating in a Helicon Source
MS, 1998
Paul A. Keiter
Experimental Investigation of Ion Temperature Anisotropy Driven Instabilities in a High Beta Plasma
PhD, 1999
Matthew M. Balkey
Optimization of a Helicon Plasma Source for Maximum Density with Minimal Ion Heating
PhD, 2000
Robert S. Spangler Jr
A Kinetic Treatment of a Perpendicular Gradient in Field-aligned Flow in a Thermally Anisotropic Plasma
MS, 2001
John L. Kline
Slow Wave Ion Heating and Parametric Instabilities in the HELIX Helicon Source
PhD, 2002
Catalin Teodorescu
Investigation of Electrostatic Ion Waves Modified by Parallel-Ion-Velocity Shear
PhD, 2003
Xuan Sun
A Study of Ion Acceleration, Asymmetric Optical Pumping and Low Frequency Waves in Two Expanding Helicon Plasmas
PhD, 2005
Christopher Compton
Propagation of Alfven Waves in the WVU HELIX Device
MS, 2006
Amy M. Keesee
Neutral Density Profiles in Argon Helicon Plasmas
PhD, 2006
Daniela Strele
Effect of C60 Anions on the Potential-relaxation Instability and the Ion Heating of the Inhomogeneous Energy-Density Driven Instability in a Q-machine Plasma (supervised jointly with Prof. R. Schrittwieser, Univ. Innsbruck, Austria)
PhD, 2007
Craig Selcher
Three-dimensional, High-resolution, Computerized Tomographic Imaging of Artificial Ionospheric Cavities
PhD, 2007
Daniel Lewis
Measuring Ion Velocity Distribution Functions in a Compact, Expanding Helicon Plasma
MS, 2008
Sean Finnegan
Stationary Alfvén wave in laboratory and space regimes
PhD, 2008
Robert Hardin
Measurement of Short-Wavelength Electrostatic Fluctuations in a Helicon Plasma Source
PhD, 2008
Ioana Biloiu
Laser Induced Fluorescence studies of ion acceleration in single and multiple species expanding helicon plasma
PhD, 2009
Paul Miller
Nonlinear Dynamics Modulation in a Neon Glow Discharge Plasma
PhD, 2009
Eric Reynolds
Experimental Investigation of Flow-shear Effects in Stable and Unstable Anisotropic Low-beta Plasma
PhD, 2009