Opportunities (updated 01-19-2017) / Send inquiries to piot_AT_nicadd.niu.edu
Our group is alway interested in RAs and relevant research can be carried out under PHYS 659, PHYS 699 or PHYS 799 -- TAs are also welcome. For funded RA opportunities, please directly inquire.
The following undergraduate opportunities are open:
- senior project (paid): construction & magnetic measurement of a short undulator for electron-beam manipulations (ME, PHYS, EE)
- senior project (paid): optical infrared pulse transport and gamma-ray detector for gamma-ray inverse Compton scattering experiment at FAST (PHYS)
- senior project(s) on X-ray generation via channeling radiation (in collaboration with Fermilab)
- senior project(s) on ultrashort laser science (formation of femtosecond pulses and high-harmonic generation)
- senior project(s) analysis of field-emission data from a radio-frequency electron source (in collaboration with Fermilab)
Current Students
PhD Candidates & tentative title
- Matt Andorf, Optical Stochastic Cooling of electron bunches
- Aleksei Halavanau, Electron-beam manipulations and collective effects
- Anusorn Luangaramwong, Nano-patterned cathodes and phase-space exchanger for light-source applications
- Alexander Malyzhenko, Electron beam tailoring for enhanced accelerator-based light-source performances
- Jinlong Wang, Dielectric-based beam manipulation and acceleration
- Osama Mohsen, Ultra-cold electron sources and Application
Master Candidates & tentative title
- Andrei Kkhizhanok, design of an optical cavity for gamma-ray production via inverse Compton scattering
- Alexander Malyzhenko, Integrated klystron-linac "klynac" concept for compact accelerators
- Matthew Urfer, Ultra-stable coherent-stacking optical cavity for inverse-Compton scattering
Completed Dissertation & Master's Thesis
Ph.D. Dissertations
- Beam Manipulations and Accelerations with Dielectric-Lined Waveguides,
Francois Lemery
Ph.D. August 2015 - Investigations and Applications of Field- and Photo-emitted Electron Beams from a Radio Frequency Gun,
Harsha Panunganti
Ph.D. August 2015 - Advanced Phase Space Manipulations at the Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator,
-- Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator is now Fermilab Accelerator Science & Technology (FAST) facility --
Christopher Prokop
Ph.D. May 2014 - Measurement of sub-picosecond electron bunches via electro-optic sampling of coherent transition radiation,
Timothy Maxwell
Ph.D. May 2012 - Phase Space Manipulation in High-Brightness Electron Beams,
Marwan Rihaoui
Ph.D. August 2011
Master Thesis
- Ben Blomberg, A channeling radiation x-ray source at Fermilab's Advanced Superconducting Test Accelerator,
Master of Science Thesis (2014) - Coherent Inverse Compton Scattering,
Ivan Viti
Master of Science Thesis (2014) - Numerical Simulation of a Smith-Purcell Free-electron Laser Operating in the Backward Wave Oscillator Regime,
Christopher Prokop
Master of Science Thesis (2009) - Diffraction Analysis of Coherent Transition Radiation Interferometry in Electron Linear Accelerators,
Timothy Maxwell
Master of Science Thesis (2007) - Construction and Initial Characterization of a Low Energy Electron Source for Electron Microscopy,
Shafaq Moten
Master of Science Thesis (2007) - Impact of Photocathode Drive Laser Transverse Density Perturbation on a High Charge Electron Beam Produced in a Photoinjector,
Marwan Rihaoui
Master of Science Thesis (2007)
Undergraduate Projects
- Chason Zacher, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, "Investigation of fiber-based laser-pulse compression for High-harmonic generation in gas", Fall program 2014.
- Jamison Thorne, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, “Investigation of Performances of relativistic electron mirrors”, Northern Illinois University, Fall program 2013. Inspires
- Stephen Zownorega, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, “Installation and initial commissioning of a Low energy electron source for electron microscopy”, Northern Illinois University summer program, 2007, fall program 2007.
- Adam Bracke, Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, “Study of the ILC bunch post-damping ring bunch compressor”, Northern Illinois University summer program, 2007.
- Nicole Michelotti, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “Labview-based image acquisition and on-line analysis program”, Northern Illinois University summer program, 2006.