Richard Sandberg
Research: Development of novel optical and X-ray diagnostics to study materials in extreme conditions and materials at the nanoscale using ultrafast lasers, large scale (synchrotron, XFEL) and tabletop X-ray sources. Application of X-ray lensless or Coherent Diffraction Imaging (CDI) to the study of materials under extreme conditions and magnetic ordering at the nanoscale.
Professional Appointments
- June 2023 - Present: Associate Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University
- August 2019 - Present: Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University
- April 2011 - July 2019: Staff Member, Laboratory for Ultrafast Materials and Optical Science (LUMOS) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- June 2009 - April 2011:Director's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics (CASP) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Education
- PhD, M.S. in Physics -University of Colorado at Boulder and JILA
- B.S. in Physics, minors in Math, Business -Brigham Young University
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Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Josh Miller | Nash Karrington | Andres Herrera | Abi Mae Hardy |
Aaron Redd | Jacob Feltman | Christian McCombs | Levi Hancock |
Alumni
- 2021-2023: Matthew Ricks – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: "Dynamic probing of the high pressure and temperature phase transitions of Iron on millisecond timescales" - now at Stanford University graduate biomedical physics program
- 2021-2023: Christian McCombs – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: "Comparison between x-ray free electron laser phase contrast imaging (PCI) andhydrodynamic simulations of void collapse in PETN single crystals" - now at University of California at Berkeley graduate nuclear engineering program
- 2020-2023: Jacob Feltman – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Hard X-ray, Optical Transient Grating for Probing Ultrafast Dynamics in Solids” - now at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 2020-2023: Landon Schnebley – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Development of Robust Gold Nanoparticle Samples for Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging at Modern Beamlines with Increased X-ray Flux" - now at Sandia National Laboratory
- 2022: Alejandro (Alex) Morales –NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Intern, Brigham Young University – Idaho - now at USC astronautical engineering MS
- 2022: Hanna Pavill – NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Intern, Messiah University - now at Brigham Young University MS Physics
- 2021-2022: Naomi Jensen – Physics Major, Brigham Young University
- 2022: Bryce Anderson – Applied Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Capstone Project: “Developing Improvements to the Teaching of Lock-In Amplifiers in Physics 245”
- 2021-2022: William Giforos – Physics and Astronomy Major, Brigham Young University
- 2019-2022: Corbin Maciel – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “A Compilation of Dose Studies in Particle Therapy Treatment for Cancer”, now at UT Southwestern Medical Center graduate bioengineering program
- 2021-2022: Nathaniel Blanchard – Physics Major, Brigham Young University
- 2021-2022: David Anderson – Applied Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Capstone Project: “Teaching the Practical Principles of Fourier Optics in an Undergraduate Laboratory”
- Summer 2021: Kaylee Radford Nyborg – Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Intern, now at Brigham Young University MS Physics
- 2020-2021: Haley Craney – Physics Major, Brigham Young University
- 2020-2021: Hyrum Taylor – Physics Major, Brigham Young University - now a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- 2020-2021: Maeser Flake– Physics Major, Brigham Young University - now a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
- 2020-2021: McKayla Townsend Hansen – Applied Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Capstone Project: “Bragg Coherent Diffraction Strain Imaging of Temperature-Varied 14YWT Microcrystals” - now at Progressive Leasing
- 2019-2021: J. Nick Porter – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Etalon interference wavelength metrology using webcams,” BS 4/2021 - now graduate student at BYU.
- 2020: Ethan Wuthrich – Physics and Astronomy Major, Brigham Young University
- 2020: Susanne Byrd – Physics and Astronomy Major, Brigham Young University - now at Ohio State University
- 2019-2020: Carter Day – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Effects of Illumination Shadows in IPSII,” BS 6/2020, Entrepreneur
- 2019-2020: Dallen Petersen – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Motorized Mirror Controller with 3D Printed Parts,” BS 4/2020 - now at Amazon
- 2019-2020: Ben Whetten – Physics Major, Brigham Young University, Senior Thesis: “Wavenumber Error in Interference Pattern Lensless Imaging,” BS 4/2020 - now graduate student in physics at CU-Boulder
- 2019-2020: Chad Samuelson – Mechanical Engineering Major, Brigham Young University - now at Brigham Young University electrical and computer engineering graduate program