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I would like to thank first and foremost my thesis advisor, Professor Schibli. He has spent countless hours with me, both in the lab helping me to better understand the experiment and encouraging me though the lengthy writing process. Secondly I would like to thank John Roberts, with whom I worked on the majority of the experiment with. We spent the entire summer on the project, from its humble beginnings to its final complete form. Without his knowledge of computing I would still be at square one. Thirdly I would like to thank Chien-Chung Lee for all his help and for providing the samples. Chien-Chung was there every day with always willing to answer my questions, no matter how foolish they were. He also spent many hours constructing every part the graphene modulator samples, which I used as test cutting samples. He did everything from growing the graphene to spending many hours in the Colorado Nanofabrication Laboratory so that we could have samples for test cutting. I would also like to thank my partner, Max Ruth, who recently started workin