
Steve Kevan
Director
Division Office
Responsibilities
Oversee all ALS operations
Manage the ALS relationship with the the Office of Basic Energy Sciences at the Department of Energy
Represent ALS across LBNL, particularly in the Energy Sciences Area and with the ALS Upgrade project
Maintain and develop relationships with partners around LNBL and beyond
Interact and collaborate with leadership of other BES-supported X-ray facilities
Help manage relationships with ALS advisory committees
Oversee reviews of ALS
Oversee efforts to ensure a safe working environment at ALS
Biographical Information
1976 B.A., Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct.
1980 Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
1980 Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories
1986 Associate Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
1991 Professor of Physics, University of Oregon
2007 Physics Department Head, University of Oregon
2012 Division Deputy for Science, Advanced Light Source
2018 Director, Advanced Light Source
Research Interests
Interface and 2D physics
Surface, interface, and thin film electronic and magnetic structures
Nanoscale material fluctuations and emergent complexity
Soft x-ray science and technology.
Selected Publications
Synthesizing skyrmion bound pairs in Fe-Gd thin films, J. C. T Lee, J. J. Chess, S. A. Montoya, X. Shi, N. Tamura, S. K. Mishra, P. Fischer, B. J. McMorran, S. K. Sinha, E. E. Fullerton, S. D. Kevan and S. Roy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 022402 (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4955462
Coupled Skyrmion Sublattices in Cu2OseO3, M.C. Langner, S. Roy, S. K. Mishra, J. C. T. Lee, X. W. Shi, M. A. Hossain, Y.-D. Chuang, S. Seki, Y. Tokura, S. D. Kevan, and R. W. Schoenlein, Phys. Rev. Lett., 112, 167202 (2014). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.167202
Emergent Rotational Symmetries in Disordered Magnetic Domain Patterns, Run Su, Keoki Seu, Daniel Parks, Jimmy J. Kan, Eric E. Fullerton, Sujoy Roy, Stephen D. Kevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 257204 (2011). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.257204
Lensless X-Ray Imaging in Reflection Geometry, S. Roy, D. Parks, K.A. Seu, R. Su, J.J. Turner, W. Chao, E.H.Anderson,S. Cabrini, and S.D. Kevan, Nature Photonics 5, 243 (2011). doi:10.1038/nphoton.2011.11
Quasiparticle Transformation during a Metal-Insulator Transition in Graphene, Aaron Bostwick, Jessica L. McChesney, Konstantin V. Emtsev, Thomas Seyller, Karsten Horn, Stephen D. Kevan, and Eli Rotenberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 056404 (2009). dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.056404
Orbital Domain Dynamics in a Doped Manganite, J.J. Turner, K.J. Thomas, J.P. Hill, M.A. Pfeifer, K. Chesnel, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, and S.D. Kevan, New J. Phys. 10, 053023 (2008). doi:10.1088/1367-2630/10/5/053023
Disorder-induced microscopic magnetic memory, M.S. Pierce, C.R. Buechler, L.B. Sorensen, J.J. Turner, S.D. Kevan, E.A. Jagla, J.M. Deutsch, T. Mai, O. Narayan, J.E. Davies, K. Liu, J. Hunter Dunn, K.M. Chesnel, J.B. Kortright, O. Hellwig, E. E. Fullerton, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 017202 (2005). doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017202
Controlling the Magnetic Ground State Cr1-xVx(110) Films, Oleg Krupin, Eli Rotenberg, and S. D. Kevan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147208 (2007). doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.147208
Speckle Patterns with Atomic and Molecular de Broglie Waves, Forest Patton, Daniel Deponte, Stephen Kevan, and Greg Elliot, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 013202 (2006). doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.013202
Coupling between Adsorbate Vibrations and an Electronic Surface State, E. Rotenberg, J. Schaefer, and S.D. Kevan, Phys. Rev. Lett., 84, 2925 (2000). doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2925