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Steve Kevan

Director
Division Office

Contact

sdkevan@lbl.govMailstop: 80R0114510-486-5039 (Office)
Location(s): 080-0230

Responsibilities

Oversee the ALS User program

Help build relationships within the ALS user community

Help manage relationships with ALS advisory committees

Lead strategic planning process for ALS and ALS-U

Manage ALS/ALS-U LDRD program

Enhance professional development of ALS scientific staff

Advise and participate in BES reviews of ALS/ALS-U

Oversee ALS cross-cutting reviews

Serve on LBNL committees

Help ensure a safe working environment at ALS

Manage ALS Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs

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     Interim 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

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