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Kimberly's Research Group

Staff Scientist

Sebastian Lehman

Sebastian's research primarily focuses on the fabrication and properties of different crystal phases in III-V semiconductor nanowires. He is also responsible for the Aixtron CCS reactor used for most of the nanowire growth conducted in this group.

Research Engineer

Daniel Jacobsson

Daniel is responsible for the new in-situ TEM designed for real-time analysis of III-V nanowire growth.

Postdocs

Karl Wrinkler

Karl is an expert in electrical and optical characterization. He is focussing on understanding the properties of nanowires seeded with alternatives metals, including electrical properties.

Hanna Kindlund

Hanna is an expert on semiconductor growth and materials science. Her research focuses on development of novel antimonide materials including AlSb nanowires.

Carina Babu Maliakkal

Carina is a nanowire growth expert and studies the growth of semiconductor nanowires in-situ using transmission electron microscopy.

Heidi Potts

Heidi is developing and investigating crystal phase quantum dots in InAs nanowires using electrical measurements and TEM.

PhD students

Erik Mårtensson

Erik's research involves the effect of alternative seed particle material on nanowire properties, and includes both modeling and experimental studies.

Marcus Tornberg

Marcus is investigating fundamental processes in nanowire growth, particularly interfacial processes such as kinking and structural changes, using both conventional growth and in-situ TEM.

Luna Namazi

Luna is developing the growth and studying the properties of complex nanowire heterostructure of interest for electronic applications.

Rong Sun

Rong is investigating the growth of III-V semiconductor nanowires with alternative seed particle materials, with current focus on Sn particles.

Robert Hallberg

Robert's research focuses on the development of aerosol nanoparticles for growth of nanowires with alternative seed particles.

Master, Bachelor and project students

Robin Sjökvist

Robin is investigating ordering in ternary III-V nanowires, together with Hanna and Erik.

Former Group members

Reza Zamani (postdoc 2015-2016)

Reza is an expert on transmission electron microscopy. His research involved investigating a variety of advanced nanowire materials using HRTEM, EELS, aberration-corrected STEM and related techniques. He was the main supervisor of master students Louise Gren and Jie Niu (below). He is now a research engineer at Chalmers.

Martin Ek (postdoc 2015-2016)

Martin was an international postdoc, spending 2/3 of his time at the Georgia Institute of Technology studying nanowire surface chemistry (by in-situ IR spectroscopy), and 1/3 of his time at Lund University studying nanowire growth by in-situ TEM. He is now a researcher at Lund University.

Magnus Dahl (master student 2016-2017)

Magnus studied the growth of branches in InAsSb nanowires. Luna was his supervisor.

Louise Gren (master student 2016-2017)

Louise conducted advanced TEM investigations on complex heterostructure nanowires. Reza was her supervisor. She is now a PhD student in Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology, Lund University.

Hengfang Zhang (master student, 2016-2017)

Hengfang worked with Sepideh to study the growth of InSb nanowires using Sn. She is now a PhD student at Linköping University.

Louise Laurenius (bachelor and master student, 2015-2016)

Louise first did a bachelor project investigating the growth of InSb nanowires using Sn particles, followed by a master project in collaboration with IBM in Zurich. Sepideh was her main supervisor. She is now an optical engineer at Infinera.

Sepideh Gorji Ghalamestani (PhD student 2010-2014, postdoc 2014-2016)

Sepideh's research focused on fabrication of complex ternary and heterostructure nanowires, with primary focus on antimonide materials. She is now working at AwaPatent.

Jie Niu (master student 2015-2016)

Jie used TEM and FIB to investigate the nucleation stages of Sn-seeded nanowires. Reza was her main supervisor.

Amanda Andreasson (summer student 2015)

Amanda's research focused on investigating the growth of III-V nanowires using low-melting-temperature aerosol nanoparticle seeds

Elias Torres Alonso (Master student 2014)

Elias developed the growth of antimonide nanowires in the new MOCVD system. He is now a PhD student at University of Exeter.

Dario Stjärnemyr Ghidini (Master student 2011-2012)

Dario's research focused on development of GaPSb-containing axial and radial nanowire heterostructures.

16 Nov 2020