Kimberley Thelander

"Design of advanced one-dimensional semiconductor materials"

Kimberly Thelander is a Professor in Materials Science at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, appointed jointly at the division of Solid State Physics and the Center for Analysis and Synthesis. She completed undergraduate studies in Chemical Physics at the University of Waterloo, Canada, followed by a PhD in Physics from Lund University. Her research is focused on the development of novel materials in nanostructures, specifically focused on unusual polytypes and alloy semiconductors in III-V nanowires. Most recently she is involved in the development of in-situ TEM for real-time investigations of nanowire growth.

Kimberly's research group is involved in the fabrication and characterization of nanostructures, particularly III-V semiconductor nanowires, primarily by vapour-phase epitaxy and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Her group is specifically interested in the fundamental processes involved in nanostructure fabrication, including nucleation effects and design of new materials. Specific research topics include:

Controlled fabrication of heterostructures in mismatched materials.
Design of ternary III-V materials.
Control and engineering of crystal phases within nanowires.
Fabrication of antimonide-based ternary and heterostructure nanowires.