Associate Professor Marion Stevens-Kalceff

Position

Deputy Director, Electron Microscope Unit (Also Associate Professor - School of Physics)

Contact

Email: Marion.Stevens-Kalceff@unsw.edu.au
Ph: + 61 2 9385 6383
Fax: + 61 2 9385 6400

Qualifications

BSc. 1980 (ANU), PhD. 1985 (Physics - UNSW)

Role

Assisting the Director in the management of the Unit and providing academic support to  the Unit including academic leadership in scanning probe microscopy techniques and variable pressure/environmental scanning electron microscopy and microanalysis.

Background

2004-present Deputy Director, Electron Microscope Unit and Associate Professor in Physics, UNSW

1999-2004 ARF/QEII Fellow (Australian Research Council), School of Physics, UNSW, (transferred from UTS in October 2001)

1994-99 Insearch Post Doctoral Research Fellow and UTS Research Fellow, Faculty of Science, UTS

1993 Research Scientist, MSEL, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersberg MD, USA

1985-92 part-time teaching of undergraduate physics, interruption to research due to family responsibilities

Research Interests

Microcharacterisation of the defect structures of wide band gap and insulating materials, in particular silicon dioxide polymorphs, III-V semiconductors, silicon and diamond, and nanostructured variants of these materials

Irradiation induced microstructural defect generation and transformation in wideband gap and insulating materials

Charge trapping in wide band gap and insulating materials (electron/ion - material interactions)

Cathodoluminescence Microanalysis (spectroscopy and microscopy)

Scanning Electron Microscopy/ Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy

Scanning Probe Microscopy, in particular electrical/ potential techniques

Awards

Oxford Instruments Award 1996 for research excellence in electron microscopy by an early career researcher

Publications

Papers include:

Stevens-Kalceff M.A. and Wong J. Distribution of Defects Induced in Fused Silica by UV Laser Pulses Before and After Treatment with a CO 2 Laser. Journal of Applied Physics97, 113519_1-8 (2005).

Stevens-Kalceff, M.A. “Kelvin Probe Microscopy of Localized Electric Potentials Induced In Insulating Materials by Electron Irradiation”. Microscopy and Microanalysis, 10(6), 797-803 (2004).

Stevens Kalceff, M.A. , Stesmans, A. and Wong, J. "Defects induced in fused silica by high fluence UV laser pulses at 355nm." Applied Physics Letters80(5), 758 (2002).

Stevens Kalceff, M.A. "Micro-modification of silicon dioxide in a Variable Pressure/ Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope" Applied Physics Letters79, 3050 (2001).

Stevens Kalceff, M.A. , Tiginyanu, I.M., Langa S., Foll H. and Hartnagel, H.L. "Correlation between morphology and cathodoluminescence in porous GaP." Journal of Applied Physics 89, 2560 (2001).

Stevens Kalceff, M.A. "Direct Observation of Electron Irradiation Induced Radiolytic Oxygen Generation and Micro-segregation in Silicon Dioxide Polymorphs." Physical Review Letters 84(14), 3137-3140 (2000).

Stevens Kalceff M.A. et al. "Cathodoluminescence Microcharacterisation of Silicon Dioxide Polymorphs" in "Cathodoluminescence in Geosciences" eds. M.Pagel, V. Barbin, P. Blanc and D. Ohnenstetter. Springer-Verlag (2000) Berlin. (invited)

Stevens-Kalceff M.A , Thorogood G.J. and Short K.T. Charge Trapping and Defect Segregation in Quartz. Journal of Applied Physics86(1), 205 (1999).

Stevens Kalceff, M.A. "Cathodoluminescence Microcharacterization of the defect structure of irradiated hydrated and anhydrous fused silicon dioxide." Physical Review B 57(9), 5672-5683 (1998).