Materials Chemistry and Biomolecular Materials at Ames Laboratory

Paul C. Canfield
Senior Physicist, Ames Laboratory
Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University

59 Physics Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
phone 515.294.6270, fax 515.294.0689, email: canfield@ameslab.gov

Education

Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA	1990
B.S. Physics (Summa Cum Laude) , University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA	1983

Professional Appointments

Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University	2006 - Present
Senior Physicist, Ames Laboratory	2001 - Present
Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University	2001 - 2006
Associate Professor with Tenure, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University	1998 - 2001
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University	1996 - 1998
Associate Physicist, Ames Laboratory	1995 - 2001
Adjunct Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Iowa State University	1994 - 1996
Associate Physicist, Ames Laboratory	1993 - 1995
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM	1990 - 1993

Honors, Awards and Professional Activities

Fellow, American Physical Society	2002
Divisional Associate Editor, Physical Review Letters	2002

Selected Publications

Y. Janssen, M. Angst, K. W. Dennis, R. W. McCallum, and P. C. Canfield, “Differential thermal analysis and solution growth of intermetallic compounds,” J. Cryst. Growth, 285(4), 670 (2005).

P. C. Canfield and S. Bud'Ko, “Low-temperature superconductivity is warming up,” Scientific American, 292(4), 80 (2005).

S. L. Bud'ko, E. Morosan, and P. C. Canfield, “Magnetic field induced non-Fermi-liquid behavior in YbAgGe single crystals,” Phys. Rev. B, 69(1), 014415 (2004).

E. Morosan, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, M. S. Torikachvili, and A. H. Lacerda, “Thermodynamic and transport properties of RAgGe (R=Tb-Lu) single crystals,” J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 277(3), 298 (2004).

R. H. T. Wilke, S. L. Bud'ko, P. C. Canfield, D. K. Finnemore, R. J. Suplinskas, and S. T. Hannahs, “Systematic effects of carbon doping on the superconducting properties of Mg(B_1-xC_x)₂,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 92(21), 217003 (2004).

H. Suderow, S. Vieira, J. D. Strand, S. Bud'ko, and P. C. Canfield, “Very-low-temperature tunneling spectroscopy in the heavy-fermion superconductor PrOs₄Sb₁₂,” Phys. Rev. B, 69(6), 060504 (2004).

P. C. Canfield and I. R Fisher, “High-temperature solution growth of intermetallic single crystals and quasicrystals,” J. Cryst. Growth, 225, 155 (2001).

S. L. Bud’ko, Z. Islam, T. A. Wiener, I. R. Fisher, A. H. Lacerda, and P. C. Canfield, “Anisotropy and metamagnetism in the RNi₂Ge₂ (R = Y, La-Nd, Sm-Lu) series,” J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 205, 53 (1999).

I. R. Fisher, K. O. Cheon, A. F. Panchula, P. C. Canfield, M. Chernikov, H. R. Ott, and K. Dennis, “Magnetic and transport properties of single-grain R-Mg-Zn icosahedral quasicrystals [R=Y, (Y_1-xGd_x), (Y_1-xTb_x), Tb, Dy, Ho, and Er],” Phys. Rev. B, 59, 308 (1999).

P. C. Canfield, P. L. Gammel, and D. J. Bishop, “New magnetic superconductors: A toy box for solid-state physicist,” Physics Today, 51, 40 (1998).

P. C. Canfield and Z. Fisk, “Growth of single crystals from metallic fluxes,” Philos. Mag. B, 65, 1117 (1992).

Materials Chemistry and
Biomolecular Materials Program

Ames Laboratory
Iowa State University
142 Spedding Hall
Ames, IA 50011 USA

Phone: 1.515.294.7568
FAX: 1.515.294.4709