Jeffrey Kortright

LBNL Staff Scientist

jbkortright@lbl.gov
phone: 510-486-5960

Education
BS Physics Carleton College
PhD Materials Science & Engineering Stanford University

General Research Interests
Development and utilization of soft x-ray core resonant spectroscopy and scattering techniques to gain fundamental insight into functional properties of materials in terms of element-resolved electronic structure and the effects of chemical heterogeneity at short length scales.


MSD Research Projects:
Magnetic Materials

Fundamental Structural Studies of Hybrid Biomolecular Materials Using Scattering Techniques

J. B. Kortright, D. M. Lincoln, R. Shima Edelstein, and A. J. Epstein, “Bonding, backbonding, and spin-polarized molecular orbitals: Basis for magnetism and semiconducting transport in V[TCNE]x~2,” Physical Review Letters 100, 257204 (2008).