Associate Professor of Applied Physics and of Physics
Lab. for Advanced Materials
McCullough Bldg., Room 356
(650) 723-6804
Email: kmoler@stanford.edu
Website: http://www.stanford.edu/group/moler/

Professional Experience and Honors

• R.H. Dicke Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 1995-98.
• Visiting Scientist, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 1995.
• B.S. 1988, Ph.D. 1995, Stanford University.
• Eastman Kodak Scholar, 1986-88.
• NSF Fellow, 1989-92.
• The Carrington Award, 1988.
• Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant, 1990.
• Kirkpatrick Teaching Award, 1992 at Stanford University.

Research Interests

• Physics of nanostructured materials.
• Local magnetic probes
• Experimental Condensed Matter
• Superconductivity
• Microscopy and Imaging

Publications

J.C. Wynn, D.A. Bonn, B.W. Gardner, Yu-Ju Lin, Ruixing Liang, W.N. Hardy, J.R. Kirtley, and K.A. Moler, "Limits on spin-charge separation from h/2e fluxoids in very underdoped YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x," To be published in Physical Review Letters.

Per G. Björnsson, Brian W. Gardner, John R. Kirtley, and Kathryn A. Moler, "Scanning SQUID microscope in a dilution refrigerator," To be published in Review of Scientific Instruments, November 2001.

J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, H. Raffy, Z.Z. Li, V.G. Kogan, J.R. Clem, and K.A. Moler, "Direct measurement of single fluxoid dynamics in superconducting rings," submitted to Physical Review Letters.

D.A. Bonn, Brian Gardner, Janice C. Wynn, Yu-Ju Lin, Ruixing Liang, W.N. Hardy, J.R. Kirtley, and K.A. Moler, "Scanning magnetometry tests for visons in very underdoped cuprate superconductors," submitted to Nature.

J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, and K.A. Moler, "Imaging unconventional vortices with a scanning SQUID microscope," in Some Modern Aspects of the Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, Series "Cuadernos de Apoyo" (Publishing Service of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, 2001).

B.W. Gardner, J.C. Wynn, P.G. Björnsson, E.W.J. Straver, J.R. Kirtley, M.B. Ketchen, and K.A. Moler, "Scanning superconducting quantum interference device susceptometry," Review of Scientific Instruments 72, 2361 (2001).

K.A. Moler, J.R. Kirtley, Ruixing Liang, D.A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy, J.M. Williams, J.A. Schlueter, D.G. Hinks, G.Villard, A.Maignan, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi, "Images of interlayer Josephson vortices in single-layer cuprates," Proceedings of M2S HTSC, Houston, TX. Feb. 20-25, 2000. Physica C 341-348, 977-980 (2000).

J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, and K.A.Moler, "Temperature Dependence of the Half-Integer Magnetic Flux Quantum," Science 285, 1373-1375 (1999).

J.R. Kirtley, C.C. Tsuei, K.A. Moler, V.G. Kogan, J.R. Clem, and A.J. Turberfield, "Variable Sample Temperature Scanning SQUID Microscope," Appl. Phys. Lett. 74, 4011, (1999).

J. R. Kirtley, K. A. Moler, J. M. Williams, and J. A. Schlueter, "Inhomogeneous Interlayer Josephson Coupling in k-(BEDT-TTF)₂Cu(NCS)₂," J. Phys. B 11, 2007 (1999).

J. R. Kirtley, V.G. Kogan, J.R. Clem, K.A. Moler, "Magnetic field of an in-plane vortex outside a layered superconductor," Phys. Rev. B 59, 4343 (1999).

J. R. Kirtley, K.A. Moler, G. Villard, A. Maignan, "c-axis penetration depth of Hg-1201 single crystals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2140-2143 (1998).

A. A. Tsvetkov, D. van der Marel, K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, J. L. de Boer, A. Meetsma, Z. F. Ren, N. N. Kolesnikov, D. Dulic, A. Damascelli, M. Gruninger, J. Schutzmann, J. W. van der Eb, H. S. Somal, and J. H. Wang, "Global and local measures of the intrinsic Josephson coupling in Tl₂Ba₂CuO₆ as a test of the interlayer tunnelling model," Nature 395, 360-362 (1998).

K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, J. Mannhart, and H. Hilgenkamp, "Magnetic flux at interfaces in YBCO," in The Superconducting State in Magnetic Fields: Special Topics and New Trends, Edited by Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo, Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics, Vol. 13, p. 1, World Scientific, Singapore (1998).

K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, D. Hinks, Ting Wei Li, Ming Xu, "Images of interlayer Josephson vortices in Tl₂Ba₂CuO_6+d," Science 279, 1193-1196 (1998).

J. R. Kirtley, K. A. Moler, and D. J. Scalapino, "Spontaneous flux and magnetic interference patterns in 0-p Josephson junctions," Phys. Rev. B 56, 886 (1997).

K. A. Moler, J. R. Kirtley, Ruixing Liang, D. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy, "Scanning SQUID microscopy of sparsely twinned YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d," Phys. Rev. B 55, 12753 (1997).

K. A. Moler, D. L. Sisson, J. S. Urbach, M. R. Beasley, D. J. Baar, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, and A. Kapitulnik, "Specific heat of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-d," Phys. Rev. B 55, 3954 (1997).

J. Mannhart, H. Hilgenkamp, B. Mayer, Ch. Gerber, J. R. Kirtley, K. A. Moler, and M. Sigrist, "Generation of magnetic flux by single grain boundaries of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-x," Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 2782-2785 (1996).

J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, Martin Rupp, J. Z. Sun, Lock See Yu-Jahnes, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, K. A. Moler, and M. Bhushan, "Direct imaging of integer and half-integer Josephson vortices in high-Tc grain boundaries," Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 1336-1339 (1996).

K. A. Moler, A. L. Fetter, and A. Kapitulnik, "Proposed thermodynamic method to determine the vortex mass in layered superconductors," J. Low Temp. Phys. 100, 185 (1995).

K. A. Moler, D. J. Baar, J. S. Urbach, Ruixing Liang, W. N. Hardy, and A. Kapitulnik, "Magnetic field dependence of the density of states of YBa₂Cu₃O_6.95 as determined from the specific heat," Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2744-2747 (1994).

K. A. Moler, D. S. Weiss, M. Kasevich, and S. Chu, "Theoretical analysis of velocity-selective Raman transitions," Phys. Rev. A 45, 342 (1992).

M. Kasevich, D. S. Weiss, E. Riis, K. Moler, S. Kasapi, and S. Chu, "Atomic velocity selection using stimulated Raman transitions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 66, 2297-2300 (1991).

E. Riis, D. S. Weiss, K. A. Moler, and S. Chu, "Atom funnel for the production of a slow, high-density atomic beam," Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 1658 (1990).