Professor
Office: 169 Kopchick Hall
Phone: 724-357-2192
Email: gregory.kenning@iup.edu
Education
PhD, Michigan State University, Phsics, 1988
MSc, Queens University, Physics, 1983
BSc, University of Manitoba, Physics, 1981
Field
Courses
PHYS 111/112, Introductory Physics
Research Interests
The primary focus of Dr. Kenning's research is magnetism including fundamental magnetic measurements, nanoscale and magnetic material science, and biophysics applications of magnetism.
Current Research
Dr. Kenning is currently working on several projects, which fall into the above-mentioned categories:
- Fundamental Magnetic Measurements
1.1) Noise measurements and the Fluctuation Dissipation Theory
1.2) Frustrated and Disordered Magnetic Materials - Nanoscale Physics and Applications
2.1) Magnetic Nanoparticles
2.2) Multilayer nanoparticles and thin films - Applied Bio Physics and Medical Devices3.1) Cancer Detection using Monoclonal Antibody Targeted Magnetic Nanoparticles and SQUID Scanner Magnetometery3.2) Mapping the Magnetism of the Human Body
Publications
Kenning G.G. , D.L.Schlagel, V.Thompson-, Physical Review B102, 064427 - Published 26 August 2020
Qiang Zhai, V. Martin-Mayor , Deborah L. Schlagel, Gregory G. Kenning, and Raymond L. Orbach, Slowing down of spin glass correlation length growth: Simulations meet experiments, Physical Review B 100, 094202 (2019)
Gregory G. Kenning, Daniel M. Tennant, Christina M. Rost, Fagner Garrote da Silva, Brian J. Walters, Qiang Zhai, David C. Harrison, E. Dan Dalhberg, and Raymond L. Orbach, End of aging as a probe of finite-size effects near the spin-glass transition temperature, Phys. Rev. B 98, 104436 - Published 28 September 2018
Qiang Zhai, David C. Harrison, Daniel Tennant, E. Dan Dalhberg, Gregory G. Kenning, and Raymond L. Orbach, Glassy dynamics in CuMn thin-film multilayers, Phys. Rev. B 95, 054304 - Published 6 February 2017
M.R. Madden, T. Alshammary, B. Grove, J. Phillips, K. Reaz, S. Hensley and G.G. Kenning, , Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 117, Issue 10, 2015
Samaresh Guchhait, Gregory G. Kenning, Raymond L. Orbach, and Gilberto F. Rodriguez, , Phys. Rev. B 91, 014434 - Published 28 January 2015
Kenning, G.G., Development of a Nanoparticle Time-Temperature Sensor for Passive and Active RFID, RFID (IEEE RFID), 2014 IEEE International Conference on, p134 - 140, 8-10 April 2014
G. F. Rodriguez, G. G. Kenning, R. Orbach, , Phys. Rev. B 88, 054302 (2013)
Gregory. G. Kenning, Christopher Heidt, Aaron Barnes, James Martin, Benjamin Grove, and Michael Madden, , J. Appl. Phys. 110, 114312 (2011)
G.G. Kenning, J. Bowen, P. Sibani and G.F. Rodriguez, , Physical Review B 81, 1 (2010)
Paolo Sibani and Gregory G. Kenning, , Physical Review E 81, 011108 (2010)
Sibani, P. Rodriguez, G.F. and G.G. Kenning, Intermittent Quakes and Record Dynamics in the Thermoremanent Magnetization of a Spin-glass, Physical Review B 74, 224407 (2006)
Kenning, G.G., Rodriguez, G.F. and R. Orbach, , Physical Review Letters, 97, 057201 (2006)
Kenning, G.G., Rodriguez, R. Moslemi, A. Wilson, S., Hawel, L., Byus, C. and Kovach, J., , Review of Scientific Instruments Vol. 76, No. 1 (2005)
Rodriguez, G., Kenning, G.G. and Orbach, R., , Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, No. 3, 037203-1, July 18, 2003.
Zotev, V.S., Rodriguez, G. F., Kenning, G.G. Orbach R., Vincent E. and Hammann, J. , Physical Review B, 6718(18):4422, 2003 May 1.
Zotev, V.S.; Kenning, G.G.; Orbach, R. . Physical Review B (Condensed Matter and Materials Physics), vol.66, (no.1), APS through AIP, p.014412/1-10, 1 July 2002.
Kenning, G.G.; Joh, Y.G.; Chu, D.; Orbach, R. . Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), vol.52, (no.5), p.3479-831, Aug. 1995.
Chu, D., Kenning, G.G. and Orbach R., Effect of Magnetic Field on the Relaxation of the Thermoremenant Magnetization in Spin-Glasses, Philosophical Magazine B 71, 479 (1995)
Chu, D.; Kenning, G.G.; Orbach, R. . Physical Review Letters, vol.72, (no.20p.3270-3) ), 16 May 1994.
Kenning, G.G.; Chu, D.; Orbach, R. . Physical Review Letters, vol.66, (no.22), p.2923-6, 3 June 1991.
Mattsson, J.; Granberg, P.; Lundgren, L.; Nordblad, P.; Kenning, G.; Cowen, J.A., . Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol.104-107, pt.3, (ICM), 1991.
Kenning, G.G., Chu, D., Alavi B, Hammann, J.M. and R. Orbach, , Journal of Applied Physics 69(8), 5240 (1991).
Kenning, G.G.; Bass, J.; Pratt, W.P., Jr.; Leslie-Pelecky, D.; Hoines, L.; Leach, W.; Wilson, M.L.; Stubi, R.; Cowen, J.A. . Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), vol.42, (no.4), p.2393-415, 1 Aug. 1990.
Granberg, P.; Nordblad, P.; Svedlindh, P.; Lundgren, L.; Stubi, R.; Kenning, G.G.; Leslie-Pelecky, D.L.; Bass, J.; Cowen, J. . Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 67, (no.9, pt.2B), (Thirty-Fourth Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Boston, MA, USA, 28 Nov.-1 Dec. 1989, p.5252-4, .) 1 May 1990.
Sandlund, L.; Granberg, P.; Lundgren, L.; Nordblad, P.; Svedlindh, P.; Cowen, J.A.; Kenning, G.G. . Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), vol. 40, (no.1), p.869-72, 1 July 1989.
Cowen, J.A., Kenning, G.G. and J. Bass, , Journal of Applied Physics 64,5781 (1988).
Kenning, G.G.; Slaughter, J.M.; Cowen, J.A. . Physical Review Letters, vol.59, (no.22), p.2596-9, 30 Nov. 1987.
, J.A. Cowen, G.G. Kenning and J.M. Slaughter, Journal of Applied Physics 61,8 (1987).
Gaunt, P. Kenning, G.G. and Ram, U.S., , Journal of Applied Physics, 53 (1981).