Prof. dr. Ken HAENEN
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Prof. dr. Ken HAENEN
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Prof. dr. Ken HAENEN
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Research
Discipline codes: Nanophysics and nanosystems (01030406), Materials physics not elsewhere classified (01030699), Semiconductors and semimetals (01030409), Applied and interdisciplinary physics (01039901), Semiconductor materials not elsewhere classified (02050799)
Supervised PhDs
Hybrid High Power Devices based on diamond layers
Rajesh Ramaneti for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Electronic transport phenomena, morphological characterization and sensing properties of aluminium doped zinc oxide thin films prepared by sputtering
Ahmet Yasin Atalay for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Tailored nanotip arrays in negative electron affinity materials as new route towards high performance field emitters
Derese Gugsa Desta for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
2D Hexagonal Boron Nitride - Thin Films and Nanowalls
Giridharan Krishnamurthy for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Determining the relationship between Ultrasonic Spray Coating parameters, droplet characteristics and layer formation
Pieter Verding for the title Doctor of Engineering Technology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Charge transfer between diamond electrodes and cyanobacteria
Essraa Ahmed for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Temperature-dependent dynamics of spontaneous and trauma-induced axon plasticity
Sarra Zaghbouni for the title Doctor of Biomedical Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Sustainable hydrogen production for space applications
Nora Colson for the title Doctor of Sciences (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Nanoscale diamond probes to modulate temperature-sensitive ion channels in neurons and phagocyte
Hendrik Jeuris for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Diamond Supercabatteries with High Power Densities and Energy Densities
Changli Li for the title Doctor of Sciences: Chemistry (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Development of diamond composite materials for flexible aqueous batteries with high energy density and wide operating potential.
Ximan Dong for the title Doctor of Sciences: Chemistry (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Copromotor
Heterostructures of polyaniline and boron-doped diamond for water-in-salt supercapacitors
Stephen Boahene for the title Doctor of Sciences: Materiomics (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Stress evolution and colour centre growth studies in CVD diamond films
Rani Mary Joy for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
Growth of diamond by means of first-principle calculations
Emerick Guillaume for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
Applications for Thermal Sensing using Boron-doped Nanocrystalline Diamond
Tim Clukers for the title Doctor of Engineering Technology in 2021
Supervised as Promotor
Heavily Boron-Doped CVD Diamond for Pseudo-Vertical Schottky Barrier Diodes
Rozita Rouzbahani Bayatani for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2021
Supervised as Promotor
Diamond Surface Functionalization: From Gemstone to Photoelectrochemical Applications
Jorne Raymakers for the title Doctor of Sciences: Chemistry in 2019
Supervised as Copromotor
Study and properties of neural bi-directional interfaces, fabricated by cell engulfment of boron-doped nanodiamond nanostructures
Matthew McDonald for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2018
Supervised as Copromotor
Nucleation and growth mechanisms of sputtered hexagonal boron nitride nanowalls
Duc Quang Hoang for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2017
Supervised as Promotor
Low temperature deposition and characterisation of high quality nanocrystalline diamond films for the fabrication of highly sensitive pressure sensing membranes.
Sien Drijkoningen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2017
Supervised as Promotor
Investigation of surface properties of boron doped diamond for constructing neuron-machine interfaces
Farnoosh Vahidpour for the title Doctor of Sciences in 2016
Supervised as Copromotor
Study of the CVD diamond growth mechanism in the presence of a metal-based interlayer
Giedrius Degutis for the title Doctor of Sciences: Chemistry in 2015
Supervised as Copromotor
The structural and electronic properties of lead phthalocyanine thin films on single crystal diamond
Wim Dexters for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Functionalization of Boron-Doped Diamond Surfaces for (Bio)Molecular Electronics
Weng Siang Yeap for the title Doctor of Sciences: Chemistry in 2015
Supervised as Promotor
Deposition and characterization of doped nanocrystalline diamond films and particles - toward applications in energy converters
Wiebke Janssen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2014
Supervised as Promotor
AlN thin films: stress, structural properties and optical phonos
Paulius Pobedinskas for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2012
Supervised as Promotor
Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanowalls: Physical Vapour Deposition, Structural and Optical Properties
Boumédiène Benmoussa for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2011
Supervised as Promotor
Morphological and electronic properties of strongly boron-doped diamond films prepared by chemical vapor deposition
Stoffel Janssens for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2011
Supervised as Copromotor
Growth and characterisation of phosphorus doped n-type CVD diamond films of various orientations and devices/applications based on these
Ileana Lazea for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2009
Supervised as Promotor
Thin nanocrystalline MW PE CVD diamond films: nucleation, growth,doping and electrical transport phenomena
Michaël Daenen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Physics in 2008
Supervised as Copromotor
Projects
54 research projects have been found
Heterostructures of polyaniline and boron-doped diamond for water-in-salt supercapacitors (Research)
21/11/2024 - 31/03/2027
Sustainable hydrogen production in space by radiation hard cyanobacterial biofilms in a photoelectrochemical (PEC) system using boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrodes (Research)
01/09/2022 - 31/08/2026
Diamond Supercabatteries with High Power Densities and Energy Densities (Research)
01/07/2024 - 30/11/2025
Fabrication of Optically Active Group-IV Defects in Diamond for Single Photon Emission and Photonic Integration (Research)
08/09/2025 - 17/09/2025
Diamond composite materials for high-performance flexible aqueous batteries (Research)
01/08/2024 - 30/06/2025
Diamond for chip-based quantum sensing in multi-electrode bioelectrical recordings in human iPSC-derived neurons and axonal networks. (Research)
01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024
Charge and energy transfer between cyanobacteria and semiconductor electrodes under gamma-irradiation (Research)
01/01/2020 - 31/12/2023
Growth and doping of graphene and diamond by means of first-principles calculations (Research)
01/09/2019 - 31/08/2023
Investigation of the interface formed between polycrystalline diamond and wide band gap semiconductors- silicon carbide and gallium nitride (Research)
01/01/2022 - 01/01/2022
n-type nanocrystalline diamond field emitters for plasma displays (Research)
01/03/2021 - 31/05/2021
Functional properties of two-dimensional nanostructured materials (Research)
01/01/2016 - 31/12/2020
Understanding wrinkling and its impact on the fundamental properties of large-area nanocrystalline diamond nanomembranes (Research)
01/10/2017 - 30/09/2020
Functionalization of boron-doped diamond surfaces for (bio)molecular electronics (Research)
01/01/2016 - 30/11/2019
Nanocrystalline Diamond-based Hybrid Thermionic Electron Emitters (Research)
01/10/2018 - 30/09/2019
Electronic structure of nÂtype nanocrystalline diamond: An xÂray spectroscopic study (Research)
27/05/2019 - 09/06/2019
Growth of phosphorus doped diamond for quantum information processing applications (Research)
11/03/2019 - 30/04/2019
2D hexagonal boron nitride nanostructures for water cleaning application (Research)
01/01/2019 - 31/03/2019
Electronic structure of nÂtype nanocrystalline diamond: An xÂ-ray spectroscopic study (Research)
14/01/2019 - 27/01/2019
Linear antenna microwave chemical vapour deposition (LA MW CVD) apparatus (Research)
01/09/2012 - 31/10/2018
Nanocrystalline Diamond-based Hybrid Thermionic Electron Emitters (Research)
01/10/2015 - 30/09/2018
Hole transport in n-type CVD diamond under high injection current in pseudo-vertical MOSFET. (Research)
01/01/2016 - 31/12/2017
Elucidating the role of 1-dimensional metal-oxide chains in the physical and chemical properties of porous metal-organic frameworks by means of density functional theory calculations. (Research)
01/03/2016 - 26/10/2017
Highly non-equilibrium electron relaxation mechanism in n-type CVD diamond (Research)
01/10/2014 - 30/09/2017
Doped CVD diamond layers: electrical and opto-electronic characterisation (Research)
01/10/2011 - 31/12/2016
Linear antenna microwave chemical vapour deposition for thermionic emission from n-type doped CVD diamond surfaces (Research)
01/10/2012 - 30/09/2016
Diamond devices for photocurrent-detected magnetic resonance of diamond spin qubits. (Research)
01/04/2016 - 30/06/2016
Interface characterization of CVD diamond/diamond:B multilayers for charge particle detection (Research)
01/01/2013 - 31/12/2015
FWO research project: Interplay between atomic layers and functional adsorbates (Research)
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015
Tailored nanotip arrays in negative affinity materials as new route towards high performance field emitters (Research)
01/01/2012 - 31/12/2015
Field Enhanced Thermionic Electron Emission from Surface Treated n-Type Doped Nanocrystalline Diamond Nanostructures. (Research)
01/10/2014 - 30/09/2015
Synthesis en characterisation of few layer graphene-nanocrystalline diamond hybrid films. (Research)
15/05/2015 - 30/06/2015
Matching the functional properties of nanoparticles and nanowires (Research)
01/01/2009 - 31/12/2013
Charge transfer in semiconducting polymer / CVD diamond heterostructures (Research)
01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
Study of mechanisms for diamond nucleation in the presence of a metal based interlayer (Research)
01/01/2010 - 31/12/2013
Fabrication of nanocrystalline diamond-based acoustic devices for (bio-)sensing purposes. (Research)
01/01/2008 - 31/12/2013
Formation and charge transfer mechanism in semiconducting polymer / CVD diamond heterostructures - POLYDIAM (Research)
01/01/2009 - 31/12/2012
Influence of plasma-conditions on the growth of thick, freestanding (100) diamond layers as studied by Time-Of-Flight. (Research)
01/10/2009 - 30/09/2012
Study of interface states in (ultra) nanocrystalline diamond/organic interfaces, a promising concept towards novel photovoltaics (Research)
01/10/2009 - 31/05/2012
Education
Involved in the following courses
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2025 - 2026
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