Carrie, Ph.D Donley

Carrie, Ph.D Donley

Spectroscopist

CHANL
   Chapman 243
   919-843-2859
   cdonley@email.unc.edu


Responsibilities

Carrie was the director of CHANL for 12 years before deciding she wanted to spend more time in the lab. She now oversees many of the spectroscopy tools in CHANL including the x-ray photoelectron spectrometer (XPS), x-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared and infrared microscope (FTIR), UV-Vis microspectrophotometer (MSP), atomic force microscope (AFM), and the nanoindenter.  Contact her with questions about any of these tools in CHANL.

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Arizona
Postdoc in the Optoelectronics group at the University of Cambridge (UK)
Postdoc in the Quantum Science Research group at Hewlett Packard
BA in Chemistry, Ripon College

Personal Interests

When not in the lab Carrie enjoys keeping bees, tending to her garden, making soap, recycling yarn, practicing yoga and cycling.

News & Publications

Here, we examine trivalent metal carbides with varying degrees of electronegativity and experimentally synthesize Sc2C.