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Bengt Gunnar Svensson

Bengt Gunnar Svensson

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Materials Science

D-Index
64
Citations
14565
World Ranking
5900
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering and sustained contributions to ionsolid interactions and defects, doping and diffusion in Si, SiGe, SiC and oxide semiconductors

Overview

Bengt Gunnar Svensson was affiliated with the University of Oslo in Norway. Their research spanned multiple topics within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. The scientist contributed extensively to understanding ion channel regulation and function, cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias, receptor mechanisms and signaling, genetic neurodegenerative diseases, and neuroscience-related fields.

The main fields of study covered in Svensson's work included:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Medicine

Within these, the subfields they predominantly focused on were:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Physiology
  • Materials Chemistry

The thematic focus of their research included these main topics:

  • Ion channel regulation and function
  • Cardiac electrophysiology and arrhythmias
  • Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism

Svensson published in various scientific venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Cells
  • ACS Chemical Biology

Several recent papers showcased aspects of their research, including:

  • Live-Cell Cardiac-Specific High-Throughput Screening Platform for Drug-Like Molecules That Enhance Ca2+ Transport, 2020, Cells
  • Impact of post annealing and hydrogen implantation on functional properties of Cu2O thin films for photovoltaic applications, 2020, Journal of Alloys and Compounds
  • Novel drug discovery platform for spinocerebellar ataxia, using fluorescence technology targeting β-III-spectrin, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Early-phase drug discovery of β-III-spectrin actin-binding modulators for treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia type 5, 2023, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • RyR2 Binding of an Antiarrhythmic Cyclic Depsipeptide Mapped Using Confocal Fluorescence Lifetime Detection of FRET, 2023, ACS Chemical Biology

The scientist often collaborated with a number of frequent co-authors, including:

  • David D. Thomas
  • Rǎzvan L. Cornea
  • Robyn T. Rebbeck
  • Donald M. Bers
  • Jingyan Zhang

Bengt Gunnar Svensson received recognition as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2014 for pioneering and sustained contributions to ion-solid interactions and defects, doping, and diffusion in silicon-based and oxide semiconductors.

Best Publications

  • Radiation hard silicon detectors—developments by the RD48 (ROSE) collaboration

    G Lindström;M Ahmed;S Albergo;P Allport

  • Identification of oxygen and zinc vacancy optical signals in ZnO

    T. Moe Børseth;B. G. Svensson;A. Yu. Kuznetsov;Peter Klason

  • Negative-U System of Carbon Vacancy in 4H-SiC

    NT Son;X T Trinh;Lars Sundnes Løvlie;Bengt Gunnar Svensson

  • Iron and intrinsic deep level states in Ga2O3

    M. E. Ingebrigtsen;J. B. Varley;A. Yu. Kuznetsov;B. G. Svensson

  • Electronic structure and optical properties of ZnX ( X=O, S, Se, Te): A density functional study

    S. Zh. Karazhanov;P. Ravindran;A. Kjekshus;H. Fjellvåg

  • Self-compensation in semiconductors: the Zn-vacancy in Ga-doped ZnO

    David C. Look;K. D. Leedy;L. Vines;B. G. Svensson

  • Impact of proton irradiation on conductivity and deep level defects in β-Ga2O3

    M. E. Ingebrigtsen;A. Yu. Kuznetsov;B. G. Svensson;G. Alfieri

  • Energetics of intrinsic defects and their complexes in ZnO investigated by density functional calculations

    R. Vidya;P. Ravindran;H. Fjellvåg;B. G. Svensson

  • Vacancy defect and defect cluster energetics in ion-implanted ZnO

    Yufeng Dong;Filip Tuomisto;B.G. Svensson;A.Yu. Kuznetsov

  • Temperature dependence and decay times of zinc and oxygen vacancy related photoluminescence bands in zinc oxide

    Peter Klason;Thomas Moe Børseth;Qing X. Zhao;Bengt G. Svensson

  • Structural and morphological properties of ZnO:Ga thin films

    V. Khranovskyy;U. Grossner;O. Nilsen;V. Lazorenko

  • Developments for radiation hard silicon detectors by defect engineering—results by the CERN RD48 (ROSE) Collaboration

    G. Lindström;M. Ahmed;S. Albergo;P. Allport

  • Heavy doping effects in the diffusion of group IV and V impurities in silicon

    A. Nylandsted Larsen;K. Kyllesbech Larsen;P. E. Andersen;B. G. Svensson

  • Overlapping electron traps in n‐type silicon studied by capacitance transient spectroscopy

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  • Large-Scale Electronic Structure Calculations of Vacancies in 4H-SiC Using the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof Screened Hybrid Density Functional

    Tamas Hornos;Adam Gali;Bengt Gunnar Svensson

  • Gettering of transition metal impurities during phosphorus emitter diffusion in multicrystalline silicon solar cell processing

    A. Bentzen;A. Holt;R. Kopecek;G. Stokkan

  • Generation of divacancies in silicon irradiated by 2‐MeV electrons: Depth and dose dependence

    Bengt G. Svensson;Magnus Willander

  • GENERATION OF VACANCY-TYPE POINT DEFECTS IN SINGLE COLLISION CASCADES DURING SWIFT-ION BOMBARDMENT OF SILICON

    B. G. Svensson;C. Jagadish;A. Hallén;J. Lalita

  • Annealing kinetics of vacancy-related defects in low-dose MeV self-ion-implanted n-type silicon

    P Pellegrino;P Leveque;J Lalita;A Hallen

  • Photocatalytic and antibacterial properties of titanium dioxide flat film

    V. Scuderi;M.A. Buccheri;G. Impellizzeri;A. Di Mauro

  • Palladium Schottky barrier contacts to hydrothermally grown n-ZnO and shallow electron states

    Ulrike Grossner;Stig Gabrielsen;Thomas Moe Børseth;Joachim Grillenberger

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Hallén
Anders Hallén Royal Institute of Technology
Helmer Fjellvåg
Helmer Fjellvåg University of Oslo
Chennupati Jagadish
Chennupati Jagadish Australian National University
Rositsa Yakimova
Rositsa Yakimova Linköping University
Erik Janzén
Erik Janzén Linköping University
Xiaolong Du
Xiaolong Du Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ponniah Ravindran
Ponniah Ravindran Central University of Tamil Nadu
Weimin Chen
Weimin Chen Linköping University
David C. Look
David C. Look Wright State University
Magnus Willander
Magnus Willander Linköping University

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