Karen Kavanagh

Karen L. Kavanagh, PhD, is a professor of physics at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, where she heads the Kavanagh Lab, a research lab working on semiconductor nanoscience.[1]

Education

She obtained a BSc degree in Chemical-Physics from Queen's University in 1978, followed by 3 years at Bell Northern Research in Ottawa in their Advanced Technology Laboratory. She received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 1987 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.[2]

Career

After post doctoral work at IBM and MIT, Kavanagh accepted a faculty position in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. at the University of California, San Diego. She has been at Simon Fraser University since 2000.

Her main field of interest is electronic materials science – studying the effects of defects on the properties of semiconductor materials and devices. She has worked on strain relaxation in lattice-mismatched semiconductor heterostructures, diffusion barriers and electrical contacts for silicon and III-V semiconductor based devices, epitaxial growth and nucleation, and electron transport through thin films and interfaces. Her work on characterization tools including electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering, x-ray diffraction, and scanning probe microscopy.

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics[3] and is the author of over 130 journal papers and conference proceedings, as shown in the Web of Science.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Kavanagh Lab". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Karen Kavanagh, Professor". Department of Physics. Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  3. ↑ "Karen L. Kavanagh". Physics. American Physical Society. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Kavanagh a woman of distinction". Simon Fraser University. 15 June 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Presidential Young Investigator Award: Kavanagh, Karen". Grantome. Retrieved 5 November 2014.