Karen Kavanagh
Template:Short description Template:BLP primary sources Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Karen L. Kavanagh 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
Kavanagh obtained a BSc 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.[3]
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.[4]
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics[5] and is the author of over 200 journal papers and conference proceedings, as shown on ORCID.[6] In 2022, Kavanagh was selected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS). [7]
Awards
- Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2006)[8]
- NSERC University Faculty Awardee (1999)[9]
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)[10]
References
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- Living people
- Canadian women physicists
- Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
- Semiconductor physicists
- 20th-century Canadian physicists
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- 20th-century Canadian women scientists
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- Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
- Nortel employees
- Queen's University at Kingston alumni
- IBM employees
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff
- University of California, San Diego faculty