Karen Kavanagh
Karen Kavanagh | |
|---|---|
 Kavanagh in 2013 | |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Queen's University (BSc) Cornell University (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Physicist |
| Sub-discipline | Semiconductors, nanoscience |
| Institutions | Simon Fraser University |
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.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
She is a fellow of the Institute of Physics[3] and is the author of over 200 journal papers and conference proceedings, as shown on ORCID.[4]
Awards
- Vancouver YWCA Women of Distinction Award (2006)[5]
- NSERC University Faculty Awardee (1999)[6]
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1991)[7]
References
- ^ "Kavanagh Lab". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "Karen Kavanagh, Professor". Department of Physics. Simon Fraser University. Archived from the original on 1 December 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ "Karen L. Kavanagh". Physics. American Physical Society. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ ORCID. "Karen L. Kavanagh (0000-0002-3059-7528)". orcid.org. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ "Kavanagh a woman of distinction". Simon Fraser University. 15 June 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
- ^ "SF News – May 20, 1999 – 100 per cent success rate in NSERC awards". Simon Fraser University. Retrieved 24 March 2018.
- ^ Kavanagh, Karen. "Presidential Young Investigator Award: Kavanagh, Karen". Grantome. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
