Karen Kavanagh, Simon Fraser University
Physics
Professor
Vancouver, British Columbia
kavanagh@sfu.ca
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(778) 782-4244
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Bio/Research
Karen L. Kavanagh, Ph.D., 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.
She obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical-Physics from Queen's University in 1978, fol...
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She obtained a B.Sc. degree in Chemical-Physics from Queen's University in 1978, fol...
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Bio/Research
Karen L. Kavanagh, Ph.D., 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.
She obtained a B.Sc. 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 Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1987 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 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. She has expertise in a variety of characterization tools including electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering, x-ray diffraction, and scanning probe microscopies.
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She obtained a B.Sc. 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 Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 1987 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 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. She has expertise in a variety of characterization tools including electron microscopy, Rutherford backscattering, x-ray diffraction, and scanning probe microscopies.
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