Karen Kavanagh

Short description: Canadian physicist

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]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 3 Awards
* 4 References

## 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

1. ↑ "Kavanagh Lab". Simon Fraser University. http://schottky.phys.sfu.ca. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
2. ↑ "Karen Kavanagh, Professor". Department of Physics. Simon Fraser University. http://www.physics.sfu.ca/people/profiles/kavanagh. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
3. ↑ "Karen L. Kavanagh". Physics. American Physical Society. http://physics.aps.org/authors/karen_l_kavanagh. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
4. ↑ ORCID. "Karen L. Kavanagh (0000-0002-3059-7528)" (in en). https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3059-7528.
5. ↑ "Kavanagh a woman of distinction". Simon Fraser University. 15 June 2006. https://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfu_news/archives/sfunews06150604.shtml. Retrieved 5 November 2014.
6. ↑ "SF News - May 20, 1999 - 100 per cent success rate in NSERC awards". https://www.sfu.ca/archive-sfunews/sfnews/1999/May20/femalerep.html.
7. ↑ "Presidential Young Investigator Award: Kavanagh, Karen". Grantome. http://grantome.com/grant/NSF/DMR-9157724. Retrieved 5 November 2014.

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