Kavanagh Lab Location:
South Campus Dr. West Wing,
TASC II Rm 7040

Lab Phone: 778-782-4082

Mail Address:
Dept. Physics
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Dr.
Burnaby, BC
V5A 1S6 Canada

Publications and Presentations

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Recent Publications:

  • A Photovoltaic Self-Powered Volatile Organic Compounds Sensor Based on Asymmetric Geometry 2D MoSâ‚‚ Diodes, Fawzy, M., Mohammadzadeh, M.R., Abnavi, A., De Silva, T., Ahmadi, R., Ghanbari, H., Kabir, F., Kavanagh, K. L., Hasani, A., and Adachi, M. M., ECS Sensors Plus 3(4), 043601 (2024).
  • Comparing the mean inner potential of Zn-VI semiconductor nanowires using off-axis electron holography Anitha Jose et al  Semicondor Science and Technology 39 (2024) 075004 DOI 10.1088/1361-6641/ad4dd7
  • Development of a negative helium ion source with non-metallic charge exchange, Philip Jackle, Aleksei Bunevich, Diego Silva Lopez, Karen L. Kavanagh, and Morgan Dehnel, Journal of Instrumentation, 19 (2024) C01014.
  • Ultrasensitive rapid cytokine sensors based on asymmetric geometry two-dimensional MoS2 diodes, Thushani de Silva, Mirette Fawzy, Amirhossein Hasani, Hamidreza Ghanbari, Amin Abnavi, Abdelrahman Askar, Yue Ling, Mohammad Resa Mohammadzadeh, Fahmid Kabir Ribwar Ahmadi, Karen L. Kavanagh, Miriam Rosin, and Michael Adachi, Nature Communications 22 (2022) 18274; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35278-2
  • Three-Dimensional Conductive Fingerprint Phantoms Made of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate/Graphene Nanocomposite for Evaluating Smartphone Scanners, Clayton W. Schultz, Mirette Fawzy, Farzad Nasirpouri, Karen L. Kavanagh,* and Hua-Zhong Yu, ACS Appl. Elec. Matls. 3, 2097 (2021).
  • Geometric effects on carrier collection in core-shell nanowire p-n junctions, Mingze Yang, Ali Darbandi, Simon P. Watkins, and Karen L. Kavanagh, Nano Futures 5, 025007 (2021).
  • Abrupt degenerately-doped silicon nanowire tunnel junctions, Cristina Cordoba, Taylor Teitsworth, Mingze Yang, James Cahoon, Karen L. Kavanagh, Nanotechnol. 31 415708 (2020).

Kavanagh Lab Location: South Campus Dr., TASC II Rm 7040; Lab Phone 778-782-4082;
Mail Address: Dept. Physics, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Dr., Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6 Canada