Kathleen Meehan Assistant Professor   Education Teaching Interests Research Interests Publications Sponsors Additional Information, Files and Links

Contact Information:

The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 370 Whittemore Hall  Virginia Tech  Blacksburg, VA 24061-0111

Tel:  (540) 231-4442 Fax: (540) 231-3362  E-Mail: kameehan@vt.edu

 

Education:

B.S. Manhattan College , 1980

M.S. University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign , 1982

Ph.D. University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign , 1985

 

Teaching Interests:

Electronics especially Optoelectronics, Optics - particulary Biomedical Optics, Semiconductor Processing, Semiconductor Device Theory, Biosensors

 

Research Interests:

Optoelectronic device and optical sensor design and fabrication

laser diodes

LEDs

photodetectors

SPR and CCSP sensors

Silicide-semiconductor devices and sensors for:

gas sensing

imaging

high speed optoelectronics

Process development

impurity and self-diffusion in III-V and II-VI materials

etching - wet and dry

metalizations - high temperature and Schottky contacts

passivation and facet coatings

Process and device modeling

BPM_CAD

PSpice

lab-developed programs

Optical spectroscopy of biological and biochemical substances

 

Selected Publications:

• M.C. DeLong, D.J. Mowbray, R.A. Hogg, M.S. Skolnick, J.E. Williams, K. Meehan, S.R. Kurtz, J.M. Olson, R.P. Schneider, M.C. Wu, and M. Hopkinson, "Bandgap of 'completely disordered' Ga0.52In0.48P", Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 3185-3187 (1995).
• R.P. Vaudo, I.E. Goepfert, T.D. Moustakas, D.M Beyea, T.J. Frey, and K. Meehan, "Characteristics of Light-Emitting Diodes Based on GaN p-n Junctions Grown by Plasma-Assisted Molecular Beam Epitaxy", J. Appl. Phys. 79, 2779-2783 (1996).
• G.C. Giakos, K. Meehan, and M.L. Tuma, "Exploitation Enhanced Fluorescence via Cross Coupling Principles towards the Design of an Optical Integrated Thin-Film Sensor for Nanotechnology and Biomedical Applications", Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference. Rediscovering Measurement in the Age of Informatics, 3, 1904-1909 (2001).

 

Current or Recent Research Sponsors:

National Science Foundation (NSF), National Energy Technology Laboratory , Department of Defense/National Security Agency, NASA West Virginia Space Grant Consortium , West Virginia University Research Foundation, and the State of West Virginia

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