Kathleen M. Paget

Cornell University Ithaca, NY

Professional Experience:

• Magnetic Penetration Depth (advisor Prof. Thomas Lemberger)
  • Constructed and refined a two coil experiment to determine the absolute value of the magnetic penetration depth from the complex conductivity of thin films (100Hz -100 KHz).
  • Integrated computer with the experiment to collect data and control electrnoics.
  • Determined the symmetry of the order parameter of LSCO through the temperature dependence of the penetration depth at low temperatures.
  • Studied the frequency and temperature dependence of the complex conductivity of YBCO and BSCCO at the superconducting transition.
  • Collaborated with several groups to measure samples and supply data.
  
  
• Film Fabrication (adivsor Prof. Thomas Lemberger)
• Optimized Co-evaporation system for the reproducible fabrication of pure and doped YBCO thin films.
• Fabricated YBCO thin films by Co-evaporation and characterized them by RBS, inductive T_C, l(0) and l(T).
• Designed and constructed an apparatus for oxygen depletion of YBCO.


• Infrared Reflectance
  • Measured the reflectance spectra of cobalt doped YBCO utilizing a Bomem FT-IR spectrometer.
  • Maitained and aligned optics for Bomem FT-IR spectrometer.
  • Analyzed data using both packaged and original, self-produced, software tools.
  
  
• Ferromagnetic Resonance (Advisor Prof. Philip Wigen)
  • Measured the angular dependence of auto-oscillations in yttrium iron garnet (YIG) using a ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) technique at microwave frequencies.
  • Determined the magnetization of YIG using a magnetometer.

Avco Research Laboratory Everett, MA
Engineering Co-op Position Fall 1989

• Measured laser chirp in a prototype long pulsed CO₂ laser.
• Analyzed heterodyne signal from the photo-mixing of the pulsed laser with a CO₂ standard.
• Aligned optics and CO₂ standard laser for the heterodyne chirp detection system.

Cornell University Ithaca, NY
Advisor: Professor David Hammer
Laboratory of Plasma Studies 1988-1989, Fall 1990
Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Assembled electronic circuits.
• Digitized oscilloscope traces from x-pinch soft x-ray experiment.

Teaching Experience:

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH
Graduate Teaching Assistant 1992-1993

• Taught recitations and lab in the calculus-based physics sequence taken by physics and engineering students.
• Graded quizzes and exams and participated in determining final grade distributions.

Skills:

• Evaporation systems including e-gun and thermal sources.
• Electronics: lock-in amplifiers, signal generators, oscilloscopes.
• Bomem infrared FT-IR spectrometer: far infrared through visible.
• High vacuum systems: ion, diffusion, adsorption, and mechanical pumps.
• Cryogenics systems including liquid He and liquid N₂.
• CO₂ continuous-wave laser.
• Familiar with SEM, TEM, RBS, XRD.

Computer Skills

• Proficient with Windows, DOS, Mac and VMS operating systems
• Experienced with FORTRAN, Visual BASIC, BASIC, Pascal
• Routine use of packages such as: Matlab, Sigma Plot, MS Word, Word Perfect, Lotus, etc.

Communication Skills

• Maintained collaborations with groups at Varian, Rutgers University, Delft University, and NIST through e-mail, electronic data transfer, fax and telephone
• Organized Laboratory Journal Club
• Presented results in peer reviewed journals and at conferences.

Professional Affiliations and Committees

• American Physical Society, 1993-present
• Physics Graduate Student Council, O.S.U., 1992-1993
• Graduate Exam Committee, Physics Department, 1993-1994

Honors:

• Best Poster at MISCON Conference August 1997
• Women in Science Travel Grant award 1997
• Hazel Brown Teaching Award 1992
• National Needs Fellowship 1991-1992, summer 1993
• Cornell Tradition Fellowship 1988-1990