Brian J. Keay
Santa Fe, NM 87507
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Education History:
University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph. D.: Physics, March 1996
University of California, Berkeley
B.A.: Physics?Graduated with Honors, May 1987
Work Experience:
Educator
Santa Fe Public Schools, Santa Fe, NM (12/2012 - 06/2014)
. Mathematics teacher at Capital High School. Developed and
implemented lesson plans based on Common Core Standards.
. Assessed student learning daily in order to adjust instructional
strategies for maximum student growth
. Managed classrooms to achieve student safety and productivity
Engineer/Radiation Safety Officer
National Technical Systems, Inc. (formally Mechtronic Solutions),
Albuquerque, NM (06/2010 - 07/2010 and 09/2010 - 11/2011)
. Program manager of the Explorer/Northstar project to supply Sandia
National Laboratory with gamma ray detectors.
. Served as the lead radiation detection expert on the New Xenon
Sampler (NXS) project for the United States' nuclear test ban treaty
verification program.
. Radiation Safety Officer, responsible for implementing and managing
the NTS radiation safety program.
. Developed a human machine interface (HMI) to control programmable
logic controllers (PLCs) for a Ground Whole Air Collector System
(GWACS) for the US Air Force.
. Winner of performance based awards, such as Employee of the Month
Manufacturing Test Engineer
PerkinElmer Optoelectronics, Santa Clara, CA (05/2005 - 01/2009)
. Responsible for implementing performance and quality testing of a-Si
digital X-ray detectors at several different stages of production.
. Responsible for providing the interpretation of test results and
statistical data analysis support to process integration engineers
and yield improvement teams.
. Received several performance-based awards, including the Employee of
the Month, Above and Beyond Award, and the Business Impact Award.
Senior Scientist and Program Leader
Bookham Technology Ltd., Oxfordshire, United Kingdom (03/2001 -
10/2002)
. Responsible for the design, testing, and modeling of laser devices
for optoelectronic communication systems.
. Participated in studies on the effect that impurities and defect
states have on the performance of silicon traveling-wave
photodetectors, and presented research reports to senior management.
Research Associate
Dept. of Physics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (04/1996 -
04/2000)
Conducted experiments involving the laser spectroscopy of materials and
developed theoretical models of the results.
. Discovered a new method of studying the dynamics and optical
properties of molten semiconductors.
. Presented the first experimental evidence that molten GaAs behaves
as a metal on thermal timescales.
Research/Teaching Assistant
University of California, Santa Barbara (09/1987- 04/1996)
. Ph.D. Dissertation: Superlattice Transport in Terahertz Electric
Fields.
. Conducted a series of groundbreaking experiments involving
semiconductor nanostructures under the influence of terahertz
radiation from a free-electron laser, which included the first
observation of photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) in semiconductors.
. Collaborated with the NA31 group at the Centre Europ en pour la
Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, studying CP
violation in K-meson decays.
. Led discussion sections for undergraduate physics courses.
Research Assistant
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (1985 - 1986)
Participated in intermediate energy heavy ion physics experiments using
the Bevalac heavy ion accelerator.
Publications and Invited Conference Presentations:
For a complete list, please see http://www.scifree.org/cv.html
Languages: Italian
Computer Skills:
Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows, MacOS and VAX/VMS.
Programming Languages: C/C++, Visual C++, Python, Perl, FORTRAN, HTML,
Java, MathML, and experience with shell programming, OpenGL, etc.
Numerical libraries: Numerical Recipes, IMSL, LAPACK, BLAS, GNU
Scientific Library, NumPy.
Other: National Instruments Labview certified, MiniTab, Mathematica,
Matlab, Mathcad, Tex, Igor, Sigma Plot, Crosslight laser design
software, Kaleidagraph, Excel, GIMP, Power Director and Avid Studio
Video editing Software, etc.
Laboratory Skills:
Measurement equipment: X-ray generators and detectors, electrical
spectrum analyzers, monocrometers, spectrometers, OSAs, holographic
filters, integrating spheres, goniometric radiometers, photodetector
arrays, bolometers, phototubes, pyroelectric detectors, PEM detectors,
scanning electron microscopes, optical fiber equipment, pulse
generators, lock-in amplifiers, laser diode drivers, temperature
control equipment: including thermocouples, temperature transducers,
TEC controllers, and other cryogenic equipment. Various electronic and
manual micropositioning equipment, and piezoelectric detectors,
superconducting magnets for high magnetic field characterization
experiments.
Lasers: Semiconductor lasers, free-electron lasers, CO2, TEA, YAG,
Argon, HeNe, and Ti:Saphire lasers, using pulse durations ranging from
picosecond, nanosecond, and microsecond to CW. Wavelengths ranging from
millimeter to UV.
Experimental optics methods and techniques: Sum-frequency generation,
harmonic generation, Raman spectroscopy, laser pump-probe, optical
tomography, fluorescence spectroscopy, FTIR spectroscopy, and relative
intensity noise measurements.
Electronic/magnetic characterization methods: Van der Pauw methods and
quantum transport measurements: including quantum Hall and Shubnikov-de
Haas magnetoresistance measurements, capacitance-voltage measurements,
and considerable experience doing current-voltage and photocurrent
measurements on a broad range of semiconductor devices.
Cleanroom/processing equipment: Reactive ion etcher, e-beam evaporator,
thermal evaporator, oxygen plasma etchers, photolithographic aligners,
wire bonders, solder bonders, SiO2 deposition equipment, rapid thermal
annealer, scanning tunneling microscope, and wet chemical etching
equipment.
Publications:
1. Time-resolved infrared transmittance and reflectance of a propagating
melt in GaAs, B. J. Keay, M. Mendenhall, and G.S. Edwards, Phys. Rev. B 60,
10898 (1999).
2. THz response of GaAs/AlGaAs superlattices: from classical to quantum
dynamics, S. Zeuner, B. J. Keay et al., Superlattices and Microstructures
22, 149 (1997).
3. Virtual states and photon-assisted tunneling, B. J. Keay, C. Aversa,
Phys. Rev. B 54, R2284 (1996).
4. Virtual states, dynamic localization, absolute negative conductance and
stimulated multiphoton emission in semiconductor superlattices, B. J. Keay
et al., Semicond. Sci. Techn. 11, 1596 (1996).
5. Inverse Bloch-oscillator: strong terahertz-photocurrent resonance at the
Bloch frequency, K. Unterrainer, B. J. Keay et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 76,
2973 (1996).
6. Transition from classical to quantum response in semiconductor
superlattices at THz frequencies, S. Zeuner, B. J. Keay et al., Phys. Rev.
B 53, R1717 (1996).
7. Photon-assited transport through semiconductor quantum structures in
intense terahertz electric fields, S. J. Allen et al., Physica B 227, 367
(1996).
8. Dynamic localization, absolute negative conductance and stimulated,
multiphoton-emission in sequential resonant tunneling semiconductor
superlattices, B. J. Keay et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4102 (1995).
9. Photon-assisted electric field domains and multiphoton-assisted
tunneling in semiconductor superlattices, B. J. Keay et al., Phys. Rev.
Lett. 75, 4098 (1995).
10. Photon-assisted electric field domains and multiphoton-assisted
tunneling in antenna coupled semiconductor superlattices, B.J. Keay et al.,
in Hot Carriers in Semiconductors: Proceedings of the Ninth International
Conference, K. Hess, J-P. Leburton, U. Ravaioli eds., Chicago, Illinois
(Plenum, New York, 1996).
11. Strong terahertz-photocurrent resonances in miniband superlattices at
the Bloch frequency, K. Unterrainer, B.J. Keay et al., in Hot Carriers in
Semiconductors: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference, K. Hess,
J-P. Leburton, U. Ravaioli eds., Chicago, Illinois (Plenum, New York,
1996).
12. Multphoton-assisted tunneling, dynamic localization and absolute
negative conductance, B. J. Keay et al., Surface Science 362, 176 (1996).
13. Sequential resonant tunneling via photon virtual states in
semiconductor superlattices, B. J. Keay et al., The Physics of
Semiconductors: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference,
Vancouver, 2, 1055, D.J. Lockwood ed., Canada (World Scientific, 1995).
14. Terahertz, photon-assisted tunneling in semiconductor nanostructures,
S.J. Allen, B.J. Keay et al., Nanostructures and Quantum Effects, ed. by H.
Sakaki and H. Noge, (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 1994).
15. Probing terahertz dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures with the
UCSB free-electron lasers, with S.J. Allen et al., J. of Luminescence 60 -
61, 250 (1994).
16. Superlattice transport in intense teraherz electric fields, B. J. Keay
et al., Surface Science 305, 385 (1994).
17. Probing terahertz electron dynamics in semiconductor nanostructures
with the UC Santa Barbara FELs, with J.P. Kaminski et al., Nuclear
Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, A341, 169 (1994).
18. Electrical transport properties of superlattices under intense
terahertz electric fields, P.S.S. Guimaraes, B. J. Keay et al., Brazilian
J. Phys. 24, 163 (1994).
19. Photon-mediated sequential resonant tunneling in intense terahertz
electric fields, P.S.S. Guimaraes, B. J. Keay et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 70,
3792 (1993).
20. S1XS2 wormholes, B. J. Keay and R. Laflamme, Phys. Rev. D 40, 2118
(1989).
21. Subthreshold production of strange hadrons in relativistic heavy ion
collisions, with S. Trentalange et al., Intersections Between Particle and
Nuclear Physics: AIP Conference Proceedings 150, editor D.F. Geesaman (AIP,
NY 1986), pp 814 - 820.
Invited Talks:
Multiphoton-assisted tunneling, dynamic localization and absolute negative
conductance in THz driven superlattices, Workshop on Millimeter Wave
Spectroscopy of Solids, Los Angeles, CA, March 25 - 27, 1996.
Superlattice transport in terahertz electric fields, 9th International
Winterschool on New Developments in Solid State Physics, Nanostructure
Physics and Technology, Mauterndorf, Province of Salzburg, Austria,
February 19 -23, 1996.
Multiphoton-assisted tunneling, dynamic localization and absolute negative
conductance in THz driven superlattices, Phasdom-95, Annual Meeting of the
European Community on the Physics and Technology of Mesoscopic Structures,
Cambridge, England, October 1-5, 1995.
Dynamic localization and negative absolute conductance in terahertz driven
semiconductor superlattices, FEL'95, 2nd Annual FEL User Workshop, New
York, New York, August 21-25, 1995.
Multiphoton-assisted tunneling, dynamic localization and absolute negative
conductance, EP2DS-11, 11th International Conference on the Electronic
Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems, Nottingham, England, August 7-11
1995.
Contributed Talks:
Time-resolved infrared transmittance and reflectance of a propagating melt
in GaAs, March Meeting of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, Georgia,
March 20-25, 1999.
Time-resolved infrared transmittance and reflectance spectroscopy of
optical-pulse-induced phase transitions in GaAs, FEL'98, Williamsburg,
Virginia, August 1998.
Time-resolved infrared transmittance and reflectance spectroscopy of
optical-pulse induced phase transitions in GaAs, SESAPS, Nashville,
Tennessee, November 1997.
Dynamic localization, absolute negative conductivity and stimulated,
multiphoton-emission in sequential resonant tunneling semiconductor
superlattices, The International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in
Quantum Wells: Physics and Applications, ITQW'95, Israel, October 23-26,
1995.
Dynamic localization and absolute negative resistance in terahertz driven
semiconductor superlattices, The Ninth International Conference on Hot
Carriers in Semiconductors, HCIS-9, Chicago, July 31- August 4, 1995.
Photon-assisted tunneling in semiconductor superlattices antenna coupled to
intense terahertz electric fields, March APS Meeting, San Jose, CA, 20-25
March 1995.
Superlattice transport in intense terahertz electric fields, EP2DS-10, 10th
International Conference on the Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional
Systems, Newport, RI, USA, 31 May - 4 June 1993.
Superlattice transport in intense terahertz electric fields, March APS
Meeting, Seattle, WA, 22-26 March 1993.
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