Brian J. Keay

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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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