Kate Shanks

Kate Shanks
Staff Scientist - FAST
ksg52@cornell.edu

Education / Experience:

2020 - Present:

Staff Scientist, CHESS, Cornell University

2017 - 2020:

Research associate, physics department, Cornell University

2014 – 2017:

Postdoc, physics department, Cornell University

2007 - 2014:  

PhD in Physics, Cornell University

2003 - 2007:  

BS in Physics, University of Michigan

Research Interests:

  • X-ray area detector development, especially for high-energy and time-resolved experiments
  • Development of synchrotron techniques and instrumentation for in-situ studies of dynamic phenomena in materials science and engineering

Selected Publications:

  • R. Roumina, S. Lee, T. D. Berman, K. S. Shanks, J. E. Allison, A. Bucsek. “The dynamics of recrystallized grains during static recrystallization in a hot-compressed Mg-3.2 Zn-0.1 Ca wt.% alloy using in-situ far field high-energy diffraction microscopy.” Acta Materialia (2022) 118039.
  • H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, K. S. Shanks, L. Mele, M. Peemen, P. Dona, R. Hartong, G. van Veen, Y. Shao, Z. Chen, J. Thom-Levy, D. A. Muller, S. M. Gruner. “Very-High Dynamic Range, 10,000 Frames/Second Pixel Array Detector for Electron Microscopy.” Microscopy and Microanalysis (2022) 28.
  • K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, J. T. Weizeorick, M. Hammer, M. W. Tate, H. Hu, P. Purohit, J. D. Baldwin, A. Miceli, J. Thom-Levy, S. M. Gruner. “Characterization of a Small-Scale Prototype Detector With Wide Dynamic Range for Time-Resolved High-Energy X-Ray Applications.” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (2021) 68.
  • D. J. Antonio, J. T. Weiss, K. S. Shanks, J. P. C. Ruff, M. Jaime, A. Saul, T. Swinburne, M. Salamon, K. Shrestha, B. Lavina, D. Koury, S. M. Gruner, D. A. Andersson, C. R. Stanek, T. Durakiewicz, J. L. Smith, Z. Islam, K. Gofryk. “Piezomagnetic switching and complex phase equilibria in uranium dioxide.” Communications Materials (2021) 2.
  • H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, K. S. Shanks, P. Purohit, S. M. Gruner. “High dynamic range CdTe mixed-mode pixel array detector (MM-PAD) for kilohertz imaging of hard x-rays.” Journal of Instrumentation (2020) P06025.
  • K. Giewekemeyer, A. Aquila, N. Loh, Y. Chushkin, K. S. Shanks, J. T. Weiss, M. W. Tate, H. T. Philipp, S. Stern, P. Vagovic, M. Mehrjoo, C. Teo, M. Barthelmess, F. Zontone, C. Chang, R. C. Tiberio, A. Sakdinawat, G. J. Williams, S. M. Gruner, A. P. Mancuso. “Experimental 3D coherent diffractive imaging from photon-sparse random projections.” IUCrJ (2019) 6.
  • K. R. Overdeep, H. Joress, L. Zhou, K. J. T. Livi, S. C. Barron, M. D. Grapes, K. S. Shanks, D. S. Dale, M. W. Tate, H. T. Philipp, S. M. Gruner, T. C. Hufnagel, T. P. Weihs. “Mechanisms of oxide growth during the combustion of Al: Zr nanolaminate foils.” Combustion and Flame (2018) 191.
  • J. Becker, M. W. Tate, K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, J. T. Weiss, P. Purohit, D. Chamberlain, S. M. Gruner. “Sub-microsecond x-ray imaging using hole-collecting Schottky type CdTe with charge-integrating pixel array detectors.” Journal of Instrumentation (2017) P06022.
  • M. S. Hromalik, K. S. Green, H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, S. M. Gruner. “The FPGA pixel array detector.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A (2013) 701.