Kate Shanks

Education / Experience:

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:

• B. C. Whitney, A. G. Spangenberger, D. J. Savage, D. W. Brown, D. T. Carver, A. Das, K. S. Shanks, D. A. Lados. “Solid-state phase transformation kinetics and mechanisms in additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V studied using in-situ high-energy synchrotron x-ray diffraction.” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11661-024-07630-2
• K. Louca, K. S. Shanks, A. Das, D. Pagan, R. Klassen, H. Abdolvand. “The development of grain resolved stress fields around notch tips in soft-textured zirconium polycrystals: A three-dimensional synchrotron X-ray diffraction study.” International Journal of Plasticity 181 (2024) 104076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijplas.2024.104076
• S. Mukhopadhyay, K. Hom, A. deJong, T. Long, T. C. Hufnagel, A. Das, K. S. Shanks, M. Schoenitz, E. L. Dreizin. "X-ray imaging of powder particles driven from a surface by a nearby electrostatic discharge." Advanced Powder Technology 34 (2024) 104472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apt.2024.104472
• S. Gustafson, W. Ludwig, R. Rodriguez-Lamas, C. Yildirim, K. S. Shanks, C. Detlefs, M. D. Sangid. “Revealing 3D intragranular micromechanical fields at triple junctions.” Acta Materialia (2023) 260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2023.119300
• 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927622000174
• 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. 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.