12 September 2011

Kyma’s chief scientist Paskova joins advisory board on returning to academia  

Kyma Technologies Inc of Raleigh, NC, USA, which provides crystalline gallium nitride (GaN), aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) materials and related products and services, has announced the departure of Dr Tanya Paskova who, after serving as chief scientist since 2007, is returning to academia to continue her career, focusing on crystal growth and characterization of III-V semiconductor materials and devices. Her relationship with Kyma will continue in a new form, as she is joining the firm's Technical Advisory Board.

Kyma says that Paskova has helped it to better understand the materials properties and improve the manufacturability of its bulk and template nitride semiconductor products, including bulk GaN substrates with different surface orientations, GaN templates, AlN templates and, most recently, aluminum gallium nitride (AlGaN) templates. She has also served as principle investigator (PI) on a number of government R&D projects, focused mostly on the development of bulk GaN substrates, as well as their application for a number of homoepitaxial nitride devices. She was also one of the major contributors to the growth of Kyma’s intellectual property portfolio. While at the firm, she has authored or co-authored a number of key scientific publications, in partnership with several academic groups and government laboratories.

“Tanya has contributed to Kyma’s progress at a very high level, and her understanding of the III-N materials system is unsurpassed,” comments president & CEO Keith Evans. “We are extremely supportive of the next chapter in her career, and are especially hopeful we will be able to continue to benefit from her talents and interests as her key strategic industry collaboration partner,” he adds.

“Being chief scientist with Kyma for four years has been a tremendous professional opportunity and a much valued experience,” says Paskova. “I look forward to maintaining a close relationship with the Kyma team and pursuing new avenues for collaboration in the future.”

As a new member of Kyma’s Technical Advisory Board, Paskova joins Dr Jeffrey T. Glass (professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Hogg Family Director, Engineering Management & Entrepreneurship, Duke University) and Dr John F. Muth (associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University).

Paskova has held the position of adjunct professor in Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University since 2009. After obtaining her academic degrees from Bulgaria’s Sofia University and Sweden’s Linköping University, she held posts as an assistant professor at Sofia University, and a visiting lecturer and an associate professor at Linköping University and Germany’s University of Bremen. She spent most of her career working in the group of professor Bo Monemar, focusing on the development of GaN epitaxial growth and the study of basic properties of nitride materials and structures.

Paskova is an editor of two scientific books  and author of more than 220 scientific papers, reviews and chapters in journals and books. She has also given several invited talks at international conferences and seminars at universities, national laboratories and large industrial companies. Paskova is an associate editor for the Journal of Crystal Growth and a member of several referee boards for research foundations and physics journals.

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