Dr. Caitlin Chapin
Caitlin was a postdoctoral scholar in the XLab, having also completed her PhD research in the lab in 2018. Her thesis was titled "High Temperature and Transient Behavior of GaN Heterostructure Based High Electron Mobility Micro-Pressure Sensors." As a graduate student, Caitlin received the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship which enabled her to intern at NASA Glenn Research Center, NASA Ames Research Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is from Charlotte, NC, and received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. At the Georgia Tech Institute of Nanotechnology and Electronics, Caitlin gained experience in microfabrication and continues to leverage this expertise in the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility. Caitlin's research interests are twofold: developing sensors using gallium nitride to enable operation in harsh environments (e.g. space, Venus, the ocean, combustion engines) and characterizing the effect mechanical stimuli and electronic traps have on the device performance (e.g. strain dependence of trap energy levels).