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Mr. Kanai Shah is the Director
of Research at RMD, Inc., and the Group Leader of the Material
Science Group. His group designs scintillators, semiconductors,
ceramics and Large Area Avalanche Photodiodes (LA-APD) for
advanced X-ray, gamma ray and neutron detectors. Under Mr.
Shah's leadership, the Material Science Group is designing
state of the art detectors to meet the demanding needs of
the next generation of medical imaging, medical diagnostics,
small animal research, homeland security, nondestructive
testing and nuclear particle physics markets.
Mr. Shah joined RMD in 1985
and was involved in a program aimed at stabilizing HgI2
low energy X-ray sensors for NASA. After that program, he
went on to manage a variety of research projects focused
on semiconductor and scintillator detectors. He has led
research in scintillator material development projects including:
PbI2, HgI2, TlBr, TlBrxI1-x,
ZnTe, CdTe, CdZnTe, and BP.
From May 1992 to October
1993, Mr. Shah worked as a Device Engineer at Canberra Industries
in Meriden, CT. At Canberra, he developed a proprietary
new contact for germanium detectors, and was able to improve
yield for an existing process for HPGe detectors from 20
percent to about 70 percent. He also worked on developing
high purity silicon detectors.
Mr. Shah rejoined RMD in
November 1993 as the Director of Research and the Group
Leader of the Materials Group. Mr. Shah has overseen the
development of new semiconductors and scintillators both
in single crystal and thick film forms. His current areas
of interest include the development of new detector materials
and the investigation of high resolution X-ray and gamma
ray detectors with imaging capabilities.
Mr. Shah has been the principal
investigator on many grants from numerous agencies including:
the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the
Department of Homeland Security, the National Science Foundation
and the National Institute of Health. He is the author of
over 70 technical articles and has co-authored several chapters
in prominent physics textbooks. Mr. Shah has reviewed articles
for the IEEE, NIM, and MRS journals, and has been an invited
speaker at both national and international conferences.
In addition, he is a regular reviewer for Department of
Energy programs.
Mr. Shah earned a Bachelors
of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering in 1983 at
Gujarat University in Gujarat, India where he ranked first
in his graduating class. He received a Master of Science
degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lowell
in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1987. The focus of his master's
thesis was the mass transfer of carbon dioxide through catheters
used in implantable drug delivery systems.
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