Young scientist award for Maya Wehbe

Great reward for her research work for Maya Wehbe, 3rd year doctoral student at CEMEF

Maya Wehbe is one of four recipients of the 2024 IUCR young and early career scientist award.

This prize is offered by the International Union of Crystallography to reward the quality of research and presentations by young researchers at the XTOP 2024 International Conference: “15th Biennial Conference on High Resolution X-ray Diffraction and Imaging”, held in Carry-le-Rouet from 17 to 22 March 2024.

Maya presented her thesis work in an oral presentation entitled “Combining dark-field X-ray microscopy with scanning X-ray diffraction microscopy to study GaN coalescence”.

Maya is doing her doctoral research at CEMEF on a collaborative project with CEA-Leti, for which she is carrying out nanocharacterisation of Gallium Nitride (GaN) thin films using several X-ray diffraction techniques at the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation facility). She also develops numerical modelling to explain and supplement the experimental results and to study the thermomechanical behaviour of GaN during its growth. The applications are in optoelectronics (microLEDs).

She is supervised by Daniel Pino Munoz (CEMEF) and Matthew Charles and Patrice Gergaud (CEA).

Congratulations to Maya Wehbe on this wonderful award.

The three other recipients are :

Mr. Fabian Gasser, Doctorant, Graz University of Technology (Austria): “Intensity Corrections for Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction”

Ms. Merve Pinar Kabukcuoglu, Postdoctorant, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany): “Correlated 2D and 3D X-ray Diffraction Imaging revealing the Evolution of Dislocations during Thermal Processing of GaAs wafers”

Mr. Jingtao Zhao, Postdoctorant European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble (France): “Bragg coherent modulation imaging”

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