Francoise LeGoues
Francoise K. LeGoues (also published as F. K. Le Goues) is an American materials scientist and technology executive who worked for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
Legoues joined IBM in the mid-1980s,[1] after earning a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University with the 1983 dissertation Critical tests and applications of the theories of solid-solid homogeneous nucleation for F.C.C.–F.C.C. phase transformations.[2] As a materials scientist, she worked on the growth and strain relaxation of semiconductor crystals, thin films, and quantum wires.[1][3] She was the 1985 recipient of the Robert Lansing Hardy Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers,[4] and was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1998, after a nomination from the APS Division of Materials, "for insightful contributions and creative use of electron microscopy in determining mechanisms of strain relaxation in heteroepitaxial growth of semiconductor thin films".[3]
Later, as a technology executive, she fostered innovation by founding an internal crowdfunding program at IBM,[5] and headed a program to change employee meetings from being held in-person to on-line, in the Second Life virtual world.[6] She became vice president of innovation at IBM before leaving IBM to become the vice president of transformation for the YAI National Institute for People with Disabilities, a non-profit organization.[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- Dimos, D.; Chaudhari, P.; Mannhart, J.; LeGoues, F. K. (July 1988), "Orientation dependence of grain-boundary critical currents in YBa2Cu3O7−δ bicrystals", Physical Review Letters, 61 (2): 219–222, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.61.219
- LeGoues, F. K.; Rosenberg, R.; Nguyen, T.; Himpsel, F.; Meyerson, B. S. (February 1989), "Oxidation studies of SiGe", Journal of Applied Physics, 65 (4): 1724–1728, doi:10.1063/1.342945
- LeGoues, F. K.; Meyerson, B. S.; Morar, J. F. (June 1991), "Anomalous strain relaxation in SiGe thin films and superlattices", Physical Review Letters, 66 (22): 2903–2906, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.66.2903
- Tersoff, J.; LeGoues, F. K. (May 1994), "Competing relaxation mechanisms in strained layers", Physical Review Letters, 72 (22): 3570–3573, doi:10.1103/physrevlett.72.3570
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Interview: Dr. Rudolf Tromp", Awardee interviews, American Vacuum Society, November 2004, retrieved 2025-03-08
- ^ LeGoues, Francoise K. (1983), Critical tests and applications of the theories of solid-solid homogeneous nucleation for F.C.C.–F.C.C. phase transformations (PhD thesis), Carnegie Mellon University, ProQuest 303133506
- ^ a b APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-03-08
- ^ "AIME Robert Lansing Hardy Award", Awards & Scholarships, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, retrieved 2025-03-08
- ^ "How IBM bypasses bureaucratic purgatory", Fortune, 4 December 2013, retrieved 2025-03-08
- ^ "Interview: Francoise LeGoues", Digital Nation, PBS, 2 February 2010, retrieved 2025-03-08
- ^ Bager, Jasmine (May–June 2014), "VP of Transformation at YAI Gives Keynote at Conference", Education Update Online