2026 Katherine L. Saenger: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Materials Science	52	9564	9235	2314	2148	209	9908

Overview

Katherine L. Saenger is a researcher affiliated with Auburn University in the United States. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing, Computational Mechanics, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their main research topics include Music Technology and Sound Studies, Music and Audio Processing, Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research, Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies, Neuroscience and Music Perception, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, and Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows.

Saenger has contributed to several scientific publications, with a significant number appearing in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and the Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics. Frequent coauthors include N. Giordano and Jared W. Thacker.

A pressure-based transfer matrix method and measurement technique for studying resonances in flutes and other open-input resonators, 2020, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Study of "half-integer" harmonics in recorder tones and some speculations about their origin, 2023, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Study of hysteretic behavior in the recorder, 2022, Proceedings of meetings on acoustics
The chimney tube in musical acoustics: A textbook-level formulation for students and musicians, 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Regime-change-induced modification of jet flow in flute-like instruments with a hysteresis region, 2022, Proceedings of meetings on acoustics

Saenger's frequent coauthors are:

N. Giordano
Jared W. Thacker

Most of the researcher's work has appeared in the following venues:

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Proceedings of meetings on acoustics

Their research integrates aspects of computational and physical acoustics, particularly focusing on sound production in musical instruments such as flutes and recorders, exploring resonance behavior, harmonics, fluid flow dynamics, and hysteresis effects. This combination of computer science and engineering approaches informs both theoretical models and experimental techniques in the study of musical acoustics.

Best Publications

Pulsed laser deposition of diamond‐like carbon films

David L. Pappas;Katherine L. Saenger;John Bruley;William Krakow

434
Citations
Method of forming closed air gap interconnects and structures formed thereby

Matthew E Colburn;Timothy J Dalton;Elbert Huang;Satya V Nitta

368
Citations
Vapor deposition processes for amorphous carbon films with sp3 fractions approaching diamond

Jerome J. Cuomo;David L. Pappas;John Bruley;James P. Doyle

357
Citations
Studies of atomic oxygen in O2+CF4 rf discharges by two‐photon laser‐induced fluorescence and optical emission spectroscopy

R. E. Walkup;K. L. Saenger;G. S. Selwyn

346
Citations
Extremely high electron mobility in Si/SiGe modulation‐doped heterostructures

K. Ismail;M. Arafa;K. L. Saenger;J. O. Chu

316
Citations
Transferable device-containing layer for silicon-on-insulator applications

Jack Oon Chu;Alfred Grill;Dean A. Herman;Katherine L. Saenger

314
Citations
Picosecond optical studies of amorphous diamond and diamondlike carbon: Thermal conductivity and longitudinal sound velocity

Christopher J. Morath;Humphrey J. Maris;Jerome J. Cuomo;David L. Pappas

295
Citations
Chip interconnect wiring structure with low dielectric constant insulator and methods for fabricating the same

Leena P. Buchwalter;Alessandro Cesare Callegari;Stephan Alan Cohen;Teresita Ordonez Graham

277
Citations
(Ba,Sr)TiO 3 dielectrics for future stacked- capacitor DRAM

D. E. Kotecki;J. D. Baniecki;H. Shen;R. B. Laibowitz

266
Citations
Plating of noble metal electrodes for DRAM and FRAM

Panayotis Constantinou Andricacos;James Hartfiel Comfort;Alfred Grill;David Edward Kotecki

264
Citations
Dual damascene processing for semiconductor chip interconnects

Alfred Grill;John Patrick Hummel;Christopher Vincent Jahnes;Vishnubhai Vitthalbhai Patel

261
Citations
Fin field effect transistor devices with self-aligned source and drain regions

Josephine Bea Chang;Michael Guillorn;Wilfried Ernst-August Haensch;Katherine Lynn Saenger

261
Citations
Planar substrate with blended orientations and its forming method

Alexander Reznicek

179
Citations
Identification of a mobility-limiting scattering mechanism in modulation-doped Si/SiGe heterostructures.

K. Ismail;F. K. LeGoues;K. L. Saenger;M. Arafa

178
Citations
Method of forming multilevel interconnect structure containing air gaps including utilizing both sacrificial and placeholder material

Alfred Grill;Jeffrey Curtis Hedrick;Christopher Vincent Jahnes;Satyanarayana Venkata Nitta

161
Citations
Scalable MOS field effect transistor

Kevin Kok Chan;Jack Oon Chu;Khalid EzzEldin Ismail;Stephen Anthony Rishton

148
Citations
Characterization of laser vaporization plasmas generated for the deposition of diamond-like carbon

David L. Pappas;Katherine L. Saenger;Jerome J. Cuomo;Russell W. Dreyfus

127
Citations
Mixed orientation and mixed material semiconductor-on-insulator wafer

Guy M. Cohen;Alexander Reznicek;Katherine L. Saenger;Min Yang

118
Citations
Ion implantation combined with in situ or ex situ heat treatment for improved field effect transistors

Stephen W. Bedell;Joel P. Desouza;Zhibin Ren;Alexander Reznicek

114
Citations
Method and materials for integration of fluorine-containing low-k dielectrics

Alfred Grill;Christopher Jahnes;Vishnubhai Patel;Katherine Saenger

112
Citations