Iain Baikie

Iain Baikie
Baikie in 2009 in Wick
Born (1960-08-27) 27 August 1960
Wick, Scotland
Residence Wick, Scotland
Nationality British
Alma mater Heriot-Watt University
Twente University[1]
Awards Swan Medal and Prize (2015)
Scientific career
Institutions KP Technology
Brown University[2]
Marine Biological Laboratory[3]

Iain Douglas Baikie,[4] MBE, FRSA, FInstP, CPhys (born 27 August 1960) is a Scottish physicist, inventor and company Director. He specialises in Material Science.[5][6] Baikie supervises PhDs at Imperial College London and the University of St Andrews in thin-film electronics.[7][6] In 2000 he founded a company- KP Technology in Wick.[8] In 1997 Baikie was appointed Professor of Applied Physics with a Chair in Materials Science for his work on surface work function and the scanning Kelvin probe and is visiting professor at the Nanotechnology and Integrated Bio-Engineering Centre at the University of Ulster, Belfast.[9][10] He is an honorary professor at the University of St Andrews. [11]

Research

Baikie developed the UK’s first UHV High Resolution Scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) incorporating surface tracking which has been applied to a range of surface phenomena. His research was awarded the alpha 5 status, indicating "Highly significant contribution to the field“ . All EPSRC projects held by Prof. Baikie have achieved a minimum of alpha 4 for scientific/technical merit. Ambient and vacuum versions of the device have been developed. Application of the Vacuum version include in-situ profiling of high and low work function surfaces as suitable targets for hyperthermal surface ionisation, work which was funded by DERA.[12]

Honours

Baikie was one of the people who received a John Logie Baird Award in 2008, given in name of John Logie Baird by Logie Baird's son, for innovation and enterprise.[13] In November 2015, the Institute of Physics awarded Baikie the Swan Medal and Prize for his contributions to the development of Kelvin probe method instrumentation.[14] Baikie was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to science education.[4][15]

Bibliography

  • "A Novel UHV Kelvin Probe and it's application in the Study of Semiconductor Surfaces", Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Twente (1988), ISBN 90-9002444-1.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Askeland, Erikka. "KP Technology moves into final frontier with Nasa deal". energyvoice. energyvoice. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Professor Iain Baikie - Inspiring teachers - Teach in Scotland". Teaching Scotland. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "Professor Iain Baikie - KP Technology MRS Presentation" (PDF). KP Technology. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  4. 1 2 "New Year's Honours list 2017" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 30 December 2016. p. 45. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "PatentDocs". www.faqs.org. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Available PhD Projects (2016 Entry)". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2016-12-31.
  7. ↑ "2016 | St Andrews researcher hopes to make her mark | University of St Andrews". www.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  8. ↑ "Professor probes way to success". www.investcaithness.com. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "RAE 2001 : Submissions". www.rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  10. ↑ "vacuum challenges and solutions" (PDF). Physics World.
  11. ↑ https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/iain-baikie(1805f3c0-46bb-45bd-9f55-42a7157d5783).html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  12. ↑ "RAE 2001 : Submissions". www.rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-01-08.
  13. ↑ "Jam boy Scotland's top innovator". BBC News. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  14. ↑ "Institute of Physics awards > Gold medals > The Swan medal > The Swan/Business and Innovation medal recipients". www.iop.org. Institute of Physics. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  15. ↑ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N15.
  16. ↑ "KP Technology Ltd". www.kelvinprobe.info. Retrieved 2016-04-07.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.