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Iain Baikie
Baikie in 2009 in Wick
Born (1960-08-27) 27 August 1960 (age 63)
Wick, Scotland
NationalityBritish
Alma materHeriot-Watt University
Twente University[3]
AwardsSwan Medal and Prize (2015)
Scientific career
InstitutionsKP Technology
Brown University[1]
Marine Biological Laboratory[2]

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 grandson, 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 its application in the Study of Semiconductor Surfaces", Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Twente (1988), ISBN 90-9002444-1.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Professor Iain Baikie - Inspiring teachers - Teach in Scotland". Teaching Scotland. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Professor Iain Baikie - KP Technology MRS Presentation" (PDF). KP Technology. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  3. ^ Askeland, Erikka. "KP Technology moves into final frontier with Nasa deal". energyvoice. energyvoice. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  4. ^ a b "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. ^ a b "Available PhD Projects (2016 Entry)". Imperial College London. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  7. ^ "2016 | St Andrews researcher hopes to make her mark | University of St Andrews". www.st-andrews.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  8. ^ "Professor probes way to success". www.investcaithness.com. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  9. ^ "RAE 2001 : Submissions". www.rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  10. ^ "vacuum challenges and solutions" (PDF). Physics World.
  11. ^ "Iain Baikie - University of St Andrews".
  12. ^ "RAE 2001 : Submissions". www.rae.ac.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  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 7 April 2016.


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