Iain Douglas Baikie, (born 27 August 1960) is a Scottish

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and company Director. He specialises in Material Science. Baikie supervises PhDs at

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and the

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in thin-film electronics. In 2000 he founded a company- KP Technology in Wick. 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

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, Belfast. He is an honorary professor at the University of St Andrews.

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

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Honours

Baikie was one of the people who received a John Logie Baird Award in 2008, given in name of

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by Logie Baird's grandson, for innovation and enterprise. In November 2015, the

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awarded Baikie the

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for his contributions to the development of Kelvin probe method instrumentation. Baikie was appointed

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(MBE) in the

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for services to science education.

Bibliography

* "A Novel UHV Kelvin Probe and its application in the Study of Semiconductor Surfaces", Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. of Twente (1988), .

References

1960 births Living people People from Wick, Caithness 21st-century Scottish inventors Alumni of Heriot-Watt University University of Twente alumni British materials scientists Scottish physicists Members of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Institute of Physics {{UK-physicist-stub