Iain Baikie

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]

Iain Baikie
Baikie in 2009 in Wick
Born	(1960-08-27) 27 August 1960 (age 64) 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]

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]