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SurfaceSpectra is a distinguished team of experts in surface analysis
with extensive experience in both the theoretical considerations
and practical applications of surface analysis, and a wealth of
knowledge to share with you…
Professor John Vickerman has over 25 years
research experience in the development and exploitation of surface
analysis techniques. He and his group
at Manchester (previously UMIST) have made particularly important contributions
to the emergence of static secondary ion mass spectrometry (SSIMS)
as one of the most powerful methods for the characterisation
of the surface chemistry of materials. Early work demonstrated
conclusively on model systems and later on complex materials,
that SSIMS is a true surface mass spectrometry. From the UMIST
group emerged the first
contract analytical company based on static SIMS. In recent
years Professor Vickerman's group have developed the technique
to enable analysis of auto exhaust catalysts, reactions on ice
mimics of polar stratospheric clouds and as a chemical microscope
to probe biological cell chemistry.
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Professor David Briggs established the
first industrial surface analysis laboratory in the UK in 1973
and, during his 27 year career with ICI was responsible for
numerous pioneering developments in both XPS and static SIMS
instrumentation and their application to materials development.
His group was particularly associated with polymer surface characterisation.
In 1979 he founded the international journal 'Surface
and Interface Analysis' and remained editor-in-chief until
2000. He became Professor of Surface Chemical Analysis at the
University
of Nottingham in February 2000, a joint appointment with
the Schools of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry and Mechanical,
Materials & Manufacturing Engineering & Management.
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| Dr Alex Henderson
has some 18 years research experience in surface
analysis. Coming from a chemistry background
he hold a PhD in the 'XPS of Small Metallic
Particles' and worked for a time in an applications
lab running XPS samples for industry. He is
currently an honorary lecturer on the University of Manchester's
Cheminformatics MSc course lecturing in 'Programming
and Database Design'. Alex is an active member
of the Standard Data Transfer Working Party,
set up to develop a new file format for ToF-SIMS.
Alex's skills in IT together with first-hand
experience of commercial analysis combine
to produce new computational approaches to
SIMS, XPS and other areas. Alex is responsible
for much of the day-to-day running of SurfaceSpectra. |
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