SMP2.0 Kick-off Meeting – Barcelona – Spain – 26 January 2017

Fernando CastroPrincipal Research Scientist

Science Area Leader

Who we are

UK’s metrology institute

Founded in 1900

World-leading National

Measurement Institute (Top 3

among ~100)

650 staff, 450 Graduate/PhD

scientists - multidisciplinary

Develop & disseminate UK’s

measurement standards,

ensure they are

internationally accepted

Multidisciplinary R&D and

technical services for public

and private sector

Knowledge transfer, and

advice between industry

government and academia

Electronic and Magnetic Materials

Purpose

World class measurement science and modelling to

underpin UK developments in innovative electronics

and magnetics technologies that offer improved

performance in wide ranging environments,

sustainable value chains and suitable component

lifetimes. Themes• Printed, flexible & plastic electronics, sensors and interconnects

• Magnets and magnetic materials and sensors

Outlook

Primarily supporting advanced manufacturing sector

with significant impact on environment, energy,

medical physics and big data.

Aerospace and Defense

Automotive

Flexible electronicsBioelectronicsSensors

Energy and Environment

Space

Additive

Manufacture

Application areas

Electronic and Magnetic Materials

Scanning Kelvin Probe Microscopy

• P.G. Nicholson, F.A. Castro, Nanotechnology (2010) (review)

• Tsoi et al. Energy & Environmental Science (2011)

• A. Cuenat et al. Nanotechnology, (2012)

• J. Blakesley, F.A. Castro, Physical Review B (2015)

• ACS Nano (2016)

• N. Kumar et al. Nanoscale (2017)

Advanced modelling tools

200nm89nm

Topography35.00

-8.00

35 pA

-8 pA

Photocurrent9.50

0.00

10 nm

0 nm

Some of our key interests

(Photo)conducting AFM Tip Enhanced Optical Spectroscopy

Our Role in the project

Leading WP7 Metrology and Standardization

Organising Training Workshop (D8.9) :one option would be to

combine workshop with ALETCH at E-MRS 2019.

Submission

deadline today!

ESR 9: Project will focus on metrology of scanning probe microscopy

leading to deliverables

• D7.1 Cantilever calibration good practice

• D7.2 Tip-sample interaction area

Host secondments: Interest in characterisation/quantification of probe

volume; modelling/mathematical reconstruction.

Contact people for SPM2.0

Fernando CastroPrincipal Research Scientist

fernando.castro@npl.co.uk+44 (0)20 8943 6357

Sebastian WoodHigher Research Scientist

sebastian.wood@npl.co.uk+44 (0)20 8943 6251

Project management and financial

Kali DunneProject Officer

kali.dunne@npl.co.uk+44 (0)20 8943 8606

The National Physical Laboratory is operated by NPL Management Ltd, a wholly-

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BEIS).