Peter Barker (born 1967) is an Australian-born British physicist.
Peter Barker | |
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| Born | 1967 Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University College London |
| Doctoral advisor | Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop |
| Website | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/physics-astronomy/people/professor-peter-barker |
Barker obtained his PhD in Physics in 1996 from the University of Queensland Australia under the supervision of Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop. From 1997 to 2000 he was postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Princeton University in the US. From 2001 to 2006 he was a Lecturer at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in the UK. He held an EPSRC Research Fellowship from 2005–2010. In 2006, he moved to University College London as Reader and became a Professor in 2007.[1]
He was the head of the Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Positron Physics group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University College London (UCL). He has a strong background in cold atomic and molecular physics. Since 2005, his research has concentrated on the cooling, manipulation and transport of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles in optical tweezers.[2] In 2017, he began to explore experimental approaches to create a micron-sized fridge using optical refrigeration of a submicrometre crystal suspended in optical and ion traps.[3] He has over 80 articles published with high impact publications in Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology and Physical Review Letters.[4]
References
edit- ^ UCL (25 April 2018). "Professor Peter Barker". UCL Department of Physics and Astronomy. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
- ^ Anders, J.; Barker, P.; Deesuwan, T.; Millen, J. (June 2014). "Nanoscale temperature measurements using non-equilibrium Brownian dynamics of a levitated nanosphere". Nature Nanotechnology. 9 (6): 425–429. arXiv:1309.3990. doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.82. ISSN 1748-3395. PMID 24793558.
- ^ Barker, P. F.; Rahman, A. T. M. Anishur (October 2017). "Laser refrigeration, alignment and rotation of levitated Yb 3+ :YLF nanocrystals" (PDF). Nature Photonics. 11 (10): 634–638. doi:10.1038/s41566-017-0005-3. ISSN 1749-4893.
- ^ "Iris View Profile". iris.ucl.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 December 2018.