Professor John N Chapman

MA PhD (Cambridge) FInstP, FRSE

 

Contact information:

Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
U.K.

• E-mail: j.chapman@physics.gla.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 141 330 4462
• Fax: +44 330 4464
• Secretary: +44 141 330 4707 (Ms Lucy Murray)
• Office: Room 316, Kelvin Building

 

Research Interests

My principal area of research concerns the characterisation, development and application of advanced functional materials. Overall my aim is to gain understanding at a microscopic level of how various physical properties relate to material nanostructure and how the former can be improved by the ways in which materials are grown and processed. I study magnetic materials extensively but I also pursue research into electronic materials & devices and particulate systems. With respect to the activity in magnetics, my research involves magnetic nanostructures and multilayers, magnetic films with potential for sensors and spintronics. Much of my work uses electron microscopy and related analytical techniques. As such it forms part of a programme within the research group aimed at providing a quantitative characterisation of solids on a (near) atomic scale.


University responsibilities:

• University Joint Technicians Committee
• Faculty Management Group
• Faculty Research and Strategy Committee (convenor)
  
  
  Activities beyond the University:
  
  During recent years I have been heavily involved with EPSRC, LINK and, before that, Foresight. Currently I am a member of EPSRC Council, its Resource Audit Committee and the HECToR Project Board. Before this I chaired the Advanced Magnetics Programme and served on a number of review and prioritisation panels. For Foresight I was a member of the Information Technology, Electronics and Communications Group and for LINK I was on the panel for the Information Storage and Displays programme.

  I am on the Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Mikrostrukturphysik at Halle, AdCom of the IEEE Magnetics Society and the European Physical Society Magnetics Committee. Major conferences in whose organisation I have played a large role include INTERMAG, International Colloquium on Magnetic Films and Surfaces, Magneto-Optical Recording International Symposium, International Conference on Electron Microsopy, European Congress on Electron Microscopy, the Joint European Magnetic Symposium and the International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers. I was the founding editor of the Applied Magnetism and Magnetic Materials section of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics and am on the editorial board of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

  In 2003/04 I was one of the IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished lecturers, giving a talk entitled "Wall watching - the progress of domains in small elements" at different venues in the USA and Europe
  IEEE Talk (link to downloadable PowerPoint file)

In summer 2006 I gave a plenary talk at JEMS 06 in San Sebastian
JEMS Talk (link to downloadable PowerPoint file)

Recently I have given an advanced tutorial on magnetic imaging by TEM and analytical electron microscopy. It can be found below.
Tutorial Lecture (link to downloadable PowerPoint file)

Last updated: 13 November 2007