Craig Barton received his PhD from the University of Manchester in 2014 on the fabrication and characterisation of highly engineered magnetic thin films for potential future recording media. Following this, he undertook a Postdoc position in the same group where he focussed on the growth of ultrathin films of FeRh and studied the role of substrate induced strain on the first order magnetic phase change that is exhibited by FeRh.
In 2017 he joined NPL's Quantum Detection Group as a Higher Research Scientist in the field of nanomagnetism. He is currently working with scanning probe microscopy (SPM), particularly magnetic force microscopy (MFM), to investigate the potential of calibrated methods which allows high spatially resolved (30nm) measurement of the stay magnetic field value emanating from magnetic materials. Calibrated MFM measurements are increasingly important in the study of topological magnetic structures such as skyrmions, where traditionally, parameters such as radius are prone to convolution with the point spread function of the imaging probe, often making such quantitative measurements challenging.
He also active in the development and implementation of other novel SPM based techniques such scanning thermoelectric microscopy and Nitrogen vacancy microscopy.
Current interests
Craig’s current research interests encompass a broad range of phenomena studied by a variety of measurement techniques. Currently he is active in the characterisation of magnetic topological structures, domain-walls and skyrmions for novel logic and storage spintronic devices. This work is currently being supported by measurement techniques such as quantitative MFM, highly localised thermoelectric microscopy and Nitrogen vacancy microscopy for quantum determination of nanoscale magnetic fields.
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