Peter Clifton joins Oxford Nanoscience from Seagate Technology, where he had been responsible for a variety of sensor development and process development projects
Oxford Nanoscience, manufacturer of the three dimensional atom probe (3DAP), has appointed Peter Clifton to head up the process development and applications department at the company's Milton Keynes headquarters.
Clifton joins Oxford Nanoscience from Seagate Technology, where he had been responsible for a variety of sensor development and process development projects including the extensive use of the 3DAP for both GMR and TMR magnetoresistive sensor applications.
With a degree in physics, a PhD involving the use of surface science techniques, and a work history including materials characterisation, device design and processing, and development of new metrology solutions to meet future roadmap requirements, Clifton also has extensive experience of the 3DAP instrumentation.
He has worked in the FIM (field ion microscopy) group at the department of materials, Oxford University with Alfred Cerezo.
He has also worked in close collaboration with the team in Oxford and, while at Seagate, was a key contributor to the pioneering application of 3DAP methods for wafer-deposited thin film structures including multilayer GMR stacks for data storage applications.
Oxford Nanoscience managing director Richard Davies said: "We are delighted to have Peter Clifton join us at an important time in the evolution of the technique.
"WIth five systems sold already into Japan alone, the 3DAP has matured beyond an instrument that is only used in university research departments by experts in the field.
"Its commercialisation means that more and more organisations are beginning to benefit from its unique ability to count, locate, and chemically identify individual atoms in a solid material.
"Peter will be invaluable in showing prospective customers just what the instrument is capable of".
Clifton's primary role will be to perform customer demonstrations, develop new processes for sample investigations and offer post sales training and instrument validation support.
