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Dr Beverley J Inkson
MA PhD (Cantab)
Nanostructured Materials
Address:
Department of Engineering Materials
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 3JD
Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5925
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 5943
Email: beverley.inkson[AT]sheffield.ac.uk
Beverley Inkson joined the department in 2002, moving from The University of Oxford as a Royal Society URF in Nanomechanics. She is a Reader in Nanostructured Materials, Director of the RCUK Basic Technology programme in Nanorobotics and Chair of the UK NanoFIB network.
Research interests
- Mechanical properties of metals and ceramics at the nanoscale
- Development of SEM/TEM Nanorobotics technologies: to simultaneously view, manipulate and test materials down to the atomic scale
- Nanotribology, nanoindentation and surface wear
- Nanoprocessing and nanoanalysis using focused ion beams (FIB)
- Reliability of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems devices (MEMS)
- 3D TEM, SEM and FIB microstructural analysis, tomography, in-situ TEM
Key projects
Professional activities and recognition
- EPSRC Peer Review College
- Chair of EPSRC NanoFIB network: www.nanofib.org
- Member: IOM3 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology committee
- Member: EUROMAT 2009 organising committee
- Director of the RCUK Basic Technology programme in Nanorobotics: www.nanomanipulation.org
- Member: RMS, IOM3, IOP
Key publications
- Y Peng, AG Cullis, BJ Inkson, Bottom-up construction by welding individual nanoobjects using nanoscale solder, NanoLett, on-line (2009).
- Y Peng, AG Cullis, BJ Inkson, Accurate electrical testing of individual gold nanowires by in-situ SEM nanomanipulators, Appl Phys Lett, 93, 183112 (2008) and the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 18, 20 (2008)
- B.J. Inkson, A. Lockwood, M.S. Bobji, Nanomaterials in motion, Materials World, 16, 1, 40-42 (2008).
- F. Elfallagh, B.J. Inkson, Evolution of residual stress and crack morphologies during 3D FIB tomographic analysis of alumina, J. Microsc., 230, 2, 240-251 (2008).
- G. Möbus, B.J. Inkson, Nanoscale tomography in materials science, Materials Today, 10, 12, 18-25 (2007).
- M.D. Uchic, L. Holzer, BJ Inkson, E.L. Principe, P. Munroe, 3D Microstructural Characterization using Focused Ion Beam Tomography, MRS Bulletin, 32, 5, 408-416 (2007).
- M.S Bobji, C.S. Ramanujan, J.B. Pethica, B.J. Inkson, A miniaturized TEM nanoindenter for studying material deformation in-situ, Meas. Sci. Technol., 17, 1324-1329 (2006).
Research group
Ms Karen Bennett
Dr Yong Peng
Dr Daved Devaprakasam
Dr Mark Jepson
Mr Fathi ElFallagh
Mr Aiden Lockwood
Mr Kevin Briston
Mr Amit Rana
Mr Robert Milne
Mr M Elawayeb
Research centres
NanoLAB
Engineering Faculty FEGTEM facility
Engineering Faculty FIB facility
Sorby Centre for electron microscopy and microanalysis
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