Current interests

Patrick Josephs-Franks' main interests include nano-engineered structures using ultra high vacuum scanning tunnelling microscopy, the development of miniature SQUIDs for single spin detection, and electron and nuclear spin resonance using brute force and optical pumping polarization methods.

Presentations at international conferences and two recent publications on the development of ultra small SQUID for single spin detection have been made.

Biography

Patrick went to the University of Sussex, Brighton where he obtained a B.Sc in Physics with Astronomy, and then was awarded a DPhil for work on a Helium-3 Magnetometer for the Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment, in 1986.

He then joined the UK Ministry of Defence for seven years developing a gyroscope based on nuclear spin of helium-3 nucleii and also on high temperature superconductors and SQUID detectors.

In 1991 he left the MOD and started work at NPL. He is a principal research scientist in the Fundamental & Wavelength Standards Team. He has managed over four DTI funded projects at NPL worth in excess of £1.5M.

He is a member of the Institute of Physics in the UK and also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Contact details

Email:patrick.josephs-franks@npl.co.uk
Tel: +44 20 8943 6654