Alan Michette

Alan Michette was born in Norwich, England, and obtained his B.S. degree in physics and Ph.D. degree in particle physics at University College London. After a short spell as a postdoctoral fellow at UCL, he spent four years at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory before taking up a lectureship in physics at Queen Elizabeth College London, where he started his current main research programe in x-ray physics. He then moved to King’s College London in 1984, following the merger with QEC and, after a sabbatical at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching (near Munich) in Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, he was promoted to Reader in 1989 and Professor in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Microscopical Society. His current research interests are in the x-ray emission of laser produced plasmas, the development of novel (including adaptive) x-ray optics, and the application of these technologies in advanced laboratory scale x-ray instruments. He is currently a Team Leader in the UK Smart X-Ray Optics consortium, chair of the Management Committee of the European Science Foundation COST Action “Short Wavelength Laboratory Sources”, and Course Leader for the Masters by Research in Bio- , Nano- , and X-Ray Photonics at King’s College.

Biography Updated on 11 September 2007

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Micro-opto-electro-mechanical system for X-ray focusing
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 84, no. 5-8, pp. 1252–1255, 2007
  2. Broadband Mo/Si multilayer transmission phase retarders for the extreme ultraviolet
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 3, p. 031901, 2007
  3. Complete polarization analysis of extreme ultraviolet radiation with a broadband phase retarder and analyzer
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 90, no. 8, p. 081910, 2007
  4. Broadband multilayer polarizers for the extreme ultraviolet
    Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 99, no. 5, p. 056108, 2006
  5. Extreme ultraviolet broadband Mo/Y multilayer analyzers
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 89, no. 24, p. 241120, 2006
  6. A novel MOEMS based adaptive optics for X-ray focusing
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 83, no. 4-9, pp. 1321–1325, 2006
  7. Broadband Mo/Si multilayer analyzers for the 15–17 nm wavelength range
    Thin Solid Films, vol. 515, no. 4, pp. 2523–2526, 2006
  8. Broad angular multilayer analyzer for soft X-rays
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 6, p. 2533, 2006
  9. Nanometer focusing of X-rays with modified reflection zone plates
    Optics Communications, vol. 245, no. 1-6, pp. 249–253, 2005
  10. Movement and Alignment of Microtubules in Electric Fields and Electric-Dipole-Moment Estimates
    Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine (formerly Electro- and Magnetobiology), vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 319–330, 2005
  11. Examination of the Penetration of Polymeric Methylene Di-Phenyl-Di-Isocyanate (pMDI) into Wood Structure Using Chemical-State X-Ray Microscopy
    Holzforschung, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 215–222, 2002
  12. A Focused Ultrasoft X-Ray Microbeam for Targeting Cells Individually with Submicrometer Accuracy
    Radiation Research, vol. 156, no. 6, p. 796, 2001
  13. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1186–1190, 2000
  14. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 452–457, 2000
  15. Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 61–66, 2000
  16. A simple new method for the investigation of process latitude in E-beam lithography with positive resists
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 53, no. 1-4, pp. 333–336, 2000
  17. Depth-graded multilayer X-ray optics with broad angular response
    Optics Communications, vol. 177, no. 1-6, pp. 25–32, 2000
  18. Optimisation of depth-graded multilayer coatings for broadband reflectivity in the soft X-ray and EUV regions
    Optics Communications, vol. 177, no. 1-6, pp. 47–55, 2000
  19. A new e-beam method for grey scale 3D optical elements
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 46, no. 1-4, pp. 209–212, 1999
  20. Low voltage e-beam irradiation: a new tool for suppression of airborne contamination effects in positive chemically amplified resists
    Microelectronic Engineering, vol. 41-42, pp. 203–206, 1998
  21. Two approaches for irradiating cells individually: a charged-particle microbeam and a soft X-ray microprobe
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, vol. 130, no. 1-4, pp. 270–274, 1997
  22. Phase modulating zone plates for X-rays of energy 1–8 keV
    Optics Communications, vol. 141, no. 3-4, pp. 118–122, 1997
  23. Projected Advances in Laboratory Soft X-Ray Systems and Their Applications
    Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 98–116, 1997
  24. Toroidal condenser optics for dark-field X-ray microscopy
    Optics Communications, vol. 124, no. 1-2, pp. 141–149, 1996
  25. RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT OF WELL LOG AND SEISMIC DATA*
    Geophysical Prospecting, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 564–580, 1984
  26. Considerations of Zone Plate Optics for Soft X-ray Microscopy
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 31, no. 12, pp. 1417–1426, 1984
  27. Cross sections for charged current ? and $$\bar v$$ interactions in the energy range 10 to 50 GeV
    Zeitschrift f�r Physik C Particles and Fields, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 187–190, 1979