Neil Bacon

Expert with 20+ years experience in UHV systems, high-voltage, cold-field emission electron sources and cryogenics.

Research Expertise

Space and Planetary Science
Geophysics
Earth-Surface Processes
Atmospheric Science
Mechanical Engineering
Condensed Matter Physics
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Instrumentation
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Publications

Breakup of levitated frost particles
Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
1998
Initial stages in the morphological evolution of vapour‐grown ice crystals: A laboratory investigation
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
2003
Electrodynamic trapping and manipulation of ice crystals
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
1999
Laboratory Measurements of Light Scattering by Single Levitated Ice Crystals
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
2000
Laboratory measurements of light scattering by single ice particles
Journal of Aerosol Science
1998
Laboratory Studies of Water Ice Nucleation and Growth at Conditions Relevant to Martian Cloud Formation
Unknown Venue
Extinction measurements and single scattering albedo in the 0.5 to 1.05 μm range for a laboratory cloud of hexagonal ice crystals
Atmospheric Research
1998
Dedicated STEM for 200 to 40 keV operation
The European Physical Journal Applied Physics
2011
Exploring new frontiers with the Nion aberration-corrected STEM
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2012
Exploring Phonon Signals by High Energy / High Spatial Resolution EELS
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2014
High-energy-resolution monochromator for aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy/electron energy-loss spectroscopy
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
2009
Atomic Resolution SE Imaging in a 30-200 keV Aberration-corrected UHV STEM
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2023
Multi-Sun EELS: Ultra-High Energy Resolution combined with High Spatial Resolution and High Beam Current
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2022
Advances in STEM and EELS: New Operation Modes, Detectors and Software
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2019
Progress in ultrahigh energy resolution EELS
Ultramicroscopy
2019
Ultra-High Energy Resolution EELS
Microscopy and Microanalysis
2017

Education

University of Cambridge

MA, Physics and Theoretical Physics / May, 1987

Cambridge

University College Cork

MSc, Physics / June, 1992

Cork

University of Washington

Ph.D., Physics / June, 2001

Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Experience

Nion Company

Research Physicist / June, 2001Present

Extensive R&D in electron microscopy. Designed a cold-field emission electron gun, UHV system, cameras etc.

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