Frank WATT

Professor of Physics
Director, Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA)

• Biophysics: The use of proton beam writing for lab-on-a-chip technology: DNA and protein separation using entropic trapping.

• Biophysics: The use of proton beam written nanochannels and integrated optics for single molecule detection.

• Biomedical Physics: Investigations into degenerative diseases: The application of nuclear microscopy to the characterisation of elemental distribution in atherosclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease.

• Interdisciplinary Research: Proton beam writing: The use of high energy proton beams for 3 dimensional micromachining, with particular emphasis on applications in tissue engineering, microphotonics, microfluidics and nano-fabrication.

• Engineering Physics: The further development of Nuclear Microscope technology.

• Engineering Physics: The further development of proton beam writing, which is a new lithographic process capable of sub-100 nm resolutions.

• Engineering Physics: The further development of nano-imprinting.

• Ion beam lithography and nanofabrication: A review. F Watt, A A Bettiol, JA van Kan, E J Teo and MBH Breese. IJN Vol. 4, No. 3 (June 2005) 269-286.

• The iron chelator desferrioxamine inhibits atherosclerotic lesion development and decreases lesion iron concentrations in the cholesterol-fed rabbit. R Minqin, R Rajendran, N Pan, B KH Tan, WY Ong, F Watt and B Halliwell, Free Radical Biology and Medicine ; Volume 38, Issue 9 , 1 May 2005, 1206-1211.

• Observation of many coherent oscillations for MeV protons transmitted through stacking faults. Breese, M B H; Teo, E J; Rana, M A; Huang, L; van Kan, J A; Watt, F; King, P J C, Physical Review Letters, Volume 92, Issue 4, January 30, 2004, Page 045503.

• Lithography of high spatial density biosensor structures with sub-100 spacing by MeV proton beam writing with minimal proximity effects. HJ Whitlow, ML Ng, V Auzelyte, I Maximov, L Montelius, JA van Kan, AA Bettiol and F Watt. Nanotechnology 15 (2003) 223-226.

• Three dimensional nano-lithography using proton beam writing. JA van Kan, AA Bettiol and F Watt, Applied Physics Letters 83 (2003) 1629-1631.