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David Jenkins

 

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Dr David Jenkins

  • Job title: Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Address: B333, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586242
  • Email: D.F.Jenkins@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background

B.Sc. Physics

M.Sc. Laser Physics

Ph.D. Applied Physics

 

Professional membership

Institute of Physics

M.Inst.P., C.Phys.
Institute of Engineering and Technology

M.IET

 



Research interests

Micro Sensor / Actuator Systems:

1. Nanosructured Optical Sensors

2. Micro-electro-mechanical devices (MEMS).

3. Dual Beam Polarisation Interferometor.

4. Active vibration control.

5. Functional materials.

6. Measurement and Instrumentation.

Optical (and magneto-optical) data storage:

1. Near-field optics for high density optical storage.

2. Scanning laser microscopy.

3. Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM)

4. electroMagnetic Force Microscopy (eMFM).

Medical Systems:

1. Optical sensing for Human Motor Dysfunction

2. Miniature actuators for automated bone distraction.

 


Publications

      RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

 

  1.       A-S Rollier, D Jenkins, E Dogheche, L. Buchaillot and D Remiens. Atomic Force Microscopy Cantilevers Incorporating PZT Thin Films for Application in Liquids, J. of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 20, No. 8, 2010, 

  2.    D Jenkins, E. Dogheche, L. Kerkache, A. Layadi  and P. Roussel. Piezoelectric Characteristics of MFM Structures Deposited on Indium Tin Oxide - Coated Glass by Sputtering, submitted to J. of Material Science July 2010.

  3. D. Rémiens, C. Soyer, D. Troadec, D.Deresme , D Jenkins,  R. Yuang, G.Wang and X.Dong. Integration and Optimisation of PZT Piezoelectric Thin Films in Micro and Nano DimensionalStructures. J. of Micro and Nanosystems, Submitted Feb. 2009
  4. R. Herdier, M. Détalle, D. Jenkins, D. Remiens, Dominique Grébille and Rachid Bouregba. The properties of epitaxial PMNT thin films grown on SrTiO3 substrates,       J. of Crystal Growth, Vol. 311, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-127.
  5. E. Dogheche, D.F.L  Jenkins, L. Kerkache, A. LayadiI, P. Roussel D. Remiens. Piezoelectrical Characteristics of Metal – Ferroelectric – Metal Structure Deposited on indium tin oxide -Coated silicon and Glass Substrates by Sputtering, presented at ISIF 2008, Singapore June 2008.
  6. R. Herdier, M. Détalle, D. Jenkins, D. Remiens. Properties of epitaxial PMNT thin film growth on SrTiO3 substrate, presented at  ISIF 2008, Singapore June 2008.
  7. Remiens, D, Detalle, M.  Herdier, R, Soyer, C, Wang, Genshui, Jenkins, David, Roussel, Pascal. PMN-PT thin films grown by sputtering on silicon substrate: influence of the annealing temperature on the physico-chemical and electrical properties of the films. Research on Chemical Intermediates, Vol: 34, Issue: 2, 2008, 201-16.
  8. Romain Herdier, Nossikpendou Sama, David Jenkins, Caroline Soyer and Denis Remiens. On the influence of the top and bottom electrodes – a comparative study between Pt and LNO electrodes for PZT thin films. In print J. Crystal Growth, 2008.
  9. R Herdier, D Jenkins and  D Remiens. A MEMS type cantilever structure for the evaluation of d31, d33 and e31 piezoelectric coefficient.  Presented at  ISAF 2007, Nara, Japan, May 2007. IEEE Proceedings: Applications of Ferroelectrics, 2007. ISAF 2007. Proc. 16th  IEEE International Symposium on Applications of Ferroelectrics, pp 725-727, 2007.

8.    Romain Herdier, M. Detalle, David Jenkins, Caroline Soyer  and Denis Remiens . Piezoelectric thin films for MEMS applications – A comparative study of PZT, 0.7PMN-0.3PT and 0.9PMN-0.1PT  thin films grown on Pt  by r.f. magnetron sputtering. Accepted for Publication – Sensors and Actuators A, 2008.

9.    David Jenkins, M Pakorny, Romain Herdier,  Elhadj Dogheche, Denis Remiens and Miroslav Sulc. Measurement methods for the d33 coefficient of PZT thin films on silicon substrates: A comparison of double beam interferometer (DBI) and single-beam laser vibrometer (LDV).  Ferroelectrics, Volume 351, 2007, Pages 122 – 130.

10.  David F L Jenkins, L Panina, D Maknovsky, P Nutter and E W Hill. Nanostructured Optical Bio Sensors. Presented at Magnetism in Medicine, Birmingham, February 2007.

11.  Romain Herdier, David Jenkins, Elhadj Dogheche, Denis Remiens and Miroslav Sulc. Laser Doppler Vibrometry for evaluating the piezoelectric coefficient d33 on thin film. Rev. Sci. Instrumen. Vol.77 issue 9, 3905, 2006.

12.  Sarah Walters, David Jenkins and Des Mapps. Scanning Laser Microscope Incorporating a Capacitance based Real-Time Nano-Positioning System.” Presented at DSNet-UK Topical Technical Meeting on Optical Storage, Plasmon Data Systems, Cambridge, 19th July 2005.

13.  Sarah Walters, David Jenkins and Des Mapps. “Scanning Laser Microscope Incorporating a SIL Nano-Positioning System.” Poster presented at International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage, 10-14 July 2005, Hawaii, USA.

 

14.  W R Hendren, R Atkinson, R J Pollard, I W Salter, C D Wright, W W Clegg and D F L Jenkins. “The design and optimization of disk structures for MAMMOS/MSR magneto-optic recording” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 38 2310-2320, 2005.

15.  W R Hendren, R A Atkinson, R J Pollard, I W Salter, C D Wright, W W Clegg and D F L Jenkins.  The influence of dielectric constant on the properties of thin GdFeCo layers for in-plane MAMMOS/MSR  media. J. of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 281, 382-387, 2004.

16.  W R Hendren, R Atkinson, R J Pollard, I W Salter, C D Wright, W W Clegg and D F L Jenkins. “The design and optimization of disk structures for MAMMOS/MSR magneto-optic recording” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 38 2310-2320, 2005.

17.  W R Hendren, R A Atkinson, R J Pollard, I W Salter, C D Wright, W W Clegg and D F L Jenkins.  The influence of dielectric constant on the properties of thin GdFeCo layers for in-plane MAMMOS/MSR  media. J. of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 281, 382-387, 2004.

  1. David Jenkins and Sarah Edmund  ”A SIL based scanning laser microscope (SLM) incorporating real-time flying height and tilt correction for high-density magneto-optical recording.” Presented at  ISPS 2004, Santa Clara, USA, June 2004.
  2. Sarah Edmund and David Jenkins. “Dynamic SIL-SLM for high density magneto-optical recording”  San Diego SPIE conference, August 11th 2003. Published in Proc. SPIE 2003.
  3. Li A, Liu XQ, Clegg W, Jenkins DFL, Donnelly T. Real-time method to measure head disk spacing variation under vibration conditions. IEEE Transactions On Instrumentation And Measurement 52 (3): 916-920 Jun 2003
  4. D F L Jenkins. Piezoelectric sensors and actuators for generic applications in magnetic hard disk drives.  Invited chapter – Piezoelectric Materials for Macro/Micro Systems (Transworld Research Network), 2003.
  5. D F L Jenkins, D M Newman and M Best. “The Optical Cube – How to Have Inertia-less Access to Optical Memory?” Oral presentation at INSIC Annual Meeting, Monterey, USA, June 2003.
  6. D F L  Jenkins, and S Edmund. “A Scanning Laser Microscope Incorporating SIL for High-Density Magneto-Optical Recording. Oral presentation at IIP/ISPS 2003, Yokahama, Japan, June 2003. To be published in Micro Systems Technologies (Springer Verlag).

24.  David F L Jenkins, Xinqun Liu and  W W Clegg. A polarisation interferometer for flying height measurement down to near-contact. Oral presentation at IIP/ISPS 2003, Yokahama, Japan, June 2003.

  1. David Jenkins, Warwick Clegg, James Windmill, Sarah Edmund, C David Wright, Marilyn Armand, Ron Atkinson, Dave Newman and Bill Hendren “Advanced Optical and  Magneto-Optical Recording - a Review” Invited presentation, 13th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, June 18-19  2002. Micro Systems Technologies (Springer Verlag), Dec 2003.
  2. David Jenkins,  Eric Fribourg-Blanc, Eric Cattan,  and Denis Remiens. The linearisation of an electrostrictive device for MEMS applications. Poster presentation at  IFFF 2002, Nara, Japan 2002. Accepted for publication.
  3. David Jenkins,  Warwick Clegg, Xinqun Liu,  Eric Fribourg-Blanc, Eric Cattan,  and Denis Remiens. Characterisation of MEMS devices using a polarisation interferometer. Integrated Ferroelectrics,  Vol. 45-50, 1539, 2002.
  4. Liu XQ, Li A, Clegg W, Jenkins DFL, Davey P. Head-disk spacing variation suppression via active flying height control. IEEE Transactions On Instrumentation And Measurement 51 (5): 897-901 Oct 2002.
  5. David Jenkins, Warwick Clegg, James Windmill, Ron Atkinson, Bill Hendren and C David Wright “Incorporating SNOM into a dynamic scanning laser microscope for high-resolution observation of domain dynamics.” Presented at EPSRC Nano-Optics Network Meeting, NPL 10-11 January 2001.
  6. David Jenkins, Warwick Clegg, Xinqun Liu, Eric Cattan and Denis Remiens. A polarisating interferometer for high-speed, high-resolution dynamic MEMS characterisation. Invited paper, presented at Journees Couches Ferroelectrics, Maubeuge, France, November 2001.
  7. Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, Na Helian, James Windmill, Robert Windmill,  Ron Atkinson, Bill Hendren and C David Wright Real-Time Synchronous Observation of Switching Dynamics in Magneto-Optical Media. Presented at 12th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, USA, June 2001.
  8. J F C Windmill, W W Clegg, D F L Jenkins, P J Davey. An Electromagnetic Read/Write MFM Probe. Presented at 12th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, USA, June 2001.
  9. Glen Tunstall, Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, Paul Davey and Amie Li. Observing Hard Disk Drive Suspension Arm and Disk Vibrations. Presented at 12th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, USA, June 2001.
  10. David Jenkins, Warwick Clegg, Glen Tunstall,  Amei Li, and Paul Davey. CD-ROM Optics for Flying Height Measurement in Hard Disk Drives. Presented at 12th Annual Symposium on Information Storage and Processing Systems, Santa Clara, USA, June 2001. Published in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4442 pp. 126-134, 2001.
  11. Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, Na Helian, James Windmill and Robert Windmill. Static and Dynamic Thermo-Magnetic Recording Using A Scanning Laser Microcscope. Presented at SPIE 46th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, July 2001. Published in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4449, pp. 205-211, 2001.
  12. David Jenkins, Warwick Clegg and Xinqun Liu. A combined polarising interferometer and optical beam deflection system for MEMS characterisation Presented at SPIE 46th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA, July 2001. Published in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4442 pp. 15-25, 2001
  13. Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, Na Helian, James Windmill, Robert Windmill, Ron Atkinson, Bill Hendren and C David Wright. Scanning laser techniques for dynamic thermo-magnetic recording onto stationary media. Oral presentation at IMST2001, Grenoble, France, April 2001. Accepted for publication J. of Magnetismand Magnetic Materials (Elsevier) 2001.
  14. D. F .L. Jenkins, W. W. Clegg, E Cattan and D Remiens. PZT thin film bi-layer devices for phase controlled actuation in MEMS. Journal of Electroceramics, 2001, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp 5-12.
  15. Amei Li, Xinqun Liu, Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, and Paul Davey. Head Disk Spacing Vibration Suppression via Active Flying Height Control. Accepted for poster presentation,  IMTC 2001, Budapest, Hungary, May 2001. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

  16. Xinqun Liu, Amei Li, Warwick Clegg, David Jenkins, "Real Time Methods to Measure Head Disk Spacing under Vibration Conditions," Accepted for poster presentation,  IMTC 2001, Budapest, Hungary, May 2001. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.