Bentley Burnham joined the 海角乱伦专区 physics department in 1999 as an adjunct professor after a two year post-doc position at St. Jude Children鈥檚 Research Hospital. He teaches a wide variety of courses from introductory astronomy and physics to courses in advanced physics and math methods. His area of research is storage ring based free-electron lasers.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
鈥淔irst UV/Visible Lasing with the OK-4/Duke Storage Ring FEL鈥�, V.N. Litvinenko, B. Burnham, S.H. Park, Y. Wu, R. Cataldo, M. Emamian, J. Faircloth, S. Goetz, N. Hower, J.M.J. Madey, J. Meyer, P. Morcombe, O. Oakeley, J. Patterson, G. Swift, P. Wang, I.V. Pinayev, M.G. Fedotov, N.G. Gavrilov, V.M. Popik, V.N. Repkov, L.G. Isaeva, G.N. Kulipanov, G.Ya. Kurkin, S.F. Mikhailov, A.N. Skrinsky, N.A. Vinokurov, P.D. Vobly, A. Lumpkin, B. Yang., in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 407 (1998) 8-15.
鈥淕amma-ray Production in a Storage Ring Free Electron Laser鈥�, V.N. Litvinenko, B. Burnham, M. Emamian, N. Hower, J.M.J. Madey, P. Morcombe, P.G. O'Shea, S.H. Park, R. Sachtschale, K. D. Straub, G. Swift, P. Wang, Y. Wu, R. S. Canon, C. R. Howell, N. R. Roberson, E. C. Schreiber, M. Spraker, W. Tornow, H. R. Weller, I. V. Pinayev, N. G. Gavrilov, M. G. Fedotov, G. N. Kulipanov, G. Y. Kurkin, S. F. Mikhailov, V. M. Popik, A. N. Skrinsky, N. A. Vinokurov, B. E. Norum, A. Lumpkin, B. Yang. in Physical Review Letters, 78 (1997) 4569.
"mm-wave Isochronous FEL and Hard X-ray Inverse Compton Source at the Duke Storage Ring鈥�, V.N. Litvinenko, G. Barnett, B. Burnham, J.M.J. Madey, Y. Wu., in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 358 (1995) 345-348.
PATENTS
Marc R. Sontag and Bentley H. Burnham. 鈥淩espiration Responsive Gating Means and Apparatus and Methods Using the Same鈥�. Patent #6,076,005, issued June 13, 2000, and patent #6,298,260 B1, issued October 2, 2001.
Education
M.A. and Ph.D. Duke University