Bentley Burnham joined the 糖心Vlog 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
