Overview

Carl Thomas Boone, Ph.D.

I am an experimental condensed matter physicist. I have worked with magnetics/spintronics, semiconductors, and MEMS, including sample growth and preparation; structural, transport, and magnetic characterization; data analysis and simulations. I have been involved in a wide variety of projects in the past, summarized by my publication record.

I am Director of Systems Engineering at SELFA, a biomedical device start-up company. SELFA is working to produce new label-free sensing devices for infectious disease and other biomarkers using silicon nanostructures. I am an all-purpose scientist/engineer, doing everything from designing experiments, performing measurements, programming equipment, designing chips, writing grant proposals, editing our pitch deck, and more. I also offer services on a consulting basis, be it strategy, layout, design, etc. - contact me for details.

Previously I was with biomedical device start-up FemtoDx, where my role involved managing our advanced manufacturing processes and contracts, managing university research partners studying device physics, setting up our lab, designing circuitry to reduce device noise, and whatever other necessary functions were required.

I am always open to new and exciting opportunities consulting or otherwise contributing to new technologies and start-up companies.

Previously, I was a research scientist at the University of Michigan. (This position was due to my spouse having a postdoctoral position in UM's astronomy department.)

In the more distant past I have been a lecturer and researcher at Boston University (where my now spouse was finishing a PhD), an NRC Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a researcher at HGST hard drive company's research center, and the University of California (I have done things at various campuses, but my formal education has been at Santa Barbara and Irvine). See my CV for more details.

I taught introductory physics at BU (Spring 2015), and hope to teach more in the future (when my life and location become more stable). A long-form teaching philosophy statement can be found under the "teaching" link.

When I am not doing science, you can find me reading literature, playing softball and ultimate disc, skiing, doing pub trivia, or playing Scrabble.

Beyond condensed matter physics, materials science, and engineering, I maintain active interest in genetics, evolution, climatology, economics, and anthropology, among other subjects.

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While I maintain broad, multidisciplinary interests in learning, my research primarily covers magnetism and spintronics. Future technologies will rely on the electron spin degree of freedom and we need to determine the physics that governs spin transport, spin absorption, and spin dynamics in metals, ferromagnets, semiconductors, and exotic states of matter like topological insulators. I am interested in developing precision experiments to discover which controllable parameters - multilayer structure, growth, interfaces, etc. - are correlated with observable macroscopic quantities such as the damping or anisotropy in a ferromagnet. I employ a number of experimental, theoretical and numerical techniques to perform this research. More details can be found on the "research" link to the left. Recently, of course, I have branched out into biophysics, fluidics, and semiconductor devices.