Research Interests
Kai Hock, Lecturer, University of Liverpool
Kai Hock has BA (Honours Class 1) and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge.
1988: PhD at Cambridge University, probing the structures of molecules on surfaces.
1992: worked in a national laboratory in Singapore, focussing on radar tomography.
1997: went into the industry and worked at Sony Singapore, on the servo control system in a DVD player. He spent a significant part of his time at the Sony headquarters in Japan.
2001: moved to the National University of Singapore, and worked on metamaterials. Spent half a year at Dassault Aviation in France.
2006: returned to the UK for a postdoc in accelerator physics, and got a lectureship at Liverpool in 2008.
Kai’s research has crossed 5 disciplines, ranging from the molecules to the large accelerators. His career has spanned 3 sectors – universities, research organisations and the industry. He has lived in 4 countries, on opposite sides of the world – opposite both in geography and in culture. He is currently based at the Cockcroft Institute at Daresbury, UK.
Selected Publications:
- K. M. Hock, et al, “Competing routes for charge transfer in co-adsorption of K and O2 on graphite”, Physical Review Letters, 71 (1993) 641.
- K. M. Hock, “Narrowband Weak Signal Detection by Higher Order Spectrum”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 44, (1996), 874-879
- J. Xu and K. M. Hock, “Recovering recorded information from an optical disk, United States Patent 6816451 (2004), Assignee: Sony Corporation (Tokyo, Japan).
- K. M. Hock, “Photonic band gap in thin wire metamaterials”, Physical Review E, 77, 036701 (2008).
- S. Machida, et al, “Acceleration in the linear non-scaling fixed-field alternating-gradient accelerator EMMA”, Nature Physics, (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/NPHYS2179
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