David Daughton

Senior Applications Scientist Manager

As applications scientists, we take pride in being a good resource to our customers. I particularly enjoy the opportunity to talk with graduate students, post-docs, and researchers who are trying to get a certain measurement done and help them get the results that they need. It’s exciting to see our customers win grants, publish, and move on with their careers.

Dr. David Daughton is Senior Applications Scientist Manager for Lake Shore, overseeing the company’s Applications Group and their projects as well as developing and maintaining Lake Shore’s application roadmaps.

He received his BS and MS in Physics from the University of Delaware, studying the properties of disordered liquid and solid helium, and his PhD in Physics from The Ohio State University in 2010. Much of his work at OSU involved the study of scanning tunneling microscopy and optical characterization of organic thin films at cryogenic temperatures. He was a consultant to Lake Shore before joining us in 2011.

Dr. Daughton was appointed to his current position in 2023. In addition to managing the Applications Group, he serves as technical point contact for complex product and application questions, attends technical conferences, authors application notes and briefs, and directs and performs advanced proof-of-concept modeling and experiments in support of potential new applications for Lake Shore products, particularly those relating to cryogenic probe stations, Hall measurement systems, and synchronous source measure systems. He also helps customers to configure existing Lake Shore products for a specific application as well as provides support for complex applications involving the characterization of electronic materials and devices.

Select Publications

Non-Exponential Decay of Persistent Photocarriers in an AIGaN/AIN/GaN Heterostructure

D.R. Daughton, B.K. Lai, and J. Lindemuth, in APS March Meeting Abstracts, 2019.

Cryogenic Temperature, 2-Port, On-Wafer Characterization at WR-5.1 Frequencies
D.R. Daughton, M.F. Bauwens, J. Bluestein, M.E. Cyberey, E. de Rijk, M. Favre, A.W. Lichtenberger, N.S. Barker, R.M. Weikle, J. Hesler, C. Rowland, E. Bryerton, D. McLean, and S. Yano, in Proc. 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2016.

Cryogenic Characterization of 22-nm FDSOI CMOS Technology for Quantum Computing ICs
S. Bonen, U. Alakusu, Y. Duan, M.J. Gong, M.S. Dadash, L. Lucci, D.R. Daughton, G.C. Adam, S. Iordanescu, M. Paşteanu, N. Messaoudi, D. Harame, A. Muller, R.R. Mansour, and S.P. Voinigescu, in IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol. 40, issue 1, 2019.

Simultaneous Measurement of the 1st and 2nd Harmonics of a Phase Modulated Coherent Frequency-Domain THz Spectrometer
J. Demers, B. Kasper, and D. Daughton, in Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on, 2014.

Field and Temperature-Dependent Thin Film Characterization with a Continuous-Wave Terahertz Magneto-Spectrometer
D. Daughton, R. Higgins, and S. Yano, in Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2014 39th International Conference on, 2014.

Variable Temperature, Continuous-Wave Terahertz Magneto-Spectrometer
D. Daughton, R. Higgins, S. Yano, and J. Demers, in Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2013 38th International Conference on, 2013.

Metal-Mesh Optical Filter Technology for Mid-IR, Far-IR, and Submillimeter
W. R. McGovern, P. R. Swinehart, E. L. Hogue, D. R. Daughton, and J. V. DeLombard, in Proc. SPIE 8385, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications V, 838506 (May 1, 2012); doi:10.1117/12.918674, 2012.

Coherent THz Spectroscopy with Photomixers in Cryogenic Environments
D. Daughton, R. Higgins, S. Yano, and J. Demers, in Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), 2012 37th International Conference on, 2012.

Orientation Dependence of Charge Transfer for C 60 on Cu (100)
D. Daughton and J. Gupta, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 98, p. 133303, 2011.

Real Time Cantilever Signal Frequency Determination Using Digital Signal Processing
Y. Obukhov, K. Fong, D. Daughton, and P. Hammel, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 101, p. 034315, 2007.

Excitations of Metastable Superfluid H 4 e at Pressures Up to 40 Bars
J. Pearce, J. Bossy, H. Schober, H. Glyde, D. Daughton, and N. Mulders, Physical Review Letters, vol. 93, p. 145303, 2004.

Excitations of Liquid 4 He in Disorder and Boson Localization
F. Albergamo, H. R. Glyde, D. R. Daughton, N. Mulders, J. Bossy, and H. Schober, Physical Review B, vol. 69, p. 014514, 2004.

Acoustic Properties of Silica Aerogels Between 400 mK and 400 K
D. R. Daughton, J. MacDonald, and N. Mulders, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 319, pp. 297-303, 2003.