STAFF PROFILE
Professor Dougal McCulloch
Position:
Associate Dean, Physics
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Physics
Phone:
+61 3 9925 3391
Email:
dougal.mcculloch@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research interests
- Microscopy and microanalysis
- Advanced thin film coatings
- Advanced materials
- Electron energy loss spectroscopy
- Disordered solids
- Carbonaceous solids
- Electronic structure of solids
Research projects, consultancy and student project
- Properties and application of light element binary and ternary alloy coatings
- The structure of disordered porous carbonaceous solids
- The characterisation of novel, environmentally friendly, non-chromate based conversion coatings for aerospace aluminium alloys
Awards
- Australian Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 1994
- Australian Research Fellowship, Australian Research Council, 1998
Teaching responsibilities
- 3rd Year Applied Physics Coordinator
- 1st Year Life Science Service Physics
- Director of the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility
- BAppSc RMIT
- PhD RMIT
- Raeber, T.,Zhou, Z.,Murdoch, B.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2018). Resistive switching and transport characteristics of an all-carbon memristor In: Carbon, 136, 280 - 285
- Tan, C.,Lee, J.,Jung, S.,Park, T.,Albarakati, S.,Partridge, J.,Field, M.,McCulloch, D.,Wang, L.,Lee, C. (2018). Hard magnetic properties in nanoflake van der Waals Fe3GeTe2 In: Nature Communications, 9, 1 - 7
- Tran, H.,Mayes, E.,Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Bilek, M.,Holland, A.,Partridge, J. (2017). Codeposition of amorphous zinc tin oxide using high power impulse magnetron sputtering: characterisation and doping In: Semiconductor Science and Technology, 32, 1 - 6
- Tran, H.,Kracica, M.,McCulloch, D.,Mayes, E.,Holland, A.,Partridge, J. (2017). Energetic deposition, measurement and simulation of graphitic contacts to 6H-SiC In: Microelectronics Reliability, 71, 82 - 85
- Ganesan, R.,Akhavan, B.,Partridge, J.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Bilek, M. (2017). Evolution of target condition in reactive HiPIMS as a function of duty cycle: An opportunity for refractive index grading In: Journal of Applied Physics, 121, 1 - 10
- Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2017). Synaptic plasticity and oscillation at zinc tin oxide/silver oxide interfaces In: Journal of Applied Physics, 121, 1 - 7
- Oldfield, D.,Huynh, C.,Hawkins, S.,Partridge, J.,McCulloch, D. (2017). Synthesis of multi-layer graphene films on silica using physical vapour deposition In: Carbon, 123, 683 - 687
- McDougall, N.,Partridge, J.,Nicholls, R.,Russo, S.,McCulloch, D. (2017). Influence of point defects on the near edge structure of hexagonal boron nitride In: Physical Review B, 96, 1 - 9
- Ganesan, R.,Treverrow, B.,Denniss, P.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D. (2016). Pulsed external magnetic fields increase the deposition rate in reactive HiPIMS while preserving stoichiometry: An application to amorphous HfO2 In: Journal of Applied Physics, 120, 1 - 9
- Shiell, T.,McCulloch, D.,Bradby, J.,Haberl, B.,Boehler, R.,McKenzie, D. (2016). Nanocrystalline hexagonal diamond formed from glassy carbon In: Scientific Reports, 6, 1 - 8
- Advanced Multifunctional Photoelectron Spectroscopy Platform. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2018)
- Glow Discharge Optical Emission Spectroscopy of Challenging Surfaces (administered by Deakin University). Funded by: ARC LIEF Grant via other uni 2018 from (2018 to 2018)
- Diamond glass: an all-carbon technology for neural networks and biosensing (administered by The University of Sydney). Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
- Light and tough: using extreme conditions to synthesise new materials. Funded by: 010-ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
- High-pressure experiments on amorphous carbon to access new high-pressure carbon. Funded by: ANSTO [Aust Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation] from (2017 to 2017)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
17 PhD Completions and 5 Masters by Research Completions3 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Microscopy and microanalysis, thin film coatings, carbonaceous solids.