STAFF PROFILE
Professor Dougal McCulloch
Position:
Associate Dean, Physics
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Physics
Phone:
99253391
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
- Murdoch, B.,Raeber, T.,Zhao, Z.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2019). Temperature sensitivity and short-term memory in electroforming-free low power carbon memristors In: Applied Physics Letters, 114, 1 - 5
- Tran, C.,Raeber, T.,Murdoch, B.,Barlow, A.,Partridge, J.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D. (2019). Conducting carbon films with covalent binding sites for biomolecule attachment In: Journal of Applied Physics, 125, 1 - 11
- Wong, S.,Shiell, T.,Cook, B.,Bradby, J.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D. (2019). The shear-driven transformation mechanism from glassy carbon to hexagonal diamond In: Carbon, 142, 475 - 481
- Shiell, T.,de Tomas, C.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Basu, A.,Suarez -Martinez, I.,Marks, N.,Boehler, R.,Haberl, B.,Bradby, J. (2019). In situ analysis of the structural transformation of glassy carbon under compression at room temperature In: Physical Review B, 99, 1 - 9
- Shiell, T.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Field, M.,Haberl, B.,Boehler, R.,Cook, B.,de Tomas, C.,Suarez-Martinez, I.,Marks, N.,Bradby, J. (2018). Graphitization of Glassy Carbon after Compression at Room Temperature In: Physical Review Letters, 120, 1 - 6
- Murdoch, B.,Raeber, T.,Barlow, A.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2018). Non-volatile and volatile memory behaviour in oxygenated amorphous carbon electrochemical metallisation devices In: Applied Physics Letters, 112, 1 - 5
- Tran, H.,Raeber, T.,Zhao, Z.,McKenzie, D.,Holland, A.,McCulloch, D.,Murdoch, B.,Partridge, J. (2018). Observation and characterization of memristive silver filaments in amorphous zinc-tin-oxide In: MRS Communications, 8, 1 - 7
- Lin, J.,Tay, R.,Li, H.,Jing, L.,Tsang, S.,Wang, H.,Zhu, M.,McCulloch, D.,Teo, H. (2018). Smoothening of wrinkles in CVD-grown hexagonal boron nitride films In: Nanoscale, 10, 16243 - 16251
- Hage, F.,Nicholls, R.,Yates, J.,McCulloch, D.,Lovejoy, T.,Dellby, N.,Krivanek, O.,Refson, K.,Ramasse, Q. (2018). Nanoscale momentum-resolved vibrational spectroscopy In: Science Advances, 4, 1 - 7
- Raeber, T.,Barlow, A.,Zhao, Z.,McKenzie, D.,Partridge, J.,McCulloch, D.,Murdoch, B. (2018). Sensory gating in bilayer amorphous carbon memristors In: Nanoscale, 10, 20272 - 20278
- Advanced Multifunctional Photoelectron Spectroscopy Platform. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2019)
- 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 Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Microscopy and microanalysis, thin film coatings, carbonaceous solids.