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
- 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
- Rousseau, A.,Partridge, J.,Gozukara, Y.,Gulizia, S.,McCulloch, D. (2016). Carbon evolution during vacuum heat treatment of High Speed Steel In: Vacuum, 124, 85 - 88
- Ganesan, R.,Murdoch, B.,Partridge, J.,Bathgate, S.,Treverrow, B.,Dong, X.,Ross, A.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Bilek, M. (2016). Optimizing HiPIMS pressure for deposition of high-k (k=18.3) amorphous HfO2 In: Applied Surface Science, 365, 336 - 341
- Kracica, M.,Mayes, E.,Tran, H.,Holland, A.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2016). Rectifying electrical contacts to n-type 6H-SiC formed from energetically deposited carbon In: Carbon, 102, 141 - 144
- Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D.,Ganesan, R.,McKenzie, D.,Bilek, M.,Partridge, J. (2016). Memristor and selector devices fabricated from HfO2-xNx In: Applied Physics Letters, 108, 1 - 4
- Ganesan, R.,Treverrow, B.,Murdoch, B.,Xie, D.,Ross, A.,Partridge, J.,Falconer, I.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Bilek, M. (2016). Duty cycle control in reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering of hafnium and niobium In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 49, 1 - 11
- Tucker, M.,Ganesan, R.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J.,Stueber, M.,Ulrich, S.,Bilek, M.,McKenzie, D.,Marks, N. (2016). Mixed-mode high-power impulse magnetron sputter deposition of tetrahedral amorphous carbon with pulse-length control of ionization In: Journal of Applied Physics, 119, 1 - 6
- Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2016). Relationship between microstructure and electronic properties of energetically deposited zinc tin oxide In: Applied Physics Express, 9, 1 - 4
- 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
- Diamond glass: an all-carbon technology for neural networks and biosensing (administered by The University of Sydney). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
- Light and tough: using extreme conditions to synthesise new materials. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2017 from (2017 to 2019)
- UltraTEM: To resolve the structure of matter in space, energy and time (Led by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2017)
- Collaborative facility for high resolution fabrication, imaging, and characterisation of nanostructured materials. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2014 to 2014)
- Exploiting extreme pressures to synthesize novel phases from Group IV elements. Administered by Australian National University .. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other University Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2016)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
15 PhD Completions and 5 Masters by Research Completions2 PhD Current Supervisions and 3 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Microscopy and microanalysis, thin film coatings, carbonaceous solids.