STAFF PROFILE
Professor Dougal McCulloch
Position:
Director Microscopy & Microanalysis Fac
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|Research & Innovation
Phone:
+61399253391
Email:
dougal.mcculloch@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
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
- Huang, X.,Salek, A.,Tomkins, A.,MacCrae, C.,Wilson, N.,McCulloch, D.,Bradby, J. (2023). Hardness of nano- and microcrystalline lonsdaleite In: Applied Physics Letters, 122, 1 - 5
- Murdoch, B.,Le Yen, P.,Partridge, J.,McCulloch, D. (2023). Quantitative depth-dependent analysis using the inelastic scattering backgrounds from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and hard X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy In: Surface and Interface Analysis, 55, 373 - 382
- Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D. (2023). Surface analysis insight note: Straightforward concentration depth profiling by angle-resolved X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy using a Tikhonov regularization algorithm In: Surface and Interface Analysis, , 1 - 7
- Le, P.,Nagib, H.,Sylvander, L.,Allen, M.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J.,Tran Le Ngoc, H. (2023). Lateral, Optically Controlled, Artificial Synapses Realized in Room-Temperature RF-Sputtered SnO2for Neuromorphic Computing and Visual Recognition In: ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 5, 2885 - 2892
- Salek, A.,Le Yen, P.,Partridge, J.,Raeber, T.,Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D., et al, . (2023). The structure and electronic properties of tetrahedrally bonded hydrogenated amorphous carbon In: Applied Physics Letters, 122, 1 - 6
- Tomkins, A.,Salek, A.,Field, M.,McCulloch, D. G., et al, . (2022). Sequential Lonsdaleite to Diamond Formation in Ureilite Meteorites via in Situ Chemical Fluid/Vapor Deposition In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119, 1 - 8
- Yang, L.,Karandikar, A.,Shiell, T.,Cook, B.,Wong, S.,Field, M.,Bradby, J.,Haberl, B.,McCulloch, D.,Boehler, R. (2022). In press - Melting diamond in the diamond cell by laser-flash heating In: High Pressure Research, , 1 - 14
- Le Yen, P.,Gazzana, A.,Murdoch, B.,McCulloch, D.,McKenzie, D.,Tran, H.,Partridge, J. (2021). Room-temerature Negative Differential Resistance in Amorphous Carbon: The Role of Electron Trapping Defects at Device Interfaces In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 68, 720 - 725
- Shiell, T.,Zhu, L.,Cook, B.,Bradby, J.,McCulloch, D.,Strobel, T. (2021). Bulk Crystalline 4H -Silicon through a Metastable Allotropic Transition In: Physical Review Letters, 126, 1 - 6
- McCulloch, D. (2021). ITO-free silver-doped DMD structures: HiPIMS transparent-conductive nano-composite coatings for electrochromic applications In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 231, 1 - 12
- Synthesising novel phases of carbon by shear-induced phase transformations. Funded by: ARC-Discovery Projects from (2023 to 2026)
- Field Emission Gun Electron Probe Micro Analyser (FEG-EPMA) (externally-administered by CSIRO). Funded by: CSIRO Science & Industry Endowment Fund from (2023 to 2025)
- A triple beam microscope: new frontiers in materials nanocharacterisation (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2021 to 2021)
- Neuromorphic Sensing and Diagnostics with Carbon: Towards a Biomimetic Nose (externally led by University of Sydney). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other university 2020 from (2020 to 2023)
- Crossing the biology meso-nanoscale divide by scanning electron microscopy (administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC LIEF via other University from (2020 to 2022)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
19 PhD Completions and 6 Masters by Research Completions5 PhD Current Supervisions
Microscopy and microanalysis, thin film coatings, carbonaceous solids.