STAFF PROFILE
Professor Salvy Russo
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Science Cluster
School / Department:
Physics
Phone:
+61 3 9925 2601
Email:
salvy.russo@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Research interests
- Quantum Theory
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Group Theory applied to solids
- Nanotechnology
Current and recent research projects
- Single atom defined nanostructures: atom-electronics beyond the miniaturization limit.
Funding: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
Collaborators: Prof L. Hollenberg (Melbourne), Prof G. Klimeck (Purdue, USA), Prof S. Rogge (Delft University, Netherlands), Dr M. Per (RMIT)
- Understanding and controlling the processes underlying self assembly of nanostructures on surfaces.
Funding: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
Collaborators: Prof I. Snook (RMIT), Prof K. Binder (Mainz, Germany)
- Accurate quantum modelling of the van der Waals interaction and its application to molecular physisorption onto surfaces.
Funding: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
Collaborators: Prof I. Snook (RMIT), Prof R. Needs (Cambridge, UK), Dr M. Towler (Cambridge, UK)
- Electrode materials in application to high performance energy storage devices.
Funding: Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, International Science Linkage Grant, CSIRO Flagship Fellowship Grant
Collaborators: Dr T. Hollenkamp (CSIRO), Dr R.Rees (CSIRO), Prof G. Smith (Utah, USA), A/Prof O. Borodin (Utah, USA)
- Electronic and Optical Properties in Transition Metal Oxides:
Collaborators: Prof Y.P. Feng (NUS, Singapore), Dr Lu Yunhao (NUS, Singapore)
- Nonvolatile memories using deep traps formed in Al2O3 by metal ion implantation
Collaborators: Prof S.H. Choi (Kyung Hee University, Korea), Prof R.G. Elliman (ANU)
- Role of Thermodynamics and Kinetics in Self-Assembly of Metallic Nanocrystals.
Funding: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant
Collaborators: Prof I. Snook (RMIT), Dr G. Grochola (RMIT), Dr G. Opletal, Prof P. Mulvaney (Melbourne Dr Y.H. Chui (Mainz, Germany), A/Prof M. Ford (UTS)
- Project: Predication of the mechanical, electronic and optical properties of CdSe quantum dots.
Funding: VPAC Expertise Grant
Collaborator: Prof P. Mulvaney (Melbourne)
- Quantum Modelling of Photo-electrodes.
Funding: CSIRO Flagship Fellowship Grant
Collaborators: Dr I. Grey (CSIRO), N. Wilson (CSIRO)
Other Activities/Awards
- Guest co-Editor, Special Issue of the Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (Volume 21, Issue 14, 2009)
- Invited Lecturer, Workshop on Mathematical Theory and Numerical Methods for Computational Materials Simulation and Design, University of Singapore, July-August 2009.
- Awarded CSIRO Division of Minerals 2007 Best Paper Award in the category of Contribution to science (with N. Wilson and I. Grey)
- Invited Chair, Symposium F (Nanocomputation), 2008 International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience, Melbourne 2008
- Co-organiser and session chair of the Workshop on Interaction Energies and the Structure of Surfaces and Nano-structures (International Workshop), Melbourne 2008
- Invited Chair, Symposium K (Materials Modelling and Design), IUMRS-ICEM 8th International Conference on Electronic Materials, Sydney 2008
- Invited co-Chair of the 'Computational Nanotechnology' symposium for the 2006 International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience, Brisbane 2006
- Invited author, for a special issue on Nano-morphology in the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience
Research
- Project Leader, in the Condensed Matter Theory Group
- Member of the RMIT Research Technology Advisory Group (RTAG) Committee
- CSIRO Flagship Fellow, Division of Energy Technology
- Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Division of Minerals
Teaching
- 4th year, PHYS2079 Honours Theory 2 (Many Body Theory)
- 3rd year, PHYS1095: Quantum and Statistical Physics (Quantum part)
- 2nd year, PHYS1077: Mechanics and Modern Physics (Modern part)
- 2nd year, PHYS2076: Quantum Mechanics and Radiation Physics (Quantum Part)
Community
- RMIT Representative, Victorian Partnership of Advanced Computing
- Member, Australian Institute of Physics Accreditation Committee
- PhD (Physics) RMIT, 1994
- B.Sc (Hons) (Melbourne University), 1983
- Javaid, M.,Drumm, D.,Russo, S.,Greentree, A. (2017). Surface-gate-defined single-electron transistor in a MoS2 bilayer In: Nanotechnology, 28, 1 - 8
- Carey, B.,Ou, J.,Clark, R.,Berean, K.,Zavabeti, A.,Chesman, A.,Russo, S.,Lau, D.,Xu, Z.,Bao, Q.,Kavehei, O.,Gibson, B.,Dickey, M.,Kaner, R.,Daeneke, T.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2017). Wafer-scale two-dimensional semiconductors from printed oxide skin of liquid metals In: Nature Communications, 8, 1 - 10
- Opletal, G.,Petersen, T.,Barnard, A.,Russo, S. (2017). On reverse Monte Carlo constraints and model reproduction In: Journal of Computational Chemistry, 38, 1547 - 1551
- Smith, J.,Budi, A.,Per, M.,Vogt, N.,Drumm, D.,Hollenberg, L.,Cole, J.,Russo, S. (2017). Ab initio calculation of energy levels for phosphorus donors in silicon In: Scientific Reports, 7, 1 - 11
- Liu, M.,Makuta, S.,Susumu, T.,Russo, S.,Seki, S.,Terao, J.,Tachibana, Y. (2017). Fluorene-thiophene copolymer wire on TiO2: Mechanism achieving long charge separated state lifetimes In: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, , 1 - 10
- Javaid, M.,Drumm, D.,Russo, S.,Greentree, A. (2017). A study of size-dependent properties of MoS<inf>2</inf> monolayer nanoflakes using density-functional theory In: Scientific Reports, 7, 1 - 11
- Daeneke, T.,Atkin, P.,Orrell-Trigg, R.,Zavabeti, S.,Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,Liu, M.,Tachibana, Y.,Javaid, M.,Greentree, A.,Russo, S.,Kaner, R.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2017). Wafer-scale synthesis of semiconducting SnO monolayers from interfacial oxide layers of metallic liquid tin In: ACS Nano, 11, 10974 - 10983
- Khan, H.,Zavabeti, A.,Wang, Y.,Harrison, C.,Carey, B.,Mohiuddin, M.,Chrimes, A.,Alves De Castro, I.,Zhang, B.,Sabri, Y.,Bhargava, S.,Ou, J.,Daeneke, T.,Russo, S.,Li, Y.,Kalantar Zadeh, K. (2017). (In Press) Quasi physisorptive two dimensional tungsten oxide nanosheets with extraordinary sensitivity and selectivity to NO2 In: Nanoscale, , 1 - 15
- Booth, J.,Drumm, D.,Casey, P.,Smith, J.,Russo, S. (2016). Hubbard physics in the PAW GW approximation In: Journal of Chemical Physics, 144, 1 - 12
- Booth, J.,Drumm, D.,Casey, P.,Smith, J.,Seeber, A.,Bhargava, S.,Russo, S. (2016). Correlating the energetics and atomic motions of the metal-insulator transition of m1 vanadium dioxide In: Scientific Reports, 6, 1 - 11
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (Administered by The University of Melbourne). Funded by: ARC Centre of Excellence via other university 2017 from (2017 to 2023)
- A high-performance cloud resource for computational modelling - led by The University of Melbourne. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2017)
- Maintaining and enhancing merit-based access to the NCI National Facility - Administered by The Australian National University. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) 2016 from (2016 to 2018)
- Understanding and eliminating dissipation in superconducting devices: the origin of two-level defects. Funded by: ARC Discovery Grant 2014 from (2014 to 2016)
- Understanding and Optimising the Microstructures of Ge-As-Se glasses for Superior Device Performance. Administered by the Australian National University.. Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects via other University Grant pre-2014 from (2011 to 2013)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions6 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Quantum Modelling of Electronic and Optical properties, Development of Multi-scale Modelling techniques, Atomistic Modelling of zero, one and two Dimensional Nano-materials, Molecular Dynamics & Monte-Carlo Modelling