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
- Dubois, T.,Cyster, M.,Opletal, G.,Russo, S.,Cole, J. (2016). Constructing ab initio models of ultra-thin Al-AlOx-Al barriers In: Molecular Simulation, 42, 542 - 548
- Grochola, G.,Snook, I.,Russo, S. (2016). Phase separated reconstruction patterns on strained FCC (111) metal surfaces In: Molecular Simulation, 42, 484 - 493
- Petersen, T.,Opletal, G.,Liu, A.,Russo, S. (2016). Hybrid Reverse Monte Carlo and electron phase contrast image simulations of amorphous silicon with and without paracrystals In: Molecular Simulation, 42, 522 - 530
- Kabir, K.,Matthews, G.,Sabri, Y.,Russo, S.,Ippolito, S.,Bhargava, S. (2016). Development and experimental verification of a finite element method for accurate analysis of a surface acoustic wave device In: Smart Materials and Structures, 25, 1 - 13
- 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
7 PhD Current Supervisions9 PhD Completions and 2 Masters by Research Completions
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