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.,Shiell, T.,Salek, A.,Aghajamali, A.,Suarez-Martinez, I.,Sun, Q.,Strobel, T.,McKenzie, D.,Marks, N.,McCulloch, D.,Bradby, J. (2024). Comparison of hydrostatic and non-hydrostatic compression of glassy carbon to 80 GPa In: Carbon, 219, 1 - 7
- 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
- Sylvander, L.,Le, P.,Tran, H.,Murdoch, B.,Guo, E.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D.,Partridge, J. (2023). Neuromorphic sensing of biomolecules covalently immobilised on polydimethyl glutarimide In: Analytica Chimica Acta, 1279, 1 - 9
- Nandi, S.,Nath, S.,Das, S.,Murdoch, B.,Ratclif, T.,McCulloch, D.,Elliman, R. (2023). Effect of Interdiffusion and Crystallization on Threshold Switching Characteristics of Nb/Nb2O5/Pt Memristors In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15, 58613 - 58622
- Butler, S.,Partridge, J.,Huang, X.,Suarez-Martinez, I.,Marks, N.,Bradby, J.,McCulloch, D. (2023). Origin of preferred orientation in an isotropic material: High pressure synthesis of bc8-Si In: Applied Physics Letters, 123, 1 - 6
- Cook, B.,Reineck, P.,Shiell, T.,Bradby, J.,Esser, B.,Etheridge, J.,Haberl, B.,Boehler, R.,McKenzie, D.,McCulloch, D. (2023). Extensively Microtwinned Diamond with Nanolaminates of Lonsdaleite Formed by Flash Laser Heating of Glassy Carbon In: Nano Letters, 23, 10311 - 10316
- Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility for Beam-Sensitive Materials (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2024 to 2025)
- 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 2024)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
20 PhD Completions and 6 Masters by Research Completions4 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
Microscopy and microanalysis, thin film coatings, carbonaceous solids.