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Astrophysics
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Clean Energy
Engineering in Physics
Environmental Physics
Fusion and Plasma Confinement
Materials Science and Engineering
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Photonics, Lasers and Nonlinear Optics
Physics of the Nucleus
Plasma Applications and Technology
Quantum Devices and Technology
Quantum Science and Applications
Theoretical Physics
Topological and Structural Science
Astrophysics
Review archived very high resolution spectra (R ~ 200,000+) of Venus for evidence of molecular oxygen absorption features and determine instrument performance for requesting future dedicated observing time.
Design, implement, and test an automated scheme for coupling multiple instances of an existing one-dimensional model. For example, one instance of the model may simulate the average day side chemistry while another simulates the average night side chemistry. The coupling scheme would then simulate the transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.
To infer properties of pulsar plasmas from polarization-resolved pulsar data
Atomic and Molecular Physics
Review archived very high resolution spectra (R ~ 200,000+) of Venus for evidence of molecular oxygen absorption features and determine instrument performance for requesting future dedicated observing time.
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
Design, implement, and test an automated scheme for coupling multiple instances of an existing one-dimensional model. For example, one instance of the model may simulate the average day side chemistry while another simulates the average night side chemistry. The coupling scheme would then simulate the transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.
What information is contained in the spectra and angular distributions of electrons scattered at high energies from surfaces? Now such measurements are possible with sub-eV resolution, we are discovering a wide range of phenomena buried in these spectra. Can we understand them, and can we develop such experiments into a novel analytical technique? This is the challenge of this research.
Clean Energy
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells
The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.
Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.
Using a small electron beam, trace the magnetic field lines in H-1, to investigate changes in magnetic geometry, transition to chaos.
Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies
Engineering in Physics
Using a reliability-centred maintenance approach, the student is to develop a cost-effective maintenance strategy to address the dominant causes of accelerator equipment failure.
Using microwave design tools, the student is to develop dual layer tunable micro-strip phase detector incorporating electromagnetic coupling aperture and micro-strip feed for electromagnetically coupling out.
By using fast digitising electronics and developing a mathematical model, the student is to design a BPM-based system to reconstruct the charge density distribution, diameter and position of an accelerated ion beam.
Using the computer codes SIMION and MULE, the student is to undertake a numerical simulation of accelerator components in order to improve transmission of beam through the machine.
Using a Labview interface card and software, the student is to develop and commission a PC-based control system for superconducting resonator loop controller.
Environmental Physics
Review archived very high resolution spectra (R ~ 200,000+) of Venus for evidence of molecular oxygen absorption features and determine instrument performance for requesting future dedicated observing time.
Develop an energy balance model based on research publications that can be used in undergraduate laboratory exercises to simulate the Earth's climate and allow students to interactively explore the sensitivity of Earth's climate to key parameters that affect the absorption and redistribution of energy in the Earth system.
Design, implement, and test an automated scheme for coupling multiple instances of an existing one-dimensional model. For example, one instance of the model may simulate the average day side chemistry while another simulates the average night side chemistry. The coupling scheme would then simulate the transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.
This work examines the mechanical properties of the shells of a range of marine creatures in an effort to understand how increasing ocean acidification influences their mechanical properties.
Fusion and Plasma Confinement
Using asymptotic expansion theory the student will develop a formula for the nonlinear frequency shift of a plasma wave up to terms in the square of the amplitude
To explore the equilibrium and stability of multiple region partially-relaxed MRXMHD plasmas in helical geometry.
The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.
Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.
Using variational methods on a known magnetic field exhibiting chaos the student will develop optimal curvilinear coordinates for plasma equilibrium studies
Using computational and analytical methods the student will investigate the wake of a supersonic charged particle moving through a plasma
Using a small electron beam, trace the magnetic field lines in H-1, to investigate changes in magnetic geometry, transition to chaos.
Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.
Materials Science and Engineering
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells
This project investigates the fundamental growth mechanism of semiconductor nanowires and how the effect on the nanowire material properties
This project investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices
Using a range of surface analytical techniques, the adsorption of surfactant to cellulose will be studied.
Silica nanowires coated with Titania and investigated for catalytic and photovoltaic applications
Short-range order, on the scale of nanometres, is important inunderstanding a material's properties. We study that order using diffusescattering of synchrotron X-rays, electrons and neutrons.
An aligned gold nanoparticle array will be developed using nanoindentaion techniques
Silica nanowires coated with different metal catalysts will be investigated for catalytic or plasmonic applications.
Silica nanowires with gold pea-pod structures will be grown and their growth mechanism investigated.
The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of InAsSb nanostructures. It will also extend to the design and fabrication of mid-IR devices such as laser diodes and photodetectors
Investigate fundamental properties and applications of material modifications induced by high energetic heavy ions in insulating and semiconducting materials
Using the atomic force microscope, the surface forces between mineral oxides (such as silica and titania) and wood fibre model surfaces (cellulose and lignin) will be measured in aqueous solution.
This project will study the synthesis, structure and properties of silica and hybrid metal-silica nanostructures fabricated by a simple vapour-liquid-solid technique.
This work examines the mechanical properties of the shells of a range of marine creatures in an effort to understand how increasing ocean acidification influences their mechanical properties.
Using a range of techniques including diffraction and magnetometry, we explore the magnetic and structural ordering in magnetic materials such as two-dimensional magnetic systems and functional oxides
The deformation mechanisms of a number of different crystal-structures of SiC will be investigated using nanoindentation and electron microscopy.
This project will study resistive switching in transition-metal oxides which forms the basis of a novel new circuit element called the memister and forms the basis of devices used as nonvolatile memory elements.
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of ZnO and related materials. It will also study the synthesis and properties of ZnO nanostructures and other heterostructures.
Ion implantation has been shown to increase the resistivity of semiconductors. This project explores the use of ion implantation in SiC for electrical isolation in devices.
What information is contained in the spectra and angular distributions of electrons scattered at high energies from surfaces? Now such measurements are possible with sub-eV resolution, we are discovering a wide range of phenomena buried in these spectra. Can we understand them, and can we develop such experiments into a novel analytical technique? This is the challenge of this research.
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells
This project investigates the fundamental growth mechanism of semiconductor nanowires and how the effect on the nanowire material properties
This project investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices
Silica nanowires coated with Titania and investigated for catalytic and photovoltaic applications
An aligned gold nanoparticle array will be developed using nanoindentaion techniques
Silica nanowires coated with different metal catalysts will be investigated for catalytic or plasmonic applications.
Silica nanowires with gold pea-pod structures will be grown and their growth mechanism investigated.
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of InAsSb nanostructures. It will also extend to the design and fabrication of mid-IR devices such as laser diodes and photodetectors
This project will study the synthesis, structure and properties of silica and hybrid metal-silica nanostructures fabricated by a simple vapour-liquid-solid technique.
The deformation mechanisms of a number of different crystal-structures of SiC will be investigated using nanoindentation and electron microscopy.
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies
The student will study the control of light propagation in nano-strutured materials
Photonics, Lasers and Nonlinear Optics
This project investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of InAsSb nanostructures. It will also extend to the design and fabrication of mid-IR devices such as laser diodes and photodetectors
This is a theory project investigating the possibility of using a two- or few-mode fibre to enhance optical fibre bandwidth for long-distance data transmission
The student will study the control of light propagation in nano-strutured materials
Physics of the Nucleus
Modern alchemists form new elements by nuclear fusion. What are the nuclei to be used? Experiments aim to answer this question
A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei
Experiments to investigate the interactions of weakly bound nuclei. Answers will impact on new developments of radioactive beam facilities worldwide.
This project has a theoretical/computational emphasis. The goal is to model the hyperfine interactions of highly charged free ions, examine the conditions under which these ions behave as open versus closed quantum systems, and explore their utility as a laboratory for studies of quantum decoherence.
This project combines a variety of experiments on beams from the ANU 14UD accelerator with theory to build a better understanding of the hyperfine fields present in free ions. These hyperfine fields have important applications to measuring the magnetic properties of exotic nuclei.
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Nuclear fusion at energies below the barrier will be measured to understand the transition from coherent superpositions to irreversible outcomes
This project will look for evidence of magnetic rotation, predicted in the polonium isotopes but not yet observed, in the isotope 200Po.
The magnetic dipole moments of excited nuclear states will be measured to probe nuclear structure, especially the emergence of collectivity near closed shells. Experiments may be performed at large scale international radioactive beam facilities as well as in the ANU heavy ion accelerator laboratory.
Plasma Applications and Technology
Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.
Using computational and analytical methods the student will investigate the wake of a supersonic charged particle moving through a plasma
Using a small electron beam, trace the magnetic field lines in H-1, to investigate changes in magnetic geometry, transition to chaos.
Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.
Quantum Devices and Technology
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of InAsSb nanostructures. It will also extend to the design and fabrication of mid-IR devices such as laser diodes and photodetectors
This project will investigate the epitaxial growth and properties of ZnO and related materials. It will also study the synthesis and properties of ZnO nanostructures and other heterostructures.
The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies
Quantum Science and Applications
This project has a theoretical/computational emphasis. The goal is to model the hyperfine interactions of highly charged free ions, examine the conditions under which these ions behave as open versus closed quantum systems, and explore their utility as a laboratory for studies of quantum decoherence.
Nuclear fusion at energies below the barrier will be measured to understand the transition from coherent superpositions to irreversible outcomes
Theoretical Physics
A first introduction to String Theory from the undergraduate textbook by Zwiebach
Using asymptotic expansion theory the student will develop a formula for the nonlinear frequency shift of a plasma wave up to terms in the square of the amplitude
To explore the equilibrium and stability of multiple region partially-relaxed MRXMHD plasmas in helical geometry.
The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.
Using variational methods on a known magnetic field exhibiting chaos the student will develop optimal curvilinear coordinates for plasma equilibrium studies
Using computational and analytical methods the student will investigate the wake of a supersonic charged particle moving through a plasma
To infer properties of pulsar plasmas from polarization-resolved pulsar data
Topological and Structural Science
Using the atomic force microscope, the surface forces between mineral oxides (such as silica and titania) and wood fibre model surfaces (cellulose and lignin) will be measured in aqueous solution.
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