To infer properties of pulsar plasmas from polarization-resolved pulsar data

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 simulatethe transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.

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 simulatethe transport of chemical species between the two hemispheres.

This experimental project will use a new type of electron scattering experiment to measure cross sections of interest to plasma modelling.

The student will produce unique zeolite structures and perform characterization experiments on them using the materials beamline at the Australian Positron Beamline facility.

Recent theory predicts intricate line shapes of the spectra of keV electrons scattered from molecules over large angles. Can we establish if these predictions are correct? Similar momentum transfer collisions are studied in neutron scattering experiments using neutrons with energies of several eV. The theory developed here appears different, but are they deep down the same? These are the basic questions we aim to answer.

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.

Using methods of quantum many-body theory to describe elementary processes in atoms and molecules interacting with strong electromagnetic fields.

The student will investigate ways to control the rate and nature of molecular breakup

Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.

Implement GPU-based code for simulating fluid flow in porous media, and evaluate its effectiveness

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies

Using a small electron beam, trace the magnetic field lines in H-1, to investigate changes in magnetic geometry, transition to chaos.

Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.

This project will investigate the optimal periodic structures for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

This project will investigate the optimal photonic crystal structures (1D, 2D and 3D) for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.

Using a Labview interface card and software, the student is to develop and commission a PC-based control system for superconducting resonator loop controller.

The project is aiming to develop a highly sensitive magnetic pair spectrometer to measure the weak decay branches from the Hoyle state. This state is formed in the triple-alpha reaction in stars and is responsible for the carbon production in the Universe.

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 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.

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 simulatethe 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.

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.

In conjunction with CSIRO plant industry, image the structure of the root systems of plants using X-ray micro-CT.

Using variational methods on a known magnetic field exhibiting chaos the student will develop optimal curvilinear coordinates for plasma equilibrium studies

Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.

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.

Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.

To explore the equilibrium and stability of multiple region partially-relaxed MRXMHD plasmas in helical geometry.

You will devlop and apply novel interferometric techniques to image the evolution of the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium isotopes in radio frequency heated plasmas in the H-1 heliac

You will apply new coherence imaging cameras and develop suitable inverse procedures for spectro-polarimertic imaging of plasmas in the H-1 heliac and on fusion devices in the US and Europe.

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

The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.

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 investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices

This project investigates the fundamental growth mechanism of semiconductor nanowires and how the effect on the nanowire material properties

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.

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.

Silica nanowires coated with Titania and investigated for catalytic and photovoltaic applications

Investigate fundamental properties and applications of material modifications induced by high energetic heavy ions in insulating and semiconducting materials

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.

Using a range of surface analytical techniques, the adsorption of surfactant to cellulose will be studied.

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.

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells

Successful p-type doping seems to be elusive in ZnO, an emerging semiconductor for optoelectronic devices. This project studies ion implantation for doping studies.

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies

Silica nanowires coated with different metal catalysts will be investigated for catalytic or plasmonic applications.

Crystallization of amorphous silicon (a-Si) is an area of huge interest for the flat panel and silicon solar cell industries. Formation of high quality polycrystalline silicon from a-Si is desirable for high performance of such devices. We have shown that formation of such films by nanoindentation and low-temperature annealing may be a novel means to form high quality material. This project will study the post-indentation crystallization of such films and measure the electrical and optical properties of the final material.

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 aims towards the formation of a stable Schottky diode on ZnO using various deposition method including e-beam evaporation, sputter deposition.

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 project will investigate the optimal periodic structures for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

The deformation mechanisms of a number of different crystal-structures of SiC will be investigated using nanoindentation and electron microscopy.

This project will investigate the optimal photonic crystal structures (1D, 2D and 3D) for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

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.

Until recently germanium has been sidelined as a semiconductor for use in metal-oxide-field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) despite it having a higher carrier mobility than silicon. The reason for this was the lack of an effective material for use as the gate dielectric. Recently, however, high quality dielectric/Ge interfaces have been produced opening up a rich area of research in high performance Ge-based devices. In order to fabricate these devices much work is required in the area of ion-implantation and thermal processing for fabrication of doped layers for which there has been 4 decades worth for Si. The focus of this project will contribute to the understainding of the interaction of defects and dopants during thermal processing and assess the electronic properties of doped regions.

Silicon carbide has some very stable deep levels present in its as-grown material. This project studies ion implantation induced deep levels with an aim to reveal its origin.

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.

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

An aligned gold nanoparticle array will be developed using nanoindentaion techniques

Silica nanowires with gold pea-pod structures will be grown and their growth mechanism investigated.

Explore techniques for rendering the 3D cellular structures that follow the boundaries of watershed basins in the height functions of 3D images.

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.

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 investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices

Student will be engaged in the theoretical and computational analysis of the dynamics of trapping and manipulation of absorbing particles in open air using vortex laser beams

This project investigates the fundamental growth mechanism of semiconductor nanowires and how the effect on the nanowire material properties

Silica nanowires coated with Titania and investigated for catalytic and photovoltaic applications

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of semiconductor nanowires and the fabrication of nanowire solar cells

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies

Silica nanowires coated with different metal catalysts will be investigated for catalytic or plasmonic applications.

Crystallization of amorphous silicon (a-Si) is an area of huge interest for the flat panel and silicon solar cell industries. Formation of high quality polycrystalline silicon from a-Si is desirable for high performance of such devices. We have shown that formation of such films by nanoindentation and low-temperature annealing may be a novel means to form high quality material. This project will study the post-indentation crystallization of such films and measure the electrical and optical properties of the final material.

The student will study the control of light propagation in nano-strutured materials

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.

An aligned gold nanoparticle array will be developed using nanoindentaion techniques

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 investigates device fabrication technologies for making nanowire electronic and optoelectronic devices

Student will be engaged in the theoretical and computational analysis of the dynamics of trapping and manipulation of absorbing particles in open air using vortex laser beams

The student will study the control of light propagation in nano-strutured materials

This project will investigate the optimal periodic structures for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

This project will investigate the optimal photonic crystal structures (1D, 2D and 3D) for trapping light inside the thin active regions of a solar cell.

A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei

The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.

Experiments to investigate the interactions of weakly bound nuclei. Answers will impact on new developments of radioactive beam facilities worldwide.

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.

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.

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 project is aiming to develop a highly sensitive magnetic pair spectrometer to measure the weak decay branches from the Hoyle state. This state is formed in the triple-alpha reaction in stars and is responsible for the carbon production in the Universe.

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.

Modern alchemists form new elements by nuclear fusion. What are the nuclei to be used? Experiments aim to answer this question

Apply machine learning techniques to assessment of the data quality in plasma fusion experiments, such as the H-1 Heliac.

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.

Datamining techniques extract information from H-1 essential to understanding instabilities that threaten the viability of fusion as the ultimate clean energy source.

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

The project will investigate the photovoltaic properties of III-V semiconductor materials with the incorporation of quantum wells and dots for enhanced efficiencies

Until recently germanium has been sidelined as a semiconductor for use in metal-oxide-field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs) despite it having a higher carrier mobility than silicon. The reason for this was the lack of an effective material for use as the gate dielectric. Recently, however, high quality dielectric/Ge interfaces have been produced opening up a rich area of research in high performance Ge-based devices. In order to fabricate these devices much work is required in the area of ion-implantation and thermal processing for fabrication of doped layers for which there has been 4 decades worth for Si. The focus of this project will contribute to the understainding of the interaction of defects and dopants during thermal processing and assess the electronic properties of doped regions.

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 student will study links between integrable systems in statistical mechanics, combinatorial problems and special functions in mathematics.

Nuclear fusion at energies below the barrier will be measured to understand the transition from coherent superpositions to irreversible outcomes

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.

To infer properties of pulsar plasmas from polarization-resolved pulsar data

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

The student will study links between integrable systems in statistical mechanics, combinatorial problems and special functions in mathematics.

To explore the equilibrium and stability of multiple region partially-relaxed MRXMHD plasmas in helical geometry.

Contribute to the enumeration and characterisation of 3-periodic network structures via the tiling of periodic minimal surfaces.

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

The student will develop numerical algorithms to automate and perform MHD stability analysis of ITER and conceptual fusion power plant configurations.

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.

Explore applications of computational topology in 3D image segmentation or complex shape characterisation.

Implement GPU-based code for simulating fluid flow in porous media, and evaluate its effectiveness

Use the ANU's X-ray micro-CT to image evolving samples, and apply tools being developed to generate 3D movies.

In conjunction with CSIRO plant industry, image the structure of the root systems of plants using X-ray micro-CT.

Contribute to the enumeration and characterisation of 3-periodic network structures via the tiling of periodic minimal surfaces.

Explore techniques for rendering the 3D cellular structures that follow the boundaries of watershed basins in the height functions of 3D images.