Dr GREG JAKOVIDIS

Lecturer Team Leader Thin Film Laboratory BSc (Hons) PhD (La Trobe), AAPT, MAIP Phone +61 (3) 9905 3686 FAX +61 (3) 9905 3637 Email:Greg.Jakovidis@sci.monash.edu.au

High resolution transmission electron micrographs of B2O3 nanorods, produced by boron nitride RF-sputtering followed by annealing in an O2 environment. Project team: D. Zhu, L. Bourgeois and G. Jakovidis

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr Jakovidis' current research interests are centered on three broad areas of materials science and engineering, viz;

1. Textured films of layered semiconductors for solar cell applications (see ref. 1 & 2).
2. Fabrication of novel nanotubes based upon the boron nitride - carbon system (see ref. 3).
3. Phenomenological pairing mechanisms in high Tc superconductors (see ref. 4).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. “RF-Sputtered MoS₂ Film Morphology and the Imperfection Nucleation Model”, G. Jakovidis, I. M. Jamieson and A. Singh, Surf. Rev. Lett., 10 (2003) 443.
2. “Sulphur Passivated GaAs Investigation Using High Resolution x-ray Diffractometry”, K Pavlov, I. Jamieson, G. Jakovidis , A. Petrakov and V. Punegov, Surf. Rev. Lett., 10 (2003) 533.
3. “Synthesis and Characterisation of RF-Magnetron Sputtered Carbon and Boron Nitride Graphitic Nanostructures”, D. M. Zhu, S. Goh, G. Jakovidis and L. Bourgeois, Materials Forum 29, (2005) 484.
4. “Charge Density and Density of States Calculations for c-axis Expanded YBa₂Cu₃O₇ (YBCO) Using Density Functional Theory”, A. E. Smith, S. Homolya and G. Jakovidis, 3^rd International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation of Materials, Sicily (2004).