ANDREW E. SMITH

Senior Lecturer MA Theoretical Physics, Cambridge, 1975 MSc Physics, Copenhagen, 1978 PhD Theoretical Physics, Copenhagen, 1982 Phone +61 (3) 9905 3699 FAX +61 (3) 9905 3637 Email:Andrew.Smith@sci.monash.edu.au

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr Smith's current research interests include computational determinations of the electronic and structural properties of nanostructures, including surfaces and small clusters of metals and semiconductors. Other such ab-initio work includes simulation of photo-electron Fermi surface determination and photo-electron diffraction.

He has a long standing interest in the reflection of electrons from periodic media, especially at high and very low incident energy with recent applications to Low Energy Electron Microscopy. This has continued into studies of the nature of both the elastic and inelastic potential experienced by reflection electrons as problems within many body theory. Extensions of theoretical approaches to the reflection - diffraction problem have been made into other wave forms.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

A. Tadich, L. Broekman, J. Riley, R. Leckey, S. Homolya, A. E. Smith, T. Seyller, K. Emtsev and L. Ley, 'Mapping disorder-order induced changes to the Fermi surface of Cu₃Au using a new toroidal electron energy analyser.' Journal of Electron Specrocopy and Related Phenomena 144-147 515-518 (2005).

A.E. Smith, S Homolya, J. Riley, R. Leckey and T.R. Finlayson, 'Fermi Surface Calculations of Materials Susceptible to Phase Transitions', Computational Modelling and Simulation of Materials III - Part A. Advances in Science and Technology, 42. Techna, 2004, ISBN 88-86538-45-6, pages 143-148.

A.E. Smith, S. Homolya and G Jakovidis and A.E. Smith, 'Charge Density and DOS Calculations for c-Axis Expanded YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ; (YBCO)' Computational Modelling and Simulation of Materials III - Part A. Advances in Science and Technology, 42. Techna, 2004, ISBN 88-86538-45-6, pages 841-848.

S. Homolya and A.E. Smith, 'Ab initio calculations of long-range strain fields near Guinier-Preston Zones in Al-Cu Alloys', Computational Modelling and Simulation of Materials III - Part B. Advances in Science and Technology, 43. Techna, 2004, ISBN 88-86538-46-4, pages 559-564.

A.E. Smith and S. Homolya, A first principles study of substitutional copper in aluminium, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Aluminium Alloys (2004), pages 139-144.

A.E. Smith, 'Bloch calculations of electron excitation properties for silicon and silver', in Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 17, ed. M. Das (Nova Science Publishers, Commack, NY, 2003), 353-361.

Y. Hancock and A.E. Smith, 'Magnetic properties of systems of reduced dimensionality', in Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 17, ed. M. Das ( Nova Science Publishers, Commack, NY, 2003), pages 307-316.

Y. Hancock and A.E. Smith, 'Local and interfacial magnetic properties of inhomogeneous finite linear chains,' Physica E, 18, 383-392, (2002).