Staff profile

Dr Grant van Riessen

Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Physics
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), PhD

Membership of professional Associations

AIP

Area of study

Physics

Brief Profile

Grant van Riessen's research interests lie in the areas of experimental condensed matter physics and coherent X-ray diffractive imaging development.   He leads research within the Experimental Methods Program of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-ray Science, a group that is engaged in a program of developing novel methods of X-ray imaging and new synchrotron instrumentation. This work is done in close collaboration with researchers at the Advanced Photon Source and the Australian Synchotron.

Grant also studies the dynamics of photexcitation and decay using two-electron coincidence spectroscopy.  The work is currently focused on the study of electron correlation effects at surfaces and buried interfaces using soft X-ray induced photoemission-Auger processes. This work builds upon similar studies of double photoemission and electron and positron induced electron pair emission.

Research interests

Surface and materials chemistry

- electronic structure and interactions at surfaces

X-ray science

- Coherent Diffractive Imaging

- Nanomagnetism

Teaching Units

PHY3NMF (Nanomaterials and Fabrication)

PHY4SSC (Surface Science)

 

Recent Publications

 

D. J. Vine and G. J. Williams and J. N. Clark and C. T. Putkunz and M. A. Pfeifer and D. Legnini and C. Roehrig and E. Wrobel and E. Huwald and G. van Riessen and B. Abbey and T. Beetz and J. Irwin and M. Feser and B. Hornberger and I. McNulty and K. A. Nugent and A. G. Peele, An in-vacuum x-ray diffraction microscope for use in the 0.7--2.9 keV range, Review of Scientific Instruments 83 033703 (2012)

F. O. Schumann and R. S. Dhaka and G. A. van Riessen and Z. Wei and J. Kirschner, Surface state and resonance effects in electron-pair emission from Cu(111), Physical Review B 84 125106 (2011)

G. van Riessen, Z. Wei, R.S. Dhaka, C. Winkler, F.O. Schumann, J. Kirschner, Direct and core-resonant double photoemission from Cu(001). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 22(9), 2010.

P. C. Howlett and J. Efthimiadis and P. Hale and G. A. van Riessen and D. R. MacFarlane and M. Forsyth, Characterization of the Magnesium Alloy AZ31 Surface in the Ionic Liquid Trihexyl(tetradecyl)phosphonium Bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)- amide, Journal of The Electrochemical Society 157 (2010) C392-C398.

Research projects

 Please contact me to discuss research projects for Honours and Postgraduate degrees. We also host research projects for visiting international students, which may be part of the degree at their home institution. A range of research opportunities exist in the following areas are available:

- Phase contrast scanning transmisison micrsocopy

- Hybrid scanning and diffractive X-ray imaging development

- X-ray detector and synchrotron instrumentation development

- Nanometrology and nanopositioning

- Multielectron coincidence and photoemission spectroscopy at surfaces

- Molecular beam epitaxy of multilayer magnetic films