Professor Stewart J. Campbell
Emeritus Professor
Telephone: +61 2 6268 8767
Fax: +61 2 6268 8786
Email: stewart.campbell@adfa.edu.au
Location: PEMS South, Room G28
My UNSW Research Gateway Profile
UNSW@ADFA Research Group: Advanced Materials
Research Activities
- Experimental physics in condensed matter physics and materials science ? rare earth magnetism; nanostructured materials; spin crossover materials; magnetocaloric materials; shape memory alloys and compounds
- Techniques - x-ray and neutron diffraction, Mössbauer effect spectroscopy, MuSR (Muon Spectroscopy); DC and AC magnetic measurements
- 2007 - Awarded Gold Medal by the Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE) for excellence in research, based on publications over the previous five or so years
- 248 refereed publications; 3 book chapters; chief editor for 10 volumes of international conference proceedings ? Mössbauer Spectroscopy (ICAME1987); Magnetism (ICM1997); Neutron Scattering (ICNS2005)
- Over 100 externally funded research grants with co-workers.
Professor John White presents the AINSE Gold Medal to Emeritus Professor Stewart Campbell, December 2007.
Research Interests
Magnetism; Rare-Earth Intermetallic Compounds; Magnetocaloric Materials
Physical properties of a wide range of materials:
- Magnetic phase diagram - La1-x Y x Mn 2 Si 2, PrMn 2-x Fe x Ge 2 and related series
- Magnetic and valence transitions in YbMn 2 Si 2-x Ge x , EuMn 2 Si 2-x Ge x systems
- Magnetocaloric materials and magnetostructural transitions
- Crystal and magnetic structures of R 3 T 29 Si 4 B 10 (R = rare earth; T = Co, Ni)
- Explore RNi 2 Mn; ErFe 12-x Nb x ; Dy 2 Fe 17-x Mn x compounds ??
New Phases and Materials using Mechanochemical Methods
- Structural and magnetic properties of nanoscale spinel ferrites e.g. ZnFe 2 O 4 ; MgFe 2 O 4 ; NiFe 2 O 4 ? University of Braunschweig , Germany
- Formation mechanism of mechanochemically treated materials which exhibit novel physical properties - iron oxides; boron nitride nanotubes - Australian National University
- Spin Crossover Compounds ? Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz ; Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
Research Collaboration - Bragg Institute, ANSTO
Research undertaken with colleagues from the Bragg Institute, ANSTO, http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute, particularly neutron scattering at the OPAL research reactor http://www.ansto.gov.au/ - high intensity diffractometer Wombat; high resolution diffractometer Echidna.
- Research Fellow Dr Jianli Wang http://pems.unsw.adfa.edu.au/staff/profiles/wang_j/index.html - funded jointly by UNSW and ANSTO
- Scholarships are available at UNSW @ ADFA for postgraduate research study at School of PEMS.
Research Collaborators
- Neutron beam experiments with colleagues at ? OPAL reactor, ANSTO; ISIS , UK ; BENSC, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin ; LLB Saclay, France.
- Dr Michael Hofmann, FRM-II, Technische Universität München
http://www.frm2.tum.de/en/index.html - magnetic and structural properties of materials using neutron scattering and related techniques - Prof J M (Sean) Cadogan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manitoba, Canada
http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~cadogan/ ? long standing collaboration in magnetism - Prof Yann Garcia of the Université catholique de Louvain
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-index.html along with Prof Dr Philipp Guetlich http://www.ak-guetlich.chemie.uni-mainz.de/ and colleagues at the Johannes-Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany - investigate processes in spin crossover compounds by MuSR and Mössbauer Spectroscopy - Dr Shane Kennedy, Dr Andrew Studer, Dr Michael James, Dr Max Avdeev and colleagues, Bragg Institute, ANSTO
http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute - applications of neutron scattering in the study of magnetic materials - Prof Dr Klaus Becker and colleagues, Technische Universität Braunschweig, http://www.tubraunschweig.de/pci/forschung/becker
- Research Colleagues ? Prof K D (Jaya) Jayasuriya ( University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka); Prof Dr Horst Hahn, Dr Adam Balogh, Dr Mohammad Ghafari, (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt and the Institute for Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe)
Biography
- 1974 - Completed PhD at Monash University after BSc (Hons, Aberdeen University) and MSc (Salford University)
- 1974-1976 - Cryogenic research and development with Oxford Instruments, UK
- 1976-1979 - Research Fellow, UNSW@Duntroon, Faculty of Military Studies of UNSW, Canberra
- 1979-1983 - Research Fellow, Australian National University
- 1983-1986 ? Lecturer, Department of Physics, UNSW@Duntroon
- 1986 - Transfer to UNSW@ADFA; University College of the Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW established
- 1986-2005 - School of Physics, now School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, UNSW@ADFA - successive promotions to Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor
- 2005 - UNSW award as Emeritus Professor
- Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow - University of Saarlandes (1983; 1989); Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (2000); Technische Universitaet Muenchen (2003)
- Special Studies Programmes (SSP) - University of Saarlandes (1989); University of Reading (1994); Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (2000); SSP - FRM-II, Techn Univ Muenchen (2003)
Professional Activities (Selection):
- FAIP, FInstP, CPhys
- Visiting Fellow, The Australian National University (1983-2006)
- Vice-President/ President/Past President ANBUG (2003-2008) http://www.anbug.org/
- Member AINSE Specialist Committee (Materials, Structure and Dynamics; 2004-2007)
- Member BIAG, Beam Instrument Advisory Group (2004-2007), OPAL , Australian Replacement Research Reactor http://www.ansto.gov.au/discovering_ansto/anstos_research_reactor
- Member/Meeting Chair three IATs, Instrument Advisory Teams (2000 ? present), OPAL
- Member PAC, Program Advisory Committee (2007-2009), Bragg Institute, ANSTO
http://www.ansto.gov.au/research/bragg_institute (as AINSE Representative http://www.ainse.edu.au/ainse.html) - Australian Representative on IBAME (1994 - present) http://orgs.unca.edu/medc/
- Editorial Advisory Board - MIX, Mössbauer Information Exchange (1996- 1999)
- Editorial Advisory Board - Journal of Alloys and Compounds (1996-2003)
- Editorial Advisory Board - Mössbauer Effect Reference Data Journal (1996-present)
http://orgs.unca.edu/medc/ - Chair, Publications Committee:
- ICAME87 (The International Conference on Applications of the Moessbauer effect, Melbourne 1987)
- ICM97 (The International Conference on Magnetism, Cairns 1997)
- ICNS2005 (The International Conference on Neutron Scattering, Sydney 2005)
- Referee for 29 International Journals
- International Advisory Board and Programme Committee for over 20 International Conferences in the series:
- ICAME; ISIAME; Hyperfine Interactions; Seeheim Conference on Magnetism (SCM02; SCM04); Seeheim Mössbauer Workshop; ISAMM; IMTCE2006; INCOME
- Organising Committees:
- ICAME87 (Co-Chair, Publications Chair, Melbourne, Australia);
- 12th Int Workshop; 7th Int Symposium Rare-Earth Metals (Technical Committee, Canberra, Australia, 1992);
- ICM97 (Publications Chair, Cairns, Australia);
- ICNS2005 (Publications Chair, Sydney , Australia);
- MML2007 (Australian Advisory Committee, Perth , Australia).
Refereed Publications (1970 to present)
Publications can be viewed in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) documents as follows:
2000 to 2004; 2005 to present; List of books-June2007.
Advanced Materials - Mössbauer Spectroscopy at UNSW@ADFA
- MERDJ Newsletter April 2007
- Dr Jianli Wang rejoined our group in October 2007 - joint agreement between the Bragg Institute, ANSTO and UNSW@ADFA - research studies of magnetism materials;
- Strong collaborative links with colleagues at UNSW@SYDNEY; ANU; Germany (Muenchen; Mainz ; Darmstadt ; Karlsruhe); Belgium ; UK
Colleagues and students in the Moessbauer Group (2005)
Visitors; Conference Photographs (Selection - 1985 to Present)
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Physics Colleagues, UNSW@ADFA (2003)




















