Personal Profile:
- Research expertise: materials physics, particularly in the use of novel experimental techniques to investigate the opto-electronic properties of technologically important light-emitting materials and nanostructures. ARC Field of Research: Materials Engineering & Condensed Matter Physics
- Co-authored of over 260 refereed publications with over 1750 citations, H-index = 24 (Scopus) and over 220 conference paper abstracts. For details see:
http://cfsites1.uts.edu.au/science/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=481 - Over 30 invited talks at international conferences and over 35 invited seminars at national and overseas research laboratories
- Over 20 Australian Research Grants (11 as lead CI) and 10 UTS Internal Grants
- Organiser and presenter of over 27 professional workshops and short courses at national and international conferences
- Twenty five years’ experience in advanced microscopy and materials microcharacterisation
- Twenty years’ experience in directing a centralised equipment facility with a resident staff of five
Research Summary:
Professor Matthew Phillips and his students conduct research on the light emitting properties of bulk and nano-structured wide band gap materials, in particular group III – nitride and binary oxide semiconductors. The group’s experimental methods comprise; scanning cathodoluminescence microscopy, spectroscopy and spectral imaging, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopy, photoluminescence spectroscopy, deep level transient spectroscopy, soft X-ray synchrotron spectroscopy and a broad range of associated materials microcharacterisation, as well as a variety nano-fabrication techniques. The practical application of his work involves the fabrication of high performance solid state lighting devices and nano-phosphorus, the design of advanced photon and electron detectors as well as the development of innovative bio-imaging platform technologies. His specific research interests include:
- optical and electrical properties of point defects in solids
- fabrication and investigation of nanowires and nano-particles
- physics of light emitting low dimensional semiconductor structures, quantum wells, wires and dots
- physics and chemistry of super luminescence phosphors
- transport dynamics of polarons, excitons and polaritons in wide band gap semiconductors
- in-situ studies of nano-wires during growth
- light-matter interactions in confined systems
Tertiary Qualifications:
- BSc. University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- Ph.D. University of Technology, Sydney(UTS)
Present Position at UTS:
- Professor of Applied Physics
- Director, Microstructural Analysis Unit, Faculty of Science
Employment History (1996 – to present):
- Professor of Applied Physics, UTS, 2010 –
- Visiting Professor, TechnischeUniversität Berlin, 2013
- Foundation Director, UTS Research Strength, Materials and Technology for Energy Efficiency, 2010-12
- Associate Head (Research), Department of Physics and Advanced Materials, 2006-11
- VisitingProfessor, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, 2005
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, UTS, 2003 – 2009
- Research Program Leader – UTS, Institute for Nanoscale Technology 2001-2006
- Director, Microstructural Analysis Unit, 1996 –
Honours and Awards:
- Awarded the 1992 Philips Cowley-Moodie Award by the Australian Society for Electron Microscopy