Professor Steve Donnellys.e.donnelly@hud.ac.uk | 01484 472304
Professor Steve Donnelly has a first degree in Experimental Physics from the University of Liverpool, a Masters degree in Atomic Collisions in Solids from the University of Sussex and a PhD which was sponsored by the UK Atomic Energy Authority and carried out in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford.
On completing his PhD studies, Steve spent eight years overseas at the University of Namur in Belgium and then at a government research laboratory (CSIRO Division of Chemical Physics) in Melbourne, Australia before returning to the UK in 1986 to take up a lectureship (and later a readership) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Salford. In 1996, he moved to the Physics Department at Salford as Professor of Experimental Physics and took up various management roles including Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Environment before moving to Huddersfield as Professor of Engineering Materials and Head of Department of Engineering and Technology in 2011. In January 2012, he became acting Dean of the School of Computing and Engineering.
Steve has spent extended periods working on collaborative projects at a number of laboratories overseas including Argonne National Laboratory in the US and the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. He is also a fluent French speaker and has long-standing research collaborations with the University of Poitiers in France where he has been a visiting professor on a number of occasions. Steve has been an external examiner of PhD theses in France, Belgium and Quebec. He is a member of the scientific advisory committee of the French EMIR ion-accelerator network and of the the steering committee of the EPSRC National Facility for Aberration Corrected STEM and of the user selection committee of the European SPIRIT ion-accelerator network.
Outside of work, Steve is a keen guitarist and dabbles inexpertly in multi-track recording.
Synopsis of Achievements in Research
Areas of interest include:
Author of about 130 scientific papers (over 100 in peer-reviewed journals).
Active collaborations with scientists in the USA, Australia, Ukraine, France, Brazil
and Japan including major national laboratories (Argonne National Laboratory, USA;
National Institute for Materials Science, Japan). Majority of publications in recent
years, co-authored with overseas colleagues.
Frequently invited to give talks or chair sessions at national and international
conferences (in addition to numerous contributed talks) e.g:
Recent Plenary Talks:
EMAG: In-situ electron microscopy meeting, London (June 2006)
XIX Congresso da sociedade Brasileira de microscopia e microanalise (SBMM)
in Caxambu, Brazil on 23 September 2003
Recent Invited talks:
Novel Aspects of Surfaces and Materials (NASM3)
Manchester, UK (2010)
16th International Conference on Ion Beam Modification of Materials,
Dresden, Germany (2008)
2nd International Conference on Radiation Effects in Materials
Crete, Greece (2008)
Materials Research Society Fall Meeting,
San Francisco, USA (2007)
Ion Beam Science: Solved and Unsolved Problems,
Copenhagen, Denmark (2006)
17th International Conference on Ion-Surface Interactions,
Zvenigorod, Russia (2005)
International Conference on Atomic Collisions in Solids,
Puri, India, (2003)
Défauts Etendues dans le Semiconducteurs (DES),
Poitiers, France (2003)
European Materials Research Society Meeting,
Strasbourg, France (2002)
22nd Werner Brandt Workshop, Particle and Wave Penetration in Condensed
Matter, Namur, Belgium, (2002)
Current funded projects:
Materials for fusion & fission power (ends March 2015)
EPSRC-funded Oxford-University led project (total value £5.8M).
Huddersfield component £100k.
Fundamentals of current and future uses of nuclear graphite
(Ends March 2014). EPSRC-funded consotium project with Universities of
Sussex, Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham. Total value £1.2M. Huddersfield
component £200k.
Recently Completed projects:
Monarch: Ultra-bright nanoscale SEM-on-a-chip (ended 2009),
Collaboration involving three European Universities and 4 SMEs, funded under
the EU Framework 6 CRAFT programme. Although the EU funded project has
finished, the project is continuing under commercial funding from NFAB Ltd.
the lead SME in the project. Total Value €1.8M.
In-Situ TEM Studies of Ion-Irradiated Materials (ended 2010)
EPSRC funded project in which we developed a unique national experimental
facility at Salford University for the study of materials for nuclear reactors. (The
project was supported by researchers at Imperial College, University of
Manchester, Culham Science Centre, Nexia Solutions (formerly BNFL) and the
University of Surrey). The facility plays an important role in the two current
EPSRC projects. Value £650k.
Worldwide network of in-situ TEM/ion accelerator facilities (ended 2008)
Connected to the “in-situ” facility, this project established a network of earlycareer
researchers working in the area of electron microscopy of radiation
damaged materials. It involved networking visits to major laboratories in
France, USA, Japan, Australia, China and Brazil and the holding of an
international workshop in the UK in June 2008. Value £38k.
Member of EPSRC Peer Review College.
Member of conference organizing committees:
Biennial conference of the Electron Microscopy and Analysis Group of the
Institute of Physics (National conference).
International meeting on recent developments in the study of Radiation Effects
in Matter (REM). (International conference).
Only UK member of the French, CNRS-funded Groupement de Recherche sur
Physique et Applications de la Matière sous Irradiation (PAMIR)”
Member of the scientific committee of the French EMIR network.
Professeur Invité at the University of Poitiers 4 weeks June/July 2004, and June 2006.
Currently supervising 2 postdoctoral researchers and 3 PhD students
Reviewer for a number of journals including:
Journal of Applied Physics
Applied Physics Letters
Philosophical Magazine
Philosophical Magazine Letters
Nuclear Instruments and Methods
Journal of Nuclear Materials
European Journal of Physics
Synopsis of Achievements in Academic Enterprise
Steve Donnelly has worked as an industrial consultant in the area of ion-beam technology.
He was involved in a collaboration with the Manchester Science Enterprise Centre (MSEC) that led to the development of an MEnt (Technology) programme, the development of Salford University’s Business Creation Unit and the embedding of enterprise modules into undergraduate programmes in science and engineering.
He also developed a (venture-capital-funded) collaborative project in Nanotechnology with
spin-in company NFAB. This led to the securing of the €1.8M project referred to in
the “Research” section.
With Dr Nigel Mellors, Steve initiated and led the project to develop the unique “Energy House” – a complete Victorian terrace house inside a laboratory – at Salford University
He is also currently engaged as a consultant by the National Nuclear Laboratory in the area
of inert gases in nuclear materials.
Hinks, J., Jones, A., Theodosiou, A., Van den Berg, J. and Donnelly, S. (2012) ‘Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Graphite underin situIon Irradiation’ Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 371, p. 012046. ISSN 1742-6596
Pawley, C., Beaufort, M., Oliviero, E., Hinks, J., Barbot, J. and Donnelly, S. (2012) ‘An in-situ TEM investigation of He bubble evolution in SiC’ Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 371, p. 012052. ISSN 1742-6596
Abrams, K., Hinks, J., Pawley, C., Greaves, G., van den Berg, J., Eyidi, D., Ward, M. and Donnelly, S. (2012) ‘Helium irradiation effects in polycrystalline Si, silica, and single crystal Si’ Journal of Applied Physics , 111 (8), p. 083527. ISSN 00218979
Hinks, J., Jones, A. and Donnelly, S. (2012) ‘Effects of Displacing Radiation on Graphite Observed Using in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy’ MRS Proceedings , 1383. ISSN 1946-4274
Donnelly, S., Hinks, J., Pawley, C., Abrams, K. and Van den Berg, J. (2012) ‘An in-situ TEM study of the effects of 6 keV He ion irradiation on Si and SiO2’ Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 371, p. 012045. ISSN 1742-6596
Hinks, J., Jones, A. and Donnelly, S. (2012) ‘Effects of Displacing Radiation on Graphite Observed Using in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy’ MRS Proceedings , 1383. ISSN 1946-4274
Hinks, J. and Donnelly, S. (2011) ‘Copper indium diselenide: crystallography and radiation-induced dislocation loops’ Philosophical Magazine , 91 (4), pp. 517-536. ISSN 1478-6435
Dubinko, V., Guglya, A. and Donnelly, S. (2011) ‘Radiation-induced formation, annealing and ordering of voids in crystals: Theory and experiment’ Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms , 269 (14), pp. 1634-1639. ISSN 0168-583X
Colaux, J., Louette, P., Colomer, J., Edmondson, P., Donnelly, S. and Terwagne, G. (2011) ‘Study of carbon nitride compounds synthesised by co-implantation of 13C and 14N in copper at different temperatures’ Materials Chemistry and Physics , 126 (1-2), pp. 337-343. ISSN 0254-0584
Hinks, J., Van den Berg, J. and Donnelly, S. (2011) ‘MIAMI: Microscope and ion accelerator for materials investigations’ Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films , 29 (2), p. 021003. ISSN 07342101
Hinks, J., Van den Berg, J. and Donnelly, S. (2011) ‘MIAMI: Microscope and ion accelerator for materials investigations’ Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A: Vacuum, Surfaces, and Films , 29 (2), p. 021003. ISSN 0734-2101
Abrams, K., Donnelly, S., Beaufort, M., Terry, J., Haworth, L. and Alquier, D. (2009) ‘A study of defect evolution in multi-energy helium implanted monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon’ physica status solidi (c) , 6 (8), pp. 1964-1968. ISSN 1862-6351
Edmondson, P., Riley, D., Birtcher, R. and Donnelly, S. (2009) ‘Amorphization of crystalline Si due to heavy and light ion irradiation’ Journal of Applied Physics , 106 (4), p. 043505. ISSN 0021-8979
Hinks, J., Berg, J. and Donnelly, S. (2009) ‘A New TEM / Ion Accelerator Facility at the University of Salford, UK’ Microscopy and Microanalysis , 15 (S2), p. 1342. ISSN 1431-9276
Furuya, K., Iakoubovskii, K., Mitsuishi, K., Donnelly, S. and Song, M. (2009) ‘Interfaces of Xe Inclusions Ion-implanted in Al - Ordering in a Fluid Xe and Matrix Oxidation at Surfaces’ Microscopy and Microanalysis , 15 (S2), pp. 1360-1361. ISSN 1431-9276
Beaufort, M., Pizzagalli, L., Gandy, A., Oliviero, E., Eyidi, D. and Donnelly, S. (2008) ‘Solid-phase epitaxial regrowth of amorphous silicon containing helium bubbles’ Journal of Applied Physics , 104 (9), p. 094905. ISSN 0021-8979
Greaves, G., Jephcoat, A., Bouhifd, M. and Donnelly, S. (2008) ‘A cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy study of iron recovered from a laser-heated diamond anvil cell’ Journal of Physics: Conference Series , 126 (1), p. 012047. ISSN 1742-6596
Donnelly, S., Hinks, J., Edmondson, P., Pilkington, R., Yakushev, M. and Birtcher, R. (2006) ‘In situ transmission electron microscopy studies of radiation damage in copper indium diselenide’ Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms , 242 (1-2), pp. 686-689. ISSN 0168583X
Bailey, P., Donnelly, S., Armour, D. and Matzke, H. (1988) ‘Gas release from pressurized closed pores in nuclear fuels’ Journal of Nuclear Materials , 158 (1), pp. 19-24. ISSN 0022-3115
Bailey, P., Donnelly, S., Ingram, D. and Armour, D. (1984) ‘A low energy ion beam system for thermal evolution measurements of damage in ion bombarded single crystals’ Vacuum , 34 (1-2), pp. 239-244. ISSN 0042-207X
Hatzopoulos, N., Suder, S., Foad, M., England, J., Moffatt, S., Bailey, P., Noakes, T., Ohno, H., Van den Berg, J., Panknin, D., Fukarek, W., Donnelly, S., Cook, C., Armour, D., Lucassen, M. and Frey, I. (1997) ‘Range and damage distributions in ultra-low energy boron implantation into silicon’. In: Ion implantation technology--96: proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Ion Implantation Technology. : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. pp. 527-530. ISBN 9780780332898
