Dr. Heiko Timmers

The University of New South Wales, Australia

Email: H.Timmers@adfa.edu.au

Qualifications

1996 Ph.D., Australian National University, Australia

1992 M.Sc., Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany

1988 B.Sc., Westfälische Wilhelms University, Germany

Publications (selected)

1. A. A. Abiona, W. Kemp, H. Timmers, Palladium-vacancy pairs in p-type and n-type germanium, Hyperfine Interact., DOI: 10.1007/s10751-012-0667-7, 2012
2. W. J. Kemp, A. A. Abiona, P. Kessler, H. Timmers, Electric quadrupole interaction of 100Rh in antimony, hafnium and rhenium, Hyperfine Interact., DOI: 10.1007/s10751- 012-0735-z, 2012
3. Yanyan Liu, Jacob A. Warner, Laura G. Gladkis, Jennie M. Scarvell, Paul N. Smith, Heiko Timmers, Microscratching Characterization of the Wear-in of UHMW Polyethylene in Prostheses, Tribol. Lett, 49:439–450, 2013
4. Jacob A. Warner, Laura G. Gladkis, Paul N. Smith, Jennifer M. Scarvell, Heiko Timmers, Demonstration of a New Technique Using Radioisotope Tracers to Measure the Backside Wear Rate on Tibial Inserts, Tribol Lett, 46:139–145, 2012
5. N. Pal, B. Quah, P. Smith, L.Gladkis, H.Timmers, R.Li. Nano-osteoimmunology as an important consideration in the design of future implants, Acta Biomaterialia 7.7: 2926-2934, 2011
6. P. Kessler, K. Muller, T. Geruschke, H. Timmers, A. P. Byrne, R. Vianden, Search for ferromagnetic ordering in Pd doped wide band gap semiconductors GaN and ZnO, Hyperfine Interactions, DOI: 10.1007/s10751-010-0189-0, 2010
7. H. Timmers, W. Kemp, A. P. Byrne, M.C. Ridgway, R. Vianden, P. Kessler, M. Steffens, Evidence of palladium-defect pairing in intrinsic germanium, Hyperfine Interactions, DOI: 10.1007/s10751-010-0206-3, 2010
8. Jacob A. Warner, Laura G. Gladkis, H. Timmers, A new radioisotope tracing method of UHMWPE wear particle dispersion using 97Ru, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials Volume 4, Issue 5, Pages 776–784, 2011
9. L. G. Gladkis, R. W. Li, J. M. Scarvell, P. N. Smith, H. Timmers, Detailed three dimensional size and shape characterisation of UHMWPE wear debris, Wear 270 (2010) 455-463, 2010
10. Jacob A. Warner, Laura G. Gladkis, Thomas Geruschke, Reiner Vianden, Paul N. Smith, Jennifer M. Scarvell, Wolf-Dietrich Zeitz, Heiko Timmers, Tracing Wear Debris Pathways Via Ion-Implanted Indium-111, Wear 268, 1257–1265, DOI: 10.1016/j.wear.2010.01.021, 2010
11. Heiko Timmers, Laura G. Gladkis, Jacob A. Warner, Aidan P. Byrne, Mariela F. del Grosso, Claudia R. Arbeitman, Gerardo Garcia-Bermudez, Thomas Geruschke, Reiner Vianden, Polymer tribology by combining ion-implantation and radionuclide tracing, in press, doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.019, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 2010.
12. L. G. Gladkis, R. W. Li, J. M. Scarvell, P. N. Smith, H. Timmers, Direct characterisation of the size, shape and abundance of UHMWPE wear particles using Atomic Force Microscopy, Wear, Volume 267, Issues 1-4, 15, Pages 632-638, 2009
13. Kathryn J. Amos, Jacky C. Croke, Heiko Timmers, Celia Thompson, Philip N. Owens, The application of caesium-137 measurements to investigate floodplain deposition in a large semi-arid catchment in Queensland, Australia: a low-fallout environment, Earth Surface Processes and Landforms Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages: 515-529, 2009
14. Butcher, K.S.A. Shrestha, S.K. Hirshy, H. Perks, R.M. Usher, Brian F. Fernandes, A.J. P.P.-T. Chen Wintrebert-Fouquet, M., Timmers, H., The nature of nitrogen related point defects in common forms of InN, Journal of Applied Physics 0021 - 8979, v101 i12, p. 123702-1-123702-11, 2007.
15. Patrick P.-T. Chen, K. Scott A. Butcher, Marie Wintrebert-Fouquet, Richard Wuhrer, Matthew R. Phillips, Kathryn. E. Prince, Heiko Timmers, Santosh K. Shrestha, Brian F. Usher, Apparent band-gap shift in InN films grown by remote-plasma-enhanced CVD, Journal of Crystal Growth 288, 241–246, 2006
16. Santosh K. Shrestha, Heiko Timmers, The optimum heavy ion beam for the compositional analysis of indium nitride films, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, Volume 249, Issues 1-2, Pages 257-260, 2006
17. Heiko Timmers,  K. Scott A. Butcher, Santosh K. Shrestha, Patrick P.-T. Chen, Marie Wintrebert-Fouquet, Rakesh Dogra, Compositional and Structural Characterisation of Indium Nitride using Swift Ions, Journal of Crystal Growth 288, 236-240, 2005
18. T.D.M. Weijers-Dall, H. Timmers, K. Stenström, P. Persson, A. Pergjegjaj, X. Wang, M. Graczyk, T. Osipowicz, M.Q. Ren, D.J. O’Connor, H.J. Whitlow, Measurements of the stopping forces for heavy ions in Ge, Ag and Au using novel ‘polka-dot’ detectors, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms October 2006: (Volume 251, Issue 2) p. 352, 2006
19. R. Dogra, S.K. Shrestha, A.P. Byrne, M.C. Ridgway, A.V.J. Edge, R. Vianden, J. Penner, H. Timmers, Evidence for atomic scale disorder in indium nitride from perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 17, 6037–6046, 2005
20. W.-D. Zeitz, H. Timmers, S.K. Shrestha, A.V.J. Edge, A.P. Byrne, R. Dogra, Magnetism of isolated cadmium atoms in vacancy-associated sites in nickel, Physical Review B Vol. 78, No.1, 014406 1-7, 2008
21. Butcher, K.S.A Shrestha, S.K. Hirshy, H. Perks, R.M. Usher, Brian F. Fernandes, A.J. P.P.- T. Chen Wintrebert-Fouquet, M., Timmers, H., The nature of nitrogen related point defects in common forms of InN, Journal of Applied Physics 0021 - 8979, v101 i12, p. 123702-1- 123702-11, 2007
22. Santosh K. Shrestha, Heiko Timmers, K. Scott A. Butcher, Marie Wintrebert-Fouquet, Patrick P.-T. Chen, Nitrogen depletion of indium nitride films during Elastic Recoil Detection analysis, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 234, 291-307, 2005
23. H. Timmers,  Rakesh Dogra, Santosh K. Shrestha, A. Vernon J. Edge, Aidan P. Byrne, Probing the indium nitride lattice locally with the radioisotope probe 111In/Cd, IEEE press Catalog Number: 04EX973, ISBN: 0-7803-8820-8, ISSN: 1097-2137, 2005

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