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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Physical Sciences
Department of Physics

Brink, DJ

MSc(PU vir CHO) DSc(Pret) - Professor

NRF Rating: C1

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Contact Details:

Telephone number: 012 420 3502
Fax number: 012 362 5288
E-mail address: johan.brink@up.ac.za

Research Interests:

Characterisation and modification of materials

Thin films and electronic materials

Optical aspects of colour in biological systems

Research Output:

Research articles in refereed specialist journals:

Davis ALV, Brink DJ, Scholtz CH, Prinsloo LC, Deschodt C: 2008. Functional implications of temperature-correlated colour polymorphism in an iridescent, scarabaeine dung beetle. Ecological Entomology, 33, pp 771-779.

Brink DJ, van der Berg NG, Prinsloo LC: 2008. The role of interface effects on the reflection of circularly polarised light from the thin-film structure of scarabus beetles. Surface and Interface Analysis, 40 (3-4), pp 769-771.

 

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