Procolo Lucignano

Dates: 16 Set 2010 - 15 Set 2011


Main activity: Support and coordination for modeling and study of systems with strong electron correlations, analysis of electonic structure and interfaces.


Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): support to tests and optimization of computer cluster operational modes. Benchmarking codes for numerical simulation of nanostructures.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: research seminars and tutorial research cases for application of different many-body approaches for analysing physical properties of nanostructures and hybrid systems. Seminars/lectures about general methods for dealing with nanostructures and hybrid systems.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: coordination and support activities for theoretical research guidance about approaches for electronic and charge/spin transport in nanostructures and electronic properties of hybrid systems.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: coordination and support for project applications in the field of nanostructures and hybrid systems. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of nanostructures and hybrid materials.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): support for monitoring, management and research guidance for methodologies of computation of nanostructures, heterostructures, correlated systems and electronic transport.



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Rosalba Fittipaldi

Dates: 1 Mar 2011 - 31 Aug 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of synthesis of oxide single crystals with floating zone technique.


Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Optimitazion of floating zone furnace performance for growth of multifunctional advanced materials single cystals. Start-up support activities for the scanning electron microscope operations. Benchmarking of the installed scanning electron microscope with micro manipulators. Tests of the scanning electron microscope with trials materials.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorials on single crystals growth of transition metal oxides such as strontium ruthenates, high Tc superconductors, manganites. Lectures on chemical phase diagrams of systems having eutectic and peritectic transitions.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Coordination and support actions for experimental activities on bulk, textured and single crystals growth of multifunctional materials. Laboratory guidance and step by step addressing of researchers involved in the activity of synthesis and morphological, compositional and structural analysis of samples based on transition metal oxides.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of bulk materials (single crystals). In particular, this activity of the recruited researcher will be of support for national and European projects application through stragetic partnership with research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of multifunctional materials based on transition metal oxides.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management, and research guidance for methodologies of fabricating single crystals for technologically and scientifically relevant families of TMO based materials.



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Fabio Chiarella

Dates: 14 Mar 2011 - 13 Sep 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field magnetic measurements of compounds based on transition metals and of heterostructures.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Procedure optimization and tests for electron-magnetic and structural, morphological and compositional characterization.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorials on high and low temperatures magnetic and trasport measurements. Lectures on bulk, thin films, interfaces and hetero-structures systems susceptibility and magnetic characterizations.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Intense coordination and mentoring activities about multifunctional materials expecially addressed to the electron-magnetic and structural characterizations.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of transport and magnetic and structural characterizations of multifunctional materials. The activity of the recruited researcher will be devoted to support SPIN research staff for European projects participation.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management, and research guidance for methodologies in the context of the electro-magnetic and structural characterizations. Combining analyses for optimal characterization.



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Paola Gentile

Dates: 1 Mar 2011 - 31 Aug 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of modelling and study of the effects of interaction between superconductivity and magnetism of complex materials and hybrid systems.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Start-up support activities for the operational modes of the computer cluster. Benchmarking codes for numerical simulation of complex quantum systems and correlated materials. Tests for ab-initio approaches to bulk materials/thin films/interfaces..


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorial research cases for application of different many-body approaches for correlated systems. Seminars/lectures about latest theoretical approaches to deal with correlated systems, interplay of competing orders, phase diagram in heterostructures, spin and charge transport.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Coordination and support to theoretical research activities about approaches for analysing physical properties of multifunctional advanced materials, computational techniques, heterostructures and electronic transport.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of heterostructures. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of heterostructures.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management and research guidance for methodologies for computation of heterostructures, correlated systems and electronic transport.



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Filomena Forte

Dates: 14 Mar 2011 - 13 Mar 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of modelling and study of lelementary excitations of spin, charge and orbitals in transition metal oxide obtained by advanced spectroscopy.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Start-up support activities for the operational modes of the computer cluster. Benchmarking codes for numerical simulation for many-body techniques for bulk materials/thin films/interfaces.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Seminars and tutorial research cases for application of different many-body approaches for correlated systems: advanced theoretical approaches for dealing with reduced size systems, spectroscpic means for detecting and analyzing excitations in different regimes.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Support of theoretical research activities about strong correlated systems and advanced spectroscopy.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of correlated systems and advanced spectroscopy on multifunctional materials. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of advanced spectroscopy on multifunctional materials.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management and research guidance for methodologies for computation physical properties of multifunctional materials and spectroscopic outcomes.



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Gabriella Maria De Luca

Dates: 3 May 2011 - 2 May 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of research activities in the field of characterization and fabrication of multifunctional oxide thin films and and/or organics for the fabrication of innovative electronic devices.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Start-up support activities for mode optimization of a system for the deposition of multifunctional or hybrid thin film by using sputtering and evaporation tecnique. Support to activities about multiferroic and ferroelectric compounds including hybrid organic/inorganic compounds. Tests and benchmarking about characterization of the morphological properties ( both x-ray, afm measurements) and correlation with transport (electrical and magnetic) properties.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Research seminars and lectures about deposition and characterization of multiferroic and hybrid materials including guidance for application and experimental procedures at sinchrotron sources.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Laboratory guidance. Designing joint experiments with the researchers in charge of sample growth of organic compounds, within researchers involved within the multichamber deposition/analysis system called "MODA" and or involved in trasport measuemrents. Support for design and proposal of experiments at large scale facilities about specific sample characterization.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of multiferroics and hybrid materials. Support to European project application and for coordination of stragetic partnership with European research groups having high and consolidated reputations in the field of multiferroics and hybrid I/O materials and devices


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): Support for monitoring, management and research guidance of methodologies for fabricating thin films of technologically and scientifically relevant families of multiferroics and organic based materials.



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Emiliano Di Gennaro

Dates: 14 Mar 2011 - 13 Sep 2012


Main activity: Support to and coordination of reserach activities in the field of advanced characterization of multi layer epitaxial films obtained from multifunctional oxides and study of the growth processes of such materials.

Activities

  1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Support start-up activities for operational modes of photoemission from a UV lamp (UPS), complemented by XPS. Procedure optimization of a pumping system for the UV lamp; neutraliser and possibly an ion gun; optimization of the data acquisition system from SPA- LEED; cooling system for the X-ray source; optimize sample transfer from the PLD chamber and the sample manipulator within the analysis chamber.


  2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Lectures about photoemission spectroscopy and electron diffraction. Lectures about analysis of photoemission experiments at sinchrotron sources, that can complement our data.


  3. Coordination, support, mentoring and laboratory guidance of research activities about fabrication, characterization and computation of mutifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of multifunctional oxide materials. Coordination of experiments based on specific probe techniques at large scale facilities. The researcher will support the research activities related to the proposing, designing and implementing of innovative experimental approaches for monitoring film growth and analysing in situ the properties of as-grown films.


  4. Support activities for R&D project applications: preparation, team coordination, planning, individuation of specific objectives: Coordination and support for scientific project applications in the field of multifunctional oxide materials. Experimental proposals at large scale facilities. The researcher will be in charge of proposing, designing and implementing innovative experimental approaches for monitoring film growth and analysing in situ the properties of as-grown films.


  5. Monitoring, management and research guidance for lab procedures (including the lab for compuational targets): The hired reseacher will coordinate and support the actions related to specific security aspects in the context of ionizing radiation and gas handling. Furthermore, he will support the management activities about operational protocols, not only for the analysis chamber, but for the whole MODA laboratory, including the organization of a database for the whole set of samples produced and analysed within the MODA lab.



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