Antonio Ambrosio

Dates: 1 Jan 2011 Main activity: Optical spectroscopy or electronics of thin films based on oxides and/or organic materials of wide interest for innovative electronic applications.

Activities

1. Equipment: start-up support activities, tests, procedure optimization, benchmarking (including computational means): Tests, benchmarking and procedure optimization of the atomic force microscope and optical spectroscopy equipment of interest for multiferroic, organic and/or hybrid thin film. Support to start-up reaserch activities based on multiferroic and ferroelectric compounds including hybrid organic/inorganic compounds. Implementing spectrocopic techniques such as electrical force microsocpy, surface photovoltage technique (SPV).

   
   

2. Research seminars, tutorials and lectures on fabrication, characterization and computation of multifunctional materials and nanoscale phenomena: Research seminars and lectures about atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy including conceptual know-how transfer about experimental probes based on SNOM, EFM and STM techniques.

   
   

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 researchers in charge of sample growth and/or involved intrasport 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 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 , organci 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 atomic force microscopy and spectroscopy of multiferroic and organic materials.

   
   

Publications