CURRICULUM VITAE
Passacantando Maurizio
Born December 27, 1962 in L’Aquila (Italy)
Permanent Address: Via Pasquale Santucci 9, 67100 L’Aquila (Italy) Married
Associate Professor (02B1 - FIS01) at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L'Aquila.
Professional address: Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, via Vetoio (67100) L’Aquila (Italy). Tel: 0862433297, Fax: 0862433033, e-mail:
maurizio.passacantando@aquila.infn.it
PROFESSIONAL CURRICULUM:
• Since May 2015: Associate Professor (S.C. 02/B1 - S.S.D. FIS/01) at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L'Aquila.
• September 2002 to May 2015: Assistant Professor (SSD FIS/03) at the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L'Aquila.
• From 7 March 1992 to 31 August 2002: he worked as a graduate technician at the Optical and Electronic Properties of Solids Laboratory of the Physics Department of the University of L'Aquila.
• From January 15, 1991 to January 15, 1992 he received a grant from the National Institute of Physics of Matter (INFM).
• From 7 July 1989 to 14 September 1990 he had a grant from the University of L'Aquila.
• Degree in Physics, at the University of L’Aquila on July 1989, with a thesis "Study of the electronic and structural properties of Cr clusters by means of electron energy loss spectroscopy", supervisor prof. Pietro Picozzi.
UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS:
• Member of the Board of the Faculty of Sciences MM.FF.NN of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2008 – 2012, decree faculty of science MM.FF.NN. n. 15 of 9/2/2009).
• Member of the Administration Council of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2010 – 2014, D.R.
1617/2010).
• Member of the Contracts Commission of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2010 – 2014, D.R. 1704/2010).
• President of the Contracts Commission of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2010 – 2014, protocol No. 36470 of 26/10/2010).
• Member of the Budget Commission of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2010 – 2014, D.R.
1718/2010).
• Member of the Congress Commission of the University of L'Aquila, (period 2010 – 2014, D.R. 1719/2010).
• Member of the Administration Council of the Azienda per il diritto allo studio (Regione Abruzzo) University of L'Aquila, (period 2018 – 2021, D.R. 25845/2018).
TEACHING ACTIVITY:
• Associate Professor of the University of L'Aquila for the following courses: Laboratory of Physics of Matter; Applied Physics Laboratory I and II; Materials Analysis Techniques with Laboratory; Nanotechnology Laboratory; Didactics of physics; Courses of Physics II.
• Supervisor of 25 Master and PhD thesis in Physics and Chemical Sciences at the University of L’Aquila.
• Member of Doctoral College of the Dept. of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila (XXXIII – XXXIV).
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY:
• Editor of Special Issue, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, Volume 322 (Elsevier Science B.V., 2003).
• Member of the Editorial Board for Carbon-Based Materials of the Frontiers in Materials journal (from 2018 - to date)
• Reviewer of Nano Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Nanotechnology, Carbon, Small, Nanoscale, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, 2D Materials.
SCIENTIFIC PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS:
• PRIN 2003093440_004-Area 09; Participant;
• PRIN 2004020258_002-Area 02; Participant;
• PRIN 2005020415_003-Area 02; Participant;
• GINT (2006) project: funded by (INFN); Participant;
• CNR-INFM European Project NanoSci-ERA (2007), S-FIVE; Participant;
• FP7-NMP-2009-SMALL-3 contract n. 245513: NATIOMEM; Participant;
• SinPhoNIA (2009) project: funded by (INFN); Participant;
• TECNA4AUTO (2012) - POR FESR ABRUZZO 2007/13; Participant;
• PARIDE (start 2013) project: funded by (INFN); Project Leader;
• Prog. AQ/0016/01-02/X23 - MiSE Cratere Abruzzo; Project Leader;
• Prog. AQ/0002/01-03/X23 - MiSE Cratere Abruzzo; Participant.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY:
Its main fields of research are oriented towards: i) growth and characterization of: carbon nanotubes, semiconductive and insulating nanowires; ii) study of the electronic and structural properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS); film sensors and oxide nanostructures.
He has experience in the following spectroscopy techniques: electron spectroscopy (AES, EELS and EXELFS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), UV spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and X-ray reflectometry. Some of the experiments have been also performed at synchrotron radiation facilities: ELETTRA, Sincrotrone Trieste (for XAS, UV spectrosopies), LURE, Orsay, France (for XAS and EXAFS techniques) ESRF, Grenoble, France (for EXAFS techniques). Moreover, he has considerable experience in the field of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and scanning (SEM). In the field of scanning electron microscopy, many experiments have been carried out using nano-manipulators for the handling of nanomaterials and IV measurements, to measure electrical and field emission of nanostructured materials. He has considerable experience in the design and development of chemical vapour deposition reactors (CVD), that was used to grow: i) high and low k oxides; (ii) multiwall carbon nanotubes; iii) semiconductor nanowires; iv) 3D-carbon nanotube sponges; v) 2D material: graphene, MoS2. In particular, optical and electrical properties of graphene/semiconductor Schottky heterojunctions. Chemical and electrical modulation of Schottky barrier. Design, fabrication and characterization of novel graphene/semiconductor devices for use as photodetector, solar cell and chemical sensors.
Study of phenomena occurring at the metal/graphene interface. Fabrication and electrical characterization of field-effect transistors (FETs) based on graphene and other 2D materials and effect of contacts, geometry and environmental conditions on their performance. Carbon nanotube growth by CVD and structural characterization by electron beam techniques (SEM, TEM) and scanning probe microscopy.
Investigation of field emission, conductivity and photoconductivity of graphene flakes and multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Development of an innovative technique to measure two- dimensional maps of field emission current from vertically aligned carbon nanotube films using scanning probe microscopes (AFM/STM).
Nanomanipulation of individual nanotubes and study of their electrical and mechanical properties in SEM chambers.
Demonstration of freestanding carbon nanotube films as fast and sensitive thermistors.
Photovoltaic effects of CNT/Si structures. Development of a photo-detector relying on carbon nanotubes both for sensing and charge amplification purpose.
Author of over than 201 publications including articles in peer-reviewed journals.
• Author of 201 publications on international peer-reviewed journals.
• ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3680-5295; Author SCOPUS ID: 7005636831
• SCOPUS (on Nov 29, 2018): h-index (34); Citations (3879);
• GOOGLE Scholar (on Nov 29, 2018): h-index (38); Citations (5003).
MANAGEMENT OR PARTICIPATION IN THE ACTIVITIES OF A RESEARCH GROUP CHARACTERIZED BY COLLABORATIONS AT NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL LEVEL
• Debye Institute, Surface Science Division, University of Utrecht, Netherlands;
• Dept. of Metall. and Mat., Pontificia Universidade Catòlica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
• Dept. of Electrical Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;
• Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Materials, SICCAS, Shanghai, China;
• Swinburne University, IRIS, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia;
• Dept. of Applied Physics, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;
• CRC for Microtechnology, Hawthorn, Australia;
• School of Physics, Microanalytical Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Australia;
• Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA;
• Dept. of Microelectronics, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;
• Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany;
• Physics Dept., Georgetown University, Washington, USA;
• Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Minéral-UMR 7555, Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I, Cedex, France;
• Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénoménes Quantiques, Université Paris VII et ESPCI, Paris, France;
• Dept. of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India;
• ARCI, Balapur, Hyderabad, India;
• Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia;
• Fachbereich Physik and Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE), Universitat Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany;
• National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, United Kingdom;
• Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel;
• National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, Florida, USA;
• Nanotechnology Laboratory, Department of Physics, Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore, India;
• Dept. of Chemistry, CICECO, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;
• CNR-INFM-OGG, c/o ESRF 6, Rue Jules Horowitz, Grenoble, France;
• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan;
• Dept. of Physics, Maharani's Science College, Bangalore, India;
• Dept. of Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;
• CMRTU, R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore, India;
• Nano RAM Technologies, Bangalore, India;
• IHP, Im Technologiepark 25, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany;
• Dept. of Physics, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India;
• Plasma Surface Interaction Chemistry, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium;
• ISQCH-CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain;
• LNCMP, Toulouse, France;
• Institute of Theoretical and Applied Electrodynamics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;
• Physics Dept., University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom;
• Electronic Materials Research Laboratory, Xi’an Jiaotong University, People’s Republic of China;
• Institute of Physics and Chemistry, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany.
RESULTS OBTAINED IN THE TECHNOLOGY TRASFER
• Participation in the CASTI Laboratory at the University of L'Aquila (INFM project)
• Member of the Administration Council of the spin-off "Nano-cat s.r.l." at the University of L'Aquila.
• Director of the "Structural Properties of Solids" Laboratory - Technology Transfer of the University of L'Aquila.
ORGANIZATION OR PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
• Speaker at the IVC 12, ICSS 8, The Hague, (The Netherlands).
• Organization "3eme FICH Workshop", L'Aquila (Italy).
• Speaker at the IWASES, Liverpool (UK). (04-08/09/1994).
• Organization "Structure and Defects in SiO2", Agelonde (France). (23-25/09/1996).
• Organization "II French-Italian Symposium- SiO2", L'Aquila (ITALY). (15-17/06/1998).
• Organization of the "3rd Symposium on SiO2", Fuveau (Aix-Marseille) (France). (19- 21/06/2000).
• Speaker at the 4th symposium SiO2, Trento (Italy). (16-18/09/2002).
• Organization of the "4th symposium-SiO2", Trento (Italy). (16-18/09/2002).
• Organization of the "5th symposium-SiO2", Chamonix Mont-Blanc (France). (21-23/06/2004).
• Speaker at the EMRS 2006, Nice (France). (29/05-02/06/2006).
• Organization of the "6th symposium-SiO2", Mondello (Palermo) (Italy). (25-28/06/2006).
• Organization of the "7th symposium-SiO2", St-Etienne (France). (30/06-02/07/2008.
• Speaker at the E-MRS, Warsaw (Poland). (15-19/09/2008).
• Organization of the "6th Workshop on Functional and Nanostructured Materials", Sulmona (AQ) (Italy). (27-30 / 09/2009).
• Speaker at ChemOnTubes 2010, Arcachon (France). (11-15/04/2010).
• Organization of the "Symposium SiO2 and advanced dielectrics and related devices", Como (Italy). (21-23/06/2010).
• Speaker at the Third NANOSEA2010, Cassis (France). (28/06-02/07/2010).
• Speaker at CARBOMAT 2010, Catania (Italy). (06-08/10/2010).
• Speaker at the GraphITA, L'Aquila (Italy). (15-18/05/2011).
• Organization of the "11th International AITA", L'Aquila (Italy). (07-09/09/2011).
• Invited speaker to the 2011 SIF, L'Aquila (Italy). (26-30/09/2011).
• Speaker at the 5th SIWAN, Szeged (Hungary). (24-27/10/2012).
L’Aquila, November 29, 2018
Maurizio Passacantando
