Luca Persichetti

Tenure Assistant Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
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  1. Curriculum vitae

     

    • PERSONAL INFORMATION

     

     

    • ACADEMIC AGE

     

    • 13 years from the beginning of PhD in 2009.

     

    • PRESENT POSITION

     

    • Tenure Assistant Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (RTDb), Qualified through the Italian ASN for Full professorship positions in the sector 02/B1.

     

    • PREVIOUS POSITIONS

     

    • 2018 – 2022 Non-tenure Assistant Professor (RTDA), Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University, Roma Italy

     

    • 2016 – 2018 Research Assistant, Magnetism and Interfaces Physics (Prof. Pietro Gambardella), Department of Materials-ETH Zurich, Switzerland

     

    • 2013 – 2016 Marie Curie-COFUND Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Magnetism and Interfaces Physics (Prof. Pietro Gambardella), Department of Materials-ETH Zurich, Switzerland

     

    • 2009 – 2012 PhD in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

    Project Title: Effects of elastic field anisotropy on the heteroepitaxial growth of Ge on vicinal Si surfaces.

    Supervisor: Prof. Anna Sgarlata

     

    • PRIZES AND AWARDS

     

    • 2022 IAAM Scientist Medal issued by the International Association of Advanced Materials to distinguished researchers and scientists to recognize their distinct contributions to the sphere of Materials Science, Engineering and Technology

     

    • 2011 Raeli Award for academic results, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy

     

    • VISITING ACADEMIC POSITIONS

     

    • 2011 Visiting Fellow at the School of Engineering Systems, Faculty of Built Environment & Engineering, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane (Australia)

     

    • TEACHING ACTIVITIES AND PHD SUPERVISION

     

    • 2023 Co-supervisor for a bachelor’s thesis in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

     

    • Since 2022 Member of the Consiglio Corso di Studi in Material Science, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

     

     

    • Since 2022 Responsible for the course “Computational Laboratory” for the bachelor’s degree in Material Science, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

     

    • Since 2022 Co-Responsible for the course “Laboratory of Experimental Physics 2” for the bachelor’s degree in Material Science, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

     

    • 2022 External examiner for a master thesis in Materials Science, University of Roma “Tor Vergata”

     

    • 2018-2019 Member of the Consiglio Corso di Studi in Optics and Optometry, Roma Tre University

     

    • 2018-2022 Member of the Consiglio Corso di Studi in Geology, Roma Tre University

     

    • 2018-2022 Instructors for courses “Elements of General Physics”, for the bachelor’s course in Optics and Optometry; “Experimental Physics 2”, for the bachelor’s course in Geology; “Laboratory of Solid State Physics” for the bachelor’s course in Physics; “Fundaments of Microscopy with Laboratory” for the master’s course in Physics at Roma Tre University.

     

    • 2017 Co-supervisor for a bachelor’s thesis in Nanoscience, Physics and Chemistry of Advanced Materials del Trinity College Dublin

     

    • 2015 External examiner for a PhD thesis, Department of Industrial Engineering, “Tor Vergata” University

     

    • 2016 External examiner for a PhD thesis, Department of Industrial Engineering, “Tor Vergata” University

     

    • OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE

     

    • 2007 Research traineeship at the Research and Development Center, Procter&Gamble, Bruxelles, Belgium

     

    • EDUCATION

     

    • 2009 – 2012 PhD in Physics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

    Title: Effects of elastic field anisotropy on the heteroepitaxial growth of Ge on vicinal Si surfaces.

    Supervisor: Prof. Anna Sgarlata

     

    • 2007 – 2009 Master in Material Science and Technology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

    Supervisor: Prof. Anna Sgarlata

    Grade: 110/110 cum Laude

     

    • OTHER ROLES

     

    • Since 2021 Reviewer for the Polish National Science Center

     

    • 2020-2022 Organizer and Coordinator of the seminar activity of the Nanoscience and Nanothecnology Section of the Department Sciences, Università Roma Tre.

     

    • 2019-2020 Co-Organization of the PhD course of Microscopy, for the Department Sciences, Mathematics and Physics and Engineering, Università Roma Tre.

     

     

    • SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATION/COORDINATION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

     

    At the moment, thanks to a funding grant of Lazio Innova (Regione Lazio), "LifePlastSens" project n. A0375-2020-36566 (https://weblifeplastsens.wixsite.com/lazioricerca/chi-sono-1), I lead a research group of two post-docs and one post-lauream fellow funded through the project. The research activity of the group is focused on the growth by chemical vapor deposition of graphene on semiconductive substrates and characterization of low-dimensional materials by scanning tunneling microcopy, non-contact AFM at low temperature and x-ray spectroscopy using lab and synchrotron radiation sources. I have active scientific collaborations with national partners such as the Center for Nanotechnology Innovation @NEST IIT di Pisa and the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnology CNR and with international partners, e.g. Technical University of Denmark, Cambridge University, EPFL Lausanne, ETHZ Zurich.

     

    I am also Unit coordinator of the National project PRIN-2022-PNRR SPIn-based logic GAtes with topological insulators (SPIGA) funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research.

     

    • Since 2013 I participated to about 30 beamtime experiments, 9 of them as main proposer, at ESRF (Grenoble, France), Alba (Barcelona, Spain), Diamond (Didcot, UK), SLS-PSI (Villigen, Switzerland), Elettra (Trieste, Italy), Soleil (Paris, France), BessyII (Berlin, Germany).

     

    • Since 2014 I delivered an invited talk to 15 international conferences.

     

    • 2022 Member of the scientific Committee, “Semiconductors and Optoelectronics World Forum”, June 13- 15, 2022, Roma, Italy

     

    • 2022 Member of the scientific Committee, “International Conference on Advanced Optics & Photonics Research in Engineering”, December 16- 17, 2022, Beijing, China

     

    • 2021 Member of the scientific Committee, “International Conference on Advanced Optics & Photonics Research in Engineering”, August 28- 29, 2021, Wuhan, China

     

    • 2020 Member of the scientific Committee, “European Composite Materials Congress 2020”, June 9- 11 2020, Stockholm, Sweden

     

    • 2019 Member of the scientific Committee, “30th Assembly of Advanced Materials Congress under the thematic event on Asian Advanced Materials Congress”, October 31- November 4 2019 Singapore.

     

    • EDITORIAL ACTIVITY

     

    • Since 2022 Topic Editor for the journal "Materials".

     

    • Since 2019 Member of Editorial board of the journal "Semiconductor Science and Information Devices”

     

    • Since 2017 Reviewer for Nature Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Journals of the American Chemical Society, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Nanotechnology, and others.

     

    • I participated to the following book series:

     

    - “Self-Assembly of Nanostructures”, The INFN Lectures, Vol. III, Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology by Springer (DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-0742-3)

     

    - “Surface and Interface Science, Volume 4: Solid-Solid Interfaces and Thin Films ” by Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co, (DOI 10.1002/9783527680566, ISBN: 978-3-527-68056-6)

     

    • MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

     

     

    • FUNDING
    • Project title: LIFEPLASTSENS – My role: PI

    1 person month

    Grant agreement A0375-2020- 36566

    Duration: 2021-2023. Amount: 149,625 Euros.

    Funded by the Lazio Region (Italy).

     

    • Project title: PRIN2022-PNRR-SPIGA – My role: Unit Coordinator

    3 person month

    Grant agreement P2022LXNYN

    Duration: 2023-2025. Amount: 231,471 Euros.

    Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, MUR (Italy).

     

    • Project title: PRIN2022-ATYPICAL– My role: participant (no unit coordinator).

    1 person month

    Grant agreement 2022JW8LHZ

    Duration: 2023-2025. Amount: 232,510 Euros.

    Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, MUR (Italy).

     

    • Project title: PRIN2020-QTFLUO– My role: participant (no unit coordinator).

    1 person month

    Grant agreement 20207ZXT4Z

    Duration: 2021-2024. Amount: 791,053Euros.

    Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, MUR (Italy).

     

    • INCENTIVAZIONE – My role: PI

    Duration 2021. Amount 2,500 Euros

    Funded by the Department of Sciences, Roma Tre University

     

    • FLASH – My role: participant (no unit coordinator).

    24 person month

    Grant Agreement 766719

    Duration: 2017-2021. Amount: 3,206,98.75 Euros.

    Funded by EU- Commission H2020 Future Emerging Technology (FETopen).

     

    • Marie Curie Actions People COFUND – My role: PI

    24 person month

    Grant Agreement FEL-42 13-2

    Duration: 2014-2016. Amount: 219.300 CHF.

    Funded by EU- Commission H2020 and ETH Zurich.

     

    • Programme de bourses d’excellence pour étudiants étrangers (PBEEE) – My role: PI

    24 person month

    Duration 2014. Amount: 35.000 CAN$.

    Funded by Quebec Postdoctoral research fellowship- Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche, de la Science et de la Technologie (Quebec, Canada).

     

     

Per la lista completa delle pubblicazioni:

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=25936693900

*Corresponding author

  • PUBLICATIONS ON SINGLE-ATOM MAGNETISM AND MAGNETISM AT THE NANOSCALE
  • V. Bellini, S. Rusponi, J. Kolorenč, S.K. Mahatha, M.A. Valbuena, Luca Persichetti, M. Pivetta, B.V. Sorokin, D. Merk, S. Reynaud, D. Sblendorio, S. Stepanow, C. Nistor, P. Gargiani, D. Betto, A. Mugarza, P. Gambardella, H. Brune, C. Carbone, A. Barla, ”Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Dy Adatoms with In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy on a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas”, ACS Nano, 16 11182 (2022).
  • F. Donati, M. Pivetta, C. Wolf, A. Singha, C. Wäckerlin, R. Baltic, E. Fernandes, J.-G. de Groot, S.L. Ahmed Luca Persichetti, C. Nistor, J. Dreiser, A. Barla, P. Gambardella, H. Brune, S. Rusponi, ”Correlation between Electronic Configuration and Magnetic Stability in Dysprosium Single Atom Magnets”, Nano Letters, 21 8266 (2021).
  • S. Seifert, S. Kovarik, C. Nistor, Luca Persichetti, S. Stepanow, and P. Gambardella, ”Single-atom electron paramagnetic resonance in a scanning tunneling microscope driven by a radio-frequency antenna at 4 K”, Physical Review Research 2, 013032 (2020).
  • F. Donati, S. Rusponi, S. Stepanow, Luca Persichetti, A. Singha, D. M. Juraschek, C. Wäckerlin, R. Baltic, M. Pivetta, K. Diller et al., ”Unconventional Spin Relaxation Involving Localized Vibrational Modes in Ho Single-Atom Magnets”, Physical Review Letters 124, 077204 (2020).
  • M. Blanco-Rey, A. Sarasola, C. Nistor, Luca Persichetti, C. Stamm, C. Piamonteze, P. Gambardella, S. Stepanow, M. Otrokov, V. Golovach, et al, ”Magnetic Properties of Metal-Organic Coordination Networks based on 3d Transition Metal Atoms”, Molecules 23, 964 (2018).
  • A. Singha, R. Baltic, F. Donati, C. Wäckerlin, J. Dreiser, Luca Persichetti, S. Stepanow, P. Gambardella, S. Rusponi, H. Brune, ”4f occupancy and magnetism of rare-earth atoms adsorbed on metal substrates”, Physical Review B 96, 224418 (2017).
  • A. Eschenlohr, Luca Persichetti, T. Kachel, M. S. Gabureac, P. Gambardella, and C. Stamm, ”Spin Currents during Ultrafast Demagnetization of Ferromagnetic Bilayers”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 29, 384002 (2017).
  • F. Donati, S. Rusponi, S. Stepanow, C. Wackerlin, A. Singha, Luca Persichetti, R. Baltic, K. Diller, F. Patthey, E. Fernandes, J. Dreiser, Z. Sljivankanin, K. Kummer, C. Nistor, P. Gambardella and H. Brune, ”Magnetic Remanence of Single Atoms”, Science 352, 318 (2016).
  • A. Barla, V. Bellini, S. Rusponi, P. Ferriani, M. Pivetta, F. Donati, F. Patthey, Luca Persichetti, S. Mahatha, M. Papagno, C. Piamonteze, S. Fichtner, S. Heinze, P. Gambardella, H. Brune, C. Carbone, ”Complex Magnetic Exchange Coupling between Co Nanostructures and Ni(111) across Epitaxial Graphene”, ACSNano 10, 1101 (2015).

 

  • PUBLICATIONS ON 2D MATERIALS, CARBON-BASED NANOMATERIALS
  • L. Camilli, M. Galbiati, L. Di Gaspare, M. De Seta, I. Píš, F. Bondino, A. Caporale, V.P. Veigang-Radulescu, V. Babenko, S. Hofmann, A. Sodo, R. Gunnella, Luca Persichetti, "Tracking interfacial changes of graphene/Ge(110) during in-vacuum annealing", Appl. Surf. Sci., 602 154291 (2022).
  • M. Galbiati , Luca Persichetti*, P. Gori, O. Pulci, M. Bianchi, L. Di Gaspare, J. Tersoff, C. Coletti, P. Hofmann, M. De Seta, L. Camilli, C. Coletti, P. Hofmann, M. De Seta, L. Camilli, ”Tuning the doping of epitaxial graphene on a conventional semiconductor via substrate surface reconstruction”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 1262 (2021).
  • Luca Persichetti, M. De Seta, A. M. Scaparro, V. Miseikis, A. Notargiacomo, A. Ruocco, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, F. Fabbri, C. Coletti, L. Di Gaspare, ”Driving with temperature the synthesis of graphene films on Ge(110)”, Applied Surface Science, 499 143923 (2020).
  • M. Pea, M. De Seta, L. Di Gaspare, Luca Persichetti, A. M. Scaparro, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, and A. Notargiacomo, ”Sub-micron size Schottky junctions on as-grown monolayer epitaxial graphene on Ge(100): a low-invasive scanned-probe based study”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 35079 (2019).
  • Luca Persichetti*, L. Di Gaspare, F. Fabbri, A. M. Scaparro, A. Notargiacomo, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, and M. De Seta, ”Abrupt changes in the graphene on Ge(001) system at the onset of surface melting”, Carbon 145, 345 (2019).
  • Luca Persichetti*, F. Jardali, H. Vach, A. Sgarlata, I. Berbezier, M. D. Crescenzi, and A. Balzarotti, ”van der Waals Heteroepitaxy of Germanene Islands on Graphite”, The Journal Physical Chemistry Letters 7, 3246 (2016).
  • M. Scarselli, L. Camilli, Luca Persichetti, P. Castrucci, S. Lefrant, E. Gautron, M. De Crescenzi, ”Strain analysis of noble metal islands grown on multiwalled carbon nanotubes”, Carbon 50, 3616 (2012).
  • F. Valentini, Luca Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, A. Balzarotti, and G. Palleschi, ”Morphological and electronic characterization of functionalized graphene nanoribbons obtained by the unzipping of Single-Wall carbon nanotubes: A scanning tunneling microscopy study”, Fullerenes, Nanotubes and Carbon Nanostructures 21, 302 (2012).
  • Luca Persichetti*, F. Tombolini, S. Casciardi, M. Diociaiuti, M. Fanfoni, G. Palleschi, A. Sgarlata, F. Valentini and A. Balzarotti, ”Folding and stacking defects of graphene flakes probed by electron nanobeam”, Applied Physics Letters 99, 041904 (2011).

 

  • SILICON-GERMANIUM HETEROSTRUCTURES
  • Enrico Talamas Simola, Michele Montanari, Cedric Corley-Wiciak, Luciana Di Gaspare, Luca Persichetti, Marvin H. Zöllner, Markus A. Schubert, Tommaso Venanzi, Marina Cagnon Trouche, Michele Ortolani, Francesco Mattioli, Gianfranco Sfuncia, Giuseppe Nicotra, Giovanni Capellini, Michele Virgilio, and Monica De Seta, “Subnanometer Control of the Heteroepitaxial Growth of Multimicrometer-Thick Ge/SiGe Quantum Cascade Structures”, Physical Review Applied 19 (1), 014011 (2023).
  • D. Stark, M. Mirza, Luca Persichetti, M. Montanari, S. Markmann, M. Beck, T. Grange, S. Birner, M. Virgilio, C. Ciano, M. Ortolani, C. Corley, G. Capellini, L. Di Gaspare, M. De Seta, D.J. Paul, J. Faist, G. Scalari, ”THz intersubband electroluminescence from n-type Ge/SiGe quantum cascade structures”, Applied Physics Letters 118, 101101 (2021).
  • M. Montanari, C. Ciano, Luca Persichetti, C. Corley, L. Baldassarre, M. Ortolani, L. Di Gaspare, G. Capellini, D. Stark, G. Scalari, M. Virgilio, M. De Seta, ”THz intersubband absorption in n-type Si1−x Gex parabolic quantum wells”, Applied Physics Letters 118, 163106 (2021).
  • C. Ciano, Luca Persichetti*, M. Montanari, L. Di Gaspare, G. Capellini, L. Baldassarre, M. Ortolani, A. Pashkin, M. Helm, S. Winnerl, M. Virgilio, M. De Seta, ”Electron-phonon coupling in n-type Ge two-dimensional systems”, Physical Review B 102, 205302 (2020).
  • O. Skibitzki, M. H. Zoellner, F. Rovaris, M. A. Schubert, Y. Yamamoto, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, M. De Seta, R. Gatti, F. Montalenti, and G. Capellini, ”Reduction of Threading Dislocation Density beyond the saturation limit by optimized reverse grading”, Physical Review Materials 4, 103403 (2020).
  • L. Bagolini, M. Montanari, Luca Persichetti*, L. Di Gaspare, G. Capellini, M. Ortolani, M. De Seta, and M. Virgilio, ”Disentangling elastic and inelastic scattering pathways in the intersubband electron dynamics of n-type Ge/SiGe quantum fountains”, Physical Review B 101, 245302 (2020).
  • A. Balzarotti, M. Fanfoni, Luca Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, ”Steps and Ge epitaxy on vicinal Si (111) surfaces: An STM study”, Surface Science 696, 121591 (2020).
  • T. Grange, S. Mukherjee, G. Capellini, M. Montanari, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, S. Birner, A. Attiaoui, O. Moutanabbir, M. Virgilio et al., ”Atomic-Scale Insights into Semiconductor Heterostructures: From Experimental Three-Dimensional Analysis of the Interface to a Generalized Theory of Interfacial Roughness Scattering”, Physical Review Applied 13, 044062 (2020).
  • C. Ciano, M. Virgilio, L. Bagolini, L. Baldassarre, A. Pashkin, M. Helm, M. Montanari, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, G. Capellini, et al., ”Terahertz Absorption-Saturation and Emission from Electron-doped Germanium Quantum Wells”, Optics Express 28, 7245 (2020).
  • Luca Persichetti*, M. Montanari, C. Ciano, L. Di Gaspare, M. Ortolani, L. Baldassarre, M. Zoellner, S. Mukherjee, O. Moutanabbir, G. Capellini, et al., ”Intersubband Transition Engineering in the Conduction Band of Asymmetric Coupled Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells”, Crystals 10, 179 (2020).
  • C. Ciano, M. Virgilio, L. Bagolini, L. Baldassarre, A. Rossetti, A. Pashkin, M. Helm, M. Montanari, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, et al., ”Electron Population Dynamics in Optically Pumped Asymmetric Coupled Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells: Experiment and Models”, Photonics 7, 2 (2019).
  • T. Grange, D. Stark, G. Scalari, J. Faist, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, M. De Seta, M. Ortolani, D.J. Paul, G. Capellini, S. Birner, M. Virgilio, ”Room temperature operation of n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade lasers predicted by non-equilibrium Green's functions”, Applied Physics Letters 114, 111102 (2019).
  • C. Goletti, L. Ottaviano, and A. Sgarlata, ”Islanding, growth mode and ordering in Si heteroepitaxy on Ge(001) substrates structured by thermal annealing”, Surface Science 683, 31 (2019).
  • C. Ciano, M. Virgilio, M. Montanari, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, M. Ortolani, L. Baldassarre, M. H. Zoellner, O. Skibitzki, G. Scalari, J. Faist, D. J. Paul, M. Scuderi, G. Nicotra, T. Grange, S. Birner, G. Capellini, and M. De Seta, ”Control of Electron-State coupling in asymmetric Ge/SiGe quantum wells”, Physical Review Applied 11, 014003 (2019).
  • A. B. Marçal, M. I. Richard, Luca Persichetti, V. Favre-Nicolin, H. Renevier, M. Fanfoni, A. Sgarlata, T. A. Schülli, and A. Malachias, ”Modified strain and elastic energy behavior of Ge islands formed on high-miscut Si(0 0 1) substrates”, Applied Surface Science 466, 801 (2019).
  • M. Sheverdyaeva, C. Hogan, A. Sgarlata, L. Fazi, M. Fanfoni, Luca Persichetti, P. Moras, and A. Balzarotti, ”Electronic structure of the Ge/Si(1 0 5) hetero-interface: an ARPES and DFT study”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30, 465502 (2018).
  • M. Montanari, M. Virgilio, C. L. Manganelli, P. Zaumseil, M. H. Zoellner, Y. Hou, M. A. Schubert, Luca Persichetti, L. Di Gaspare, M. De Seta, E. Vitiello, E. Bonera, F. Pezzoli, and G. Capellini, ”Photoluminescence study of interband transitions in few-layer, pseudomorphic, and strain-unbalanced Ge/GeSi multiple quantum wells”, Physical Review B 98, 195310 (2018).
  • Luca Persichetti*, M. Fanfoni, M. De Seta, L. Di Gaspare, L. Ottaviano, C. Goletti, and A. Sgarlata, ”Formation of extended thermal etch pits on annealed Ge wafers”, Applied Surface Science 462, 86 (2018).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Irreversible order-disorder transformation of Ge(0 0 1) probed by scanning tunnelling microscopy”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 27, 435001 (2015).
  • Luca Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Heteroepitaxy of Ge on singular and vicinal Si surfaces: elastic field symmetry and nanostructure growth”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 27, 253001 (2015).
  • C. Goletti, L. Fazi, C. Hogan, Luca Persichetti, A. Sgarlata, M. Palummo, A. Balzarotti, ”Early oxidation stages of the strained Ge/Si(105) surface: A reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy study”, Physica Status Solidi B 252, 87 (2015).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, S. Mori, M. Notarianni, V. Cherubini, M. Fanfoni, N. Motta, A. Balzarotti, ”Beneficial defects: exploiting the intrinsic polishing-induced wafer roughness for the catalyst-free growth of Ge in-plane nanowires”, Nanoscale Research Letters 9, 358 (2014).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”The entangled role of strain and diffusion in driving the spontaneous formation of atolls and holes in Ge/Si(111) heteroepitaxy”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 395801 (2013).
  • L. Fazi, C. Hogan, Luca Persichetti, C. Goletti, M. Palummo, A. Sgarlata, and A. Balzarotti, ”Intermixing and buried interfacial structure in strained Ge/Si(105) facets”, Physical Review B 88, 195312 (2013).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Size-dependent reversal of the elastic interaction energy between misfit nanostructures”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25, 075802 (2013).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Capasso, A. Sgarlata, A. Quatela, S. Kaciulis, A. Mezzi, M. Notarianni, N. Motta, M. Fanfoni, and A. Balzarotti, ”Fabrication of SiGe rings and holes on Si(001) by flash annealing”, Applied Surface Science 283, 813 (2013).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Effects of substrate vicinality on 3D islanding in Ge/Si epitaxy”, Thin Solid Films 543, 88 (2013).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, G. Mattoni, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Orientational phase diagram of the epitaxially strained Si(001): Evidence of a singular (105) face”, Physical Review B 85 195314 (2012).
  • M. Scarselli, L. Camilli, Luca Persichetti, P. Castrucci, S. Lefrant, E. Gautron, M. De Crescenzi, ”Strain analysis of noble metal islands grown on multiwalled carbon nanotubes”, Carbon 50, 3616 (2012).
  • M. Fanfoni, Luca Persichetti, M. Tomellini, ”Order and randomness in Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami type”, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 355002 (2012).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Capasso, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, N. Motta and A. Balzarotti, a chapter on ”Towards a controlled growth of self-assembled nanostructures: shaping, ordering and localization in Ge/Si heteroepitaxy” in Springer book on ”Self-assembly of Nanostrucures”, Springer Series Lectures Notes in Nanoscience and Technology 12, 201 (2012).
  • E. Placidi, F. Arciprete, R. Magri, M. Rosini, A. Vinattieri, L. Cavigli, M. Gurioli, E. Giovine, Luca Persichetti, M. Fanfoni, F. Patella and A. Balzarotti, a chapter on ”InAs epitaxy on GaAs(001): a model case of strain-driven self-assembling of quantum dots” in Springer book on ”Self-assembly of Nanostrucures”, Springer Series Lectures Notes in Nanoscience and Technology 12, 73 (2012).
  • Luca Persichetti*, R. Menditto, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Hug-like island growth of Ge on strained vicinal Si(111) surfaces”, Applied Physics Letters 99, 161907 (2011).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Breaking elastic field symmetry with substrate vicinality”, Physical Review Letters 106, 055503 (2011).
  • Balzarotti, ”Ordering of Ge islands on Si(001) substrates patterned by nanoindentation”, Thin Solid Films 519, 4207 (2011).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Ge growth on vicinal Si(001) surfaces: island's shape and pair interaction vs miscut angle”, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 11, 9185 (2011).
  • Sgarlata, Luca Persichetti, A. Capasso, M. Fanfoni, N. Motta and A. Balzarotti, ”Driving Ge island ordering on nanostructured Si surfaces”, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters 3, 841 (2011).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Shaping Ge Islands on Si(001) Surfaces with Misorientation Angle”, Physical Review Letters 104, 036104 (2010).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Pair interaction between Ge islands on vicinal Si(001) surfaces”, Physical Review B 81, 113409 (2010).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, A. Balzarotti, ”Ripple-to-dome transition: The growth evolution of Ge on vicinal Si(1 1 10) surface”, Physical Review B Rapid Communication 82, 121309(R) (2010).
  • Luca Persichetti*, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, M. Bernardi, A. Balzarotti, ”Step-step interaction on vicinal Si(001) surfaces studied by scanning tunneling microscopy”, Physical Review B 80, 075315 (2009).
  • M. Bernardi, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, Luca Persichetti, N. Motta, A. Balzarotti, ”Self-assembly of Ge quantum dots on Silicon: An example of controlled nanomanufacturing”, Superlattices and Microstructures 46, 318 (2009).

 

  • ATOMIC-FORCE MICROSCOPY INVESTIGATION OF BIOSYSTEMS AND ORGANIC THIN FILMS
  • Guido Fratesi, Daniele Paoloni, Luca Persichetti*, Luca Camilli, Antonio Caporale, Anu Baby, Dean Cvetko, Gregor Kladnik, Alberto Morgante, and Alessandro Ruocco, “Spontaneous transmetalation at the ZnPc/Al(100) interface”, Inorg. Chim. Acta 559, 121790 (2024).
  • M. Bellussi, O. M. Roscioni, E. Rossi, A. Cardellini, M. Provenzano, Luca Persichetti, V. Kudryavtseva, G. Sukhorukov, P. Asinari, M. Sebastiani and M. Fasano, ”Wettability of soft PLGA surfaces predicted by experimentally-augmented atomistic models”, MRS Bulletin, 48, 108 (2023).
  • Antonella Privitera, Francesco Porcelli, Daniele Paoloni, Luca Persichetti, Giovanni Sotgiu, Alessandro Ruocco, Giovanni Capellini, and Armida Sodo, “Chemical-physical characterisation of 5-Phenyl-1H-tetrazole inhibitive behaviour: a new non-toxic compound for a sustainable protection of Cu-alloys”, J. Appl. Electrochem. 53 (12), 2375 (2023).
  • Rashid, G.M. Vita, Luca Persichetti, G. Iucci, C. Battocchio, R. Daniel, D. Visaggio, M. Marsotto, P. Visca, E. Bemporad, P. Ascenzi, G. Capellini, M. Sebastiani, A. di Masi, ”Biocompatibility and antibacterial properties of TiCu(Ag) thin films produced by physical vapor deposition magnetron sputtering”, Appl. Surf. Sci., 573, 151604 (2022).
  • S. Bashiri, M. Lucidi, D. Visaggio, G. Capecchi, Luca Persichetti, G. Cincotti, P. Visca, G. Capellini, ”Growth Phase- and Desiccation-Dependent Acinetobacter baumannii Morphology: An Atomic Force Microscopy Investigation”, Langmuir 37, 1110 (2021).
  • V. Gallo, A. Lai, A. Pasquo, S. Almaviva, S. Iacobelli, Luca Persichetti, G. Capellini, and G. Antonini, ”Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)–based immunosystem for ultrasensitive detection of the 90K biomarker”, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 412, 7659 (2020).
  • B. Bonanni, L. Fazi, M. Fanfoni, A. Sgarlata, F. Caroleo, G. Pomarico, P. Galloni, F. Sabuzi, Luca Persichetti, R. Paolesse, and C. Goletti, ”Corroles at the real solid-liquid interface: in-situ STM investigation of a water soluble corrole layer deposited onto Au(111)”, Chemistry – A European Journal 24, 17538 (2018).
  • L. Naitana, S. Nardis, G. Pomarico, M. Raggio, F. Caroleo, D. O. Cicero, S. Lentini, L. Prodi, D. Genovese, S. Mitta, A. Sgarlata, M. Fanfoni, Luca Persichetti, R. Paolesse, ”A Highly Emissive Water-Soluble Phosphorus Corrole”, Chemistry: a European Journal, 23, 905 (2017).

 

  • BOOK CHAPTER
  • A. Sgarlata, Luca Persichetti, and A. Balzarotti, ”Semiconductor quantum dots: Model case Ge/Si” in Wiley book on ”Surface and Interface Science” Vol. 4, Chap. 29 (2013).
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Teaching in the Physics Department
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