Report Phys 06 08

DEPARTMENT of PHYSICS
Research
and
UNIVERSITY of TRENTO
http://portale.unitn.it/dphys/
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38123 Povo (Trento) - Italy
+39 0461 281504
Teaching report
2006-2008
Department of Physics – Scientific report – 2006-2008
This report presents the results of the scientific activities carried out by the members
of the Physics Department of the University of Trento in the years 2006, 2007 and
2008. It’s enumerates all the products of the research and teaching activities: data
about the structure of the department, publications, research fundraising, scientific
collaborations, PhD school in Physics, undergraduate theses, technical and research
support services, … are reported.
I want to express my gratitude to all those who have made this work possible; in
particular I’m grateful to Luisa Rossi Doria and Roberto Graziola.
I acknowledge all the colleagues who collaborate to the success of our Department.
Giuseppe Dalba
Director of Physics Department
Trento, July 2009
Image on the cover

Alpe Pozza, Trentino, Italy
Contents
Introduction pag. 3
Staff pag. 4
Scientific production and grants pag. 5
Laboratory for Communication of Physical Sciences pag. 7
Theoretical and Computational Physics pag. 15
Fundamental Interactions: High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology pag. 16
Theoretical and Computational Physics of Nuclei and Few/Many Body Systems pag. 29
Ultracold Gases, Bose-Einstein Condensation and Fermi Superfluidity pag. 43
Experimental Physics
Experimental Gravitation and Low Temperature Physics pag. 53
Nanoscience pag. 61
Optical Spectroscopy pag. 77
X-ray Synchrotron Radiation pag. 91
IdEA (Hydrogen, Energy, Environment) pag. 99
Atomic and Molecular Physics pag. 113
Bioorganic Chemistry pag. 123
Structural, Synthetic, Biological and Biotechnological Aspects of Natural Products pag. 124
Biological Control in Agriculture and Metabolite Profiling of Officinal Plants pag. 134
Biophysics and Biosignals pag. 137
Doctoral School in Physics pag. 151
Technical support service pag. 159
List of seminars pag. 169
CONTENTS
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The Physics Department
Research in Physics at the University of Trento started in 1973, when the Faculty of Science was
created. Since then, the scope and breadth of research at the Department of Physics have
continuously been growing. Now the Department includes more than 40 faculty members, more than
30 PhD students, a large number of post-docs and visiting scientists, and about 30 professional staff.
The Physics Department strives to balance high quality education with outstanding research. The
diversity of our programs offers a wide range of research options for our students. In addition to
courses provided for students progressing toward a B.S. and Master in Physics, the Department offers
service courses to both the Faculties of Science and Engineering.
The recent years have been very productive for our Department, in both quantity and quality. This is
also testified by the level of funding that the Department has been awarded by the independent
referees of external funding agencies. External funding agencies include INFN (Istituto Nazionale di
Fisica Nucleare), INFM (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia), CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle
Ricerche), ASI (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana), ESA (European Space Agency), EU (European Union), as
well as several commercial companies.
Collaboration with foreign universities and research institutes has strengthened as our research
activities have achieved international recognition. A particular reason for satisfaction has been the
growth of the PhD programme. The number of students has increased and new forms of international
collaboration between graduate schools (cotutelle des thèses) have been implemented.
The Department of Physics takes advantage of many fruitful connections with the other departments of
the University, including new inter-departmental initiatives, as well as with other research centers
nearby, like the "Fondazione Bruno Kessler", the "Fondazione Edmund Mach", the "Museo Tridentino
di Scienze Naturali", the "European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related
Areas".
INTRODUCTION
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STAFF
(July 2009)
Full professors (n. 16):
Renzo ANTOLINI, Davide BASSI, Giuseppe DALBA, Franco DALFOVO, Aldo FONTANA, Antonio
GUERRIERO, Enrico LIPPARINI, Antonio MIOTELLO, Maurizio MONTAGNA, Giuseppina
ORLANDINI, Lorenzo PAVESI, Marina SCARPA, Sandro STRINGARI, Marco Claudio TRAINI,
Gabriele VILIANI, Stefano VITALE
Associate professors (n. 14):
Roberto Sennen BRUSA, Paolo FORNASINI, Graziano GUELLA, Olivier JOUSSON, Ignazio
LAZZIZZERA, Winfried LEIDEMANN, Paolo Pasquale MACCHI, Ines MANCINI, Stefano OSS,
Giovanni Andrea PRODI, Paolo TOSI, Luciano VANZO, Antonio ZECCA, Sergio ZERBINI
Researchers (n. 17):
Daniela ASCENZI, Riccardo CHECCHETTO, Guido COGNOLA, Michele D'AMBROSIO, Alessandra

Michela DENTI, Rita DOLESI, Pietro FACCIOLI, Zeno GABURRO, Stefano GIORGINI, Luigi
GRATTON, Rolly GRISENTI, Francesco PEDERIVA, Leonardo RICCI, Mario SCOTONI, Cristiana
TOSELLO, Paolo VEROCCHIO, William J. WEBER
Administrative staff (n. 4):
Anna BROLL, Karine FRISINGHELLI, Micaela PAOLI, Marina ZUANELLI
Technical Staff (n. 31):
Marco ADAMI, Dario ANDREIS, Damiano AVI, Nicola BAZZANELLA, Romina BELLI, Franco BERTI,
Marco BETTONTE, Massimo CAZZANELLI, Maurizio CONT, Elvira D'AMATO, Diego FRANCH,
Giuseppe FRONER, Sandro GADOTTI, Adriano GASPAROLI, Massimo GENNARA, Pierino
GENNARA, Fabrizio GOTTARDI, Roberto GRAZIOLA, Paolo MANFREDI, Renato MEZZENA, Enrico
MOSER, Sandro PEDROTTI, Luca PENASA, Luca PICHENSTEIN, Giuseppe PINTO, Flavio ROSSI,
Mario ROSSI, Claudio SALOMON, Gabriele SILVESTRIN, Adriano STERNI, Michele TOMASI
Post-docs and Fellows (n. 35)
Silvio aBECCARA, Oleksiy ANOPCHENKO, Giacomo CIANI, Alessandro CRISTOFORETTI, Nicola

DAL DOSSO, Fabrizio DE MARCHI, Saliou DIOUF, Luigi FERRAIOLI, Elena FRONER, Giovanna
Giulia SIMEONI, Ambra GRESELE, Albrecht HAASE, Bing HAN, Mauro HUELLER, Silvia LARCHERI,
Nicola LIGUORI, Fabrizio LO GIURATO, Maria Teresa LOPEZ-ARIAS, Sebastiano MARIAZZI, Michela
MASÈ, Maurizio MATTARELLI, Mario NADALINI, Patel NAINESH, Laura ORSINGHER, Bo QIAN,
Manga RAO, Virginia RE, Barbara ROSSI, Marcello SEGA, Francesco TESSAROLO, David
TOMBOLATO, Laura TONIUTTI, Peter WASS, Arsham YEREMYAN, Zhizhong YUAN
PhD Students (n. 33):
Naglaa ABD EL ALL, Alberto AMBROSETTI, Paolo ARMANI, Emmanuel AUTIERI, Julia AYSINA,
Francesco BARIANI, Anna BATTISTI, Ingrid BAUSMERTH, Gianluca BERTAINA, Luca CHIARI,
Giuseppe CONGEDO, Rupali DHOLAM, Roberto DI CRISCIENZO, Rohan FERNANDES, Giacomo
GRADENIGO, Michela GUGLIELMINO, Romain GUIDER, Manuele LANDINI, Ioana LUCIU, Diego
MARIN, Giulio Marco MASI, Raffaele MILLO, Daniele NICOLODI, Francesco PIAZZA, Alessandro
PITANTI, Nikola PRTJAGA, Alessandro SALEMI, Tommaso SANDRON, Lorenzo SEBASTIANI, Vajir
TAMBOLI, Matteo TONEZZER, Simona TORRENGO, Marco ZANATTA
STAFF
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Department Scientific Production
2006 2007 2008
Research articles published on books 14 12 13
Published Research Articles 132 138 128
Authored or edited books - DVDs 7 2 10
Refereed Proceeding 75 45 38
Invited Talks 80 57 64
Conference Organization 3 2 8
Patents 0 2 1
Projects and grants

N. of
€
Projects
Communication of Physical Sciences 6 126.500
Fundamental Interactions: High Energy Physics, 4 199.500

Gravitation and Cosmology
Theoretical and Computational Physics of nuclei 10 221.428
and few/many body
Ultracold gases, Bose-Einstein condensation and 4 796.850
Fermi superfluidity
Experimental Gravitation and Low Temperature 11 2.579.238
Physics
Nanoscience 19 3.602.658
Optical Spectroscopy 11 1.873.702
X-ray Synchrotron Radiation 7 1.213.500
IdEA (Hydrogen, Energy, Environment) 26 3.718.295
Atomic and Molecular Physics 9 141.300
Bio-organic Chemistry 9 289.194
Biophysics and Biosignals 15 9.49.748
Total 15.711.913
DEPARTMENT SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION – PROJECTS AND GRANTS

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LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION

OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Short description
In this laboratory new routes to an effective way of teaching in the field of science and physical
sciences are investigated and developed. Particular emphasis is devoted to hands-on and participated
approaches as well as to computer-aided visualization and simulation techniques, along with more
traditional but technologically advanced on-line and off-line experimental approaches to modern
physics. All the activities are being done and sustained with attention to the full range of school levels
as well as to non-school subjects: social events in permanent or temporary exhibitions, science
centers, museums.
As explained above, one of the most effective ways for our laboratory to apply teaching theories
is to design and activate temporary exhibitions in cooperation with museums, science centers, schools.
We consider as "successful" our work when such events are visited by many people with a positive
feedback in terms of gratitude (something which can be measured with evaluation tests of various
nature).
So, even if this could be a non-canonical translation of "institutional highlight", we mention that
the exhibition "Play with Einstein" (2005-6) was attended by about 90,000 visitor in Italy and 400,000
visitors in Poland. The exhibition "Try to fly" (2008-9) was attended by about 40,000 visitors in Italy. Our
DVDs (see below) have been requested more than one thousand times.
As a second, non-negligible aspect of our laboratory outreach we consider the "Progetto Lauree
Scientifiche" which involved in the 2006-8 period hundreds of high school teachers and students in a
complex, wide joint venture concerning the design and participation of a number of physics laboratories
(devoted to non-deterministic phenomena, the science of sound and the physics of flight).
Reference journals in the area of physics communication and didactic research are "The
Physics Teacher" (AAPT, USA. S. Oss is the only non-US member of the Editorial Board) and "Physics
Education" (IOP). Both journals are NOT included in the ISI databases so C.I. cannot be easily
extracted for publications appearing in these journals.
Members of the laboratory (2006-2008)
Faculty members Months Post-docs and Fellows Months PhD students
th
Massimo Bosetti 2 M.Silvia Defrancesco 19 cycle
Coordinator: th
Stefano Oss 36 Gabriele Calzà 24 Stefania Bon 20 cycle
th
Beniamino Danese 2 Beniamino Danese 20 cycle
th
Luigi Gratton 36 Fabrizio Logiurato 4 Michela Guglielmino 23 cycle
M. Teresa Lopez-Arias 18
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Other permanent collaborators
Other permanent
Months Research organization
collaborators
Massimo Bosetti 4 Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali

Silvia Defrancesco 24 Teacher of the Liceo Scientifico Galilei Trento
Beniamino Danese 2 «Inventore» SpA
Paolo Ochner 2 Osservatorio Astronomico di Asiago
Christian Lavarian 2 Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali
Research activities
Our laboratory is involved in the development of several experimental activities related to fundamental
processes of both classic and quantum physics in a didactic and methodological framework. We
mention, in particular:
(a) experiments to visualize geometric optics and wave-particle nature of light (making use of
water-vapor/mist chambers and laser beams). Phenomena ranging from interference patterns
to mirages are addressed;
(b) experiments and models to support for a renewed description of the physics of flight. This
branch of fluid dynamics is seriously flawed when addressed through traditional routes of
school textbooks (including university level) since in them an ambiguous, misleading use of
Bernoulli principle is systematically adopted;
(c) design and prototype construction of didactical tools for introducing mechanics and
thermodynamics at primary, medium and high-school level. Exhibits and didactic laboratories
to be used at the Trento Museum and its exhibitions also require a non negligible amount of
time and research efforts.
Research articles published on journals

2006
A simple measurement of the sliding friction coefficient
Gratton L., Defrancesco S.
Physics Education, v. 41, n. 3, p. 232-235, 2006
Un semplice dispositivo per la visualizzazione tridimensionale del comportamento della luce
Logiurato F., Gratton L., Oss S.
Giornale di fisica della Società Italiana di Fisica, v. 47, n. 4, p. 301-309, 2006
An extension of the imploding can demonstration
Gratton L., Oss S.
The Physics Teacher, v. 44, n. 5, p. 269-271, 2006
Un'unità didattica sul decadimento radioattivo
Gratton L., Operetto F., Oss S.
Giornale di Fisica della Società Italiana di Fisica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 249-264, 2006
The vibron model and long molecular chains: algebraic polyethylene and its first CH stretching
overtone
Oss S.
Journal of Molecular Structure, v. 780-781, p. 87-97, 2006
2007
TM
Geomag Paradoxes
Defrancesco S., Logiurato F., Gratton L.

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Making light rays visible in 3-D

Perché aspettare dieci minuti per misurare la febbre?
Defrancesco S., Gratton L.
La fisica nella scuola: bollettino dell'Associazione per l’Insegnamento della Fisica, v. 40, n. 1, p. 34-
42, 2007
2008
Simulazione ottica della diﬀrazione da cristalli secondo Laue
F. Logiurato, L. M. Gratton, S. Oss
Giornale di Fisica della Società Italiana di Fisica, v.49 n.4, 241-253, 2008
High precision measurement with a funnel
T. López-Arias, L.M. Gratton, S. Oss
Eur. J. Phys. 29, 1235-1241, 2008
Programmazione: FISICA
Beniamino Danese
La Nuova Secondaria, 1 XXVI, 93-97, 2008
The medieval clock made out of simple materials
Danese B., Oss S.
Eur. J. Phys., 29, p. 799-814, 2008
Optical simulation of Debye-Scherrer crystal diffraction
Back of the spoon outlook of Coanda effect
T. López-Arias, L.M. Gratton, S. Bon, S. Oss
The Physics Teacher, 2008
L’orologio medievale realizzato con materiali semplici
B. Danese
La Nuova Secondaria, accepted for publication, 2008
Refereed Proceedings
2006
Motion & electromagnetism for 12 and 13 @ school
Danese B., Logiurato F., Oss S., Gratton L.
"ICPE 2006", Tokyo, 13-18 August 2006
In: Toward development of physics for all, Conference proceedings of ICPE 2006, Physics
Education Society of Japan, 2006
Hands On Light in integrative contexts
N. Capra, F. Logiurato, B. Danese, L.M. Gratton
"ICPE 2006", Tokyo, 13-18 August 2006
In: Toward development of physics for all, Conference proceedings of ICPE 2006, Physics
Education Society of Japan, 2006
2007
Particles and waves: from classical to quantum physics
Tarsitani C., Oss S., Logiurato F.
In: International Conference in Physics Education 2007, Marrakech, 11-16 November 2007
Science on the schoolbench with simple objects
Danese B., Oss S., Romano A.
"GIREP-EPEC 2007", Opatija, Croatia, 26-31 August 2007

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In: Book of abstracts: GIREP-EPEC Conference: Frontiers of Physics Education, Opatija: University
of Rijeka Faculty of Arts and Sciences, p. 85-85, 2007
2008
Computer with wings: flight simulation (and the physics of flight)
Oss S.
"GIREP 2008 and MPTL 13", Physics Curriculum Design, Development and Validation, Cyprus, 18-
22 August 2008
Light lectures on light
Logiurato F., Danese B., Oss S., Gratton L.
"ICPE: International Conference on Physics Education 2006", Tokyo, 13-18 August 2006
In: Conference proceedings: Toward development of physics for all, Physics Education Society of
Japan, 2008
Research articles published on books

2006
La teoria dei quanti e gli eventi
F. Logiurato
In: Saperi e linguaggi a confronto, Eds: S. Defrancesco, M.L. Martini, Ed. University of Trento,
Dipartimento di Filosofia, 2006
The measure of momentum in quantum mechanics
F. Logiurato, C. Tarsitani
In: The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Eds: C. Garola, A. Rossi, S. Sozzo, Scientific Word,
2006
Dimensional Wave Behaviour of Light
F. Logiurato, B. Danese, L.M. Gratton, S. Oss
2006
Quantitative complementarity and uncertainty in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
C. Tarsitani, F. Logiurato
2006
2007
La descrizione delle particelle: onde o corpuscolo. Esperimenti con la camera a nebbia. I rivelatori di
raggi cosmici e radiazione
F. Logiurato
In: I Raggi Cosmici - Un percorso per vedere l’invisibile, Ed.: M. Liber, IPRASE Journal 2007
Authored or edited books, DVDs

2006
Il professor Icetein impara a pattinare
S. Defrancesco, L.M. Gratton
DVD on "Ice-skating physics", Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Centro Audiovisivi, 2006
Scoprire la fisica quotidiana
Oss S., Defrancesco S.
Erickson, Trento, p. 216, ISBN 88-7946-937-1, 2006
2008
Progetto didattico "Scienze sul Banco con Oggetti Semplici", un kit per la scuola secondaria di I grado
B. Danese, A. Romano
http://www.iprase.tn.it/prodotti/materiali_di_lavoro/scienze/index.asp, 2008

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Non era via da vestito di cappa…

S. Defrancesco, L.M. Gratton
DVD Physics of climbing explained by Dante Alighieri ... "Non era via da vestito di cappa", Provincia
Autonoma di Trento, Centro Audiovisivi, 2008
Try to fly. The history of flight simulation
N. Capra, P. Duranti, L. Gabrielli, M. Galloni, S. Oss
Ed. Museo dell’Aeronautica G. Caproni, Trento, p.108 ISBN 978-88-87621-846, 2008
Invited talks, oral contributions and seminars

2006
Stefano Oss
th
Invited oral contribution: Physics and music: bringing together science and art, 11
Workshop on Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning, University of Szeged, Hungary
20-22 September 2006
2007
Beniamino Danese
Oral contribution: Science on the schoolbench with simple objects, Oss S., Danese B.,
Romano A., In: Frontiers of Physics Education, Opatija-Croatia, GIREP-EPEC 2007, Opatija,
Croatia, 26-31 August 2007
2008
Stefano Oss
Oral contribution: Computer with wings: flight simulators and the physics of flight, GIREP-
MPTL 2008, Nicosia, Cyprus, 20-25 August 2008
Exhibitions
TRY to FLY
Laboratory for Communication of Physical Sciences and Museo dell’Aeronautica "G. Caproni",
L.Gabrielli, N.Capra
Aeroporto G. Caproni, Trento, April 2008-March 2009
Participation in national and international research projects
L. 6/2000 MIUR DIFFUSIONE DELLA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA 2006: Costruzione di

un cockpit Cessna 172RG per simulazione Fisica del volo (Principal coordinator: S. € 8.000
Oss) 2006
MPI-MURST and FONDO SOCIALE EUROPEO, FONDAZIONE CASSA

RISPARMIO TN-ROVERETO, AREA FISICA REGIONE TRENTINO A.A.: Progetto
€ 80.000
lauree scientifiche I and II, 2005-2007 and 2008-2009 (Principal coordinator: S. Oss)
2006/2008
PAT-CRS (extra PAT 2007): Fisica del volo: verso una didattica senza misconcezioni
€ 20.000
(Principal coordinator: S. Oss) 2007/2008
L. 6/2000 MIUR DIFFUSIONE DELLA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA 2007: Postazioni

multimediali per la simulazione della Fisica del volo (Principal coordinator: S. Oss) € 5.000
2007/2008
Total € 113.000

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Participation in projects with private and public institutions and companies
MUSEO TRENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI: Pole position (Principal local

€ 3.500
coordinator: S. Oss) 2007/2008
MUSEO TRIDENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI: Design and realization exhibition

"Spaziale! Astronomia in mostra" (celebration of 2009 International Astronomy Year) € 10.000
Principal coordinatore: MTSN, Local coordinator: S. Oss), 2008
Total € 13.500
National and international collaborations
• R. van der Linden, Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC,
USA
• F. Iachello, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA
• G. Xuan East China Normal University, Shanghai, PRC
Collaborations with governmental and public organizations
• Institutional cooperation with SSIS (Scuola di Specializzazione Insegnamento Secondario

UniTN): organization of didactic laboratories for standard courses and special events for high
school teachers
• IPRASE (Istituto Provinciale per la Ricerca, l'Aggiornamento e la Sperimentazione Educativi
PAT): organization of working laboratories devoted to (a) physics of sound (b) physics of flight
(c) physics of radioactive decay and non-deterministic phenomena (d) states of matter (e)
astrophysics and astronomic photography
• MTSN (Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali): development and upgrade of primary, medium
and high school laboratories devoted to classical mechanics, thermodynamics, optics,
electromagnetism, fluid dynamics and acoustics
• University of Udine, Physics Department: participation to the IDIFO2 (II level master,
Innovazione didattica nell’insegnamento della fisica e orientamento)
Collaborations with companies
• ForMATH Project srl, Design and development of school scientific projects, laboratories,
events, Bologna
• «Inventore» SpA, Verona
Awards - Memberships
Stefano Oss
• Member of Editorial Board, The Physics Teacher (American Ass. of Physics Teachers)
PhD thesis
2006
• Maria Silvia Defrancesco: Rapporti fra apprendimento formale e informale: alcune proposte, S.
Oss, 7.11.2006

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2007
• Fabrizio Logiurato: Indeterminazione, interferenza entanglement. Interpretazioni e
misinterpretazioni nei fondamenti della teoria dei quanti, S. Oss, 28.2.2007
• Beniamino Danese: Objetcts and history in physics education , S. Oss, 19.12.2007
Physics Master’s degree thesis

2006
Zulberti, Christian: "La questione energetica in Italia: analisi della complessità della situazione e
modalità della comunicazione nei media", L. Gratton
Physics Undergraduated thesis

2007
• Borga, Elisa: "Analisi di misconcezioni in meccanica delle onde, oscillazioni ed acustica", S. Oss
2008
• Cova, Erica: "Termodinamica e meteorologia: dalle grandezze fisiche fondamentali ad una
proposta di percorso didattico", S. Oss

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THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
The Theoretical and Computational Physics Unit consists in a large group of researchers (staff of 12
Faculty members, Head: prof. Giuseppina Orlandini) working in a variety of fields in theoretical physics.
They study physical problems at very different energy and temperature scales, from cosmological
systems to the physics of high energy particles, hadrons, nuclei, electrons in solid state systems,
macromolecules, quantum fluids and cold quantum gases.
A list of the main research topics where the researchers of this Unit are active includes the relativistic
theory of gravitation, cosmological models and dark energy, the phenomenology of particle
accelerators, the theory of strong interaction in nuclei and hadrons, few- and many-body theories, field
theoretic approaches to the dynamics of biomolecules, the physics of ultra-cold atoms, Bose-Einstein
condensation and quantum information.
Computational aspects are essential in many of the subjects listed above. A large variety of
computational methods is employed.
In general the research activity can be grouped in three large areas:
• Fundamental Interactions: Gravitation and Cosmology

• Theoretical and Computational Physics of Nuclei and few/many-body systems
• Ultracold Gases, Bose-Einstein Condensation and Fermi Superfluidity

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FUNDAMENTAL INTERACTIONS: HIGH ENERGY

PHYSICS, GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY
Short description
This research line deals with the investigation of theoretical and phenomenological aspects of the
Physics of Standard model and beyond and the role of gravity in Cosmology and in the physics of black
holes. Physics at hadron colliders is is also object of study.
Post-docs and
Faculty members Months Months PhD students
Fellows
Coordinator:
Sergio Zerbini 36 th
Valentina Forini 19 cycle
th
Guido Cognola 36 Silvia Amerio 12 Gabriele Compostella 20 cycle
th
Ignazio Lazzizzera 36 Gabriele Compostella 4 Mario Nadalini 20 cycle
th
Giuseppe Nardelli 10 Roberto Di Criescienzo 2 Michele Montobbio 21 cycle
st
Luciano Vanzo 36 Valentina Forini 2 Monica Vatteroni 21 cycle
rd
Ambra Gresele 36 Vittoria Demozzi 23 cycle
rd
Technical staff Mario Nadalini 14 Diego Marin 23 cycle
th
Marcello Ortaggio 10 Roberto Di Criscienzo 24 cycle
th
12 Lorenzo Sebastiani 24 cycle
Giuseppe Froner
Davide Setti 2
Other permanent
collaborators
Giuseppe Nardelli 26 INFN
Research activities
The research activity of the group is essentially focused on the following problems:
a) Quantum Gravity: this is investigated via "bottom up" approach by studying the Hawking
radiation with semicalssical methods, but implemented in an original and innovative way.
b) Cosmological Models for Dark Energy: we propose and study in detail new cosmological
models in order to describe all different phases of the universe.
c) Physics at the Tevatron and LHC colliders: some components of the group are official
members of the international collaborations of CDF at the Tevatron (Chicago, USA) and CMS
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d) at the LHC (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland), studying high energy physics phenomenology
though data analysis; special effort is devoted at the CMS search for dark matter candidates.

2006
A solution to the 4-tachyon off-shell amplitude in cubic string field theory
V. Forini, G. Grignani, G. Nardelli
JHEP 0604:056, 2006
Dark energy in modified gauss-bonnet gravity: late-time acceleration and the hierarchy problem
G. Cognola, E. Elizalde, Shin'ichi Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, S. Zerbini
Phys.Rev.D73:084007,1-16, 2006
Hawking radiation as tunneling: the d-dimensional rotating case
M. Nadalini, L. Vanzo, S. Zerbini
J. Physics A Math. Gen. 39, 6601, 2006
One-loop f(R) gravitational modified models
G. Cognola, S. Zerbini
J. Physics A Math. Gen. 39, 6245, 2006
Heat-kernel expansion on noncompact domains and a generalized and zeta-function regularization
procedure
G. Cognola, S. Zerbini, E. Elizalde
J.Math.Phys. 47:083516, 2006
2007
A route to nonlocal cosmology
G. Calcagni, M. Montobbio, G. Nardelli
Phys. Rev. D76: 126001, 2007
Spectral analysis and zeta determinant on the deformed spheres
M. Spreafico, S. Zerbini
Comm. Math. Phys. 273, 677-704, 2007
String-inspired Gauss-Bonnet gravity reconstructed from the universe expansion history and yielding
the transition from matter dominance to dark energy
G. Cognola, E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, S. Zerbini
Phys. Rev. D75:086002, 2007
On the Hawking radiation as tunneling for a class of dynamical black holes
R. Di Criscienzo, M. Nadalini, L. Vanzo, S. Zerbini, G. Zoccatelli
Phys. Lett.B 657,107-111, 2007
2008
Tachyon solutions in boundary and cubic string field theory
G. Calcagni, G. Nardelli
Phys. Rev. D78: 126010, 2008
Localization of nonlocal theories
G. Calcagni, M. Montobbio, G. Nardelli
Phys. Lett. B662: 285-289, 2008
Nonlocal instantons and solitons in string models
G. Calcagni, G. Nardelli
Phys. Lett. B669: 102-112, 2008
On the stability of a class of modified gravitational models.
G. Cognola, M. Gastaldi, S. Zerbini
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, 898-910, 2008

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Phys. Rev D77, 024047, 2008
A class of viable modified f(R) gravities describing inflation and the onset of accelerated expansion
G. Cognola, E. Elizalde, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, L. Sebastiani, S. Zerbini
Phys. Rev. D77, 046009, 2008
Phantom and non-phantom dark energy: The Cosmological relevance of non-locally corrected gravity
S. Jhingan, S. Nojiri, S.D. Odintsov, M. Sami, I. Thongkool, S. Zerbini
Phys. Letters B663, 424-428, 2008
Homogeneous cosmologies in generalized modified gravity
Inter. J. Theor. Physics 47, 3186-3200, 2008
Fermion tunneling from dynamical horizons
R. Di Criscienzo, L. Vanzo
Europhys. Lett. 82:60001, 2008
In addition to these papers the following series of publications of the CDF international
collaboration, which sees among the official authors I. Lazzizzera, A. Gresele and S. Amerio as
affiliated to the Sezione INFN of Padua-Trento, is reported. Such a series is separated from the
previous one because the department of Physics of the University of Trento does not appears
among the affiliations because is not an official Institutional member of CDF collaboration.
2006
Observation of B0(s)-B-bar0_s Oscillations
The CDF Collaboration
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 242003, 2006
1/2
Search for Excited and Exotic Muons in the mu gamma Decay Channel at p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 191802, 2006
Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at CDF II with the Matrix-Element Method
Phys. Rev. D74, 032009, 2006
Observation of B0(s) --> K+ K- and Measurements of Branching Fractions of Charmless Two-body
1/2
Decays of B0 and B0(s) Mesons in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 211802, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV using
Lepton + Jets Events with Jet Probability b-tagging
Phys. Rev. D74, 072006, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV in the all
Hadronic Decay Mode
Phys. Rev. D74, 072005, 2006
Search for Large Extra Dimensions in the Production of Jets and Missing Transverse Energy in p anti-p
1/2
Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 171802, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section in p anti-p Interactions at s = 1.96 TeV Using a
Cone-Based Jet Algorithm

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Measurement of the B0(s)-B-bar0_s Oscillation Frequency
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 062003, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 082004, 2006
1/2
Search for a Neutral Higgs Boson Decaying to a W Boson Pair in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 081802, 2006
Measurement of the Ratio of Branching Fractions B(D0 --> K+pi+-)/B(D0 --> K- pi++) using the CDF II
Detector
Phys. Rev. D74, 031109, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the b Jet Cross Section in Events with a Z Boson in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96
TeV
Phys. Rev. D74, 032008, 2006
A Search for t --> tau nu q in tt-bar Production
Phys. Lett. B 639, 172-178, 2006
1/2
Search for New Physics in Lepton + Photon + X Events with 305 pb-1 of p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 031801, 2006
Measurement of the B+_c Meson Lifetime Using B+_c --> J/psi e+ nu_e
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 012002, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the tt-bar Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV using
Missing E(t) + jets Events with Secondary Vertex b-Tagging
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202002, 2006
1/2
Search for High-Mass Resonances Decaying to e mu in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 211802, 2006
Observation of B0(s) --> psi(2S)phi and Measurement of Ratio of Branching Fractions B(B0(s) -->
psi(2S)phi)/B(B0(s) --> J/psi phi)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 231801, 2006
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass using Template Methods on Dilepton Events in p anti-p
1/2
Phys. Rev. D73, 112006, 2006
Measurement of the Helicity of W Bosons in Top-Quark Decays
Phys. Rev. D73, 111103, 2006
1/2
Direct Search for Dirac Mgnetic Monopoles in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 201801, 2006

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1/2
A Search for Scalar Bottom Quarks from Gluino Decays in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 171802, 2006
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass with the Dynamical Likelihood Method using Lepton plus Jets
Events with b-tags in p anti-p Collisions at sqrt s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D73, 092002, 2006
Measurement of the Bottom-Quark Hadron Masses in Exclusive J/psi Decays with the CDF Detector
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 202001, 2006
Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions B(B0(s) --> D(s)- pi++)/B(B0 --> D- pi++) and B(B+ -
-> D-bar0 pi++)/B(B0 --> D- pi++)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 191801, 2006
1/2
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section using the K_T Algorithm in p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 122001, 2006
Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at CDF II
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 152002, 2006
Measurement of the Dipi+on Mass Spectrum in X(3872) --> j/psi pi++ pi+- Decays
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 102002, 2006
1/2
Search for Second-Generation Scalar Leptoquarks in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D73, 051102, 2006
Measurement of Mass and Width of the Excited Charmed Meson States D0_1 and D*0_2 at CDF
Phys. Rev. D73, 051104, 2006
Search for Higgs Bosons Decaying to bb-bar and Produced in Association with W Bosons in p anti-p
1/2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 081803, 2006
Evidence for the Exclusive Decay B+/-_c --> J/psi pi++/- and Measurement of the Mass of the B+/-_c
Meson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 082002, 2006
Measurement of the Azimuthal Angle Distribution of Leptons from W Boson Decays as a Function of
1/2
the W Transverse Momentum in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.8 TeV
Phys. Rev. D73, 052002, 2006
Search for Anomalous Semileptonic Decay of Heavy Flavor Hadrons Produced in Association with a W
Boson at CDF II
Phys. Rev. D73, 051101, 2006
1/2
Search for Charged Higgs Bosons from Top Quark Decays in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 042003, 2006
1/2
Precision Top Quark Mass Measurement in the Lepton + Jets Topology in p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 022004, 2006
Top Quark Mass Measurement Using the Template Method in the Lepton + Jets Channel at CDF II
Phys. Rev. D73, 032003, 2006
1/2
Search for W and Z Bosons in the Reaction p anti-p --> 2 jets + gamma at s = 1.8 TeV
Phys. Rev. D73, 012001, 2006
Search for Neutral Higgs Bosons of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Decaying to tau
1/2
Pairs in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 011802, 2006
2007
Search for Exclusive gamma gamma Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 242002, 2007
1/2
Limits on Anomalous Triple Gauge Couplings in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D76, 111103, 2007
1/2
Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 191806, 2007
First Observation of Heavy Baryons Sigma_b and Sigma*_b
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202001, 2007
Precise Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in the Lepton+Jets Topology at CDF II
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 182002, 2007
1/2
Measurements of Inclusive W and Z Cross Sections in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys., 2007 2457-2544.
First Measurement of the W Boson Mass in Run II of the Tevatron
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99,. 151801, 2007
Search for Direct Pair Production of Supersymmetric Top and Supersymmetric Bottom Quarks in p
1/2
anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D76, 072010, 2007
1/2
Measurement of the p anti-p --> tt-bar Production Cross Section and the Top Quark Mass at s = 1.96
TeV in the All-Hadronic Decay Mode
Phys. Rev. D76, 072009, 2007
1/2
Search for New Particles Leading to Z+jets Final States in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96TeV
Phys. Rev. D76, 072006, 2007
Search for a High-Mass Diphoton State and Limits on Randall-Sundrum Gravitons at CDF
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171801, 2007
1/2
Search for New Physics in High Mass Electron-Positron Events in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 171802, 2007

1/2
Polarization of J/psi and psi(2S) Mesons Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 132001, 2007
Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Particles that Decay to Photons at CDF II
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 1217801, 2007
Observation and Mass Measurement of the Baryon Xi-_b
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 052002, 2007
Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass using Missing E(t) + Jets Events with Secondary Vertex b-
tagging at CDF II
Phys. Rev. D75, 111103, 2007
1/2
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section using the k_T Algorithm in p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV with the CDF II Detector
Phys. Rev. D75, 092006, 2007
1/2
Inclusive Search for New Physics with Like-Sign Dilepton Events in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96
TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 221803, 2007
1/2
Search for New Physics in Lepton + Photon + X Events with 929 pb-1 of p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D75, 112001, 2007
Measurement of sigma chi(c)2 B(chi(c)2 --> J/psi gamma)/sigma chi(c)1 B(chi(c)1 --> J/psi gamma) in
1/2
p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 232001, 2007
First Measurement of the Ratio of Central-Electron to Forward-Electron W Partial Cross Sections in p
1/2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 251801, 2007
1/2
Measurement of sigma(p anti-p --> Z) . B(Z --> tau tau) in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D75, 092004, 2007
Observation of WZ Production
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 161801, 2007
1/2
Measurement of the Top Quark Mass in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV using the Decay Length
Technique
Phys. Rev. D75, 071102, 2007
Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass in All-Hadronic Decays in p anti-p Collisions at CDF II
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 142001, 2007
1/2
Search for Anomalous Production of Multilepton Events in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 131804, 2007

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1/2
Search for W' Boson Decaying to Electron-Neutrino Pairs in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D75, 091101, 2007
Analysis of the Quantum Numbers JPC of the X(3872)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 132002, 2007
Measurement of the Helicity Fractions of W Bosons from Top Quark Decays using Fully Reconstructed
tt-bar Events with CDF II
Phys. Rev. D75, 052001, 2007
1/2
Measurement of the Lambda0(b) Lifetime in Lambda0(b) --> J/psi Lambda0 in p anti-p Collisions at s
= 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122001, 2007
Observation of Exclusive Electron-Positron Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 112001, 2007
Measurement of sigma_Lambda0(b)/sigma B-bar0 x B(Lambda0(b) --> Lambda+_c pi+-)/B(B0--> D+
1/2
pi+-) in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 122002, 2007
Precision Measurement of the Top-Quark Mass from Dilepton Events at CDF II
Phys. Rev. D75, 031105, 2007
1/2
Measurement of the B+ Production Cross Section in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1960 GeV
Phys. Rev. D75, 012010, 2007
Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions B(B0(s) --> D(s)- pi++ pi++ pi+-)/B(B0 --> D- pi++
pi+-) and B(B0(s) --> D(s)- pi++)/B(B0 -> D- pi++)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 061802, 2007
1/2
Search for V + A Current in Top Quark Decay in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 072001, 2007
1/2
Search for Exotic S = -2 Baryons in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D75, 032003, 2007
2008
1/2
Search for Supersymmetry in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV Using the Trilepton Signature of
Chargino-Neutralino Production
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251801, 2008
Measurement of the Single Top Quark Production Cross Section at CDF
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 252001, 2008
1/2
Search for Higgs Boson Produced with Z --> l+ l- in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 251803, 2008
First Measurement of the Fraction of Top Quark Pair Production Through Gluon-Gluon Fusion

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Phys. Rev. D78, 111101, 2008

Search for Large Extra Dimensions in Final States Containing One Photon or Jet and Large Missing
1/2
Transverse Energy Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 181602, 2008
1/2
Forward-Backward Asymmetry in Top Quark Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202001, 2008
1/2
Search for the Flavor Changing Neutral Current Decay tau --> Zq in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96
TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 202001, 2008
1/2
Measurement of b-jet Shapes in Inclusive Jet Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D78, 072005, 2008
Measurement of the Inclusive Jet Cross Section at the Fermilab Tevatron p anti-p Collider Using a
Cone-Based Jet Algorithm
Phys. Rev. D78, 052006, 2008
Search for Heavy, Long-Lived Neutralinos that Decay to Photons at CDF II Using Photon Timing
Phys. Rev. D78, 032015, 2008
Search for Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with Lepton-Flavor-Violating Decays involving Tau Leptons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 121801, 2008
Search for Pair Production of Scalar Top Quarks Decaying to a tau Lepton and a b Quark in p anti-p
1/2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 071802, 2008
Search for Standard Model Higgs Boson Production in Association with a W Boson at CDF
Phys. Rev. D78, 032008, 2008
Model-Independent and Quasi-Model-Independent Search for New Physics at CDF
Phys. Rev. D78, 012002, 2008
Cross Section Measurements o High-p(t) Dilepton Final-State Processes Using a Global Fitting Method
Phys. Rev. D78, 09120003, 2008
1/2
Strong Evidence for ZZ Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 201801, 2008
Search for the Higgs Boson in Events with Missing Transverse Energy and b Quark Jets Produced in p
1/2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 211801, 2008
First Run II Measurement of the W Boson Mass
Phys. Rev. D77, 112001, 2008
1/2
Search for Third Generation Vector Leptoquarks in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV

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1/2
Search for Resonant tt-bar Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
The CDF Collaboraton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 231801, 2008
Measurement of Lifetime and Decay-Width Difference in B0(s) --> J/psi phi Decays
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 121803, 2008
Observation of the Decay B+/-_c --> J/psi pi++/- and Measurement of the B+/-_c Mass
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 182002, 2008
1/2
Measurement of Correlated bb-bar Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1960 GeV
Phys. Rev. D77, 072004, 2008
1/2
Two-particle Momentum Correlations in Jets Produced in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D77, 092001, 2008
First Flavor-Tagged Determination of Bounds on Mixing-Induced CP Violation in B0 --> J/psi phi
Decays
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161802, 2008
Evidence for D0-D-bar0 Mixing using the CDF II Detector
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 121802, 2008
Search for Heavy Top-like Quarks Using Lepton Plus Jets Events in 1.96 TeV p anti-p Collisions
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 161803, 2008
1/2
Measurement of Ratios of Fragmentation Fractions for Bottom Hadrons in p anti-p Collisions at s =
1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D77, 072003, 2008
Measurement of Inclusive Jet Cross Sections in Z/gamma*(-> e+e-)+jets Production in p anti-p
1/2
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 102001, 2008
1/2
Search for Hadronic Decays of W and Z Bosons in Photon Events in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96
GeV
Fermilab-Pub-08-071-E. Submitted to Phys. Rev. D March 28, 2008
First Measurement of the Production of a W Boson in Association with a Single Charm Quark in p anti-
1/2
p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
The CDF Collaboraton
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 091803, 2008
Search for B0(s) --> mu+ mu- and B0(d) --> mu+ mu- Decays in 2 fb-1 of p anti-p Collisions with
CDF II
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 101802, 2008
Observation of Exclusive Dijet Production at the Fermilab Tevatron p anti-p Collider
Phys. Rev. D77, 052004, 2008

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1/2
Limits on the Production of Narrow tt-bar Resonances in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. D77, 051102, 2008
1/2
Search for Chargino-Neutralino Production in p anti-p Collisions at s = 1.96 TeV with high-p(t)
Leptons
Phys. Rev. D77, 052002, 2008
Measurement of the Cross Section for W-boson Production in Association with Jets in p anti-p
1/2
Phys. Rev. D77, 011108, 2008
Cross Section Constrained Top Quark Mass Measurement from Dilepton Events at the Tevatron
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 062005, 2008
1/2
A Direct Measurement of the W Boson Width in p anti-p collisions at s = 1.96 TeV
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 071801, 2008
Observation of Orbitally Excited B_s Mesons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 082001, 2008
Search for Standard Model Higgs Bosons Produced in Association with W Bosons
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 041801, 2008
First Observation of the Decay B0(s) --> D(s)- D+_s and Measurement of Its Branching Ratio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 021803, 2008
2006
Thermodynamical properties of hairy black holes with cosmological constant
th
Proceedings of 11 Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity* 1491-1493, Berlin, 2006
Hawking radiation as tunneling: The D dimensional rotating case
Proceedings of Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 05),
Barcelona, J. Phys. A39:6601-6608, 2006
One-loop f(R) gravitational modified models
Proceedings of Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT 05),
Barcelona, J.Phys.A39:6245-6251, 2006
2008
Some results on Dynamical Black Holes
L. Vanzo
The Casimir effect and cosmology, Tomsk State Pedagogical University Press, 2008

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2008
Some results on Dynamical Black Holes
L. Vanzo
The Casimir effect and cosmology, Tomsk State Pedagogical University Press, 2008

2006
Sergio Zerbini
Invited talk: Models for dark energy, Dynamical Systems: Classical, Quantum and Stochastic,
Roma, October 2006
2007
M. Nadalini
Invited talk: New hairy black hole solutions, Problemi attuali di Fisica Teorica, Vietri, April
2007
2008
Sergio Zerbini
Invited talk: Stability of modified gravity, DSU Conference, Cairo, June 2008
INFN: Teorie di gauge (I.S. PI14), (Principal coordinator: Giuseppe Nardelli) 2006 € 4.000
INFN: Teoria dei campi in spazi curvi e buchi neri (I.S. BO11), (Principal coordinator: € 33.500
Sergio Zerbini) 2006/2008
INFN: CDF-Trento and CMS Collaborations, (Principal coordinator: I. Lazzizzera) € 147.000

2006/2008
INFN-MEC: Italy-Spain Collaboration, (Principal coordinator: S. Zerbini) 2006/2008 € 15.000
TOTAL € 199.500

• E. Elizalde, ICE/ CSIC-IEEC, UAB, Barcelona
• S.D. Odintsov, ICREA-CSIC-IEEC, UAB, Barcelona
• M. Spreafico, ICMC, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brasil
• S. Nojiri, Nagoya University, Japan
PhD thesis
2006
• Giuseppe Aprea: Flow equations analysis of electron-electron and electron-photon interactions
interplay in the Hubbard-Holstein model Sergio Zerbini, Carlo Di Castro, 23.2.2006
• Valentina Forini: Non trivial string backgrounds: tachyons in string field theory and plane-waves in
DLCQ strings, Giuseppe Nardelli, 4.12.2006

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2007
• Mario Nadalini: Hawking radiation as a dynamical process for stationary and dynamical black
holes, Sergio Zerbini, 19.12.2007
2008
• Gabriele Compostella: Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in the Missing
ET plus jets channel at CDF, Ignazio Lazzizzera, 6.3.2008
• Monica Vatteroni: Toward 3D imaging: theoretical and experimental performance analysis of
CMOS technologies in image sensing applications, Ignazio Lazzizzera, 15.12.2008

2007
• Di Criscienzo, Roberto: "Thermodynamic interpretation of the cosmological constant", L. Vanzo
• Demozzi, Vittoria: "Calcolo del parametro post-newtoniano gamma in teorie modificate della
gravità", L. Vanzo
• Gastaldi, Monica: "Stabilità di modelli per l'energia oscura", G Cognola, S. Zerbini
• Zoccatelli, Giacomo: "Instabilità di buchi neri dinamici", L. Vanzo
2008
• Sebastiani, Lorenzo: "Un modello di gravità modificata per l'inflazione e la corrente accelerazione",
S. Zerbini
• Rathering, Matthias: "Studio di scoperta della particella di Higgs nel canale H-->WW-->MuTau
+Nu's a CMS", I. Lazzizzera

2006
• Bellini, Emilio: "Aspetti dei modelli inflazionari", S. Zerbini
• Daves, Walter: "Theory and detection of gravitational waves. Teoria e rilevamento di onde
gravitazionali", L. Vanzo
• Lonardi, Alice: "I wormholes in relatività generale", L. Vanzo
• Tichy Malte, Christopher: "Orizzonti cosmologici", L. Vanzo
2007
• Rossi, Stefano: "Irraggiamento di onde gravitazionali: il sistema binario di Hulse e Taylor", L.
Vanzo
2008
• Tolotti, Mathias: "Effetto zeno quantistico", L. Vanzo
• Tamanini, Nicola: "La massa del gravitone", L. Vanzo

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OF NUCLEI AND FEW/MANY-BODY SYSTEMS
Short description
Having common starting point the very difficult nuclear many-body problem physics the research
activity in this area has developed in several directions.
One activity is oriented to study the basis of nuclear physics itself, i.e. the comprehension of the
nuclear force as a manifestation of the strong interaction in the non perturbative regime. To this aim
one deals with the ab initio few-body problem, and with the problematics connected not only to the
structure of such systems, but also to reactions of few-body systems. This implies the study of the
complicated scattering problem involving more than 2 particles. This is an area where the Trento
research has gained a leader position at international level, thanks to the introduction of the Lorentz
Integral Transform (LIT) method. Such investigations are also a great relevance for astrophysical
reactions. In addition the ab initio calculation of few-body systems is also oriented to explore the
connections to the many-body problem, since, because of advanced methods and growing computes
power, the few-body approach can be carried out with eves-increasing nucleon number.
In general the activity in the few/many-body problem is characterized by a high degree of

interdisciplinarity. Researchers working in Trento in nuclear physics have acquired advanced
competences and methodologies that are applied to study not only composite hadrons, and nuclei, but
also electron gases as well as complex molecules of biological interest. In particular for what concerns
electrons, nanostructures like graphene and semiconductor quantum wires are studied. The employed
techniques range from time dependent density functional to the direct computation of the response
function, to effective field theories. Many nucleon systems are tackled by means of the Auxiliary Field
Diffusion Monte Carlo methods, which widely extends the range of nucleons that can be treated in the
attempt of exactly solving the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation. Relevant progress is also made in
the discussion of the properties of neutron matter at low densities and in the zero temperature equation
of state of nuclear and neutron matter, which is of great relevance in the discussion of the structure
and properties of compact stars, and in the supernovae collapse.
Another field of research concerns the investigation of non-perturbative aspects of quantum

chromdynamics (QCD), the fundamental quantum field theory of strong interaction. In particular, the
group has recently focused on the connection between the structure of QCD vacuum and the structure
of hadrons, and has performed a detailed analysis of the role played by the non-pertrubative
interactions driving the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry. Such investigations are based on
different field theoretical approaches, such as chiral effective field theories, large N approaches, lattice
gauge theory simulations, and instanton models.
Some of the theoretical and numerical techniques which had been originally developed in the context
of nuclear theory are being used to investigate the dynamics/thermodynamics of macromolecules, with
particular focus on biological systems. Examples include the use of renormalization group methods to
investigate long time stochastic dynamics and the application of path integral techniques to study rare
conformational reactions, such as protein folding.
Theoretical and computational studies of a range of soft-condensed matter systems, including
microfluids, microporous materials, hyaluronic acid hydrogels, bile acids, glycolipids in membranes are
performed. Techniques used involve molecular dynamics simulations, path integral Monte Carlo
approaches, density functional calculations. A fraction of the research activity is also devoted to the
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study of properties of solid molecular hydrogen and isotopic mixture, and of the properties of He
crystals in presence of defects, using classical simulations and molecular dynamics.
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As already emphasized, large parts of the research activity mentioned above makes use of
computational approaches. Computational methods themselves are therefore object of research as
well. They include the most fundamental aspects of the quantum Monte Carlo algorithms, the
development of a practical algorithm to study inhomogeneous Fermion systems by means of the
Shadow Wave Functions formalism, the search of methods to accelerate convergence in
Hyperspherical Harmonics (HH) expansions, etc.
In general one can say that the application of the same computational approaches to dynamical
problems in different systems creates a common language which facililtates progress greatly.
People (2006-2008)
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator:
Giuseppina Orlandini 36
Pietro Faccioli 36 th
Winfried Leidemann 26 Sara Della Monaca 19 cycle
th
Renzo Leonardi 36 Sara Della Monaca 2 Francesco Operetto 19 cycle
th
Enrico Lipparini 36 Giovanni Garberoglio 24 Marco Cristoforetti 20 cycle
th
Francesco Pederiva 36 Raffaele Millo 2 Stefano Gandolfi 20 cycle
st
Marco Claudio Traini 36 Francesco Operetto 6 Lucia Dandrea 21 cycle
nd
Renzo Vallauri 27 Michael Schwamb 24 Alberto Ambrosetti 22 cycle
rd
Marcello Sega 13 Paolo Armani 23 cycle
rd
Technical staff Luping Yuan 7 Raffaele Millo 23 cycle
th
Emmanuel Autieri 24 cycle
Giuseppe Froner 12
Davide Setti 2
Mirko Vivaldi 3

Other permanent
collaborators
Victor D. Efros 14 Russian Research Centre Kurchatov Institute

Nir Barnea 2 Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel
Sonia Bacca 1 TRIUMF Vancouver, Canada
Edward Tomusiak 2 University of Victoria, Canada
Malvin H. Kalos 2 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Kevin E. Schmidt 1 Arizona State University, USA
Pal Jedlovszky 3 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Massimo Boninsegni 4 Alberta University, Edmonton, Canada
Research activities
The scientific work carried on by the group can be schematically classified according to the following
main research lines:
• Nuclear forces and few-body systems

• Electroweak reactions with hadrons

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• Advanced ab initio methods for nuclear astrophysics

• Developments of quantum Monte-Carlo methods
• Quantum Chromo-Dynamics
• Fermions in reduced dimensionality
• Field theory methods in biophysics
• Statistical mechanics of biological systems

2006
4
Photoabsorption on He with a Realistic Nuclear Force
Gazit D., Bacca S., Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 96, p. 112301-1-112301-4, 2006
On the accuracy of hyperspherical harmonics approaches to photonuclear reactions
Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G., Efros V., Tomusiak E.
Few Body Syst., v. 39, n. 1-2, p. 1-9, 2006
4
Photonuclear sum rules and the tetrahedral configuration of He
Gazit D., Barnea N., Bacca S., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Phys. Rev. C, Nuclear Physics, v. 74, p. 061001-1-061001-5, 2006
4
Ab initio calculation of the He (e,e’d)d reaction
Andreasi D., Quaglioni S., Efros V., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Eur. Phys. J. A, Hadrons and nuclei, v. 27, p. 47-52, 2006
Test of J-matrix inverse scattering potentials on electromagnetic reactions of few-nucleon systems
Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Phys. Rev. C, Nuclear physics, v. 74, p. 034003-1-034003-8, 2006
An alpha-particle model for 0-16: is there a new four-body scale?
Ronen Y., Barnea N., Leidemann W.
Few Body Syst. 6, v. 38, n. 2-4, p. 97-101, 2006
Vertical homonuclear quantum ring molecules
Malet F., Pi M., Mayol R., Barranco M., Lipparini E., Climente J., Planelles J.
Phys. St. Sol. C, Conference and critical reviews, v. 3, p. 3652-3655, 2006
Brueckner-Hartree-Fock study of circular quantum dots
Emperador A., Lipparini E., Serra L.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 73, p. 235341-1-235341-6, 2006
Optical response of twodimensional few-electron concentric double quantum rings: a local spin-
densityfunctional theory study
Malet F., Pi M., Barranco M., Lipparini E., Serra L.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 74, p. 193309-1-193309-4, 2006
Spin-orbit effects on the Larmor dispersion relation in GaAs quantum wells
Malet F., Lipparini E., Barranco M., Pi M.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 73, p. 125302-1-125302-5, 2006
Spin-orbit effects in GaAs quantum wells: interplay between Rashba, Dresselhaus, and Zeeman
interactions
Lipparini E., Barranco M., Malet F., Pi M., Serra L.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 74, p. 115303-1-115303-12, 2006
Vertically coupled double quantum rings at zero magnetic field
Malet F., Barranco M., Lipparini E., Mayol E., Pi M., Climente J., Planelles J.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 73, p. 245324-1-245324-7, 2006
Diffusion Monte Carlo study of the equation of state of solid para-H2
Operetto F., Pederiva F.

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Phys. Rev. B, Condensed matter, v. 73, n. 18, p. 184124-1-184124-5, 2006

Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculation of properties of oxygen isotopes
Gandolfi S., Pederiva F., Fantoni S., Schmidt K. E.
Development of a new polarizable potential model of hydrogen fluoride and comparison with other
effective models in liquid and supercritical states
L. Partay, P Jedlovszky, R. Vallauri
J. Chem. Phys. 124 p. 184504, 2006
Molecular dynamics simulation of GM1 gangliosides embedded in a phospholipid membrane
M. Sega, P. Jedlovszky, R. Vallauri
J. Mol. Liq. 129, p. 86-91, 2006
Dominant pathways in protein folding
P. Faccioli, M. Sega, F. Pederiva, H. Orland
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, p. 108101, 2006
2007
4
Inclusive electron scattering off He
Bacca S., Arenhoevel H., Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Nucl. Phys. A, v. 790, p. 360c-363c, 2007
Benchmark calculation of inclusive responses in the four-body nuclear system
Quaglioni S., Stetcu I., Bacca S., Barrett B. R., Johnson C. W., Navratil P., Barnea N., Leidemann
W., Orlandini G.
Nucl. Phys. A, v. 790, n. 1-4, p. 372c-375c, 2007
The Lorentz integral transform (LIT) method and its applications to perturbation-induced reactions
Efros V., Leidemann W., Orlandini G., Barnea N.
J. Phys. G, v. 34, p. R459-R528, 2007
Benchmark calculation of inclusive electromagnetic responses in the four-body nuclear system
Stetcu I., Quaglioni S., Bacca S., Barrett B. R., Johnson C. W., Navratil P., Barnea N., Leidemann
W., Orlandini G.
Nucl. Phys. A, v. 785, p. 307-321, 2007
Inclusive electron scattering off 4He
Bacca S., Arenhoevel H., Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Test of J-matrix inverse scattering potentials on photonuclear reactions of A=2,3,4 nuclei
Orlandini G., Bacca S., Barnea N., Leidemann W.
Nucl. Phys. A, v. 790, p. 368c-371c, 2007
Instantons, chiral dynamics, and hadronic resonances
Cristoforetti M., Faccioli P., Traini M. C.
Phys. Rev. D, Particles and fields, Nuova Serie, v. 75, p. 054024-1-054024-8, 2007
Electromagnetic reactions of few-body systems with the Lorentz integral transform method
Leidemann W.
Nucl. Phys. A, v. 790, p. 24c-29c, 2007
Center-of-mass effects in electromagnetic two-proton knockout reactions
Giusti C., Pacati F.D., Schwamb M., Boffi S.
Eur. Phys. J. A, Hadrons and nuclei, v. 31 p.155-162, 2007
Electromagnetic proton-neutron knockout off 16O: new achievements in theory
Giusti C., Pacati F.D., Schwamb M., Boffi S.
Eur. Phys. J. A, Hadrons and nuclei, v. 33 p.29-38, 2007
Exploring the chiral regime of QCD in the interacting instanton liquid model
Cristoforetti M., Faccioli P., Traini M. C., Negele J.

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Phys. Rev. D, v. 75, p. 034008-1-034008-12, 2007

Molecular dynamics simulation suggests possible interaction patterns at early steps of 2-microglobulin
aggregation
Fogolari F., Corazza A., Viglino P., Pierfrancesco Z., Pieri L., Faccioli P., Bellotti V., Esposito G.
Biophysical Journal, Nuova Serie v. 9, 2007
Zeeman and spin-orbit effects on the spin-Hall conductance
Lipparini E., Barranco M.
Physica E, v. 36, p. 190-193, 2007
Addition energies and density dipole response of quantum rings under the influence of in-plane electric
fields
Malet F., Pi M., Barranco M., Serra L., Lipparini E.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 76, p. 245302-1-245302-6, 2007
Exchange-correlation effects on quantum wires with spin-orbit interactions under the influence of
inplane magnetic fields
Malet F., Pi M., Barranco M., Serra L., Lipparini E.
Phys. Rev. B, v. 76, p. 115306-1-115306-12, 2007
Spin- and charge-density excitations in quantum dots via quantum Monte Carlo simulation
Colletti L., Pederiva F., Lipparini E., et al.
Phys. St. Sol. v. 244, p. 2317-2321, 2007
Auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo calculation of nuclei with A ¡= 40 with tensor interactions
Gandolfi S., Pederiva F., Fantoni S., Schmidt K. E.
Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 99, p. 022507-1-022507 -4, 2007
Effect of vacancies on the structure of solid molecular parahydrogen studied with variational Monte
Carlo simulations
Phys. Rev. B, v. 75, p. 064201-1-064201-8, 2007
Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of symmetric nuclear matter
Gandolfi S., Pederiva F., Fantoni, S., Schmidt K. E.
Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 98, p. 102503-1-102503-4, 2007
Distortion effects and clustering of isotopic impurities in solid molecular para-hydrogen from variational
Monte Carlo simulations with shadow wave functions
Phys. Rev. B, Condensed matter, v. 76, p. 174517-1-174517-5, 2007
Diffusion Monte Carlo study of the equation of state of solid ortho-D-2
J. Chem. Phys, v. 126, p. 074704-1- 074704-5, 2007
Distortion effects and clustering of isotopic impurities in solid molecular para-hydrogen from variational
Monte Carlo simulations with shadow wave functions
Phys. Rev. B,, v. 76, p. 174517-1-174517-5, 2007
Short range structure of a GM3 ganglioside membrane: comparison between experimental WAXS and
computer simulation results
M. Sega, R. Vallauri, P. Brocca, L. Cantù, S. Melchionna
J. Phys. Chem. B 111, 37, p. 10965, 2007
Inhomogeneity effects on the structure and dynamics of water at the surface of a membrane: A
computer simulation study
G. Garberoglio, M. Sega, R. Vallauri
J. Chem. Phys. 126 p. 125103, 2007
Structure of coexisting phases of supercooled water: analogy with ice polymorphs
P. Jedlovszky, L.B. Pártay, A. Bartók, G. Garberoglio, R. Vallauri
J. Chem. Phys., 126, p. 241103, 2007

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Morphology of Bile Salt Micelles, as Studied by Computer Simulation Methods

L. B. Partay, M. Sega, P. Jedlovszky
Langmuir, 23, 12322-12328, 2007
Quantitative protein dynamics from dominant folding pathways
M. Sega, P. Faccioli, F. Pederiva, G. Garberoglio, H. Orland
Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 118102, 2007
Molecular Aggregates in the Aqueous Solutions of Bile Acid Salts. A Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Study
J. Phys. Chem. B 111, p. 9886-9896, 2007
Microscopic Structure of Phospholipid Bilayers: Comparison between Molecular Dynamics Simulations
and Wide-Angle X-ray Spectra
M. Sega, G. Garberoglio, P. Brocca, L. Cantù
J. Phys. Chem. B 111, p. 2484-2489, 2007
2008
3
Transverse electron scattering response function of He
Della Monaca S., Efros V. D., Khugaev A., Leidemann W., Orlandini G., Tomusiak
E., Yuan L.
Phys. Rev. C, v. 77, n. 4, p. 044007-1-044007-10, 2008
4
Longitudinal response function of He with a realistic force
Bacca S., Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Few Body Syst., 44, p. 321-24, 2008
3
The transverse electron scattering response function of He
Orlandini G., Della Monaca S., Efros V., Khugaev A., Leidemann W., Tomusiak
E., Yuan L.
Few Body Syst., v. 44, p. 329-331, 2008
4
Role of final state interaction and of three-body force on the longitudinal response function of He
Bacca S., Barnea N., Leidemann W., Orlandini G.
Published on: e-print archive lanl.arXiv.org, pp. 4. Note: accepted for publication on Phys. Rev.
Lett., 2008
Case study: calculation of a narrow resonance with the LIT method
Leidemann W.
Few Body Syst., v. 42, n. 1-4, p. 139-151, 2008
Characterization of protein folding from dominant reaction pathways
Faccioli P.
J. Chem. Phys. B, Nuova Serie, v. 112, n. 44, p. 13756-13764, 2008
Strong CP violation in external magnetic fields
Millo R., Faccioli P.
Phys. Rev. D, NuovaSerie, v. 77, n. 6, p. 065013-1-0650134, 2008
Equation of state of superfluid neutron matter and the calculation of the 1S0 pairing gap
Gandolfi S., Illarionov A. Y., Fantoni S., Pederiva F., Schmidt K. E.
Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 101, p. 132501-1-132501-4, 2008
Quantum Monte Carlo calculation for the neutron-rich Ca isotopes
Gandolfi S., Pederiva F., A Beccara S.
Eur. Phys. J. A, v. 35, n. 2, p. 207-211, 2008
Singlet-triplet transition of a twoelectron quantum ring in magnetic and electric fields
Malet F., Pi M., Serra L., Lipparini E.
Physica E, v. 40, n. 5, p. 1492-1494, 2008
Adsorption and diffusion of hydrogen and methane in 2D covalent organic frameworks
G. Garberoglio, R. Vallauri
Micropor. Mesopor. Mater., 116, p. 540, 2008

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Structural and thermodynamic properties of different phases of supercooled liquid water

P. Jedlovszky, L.B. Pártay, A. Bartók, V.P. Voloshin, N.M. Medvedev, G. Garberoglio, R. Vallauri
J. Chem. Phys., 128 p. 244503, 2008
Counterion Binding in the Aqueous Solutions of Bile Acid Salts, as Studied by Computer Simulation
Methods
Langmuir, 24, 10729-10736, 2008
A Two-step Aggregation Scheme of Bile Acid Salts, as Seen From Computer Simulations
Progr. Colloid. Polym. Sci. 135, 181-187, 2008
Stochastic dynamics and Dominant Protein Folding Pathways

P.Faccioli, M.Sega, F.Pederiva, H.Orland
Phil. Mag. 88 (33-35), 4093-4099, 2008

2008
Modern many-particle physics: atomic gases, nanostructures and quantum liquids
E. Lipparini
nd
2 edition, Singapore, Hackensack, NJ: London: World Scientific, 2008
Refereed proceedings published on books

2006
Ab initio Calculations of Electromagnetic Reactions in Light Nuclei
W. Leidemann
In: Chiral Dynamics 2006, Eds. M.W.Ahmed, H. Gao, B.Holstein, H.R.Weller
World Scientific, p. 369, 2006
The Fixed Hypernode Method for the Solution of the Many-Body Schroedinger Equation
F. Pederiva, M.H. Kalos, F. Reboredo, D. Bressanini, D. Guclu, L. Colletti, C.J. Umrigar
ACS Symposium Series, 953, Eds.: S. Rothstein, J. Anderson, p. 81, 2006
Recent Progress in Fermion Monte Carlo
M.H. Kalos, F. Pederiva
ACS Symposium Series, 953, Eds.: S. Rothstein, J. Anderson, p. 93, 2006
2007
Electromagnetic Reactions of Few-Body Systems with the Lorentz
Integral Transform Method
W.Leidemann
th
In: Few-Body Problems in Physics, Proc. 18 International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body
Problems in Physics, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 21-26 2006, Eds.: L. Tomia, S. Adhikari, G.
Krein, Elsevier, p. 24c, 2007
Test of J-matrix Inverse Scattering Potentials on Photoabsorption
Cross Sections of Nuclei with A=2=4
G. Orlandini, G.S. Bacca, N. Barnea, W.Leidemann
th
Inclusive electron scattering off 4He
S. Bacca, H. Arenhoevel, N. Barnea, W. Leidemann, G. Orlandini
th
Problems in Physics, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 21-26 2006, Eds.: L. Tomia, S. Adhikari,

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G. Krein, Elsevier, p. 360c, 2007

Benchmark calculation of inclusive responses in the four-body nuclear system
S. Quaglioni, I. Stetcu, S. Bacca, B.R. Barrett, C.W. Johnson,P. Navratil, C.W. Johnson, N. Barnea,
W. Leidemann, G. Orlandini
th
Electroweak reactions on few-nucleon systems
M.Schwamb
th
In: Proc. of the 11 Conference on Problems in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, Cortona, Italy, 11-14
October 2006, Eds.: A. Covello, L. E. Marcucci, S. Rosati, I. Bombaci, World Scientific, Singapore,
p. 259-266, 2007
Application of the Lorentz Integral Transform method to light nuclei
G. Orlandini
In: Few-Body systems in nuclear and hadronic physics, Proc. Meeting "Few Body Systems", INFN-
IS-PD32, February 8 2007, Eds. L. Canton, A. Pascolini, Imprimenda Università degli Studi di
Padova ISBN 88-88610-14-6, pp. 1-14, 2007
The three-nucleon system above pion threshold with explicit pionic and D-degrees of freedom
M. Schwamb
In: Few-Body systems in nuclear and hadronic physics, Proc. Meeting "Few Body Systems, INFN-
IS-PD32, 8 February 2007, Eds. L. Canton, A. Pascolini, Imprimenda Università degli Studi di
Padova ISBN 88-88610-14-6, pp. 25-26, 2007
2008
4
Electron scattering off He with three-nucleon Forces
W. Leidemann
In: Proc. PANIC Conf., Eilat, Israel, Nov. 9-14, 2008

2006
Pietro Faccioli
Invited talk: Studying Protein Folding Pathways with Quantum Mechanical Methods, MIT
(MA), November 2006
Invited talk: Stochastic Theory of Protein Folding, Department of Physical Chemistry, Harvard
University, Cambridge (MA), November 2006
Invited talk: Studying Protein Folding Pathways with Quantum Mechanical Methods, Physics
Department, Parma University, October 2006
Invited talk: Dominant Protein Folding Pathways , SISSA, Trieste, January 2006
Invited talk: Protein Folding Pathways from Path Integrals, ECT* Board of Directors Meeting,
January 2006
Oral contribution: Exploration of Chiral Regime of QCD in the Interacting Instanton Liquid
Model, .N.T. program on Exploration of Hadron Spectrum and Structure from Lattice QCD
Simulations, Seattle, April 2006
Winfried Leidemann
Plenary Talk: Electromagnetic Reactions of Few-Body Systems with the Lorentz Integral
th
Transform Method, 18 International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics,
Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-26 August (published on the Proceedings)

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Invited Talk: Ab initio Calculations of Electromagnetic Reactions in Light Nuclei, Chiral

th
Dynamics 2006 Theory & Experiment: 5 International Workshop, Duke University TUNL,
Durham, North Carolina, USA, 18-22 September 2006 (published on the Proceedings)
Giuseppina Orlandini
Invited Leading contribution: Test of J-matrix Inverse Scattering Potentials on
th
Photoabsorption Cross Sections of Nuclei with A=2=4, 18 International IUPAP Conference
on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Santos, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 21-26 August 2006 (published
on the Proceedings)
Invited talk: Electromagnetic probes for the study of light nuclei, Theory Network for Nuclear
Structure and Reactions - TNET Workshop, University of Surrey, Guildford 10-12 April 2006
Invited seminar: Il metodo della Trasformata Integrale di Lorentz (LIT) per il calcolo ab initio di
reazioni nel continuo, Department of Physics, University of Naples, Italy, 9 May 2006
Invited talk: Ab Initio calculations of electromagnetic response functions in few-body systems,

Institute of Nuclear Theory Program (INT-06-2b ) on Neutrino Response Functions from
Threshold to 10 GeV, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA, 31 July - 25 August 2006
Invited talk: Few-Body problems for HIgS, Workshop on Compton at HIGS, Durham/Chapel
Hill, NC, USA, 16-17 September 2006
Invited seminar: The LIT Method: an ab initio approach for the calculation of reactions in light
nuclei, Department of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA,
12 October 2006
Invited talk: Electromagnetic probes for the study of light nuclei, Theory Network for Nuclear
Structure and Reactions - TNET Workshop, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 10-12 April,
2006
Invited seminar: Electromagnetic interactions with few nucleon systems, Department of

Physics, University of Bologna, Italy, 17 May 2006
Francesco Pederiva
Special Seminar: Dominant Folding Pathways, Berkeley University, Berkeley, CA, USA,
February 2006
Invited Talk: Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo study of nuclear matter, Workshop
Understanding Neutron Stars 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 2006
Michael Schwamb
Invited seminar: Few-nucleon systems: present achievements and future challenges, ECT*,
Trento, Italy, 9 October 2006
Marcello Sega
Invited Seminar: Searching for dominant folding pathways by computer simulation, SISSA,
Trieste, 17 November.2006
2007
Pietro Faccioli
Invited talk: Protein Dynamics from Dominant Folding Pathways, N.I.H., Laboratory of
Physical Chemistry, March 2007
Oral contribution: Chiral Symmetry, Hadron Spectrum and Instantons, XII International
Conference on Hadron Spectrum "Hadron07", Frascati, Italy, October 2007

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Oral contribution: Strong CP violation and Magnetic Fields, Conference "QCD@work 2007",
Martina Franca (Italy), June 2007
Seminar: Application of the Lorentz Integral Transform Method to Light Nuclei, Meeting on
Few-body Systems, (INFN-IS-PD32), Padua, Italy, 8 February 2007 (published on the
Proceedings)
Invited talk: Research activity in nuclear theory at the Physics Department of the University of
Trento, Meeting of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NUPECC),
ECT*, Trento, 16 March 2007
Invited seminar: The Lorentz Integral Transform method for ab initio calculations of
perturbation induced reactions and its recent applications, Department of Physics, University
of Florence, Italy, 27 April 2007
Francesco Pederiva
Invited talk: Shadow Wave Functions for Many Fermion Systems, Symposium in Honor of
Professor William A. Lester, Jr, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, March 2007
Invited talk: Recent progress in Auxiliary-Field Diffusion Monte Carlo, Workshop on

Advanced Many-body Methods for Nuclear Physics, ECT*, Trento, Italy, July 2007
Invited seminar: Stochastic Theory of Protein Folding, Stanford University Palo Alto, CA,
USA, August 2007
Michael Schwamb
Seminar: The three-nucleon system above pion-threshold with explicit pionic and Delta-
degrees of freedom, Meeting on Few-body Systems, (INFN-IS-PD32), Padua, Italy, 8
February 2007. (published on the proceedings)
2008
Pietro Faccioli
Invited talk: Dominant Reaction Pathways in Large Dimensional Systems, University of
Bayreuth, October 2008
Invited talk: Stochastic Theory of Protein Folding, C.E.A. Saclay, Institute de Physique
Theorique, February 2008
Invited seminar: Protein Folding with Instantons, Stony Brook (USA), December 2008
Invited seminar: Reaction Pathways in High Dimensional Spaces, National Institute for
Health, Bethesda, USA, December 2008
Invited seminar: Dominant Reaction Pathways in Large Dimensional Systems, University of

Bayreuth, Germany, November 2008
Invited talk: Stochasitic Dynamics and Dominant Protein Folding Pathways, Workshop
"Biophys08", Arcidosso, Italy, September 2008
Winfried Leidemann
th
Series of Lectures: The Lorentz Integral Transform (LIT) method, 4 DAE-BRNS Workshop
on Hadron Physics, AMU, Aligarh, India, 18-23 February 2008. (published on Proceedings)
Invited talk: Few Nucleon Physics, Theoretical Nuclear Physics Meeting, Cortona, 8-10
October 2008. (published on Proceedings

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Invited contribution: Electron scattering off He with three-nucleon Forces, PANIC Conf.,
Eilat, Israel, 10-14 November. 2008. (published on the Proceedings)
nd
Invited talk: Ab initio LIT method for reactions in the continuum and applications, 2
Workshop on Theory Network for Nuclear Structure and Reactions, ECT*, Trento, 7-11
January 2008
4
Invited talk: Inclusive Electron scattering on 3He and He, Workshop of the MAMI-Mainz A1
Collaboration, Donnersberg, Germany, 31 March - 3 April 2008
Lead of Discussion: Few-Body Nuclei, Gordon Research Conference on Photonuclear

Reactions, Tilton N.H., USA, 10-15 August 2008
Invited talk: Response Functions in Nuclear Few-Body Systems, Workshop on Hadron

Dynamics, Almunecar, Spain, 25-28 September 2008
Francesco Pederiva
Invited talk: Recent progress on the computation of the Equation of State of neutron and
nuclear matter with AF diffusion MC, ESF Workshop on The Complex Physics of Compact
Stars, Ladek Zdroj, Poland, February 2008
Invited talk: Application of the Novel Fermion Monte Carlo Algorithm with Second Stage
Importance Sampling, VI International Symposium of Theoretical Chemical Physics,
Vancouver, Canada, July 2008
Conference organization
2008
QMCI 1: Mini Workshop sui Metodi Quantum Monte Carlo
Organizer: F. Pederiva
Sardagna, Trento, 2 December 2006
UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO: Cluster (Principal coordinator: Giuseppina Orlandini)

€ 38.000
2005/2007
MIUR: Victoria University: (Principal coordinator: G. Orlandini) 2006 € 5.828
US DPT OF COMMERCE: Virial Equation of State at Low Temperature ( Principal

€ 12.600
coordinator: R. Vallauri) 2006
INFN: IS PI31: Microscopic theories of strongly interacting many-body systems

€ 20.000
(Principal coordinator: E. Lipparini) 2006/2008
INFN: IS TN31 and AD31: Hadronic Physics (Principal coordinator: P. Faccioli)

€ 30.500
2006/2008
INFN: IS PD32 2006-07-08: Few-Body systems (Principal coordinator G. Orlandini)

€ 22.740
2006/2008

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MIUR: Cofin 2007 Theoretical Models and Simulation of Polymer-based

€ 56.200
Nanostructured Matrices (Principal coordinator: F. Pederiva) 2008/2010
Visiting Professor (request: F. Pederiva for prof. Massimo Boninsegni) 2006 € 13.000
Visiting Professor (request: W. Leidemann for prof. Victor Efros) 2007 € 11.200
Visiting Professor (request: G. Orlandini for prof. Victor Efros) 2008 € 11.360
Total € 221.428
• V. D. Efros, Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia

• N. Barnea, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
• S. Bacca, TRIUMF, Valcouver, Canada
• E. Tomusiak, University of Victoria, Canada
• D. Gazit, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA
• S. Fantoni, SISSA, Trieste
• M. Barranco, M. Pi, University of Barcelona, Spain
• W. A. Lester, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• M. H. Kalos, S. Quaglioni, P. Navratil, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
• K. E. Schmidt, B. R. Barrett, I. Stetcu, Arizona State University, USA
• C. J. Umrigar, Cornell University, USA
• M. Barranco, University of Barcelona, Spain
• H. Orland, Institute de Physique Teorrique, CeA, Saclay, France
• J. Negele, M.I.T., Cambridge, USA
Pietro Faccioli
• Co-organizer of the Doctoral Training Program 2006 on Numerical Techniques in Strongly

Interacting Systems, E.C.T.*, Trento, March-May 2006
• Invited visiting scientist at the Institute du Physique Theorique, CEA, Saclay, January-July 2009
• Local Coordinator for the Trento University of the Aurora Project (2006-2008)
Winfried Leidemann
• Member of the German Physical Society
• Chair of the European Research Committee on Few-body Problems

• Co-Editor of the European Physical Journal A (Hadrons and Nuclei)
• National Advisory Committee of the Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, USA
• Board Member of the American Gordon Research Conferences on Photonuclear Reactions
th
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 18 International IUPAP Conference
on Few-Body Problems in Physics
th
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 20 European Conference on Few-
Body Problems in Physics

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th
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the 19 International IUPAP Conference
on Few-Body Problems in Physics
• Member of the American Physical Society
• Member of the Italian Physical Society
PhD thesis
2007
• Sara Della Monaca: Studies of transverse responses of three nucleon systems with the Lorent
Integral Transform method, G. Orlandini, 28. 02.2007
• Stefano Gandolfi: The Auxiliary Field Diffusion Monte Carlo Method for Nuclear Physics and
Nuclear Astrophysics, F. Pederiva, 08.11.2007
• Francesco Operetto: Study of the properties of pure and defective hydrogen crystals with Quantum
Monte Carlo methods, F. Pederiva,15.02.2007

2006
• Davide Campagnari: "Evaluation of the topological susceptibility in coulomb gauge. Calcolo della
suscettività topologica in gauge di Coulomb", P. Faccioli
2007
• Alessio Paris: "Modelli ad alpha-cluster per lo studio di nuclei con a=8,12,16", W. Leidemann
• Raffaele Millo: "Strong cp violation in external magnetic field. Violazione di cp forte in un campo
magnetico esterno", P. Faccioli
• Paolo Armani: "Teorie di campo efficace e quantum Monte Carlo: un nuovo approccio alla fisica
nucleare", F. Pederiva
2008
• Silvia Tomaselli: "Movimenti intra-frazione in trattamenti di protonterapia con spot scanning: effetti
dosimetrici e metodi di compensazione", R. Leonardi
• Alice Lonardi; "Dominant folding pathway of a beta hairpin. Traiettoria dominante nel ripiegamento
di una beta hairpin", P. Faccioli
• Christopher Tichy Malte: "Stati legati gluonici e aspetti non-perturbativi della QCD", P. Faccioli
• Emmanuel Autieri: "Studio di processi diffusivi stocastici in sistemi multidimensionali con tecniche
path integral", P. Faccioli

2006
• Gabriele Cologna: "Pianeti extrasolari: metodi di ricerca e caratteristiche generali", W. Leidemann
2007
• Luca Ianeselli: "Nucleosynthesis in the stars", W. Leidemann
• Christian Schuster: "La fusione nucleare", W. Leidemann
• Matteo Bazzanella: "Analisi dei tempi di transizione in modelli unidimensionali", F. Pederiva
• Francesco Calcavecchia: "Modelli per la formazione dei pianeti del sistema solare", F. Pederiva
• Setti Davide: "Studio preliminare delle proprietà di un atomo di cs in he liquido con metodi
variational Monte Carlo", F. Pederiva

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2008
• Giulia Bampa: "Ipernuclei: un semplice modello per l'helium 5 - lambda", G. Orlandini
• Sara Caliari: "Measurement of the neutron electric form factor at q2=1.58 (gev/c)2", G. Orlandini
• Christopher Schmitt: "Continuazione analitica di trasformate integrali di lorentz e funzioni di
risposta", G. Orlandini
• Mattia Dalla Brida: "Calcolo della sezione d'urto per il processo di foto disintegrazione del
deuterone", W. Leidemann
• Guglielmo Mazzola: "Studio della transizione cis-trans nel crotononitrile con metodi dominant
folding pathway, F. Pederiva

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ULTRACOLD GASES, BOSE-EINSTEIN

CONDENSATION AND FERMI SUPERFLUIDITY
Short description
The research activity carried on by this group covers various phenomena related to Bose-Einstein
condensation and the physics of cold atomic gases. Since the first observation of BEC in cold gases in
1995, the study of ultracold gases has become an emerging area of research at the crossing point of
several disciplines, including atomic and molecular physics, quantum optics, statistical mechanics and
condensed matter physics. BEC has been achieved in many atomic species and an impressive
number of experimental and theoretical groups worldwide is actively working in the field of ultracold
atomic gases.
In the last years the field has further grown and developed in several important directions. The
availability of advanced optical techniques has allowed to create new trapping configurations in the
form of optical lattices. This has opened new frontiers of research where atomic physics meets
important features of condensed matter and solid state physics. Other important achievements
concern the study of ultracold Fermi gases. This field is growing in an impressive way with stimulating
perspectives, also in view of the deep analogies between such systems and other Fermi systems, like
high Tc superconductors and neutron stars. Also the field of mixtures of different atomic species is
becoming a rich area of research. The perspective of generating new molecular configurations with
permanent dipole moment and unexplored many-body quantum phases is now becoming realistic.
Finally ultracold atomic physics is providing new perspectives of application to quantum information
processes and precision measurements.
The growth of the field has benefited in a crucial way by the cooperative efforts of experimental and
theoretical groups in many laboratories. A central mission of the group of Trento is to reinforce the
interdisciplinary links of the theoretical research as well as the links between theoretical and
experimental activities, establishing direct and systematic collaborations with the main laboratories in
the world.
People (2006-2008)
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator: Mauro Antezza 12

Sandro Stringari 36 Gregory Astrakharchic 4
Gabriele De Chiara 20 th
Franco Dalfovo 36 Mauro Antezza 19 cycle
Zbigniew Idziaszek 6 th
Stefano Giorgini 36 Luca Pezzè 19 cycle
Carlos Lobo 20 th
Lev P. Pitaevskii 36 Sebastiano Pilati 20 cycle
Giuliano Orso 10 nd
Francesco Bariani 22 cycle
Luca Pezzè 6 nd
Ingrid Bausmerth 22 cycle
Technical staff Sebastiano Pilati 6 rd
Gianluca Bertaina 23 cycle
Petra Scudo 6 rd
Francesco Piazza 23 cycle
Giuseppe Froner 12 Edward Taylor 14 th
Manuele Landini 24 cycle
Davide Setti 2 Shunji Tsuchiya 16
Mirko Vivaldi 3 Gentaro Watanabe 20
Michiel Wouters 6
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Other permanent
collaborators
Augusto Smerzi 36 CNR

Iacopo Carusotto 36 CNR
Chiara Menotti 36 CNR
Alessio Recati 36 CNR
Tommaso Calarco 21 CNR
Long term visitors
• Michele Modugno LENS, Florence

• Nikolai Prokof'ev University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
• Massimo Boninsegni University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
• Dörte Blume Washington State University, Pullman, Wa, USA
• Georg Morten Bruun Niels Bohr Institut, Copenhagen
Research activities
The scientific work carried on by the group can be schematically classified according to the following
main research lines:
• Fermionic superfluidity and BCS-BEC crossover

• Polarized Fermi gases
• Quantum Monte Carlo
• Rotating gases and quantized vorticity
• Nonlinear dynamics and solitons
• Ultracold gases in optical lattices
• Dipolar gases
• Semiconductor microcavities and exciton-polaritons
• Quantum optics and quantum fields
• Casimir forces
• Matter-waves interferometry
• Quantum information processing

2006
Normal state of a polarized Fermi gas at unitarity
C. Lobo, A. Recati, S. Giorgini, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 200403, 2006
Equation of state of an interacting Bose gas at finite temperature: a Path Integral Monte Carlo study
S. Pilati, K. Sakkos, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, S. Giorgini
Phys. Rev. A 74, 043621, 2006
Collective mode of homogeneous superfluid Fermi gases in the BEC-BCS crossover
R. Combescot, M.Yu. Kagan, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 74, 042717, 2006

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Quantum fluctuations and collective oscillations of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 2D optical lattice

G. Orso, C. Menotti, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190408, 2006
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium and asymptotic non-additivity
M. Antezza, L. P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, V. B. Svetovoy
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 223203, 2006
One-dimensional description of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a rotating closed-loop waveguide
S. Schwartz, M. Cozzini, C. Menotti, I. Carusotto, P. Bouyer, S. Stringari
New J. Phys. 8, 162, 2006
Dipole polarizability of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas
A. Recati, I. Carusotto, C. Lobo, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 190403, 2006
Detecting phonons and persistent currents in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates by means of pattern
formation
M. Modugno, C. Tozzo, F. Dalfovo
Phys. Rev. A 74, 061601(R), 2006
Dark solitons as quasiparticles in trapped condensates
V.A. Brazhnyi, V.V. Konotop, L.P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. A 73, 053601, 2006
Pair correlations of an expanding superfluid Fermi gas
V.C. Lobo, I. Carusotto, S. Giorgini, A. Recati, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 100405, 2006
Released momentum distribution of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover
M.L. Chiofalo, S. Giorgini, M. Holland
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 070404, 2006
Molecular signatures in the structure factor of an interacting Fermi gas
R. Combescot, S. Giorgini, S. Stringari
Europhys. Lett. 75, 695, 2006
Bose-Einstein condensates in a laser radiation field
L.P. Pitaevskii
Physics-Uspekhi 49, 333, 2006
Long-distance behaviour of the surface-atom Casimir-Polder forces out of thermal equilibrum
L.P. Pitaevskii
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 39, 6665, 2006
Comment on "Casimir force acting on magnetodielectric bodies embedded in media"
L. P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. A 73, 047801, 2006
Seeing zeros of random polynomials: quantized vortices in the ideal Bose gas
Y.Castin, Z.Hadzibabic, S.Stock, J. Dalibard, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 040405, 2006
Correlation functions of a Lieb-Liniger Bose gas
G.E. Astrakharchik, S. Giorgini
J. Phys. B 39, S1, 2006
Vortex signatures in annular Bose-Einstein condensates
M. Cozzini, B. Jackson, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 73, 013603, 2006
Vortex lattices in Bose-Einstein condensates: from the Thomas-Fermi to the lowest Landau level
regime
M. Cozzini, S. Stringari, C. Tozzo
Phys. Rev. A 73, 023615, 2006

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Quantum Monte Carlo study of the ground-state properties of a Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover
S. Giorgini, G.E. Astrakharchik, J. Boronat, J. Casulleras
Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 20, 5189, 2006
Multiphonon decay of solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates
L.P. Pitaevskii
J. Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism 19, 427, 2006
2007
Fluctuations of the number of particles within a given volume in cold quantum gases
G.E. Astrakharchik, R. Combescot, L.P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. A 76, 063616, 2007
Can a bubble in liquid helium contain half an electron?
L.P. Pitaevskii
Phys.-Uspekhi 50, 107, 2007
Dark solitons in a superfluid Fermi gas
M. Antezza, F. Dalfovo, L. P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 76, 043610, 2007
Breathing modes of a fast rotating Fermi gas
M. Antezza, M. Cozzini, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 75, 053609, 2007
Stability and excitations of solitons in 2D Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Tsuchiya, F. Dalfovo, C. Tozzo, L. P. Pitaevskii
J. Low Temp. Phys. 148, 393, 2007
Measurement of the Temperature Dependence of the Casimir-Polder Force
J.M. Obrecht, R.J. Wild, M. Antezza, L.P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, E.A. Cornell
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 063201, 2007
2008
Equation of state and effective mass of the unitary Fermi gas in a 1D periodic potential
G. Watanabe, G. Orso, F. Dalfovo, L.P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 78, 063619, 2008
Unitary polarized Fermi gas under adiabatic rotation
I. Bausmerth, A. Recati, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 78, 063603, 2008
Collisional Properties of a Polarized Fermi Gas with Resonant Interactions
G. M. Bruun, A. Recati, C. J. Pethick, H. Smith, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 240406, 2008
Role of interactions in spin-polarised atomic Fermi gases at unitarity
A. Recati, C. Lobo, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 78, 023633, 2008
Critical temperature of interacting Bose gases in two and three dimensions
S. Pilati, S. Giorgini, N. Prokof'ev
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 140405, 2008
Solitons in two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates
S. Tsuchiya, F. Dalfovo, L. P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. A 77, 045601, 2008
Thermal Lifshitz Force between Atom and Conductor with Small Density of Carriers
L. P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 163202, 2008
Stabilization of Solitons Generated by a Supersonic Flow of Bose-Einstein Condensate Past an
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A.M. Kamchatnov, L.P. Pitaevskii

Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 160402, 2008
Superfluid Fermi liquid in a unitary regime
L.P. Pitaevskii
Physics-Uspekhi 51, 603, 2008
Breaking superfluidity by rotating a Fermi gas at unitarity
I. Bausmerth, A. Recati, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 070401, 2008
Tkachenko modes in a superfluid Fermi gas at unitarity
G. Watanabe, M. Cozzini, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 77, 021602, 2008
Equilibrium and dynamics of a trapped superfluid Fermi gas with unequal masses
G. Orso, L.P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
Phys. Rev. A 77, 033611, 2008
Casimir-Lifshitz force out of thermal equilibrium
M. Antezza, L. P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari, V.B. Svetovoy
Phys. Rev. A 77, 022901, 2008
Phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas at zero temperature
S. Pilati, S. Giorgini
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 030401, 2008
Theory of ultracold atomic Fermi gases
S. Giorgini, L. P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 1215, 2008

2006
Bose-Einstein condensates
F. Dalfovo, L.P. Pitaevskii, S. Stringari
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, Elsevier, Vol.1, p. 312, 2006
2008
Phenomenology and Microscopic Theory: Theoretical Foundations
L. P. Pitaevskii
In: Superconductivity: Conventional and Unconventional Superconductors, Eds.: K.H. Bennemann,
John B. Ketterson, Springer, 2008

2006
Sandro Stringari
Invited talk: Molecular signature in the structure factor of an interacting Fermi gas, Workshop
on Strong Correlations in Ultra-Cold Fermi Systems, Aspen, 15-21 January 2006
Invited talk: Test of the Casimir-Polder force with ultracold atomic gases, JILA Physics
Department, Boulder, 23 January 2006
Invited talk: Test of the Casimir-Polder force with ultracold atomic gases, NIST, Gaithersburg,
25 January 2006

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Invited talk: Verso lo zero assoluto, Scientiae Munus, Parma, 31 January 2006
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold quantum gases, Facultat de Física, Barcelona, 14

February 2006
Invited talk: Molecular signature in the structure factor of an interacting Fermi gas, Institute of
Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, 15 February 2006
Invited talk: Fisica: Perchè?, Università Popolare, Udine, 23 February 2006
Invited talk: Le due culture (dalla parte della fisica), Saperi e linguaggi a confronto, Trento, 2
March 2006
Invited talk: Effects of spin polarization in a superfluid Fermi gas, Workshop on Qubits and
Macroscopic Quantum Coherence, Bad Honnef, 7-11 May 2006
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold quantum gases, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milano, 16 May
2006
Invited talk: Strongly interacting Fermi gases in traps, LENS, Firenze, 26 May 2006
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold quantum gases, INSTANS Conference, Como, 12-16
June 2006
th
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold quantum gases, 11 Int. Conf. on Nuclear Reaction
Mechanisms, Varenna, 12-16 June 2006
Invited talk: Dynamics and superfluidity of trapped Fermi gases, Enrico Fermi School on
Ultracold Fermi gases, Varenna, 20-30 June 2006
Invited talk: Dynamical and superfluid effects in Bose-Einstein condensates, School on

Gross-Pitaevskii Equations for Superfluids and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Vienna, 18-22
September 2006
Invited talk: Dynamical Behavior of Bosons and Fermions, Workshop on Current

Development in Quantum Gases, Beijing, 2-8 December 2006
Stefano Giorgini
th
Invited talk: Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover: a quantum Monte Carlo study, 20
International Conference on Atomic Physics, ICAP 2006, Innsbruck, 16-21 July 2006
Invited talk: Ground-state properties of a strongly interacting Fermi gas: a quantum Monte
Carlo study, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 10 July 2006
Franco Dalfovo
th
Invited talk: From dense to dilute bosons: Helium droplets vs. trapped BEC, 38 EGAS,
International Conference of European Group on Atomic Systems, Ischia, 7-10 June 2006
Invited talk: Detecting phonons and persistent currents in toroidal BEC, LPHYS’06, Laser
Physics Workshop, Lausanne, 24-28 July 2006
2007
Sandro Stringari
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold Fermi gases, Van der Waals-Zeeman Instituut,
Amsterdam, 6 February 2007
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold Fermi gases, Department of Physics, Utrecht, 7

February 2007

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Invited talk: Strongly interacting Fermi gases in traps, Garching, Munich, 6 March 2007
Invited talk: Hydrodynamics of trapped superfluid Fermi gases, Workshop on the Interface of
Quark-Gluon Plasma and Cold-Atom Physics, ECT*, Trento, 26-30 March 2007
Invited talk: Rotating superfluid Fermi gases, Workshop on Superfluids under Rotation,
Jerusalem, 16-19 April 2007
Series of lectures: Dynamics of quantum gases, Institut Poincaré, Paris, 18-22 June 2007
Series of lectures: From Bose-Einstein condensates to superfluid Fermi gases, Summer

School on Bose-Einstein Condensation, Crete, 23-27 July 2007
Series of lectures: Collective oscillations of superfluid atomic Bose and Fermi gases, School
on Novel Quantum Phases and Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atomic Gases, ICTP
Trieste, 27 August - 7 September 2007
Invited talk: Verso lo Zero Assoluto, Festival della Scienza, Genova, 28 October 2007
Franco Dalfovo
Invited talk: Ultracold atoms: overview and perspectives, IFIC - Instituto de Física
Corpuscular, Universitad de Valencia, Spain, 25 April 2007
Lev P. Pitaevskii
Invited talk: Superfluidity and superconductivity, International Workshop on Quantum gases,
Paris, 7-9 May 2007
Invited talk: Solitons dynamics in a trapped condensate, International Conference Frontiers of

Nonlinear Physics, N.-Novgorod, 3 July 2007
Invited talk: Collisionless shock waves in BEC and interference of interacting condensates,
International Conference Bose-Einstein Condensation, San Feliu, Spain, 15 September 2007
Invited talk: Non-equilibrium surface-atom Casimir-Lifshitz forces and their measurement in

cold atoms experiments, Orsay, Paris, 8-9 March 2007
Stefano Giorgini
Invited talk: Quantum Monte Carlo calculations for Fermi systems at strong coupling,
Workshop on The interface of quark-gluon plasma physics and cold-atom physics, ECT*,
Trento, 19-23 March 2007
Invited talk: Recent progress on the microscopic study of strongly interacting fermions with
quantum Monte Carlo methods, Institute Henri Poincaré, Programme on Quantum Gases,
Paris, 13 July 2007
2008
Sandro Stringari
Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold atomic Fermi gases, Latsis Symposium, Lausanne, 28-
30 June 2008
Invited talk: Superfluidity of trapped atomic gases, Chernogolovka Memorial Conference,

Landau, 22-25 June 2008
Lecture: Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation, Enrico Fermi School on Quantum

Coherence in Solid State Systems, Varenna, 1-11 July 2008
Invited talk: Effects of spin polarization in atomic Fermi gases at unitarity, Symposium on
Quantum Fluids and Strongly Correlated Systems, Orsay, 15-16 September 2008

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Invited talk: Superfluidity of ultracold atomic gases, EMMI Workshop on Quark-Gluon-Plasma

meets Cold Atoms, Darmstadt, 25-27 September 2008
Invited talk: Spin polarized Fermi gases at unitarity, Conference on Frontiers of Degenerate
Quantum Gases, Bejing, 20-24 October 2008
Franco Dalfovo
Invited talk: Solitons in ultracold atomic gases, Italy-Israel Forum on Science and
Technology, Tel Aviv, April 2008
Contributed talk: Unitary Fermi gas in a periodic potential, LT25 Conference, Amsterdam,
August 2008
Lev P. Pitaevskii
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Invited talk: Thermal Lifshitz forces, 2 Italo-Russian Meeting, Frascati, 14 March 2008
Lecture: Unitary Fermi liquid, Meeting of the Physical Department of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moskow, 22 January 2008
Invited talk: Landau and theory of Van der Waals forces, Landau Memorial Conference,
Moskow, 20 June 2008
Invited talk: Casimir-Lifshitz forces and entropy, Casimir Network Meeting, Paris, 29
November 2008
Stefano Giorgini
Invited talk: Polarized Fermi gases, NORDITA, Workshop on Ultracold Atoms and Quark-
Gluon Plasma, Copenhagen, 23-27 June 2008
Invited talk: Phase diagram of a polarized Fermi gas at zero temperature, Workshop on
Laser Physics, Trondheim, Norway, 30 June - 4 July 2008
Lecture: Theory of cold gases in low dimensions, NFM School on Physics in Low
Dimensions, Lucca, 11-18 October 2008
Invited talk: Polarized Fermi gases with resonant interactions, Laboratoire de Physique
Statistique, ENS, Paris, 23 September 2008
2006
Mini-Workshop on Quantum Monte Carlo Methods

Organizer: Stefano Giorgini
Sardagna, Italy, 2 December 2006
2008
International Workshop on Coherence, Squeezing and Entanglement for Precision

Measurements with Quantum Gases
Organizer: Sandro Stringari
Levico, Italu, 3-5 April 2008
II Mini-Workshop on Quantum Monte Carlo Methods

Organizer: Stefano Giorgini
Sardagna, Italy, 29 November 2008

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PRIN 2005: Ultracold Fermi gases and optical lattices (Scientific Coordinator: Sandro
€ 43.650
Stringari), 2006-2008
PRIN 2007: Many-body theory of strongly correlated ultracold gases (Principal

€ 53.200
Investigator: Sandro Stringari), 2008-2010
EuroQUAM Project: Fermionic Mixtures of Ultracold Atoms: Pairing, Superfluidity and

€ 100.000
Quantum Phases (Principal Investigator: Sandro Stringari) 2008-2010
The activities of the BEC group are funded also by CNR, Provincia Autonoma di
Trento, ESF and EU Marie Curie Program € 600.000
These funds amount to about 200.000 €/year
Total € 796.850

• M. Inguscio, M. Modugno, G. Modugno, C. Fort, G. Roati et al., European Laboratory for
Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Florence
• Y. Castin, R. Combescot, J. Dalibard, C. Salomon, F. Chevy et al., Ecole Normale
Superieure, Paris
• E. Cornell, D. Jin, M. Holland, et al., JILA and University of Colorado, Boulder
• J. Boronat, J. Casulleras, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
• R. Grimm, P. Zoller et al., University Innsbruck
• N. Prokof’ev, B. Svistunov, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• M. Lewenstein, IFCO, Barcelona
• W. Zwerger, TUM and LMU, Munich
• I. Imamoglu. M. Troyer, ETH Zürich
Sandro Stringari
• Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Letters
Franco Dalfovo
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics
• Associate Editor of Physical Review A
• Member of the Steering Committee of the International Symposya on Quantum Fluids and
Solids
Lev P. Pitaevskii
• Landau Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding contribution to
modern theoretical physics, 2008
PhD thesis
2006
• Mauro Antezza: Thermal dependence of the casimir-polder-lifsmitz force and its effect on ultra-cold
gases, S. Stringari, 13.11.2006

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2007
• Luca Pezzè: The Quantum interferometry with photons and Bose-Einstein Condensates, S.
Stringari, 13.2.2007
2008
• Sebastiano Pilati: Studies of ultracold gases using quantum Monte Carlo techniques, S. Giorgini,
28.2.2008

2007
• Furlan, Elisabetta: "Bogoliubov - De Gennes equations for a Fermi gas in an optical lattice", S.
Stringari, F. Dalfovo

2006
• Larcher, Marco: "Paradosso EPR e località in meccanica quantistica", S. Giorgini
• Cavalli, Stefano: "Principio di Mach", F. Dalfovo
• Faccioli, Flavio: "Evidenze sperimentali della pressione di Fermi", S. Giorgini
2008
• Gandolfi Davide: "L'entanglement come risorsa", S. Stringari, A. Recati
• Pastorello, Davide: "Solitoni nei fluidi e nei superfluidi", F. Dalfovo

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EXPERIMENTAL GRAVITATION
AND LOW TEMPERATURE PHYSICS
Short description
The research focus of the laboratory is gravitational wave astronomy. Gravitational wave astronomy is
a fast growing field aiming at detecting gravitational waves emitted by celestial bodies, and at using
them as a powerful observation tool for the Universe.
The group is involved in a good fraction of the word-wide effort in the field, being either a leading or an
active partner in AURIGA, LISA, LISA Pathfinder, and VIRGO. The group has developed a variety of
original experimental techniques. These include for instance high sensitivity, almost quantum limited
SQUID amplifiers, to be used as the final stage of ultra sensitive motion detectors in gravitational wave
antennas and similar systems. They also include femto-Newton sensitivity torsion-pendulums to test
parasitic forces on test-masses to be used as geodetic tracers in spaceborne gravitational experiment.
The group is, or has been, supported by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nuclear (INFN), European Space
Agency (ESA), Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), and Ministero dell’Università (MIUR).
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator: Michele Armano 5

Stefano Vitale 36 Ludovico Carbone 11
Giacomo Ciani 11
Rita Dolesi 36 Luigi Ferraioli 12
Giovanni Andrea Prodi 36 Mauro Hueller 36 Silvia Poggi
th
18 cycle
William J. Weber 36 Nicola Liguori 3 Alessandro Mion
th
19 cycle
th
Alessandro Mion 2 Giacomo Ciani 20 cycle
Technical staff th
Silvia Poggi 2 Paola Leaci 20 cycle
th
Antonio Pontin 12 David Tombolato 20 cycle
Renato Mezzena 36 rd
Virginia Re 24 Daniele Nicolodi 23 cycle
th
Administrative staff Francesco Salemi 24 Giuseppe Congedo 24 cycle
Nicola Tateo 3
Karine Frisinghelli 36 David Tombolato 14
Andrea Vinante 3
Peter J. Wass 21

Other permanent
collaborators
36 Fondazione Bruno Kessler-CNR

Michele Bonaldi
Antonella Cavalleri
Paolo Falferi
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Research activities
1. Space-borne gravitational wave astronomy. The group has a leading position in the development
of LISA and of its in-flight precursor LISA Pathfinder. LISA is a space-borne Gravitational Wave
(GW) observatory currently under formulation as a joint effort between ESA and NASA. LISA will
be a signal dominated instrument aiming at a wealth of bright GW sources at frequencies between
0.1 mHz and 0.1 Hz. The Laboratory is part of the core group supporting ESA and NASA with
mission formulation. Most of LISA metrology will be tested, on an interplanetary orbit, by ESA’s
LISA Pathfinder. This mission, in advanced implementation, carries on one entire LISA arm
squeezed into one spacecraft, the LISA Technology Package (LTP). The Laboratory carries the
responsibility of Principal Investigator of the LTP and has lead the design of the test-mass and of
its immediate surroundings, a system called the Gravity Reference Sensor (GRS), and its
laboratory test based on torsion pendulums to investigate force disturbances at femto-Newton
level.
2. Gravitational wave astronomy with ground based detectors. Ground based detectors are searching
for GWs in the audio frequency band (from a few tens of Hz to some kHz), probing stellar mass
astrophysical sources such as Neutron Stars, Black Holes, SuperNovae core collapses, merging
binary systems as well as the early evolution of the universe before the Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
through the cosmic GW background.
The group is a leading partner of the AURIGA cryogenic bar detector and of the International
Gravitational Event Collaboration (IGEC) among the operating bar detectors worldwide.
AURIGA is is also a valuable test bed for investigations of fluctuation phenomena in steady state
non equilibrium. Feed-back cooling below the thermodynamic limit, nearly-quantum limited
SQUIDs and non symmetric fluctuation far from equilibrium are recent examples of these studies.
A long term project to investigate rare noise fluctuations has recently started.
The group has joined the Virgo collaboration in 2007 both in the field of data analysis and hardware
R&D. With special responsibility in the search for burst GWs in the higher frequency band (2-6
kHz) in the first joint observation performed by the Virgo-LIGO detectors in 2007. We are also
investigating the mechanical thermal noise in mirror coatings

2006
Principles of wide bandwidth acoustic detectors and the single-mass dual detector
Bonaldi M., Cerdonio M., Conti L., Falferi P., Leaci P., Odorizzi S., Prodi G. A., Saraceni M., Serra
E., Zendri J. P
Physical Review, D74, p. 022003-1-022003-13, 2006
27 h SQUID amplifier operating with high-Q resonant input load
Falferi P., Bonaldi M., Cerdonio M., Vinante A., Mezzena R., Prodi G. A., Vitale S.,. Appl. Phys.
Lett., 88, p. 062505-1-062505-3, 2006
2007
Possibilities for measurement and compensation of stray DC electric fields acting on drag-free test
masses
W.J. Weber, L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, R. Dolesi, C.D. Hoyle, M. Hueller, S. Vitale
Advances in Space Research 39, 213–218, 2007
Upper limits to surface force disturbances on LISA proof masses and the possibility of observing
galactic binaries
L. Carbone, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, M. Hueller, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, W. J. Weber, A. Cavalleri
Physical Review D 75, 042001, 2007
Hot-electron effect in palladium thin films
A. Vinante, P. Falferi, R., Mezzena, M. Mück
Phys. Rev. B 75, 104303, 2007
Thermal gradient-induced forces on geodesic reference masses for LISA
L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, M. Hueller, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, W. J. Weber

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Physical Review D 76, 102003, 2007

Results of the IGEC-2 search for gravitational wave bursts during 2005
P. Astone, D. Babusci, L. Baggio, M. Bassan, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Camarda, P. Carelli, G.
Cavallari, M. Cerdonio, A. Chincarini, E. Coccia, L. Conti, S. D'Antonio, M. De Rosa, M. di Paolo
Emilio, M. Drago, F. Dubath, V. Fafone, P. Falferi, S. Foffa, P. Fortini, S. Frasca, G. Gemme, G.
Giordano, G. Giusfredi, W. O. Hamilton, J. Hanson, M. Inguscio, W. W. Johnson, N. Liguori, S.
Longo, M. Maggiore, F. Marin, A. Marini, M. P. McHugh, R. Mezzena, P. Miller, Y. Minenkov, A.
Mion, G. Modestino, A. Moleti, D. Nettles, A. Ortolan, G. V. Pallottino, R. Parodi, G. Piano Mortari,
S. Poggi, G. A. Prodi, L. Quintieri, V. Re, A. Rocchi, F. Ronga, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, R. Sturani, L.
Taffarello, R. Terenzi, G. Torrioli, R. Vaccarone, G. Vandoni, G. Vedovato, A. Vinante, M. Visco, S.
Vitale, J. Weaver, J. P. Zendri, P. Zhang
Phys. Rev. D 76, 102001, 2007
STEP (satellite test of the equivalence principle)
T.J. Sumner , J. Anderson, J.P. Blaser, A.M. Cruise, T. Damour, H. Dittus, C.W.F. Everitt, B.
Foulon, Y. Jafry, B.J. Kent, N. Lockerbie, F. Loeffler, G. Mann, J. Mester, C. Pegrum, R. Reinhardt,
M. Sandford, A. Scheicher, C.C. Speake, R. Torii, S. Theil, P. Touboul, S. Vitale, W. Vodel, P.W.
Worden
Advances in Space Research 39, 254–258, 2007
2008
Antenna pattern of DUAL detectors of gravitational waves and its exploitation in a network of advanced
interferometers
P Leaci, T Dal Canton, A Ortolan, G. A. Prodi
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, p. 195018, 2008
Design of wideband acoustic detectors of gravitational waves equipped with displacement
concentrators
Leaci P., Vinante A., Bonaldi M., Falferi P., Pontin A., Prodi G. A., Zendri J. P.
Physical Review, D 77, p. 062001-1-062001-19, 2008
A Momentum Transfer Measurement Technique Between Contacting Free-Falling Bodies in the
Presence of Adhesion
M. Benedetti, D. Bortoluzzi, S. Vitale
Journal of Applied Mechanics, 75, 011016-1, 2008
Dynamic Measurements of Impulses Generated by the Separation of Adhered Bodies under Near-Zero
Gravity Conditions
D. Bortoluzzi, M. De Cecco, S. Vitale, M. Benedetti
Experimental Mechanics, Published on line DOI 10.1007/s11340-007-9115-z, 2008
LISA Pathfinder
P. McNamara, S. Vitale, K. Danzmann
Class. Quantum Grav., 25, 114034, 2008
A cross-correlation method to search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and Virgo
The AURIGA Collaboration: L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, M. De Rosa, P.
Falferi, S. Fattori, P. Fortini, G. Giusfredi, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, S. Longo, F. Marin, R. Mezzena,
A. Mion, A. Ortolan, S. Poggi, G. A. Prodi, V. Re, F Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato,
A. Vinante, S. Vitale, J. P. Zendri and the Virgo collaboration
Class. Quantum Grav., 25, 114046, 2008
First joint gravitational waves search by the AURIGA-EXPLORER-NAUTILUS-Virgo collaboration
The AURIGA, ROG and Virgo Collaborations: F. Acernese et al.
Class. Quantum Grav, 25, 205007, 2008
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO
The AURIGA Collaboration: L. Baggio, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, M.De Rosa, P. Falferi,
S. Fattori, P. Fortini, G. Giusfredi, M. Inguscio, N. Liguori, S. Longo, F. Marin, R. Mezzena, A. Mion,
A. Ortolan, S. Poggi, G. A. Prodi, V. Re, F. Salemi, G. Soranzo, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, A.
Vinante, S. Vitale, J. P. Zendri and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Class. Quantum Grav., B 095004, 2008

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Feedback cooling of the normal modes of a massive electromechanical system to submillikelvin

temperature
A. Vinante, M. Bignotto, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, L. Conti, P. Falferi, N. Liguori, S. Longo, R.
Mezzena, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, F. Salemi, L. Taffarello, G. Vedovato, S. Vitale, J. P. Zendri
Physical Review Letters 101, 033601, 2008
10 η superconducting quantum interference device amplifier for acoustic gravitational wave detectors
P. Falferi, M. Bonaldi, M. Cerdonio, R. Mezzena, G. A. Prodi, A. Vinante, S. Vitale
Applied Physics Letters, 93, 172506, 2008
2006
Testing of the UV discharge system for LISA Pathfinder
P. J. Wass, L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, M. Hueller, G. Rochester, M. Schulte, T.
Sumner, D. Tombolato, C. Trenkel, S. Vitale, W. Weber
AIP Conference Proceedings, 873, pp. 220-224, 2006
Achieving the mid-low end of the LISA band
S. Vitale, M. Armano, L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, M. Hueller, D. Tombolato, W. J.
Weber
Torsion pendulum facility for direct force measurements of LISA GRS related disturbances
L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, G. Ciani, R. Dolesi, M. Hueller, D. Tombolato, S. Vitale, W. J. Weber
Ground Based 2 DoF Test For LISA And LISA Pathfinder: A Status Report
R. Stanga, L. Marconi, C. Grimani, F. Vetrano, A. Vicerè, L. Carbone, A. Cavalleri, R. Dolesi, M.
Hueller, S. Vitale, W. J. Weber, V. Iafolla, S. Nozzoli, F. Santoli, G. Pucacco
A Non-Linear Laser Interferometer Model And Its Use For Drag-Free System Verification
D. Gerardi, W. Fichter, N. Brandt, C. Braxmaier, G. Heinzel, S. Vitale
Test-Mass Release Phase Ground Testing for the LISA Pathfinder Mission
D. Bortoluzzi, L. Baglivo, M. Benedetti, F. Biral, P. Bosetti, A. Cavalleri, I. Cristofolini, M. Da Lio, M.
De Cecco, R. Dolesi, V. Fontanari, M. Lapolla, R. Oboe, P. Radaelli, W. Weber, S. Vitale
Control Design of the Test Mass Release Mode for the LISA Pathfinder Mission
F. Montemurro, W. Fichter, M. Schlotterer, S. Vitale
AIP Conference Proceedings ,873, pp. 583-587, 2006
Calibration Methods for the LISA Pathfinder Drag-Free System and Expected Performance
W. Fichter, T. Ziegler, S. Vitale
AIP Conference Proceedings 873, pp. 675-681, 2006
Invited talks (Other talks or colloquia are not listed for brevity
2006
Stefano Vitale
th
Invited talk: Space-borne detectors, 4 EGO/SIGRAV School on Gravitational Waves, Pisa,
22-26 May 2006
th
Invited talk: Achieving the mid-low end band performance with LISA, 6 International LISA
symposium, Goddard Flight Space Center, Washington DC
Invited talk: LISA, ESA, International Workshop on Fundamental Physics, Florence

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Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder, Royal Astronomical Society Special Symposium, London
Invited talk: LISA, CHIPP Workshop on Space Time and Gravitation, Lausanne
Invited talk: Torsion pendulum investigation of thermal gradient-induced forces on LISA test
masses, LISA Symposium, NASA Goddard, Washington DC
William Weber
Invited talk: Free-fall and LISA sensitivity below 0.1 mHz, LISA Symposium, NASA Goddard,
Washington DC (W. Weber)
2007
Stefano Vitale
Invited talk: LISA and LISA Pathfinder, Rencontres de Moriond 2007, Gravitational Waves
and Experimental Gravity, 17-24 March 2007
Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder, From Quantum to Cosmos2, Bremen, 2007

th
Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder, 7 Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Wave, Sidney,
8-14 July 2007
Invited talk: LISA and LISA Pathfinder (Keynote lecture), ESMATS 2007, Liverpool, 9-21
September 2007
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Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder, the science case, 10 ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle,
Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications, Como, 6 November
2007
William Weber
Invited talk: Electrostatic force noise and free-fall for LISA, Charging Issues in Experimental
Gravity, MIT, Boston, USA (W. Weber)
2008
Stefano Vitale
th
Invited talk: The Spacecraft as a Precision Instrument (50th Anniversary Lecture), 37
COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, Canada, July 2008
th
Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder: the experiment and the route to LISA, 7 LISA Symposium
Barcelona, 16-20 June 2008
Invited talk: Space-time metrology for LISA, "The Nature of Gravity" ISSI Symposium, Bern,
Switzerland, 1 April 2008
st
Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder, 1 International LISA-DECIGO Workshop, Tokyo, 12-13
November 2008
William Weber
Invited talk: Ground testing of free-fall for LISA Pathfinder, LISA, and future space missions,
Quantum to Cosmos Workshop, Airlie, Virginia
Invited talk: Experimental tests of low frequency acceleration noise for free-falling LISA test
masses LISA Symposium, Barcelona, June 2008
Invited talk: LISA, VESF School on Gravitational Waves, Cascina, Pisa
Invited talk: LISA Pathfinder: testing the limits of pure geodesic motion for gravitational wave
observation in space, American Physical Society April Meeting, Denver

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Andrea Vinante
Invited talk: Feedback cooling of the normal modes of a massive electromechanical system
to submillikelvin temperature, Low Temperature Physics 25, Amsterdam, August 2008
ESA: Inertial Sensor Ground Testing and Noise Model for LISA (Principal
€ 130.000
coordinator: S. Vitale), 2006
INFN: AURIGA (Principal coordinator: M. Cerdonio, Local coordinator: G.A. Prodi)

€ 305.740
2006/2008
rd
INFN: DUAL Study for 3 generation Gravitational Wave Detector (Principal
€ 315.710
coordinator: M. Cerdonio, Local coordinator: M. Bonaldi) 2006/2008
EUROPEAN GRAVITATIONAL OBSERVATORY: two years Fellowship on data

€ 48.000
analysis for gravitational wave detectors (Principal coordinator G.A. Prodi) 2006/2008
INFN: LISA Pathfinder Support R&D activity for LISA Pathfinder (Principal
€ 399.460
coordinator: S. Vitale, Local coordinator: R. Dolesi) 2006/2008
ASI, CARLO GAVAZZI SPACE SpA: Inertial Sensor System and system engineering
€ 208.122
for LISA Pathfinder (Principal coordinator: S. Vitale) 2006/2008
ASTRIUM GmbH: GRS for LISA (Principal coordinator: S. Vitale) 2007 € 24.000
ASI: LISA Pathfinder (Support to the scientific activities of the Principal Investigator)
€ 986.799
(Principal coordinator: S. Vitale) 2007/2010
ASI: Modeling of LISA noise and LISA data analysis (Principal coordinator: P. de
€ 51.307
Bernardis, Local coordinator: G.A. Prodi) 2007/2010
INFN: VIRGO Large ground-based gravitational wave detector (Principal coordinator:

€ 30.000
F. Fidecaro, Local coordinator: G.A. Prodi) 2008
PRIN 2007: Modeling and experimental investigation on the mechanical dissipation of

mirrors for next generation detectors of gravitational waves (Principal coordinator F. € 80.100
Vetrano, Local coordinator: G.A. Prodi) 2008/2010
Total € 2.579.238

All the above projects are national or international collaborations:
• AURIGA: Padova, Trento, Firenze, Ferrara

• DUAL: Padova, Trento, Firenze
• LISA Pathfinder: ESA ESTEC, ESA-ESOC, ESA-ESAC, NASA-JPL, CNES, ASI, DLR, CST,
CRE, SRON, Swiss Space Office, University Trento, Max-Planck Hannover, IEEC Barcelona,
Imperial College, University Birmingham, University Glasgow, ETH Zurich, University Zurich,
APC Paris,University Urbino
• LISA: More than 100 institutions are involved in LISA worldwide
• VIRGO: INFN-CNRS-NIKHEF. More than 20 institutions in Europe are involved in Virgo

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LISA Pathfinder is a major aerospace industrial project with a total budget around 400 M$ including
NASA contribution. The Principal Investigator is the head of the Management Office that has the
responsibility of delivering to ESA the core mission instrument called the LISA Technology Package.
The instrument is implemented, under the Management Office, by a Europe-wide consortium of
industries. The leading ones are:
• ASTRIUM GmbH, Friedrichshafen

• Carlo Gavazzi Space, Milan
• Thales Alenia Spazio, Milan
• Kayser-Threde, Münich
• RUAG, Zurich
• NTE, Barcelona
Memberships
Stefano Vitale
• Member of INFN/CNRS VIRGO experiment Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee
(STAC), 2006-2008
• Member of ESA Advisory Committee to Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration,
2007-2008
• Member of Astronet Roadmap Panel A: High energy, astroparticle, gravitational waves, 2007-
2008
• Member as LISA representative and Member of the roadmap Committee Gravitational Wave
International Committee (GWIC, a IUPAP subcommittee)
• Member of LISA International Science Team (ESA/NASA
• Member of Fachbeirat (Review Committee) of, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics
• Member of COSPAR-Italian National Committee
• Member of Review Board (Nucleo di Valutazione) Università di Verona
• Member of Scientific Programme Committee Space-Part 4, 2006
th
• Scientific Programme Committee 6 International LISA Symposium, Goddard Space Flight
Center (Washington dc), 2006
• Member of ESA Life and Physical Science Advisory Committee, 2006
th
• Member of Scientific Organizing Committee and session chair 11 Gravitational Wave Data
Analysis Workshop, 2006
th
• Member of Scientific Programme Committee and session convenor 7 Edoardo Amaldi
Conference on Gravitational Waves, Sidney, 2007
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• Member of Scientific Programme Committee 8 International LISA Symposium, 2008
th
• Member of Programme Advisory Board 25 International Conference on Low Temperature
Physics, LT25, 2008
• Member of Scientific Programme Committee and session chair (substituted by Curt Cutler as
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unable to attend the conference) 8 Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Wave, New
York, 2009
Giovanni Andrea Prodi

• Member of Virgo Steering Committee
William Weber
• Member of ESA Fundamental Physics Advisory Group, 2007-2009

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Awards and other special recognitions

The paper by A. Vinante, et al. Physical Review Letters 101, 033601 (2008). Has been reviewed in
Physics 1, 3 (2008) "How to silence a one-ton bell". Also: Inside Science Research --- Physics
News Update. The American Institute of Physics Bulleting of Research News Number 879 #1,
December 22, 2008 www.aip.org/pnu . "Top ten physics stories of the year".
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S. Vitale has been invited to give the 50 anniversary lecture "Space and the Spacecraft as a
precision laboratory" at the 2008 general assembly of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research of
International Council for Science. Advisor to UN for scientific matters related to space). COSPAR
General Assemblies are attended by approx. 2000 delegates.
PhD thesis
2006
• Silvia Poggi: A Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts by the AURIGA Resonant Detector and
the LIGO Interferometer Observatories, G.A. Prodi 17.2.2006
2008
• Giacomo Ciani: Free-fall of LISA test masses: a new torsion pendulum facility to test linear motion,
S. Vitale 21.2.2008
• Alessandro Mion: A search for gravitational waves from pulsars in binary systems using AURIGA
and radiotelescope observations, G.A. Prodi 2.2.2008
• Paola Leaci: Development of wideband gravitational wave detectors, G.A. Prodi 21.2.2008
• David Tombolato: A laboratory verification of the force disturbance physical model for the LISA
path finder free fall demonstration mission, S. Vitale, W. Weber 21.2.2008

2008
• Zanini, Fabio "Josephson effect and selected applications: an example of quantum effects in
macroscopic systems", G.A. Prodi

2007
• Nicolodi, Daniele: "Toward a third generation torsion pendulum for femto-newton level testing of
free kall in the laboratory", S. Vitale, W. Weber

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NANOSCIENCE
Short description
Reducing the dimensionality of the matter at the nanometer levels or building up structures by
chemistry such as nano-complexes are formed allow to study new phenomena which can be exploited
in several different ways. In the Nanoscience laboratory we concentrate on three main directions:
• Silicon Nanophotonics
• Metamaterials
• Nanobiotechnologies, Antioxidants and human health
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator: Roberta Adamo 3

Lorenzo Pavesi 36 Oleksiy Anopchenko 23
Shatveryan Arkadi 2
Zeno Gaburro 30 Paolo Bettotti 36
Marina Scarpa 36 Sara Cardillo 2
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Nicola Daldosso 35 Roberta Adamo 20 cycle
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Technical staff Jakoti Das 3 Luigi Ferraioli 20 cycle
st
Elena Froner 26 Rita Spano 21 cycle
Massimo Cazzanelli 36 Zeno Gaburro 6 Romain Guider
nd
22 cycle
Elvira D’Amato 36 Silvia Larcheri 9 Alessandro Pitanti
nd
22 cycle
nd
Michele Lunelli 3 Giulio Marco Masi 23 cycle
th
Administrative staff Alessandro Marconi 6 Alessandro Marconi 24 cycle
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Stefano Prezioso 6 Nikola Prtjaga 24 cycle
Tatsiana 36 D. Navarro Urrios 20
Yatskevich Francesco Riboli 4
Eveline Rigo 6
Min Xie 8
Minghua Wuang 21
Yuan Zhizhong 2
Long term visitors

• Syed Minhaz Hossain Department of Physics, Bengal Engineering and Science
University, Shibpur Howrah-711 103 BOYSCAST Fellow (India)
(30/03/2007 - 25/03/2008)
• Youcef Lebour Departament d'Electronica, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain,
financied by Universitat de Barcelona, 2007
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• Hasan Yildirim TUBITAK: Scientific and Technological Research Council of

Turkey, financied by TUBITAK (Turkey) (January 2008 -
January 2009)
Research activities
Silicon Nanophotonics
Silicon photonics is the technology where photonic devices are produced by standard microelectronics
processes by using the same paradigm of electronics: integration of a large number of devices to yield
a high circuit complexity which allows high performances and low costs. Thus, the real truth is to
develop photonic devices that can be easily integrated to improve the single device performance and to
allow high volume production: integration and mass-manufacturing are where silicon photonic can
outperform other photonic platforms, such as InP-based or glass-based. To this aim, one further add-
on is making silicon do something which it is not able to do in its standard (bulk) form. Low dimensional
silicon, where small silicon nanocrystals or nanoclusters (Si-nc) are developed, is one way to compel
silicon to act as an active optical material. In our laboratory, we study phenomena and applications
where Si-nc enables silicon doing photonic functions otherwise not possible by using bulk silicon.
Nanocrystalline silicon is studied to enable new functionalities such as amplifiers and lasers. We are
also interested in the use of nanocrystalline silicon for photovoltaic or bio-sensing applications.
In addition, photonics at the nanoscale allows understanding new phenomena which could bring up
new devices. Low modal size silicon waveguides allow getting either high fields where nonlinear optical
effects can be exploited or high quality factor micro-resonators where novel concepts in light routing,
switching and manipulation can be developed. Further researches concern the use of strain to break
the crystalline symmetry of silicon and enable non-linear optical effects to yield mid-infrared or
terahertz light. Along these activities on material science, we also develop polymers-on-silicon
photonics to complement the spectrum of opportunities that silicon offers.
Metamaterials
The ability of structuring materials well below the wavelength of interesting portions of the spectrum of
electromagnetic radiation has recently generated a great deal of attention. The interest in this area of
research stems from the fact that many macroscopic optical properties - for example, the refractive
index - which have been traditionally bound to material properties, such as the chemical composition or
the natural crystalline structure, can be controlled to a fine degree by the artificial control of structural
properties. Since the resulting overall optical response goes beyond what is naturally available, these
structured systems have been dubbed metamaterials (from the Greek prefix "meta-", "beyond").
Examples of useful effects are the independent engineering of optical and magnetic resonances, which
can lead to simultaneous negative effective dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability, leading in
turn to negative refraction. Another notable application is the focusing and the resolution beyond the
diffraction limits (the superlens effect).
Dynamic photonic crystal are time-dependent structures that can enable interesting phenomena,
potentially attractive for applications (for example, to by-pass fundamental trade-offs such as the time-
bandwidth constrain of optical response) as well as for fundamental research, where they can be
experimental frameworks for electromagnetic frequency shifts based on Doppler effect, all the way to
advanced investigation tools for effects predicted in presence of large gravitational fields or
accelerations (Hawking radiation and Unruh effect).
Nanobiotechnologies, Antioxidants and human health
The general aim of this activity is to conceive and experiment new nanodevices, designed at the
atomic level, to master their functionalities controlling their three dimensional geometries. Since some
of these properties are peculiar to bio molecules whose function is related to their self-regulated 3D
conformation the insertion of bio molecules in nanometric structures allows to obtain new classes of
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nanodevices which act as sensor or trasducer or photo activator. Nanoscale manipulation is pursued,
in particular innovative methods to modify substrate (silicon, silicon nitride, silicon oxide) structure in
order to introduce spatially defined attachment points for molecules are set-up.
In addition, antioxidant compounds are very popular among the general public for their ability to control
reactive and damaging forms of oxygen, often Refereed to as free radicals. However even though
antioxidants have been largely studied, much still remains unknown about how the human body
absorbs and uses these compounds. Moreover a selected compound which show antioxidant behavior
under selected environmental conditions can reverse to oxidation promoter if these conditions are
changed. There are more than 40 established methods for evaluating a food’s antioxidant activity, but
most rely on measuring chemical reactions under test tube conditions and not on how the compounds
actually function in the body. A current research effort in our group is aimed to develop innovative
instrumentation (based on Si transducers) and methods to test antioxidants as radical scavengers in a
micelle system reproducing the conditions occurring in the upper small intestine in humans, during
digestion and absorption of lipids. A further aspect of this research concerns the understanding of the
significance of antioxidant activity of selected compounds (glutathione, uric and ascorbic acid) in the
light of their physiological role.
This research is interdisciplinary among biochemists, materials scientists, electronic engineers. At

present our research is focused on the design and set-up of nanostructured hybrid interfaces (bio-
organic-inorganic) to be assembled into devices for analytical or catalytical purpose. In particular we
have recently designed and fabricated a nanostructured hybrid interface to capture bio-analytes and
enhance their Raman signals. Now we are planning to optimize the enhancement by assembling the
bio active interface into a nanomechanic system.
A currently developed research concerns the fabrication of inorganic (silicon titanium) nanostructures
able to actively interact with biosystems in vitro and in vivo. Among these nanostructures are silicon
quantum dots with various surface properties which emit light and enter into cells so they can be used
as luminescent labels or delivery systems (for DNA, drug or protein delivery). Further research on Si
quantum dots concerns their application as activators in cancer photodynamic therapy.

2006
Luminescence of porous silicon derived nanocrystals dispersed in water: dependence on initial porous
silicon oxidation
E. Froner, R. Adamo, Z. Gaburro, B. Margesin, L. Pavesi, A. Rigo, M. Scarpa
Journal of Nanoparticle Research 8, p. 1071-1074, 2006
3+
Refractive index dependence of the absorption and emission cross sections at 1.54 µm of Er coupled
to Si nanoclusters
N. Daldosso, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Melchiorri, L. Pavesi, C. Sada, F. Gourbilleau, R. Rizk
Applied Physics Letters 88, p. 161901, 2006
Wide-band transmission of non-distorted slow waves in 1D optical superlattices
M. Ghulynian, M. Galli, C. Toninelli, J. Bertolotti, S. Gottardo, F. Marabelli, D. S. Wiersma, L.
Pavesi, L. C. Andreani
Vapor diffusion and condensation in porous optical superlattices: vapor-controlled photonic band tilting
and tunable light transmission
M. Ghulinyan, Z. Gaburro, D. S. Wiersma, L. Pavesi
Physical Review B 74, p. 045118, 2006
Photon Energy Lifter
Z. Gaburro, M. Ghulinyan, F. Riboli, L. Pavesi, A. Recati, I. Carusotto
Optics Express 14, p. 7270, 2006
Optical gain in dye impregnated oxidized porous silicon waveguides
C.J. Oton, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Ghulinyan, N. E. Capuj, S. Gonzales-Peres, F. Lahoz, I. R. Martin,
L. Pavesi
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Wave transport in random systems: multiple resonance character of necklace modes and their
statistical behaviour
J. Bertolotti, M. Galli, R. Sapienza, M. Ghulinyan, S. Gottardo, L. C. Andreani, L. Pavesi, D. S.
Wiersma
Physical Review E Rapid Communications 74, p. 035602 (R), 2006
Er Coupled Si Nanocluster Waveguide
N. Daldosso, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Melchiorri, C. García, P. Pellegrino, B. Garrido, C. Sada, G.
Battaglin, F. Gourbilleau, R. Rizk, L. Pavesi
IEEE- Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 12, p.1607 - 1617, 2006
Distance dependent interaction as the limiting factor for Si nanocluster to Er energy transfer in silica
B. Garrido, C. Garcia, P. Pellegrino, D. Navarro-Urrios, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, F. Gorbilleau, R.
Rizk
Rewritable photonic circuits
F. Intonti, S. Vignolini, V. Turck, P. Bettotti, S. L. Schweizer, R. Wehrspohn, L. Pavesi, M. Colocci,
D. Wiersma
2007
N-alkanamines as substrates to probe the hydrophobic region of bovine serum amine oxidase active
site: a kinetic and spectroscopic study
Di Paolo M. L., Pesce C., Lunelli M., Scarpa M., Rigo A.
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 465, p. 50-60, 2007
Peroxyl radical trapping activity of anthocyanins and generation of free radical intermediates
M. Rossetto, P. Vanzani, M. Lunelli, M. Scarpa, F. Mattivi, A. Rigo
Free Radical Research 41, p. 854-859, 2007
Cut-off and m-line spectroscopy of silica layers containing Si nanocrystals: Experimental evidence of
optical birefringence
L. Khriachtchev, D. Navarro-Urrios, L. Pavesi, C. J. Oton, N. E. Capuj, S. Novikov
Journal of Applied Physics 101, p. 044310, 2007
A method to evaluate capacity and efficiency of water soluble antioxidants as peroxyl radical
scavengers
L. Zennaro, M. Rossetto, P. Vanzani, V. De Marco, M. Scarpa, L. Battistin, A. Rigo
Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 462, p. 38-46, 2007
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Signal enhancement in Si-Nc: Er optical waveguides: limiting factors
D. Navarro-Urrios, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, C. García, P. Pellegrino, B. Garrido, F. Gourbilleau, R.
Rizk
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 46, p. 6626-6633, 2007
Optical bistability due to capillary condensation in porous optical superlattices
P. Barthelemy, Mher Ghulinyan, Z. Gaburro, C. Toninelli, L. Pavesi, D. Wiersma
Nature Photonics 1, p. 172, 2007
Study of silicon nanocrystal formation in annealed silicon-rich silicon oxide films prepared by plasma
enhanced chemical vapour deposition
N. Daldosso, G. Das, S. Larcheri, G. Mariotto, G. Dalba, L. Pavesi, A. Irrera, F. Priolo, F. Iacona, F.
Rocca
Study of the pyrolysis process of an hybrid CH3SiO1.5 gel into a SiCO glass
G. Das, P. Bettotti, L. Ferraioli, R. Raj, G. Mariotto, L. Pavesi, G.D. Sorarù
Vibrational Spectroscopy 45, p. 61-68, 2007
A highly efficient longitudinal multimode pumping scheme for Si-NC sensitized EDWAs
F. Di Pasquale, V. Toccafondo, S. Faralli, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, H.E. Hernandez-Figueroa
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Excitable Er fraction and quenching phenomena in Er doped SiO2 layers contining Si nanoclusters
B. Garrido, C. Garcia, S. - Y. Seo, P. Pellegrino, D. Navarro-Urrios, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, F.
Gourbilleau, R. Rizk
Physical Review B 76, p. 45308, 2007
Band gap characterization and slow light effects in one dimensional photonic crystals based on silicon
slot-waveguides
F. Riboli, P. Bettotti, L. Pavesi
Optics Express 15, p. 11769-11775, 2007
Interference lithography by a soft x-ray laser beam: Nanopatterning on photoresists
A. Ritucci, A. Reale, P. Zuppella, L. Reale, P. Tucceri, G. Tomassetti, P. Bettotti, L. Pavesi
Photoluminescence of silicon nanocrystals in silicon oxide
L. Ferraioli, M. Wang, G. Puker, D. Navarro-Urrios, N. Daldosso, C Kompocholis L. Pavesi
Journal of Nanomaterials vol. 2007, Article ID 43491, 5 pages (invited 2007)
2008
Linear and non-linear optical properties of Si nanocrystals in SiO2 deposited by PECVD
S. Hernández, P. Pellegrino, A. Martínez, Y. Lebour, B. Garrido, R. Spano, M. Cazzanelli, N.
Daldosso, L. Pavesi, E. Jordana, J. M. Fedeli
Dynamics of capillary condensation in bistable optical superlattices
Z. Gaburro, M. Ghulinyan, L. Pavesi, P. Barthelemy, C. Toninelli, D. Wiersma
Physical Review B77, p. 115354, 2008
Optical Transitions in Nano-Domains and Graphene Sheets Formed in Pseudo-Amorphous
Siliconoxycarbonitride Polymer-Ceramic Hybrids
L. Ferraioli, D. Ahn, A. Saha, L. Pavesi, R. Raj
Journal of the America Chemical Society 91, p. 2422-2424, 2008
Quantification of the carrier absorption losses in Si-nanocrystals rich rib-waveguides at 1.54 µm
D. Navarro-Urrios, A. Pitanti, N. Daldosso, F. Gorbilleau, R. Rizk, G. Pucker, L. Pavesi
Whispering-gallery modes and light emission from a Si-nanocrystal-based single microdisk resonator
M. Ghulinyan, D. Navarro-Urrios, A. Pitanti, A. Lui, G. Pucker, L. Pavesi
Optics Express 16, p. 13218-13224, 2008
Light emission properties and mechanism of low-temperature prepared amorphous SiNx films. I: Room-
temperature band tail states photoluminescence
M. Wang, M. Xie, L. Ferraioli, Z. Yuan, D. Li, D. Yang ,L. Pavesi
Light emission properties and mechanism of low-temperature prepared amorphous SiNx films. II:
Defect states electroluminescence
M. Wang, Z. Yuan, O. Anopchenko, D. Li, D. Yang, L. Pavesi
Electrical conduction and electroluminescence in Nanocrystalline silicon-based light emitting devices
S. Prezioso, A. Anopchenko, Z. Gaburro, L. Pavesi, G. Pucker, L. Vanzetti ,P. Bellutti
Sub-Band Gap Photo-Response of Nanocrystalline Silicon in a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Device
S. M. Hossain, A. Anopchenko, S. Prezioso, L. Ferraioli, L. Pavesi, G. Pucker, P. Bellutti, S.
Binetti, M. Acciarri
Stabilized porous silicon optical superlattices with controlled surface passivation
M. Ghulinyan, B. Gelloz, T. Ohta, L. Pavesi, D. J. Lockwood, N. Koshida
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Noise Spectroscopy of Gas Sensors

V. M. Aroutiounian, Z. H. Mkhitaryan, A. A. Shatveryan, F. V. Gasparyan, M. Ghulinyan, L. Pavesi,
L. B. Kish, C.-G. Granqvist
IEEE Sensors Journal 8, p. 786-790, 2008
Fast and simple method for the simultaneous evaluation of the capacity and efficiency of food
antioxidants in trapping peroxyl radicals in an intestinal model system
M. Rossetto, P. Vanzani, V. De Marco, L. Zennaro, M. Scarpa, A. Rigo
J. Agric Food Chem. 56(10), p. 3486-92, 2008
Porous silicon as efficient surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate
F. Giorgis, E. Descrovi, A. Chiodoni, E. Froner, M. Scarpa, A. Venturello, F. Geobaldo
Appl. Surf. Sci. 254(22), p. 7494-7497, 2008
Photonic energy lifters and event horizons with time-dependent dielectric structures
Z. Gaburro
J. Nanophoton., Vol. 2, p. 021853, 2008
2006
Silicon light emitters and amplifiers: state of the art
Pavesi L.
"Silicon Photonics", San Jose, CA, 25 January 2006
In: Silicon Photonics, Eds.: Kubby J. A., Reed G. T., Bellingham, Wash., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol.
6125, p. 612508-1-612508-13, 2006
Non-linear optical properties of Si nanocrystals
Cazzanelli M., Spano R., Daldosso N., Gaburro Z., Hernandez S., Lebour Y., Pellegrino P., Garrido
B., Jordana E., Fedeli J. M., Pavesi L.
rd
"3 IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics", Piscataway, NJ:IEEE, Ottawa, 13-15
September 2006
In: Conference proceedings: "Group IV Photonics", p. 52-54, 2006
A characterization of injection, transport an excitation mechanisms in Si-nc based MOS-LEDs
Kompocholis C., Pucker G., Bellutti P., Lui A., Vanzetti L., Bersani M., Anderle M., Prezioso S.,
Gaburro Z., Pavesi L.
rd
"3 IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics", Piscataway, NJ:IEEE, Ottawa, 13-15
September 2006
In: Conference proceedings: "Group IV Photonics", p. 140-142, 2006
Influence of the nature of oxide matrix on the photoluminescence spectrum of ion-synthesized silicon
nanostructures
D. I. Tetelbaum, O.N. Gorshkov, A.V. Ershov, A.P. Kasatkin, V.A. Kamin, A.N. Mikhaylov, A.I.
Belov, D.M. Gaponova, L. Pavesi, L. Ferraioli
Thin Solid Films 515, p. 333-337, 2006
Photon recycling in Fabry-Perot micro-cavities based on Si3N4 waveguides
F. Riboli, A. Recati, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, G. Pucker, A. Lui, S. Cabrini, E. Di Fabrizio
Photonics and Nanostructures, Fundamental and Application (PNFA) 4, p. 41-46, 2006
Focused ion beam fabbrication of one-dimensional photonic crystals on Si3N4/SiO2 channel
waveguides
S. Cabrini, L. Businaro, M. Prasciolu, A. Carpentiro, D. Gerace, M. Galli, L. C. Andreani, F. Riboli, L.
Pavesi, E. Di Fabrizio
J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 8, p.S550-S553, 2006
Optical losses and gain in silicon-rich silica waveguides containing Er ions
D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Melchiorri, N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi, C. Garcia, P. Pellegrino, B. Garrido, G.
Pucker, F. Gorbilleau, R. Rizk
Journal of Luminescence 121, p. 249-255, 2006
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Optical losses and absorption cross section of silicon nanocrystals

N. Daldosso, M. Melchiorri, L. Pavesi, G. Pucker, F. Gourbilleau, S. Chausserie, Ali Belarouci, X.
Portier, C. Dufour
Journal of Luminescence 121, p. 344-348, 2006
2007
Non-linear optical properties of PECVD Si-nc under nanosecond excitation
Martinez A., Hernandez S., Pellegrino P., Lebour Y., Carles G., Marco S., Garrido B., Spano R.,
Cazzanelli M., Daldosso N., Pavesi L., Jordana E., Fedeli J. M.
"Nanotechnology III", Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, 2-4 May 2007
In: Conference proceedings of "Nanotechnology III", Eds.: Briones F., Bellingham, Wash.: Vol.
6591, 2007
Silicon photonics at University of Trento
Anopchenko A., Bettotti P., Cazzanelli M., Daldosso N., Ferraioli L., Gaburro Z., Guider R., Hossain
S. M., Navarro-Urrios D., Pitanti A., Prezioso S., Spano R., Wang M., Pavesi L.
"International Semiconductor Conference", CAS 2007, Sinaia, Romania, 15-17 October 2007
In: Conference proceedings of International Semiconductor Conference, CAS 2007, Vol. 1,
Piscataway, NJ:IEEE, p. 175-179, 2007
Charge transport and electroluminescence in PECVD grown silicon-nanocrystals-based LEDs
Anopchenko A., Prezioso S., Gaburro Z., Ferraioli L., Pucker G., Bellutti P., Pavesi L.
th
"4 IEEE International Conference on Group IV photonics", Tokyo, 19-21 September 2007
th
In: Conference proceedings of 24 IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics,
Piscataway, NJ:IEEE, p. 70-72, 2007
Optical gain in oxidized porous silicon waveguides impregnated with a laser dye
C.J. Oton, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Ghulinyan, N. E. Capuj, S. González-Pérez, F. Lahoz, I. R. Martín,
L. Pavesi
Physica Status Solidi (c) 4, N.6, p. 2145-2149, 2007
Waveguiding, absorption and emission properties of dye-impregnated oxidized porous silicon
D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Ghulinyan, N. E. Capuj, C. J. Oton, F. Riboli, I. R. Martín, L. Pavesi
Physica Status Solidi (a) 204, 1502-1506, 2007
Vapor control of resonant Zener tunneling of light in a photonic crystal
M. Ghulinyan, Z. Gaburro, D.S. Wiersma, L. Pavesi
Physica Status Solidi (a) 204, p. 1351-1355, 2007
Low-frequency noise in structures with porous silicon in different gas media
Z. H. Mkhitaryan, A. A. Shatveryan, V. M. Aroutiounian, M. Ghulinyan, L. Pavesi
Physica Status Solidi (c) 4, N.6, 2063-2067, 2007
Current-voltage and low-frequency noise characteristics of structures with porous silicon layers
exposed to different gases
Z.H. Mkhitaryan, A. A. Shatveryan, V. M. Aroutiounian, M. Ghulinyan, L. Pavesi, L. B. Kish, C. G.
Granqvist
Physica E 38, p. 160-163, 2007
Si-nanocrystals/SiO2 thin films obtained by pyrolysis of sol-gel precursors
G. Das, L. Ferraioli, P. Bettotti, F. De Angelis, G. Mariotto, L. Pavesi, E. Di Fabrizio, G. D. Sorarù
Thin Solid Films 516, p. 6804-6807, 2007
2008
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Further improvements in Er coupled to Si nanoclusters rib waveguides
Pitanti A., Navarro-Urrios D., Guider R., Daldosso N., Gourbilleau F., Khomenkova L., Pavesi L.,
Rizk R.
"Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits", Strasbourg, 7-10 April 2008
In: Conference proceedings of Silicon photonics and photonic integrated circuits, Eds.: Righini G.,
Honkanen S., Pavesi L., Vivien L., Bellingham, Wash., Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 6996, p. 699619-
699619, 2008
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The electron and crystalline structure features of ion-synthesize nanocomposite of Si nanocrystals in

Al2O3 matrix revealed by electron spectroscopy
Kovalev, D. Wainstein, D. Tetelbaum, A. Mikhaylov, L. Pavesi, L. Ferraioli, A. Ershov, A. Below
Journal of Physics Conference series 100 p. 072012, 2008
Low dimensional silicon structures for photonic and sensor applications
R. Adamo, A. Anopchenko, P. Bettotti, M. Cazzanelli, E. D'Amato, N. Daldosso, L. Ferraioli, E.
Froner, Z. Gaburro, R. Guider, S. M. Hossain, D. Navarro-Urrios, A. Pitanti, S. Prezioso, M. Scarpa,
R. Spano, M. Wang, L. Pavesi
Appl. Surf. Sci. 255, p.624-627, 2008
Pulsed excitation of a whispering gallery resonator
Z. Gaburro
th
In: 10 Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, 2008 Vol. 4, p. 254-
257, 2008

2006
Optical gain in silicon and the quest for a silicon injection laser
Pavesi L.
In: Optical interconnects: the silicon approach, Eds.: Pavesi L., Guillot G., Springer series in optical
sciences;119. ISBN: 3-540-28910-0, Springer, Berlin, p. 15-32, 2006
Optical superlattices: where photons behave like electrons
M. Ghulinyan, Z., Gaburro, L. Pavesi, C. J. Oton, N. E. Capuj, R. Sapienza, C. Toninelli, P.
Costantino, D. S. Wiersma
In: New Topics in Lasers and Electro-Optic, Ed.: William T. Arkin, Research Nova Science
Publishers, p. 63-822006, 2006
2007
Moving dielectric interfaces as photonic wavelength converters
Gaburro Z.
In: Frontiers Surface Nanophotonics: Principles and Applications, Eds.: D. L. Andrews, Z. Gaburro,
Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 2007
Low dimensional Silicon as a photonic material
Daldosso N., Pavesi L.
In: Nanosilicon, Ed.: V. Kumar, p. 314-334, Elsevier, 2007
Photonics applications of nano-silicon
Pavesi L.
In: Frontiers in Optical Technology: Materials and Devices, Eds.: P.K. Choudhury, Onkar N. Singh,
Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, p. 97-124, 2007
Low dimensional silicon to enable silicon photonics
O. Anopchenko, P. Bettotti, M. Cazzanelli, N. Daldosso, L. Ferraioli, Z. Gaburro, R. Guider, D.
Navarro-Urrios, A. Pitanti, S. Prezioso, R. Spano, L. Pavesi
In: Highlights on Spectroscopies of Semiconductors and Nanostructures, Eds.: Guizzetti, L. C.
Andreani, F. Marabelli, M. Patrini, Conference Proceedings vol. 94, p. 231-242, SIF Bologna, 2007
2008
Silicon-based light source for silicon integrated circuits
Pavesi L.
In: Special issue on Silicon Photonics, Eds.: P. Cheben, R. Soref, D. Loockwood, G. Reed,
Advances in Optical Technology Vol. 2008, p.12, 2007
Silicon Nanocrystals enabling silicon photonics
N. Daldosso, L. Pavesi
In: Silicon Nanophotonics, Ed.: L. Khriachtchev, Elsevier, p. 1-24, 2008
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2006
Lorenzo Pavesi
Optical interconnects: the silicon approach
Eds.: Lorenzo Pavesi , Gerard Guillot, Springer series in Optical Sciences vol. 119 XXII, 384 p. 265
illus., 5 in colour, Hardcover ISBN: 3-540-28910-0, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2006
Zeno Gaburro
Nanophotonic Materials III
Eds.: Z. Gaburro; S. Cabrini, Proceedings of SPIE, 2006
2007
Zeno Gaburro
Frontiers in Surface Nanophotonics: Principles and Applications
Eds.: D. L. Andrews, Z. Gaburro, Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 2007
Nanophotonic Materials IV
Eds.: Z. Gaburro; S. Cabrini Proceedings of SPIE, 2007
2008
Lorenzo Pavesi
Biophotonics
Eds.: L. Pavesi, P. Fauchet, Springer series in Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical
Engineering, ISBN 978-3-540-76779-4, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2008
Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits

Eds.: G.C. Righini, S. K. Honkanen, L. Pavesi, L. Vivien, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 6996,
2008
Z. Gaburro
Nanophotonic Materials V
Eds.: Z. Gaburro; S. Cabrini, Proceedings of SPIE, 2008
Books
2006
Nanostructured Silicon for Photonics - from materials to devices
Z. Gaburro, P. Bettotti, N. Daldosso, M. Ghulinyan, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Melchiorri, F. Riboli, M.
Saiani, F. Sbrana, L. Pavesi
Volumes 27-28 of Materials Science Foundations, pag.1-238, Trans Tech Publications Ltd, Zürich,
2006

2006
Lorenzo Pavesi
Invited talk: Silicon emitters and amplifiers: the state of the art, Symposium Integrated
Optoelectronic Devices 2006 of the Photonic West 2006 SPIE Conference, San Jose, 22-26
January 2006
th
Invited talk: Er coupled Si nanocluster waveguide, 13 Korean Conference on
Semiconductors, Jeju Island, 22-23 Feb 2006
Invited talk: Silicon nanophotonics, Integrated Optics, Silicon Photonics and Photonic
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Integrated Circuits Symposium of the Photonics Europe SPIE Conference, Strasbourg

France, 3-7 April 2006
Invited talk: Silicon nanostructures to enable silicon photonics, International workshop on

Nanostructured Materials, NANOMAT2006, Antalya, Turkey, 21-23 June 2006
Invited talk: Silicon Nanophotonics, MWP’06 International Topical Meeting on Microwave

Photonics, Grenoble, France, 3 October 2006
st
Invited talk: The present status on the way towards a silicon laser, 1 International Optence
Workshop on Silicon Photonics, Mainz, Germany, 10 November 2006
Nicola Daldosso
Invited talk: Optical losses and gain in silicon-rich silica waveguides containing Er ions, the
EMRS 2006, Nice, France, 29 May -1 June 2006
2007
Lorenzo Pavesi
Invited talk: Silicon Nanocrystals as enabling photonic and biological applications, OPNA
Kick-off Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 14 March 2007
Invited talk: Novel silicon nanophotonics devices, Symposium Photonic Materials, Devices,
and Applications SPIE European Symposium on Microtechnologies for the New Millennium,
Gran Canaria, Spain, 2 - 4 May 2007
Invited talk: All optical light amplification in silicon based waveguides with Erbium,
Symposium C : Rare earth ion doping for photonics: materials, mechanisms and devices of
the E-MRS 2007 Spring Meeting, Strasbourg, France, 28 May - 1 June 2007
Invited review paper: Fotonica in silicio, Fotonica 2007, Mantova, Italy, 21-23 May, 2007
Invited talk: All optical light amplification in silicon nanocrystals based waveguides with
Erbium, EMRS, Strasbourg, France 31 May 2007
Invited talk: Silicon photonics and the contribution of Marcofabio Righini to the field,
Seminano Workshop, Bad Honnef, Austria, 14 June 2007
Plenary talk: Silicon Photonics, Optique Grenoble 2007, Grenoble, France, 2-5 July 2007
th
Plenary talk: Low Dimensional Silicon Structures for Photonic and Sensor Applications, 11 ,
International Conference on the formation of semiconductor interfaces: from semiconductors
to nanoscience and applications with biology, ICSFI 2007, Manuas, Brazil, 20-24 August
2007
th
Plenary talk: Silicon photonics: state of the art, challenges and future, 5 Workshop on Fibers
and Optical Passive Components, WFOPC2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 5 December 2007
Nicola Daldosso
Invited talk: Low dimensional silicon for Photonics, OIDA, Forum, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 22
February 2007
th
Invited talk: Photoluminescence of silicon nanocrystals, ECS 212 Meeting: Nanocrystal
Embedded Dielectrics for Electronic and Photonic Devices, Washington DC, USA, 9 October
2007
Invited talk: Erbium and Silicon Nanocrystal for Light Amplification, LEOS Annual Meeting,
Integrated Optics and Optoelectronics, Orlando, FL, USA, 21-25 October 2007
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Marina Scarpa
Invited talk: Bio-nano-materials, Workshop LaTeMAR, Verona, Italy, February 2007
2008
Lorenzo Pavesi
Invited talk: Silicon photonics: state of the art, challenges and future, International European-
Japan Meeting on ICT, Japan, 4-5 March 2008
Invited talk: Silicon nano-photonics: challenges and perspectives, International Workshop

SEDWAL, Levico, Italy, 13-17 April 2008
Invited talk: Silicon photonics: state of the art, challenges and future, Phorit Workshop,
Rome, Italy, 4 April 2008
Invited talk: Theory and modeling of the optical properties of nanocrystalline silicon,
Photonics North, Montreal, Canada, 2-4 June 2008
Invited talk: Nano Silicon for Photonics, ECS 2008, Hawaii, 12-14 October 2008
Invited talk: Silicon Photonics: Challenges and Future, IEEE LEOS, Pavia, Italy, 27 May 2008
Invited talk: Low dimensional silicon structures for photonic and sensor applications, ASDAM
’08, Slovenia, 12-16 October 2008
Invited talk: Nano Silicon for Photonics, ECS 2008, Hawaii, 12-14 October, 2008
Nicola Daldosso
Invited talk: Erbium and Silicon Nanocrystal for Light Amplification, Photonics West - Silicon
Photonics (OE12) part of the SPIE International Symposium on Integrated Optoelectronic
Devices, OPTO 2008, San José, CA, USA, 19-24 January 2008
th
Invited talk: NanoSilicon for Photonics, ICPS 2008: 29 International Conference on the
Physics of Semiconductors, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27-31 July 2008
Invited talk: Towards and Er doped silica amplifier sensitized by silicon nanoclusters, MRS
2008 Fall Meeting, joint session Symposium MM and E, Boston, MA, USA, 1-5 December
2008
Zeno Gaburro
Invited talk: Ultrafast spectroscopy in confined light systems: techniques, applications and
perspectives, SPIE Photonics Europe 2008, Strasbourg, France, 7-11 April 2008
Marina Scarpa
Invited talk: Nanoparticles in biomedicine, International EL.BA Nanoforum, Padova, Italy, 17
September 2008
2007
Optoelectronic and photonic winter school: Biophotonics

Director Lorenzo Pavesi
Trento, Italy, 24 February - 2 March 2007
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2008
Photonics Europe conference 6996 Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits
Conference co-chair Lorenzo Pavesi
Strasbourg, France, 7-10 April 2008
th
5 International Conference on Group Four Photonics
Conference co-chairman Lorenzo Pavesi
Sorrento, Italy, 17-19 September 2008
SEDWAL (Sensitized Er doped waveguide amplifier/laser)-International workshop

Chair and Organizer Nicola Daldosso
Levico Terme - Trento, Italy, 13-15 April, 2008
PRIN 2004: Cristalli fotonici a base di Silicio per il controllo della propagazione e
€ 69.000
dell'emissione di luce (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2004/2006
ITALIA-SPAGNA: Light emission from nanostructured silicon (Principal coordinator:

€ 58.000
L. Pavesi) 2004/2007
EC: Prog Seminano (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2004/2007 € 146.968
PHOLOGIC: Nanophotonic logic gates FP6 (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi)

€ 234.323
2005/2008
CRS-UNIVERSITÀ: NINFA Sistema di atto-infiltrazione localizzata di nanostrutture

integrato in un microscopio a sonda locale (Principal coordinator: P. Bettotti) € 24.000
2006/2008
PRIN 2005: Nano-dispositivi di silicio per la rivelazione di molecole singole mediante

€ 52.360
Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering (Principal coordinator: M. Scarpa) 2006/2008
ITALIA-MESSICO: Studio della luminescenza di nanoclusters di silicio formati in

nitruro di silicio per applicazioni fotoniche (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) € 20.000
2006/2008
LANCER: Light Amplifiers with Nanoclusters and Erbium FP6 (Principal coordinator:
€ 281.624
L. Pavesi) 2006/2009
EC: Policernet: Polymer derived ceramics (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi)

€ 190.147
2006/2010
ITPAR: Fabrication and Characterization of novel photonic crystal structures

(polystyrene and polystyrene-silica) and Si/Ge quantum dots for photonics € 109.578
applications (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2007
ITALIA-ROMANIA: Nanostructured silicon for optical biosensors (Principal

€ 20.000
coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2007/2008
ITALIA-TURCHIA: Characterization of the production processes and developing of

fundamental knowledge on semiconductor nanocrystal based materials (Principal € 62.101
coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2007/2008
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CARITRO: Proyect Celtic (Principal coordinator: M. Scarpa) 2007/2009 € 32.228
PAT: GOPSI Funzionalizzazione di guide d'onda slot polimeriche integrate su silicio

€ 133.800
per applicazioni sensoristiche (Principal coordinator: P. Bettotti) 2007/2010
PAT-GRANDI PROGETTI: NAOMI, Un approccio NAno-on-MIcro per un sistema di

€ 1.166.100
analisi multispettrale per test di proteine (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2008/2011
EC: Helios FP7 (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2008/2012 € 651.179
EC: Wadimos FP7 (Principal coordinator: L. Pavesi) 2008/2011 € 131.250
Total € 3.382.658
INTEL: Novel Scheme for a Silicon nanocrystals based LED (Principal coordinator: L.
Pavesi) 2006/2007
$ 150,000
OPTOELETTRONICA ITALIA: High Concentration Solar Cell (Principal coordinator:

€ 70.000
L. Pavesi) 2008/2010
Total € 220.000

• A. Simoni, M. Zen, P. Bellutti, G. Pucker, L. Gonzo, C. Pederzolli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler -
Centro Materiali e Microsistemi, Trento
• M. Ferrari, CNR-IFN
• I Carusotto, CNR-INFM BEC, Trento
• D. Wiersma, CNR and IFN Florence
• J. Marti, Polytechnic University of Valencia
• F. Blas Garrido, D. Navarro, University of Barcelona
• P. Mascke, McMaster University, Ontario
• D. Vanthorout, IMEC - Ghent University, Belgium
• L. Vivien, University of Paris Sud
• L. Dal Negro, University of Boston
• S. Binetti, University of Milano Bicocca
• F. Giorgis, University of Torino
• P. R. Orbutchok, INL and Université Claude Bernard, Lyon
• J. M. Fedeli, CEA-LETI Grenoble, France

• R. Bozio, CIVEN, Venezia
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• A. Maglione, Opto-I, Trento
• M. Paniccia, M. Morse, Intel, USA
• R. Barbarossa, Avanex, USA
• D. Barbier, TEEM Photonics, France
2006
Lorenzo Pavesi
th
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the 5 International Conference on Porous
Semiconductors-Science and Technology, Valencia, Spain, March 2006
• Member of Program Committee of the Integrated Optics, Silicon Photonics, and Photonic
Integrated Circuits, Photonics Europe, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 April 2006
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the International Workshop on
Nanostructured Materials (Nanomat 2006), Antalya, Turkey, 21-23 June 2006
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• Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 3 International Conference on Group IV
Photonics, Ottawa, Canada, 13-15 September 2006
• Member of Scientific Advisory Committee of the Conference on Optoelectronic and
Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD2006), Perth, Australia, 6-8 December 2006
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the Photonics 2006, Hyderabad, India, 13-
16 December 2006
Zeno Gaburro
• Member of Scientific Committee of SPIE Optics + Photonics 2006 (Nanophotonic Materials III),
San Diego, California, USA, 13 - 17 August 2006
2007
Lorenzo Pavesi
• Member of Program Committee of the Photonics Conference of the SPIE International
Symposium on Microtechnologies for the New Millennium, Gran Canaria, Spain, 2-4 May 2007
• Member of Executive organizing committee and Technical program committee of the
European Conferences on Biomedical Optics: Biophotonics-Optics in Life Science (EB108),
Munich, Germany, 17-21 June 2007
• Member of Scientific Committee of the Second Workshop on the Photoluminescence in Rare
Earths: Photonic Materials and Devices (PRE'07), Trento, Italy, 31 May-1 June 2007,
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• Member of International Advisory Committee of the11 International Conference on the
Formation of Semiconductor Interfaces (ICFSI - 11), Manaus - Amazonas, Brazil, 19-24
August 2007
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• Member of Technical Program Committee of the 4 International Conference on Group IV
Photonics GFP07, Tokyo, Japan, 19-21 September 2007
nd
• Member of Scientific Committee of the 2 European Optical Society Topical Meeting: Optical
Microsystems 2007 (OMS’07), Capri, Italy, 30 September - 3 October 2007
Zeno Gaburro
• Member of Scientific Committee of SPIE Optics + Photonics 2007 (Nanophotonic Materials IV),
San Diego Convention Centre, San Diego, California, USA, 26 - 30 August 2007
2008
Lorenzo Pavesi
th
• Member of International Advisory Board of the 6 International Conference on Porous
semiconductors-Science and Technology, Mallorca, Spain, 10-14 March 2008
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• Member of International Advisory Board of the Symposium B Smart Optics 3 International
Conference on Smart Materials, Structures and Systems (CIMTEC Conferences), Acireale,
Italy, 8-13 June 2008
Zeno Gaburro
• Member of Scientific Committee of SPIE Optics + Photonics 2008 (Nanophotonic Materials V),
San Diego Convention Centre, San Diego, California, USA, 10 - 14 August 2008
Patents
Amplificatore ottico di segnale o laser a guida d’onda integrato con core drogato con terre rare e
nanocluster di silicio e relativo metodo di pompaggio ottico di detto amplificatore
(Country: Italia, Vs. Rif.: Amplificatore Si-NC, Ns. Rif.: BI790F/BI/fpd
Patent acquired by: Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento "Sant' Anna"
Inventors: Fabrizio Di Pasquale and Lorenzo Pavesi (2007)
Metodo per la preparazione di soluzioni acquose di singoli nanotubi a base di ossidi di titanio e
soluzioni acquose di nanotubi ottenute con tale metodo
Adelio Rigo, Massimiliano Magro, Fabio Vianello, Lucio Zennaro, Marina Scarpa, Giuseppe
Tognon, Country: Italia, Application PD 2008 A 258
PhD thesis
2006
• Mirko Melchiorri: Silicon Based optical waveguides and photonic devices, L. Pavesi, 20.2.2006
• Elena Froner: Nanostructured silicon for biomedical application: preparation and surface
functionalization, M. Scarpa, B. Margesin, 20.2.2006
2007
• Luigi Ferraioli: Dieletric and luminescent properties of low dimension silicon structures formed in
various matrices, L. Pavesi, 9.11.2007
2008
• Roberta Adamo: Surface modification and its role on reactivity, photolouminescence and solubility
of silicon quantum dots, M. Scarpa, 28.2.2008
• Stefano Prezioso: Electric transport and light emission in silicon rich dielectrics, L. Pavesi,
28.2.2008
• Rita Spano: Non linear properties of Si nanocrystals and their applications in photonic structures,
L. Pavesi, 15.12.2008

2006
• Sandri, Elena: "Effetto sers per la determinazione di biomolecole: uno studio preliminare", M.
Scarpa, E. Froner, 2007
• Bampi, Silvia: "Nanotecnologie e dna come building block", M. Scarpa
• Poli, Alessandro: "Strumentazione e metodologie per il monitoraggio di alcuni inquinanti
atmosferici", M. Scarpa
• Lerose, Damiana: "Optical characterisation of photonic crystal waveguides in silicon on insulator",
L. Pavesi
• Baschera, Francesco: "Effetto sers di molecole bio-organiche su substrati di silicio poroso
metallizzato", M. Scarpa, Fisica e Tecnologie Biomediche
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2008
• Stoppato, Matteo: "Effetto sers: il contributo chimico", M. Scarpa
• Daves, Walter: "Silicon structures for coulomb blockade experiments", L. Pavesi
• Forti, Stiven: "Anomalous magneto-transport of hig-mobility two dimensional hole gas in mn-doped
ferromagnetic heterostructure", L. Pavesi
• Marconi, Alessandro: "Elettroluminescenza da nanocristalli di silicio in strutture mosfet", L. Pavesi
• Prtljaga, Nikola: "Film sottili di nitruro di silicio per applicazioni ottiche", L. Pavesi
• Rigo, Eveline "Guide d'onda ibride polimero/silicio: fabbricazione e caratterizzazione", L. Pavesi
2006
• Sandri, Elena: "Effetto sers per la determinazione di biomolecole: uno studio preliminare", M.
Scarpa, Elena Froner
2007
• Bampi, Silvia: "Nanotecnologie e dna come building block", M. Scarpa
• Poli, Alessandro: "Strumentazione e metodologie per il monitoraggio di alcuni inquinanti
atmosferici", M. Scarpa
• 2008
• Stoppato, Matteo: "Effetto sers: il contributo chimico", M. Scarpa
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Short description
The focus of the OS laboratory is the study of the properties of disordered macro and nano materials
and their possible technological applications. The laboratory is characterized by a strong integration
between theory and experiments. OS is a partnership between members of the department of physics
and of the CNR institute IFN. Most of the members of OS are also affiliated with the INFM-CNR
research centre SOFT, which addresses mainly open issues of condensed soft matter (glasses,
polymers, colloids, biological molecules). On the experimental side, OS employs several techniques,
since the instrumentation owned by the laboratory allows time-resolved visible and IR spectroscopy,
fluorescence line-narrowing, non-linear spectroscopy, Raman and Brillouin scattering. However, most
OS researches with the best impact in condensed matter physics utilize X-rays, neutrons and UV
inelastic scattering techniques, and are carried out at large national and international facilities (ESRF,
ILL, ELETTRA, LLB, JCNS). On the theoretical side, OS investigates the most puzzling features of
disordered systems (aging, phonon anomalies, glass transition, self-assembly in colloids). Beyond
introducing and studying analytically simplified models, a relevant part of the OS research involves
numerical simulations, mostly by means of Monte Carlo optimized algorithms. This implies a massive
utilization of large computing facilities, for example BEN at Trento, BiFi at Zaragoza, MareNostrum at
Barcelona, CINECA at Bologna (the latter two are in the list of 500 top supercomputers).
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator: Giacomo Baldi

th
19 cycle
Maurizio Montagna 36 Andre Chiappini
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20 cycle
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Giacomo Baldi 3 Barbara Rossi 20 cycle
Aldo Fontana 36 Silvia Caponi 2 Luca Zampedri
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20 cycle
Paolo Verrocchio 36 Maurizio Mattarelli 30 Shivakiran Bhaktha
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20 cycle
Gabriele Viliani 36 Barbara Rossi 5 K. Vishunbhatla
th
20 cycle
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Silvia Santucci 12 Matteo Martini 21 cycle
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Technical staff Giovanna Simeoni 21 Laura Orsingher 21 cycle
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Giacomo Gradenigo 22 cycle
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Enrico Moser 36 Marco Zanatta 24 cycle
Flavio Rossi 36
Other permanent
collaborators
Stefano Gialanella 6 Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies

Maurizio Ferrari 24 Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies CNR Trento
Alessandro Chiasera 24 Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies CNR Trento
Andrea Chiappini 12 Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies CNR Trento
Silvia Caponi 34 INFM – CNR – SOFT
Giacomo Baldi 33 INFM – CNR - SOFT
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Long term visitors

• Tomas S. Grigera: Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas Teóricas y Aplicadas (INIFTA) and
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Universidad Nacional
de La Plata, c.c. 16, suc. 4, 1900 La Plata, Argentina and CCT La Plata,
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
(January-February 2008)
Research activities
• Disordered systems
- Vibrations in glasses
- Theory of the glass transition
- Soft matter
• Nanostructures
- Ultratrasparency in nanostructured glass-ceramics
- Theory of the vibrational dynamics in nanoparticles and of Raman and Brillouin activity
- Nanostructures of silica with metallic clusters e fluorofores for biosensors
- Nanostructured systems for applications to photonic
• Biosystems
- Dynamics of self-assembly in systems of biological interest
- Vibrational spectroscopy in complex molecular systems
• Spectroscopy methods for cultural goods

2006
Evidence for a Crossover in the Frequency Dependence of the Acoustic Attenuation in Vitreous Silica
C. Masciovecchio, G. Baldi, S. Caponi, L. Comez, S. Di Fonzo, D. Fioretto, A. Fontana, A. Gessini,
S. C. Santucci, F. Sette, G. Viliani, P. Vilmercati, G. Ruocco
Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 035501, 2006
Dynamics of a hydrogenated silica xerogel: A neutron scattering study
A. Fontana, L. Orsingher, F. Rossi, U. Buchenau
Phys. Rev. B 74, 172304, 2006
Coherent and incoherent tunneling in asymmetric double-well potentials
A. Ranfagni, I. Cacciari, M.A. Vitali, G. Viliani, P. Moretti, R. Ruggeri
Phys. Rev. A 74, 014102, 2006
Relaxation dynamics, dissipative tunneling, solitons, and anomalous decay
A. Ranfagni, P. Fabeni, G.P. Pazzi, A. Agresti, G. Viliani, R. Ruggeri
Phys. Rev. B 74, 195107, 2006
Critical behaviour of the specific heat in glass formers
L. Fernandez, V. Martin-Mayor, P. Verrocchio
Phys. Rev. E 73, 020501(R), 2006
Mechanism of low-frequency Raman scattering from the acoustic vibrations of dielectric nanoparticles
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, F. Rossi, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari
Physical Review B 74, pp. 153412/1 - 153412/4, 2006
Vibrational properties of inclusion complexes: The case of indomethacin-cyclodextrin
B. Rossi, P. Verrocchio, G.Viliani, G. Scarduelli, G. Guella, I. Mancini
J. Chem. Phys. 125, 044511, 2006
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High quality factor Er -activated dielectric microcavity fabricated by rf-sputtering
A. Chiasera, R. Belli, S.N.B. Bhaktha, A. Chiappini, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, E. Moser, G.C. Righini, C.
Tosello
Applied Physics Letters 89, 171910-1 - 171910-3, 2006
UV photoimprinting of channel waveguides on active SiO2-GeO2 sputtered thin films
G. Nunzi Conti, S. Berneschi, M. Brenci, S. Pelli, S. Sebastiani, G. C. Righini, C. Tosello, A.
Chiasera, M. Ferrari
Applied Physics Letters 89, 121102-1 - 121101-3, 2006
Raman scattering of acoustical modes of silicon nanoparticles embedded in silica matrix
M. Ivanda, A. Hohl, M. Montagna, G. Mariotto, M. Ferrari, Z.C. Orel, A. Turkovic, K. Furic
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 37, 161-165, 2006
The Debye-Waller factor approaching the glass-transition temperature in phosphate glasses
Caponi S., Fontana A., Fabiani E., Gonzalez M., Borjesson L., Matic A., Armellini C.
J. of Non-Cryst. Solids 352, 4577-4582, 2006
The Raman coupling function in v-GeO2 and v-SiO2: A new light and neutron scattering study
A. Fontana, F. Rossi, E. Fabiani
J. Non-Cryst. Solids 352, 4601, 2006
Universal properties of high-frequency spectra in glass formers
P. Verrocchio
J. of Non-Cryst. Solid. 352, 4536, 2006
3+/ 3+
Er Yb -codoped silica-germania sputtered films: structural and spectroscopic characterization
G. Nunzi Conti, A. Chiasera, M. Brenci, M. Ferrari, S. Pelli, S. Sebastiani, C. Tosello, G.C. Righini
J. of Non-Cryst. Solid. 352, 2585-2588, 2006
Phonon-like dynamics in glasses: Coupling between damping and fragility
L. Bove, C. Petrillo, A. Fontana, A. Ivanov, C. Dreyfus, A.P. Sokolov
Physica B, 385-386, 16-22, 2006
3+ 3+
Effect of Yb concentration on Er luminescence properties of sol-gel-derived silica-alumina xerogels
K. Tran Ngoc, H. Pham Thanh, C. Nguyen Duc, C. Armellini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M.
Montagna, E. Moser, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini
Optoelectronics Letters 22, 354 - 357, 2006
4+-
Structure and Properties of Ti Ureasil Organic-Inorganic Hybrids
C. Molina, K. Dahmouche, P. Hammer, V. de Zea Bermudez, L. D. Carlos, M. Ferrari, M. Montagna,
R. R. Gonçalves, L..F.C. de Oliveira, H.G.M. Edwards, Y. Messaddeq, S.J.L. Ribeiro
J. Brazilian Chemical Society 17, 443-452, 2006
Characterization of erbium doped lithium niobate crystals and waveguides
M. Mattarelli, S. Sebastiani, J. Spirkova, S. Berneschi, M. Brenci, R. Calzolai, A. Chiasera, M.
Ferrari, M. Montagna, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G.C. Righini
Optical Materials 28, 1292-1295, 2006
Nanocomposite Er-Ag silicate glasses
G. Speranza, S.N.B. Bhaktha, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M.Ferrari, C. Goyes, Y. Jestin, M.
Mattarelli, L. Minati, M. Montagna, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini, C. Tosello, K. C.
Vishunubhatla
Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics 8, s450-s454, 2006
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Erbium-activated modified silica glasses with high I13/2 luminescence quantum yield
S.N.B. Bhaktha, B. Boulard, S. Chaussedent, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, E. Duval, C. Duverger, S.
Etienne, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, A. Monteil, E. Moser, H. Portales, K.C.
Vishunubhatla
Optical Materials 28, 1325-1328, 2006
Speranza G., Bhaktha S.N.S., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Goyes C., Jestin Y., Mattarelli
M., Minati L., Montagna M., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C., Vishunubhatla K. C.
Journal of Optics. A, v. 8, n. 7, p. S450-S454, 2006
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2007
Structural and Collisional Relaxations in Liquids and Supercritical Fluids
F. Bencivenga, A. Cunsolo, M. Krisch, G. Monaco, L. Orsingher, G. Ruocco, F. Sette, A. Vispa
Phys. Revi. Lett. 98, 085501, 2007
Mosaic Multistate Scenario Versus One-State Description of Supercooled Liquids
A. Cavagna, T. Grigera, P. Verrocchio
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 187801, 2007
Phase diagram of a polydisperse soft-spheres model for liquids and colloids
Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 085702, 2007
Effect of temperature on the vibrational density of states in vitreous SiO2: a Raman study
Caponi S., Fontana A., Rossi F., Baldi G., Fabiani E.
Physical Review B, v. 76, p. 092201-1-092201-4, 2007
Evaluation of local field effect on the 4I13/2 lifetimes in Er-doped silica-hafnia planar waveguides
L. Zampedri, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, R. R. Gonçalves
Physical Review B 75, pp. 073105-1 - 073105-4, 2007
Mechanisms of Ag to Er energy transfer in silicate glasses: a photoluminescence study
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, K. Vishnubhatla, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, G. C. Righini
Ultratransparent glass ceramics: The structure factor and the quenching of the Rayleigh scattering
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, P. Verrocchio
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, pp. 061911-1 - 061911-3, 2007
3+
Low-loss optical Er activated glass-ceramics planar waveguides fabricated by bottom-up approach
Y. Jestin, C. Armellini, A. Chiasera, A. Chiappini, M. Ferrari, E. Moser, R. Retoux, G. C. Righini
Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, pp. 071909-1 - 071909-3, 2007
Low wavenumber Raman scattering of nanoparticles and nanocomposite materials
Ivanda M., Furic K., Music S., Ristic M., Gotic M., Ristic D., Tonejc A., Djerdj I., Mattarelli M.,
Montagna M., Rossi F., Ferrari M., Chiasera A., Jestin Y., Righini G., Kiefer W., Gonçalves R. R.
Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, v. 38, n. 6, p. 647-659, 2007
Erbium activated HfO2 based glass-ceramics waveguides for photonics
Y. Jestin, C. Armellini, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, C. Goyes, M. Montagna, E. Moser, G.
Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, R. Retoux, G.C. Righini, G. Speranza
J. Non-Cryst. Solids 353, pp. 494-497, 2007
Silver to erbium energy transfer in phosphate glasses
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, E. Moser, K.C. Vishnubhatla, C. Armellini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, G.
Speranza, M. Brenci, G. Nunzi Conti, G.C. Righini
Design of photonic structures by sol-gel-derived silica nanospheres
A.Chiappini, C. Armellini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, E. Moser,
G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G.C. Righini, M. Clara Gonçalves, Rui M. Almeida
Rare-earth-doped silica-based glasses for photonic applications
G.C. Righini, C. Armellini, S. Berneschi, S.N.B. Bhaktha, M. Brenci, I. Cacciari, A. Chiappini, A.
Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, E. Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, C. Tosello
Rare-earth doped photonic crystal microcavities prepared by sol-gel
R. M. Almeida, A. C. Marques, A. Chiasera, A. Chiappini, M. Ferrari
The influence of the fictive temperature and the OH content on the dynamical properties of vitreous
silica: comparison of Raman, Brillouin, and neutron scattering spectra
Caponi S., Fontana A., Mattarelli M., Montagna M., Rossi F.
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Journal of Physics, v. 19, n. 20, p. 205149-1-205149-6, 2007

The Raman coupling function in disordered solids: a light and neutron scattering study on glasses of
different fragility
Fontana A., Rossi F., Viliani G., Caponi S., Fabiani E., Baldi G., Ruocco G., Dal Maschio R.
Journal of Physics , v. 19, n. 20, p. 205145-1-205145-6, 2007
Dynamic-to-static crossover in the acoustic attenuation of v-GeO2
Baldi G., Benassi P., Bove L., Caponi S., Fabiani E., Fioretto D., Fontana A., Giugni A., Nardone M.,
Sampoli M., Scarponi F
Europhysics Letters, v. 78, n. 3, p. 36001-1-36001-6, 2007
Unified interpretation of superluminal behaviours in wave propagation
Ranfagni, G. Viliani, C. Ranfagni, R. Mignani, R. Ruggeri, A. M. Ricci
Physics Letters A, 370,370, 2007
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Er -activated sol-gel silica derived spherical microresonators
G.C. Righini, C. Armellini, A. Chiasera, Y. Jestin, M. Ferrari, A. Chiappini, M. Montagna, C. Arfuso
Duverger, P. Féron, S. Berneschi, M. Brenci, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, C. Gonçalves, R.M. Almeida
Glass Technology - European Journal of Glass Science & Technology Part A 48, pp. 200-203, 2007
Diagnostic techniques for photonic materials based on Raman and Brillouin spectroscoples
M. Mattarelli, S. Caponi, A. Chiappini, M. Montagna, E. Moser, F. Rossi, C. Tosello, C. Armellini, A.
Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G.C. Righini
Optoelectronics Letters 3, pp. 0188-0191, 2007
3+
Er ion dispersion in tellurium oxychloride glasses
L. M. Fortes, L. F. Santos, M. Clara Gonçalves, R. M. Almeida, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, A.
Chiasera, M. Ferrari, A. Monteil, S. Chaussedent, G.C. Righini
Optical Materials 29, pp. 503-509, 2007
3+
Er -activated silica inverse opals synthesized by the solgel method
A. Chiappini, C.Armellini, A. Chlasera, Y. Jestin, M. Ferrari, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, E. Moser,
C. Tosello, L. Zampedri, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, R. M. Almeida, G. C. Righini
Optoelectronics Letters 3, pp. 0184-0187, 2007
3+ 3+ 3+
Effect of Eu and Ce codoping on the relaxation of Er in silica-hafnia and tellurite glasses
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, L. Zampedri, M. Bouazaoui, B. Capoen, S. Turrell, M. Ferrari, G.C.
Righini
Phys. Stat. Sol. (c) 4, pp. 793- 796, 2007
Rare Earth-Activated Silica-Based Nanocomposites
C. Armellini, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M. Mortier, E. Moser, R. Retoux, G. C.
Righini
Journal of Nanomaterials, Article ID 84745, 6 pages, 2007
2008
Thermodynamic signature of growing amorphous order in glass-forming liquids
G. Biroli, J. Bouchaud, A. Cavagna, T. Grigera, P. Verrocchio
Nature Physics 4, 771, 2008
Thermal conductivity and terahertz vibrational dynamics of vitreous silica
G. Baldi, V. M. Giordano, G. Monaco, F. Sette, E. Fabiani, A. Fontana, G. Ruocco
Phys. Rev. B 77, 214309, 2008
Comment on "Infrared and Raman selection rules for elastic vibrations of spherical nanoparticles"
M. Montagna
Brillouin and Raman scattering from the acoustic vibrations of spherical particles with a size
comparable to the wavelength of the light
M. Montagna
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Neutron scattering study of the vibrations in vitreous silica and germania

E. Fabiani, A. Fontana, U. Buchenau
Journal of Chemical Physics 128, 244507, 2008
Damping of sound waves in the terahertz range and strength of the boson peak
L. E. Bove, C. Petrillo, A. Fontana, A. P. Sokolov
Cauchy relation in relaxing liquids
D. Fioretto, S. Corezzi, S. Caponi, F. Scarponi, G. Monaco, A. Fontana, L. Calmieri
3+
Enhanced fluorescence from Eu in low-loss silica glass-ceramic waveguides with high SnO2 content
S. N. B. Bhaktha, F. Beclin, M. Bouazaoui, B. Capoen, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, C. Kinowski, G. C.
Righini, O. Robbe, S. Turrell
Applied Physics Letters 93, pp. 211904-1 - 211904, 2008
Vibrational excitations in systems with correlated disorder
W. Schirmacher, C. Tomaras, B. Schmid, G. Viliani, G. Baldi, G. Ruocco, T. Scopigno
Physica Status Solidi (c) 5, 862, 2008
Raman scattering on quadrupolar vibrational modes of spherical nanoparticles
Ristic, Ivanda M., Furic K., Desnica U., Buljan M., Montagna M., Ferrari M., Chiasera A., Jestin Y.
Journal of Applied Physics, 104 (7), 073519-1, 2008
Fabrication and characterization of silica opals
Armellini, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, E. Moser, R. Retoux, G. Speranza, L.
Minati, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Berneschi, I. Cacciari, S. Pelli, G.C. Righini
Advances in Science and Technology 55, pp 118-126, 2008
2006
Finite size effects in the specific heat of glass-formers
In: Flow dynamics: The Second International Conference on Flow Dynamics, Melville, New York:
Aip, 2006. Aip Conference proceedings, 832, 128, 2006
3+ 3+
Er /Yb activated silica-hafnia planar waveguides for photonics fabricated by rf-sputtering
A. Chiasera, S. N. B. Bhaktha, M. Brenci, A. Chiappini, M. Ferrari, V. Foglietti, R. R. Gonçalves, Y.
Jestin, A. Minotti, M. Montagna, E. Moser, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini, C. Tosello, K. C. Vishnubhatla
SPIE 6183, 173-180, 2006
Characterization of highly photorefractive and active silica-germania sputtered thin films
S. Berneschi, M. Brenci, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, S. Sebastiani, C. Tosello,
G. C. Righini
SPIE 6123, 124-129, 2006
Ceramization of erbium activated planar waveguides by bottom up technique
Y.Jestin, C. Arfuso-Duverger, C. Armellini, B. Boulard, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, E.
Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, O. Peron, R. Retoux, G.C. Righini
SPIE 6469, pp. 646909-1 - 646909-9, 2006
Homogeneous and nanocomposite rare-earth-activated glasses for photonic devices
M. Ferrari, C. Armellini, S. Berneschi, M. Brenci, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, Y. Jestin, M. Mattarelli,
M. Montagna, E. Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini, C. Tosello
SPIE 6183, 181-194, 2006
Fabrication and optical assessment of sol-gel-derived photonic bandgap dielectric structures
A. Chiappini, C. Armellini, S. N. B. Bhaktha, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M. Mattarelli, M.
Montagna, E. Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini, V. M. Sglavo
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SPIE 6182, 454-463, 2006 (Invited communication: SPIE Photonic Europe 2006, 3-7 April,
Strasbourg, France)
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Er activated silica-hafnia glass-ceramics planar waveguides
Y. Jestin, N. Afify, C. Armellini, S. Berneschi, S. N. B. Bhaktha, B. Boulard, A. Chiappini, A.
Chiasera, G. Dalba, C. Duverger, M. Ferrari, C. E. Goyes Lopez, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, E.
Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G. C. Righini, F. Rocca
SPIE 6183, 438-445, 2006
Optical and spectroscopic properties of new erbium-doped soda-lime-alumino-silicate glass for
integrated optical amplifiers
S. Berneschi, M. Bettinelli, M. Brenci, R. Calzolai, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, M. Mattarelli, M.
Montagna, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, A. Speghini, G.C. Righini
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. Proceedings , v. 6025, p. 384-391, 2006
Raman scattering technique in characterization of glasses containing nanoparticles for integrated
optoelectronics
Ivanda M., Furic K., Music S., Ristic M., Gotic M., Montagna M., Ferrari M., Righini G.
SPIE, v. 6183, p. 163-172, 2006
2007
Vibrational dynamics of inclusion complexes by Raman scattering: an experimental and numerical
study
Rossi, P. Verrocchio, G. Viliani, G. Scarduelli, I. Mancini, G. Guella
Philosophical Magazine 87, 559, 2007
Pulsed laser deposition of Er doped tellurite films on large area
M. Bouazaoui, B. Capoen, A. Caricato, A. Fazzi, M. Ferrari, G. Leggieri, M. Martino, M. Mattarelli,
M. Montagna, F. Romano, T. Tunno, S. Turrell, K. Vishnubhatla, A. Chiasera A.
th
"8 International Conference on Laser Ablation COLA'05", Banff, Canada, 11-16 September 2005
Journal of Physics: Conference Series 59, 475, 2007
Nanocomposite photonic glasses and confined structures optimizing Er3+ luminescent properties
C. Armellini, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, M. Mattarelli, L. Minati, M. Montagna,
E. Moser, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G. Righini, G. Speranza, C. Tosello
"SPIE Europe, Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2007", Maspalomas, Gran Canaria,
Spain, 2-4 May 2007
SPIE 6593, 65930L-1, 2007 (invited paper)
3+
Tailoring Er Spectroscopic Properties by Nanocomposite Photonic Glasses and Confined Structures
C.Armellini, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, F. Prudenzano, P. Feron, E. Moser, C.
Tosello, B. Boulard, C. Arfuso Duverger, G. Speranza, L. Minati, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G.C.
Righini
"International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) Mediterranean Winter 2007",
Sousse, Tunisia, December 6-8, 2007
ICTON-MW 2007 (invited lecture)
2008
Contribution of the terahertz vibrations to the high temperature thermal conductivity of vitreous silica
G. Baldi, E. Fabiani, A. Fontana, V. Giordano, G. Monaco, G. Rocco, F. Sette
Philosophical Magazine 33-35, 3915, 2008
A link between quasielastic scattering and sound attenuation in Silver phosphate glasses
F. Rossi, C. Armellini, S. Caponi, A. Fontana, F. Scarpa
Optical and spectroscopic characterization of permanebtly densified GeO2 glasses
L. Orsingher, M. Cavicchio, G. Carini Jr., R. Dal Maschio, D. Fioretto, A. Fontana, P. Fumagalli, E.
Gilioli, M. Mattarelli, E. Moser, F. Rossi
Acoustic behaviours of normal and densified vitreous GeO2
G. Carini Jr., L. Orsingher, G. Tripodo, E. Giglioli
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Philosophical Magazine 88, 4143, 2008

Optical scattering in glass-ceramics
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, P. Verrocchio
Philosophical Magazine 88 (33-35), 4125, 2008
Vibrational and structural investigations on adipose tissues
M. Giarola, G. Guella, G. Mariotto, F. Monti, B. Rossi, A. Sanson, A. Sbarbati
Philosophycal Magazine 88(33-35), 3953, 2008
Micro-Raman mapping of micro-gratings
K.Vishunubhatla, S. Rao, R. Kumar, S. Bhaktha, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, J. Laureyns, M. Ferrari,
M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, R. Osellame, R. Ramponi, G. Righini, S. Turrell., D. Rao
In: BACCARAT’ Glass Directly Written using Femtosecond Laser, SPIE 6881, 688114-1, 2008
Sol-Rhodamine B doped 3D polystyrene photonic crystals
K.S. Alee, M. Maruthi, M. Brundavanam, S.N.B. Bhaktha, A. Chiappini, M. Ferrari, D. Narayana Rao
International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, IIT Delhi, India, 13-17 December 2008
Proceedings PHOTONICS-2008
Sol-Fabrication and spectroscopic assessment of sol-gel derived SiO2-SnO2 glass-ceramics planar

waveguides
S.N.B. Bhaktha, C. Armellini, F. Beclin, M. Bouazaoui, B. Capoen, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M.
Ferrari, Y. Jestin, C. Kinowski, E. Moser, D.N. Rao, G.C. Righini, S. Turrell
International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, IIT Delhi, India, 13-17 December 2008
Proceedings PHOTONICS-2008
Fabrication and Spectroscopic Properties of Glass-Based Erbium Activated Micro-Nano Photonic

Structures
C. Armellini, S.N.B. Bhaktha, A. Chiappini, A. Chiasera, M. Ferrari, Y. Jestin, P. Feron, E. Moser, C.
Duverger Arfuso, B. Boulard, G. Speranza, L. Minati, G. Nunzi Conti, S. Pelli, G.C. Righini, P.T. Huy
Proceeding of ICTON, pp. 239-243, 2008
Raman characterization of prehistoric pigments
R. Belli, G. Dalmeri, S. Gialanella, M. Mandelli, M. Mattarelli, M. Montagna, A. Quaranta,
Proceeding of V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria, pp. 81-90, 2008

2007
Proceedings of X International Workshop on Disordered Systems
G. Villani, A. Fontana, P. Verrocchio
Special Issue of Philosophical Magazine, 2007

2006
Paolo Verrocchio
th
Oral contribution: The critical behaviour of the specific heat in glass-formers, 10
International Workshop on Disordered Systems, Molveno, Italy, March 2006
th
Oral contribution: One state vs. multistate description of glass forming liquids, 98 Statistical
Mechanics Conference, Rutgers, USA, December 2006
Maurizio Montagna
3+-
Invited talk: Optimizing Er luminescent properties in photonic glasses: sensitizers, nano
and micro-structures, MIPRO 2006, Opatija, Croazia, May 25, 2006
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3+- th
Invited talk: Er -activated silica-hafnia glass-ceramics planar waveguides, 8 International
Conference on Optoelectronics, Fiber Optics and Photonics, Hyderabad, India, December
2006
Lectures: Low Frequency Raman Scattering from the acoustic vibration of crystalline
nanoparticles in glasses, Spectroscopic characterization of glasses for erbium doped
amplifier, Norbert Kreidl Memorial International Course, Science and Technology of
Advanced Glasses, Building Bridges Between Glass Science and Technology and between
Cultures, Ras-Sudr, South-Sinai, Egypt, April 2006
3+
Seminar: Er activated silica-hafnia glass and glass-ceramics planar waveguides, University
of Assiut, Egipt, April 2006
Maurizio Mattarelli
Oral contribution: Silver to erbium energy transfer in phosphate glasses, VI Symposium SiO2
and Advanced Dielectrics, Mondello, Italy, June 2006
3+ 3+ 3+
Oral contribution: Effect of Eu and Ce codoping on the relaxation of Er in silica-hafnia
and tellurite glasses, EURODIM 2006, Milano, Italy, July 2006
Silvia Caponi
th
Oral contribution: Ergodicity breaking in strong glass-former systems, 10 International
Workshop on Disordered Systems, Molveno, Trento, Italy, March 2006
Barbara Rossi
Oral contribution: Vibrational dynamics of inclusion complexes by Raman scattering: an
th
experimental and numerical study, 10 International Workshop on Disordered Systems,
Molveno, Trento, Italy , March 2006
Oral contribution: Vibrational dynamics of the cyclodextrin-ibuprofen inclusion complexes,

SOFTMeeting 2006, Camerino, Italy, November 2006
2007
Paolo Verrocchio
Seminar: Simulating slow scales in soft system, INIFTA and Department of Physics,
University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, November 2007
Maurizio Mattarelli
Oral contribution: Ultratransparent glass ceramics: The structure factor and the quenching of
the Rayleigh scattering, PRE 07, Trento, Italy, May 2007
3+
Poster: Raman and Er spectroscopy of hafnia single crystals and nanocrystals, PRE 07,
Trento, Italy, May 2007
2008
Paolo Verrocchio
th
Invited talk: On the mosaic picture of the glass transition, 5 European Conference on
Complex Systems, Jerusalem, Israel, September 2008
Oral contribution: Thermodynamic signature of growing amorphous order in glass-forming

nd
liquids, The 22 General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European
Physical Society, Rome, Italy, August 2008
Seminar: A growing correlation length in glass forming liquids, Department of Theoretical

Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, October 2008
Maurizio Montagna
3+
Seminar: Er activated photonic structures fabricated by sol-gel and rf sputtering, University
of Lyon 1, Lyon, France, April 2008
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Lecture: Brillouin and Raman scattering from spherical nanoparticles, PhD School in Material
Science and Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy,February 2008
Maurizio Mattarelli
th
Oral contribution: Optical scattering in glass ceramics, 11 International Workshop on
Complex Systems, Andalo, Trento, Italy, March 2008
Oral contribution: Caratterizzazione di pigmenti preistorici con metodi spettroscopici e

diffrattometrici, AIAr 2008, Siracusa, Italy, February 2008
Barbara Rossi
Oral contribution: Molecular encapsulation effects on vibrational properties of ibuprofen: an
th
experimental-numerical approach, 11 International Workshop on Complex Systems,
Andalo, Trento, Italy, March 2008
Giacomo Gradenigo
Oral contribution: A measure of surface tension among low temperature Inherent Structures,
th
99 Statistical Mechanics Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, 11-13 May
2008
Oral contribution: Surface tension in the Mosaic picture of the glass transition, Les Houches
Summer School 2008: Long Range Interacting Systems, Les-Houches, France, 4-29 August
2008
2006
X International workshop on disordered systems

Organizers: A. Fontana, P. Verrocchio
Molveno, Italy, 18-21 march 2006
2008
XI International workshop on complex systems

Organizers: A. Fontana, P. Verrocchio, G. Viliani
Andalo-Italy, 17-20 march 2008
PRIN 2004: Nanocomposite glasses for photonics (Principal coordinator: M.

€ 20.500
Montagna) 2005-2006
PRIN 2005: Dinamica vibrazionale e fenomeni di rilassamento in sistemi disordinati

€ 49.302
(Principal coordinator: G. Viliani) 2006/2007
TRENTO PROGRAM FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH, ITPAR: Research &

Development of Active Bulk and Planar Waveguides based on Nanostructured € 63.000
Glassy Systems (Principal coordinator: M. Montagna) 2006/2007
INF-CNR: Contribution to the OS Laboratory from different projects (principal

€ 735.000
coordinator: M. Ferrari) 2006/2008
ESRF and ILL, Grenoble France; FORM –II, Munich, Germany: Large Facilities
€ 500.000
Project (Principal coordinator: A. Fontana) 2006/2008
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INFM-CNR: SOFT: PhD and post-doc grants (Principal coordinator: A. Fontana)

€ 250.000
2006/2008
INFM-CNR: SOFT (Principal coordinator: A. Fontana) 2006/2008 € 15.000
PAT-CRS: Analisi microRaman di materiali (Principal coordinator: M. Montagna)

€ 50.000
2008
PRIN 2007: Dinamica vibrazionale e fenomeni di rilassamento in sistemi disordinati

€ 52.900
(Principal coordinator: A. Fontana) 2008/2009
PAT: MATIS Studio del degrado di materiali per l’arte contemporanea con tecniche di
€ 138.000
imaging spettroscopico (Principal coordinator: M. Mattarelli) 2008/2010
Total € 1.873.702
• G. Carini, G. Tripodo, G. D'Angelo, G. Carini, V. Venuti, University of Messina, Department of

Physics
• G. Parisi, G. Ruocco, T. Scopigno, University of Roma, Department of Physics
• M. Nardone, P. Benassi, A. Giugni, University of L’Aquila, Department of Physics
• F. Sacchetti, C. Petrillo, D. Fioretto, A. Orecchini, S. Corezzi, L. Comez, University of Perugia,
Department of Physics
• H. L. Monaco, E. Ambrosi, G. Mariotto, F. Monti, M. Bettinelli, University of Verona,
Department of Biotechnology
• S. Gialanella, University of Trento, Department of Engineering of Materials
• M. Martino, University of Lecce, Department of Physics
• P. Mazzoldi, University of Padova, Department of Physics
• A. Martucci, University of Padova, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• F. Gonella, University of Venezia, Department of Physics
• F. Pudenzano, Politecnico di Bari, Department of Electronics
• W. Schirmacher, T. Unruth, University of Munich, Department of Physics
• L. A. Fernandez, V. Martin-Mayor, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Department of Physics
• T.S. Grigera, University of La Plata, Department of Physics
• Ulrich Buchenau, University of Julich, Department of Physics
• E. Bove, University Paris 6, Department of Physics
• A.P. Sokolov, University of Akron, Department of Physics
• R. M. Almeida, University of Lisboa, Department of Engineering of Materials
• S. Ribeiro, UNESP, Araquara, Institute of Chemistry
• R. Goncalves, University of Sao Paulo, Department of Chemistry
• D. Rao Narayana, K. Bathnagar Anil, University of Hyderabad, Department of Physics
• M. Ferrari, CNR-IFN, Trento
• A. Ranfagni, CNR, Florence
• G. Righini, CNR-IFAC, Florence
• R. Torre, LENS, Firenze
• C. Masciovecchio, F. Scarponi, Elettra, Trieste
• F. Sette, G. Monaco, A. Chumacov, ESRF, Grenoble
• F. Natali, H. Mutka, M. Marek Koza, A. De Francesco, E. Fabiani, ILL, Grenoble
• S. Turrel, CNRS-LASIR, Lille
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• E. Duval, CNRS-LPCML, Lyon

• L.A. Fernandez, V. Martin-Mayor, BiFi, Zaragoza
• B. Boulard, C. Duverger, CNRS- Lab. de Florures, Le Mans
• A. Monteil, CNRS-POMA, Angers
• M. Ivanda, Ruder Bošković Institute, Zagabria

• INFM-CNR SOFT Research Centre, Rome
• IFN-CNR, Trento
• Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies, University of Trento
Gabriele Villani
• Member of Panel Disordered Systems and Liquids, ESRF, Grenoble
• Referee of MIUR for PRIN projects, 2008
PhD thesis
2006
• Barbara Rossi: Vibrational and Structural properties of cyclodextrin inclusion complexes:
raman scattering and numerical simulation, G. Viliani, 15.1.2006
• Andrea Chiappini: Realization and characterization of confined structures: control of optical
and spectroscopic properties, M. Montagna, 06.12.2006
• Luca Zampedri: Fabrication and assessment of sol-gel silica-based photonics systems
improving spectroscopic properties at 1.5 µm, M. Montagna, 06.12.2006
• Shivakiran Narasimha Bantwal Bhaktha: Fabrication and Characterization of Silica based
Rare-earth doped Waveguides and 1-D Photonic Crystals for Integrated Optics Applications,
Co-tutelle these Trento-Hyderabad, M. Montagna, December 2006
2008
• Krishna Chaitanya Vishunubhatla: Optical spectroscopic characterization of rare-earth
activated conventional, non-conventional and nanostructured glasses for integrated optics, Co-
tutelle these Trento-Hyderabad, M. Montagna, December 2006
Physics Master’s degree theses

2008
• Zanatta, Marco: "Ergodicity breaking in strong and network forming glassy systems", A.
Fontana
Physics Undergraduated theses

2006
• Brussich, Lara: "Fenomenologia della superconduttività e l'interazione di Frohlich", G. Viliani
• Marin, Luca: "Simulazione numerica su vetri di lennard-Jones", G. Viliani
• Martini, Daniele: "Spettro raman dell'ibuprofene: teoria ed esperimenti", P. Verrocchio
• Rigo, Eveline: "Studio numerico del processo di complessazione tra ibuprofene e
ciclodestrine", P. Verrocchio
• Zanatta, Marco: "Il fattore di Debye Waller nella V- GeO2 studiato mediante spettroscopia
neutronica", A. Fontana
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2007
• Cazzolli, Giorgia: "Effetto raman e attività ottica", G. Viliani
• Lonardoni, Diego: "Superfluidità dell'4he: modello dei due fluidi e teoria delle eccitazioni
elementari", G. Viliani
• Zani, Paola : "La disuguaglianza di Bell: verifiche sperimentali", G. Viliani
• Scarpa, Francesco: "Uno studio raman dell’andamento un temperatura della dinamica
vibrazionale sul vetro di GeO2", A. Fontana
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X-RAY SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Short description
The X-ray Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory carries out experimental research activity in Solid State
Physics. More specifically, the Laboratory investigates the local atomic structure and the local
dynamical behaviour of solids and their relationships to functional properties by means of X-ray
absorption spectroscopy (EXAFS and XANES).
A wide range of systems are studied, from crystals affected by negative thermal expansion to fastion
conductor glasses to light-emitting nano-structured materials.
The experiments are performed at international Synchrotron Radiation facilities. In particular, the
Laboratory participates to the management of the Italian synchrotron radiation beamline Gilda of the
ESRF in Grenoble.
The X-ray spectroscopy activity is supplemented by X-ray Diffraction experiments.
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator:
Giuseppe Dalba 36 th
Nasser Diab Afify 18 cycle
th
Paolo Fornasini 36 Nasser Diab Afify 11 Silvia Larcheri 19 cycle
th
Rolly Grisenti 36 Andrea Sanson 24 Uma Mahendra Kumar 19 cycle
th
Silvia Larcheri 18 Marco Vaccari 19 cycle
th
Technical staff Juris Purans 6 Sameh Ahmed 20 cycle
rd
Naglaa And El All 23 cycle
Roberto Graziola 36
Other permanent
collaborators
Francesco Rocca 36 FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Trento

Cristina Armellini 36 FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Trento
Long term visitors

• Juris Purans Riga University, Latvia
• Alexei Kuzmin Riga University, Latvia
• Mario Affatigato Coe College, Iowa, USA
• Djibril Diop Dakar University, Senegal

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Research activities
• Local structure and dynamics in crystalline and non-crystalline solids, studied by correlation-
sensitive probes, such as EXAFS
• Negative thermal expansion materials: investigation on the local origin of negative expansion,
by EXAFS and diffraction experiments
• Characterization of the local structure of luminescent materials (Porous Silicon, Si based

nanosystems, rare-earth doped compounds) and its influence on photo and electro-
luminescence
• Characterization of thermal and static disorder in amorphous systems
• Research on the relationship between local structure and ionic conduction properties of
superionic glasses
• Research on the relationship between local structure and optical properties of glasses for
photonic applications
• Study of the local environment of highly diluted doping elements, belonging to III and V group,
in thin films of hydrogenated amorphous germanium
• Refining the knowledge of the effects of thermal disorder on EXAFS spectroscopy

2006
X-ray absorption spectroscopy of strongly disordered glasses: local structure around Ag ions in g-Ag2
O·nB2 O3
Kuzmin, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, F. Rocca, O. Šipr
Phys. Rev. B, 73, 174110, 2006
Einstein and Debye models for EXAFS parallel and perpendicular mean square relative displacements
M. Vaccari, P. Fornasini
J. Synchrotron Rad., 13, 321–325, 2006
Negative thermal expansion and local dynamics in Cu2O and Ag2O
A. Sanson, F. Rocca, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti, M. Dapiaggi, G. Artioli
Phys. Rev. B, 73, 214305, 2006
2007
Influence of temperature on the local structure around iodine in fast-ion-conducting AgI:Ag2 MoO4
glasses
A. Sanson, F. Rocca, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti
New Journal of Physics, 9, 88, 2007
3+
Er -activated SiO2-based glasses and glass-ceramics
N. D. Afify, G. Dalba, F. Rocca, M. Ferrari
Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 48, 229–234, 2007
Negative thermal expansion in CuCl: an extended x-ray absorption fine structure study
M. Vaccari, R. Grisenti, P. Fornasini, F. Rocca, A. Sanson
Phys. Rev. B, 75, 184307, 2007
Anharmonic effective potential, correlation effects and EXAFS cumulants calculated from a Morse
interaction potential for fcc metals
N. Van Hung, P. Fornasini

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J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 76, 084601, 2007

Silicon nanocrystal formation in annealed silicon-rich silicon oxide films prepared by plasma enhanced
chemical vapor deposition
N. Daldosso, G. Das, S. Larcheri, G. Mariotto, G. Dalba, L. Pavesi, A. Irrera, F. Priolo, F. Iacona, F.
Rocca
J. Appl. Phys. 101, 113510, 2007
3+
Local structure around Er in SiO2-HfO2 glassy waveguides using EXAFS
N. D. Afify, G. Dalba, C. Armellini, M. Ferrari, F. Rocca, A. Kuzmin
Phys. Rev. B 76, 024114, 2007
2008
Isotopic effect in extended x-ray-absorption fine structure of germanium
J. Purans, N. D. Afify, G. Dalba, R. Grisenti, S. De Panfilis, A. Kuzmin, V. I. Ozhogin, F. Rocca, A.
Sanson, S. I. Tiutiunnikov, P. Fornasini
Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 055901, 2008
X-ray Exited Optical Luminescence Detection by Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope: a new tool
for nanoscience
S. Larcheri, F. Rocca, F. Jandard, D. Pailharey, R. Graziola, A. Kuzmin, J. Purans
Review of Scientific Instruments, 79, 013702, 2008
Path-integral Monte Carlo calculation of the effect of thermal disorder in extended x-ray-absorption fine
structure of copper
S. a Beccara, P. Fornasini
Phys. Rev. B, 77, 172304, 2008
XAFS study of Ni surroundings in metal induced crystallization of thin film amorphous silicon
R. Grisenti, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, F. Rocca, U.M.K. Koppolu, M.G. Krishna
Solid St. Commun., 147, 401-404, 2008
Correlation between I–Ag distance and ionic conductivity in AgI fast-ion-conducting glasses
A. Sanson, F. Rocca, C. Armellini, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti
Phys. Rev. Lett., 101, 155901, 2008
EXAFS studies of negative thermal expansion materials
P. Fornasini, S. I. Ahmed, A. Sanson, M. Vaccari
Phys. Stat. Sol. (b), 11, 2497–2503, 2008
Local study on the MoO4 units in AgI-doped silver molybdate glasses
A. Sanson, F. Rocca, C. Armellini, S. Ahmed, R. Grisenti
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 354, 94–97, 2008
X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of glass structure
G. Dalba, N. D. Afify, F. Rocca
Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol., B 49, 149–159, 2008
2006
Local behaviour of negative thermal expansion materials
P. Fornasini, G. Dalba, R. Grisenti, J. Purans, M. Vaccari, F. Rocca, A. Sanson
"E-MSR 2005 Spring Meeting", Strasbourg, 2005
In: Nucl. Instrum. Methods B, 246, 180–183, 2006
Negative thermal expansion in cuprite-type compounds: A combined synchrotron XRPD, EXAFS, and
computational study of Cu2O and Ag2O SMEC
G. Artioli, M. Dapiaggi, P. Fornasini, A. Sanson, F. Rocca, M. Merli
"Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions 2005", Miami, 2005
In: J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 9-10, 1918-1922, 2006

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Local structural disorder and mobility of Ag+ ions in silver borate glasses containing alpha-AgI
stabilised at room temperature
G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, F. Rocca, F. Monti, T. Minami, M. Tatsumisago
th
"5 Int. Conf. on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts", Trento, 2005
In: Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 47, 357-363, 2006
XAFS study of the local order and mobility of Pb in PbO borate glasses
G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti, F. Rocca, N. Afify, M. Affatigato
th
"5 Int. Conf. on Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts", Trento, 2005
In: Phys. Chem. Glasses: Eur. J. Glass Sci. Technol. B, 47, 518-520, 2006
Connection between spectral features of B K edge XANES of minerals and the local structure
O. Sipr, A. Simunek, J. Vackár, G. Dalba, F. Rocca
th
"25 International Conference Borate Glasses, Crystals and Melts new techniques and practical
applications", 2006, Trento
In: Physics and Chemistry of Glasses: European Journal of Glass Science and Technology Part B.
47(4):412-8, 2006
Short-range order around Er3+ in silica waveguides containing aluminium, titanium and hafnium
N. D. Afify, R. Grisenti, G. Dalba, C. Armellini, M. Ferrari, S. Larcheri, F. Rocca, A. Kuzmin
"E-MRS 2005 Spring Meeting", Strasbourg
In: Optical Materials 28, 864-867, 2006
XRD and EXAFS studies of HfO2 crystallisation in SiO2–HfO2 films
N. D. Afify, G. Dalba, U. Mahendra Kumar Koppolu, C. Armellini, Y. Jestin, F. Rocca
"E-MRS 2006 Spring Meeting", Nice (France), 2006
In: Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing 9, 1043-1048 , 2006
2007
Thermal behaviour of the local environment around iodine in fast-ion-conducting AgI-doped glasses
A. Sanson, F. Rocca, P. Fornasini, G. Dalba, R. Grisenti, A. Mandanici
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"10 Int. Workshop on Disordered Systems", Molveno-Andalo (Trento), 2006
In: Philosophical Magazine, 87, 769–777, 2007
Nano-scale X-ray absorption spectroscopy using XEOL-SNOM detection mode
D. Pailharey, Y. Mathey, F. Jandard, S. Larcheri, F. Rocca, A. Kuzmin, R. Kalendarev, J. Purans, G.
Dalba, R. Graziola, O. Dhez
"International Baltic Sea Region Conference on Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies"
(FM&NT-2007) Riga, Latvia, April 2-4, 2007
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 93, 012038, 2007
ZnK-edge XANES in nanocrystalline ZnO
A. Kuzmin, S. Larcheri, ,F. Rocca
"International Baltic Sea Region Conference on Functional Materials and Nanotechnologies"
(FM&NT-2007) Riga, Latvia, April 2-4, 2007
In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series 93, 012045 , 2007
Local lattice dynamics and negative thermal expansion in crystals
P. Fornasini, A. Sanson, M. Vaccari, G. Artioli, M. Dapiaggi
th
"12 Int. Conf. on Phonon scattering in condensed matter", Paris, 2007
In: J. Phys. Conf. Series, 92, 012153, 2007
Advances in EXAFS studies of thermal properties of crystals
P. Fornasini
th
"13 International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure-XAFS13", Stanford, USA, 9-14
July 2006
In: AIP Conference Proceedings 882, 94-98, 2007
EXAFS and XRD studies with subpicometer accuracy: the case of ReO3
J. Purans, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, A. Kuzmin, S. De Panfilis, F. Rocca
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"13 International Conference on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure-XAFS13", Stanford, USA, 9-14
July 2006
In: AIP Conference Proceedings 882, 422-424, 2007

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2006
Negative thermal expansion and local dynamics in Cu2O and Ag2O

A. Sanson, F. Rocca, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, R. Grisenti, M. Dapiaggi, G. Artioli
ESRF Higlights, pag. 82, 2006
2008
Isotopic effect in extended X-ray absorption fine structure of germanium

J. Purans, N. D. Afify, G. Dalba, R. Grisenti, S. de Panfilis, A. Kuzmin, V. I. Ozhogin, F. Rocca, A.
Sanson, S. I. Tiutiunnikov, P. Fornasini
ESRF Higlights, pag. 96, 2008

2006
Esercizi di Fisica: meccanica e termodinamica

G. Dalba, P. Fornasini
Springer UNITEXT, ISBN: 88-470-0404-7, 2006
2008
The Uncertainty in Physical Measurements. An Introduction to Data Analysis in the Physics Laboratory
P. Fornasini
Springer, ISBN: 978-0-387-78649-0, 2008
Borate glasses, crystals and melts 2005
G. Dalba, A. C. Wright
Society of Glass Technology, ISBN: 978-0-900682-2, 2008

2006
Paolo Fornasini
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Invited lecture: Advances in EXAFS studies of thermal properties of matter, 13 Int. Conf. on
X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Stanford, CA, USA, 2006
Invited lecture: EXAFS studies of negative thermal expansion in crystals, Oregon State
University, Corvallis, OR, USA 2006
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Invited lecture: Advances in EXAFS studies of thermal properties of matter, 13 Int. Conf. on
X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Stanford Univ., CA, USA, 2006
Invited lectures: EXAFS, a powerful probe of local structure and dynamics of solids.
Applications to negative thermal expansion materials, Hirosaki and Chiba Universities, Japan
2006
Giuseppe Dalba
Invited lecture: Nano-scale chemical mapping and surface structural modification by joined
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use of X-ray microbeams and tip assisted local detection, 5 SESAME User Meeting,
Alexandria, Egypt, 27-29 December 27-29 2006)

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Invited lecture: The vitreous structure and its investigation by x-ray techniques utilizing
synchrotron radiation, Norbert Kreidl Memorial International Course and Conference on
Science and Technology of Advanced Glasses, National Research Center (NRC), Concord
Royal Beach, Ras-Sudr, South-Sinai, Egypt, 8-15 April 2006
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Invited lecture: Er doped waveguidesfor optical amplifiers, 8 Otto Shott Colloquium, 2006
Jena, Germany
2007
Paolo Fornasini
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Invited lecure: EXAFS studies of negative thermal expansion materials, 5 Int. Workshop on
Auxetics, Malta, 2007
Giuseppe Dalba
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Invited lecure: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Studies of Glass Structure, 21 International
Congress on Glass – Strasbourg, France, July 2007
2008
Giuseppe Dalba
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Invited lecture: X-ray absorption spectroscopy applications, 7 SESAME User Meeting, Cairo,
Egypt (December 2008)
MIUR COFIN 2004: Study of the short and medium range order and local dynamical
properties of ionic conducting glasses by X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction € 68.000
(Principal coordinator G. Dalba) 2004/2006
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X-TIP PROJECT: European 6 FP Project (Principal coordinator: F. Comin, Local
€ 60.000
coordinator: F. Rocca) 2004/2007
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ESRF: X-TIP PROJECT: European 6 FP Project (Principal coordinator: F. Comin,
€ 96.000
Local coordinator: G. Dalba) 2004/2007
INDIA-TRENTO PROJECT ADVANCED RESEARCH: ITPAR Fase 1 (Principal

€ 100.000
coordinator: G. Dalba – project budget € 160.000) 2004/2007
SINCHOTRON RADIATION PROJECT at ESRF, Grenoble, 12 experiments (65 days

€ 780.000
x> € 12.000) 2006/2008
COOPERAZIONE ITALIA - FRANCIA: Galileo (Principal coordinator: G. Dalba) 2007 € 9.500
INDIA-TRENTO PROJECT ADVANCED RESEARCH: ITPAR Fase2: (Principal

coordinator: G. Dalba, collaboration with prof. Montagna – project budget € 170.000) € 100.000
2008/2010
Total € 1.213.500

• Dakar University:
International cooperation: since 1988 X-ray lab has activated an international relationship with
the University of Dakar (Senegal). Such a relationship is expressed in several forms:

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a) a continuous scientific collaboration in the framework of X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction

with prof. Djibril Diop
b) organization of the African school and workshop on X-ray in materials
c) technical assistance of the equipments of the X-ray diffraction lab of Dakar
d) scientific tutorial service to Senegalese students coming to Trento
Awards – Memberships
Paolo Fornasini
• Teacher of International School on Synchrotron Radiation (biennial school, organized by
the Synchrotron Radiation Italian Society (SILS)
• Teacher of European Winter School NESY (biennial school, organized by the University of
Vienna )
• Member of the Italian Committee for the selection of the proposals of experiments at the
Gilda beamline (ESRF)
• Invited expert at Upgrade Meeting of ESRF, 2007
• Member from 1996 of the International Advisory Committee for Synchrotron Radiation in
Materials Science
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• Member of Program Committee of the 14 Int. Conf. on X-ray Absorption Fine Structure,
Camerino, 2009
Giuseppe Dalba
• Member of the Technical Committee (IGC-TC3) "Basic Glass Science" of the International
Commission on Glass
• Member of the Gilda facility at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble,
France
• Coordinator of Physics ITPAR project between the Hyderabad (India) and Trento
Universities
• Teacher at the Egyptian School on Amorphous Systems
• Member of the International Advisory Board of the International Conference on Borate
Glasses, Crystals and Melts: Structure and Applications
• Organizer and co-chairman of the First and Second African School and Workshop on X-
rays in Materials
PhD thesis
2006
• Marco Vaccari: Local dynamics and negative thermal expansion: an EXAF study of CuCI, P.
Fornasini, 16.11.2006
2007
• Ahmed Sameh: Local dynamics and negative thermal expansion in delafossite structure: an exafs
study of CuScO2 and CuLaO2, G. Dalba, P. Fornasini, 21.12.2007
• Silvia Larcheri: Joint use of X-ray synchrotron radiation microbeams and tip assisted photon
detection for nano-scale XAFS spectroscopy and chemical sensitive surface mapping, G. Dalba, F.
Rocca, 28.2.2007

2007
• Di Mare, Simone: "Parametri di Grüneisen ed espansione termica negativa", P. Fornasini, 2007

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IdEA
(HYDROGEN, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT)
Short description
The IdEA laboratory (Hydrogen, Energy, and the Environment) of the Physics Department brings
together specific expertises in material science to study and synthesize new materials relevant to
energy field, with knowledge and operative instruments for radiation interaction with surfaces and
molecules. All the expertises inside the IdEA Laboratory are basic to face up the problems connected
to the hydrogen production with photo electrochemical processes, the hydrogen storage in reversible
and irreversible hydrides, the use of hydrogen in fuel cells by developing new molecular sieves for gas
purification. In addition there is activity on solar energy concentrator: a new methodology was recently
patented to build solar concentrator able to perform 20.000 sun concentration. The new apparatus is
utilized to produce electrical current by using thermodynamical engines as well as three-junction solar
cells with efficiency of about 40%. Cooperation is with national and international labs, by also including
private companies for solar energy storage through hydrogen and zero-emission engines.
Basic research activities recently started in cooperation with the CERN antiproton decelerator. The
primary scientific goal of the Antimatter Experiment Gravity Interferometry, Spectroscopy (AEGIS) is
the direct measurement of the Earth’s gravitational acceleration "g" on antihydrogen. In the first phase
of the experiment, a gravity measurement with 1% precision will be carried out by sending an
antihydrogen beam through a classical Moiré deflectometer coupled to a position sensitive detector
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator:
Antonio Miotello 36
Damiano Avi 9
Roberto S. Brusa 36 Sanjay Chattopaday 6 th
Cristiana Tosello 36 Patel Nainesh 20 cycle
Luca Chiari 3 th
Riccardo Checchetto 36 Barbara Patton 20 cycle
Rohan Fernandes 2 st
Antonio Zecca 34 Stefano Pegoretti 21 cycle
Manuela Guidolin 36 st
Laura Toniutti 21 cycle
Francesca Illuminati 3 nd
Technical staff Alessandro Salemi 22 cycle
Ashwin Kale 11 rd
Rupali Dholam 23 cycle
Fabrizio Logiurato 7 rd
Marco Adami 36 Rohan Fernandes 23 cycle
Sebastiano Mariazzi 30 rd
Nicola Bazzanella 36 Simona Torrengo 23 cycle
Paolo Mosaner 36 rd
Marco Bettonte 36 Luca Chiari 23 cycle
Patel Nainesh 14 th
Romina Belli 25 Matteo Tonezzer 24 cycle
Barbara Patton 2
Laura Toniutti 2
Administrative staff Cristian Zanchetta 21
Anna Broll 36
IdEA (HYDROGEN, ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT)

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Other permanent
collaborators
Claudio Cestari 36 FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Luigino Vivaldi 36 FBK - Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Research activities
The activities of the laboratory are organized as follows:
• Synthesis of new materials by combining deposition techniques (RF-sputtering, DC-sputtering,

Pulsed Laser Deposition) with irradiation techniques
• Controlled modification of hydride surfaces with the aim to improve the absorption / desorption
processes of the hydrogen molecules
• Synthesis of thin films on porous materials to produce molecular sieves to separate selectively
hydrogen from CO and other impurities
• Experimental study of organic hydrides for processes of hydrogenation and de- hydrogenation.
• Development of photo-electrochemical cells by optimizing the processes of photoabsorption and
photo-excitation
• Study and characterization of porosities by 3-gammas Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (3
gammas-PAS), in thin porous films for developments of molecular sieves and dielectrics at very
low permeability
• Study, by Depth Profiling Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy (DP-PAS), of the effects due to open
volume defects (from vacancies to nano-cavities) on: a) dielectrics properties of oxides based on C
and Si, b) absorption and desorption kinetics of hydrogen from hydrides, c) electrical and functional
properties of semiconductors
• Characterization of the chemical environment of the open volume defects and porosities by Dual
Doppler Broadening in coincidence technique (DDB-PAS)
• Positron-molecule cross-section measurements: European EPIC project
• Activities of technological transfer

2006
Decoration of buried surfaces in Si detected by positron annihilation spectroscopy
R.S. Brusa, C. Macchi, S. Mariazzi, G. P. Karwasz, W. Egger, P. Sperr, G. Kögel
Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 011920-1 01192-3, 2006
Total cross sections for positron scattering in argon, nitrogen and hydrogen below 20 eV
G. P. Karwasz, D. Pliszka, R.S. Brusa
Nuclear Instrum. and Meth. B 247, 68-74, 2006
Positron annihilation in B-doped and undoped single and polycrystalline Ni3Al alloys
W. Deng, Y. Y. Huang, R.S. Brusa, G. P. Karwasz, A. Zecca
J. Alloys and Comp. 421, 228-231, 2006
Replay to A. Zecca’s comment on "Positron scattering in Helium: Virtual positronium resonances" by G.
P. Karwasz, D. Plitszka, A. Zecca, R.S. Brusa
G. P. Karwasz, R.S. Brusa, D. Plitszka
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 251, 520-523, 2006
Single-crystal silicon coimplanted by helium and hydrogen: Evolution of decorated vacancylike defects
with thermal treatments

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C. Macchi, S. Mariazzi, G. P. Karwasz, R.S. Brusa, P. Folegati, S. Fabbroni, G. Ottaviani

Phys. Rev. B 74, 174120-1, 174120-12, 2006
Electron Scattering on Triatomic Molecules: The Need of Data
Karwasz G.P., Wroblewski T., Brusa R S., Illenberger E.
Jap. Journ. of Applied Phys. 45, 8192-8196, 2006
Pulsed laser ablation of borax target in vacuum and hydrogen DC glow discharges
Kale A.N., Miotello A., Mosaner P.
Applied Surface Science 252, 22, 7904-7910, 2006
New insights on the mechanism of palladium-catalyzed hydrolysis of sodium borohydride from B-11
NMR measurements
Guella G., Zanchetta C., Patton B., Miotello A.
Journal of Physical Chemistry B 110, 34, 17024-17033, 2006
Hydrogen kinetics in magnesium hydride: on different catalytic effects of niobium
Bazzanella N., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Sada C., Mazzoldi P., Mengucci P.
Applied Physics Letters 89, 1, Art. Number: 014101, 2006
Laser cleaning of artificially aged textiles
Belli R., Miotello A., Mosaner P., Toniutti L.
Applied Physics A 83, 4, 651-655, 2006
Hydrogen permeation through a slab sample in the case of high hydrogen concentration
Dapor M., Miotello A., Sabbioni A.
Thin Solid Films 496, 2, 735-739, 2006
Positron scattering from carbon dioxide
Zecca A., Perazzolli C., Moser N., Sanyal D., Chakrabarti M., Brunger M. J.
Physical Review A 74, 1, Art. Number: 012707, 2006
Positron scattering from water
Zecca A., Sanyal D., Chakrabarti M., Brunger M. J.
Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 39, 7, 1597-1604, 2006
Have positron-helium scattering resonances been observed? Comment
Zecca A.
European Physical Journal D 37, 1, 151-152, 2006
3+
High quality factor Er - activated dielectric microcavity fabricated by rf-sputtering
Chiasera A., Belli R., Bhaktha S., Chiappini A., Ferrari M., Jestin Y., Moser E., Righini G., Tosello C.
Applied Physics Letters 89, 17, 171910-1-171910-3, 2006
Speranza G., Bhaktha S., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Goyes C., Jestin Y., Mattarelli M.,
Minati L., Montagna M., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C., Vishunubhatla K. C.
Journal of Optics A, Pure and Applied Optics 8, S450-S454, 2006
2007
Pulsed-laser deposition of nanostructured Pd/C thin films - A new entry into metal-supported catalysts
for hydrogen producing reactions
Patel N., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Ossi P.M., Russo
V.
Deuterium thermal desorption from Ni-rich deuterated Mg thin films
Patel N., Kale A., Mosaner P., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Das G.
Renewable Energy 33, 2, 232-236, 2007
Kinetic features of the platinum catalyzed hydrolysis of sodium borohydride from B-11 NMR
measurements
Guella G., Patton B., Miotello A.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 111, 50, 18744-18750, 2007

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Catalytic properties on the hydrogen desorption process of metallic additives dispersed in the MgH2
matrix
Checchetto R., Bazzanella N., Miotello A., Mengucci P.
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 446, SI, 58-62, 2007
Simulation studies of radiation induced segregation in 316SS
Fernandes R., Patel N., Miotello A., Kothari D.
Surface & Coatings Technology 201, 19-20, 8424-8426, 2007
Structural evolution of nanoporous silica thin films studied by positron annihilation spectroscopy and
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
Patel N., Mariazzi S., Toniutti L., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Dirè., Brusa R.S.
Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics 40, 17, 5266-5274, 2007
Synthesis and characterization of polymer embedded LaNi5 composite material for hydrogen storage
Checchetto R., Carotenuto G., Bazzanella N., Miotello A.
Journal of Physics D-Applied Physics 40, 13, 4043-4048, 2007
Control of cluster synthesis in nano-glassy carbon films
Ossi P.M., Miotello A.
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 353, 18-21, 1860-1864, 2007
Laser fluence dependence of the elastic properties of diamond-like carbon films prepared by pulsed-
laser deposition
Liu X., Metcalf TH., Mosaner P., Miotello A.
Applied Surface Science 253, 15, SI, 6480-6486, 2007
Thin films of Co-B prepared by pulsed laser deposition as efficient catalysts in hydrogen producing
reactions
Patel N., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Mirenghi L., Rotolo P.
Applied Catalysis A-General 323, 18-24, 2007
An integrated apparatus for production and measurement of molecular hydrogen
Zanchetta C., Patton B., Guella G., Miotello A.
Measurement Science & Technology 18, 5, N21-N26, 2007
Numerical simulation of hydrogen desorption from thin metallic films
Dapor M, Miotello A
Nucl. Instrum. Meth: B 255, 92-94, 2007
Total cross sections for positron scattering from benzene, cyclohexane, and aniline
Zecca A., Moser N., Perazzolli C., Salemi A., Brunger M.J.
Structural properties of W-Si-N reactively sputtered thin film
A. Vomiero, E. Boscolo Marchi, A. Quaranta, G. Della Mea, R.S. Brusa, G. Mariotto, L. Felisari, S.
Fabbroni, R. Tonini, G. Ottavini, G. Mattei, A. Scandurra, O. Pugliesi
J. Appl. Phys. 102, 033505, 2007
Depth profiling studies with positron annihilation spectroscopies of decorated vacancy clusters in Si
and of thin C films growth on Si
Brusa R.S.
Physica Status Solidi C, Conference and critical reviews, v. 10, p. 3614-3619, 2007
Innovative dielectrics for semiconductor technology
Brusa R.S., Macchi C., Mariazzi S., Karwasz G.P., Scarel G., Fanciulli M.
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, v. 76, n. 2, p. 189-194, 2007
Structural characterization and porosity analysis in spin coated silica thin films as gas selective
membranes
Mariazzi S., Patel N., Toniutti L., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Brusa R.S.
Physica status solidi. C, Conference and critical reviews, v. 10, p. 3823-3826, 2007
Characterization of sputtered W-Si-N thin films by a monoenergetic positron beam
Mariazzi S., Macchi C., Boscolo Marchi E., Karwasz G.P., Brusa R.S.

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Calibration of a 2D-CDB spectrometer using a reference 133 Ba source
Macchi C., Karwasz G.P., Somoza A., Brusa R.S.
Positron scattering on benzene and cyclohexane: experiment and modified effective range theory
R.S. Karwasz, R.S. Brusa, Z. Idziaszek, A. Karbowski
European Physical Journal-Special Topics 144, 197-201, 2007
Diagnostic techniques for photonic materials based on Raman and Brillouin spectroscopies
Mattarelli M., Caponi S., Chiappini A., Montagna M., Moser E., Rossi F., Tosello C., Armellini C.,
Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Jestin Y., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G.
Optoelectronics Letters 3, 188-191, 2007
3+
Er - activated silica inverse opals synthetized by the sol-gel method
Chiappini A., Armellini C., Chiasera A., Jestin Y., Ferrari M., Mattarelli M., Montagna M., Moser E.,
Tosello C., Zampedri L., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Almeida R. M., Righini G.
Optoelectronics Letters 3, 184-187, 2007
2008
Physically and chemically synthesized TiO2 composite thin films for hydrogen production by
photocatalytic water splitting
Dholam R., Patel N., Adami M., Miotello A.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 33, 23, 6896-6903, 2008
Porosity depth profiling of spin-coated silica thin films produced by different precursors sols
Toniutti L., Mariazzi S., Patel N., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Brusa R.S.
Excimer laser irradiation at 248 nm of wooden archaeological objects and polymeric consolidants used
in conservation: a study of cone formation and optimum cleaning parameters
Belli R., Toniutti L., Miotello A., Mosaner P., Avi D.
Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 92, 1, 217-221, 2008
Structured and nanoparticle assembled Co-B thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition: A very
efficient catalyst for hydrogen production
Patel N., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 112, 17, 6968-6976, 2008
Pd-C powder and thin film catalysts for hydrogen production by hydrolysis of sodium borohydride
Patel N., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A.
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 33, 1, 287-292, 2008
Catalytic effect of mixed Zr-Fe additives on the hydrogen desorption kinetics of MgH2
Bazzanella N., Checchetto R., Miotello A.
Applied Physics Letters 92, 5, Art. Number: 051910, 2008
A positron annihilation study on the defect properties of doped diamond films
X. J. Hu, J. S. Ye, H. J. Liu, S. Mariazzi, R.S. Brusa
Thin Solid Films 516, 1699-1702, 2008
Proposed Antimatter Gravity Measurement with Antihydrogen Beam
Alban Kellerbauer, M. Amoretti, A. S. Belov, G. Bonomi, I. Boscolo, R.S. Brusa, M. Büchner, V. M.
Byakov, L. Cabaret, C. Canali, C. Carraro, F. Castelli, S. Cialdi, M. de Combarieu, D. Comparat, G.
Consolati, N. Djourelov, M. Doser, G. Drobychev, A. Dupasquier, G. Ferrari, P. Forget, L. Formaro,
A. Gervasini, G. Giammarchi, S. N. Gninenko, G. Gribakin, S. Hogan, M. Jacquey, V. Lagomarsino,
G. Manuzio, S. Mariazzi, V. A. Matveev, J. Meier, F. Merkt, P. Nedelec, M. K. Oberthaler, P. Pari,
M. Prevedelli, F. Quasso, A. Rotondi, D. Sillou, S. V. Stepanov, H. H. Stroke, G. Testera, G. M.
Tino, G. Trénec, A. Vairo, J. Vigué, H. Walters, U. Warring, S. Zavatarelli, D. S. Zvezhinskij (AEGIS
Proto-Collaboration)
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 266, 351-356, 2008

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Total cross sections for positron scattering on Benzene: angular resolution corrections
R.S. Karwasz, A. Karbowski, Z. Idziaszek, R.S. Brusa
Nucl. Instrum. Meth. B 266, 471- 477, 2008
Positronium Formation and Diffusion in Porous SiO2 at low temperature
S. Mariazzi, L. Toniutti, N. Patel and R.S. Brusa
Appl. Surf. Sci. 255,191-193, 2008
Depth profiling of defects in He implanted SiO2
Mariazzi S., Toniutti L., Brusa R.S., Duarte Naia M., Karbowski A., Karwasz G.P.
Acta Physica Polonica A, v. 113, n. 5, p. 1447-1454, 2008
Genetic algorithms for positron lifetime data
Karbowski A., Fisz J., Karwasz G.P., Kansy J., Brusa R.S.
Production of cold positronium atoms
Brusa R.S., Mariazzi S., Consolati G., Dupasquier A., Quasso F., Gianmarchi M.
Positron cooling into nanopores and nanochannels by phonon scattering
S. Mariazzi, A. Salemi, R.S. Brusa
Phys. Rev. B 78, 085428, 2008
Positron scattering from formic acid
Zecca A., Chiari L., Sarkar A., Lima M.A.P., Bettega M.H.F., Nixon K.L., Brunger M.J.
Low-energy positron scattering from methanol and ethanol: Total cross sections
Zecca A., Chiari L., Sarkar A., Nixon K.L., Brunger M.J.
Positron scattering from 3-hydroxy-tetrahydrofuran
Zecca A., Chiari L., Sarkar A., Brunger M.
Journal of Physics B Physics 41, 8, Art. Number: 085201, 2008
2006
Preliminary Laser Cleaning Studies of a Consolidated Prehistoric Basketry Coming from the Pile
Building of Fiavè-Carera in the North-East of Italy
Belli R., Miotello A., Mosaner P., Toniutti L., Bazzanella M.
Laser Chemistry, v. 2006
http://www. hindawi. com/GetArticle. aspx?doi=10. 1155/2006/64690
Characterization of highly photorefractive and active silica-germania sputtered thin films
Berneschi S., Brenci M., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Sebastiani S., Tosello C.,
Righini G.
SPIE v. 6123, p. 124-129, 2006
Homogeneous and nanocomposite rare-earth-activated glasses for photonic devices
Ferrari M., Armellini C., Berneschi S., Brenci M., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Jestin Y., Mattarelli M.,
Montagna M., Moser E., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C.
SPIE, v. 6183, p. 181-194, 2006
3+ 3+
Er /Yb activated silica-hafnia planar waveguides for photonics fabricated by rf-sputtering
Chiasera A., Bhaktha S., Brenci M., Chiappini A., Ferrari M., Foglietti V., Gonçalves R. R., Jestin Y.,
Minotti A., Montagna M., Moser E., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C., Vishunubhatla K. C.
SPIE, v. 6183, p. 173-180, 2006
Sub-surface defects induced by low energy Ar+ sputtering of silver
Duarte Naia M., Gordo P., Teodoro O. M., De Lima A., Moutinho A., Brusa R.S.
Materials Science Forum, v. 514-516, n. 2, p. 1608-1612, 2006

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Thermal stability of hidrogenated Mg/AI thin films

Patel N., Checchetto R., Miotello A., Mengucci P.
"ISOHIM", Uppsala, Sweden, 13-17 June 2005
nd
In: Hydrogen in matter: a collection from the papers, presented at the 2 International Symposium
on Hydrogen in Matter, Berlin: American Institute of Physics Press, AIP Vol. 837, p. 34-40: Note:
ISBN: 0-7354-0329-5, 2006
Kinetics of hydrogen absorption and desorption in magnesium: role of the structure and of catalysts
Bazzanella N., Checchetto R., Miotello A., D'Acapito F., Maurizio C., Barucca G., Majni G.,
Mengucci P.
"2006 TMS Annual Meeting", San Antonio, Texas, 12-16 March 2006
In: Advanced materials for energy conversion III, Warrendale, Pa.: TMS, p. 89-99. Conference
proceedings: Note: ISBN: 978-0-87339-610-3, 2006
Synthesys, properties and structural investigation of colloidal silica particles for photonic application
Chiappini A., Bhaktha S., Montagna M., Moser E., Tosello C., Vishunubhatla K. C., Dire' S.,
Armellini C., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Goyes C., Jestin Y., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G.
"Workshop Italiano Sol-Gel 2006", Milano, 22-23 June 2006
In: Conference proceedings of Workshop Italiano Sol-Gel 2006, University of Milano Bicocca,
Milano, p. 58-59, 2006
Sol-Gel derived glass-ceramic waveguides for optical amplification
Jestin Y., Armellini C., Bhaktha S., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Dire' S., Ferrari M., Goyes C.,
Montagna M., Moser E., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C., Vishunubhatla K. C.
"Workshop Italiano Sol-Gel 2006", Milano, 22-23 June 2006
In: Conference proceedings of Workshop Italiano Sol-Gel 2006, University of Milano Bicocca,
Milano, p. 54-55, 2006
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Er activated confined structures in photonic glasses
Armellini C., Bhaktha S., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Huy P., Jestin Y., Montagna M.,
Moser E., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Speranza G., Tosello C., Tran Ngoc K.
"International Conference on Engineering Physics, ICPE 2006", Hanoi, 9-12 October 2006
In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Physics, Hanoi University, Hanoi, p.
12-18, 2006
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Optimizing Er luminescent properties in photonic glasses: sensitizers, nano and micro Structures
Armellini C., Boulard B., Brenci M., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Duverger C., Feron P., Ferrari M.,
Gonçalves R. R., Goyes C., Ivanda M., Jestin Y., Mattarelli M., Montagna M., Moser E., Nunzi Conti
G., Pelli S., Peron O., Righini G., Tosello C., Tran Ngoc K., Zampedri L.
"MEET-MIPRO 2006", Opatija, May 22-26, 2006
In: Conference proceedings MEET-MIPRO 2006, vol. 1, Eds: Biljanovic P., Skala K., Rijeka, Studio
Hofbauer, p. 19-24, 2006
2007
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Nanocomposite photonic glasses and confined structures optimizing Er luminescent properties
Ferrari M., Armellini C., Minati L., Chiasera A., Chiappini A., Jestin Y., Mattarelli M., Montagna M.,
Moser E., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G., Tosello C.
SPIE, v. 6593, 2007
3+
Nanocomposite photonic glasses and confined structures optimizing Er luminescent properties
Armellini C., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Jestin Y., Mattarelli M., Minati L., Montagna M.,
Moser E., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini G. C., Speranza G., Tosello C.
SPIE, v. 6593, p. 65930L-1-65930L-11, 2007
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Tailoring Er Spectroscopic Properties by Nanocomposite Photonic Glasses and Confined Structures
Armellini C., Chiappini A., Chiasera A., Ferrari M., Jestin Y., Prudenzano F., Feron P., Moser E.,
Tosello C., Boulard B., Arfuso Duverger C., Speranza G., Minati L., Nunzi Conti G., Pelli S., Righini
G. C.
"ICTON 2007", Sousse, 6-8 December 2007

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In: Conference Proceedings of ICTON Mediterranean Winter Conference (ICTON-MW 2007),

Piscataway (NJ):IEEE, p. 1-6, 2007
URL: http://www. i aer. eu/icton-mw07/
Red painted stones from Riparo Dalmeri: a methodological approach to palaeoclimatic reconstruction
Belli R., Frisia S., Gialanella S., Dalmeri G., Benedetti L., Zadra M., Armellini C.
In: Conference proceedings AIAr, by D'Amico C., X, Padron Editore, Bologna, p. 15-24, 2007
2008
The role of interface in the mechanism of hydrogen absorption by metal-polymer composites
G. Carotenuto R. Checchetto, N. Bazzanella, A. Miotello
In Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems Ed.: B. Baranowski, Springer Series
BV, pp 151-156, 2008

2006
Pulsed laser deposition of carbon films: tailoring structure and properties
Ossi P. M., Miotello A.
In: Carbon: the future material for advanced technology applications, Eds.: Messina G., Santangelo
S., Springer, Berlin, p. 359-380. Topics in applied physics;100. ISBN: 3540295313, 2006
Utilizzo del laser ad eccimeri nella conservazione delle collezioni del Museo
Bazzanella M., Belli R., Mosaner P., Toniutti L.
Newsletter Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, v. 20 December, p. 5-5, 2006
2007
L'occhio elettronico che pare nuovi mondi. SEM, un innovativo strumento di ricerca e di divulgazione
per il museo e lo Science Center
Angeli N., Belli R., Galetto M., Toniutti L.
Natura Alpina, 2007, v. 57, p. 13-32
Invited talks
2006
Antonio Miotello
Plenary talk: Hydrogen storage in hydrides and role of catalysts to control the absorption and
desorption kinetics, IMaterials for future energy systems, Mumbai-India, 16-19 January 2006
Plenary talk: Kinetics of hydrogen absorption and desorption in magnesium: role of structure
and catalysts, TMS-2006 Advanced Materials for energy conversion, San Antonio, Texas, 12-
16 March 2006
Invited talk: Laser fluence dependence of the elastic properties of diamond-like carbon films
th
prepared by pulsed laser deposition, 5 International Conference on Photo-excited
Processes and Applications, Charlottesville, Virginia, 3-7 September 2006
Roberto Sennen Brusa

Invited talk: Depth profiling studies with positron annihilation spectroscopies of decorated
vacancy clusters in Si and of thin C films growth on Si, ICPA-14- XIV International
Conference on Positron Annihilation, Mc Master University, Canada, 2006

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Riccardo Checchetto
Invited talk: Catalytic properties on the hydrogen desorption process of metallic additives
dispersed in the MgH2 matrix, MH 2006: International Symposium on the Metal-Hydrogen
System, Theory and Applications, Hawaii, USA, 1-6 October 2006
2007
Antonio Miotello
Invited talk: Role of nano-catalysts in improving hydrogen sorption kinetics in Mg films,:
Applications of nano-components and nano-materials, Summer School 2007, Como, Italy, 2-
6 July 2007
Roberto Sennen Brusa

Invited talk: Porosity depth profiling of spin-coated silica thin films produced by different
precursors-sol, Eleventh International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques for
Solid and Surfaces (SLOPOS-11), Orléans, France, 9-13 July 2007
Invited talk: Antimatter Gravity Measurement with Antihydrogen Beam, XIV International
Workshop on Low Energy Positron and Positronium Physics, Reading, UK, 1- 4 August 2007
th
Invited talk: Production of cold positronium atom, 37 Polish Seminar on Positron
Annihilation, Lądek Zdrój, Poland, 3-7 September 2007
Riccardo Checchetto
Invited talk: H2 storage efficiency and sorption kinetics in composite materials, SMEC 2007:
Study of Matter at Extreme Conditions, Miami Beach, USA, 15-20 April 2007
2008
A. Miotello
Invited talk: A comparison between basic processes in ion- and -photon-interactions with
st
surfaces, 1 International School on Laser-surface Interactions for new Materials Production:
Tailoring Structure and Properties, San Servolo, Venezia, Italy, 13-20 July 2008
R.S. Brusa
Invited talk: Influence of Nb catalyst and defects on hydrogen absorption/desorption kinetics
in Mg, Positron Studies of Defects (PSD-08), Prague, Czech Republic, 1-5 September 2008
POMORKA AKADEMIA PEDAGOGICZNA: UE prog. PhysFun (Principal

€ 16.000
coordinators: R.S. Brusa, G. P. Karwasz) 2005/2006
FISR-MIUR: Tecnologie e processi innovativi per affrontare lo transizione e

preparare il futuro del sistema idrogeno - TEPSI (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) € 1.174.955
2005/2009
MIUR: Bando India (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2006/2007 € 15.000
MUSEO TRENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI. Progetto PARD (Principal

€ 1.000
coordinator: R. Belli) 2006/2009
ENEA: Enea cilindri (Principal coordinator: N. Bazzanella) 2007 € 6.000
MUSEO DEGLI USI E COSTUMI DELLA GENTE TRENTINA: Archivi di pietra

€ 2.400
(Principal coordinator. R. Belli) 2007

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FONDAZIONE TRENTINO UNIV. (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2008/2010 € 40.000
PAT: Impianto sperimentale per l’utilizzo dell’ energia solare, in connessione con il
vettore idrogeno, presso il rifugio "Ai Caduti dell’Adamello" (Principal coordinator: A. € 775.280
Miotello) 2008/2011
FONDAZIONE CARITRO, TRENTO: Generazione di energia elettrica e termica

tramite concentratori solari a specchi parabolici: studio di ricevitori per motori
€ 200.000
Stirling e di dispositivi per utilizzo di celle solari ad alto rendimento in configurazione
di multigiunzione (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2008/2011
MUSEO DEGLI USI E COSTUMI DELLA GENTE TRENTINA: Progetto APSAT

€ 37.000
(Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2008/2011
UNIVERSITY OF FLINDERS: Prog CAMS (Principal coordinator: A. Zecca) € 18.500
Total € 2.286.135
IAE (Industria Applicazioni Elettroniche): Self-lubricant Coatings apparatus (Principal

€ 179.600
coordinators: A. Miotello, P.Mosaner) 2002/2006
COMUNE DI BOLZANO: Elettrosmog 1 (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello)

€ 3.600
2005/2006
IAE: High emissivity coatings (Principal coordinators: A. Miotello, P.Mosaner) 2006 € 19.500
COMUNE DI BOLZANO: Elettrosmog 2 (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2006 € 27.000
IAE: Support coatings apparatus (Principal coordinators: A. Miotello, P.Mosaner)

€ 7.600
2006
IAE: Support coating apparatus (Principal coordinators: A. Miotello, P.Mosaner)

€ 7.100
2007
CLEANER srl: Pressare testing (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2007 € 1.600
ZUANI s. r. l.: Hard coatings (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2008 € 1.000
ZUANI s. r. l.: Hard coatings test (Principal coordinator: N. Bazzanella) 2008 € 360
NORDIMPIANTI srl: Coating testing (Principal coordinator: N. Bazzanella) 2008 € 950
ZOBELE HOLDING spa: Ceramic testing (Principal coordinator: A. Miotello,) 2008 € 2.400
PROGETTO LANDIRENZO-GM: Studi di compatibilità di acciai per l’idrogeno € 60.000

(Principal coordinator: A. Miotello) 2008/2009

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SOLARTRENTO: Sviluppo di concentratori solari (Principal coordinators: R.S.

€ 1.068.000
Brusa, A. Miotello) 2008/2011
Total € 1.432.160
• M. Vittori-Antisari, A. Montone, P. Tarquini, ENEA (Casaccia), for research activity on hydrogen

storage and solar concentrator
• D. C. Kothari, Mumbai University, India
• Xiao Liu, Naval Research Lab. Washington DC, USA
• G. Kogel, Dollinger, W. Egger, Institut für Angewandte Physik und Messtechnik, Universität der
Bundeswehr München, Germany
• C. Macchi, A. Somoza, Instituto de Física de Materiales (IFIMAT), Tandil, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
• X. J. Hu, College of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Zhejiang University of
Technology P. R., China
• A. C. Ferrari, Cambridge University, England
• G. Karwasz, University of Torun, Polonia
• P. Mazzoldi, University of Padova
• P. Ossi, Politecnico di Milano
• E. Bonetti, University of Bologna
• P. Mengucci, University of Ancona
• G. Carotenuto, CNR, Napoli
• G. Mariotto, University of Verona
• S. Frabboni, G. Ottaviani, Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• A. Dupasquier, Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano
• L. Verdi, APA, Bolzano

• ENEA, Roma
• CNR, Napoli
• INFN, Padova
• Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento
• Fondazione MACH, Trento
• APA, Bolzano
• Museo Trentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento
• Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, Trento

• General Motors, USA
• LandiRenzo, Reggio Emilia
• IAE, Milano
• El. Ma., Trento
• Zobele, Trento
• Marangoni Meccanica, Trento
• Zuani s.r.l., Trento
• Nordimpianti, Trento
• Effedue, Belluno

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Antonio Miotello
• Reviewer of US National Science Foundation
• Reviewer of Georgia National Science Foundation (GNSF)
• Expert research activities Seventh Research Framework Program (FP7)
th
• Member of the Organizing Committee of 5 International Conference on Photo-excited
Processes and Applications, Charlottesville, Virginia, 3-7 September 2006
th
• Member of the Organizing Committee of 15 International Conference on Surface Modification
of Materials by Ion Beams (SMMIB-15), Mumbai, India, 30 September - 5 October 2007
st
• Member of the Organizing Committee of 1 International School on Laser-surface Interactions
for new Materials Production: Tailoring Structure and Properties, San Servolo, Venezia, 13-20
July 2008
Patents
Solar Concentrator, method and equipment for its production
Bettonte M., Brusa R.S., Miotello A.
PCT/EP2007/011181. Patent acquired by: SolarTrento (SpA) -Trento, 2007
PhD thesis
2007
• Nainesh Patel: The Role of Thin Films in Hydrogen Science and Technology, A. Miotello,
8.11.2007
• Barbara Patton: Produzione di idrogeno da idrolisi di NaBH4 catalizzata da metalli di transizione, A.
Miotello, 18.12.2007
2008
• Laura Toniutti: Studio tramite spettroscopia positronica di difetti di tipo vacanza in idruri metallici a
base magnesio e di porosità in membrane selettive, R.S. Brusa, 9.12.2008
• Stefano Pegoretti: La distribuzione del gas Radon indoor: analisi con moderne tecniche statistiche,
A. Miotello, 6.11.2008

2006
• Moser, David: "Processi di rilassamento strutturale in idruri metallici al variare della temperatura",
A. Miotello, R. Checchetto
• Dimauro, Mariano: "Immagazzinamento di idrogeno in alanati", A. Miotello, R. Checchetto
2007
• Chiari, Luca: "Glaciazioni e polveri interplanetarie - una nuova teoria", A. Zecca
• Illuminati, Francesca: "Sintesi e caratterizzazione di film per la dissipazione termica nei sistemi di
produzione di raggi x all'interno delle tac", A. Miotello, P. Mosaner
2008
• Tonezzer, Matteo: "Crescita catalizzata di nanostrutture di ossido di zinco", A. Miotello

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2006
• Eccher, Massimo: "Tecniche di spettroscopia positronica per lo studio di porosità", R.S. Brusa
• Forti, Stiven: "Sintesi di catalizzatori mediante tecnica di 'laser ablation' per produzione di idrogeno
da idruri chimici", A. Miotello
• Vanin, Mattia: "Sintesi di alanati di magnesio per studi di immagazzinamento dell’idrogeno", A.
Miotello, R. Checchetto
• Pigozzi, Martino: "Ion Beam Assisted Deposition per sintesi di film autolubrificanti su substrati
planari", A. Miotello, P. Mosaner
2007
• Franceschini, Mauro: "Sintesi di film metallici mediante tecniche di plasma", A. Miotello
• Ligorio, Giovanni: "Produzione e caratterizzazione di film sottili per processi foto elettrochimici", A.
Miotello, M. Adami
• Prtljaga, Nikola: "Le teorie delle glaciazioni", A. Zecca
• Ravelli, Luca: "Formazione di positronio in gas solidi a bassa pressione", R.S. Brusa
• Zendri, Giuliano: "Produzione di idrogeno da idruri chimici mediante catalizzatori di metalli di
transizione", A. Miotello
2008
• Gottardi, Stefano: "Costruzione e caratterizzazione di un dispositivo fotovoltaico a colorante
organico", A. Zecca
• Michelotti, Matteo: "Comete e clima", A. Zecca
• Pfleger, Roberto: "Cinetiche di desorbimento di idrogeno in leghe di magnesio", A. Miotello, N.
Bazzanella
• Monico, Elena: "Sintesi e caratterizzazione di film sottili di SiO2 ", A. Miotello, R. Checchetto

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ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
Short description
The Atomic and Molecular Physics Laboratory is devoted to the investigation of the dynamics of atomic
and molecular systems in gas-phase. Our principal experimental techniques are mass spectrometry,
atom and ion trapping techniques, supersonic neutral beams, laser and FTIR spectroscopy, gas
chromatography, gaseous discharges at atmospheric pressure.
From a more applied point of view, the work carried out in the Atomic and Molecular Physics
Laboratory finds direct applications in the modelling of "real" systems, such as biological systems,
flame and combustion exhausts, planetary atmospheres, low temperature plasmas.
Although our Laboratory is not aimed at the development of short-term industrial applications, some
spin-offs from our work may be of interest for applied physics and chemistry. The Atomic and
Molecular Physics Laboratory already has a successful track record of co-operation with industry, and
continues to endeavour to enhance this technological fall-out.
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator:
Paolo Tosi 36
st
Giorgina Scarduelli 21 cycle
Daniela Ascenzi 36 Chiara Begliomini 12 st
Davide Tabarelli 21 cycle
Davide Bassi* 3 Gianpaolo Demarchi 10 nd
Andrea Vilardi 22 cycle
Leonardo Ricci 36 Pietro Franceschi 11 Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Mario Scotoni 34 Davide Tabarelli 2 Julia Aysina
th
24 cycle
th
Vajiar Tamboli 24 cycle
Technical staff
Damiano Avi 36
* Rector of the Trento University

Other permanent
collaborators
Pietro Franceschi 15 Fondazione E. Mach, San Michele all’Adige (TN)

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Research activities
1. Mass spectrometry, structure and reactivity of molecular ions
2. Molecular processes in cold plasmas at atmospheric pressure
3. Molecular alignment phenomena in the supersonic expansion of gases
4. Photo-acoustic spectroscopy with diode laser
5. Magnetometry and control of the magnetic field
6. Noise in neural and cerebral systems
7. Advanced electronics

2006
Phenol Production in Benzene/Air Plasmas at Atmospheric Pressure. Role of Radical and Ionic Routes
D. Ascenzi, P. Franceschi, G. Guella, P. Tosi
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110 (25), 7841, 2006
Collisionally aligned molecular beams: a tool for stereodynamical studies in the gas phase and at
surfaces
D.Cappelletti, A. Gerbi, F. Pirani, M. Rocca, M. Scotoni, L. Vattuone, U. Valbusa
Physica Scripta, 73, C20-C24, 2006
Noise and response characterization of an anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor working in a high-
frequency flipping regime
Bertoldi, L. Botti, D. Covi, R. Buffa, D. Bassi, L. Ricci
Eur. Phys. J. Appl. Phys. 33, 5, 2006
Noninvasive system for the simultaneous stabilization and control of magnetic field strength and
gradient
L. Botti, R. Buffa, A. Bertoldi, D. Bassi, L. Ricci
Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 035103, 2006
Alignment of ethylene molecules in supersonic seeded expansions probed by infrared polarized laser
absorption and by molecular beam scattering
D. Cappelletti, M. Bartolomei, V. Aquilanti, F. Pirani, G. Demarchi, D. Bassi, S. Iannotta, M. Scotoni
Chemical Physics Letters, 420, 47, 2006
Cooling and alignment of ethylene molecules in supersonic seeded expansions: diagnostic and
application to gas phase and surface scattering experiments - Collisional alignment
D. Cappelletti, F. Pirani, M. Scotoni, G. Demarchi, L. Vattuone, A. Gerbi, M. Rocca
Eur. Phys. J. D, 38, 121, 2006
Energetics of fragmentations of indene dication from photoionization experiments
J. Roithová, J. Zabka, D. Ascenzi, P. Franceschi, C. L. Ricketts, D. Schröder
Chemical Physics Letters, 423, 254, 2006
Simultaneous detection of ammonia, methane and ethylene at 1.63 um with diode laser photoacoustic
spectroscopy
M. Scotoni, A. Rossi, D. Bassi, R. Buffa, S. Iannotta, A. Boschetti
Applied Physics B, 82, 495, 2006
2007
New insights into the reaction mechanisms of phenylium ions with benzene
D. Ascenzi, N. Cont, G. Guella, P. Franceschi, P. Tosi
Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 111, 12513-12523, 2007

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The intriguing case of organic impurities contained in synthetic methanol: a mass spectrometry based
investigation
G. Guella, D. Ascenzi, P. Franceschi, P. Tosi
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 21, 3337-3344, 2007
Chemical processes in the atmospheric pressure plasma treatment of benzene
P. Franceschi, G. Guella, G. Scarduelli, P. Tosi, G. Dilecce, S. De Benedictis
Plasma Processes and Polymers, 4, 548-555, 2007
Guided ion beams study of ion-molecule reactions at low collision energies: The Li+-acetone adduct
formation in the 0.10-1.00 eV center of mass energy range
M. Sabido, J.M. Lucas, J. de Andres, J. Sogas, M. Albertí, A. Aguilar, D. Bassi, D. Ascenzi, P.
Franceschi, P. Tosi, F. Pirani
Chemical Physics Letters, 442, 28-34, 2007
2+
Dissociative double photoionization of N2 using synchrotron radiation: appearance energy of the N
dication
P. Franceschi, D. Ascenzi, P. Tosi, R. Thissen, J. Zabka, J. Roithová, C.L. Ricketts, M. De Simone,
M. Coreno
Journal of Chemical Physics, 126, 134310, 2007
The collisional alignment of acetylene molecules in supersonic seeded expansions probed by infrared
absorption and molecular beam scattering
F. Pirani, D. Cappelletti, M. Bartolomei, V. Aquilanti, G. Demarchi, P. Tosi, M. Scotoni
Chemical Physics Letters, 437, 176-182, 2007
A simple and cost effective high voltage RF driver for multipolar ion guides
P. Franceschi, L. Penasa, D. Ascenzi, D. Bassi, M. Scotoni, P. Tosi
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry, 265, 224-229, 2007
Combined static potentials for confinement of neutral species
L. Ricci, D. Bassi, A. Bertoldi
Physical Review, A 76, 023428, 2007
Small-sample characterization of stochastic approximation staircases in forced-choice adaptive
threshold estimation
L. Faes, G. Nollo, F. Ravelli, L. Ricci, M. Vescovi, M. Turatto, F. Pavani, R. Antolini
Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 254-262, 2007
2008
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Gravito-magnetic trapping of Rb
A. Bertoldi, L. Ricci
Optical Physics, 41, 155301-155305, 2007
Tautomerism of Uracil Probed via Infrared Spectroscopy of Singly Hydrated Protonated Uracil
J.M. Bakker, R.K. Sinha, T. Besson, M. Brugnara, P. Tosi, J.Y. Salpin, P. Maitre
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 112, 12393-12400, 2007
2+
Generation of the organo-rare gas dications HCCRg (Rg = Ar and Kr) in the reaction of acetylene
dications with rare gases
D. Ascenzi, P. Tosi, J. Roithová, C.L. Ricketts, D. Schröder, J.F. Lockyear, M.A. Parkes, S.D. Price
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 10, 7121-7128, 2007
Gas-phase synthesis of the rare-gas carbene cation ArCH2+ using doubly ionised bromomethane as a
superelectrophilic reagent
D. Ascenzi, P. Tosi, J. Roithová, D. Schröder
Chemical Communications, 34, 4055-4057, 2007
From Microscopic to Macroscopic Modeling of Supersonic Seeded Atomic Beam
S. Longo, P. Diomede, A. Laricchiuta, G. Colonna, M. Capitelli, D. Ascenzi, M. Scotoni, P. Tosi, F.
Pirani
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Vol. 5072/2008 p. 1131-1140,
2007

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2006
The oxidation chemistry of benzene/air mixtures in atmospheric pressure plasma environments
Ascenzi D., Casagrande F., Franceschi P., Guella G., Tosi P.
th
"15 Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics and Related Topics", organized by Grill V., Maerk
T., Obergurgl, 4-9 February 2006
In: Conference Proceedings: "SASP", Innsbruck University Press, p. 188-191, 2006
URL: http://www.uibk.ac.at/c/c7/c722/Tagungen/SASP2006/index.html
Atmospheric pressure plasma as catalysts of bioorganic gas phase reactions
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Cont N., Franceschi P., Mancini I., Tosi P.
th
"MOLEC 16 European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems", Levico Terme, 11-15
September 2006
In: Book of abstracts "MOLEC", Levico Terme: University of Trento, p. 177-177, 2006
URL: http://:www.unitn.it/events/molec2006/index.htm
Production of phenol in benzene/air plasmas at atmospheric pressure
Tosi P., Franceschi P., Scarduelli G., Dilecce G., Guella G., De Benedictis S.
th
"ESCAMPIG XVIII:18 Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised
Gases", organized by Cacciatore M., De Benedictis S., Ambrico P., Lecce, 12-16 July 2006
In: Europhysics conference abstracts, [S.l.]: European Physical Society, p. 497-497, 2006
URL: http://escampig18.ba.imip.cnr.it/content.php?content.4
Radical and ionic pathways in the oxidation of benzene/air mixtures in atmospheric pressure plasmas
Ascenzi D., Franceschi P., Guella G., Cont N., Scarduelli G., Tosi P.
th
September 2006
In: Book of abstracts "MOLEC", Levico Terme, University of Trento, p. 126-126, 2006
URL: www.unitn.it/events/molec2006/index.htm
Ascenzi D., Franceschi P., Guella G., Tosi P.
th
In: Europhysics conference abstracts, [S.l.]: European Physical Society, p. 497-497, 2006
Chemistry of organic molecules in non thermal plasmas
Franceschi P., Guella G., Ascenzi D., Penasa L., Tosi P.
th
Molecular synthesis in the plasma treatment of Nitrogen-Benzene mixtures
Franceschi P., Scarduelli G., Guella G., Dilecce G., Tosi P.
th
September 2006
In: Book of abstracts "MOLEC", Levico Terme: University of Trento, p. 233, 2006
Molecular synthesis in the plasma treatment of Nitrogen-Benzene mixtures
Franceschi P., Scarduelli G., Dilecce G., Guella G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
In: Europhysics conference abstracts, [S.l.]: European Physical Society, p. 151, 2006
Development of a new imaging system based on the localization of magnetic particles by means of
non-linear magnetic phenomena
Tabarelli D., Ricci L.

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th
September 2006
Collisional alignment of molecules in supersonic expansion probed by IR laser light absorption and
molecular beam scattering
G. Demarchi, M. Scotoni, S. Iannotta, D. Bassi, D. Cappelletti, M. Bartolomei, V. Aquilani, F. Pirani
th
"15 Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics and Related Topics", Obergurgl, Austria, 4-9
February, 2006
In: Conferences Series Innsbruck University Press, ed. V. Grill, T.D. Maerk, p. 220, 2006
Multi gas detection by resonant photoacoustic diode laser spectroscopy
M.Scotoni, D. Bassi, A. Salviati, A.Rossi, S. Iannotta, A. Boschetti
th
September 2006
In: Book of abstracts "MOLEC", Levico Terme, University of Trento, p. 142, 2006
Collisional alignment studies of seeded molecules in supersonic expansion by means of IR laser
absorption experiment
G. Demarchi, M. Scotoni
th
September 2006
In: Book of abstracts "MOLEC", Levico Terme, University of Trento, p. 163, 2006
2007
Biomass Gasification Process: Experimental Analysis and Two-Phase Equilibria Modeling
Baggio P., Baratieri M., Fiori L., Grigiante M., Tosi P.
th
"15 European Biomass Conference & Exhibition"; Berlin, Germany, 7 - 11 May 2007
In: From research to market development, ETA, Firenze, p. 834-843 - Co published by WIP, Münich
(ISBN:978-88-89407-59-X). DVD Multimedia
CN violet system emission in a N2-CH4 atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge
Scarduelli G., Franceschi P., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
"28 International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases", Prague, Czech Republic, 15-20
July 2007
In: Book of abstracts: ICPIG 2007, Eds.: Schmidt J., Simek M., Pekarek S., Prukner V., Institute of
Plasma Physics As CR, Prague, Czech Republic, p. 113-113, 2007
Chemical processes in nitrogen-benzene plasmas at atmospheric pressure
Franceschi P., Scarduelli G., Guella G., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
July 2007
In: Book of abstracts: ICPIG 2007, Eds.: Schmidt J., Simek M., Pekarek S., Prukner V., of Plasma
Physics As CR, Prague, Czech Republic, p. 118-118, 2007
Chemistry of methane-nitrogen in a dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure
Scarduelli G., Franceschi P., Guella G., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
July 2007
CN violet system emission in a N2-CH4 atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge
Scarduelli G., Franceschi P., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
July 2007

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Stochastic resonance in human hearing

Vilardi A., Tabarelli D., Turatto M., Ricci L.
In: "Noise in Life 2007: Stochastic Dynamics in the Neurosciences", Max Planck Institute for the
Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 07-09 November 2007
Feedback control over criterion setting in visual perception
Tabarelli D., Vilardi A., Turatto M., Ricci L.
In: "Noise in Life 2007: Stochastic Dynamics in the Neurosciences", Max Planck Institute for the
Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, 07-09 November 2007
C2H2 collisional alignment in supersonic beams probed by infrared absorption and molecular beam
scattering
G. Demarchi, M. Scotoni, F. Pirani, M. Bartolomei, D. Cappelletti
"XXII International Symposium on Molecular Beams", Freiburg Germany 27 May -1 June 2007
In: Book of Abstract, Albert - Ludwigs - Universität, Freiburg, p. 221, 2007
Gassification Process Monitoring by Photoacoustic Diode Laser Spectroscopy
M. Scotoni, D. Bassi, A. Salviati, S. Iannotta, A.Boschetti
"International Conference on Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research (FLAIR)", Florence,
2-7 September, 2007
In: Book of Abstracts, CNR-INOA, p. 55, 2007
2008
Gas phase synthesis of organo-rare gas compounds via ion-molecule reactions
Roithová J., Schröder D., Ascenzi D., Tosi P.
th
"16 Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics and Related Topics", Les Diablerets, Switzerland,
20-25 January 2008
In: Conference Proceedings: "SASP 2008", Eds.: Beck R. D., Drabbels M., Rizzo T. R, Innsbruck
University Press, p. 189-190, 2008
URL: http://sasp2008.epfl.ch/
From microscopic to macroscopic modeling of supersonic seeded atomic beam
Longo S., Diomede P., Laricchiuta A., Colonna G., Capitelli M., Ascenzi D., Scotoni M., Tosi P.,
Pirani F.
"Computational Science and its Applications - ICCSA 2008: International Conference", Perugia,
Italy, 30 June – 3 July , 2008
In: Conference Proceedings: "ICCSA 2008", Eds.: Gervasi O., Murgante B., Laganà A., Taniar D.,
Mun Y., Gavrilova M. L., Lecture notes in computer science, Heidelberg Springer, Berlin, Vol. 5072,
p. 1131-1140, 2008
Formation and fate of the intermediate in the electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction of phenylium
ion with benzene
th
20-25 January 2008
URL: http://sasp2008.epfl.ch/
ElectroSpray mass spectrometric investigations of the Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox cycle in copper-nucleobases
complexes
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Bassi D., Braga E., Tosi P.
th
20-25 January 2008
URL: http://sasp2008.epfl.ch/1
Methane-Argon and Methane-Nitrogen dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure
Scarduelli G., Guella G., Mancini I., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.

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th
"Escamping XIX, 19 Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised
Gases", Granada, Spain, 15-19 July 2008
In: ESCAMPING XIX, Book of Abstracts, vol. 2008
CN formation and electronic excitation in a N2-CH4 atmospheric pressure dielectric barrier discharge
Dilecce G., Ambrico P.F., Scarduelli G., Tosi P., De Benedictis S.
th
"Escamping XIX, 19 Europhysics Conference on the Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionised
Gases", Granada, Spain, 15-19 July 2008
In: ESCAMPING XIX, Book of Abstracts, vol. 2008
Dynamics of decision criterion setting in visual perception
Vilardi A., Tabarelli D., Turatto M., Ricci L.
In: AREADNE 2008 - Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles, Santorini, Greece,
26-29 June 2008, p. 96, 2008
Statistically-robust evidence of stochastic resonance in human auditory perceptual system
Tabarelli D., Vilardi A., C. Begliomini, F. Pavani, Turatto M., Ricci L.
In: SR2008 - Stochastic Resonance, Perugia, Italy, 17-21 August 2008

2006
Paolo Tosi
Invited talk: Basic physics of ion traps, XII Discussion Group of Mass Spectrometry, Fiera di
Primiero, Italy, 8-10 November 2006
2007
Daniela Ascenzi
Invited talk: Laboratory measurements of ion-molecule reactions of relevance for Titan's
ionosphere: reactivity of aromatic hydrocarbon ions, International Union Geodesy Geophysics
XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, 2-13 July 2007
2008
Paolo Tosi
th
General lecture: Ion chemistry in gas discharges, 19 Europhysics Conference on the Atomic
and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases, Granada, Spain, 15-19 July 2008
Daniela Ascenzi
Invited talk: Chemistry and physics of molecular ions: from plasma systems to
th
astrochemistry, MOLEC, 17 European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems, St.
Petersburg, Russia, 23-28 August 2008
Invited talk: Electrospray mass spectrometric investigations of Cu(II)-complexes with

Guanine-based nucleosides, G. Guella, D. Ascenzi, I. Mancini, P. Tosi, Isolated Biomolecules
and Biomolecular Interactions, IBBI08, Valladolid, Spain, 13-18 April 2008
2006
MOLEC XVI European Conference on Dynamics of Molecular Systems
Organizers: D. Ascenzi, P. Tosi
Levico Terme, Italy, 11-15 september 2006

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EUROPEAN UNION: 07 Europlanet Network of co-ordinated activities in Planetary

---
sciences (Principal coordinator: P. Tosi) 2004/2007
PROGETTO SPECIALE D’ATENEO: Spettrometria di massa avanzata per lo studio

di processi molecolari di interesse ambientale, energetico e biotecnologico (Principal € 35.000
coordinator: P. Tosi) 2006/07
PROGETTO SPECIALE D’ATENEO: Studio delle basi neurali della risonanza

stocastica nell'uomo: un approccio EEG e di fMRI ad alta risoluzione (Principal € 10.000
coordinator: L. Ricci) 2006/07
PRIN 2005: Studio sperimentale di processi collisionali nei plasmi e nei fasci
supersonici. Applicazioni alle tecnologie energetiche, ambientali, e delle nano- € 61.700
strutture (Principal coordinator: P. Tosi) 2006/2008
CNR-ACCADEMIA DELLE SCIENZE DELLA REPUBBLICA CECA (AVCR): Phase

chemistry and physics of new rare gas compounds (Principal coordinator: D. ---
Ascenzi) 2007/2009
FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO DI TRENTO E ROVERETO: SynPark

Caratterizzazione elettrofisiologica dei canali di alfa-sinucleina, proteina coinvolta
€ 20.200
nella neurodegenerazione del morbo di Parkinson (Principal coordinator: L. Ricci)
2008/2010
Total € 126.900
MEMC ELECTRONICS MATERIALS: Caratterizzazione di gas in processi CZ di

€ 13.000
Silicio monocristallino (Principal coordinator: P. Tosi) 2006
EUROCOATING: Analisi purezza He (Principal coordinator: P. Tosi) 2006 € 400
SCANDIUZZI: Analisi idrogeno nel reforming di CH4 (Principal coordinator: P. Tosi)

€ 1.000
2006
Total € 14.400
Other grants
• Fondazione Trentino Università
Post-doc fellow on "Development of advanced mass spectrometric techniques for energetics,
environmental and biological applications" 2008
• G. Dilecce, S. De Benedictis, IMIP-CNR, Bari

• A. Boschetti, INF-CNR, Trento

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• S. Longo, University of Bari

• G. Tonachini, University of Torino
• F. Pirani, D. Cappelletti, University of Perugia
• P. Maitre, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay
• A. Bertoldi, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau (Paris)
• K. Prince, Elettra Gas Phase Beam Line, Trieste
• A. Aguilar, Universitat de Barcelona
• D. Schöder, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha
• S. Price, University College, London

• Memc, Merano
• Eurocoating, Pergine Valsugana, Trento
• Scandiuzzi, Volpago del Montello, Treviso
• Ronda, Thiene, Vicenza
• Neuricam, Trento
• Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, Trento
Davide Bassi
• SASP Award - in the form of the Erwin Schrödinger Gold Medal - for his contributions to ion-
neutral collision studies
• Member of the International scientific Committee of the International Symposium on Atomic,
Cluster and Surface Physics
Paolo Tosi
• Member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Molecular
Beams
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the European Conference on Dynamics of
Molecular Systems
PhD thesis
2006
• Nicola Coppedè: A novel approach to Nano-Hybrid Materials based on the Codeposition of
Supersonic Molecular and Cluster Beams, M. Scotoni, S. Iannotta, 24.2.2006
• Gianpaolo Demarchi: Spectroscopic investigation of collisional molecular alignment in
supersonic beams expansion, M. Scotoni, S. Iannotta, 24.2.2006
2008
• Scarduelli Giorgina: Diagnostica di processi molecolari in scariche a pressione atmosferica, P.
Tosi, 19.12.2008

2006
• Marconi, Alessandro: "Implementazione di un modulo FFT su dispositivo a logica
programmabile FPGA", L. Ricci
• Casagrande Fabiana: "Sviluppo di un reattore per lo studio di processi chimici in plasmi a
pressione atmosferica", P. Tosi

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2007
• Plotegher, Nicoletta, "Studio di correlazioni in esperimenti sulla percezione umana", L. Ricci
• Soriato, Bruno: "Il concetto di velocità nella Commedia di Dante", L. Ricci
2008
• Franchi, Matteo, "Progettazione di un sistema elettronico per misure di tipo patch-clamp
miranti alla caratterizzazione del rumore elettrico di segnali elettrofisiologici", L. Ricci

2006
• Vilardi, Andrea: "Caratterizzazione di Enhanced Hanle Effect in un campione atomico e suo
utilizzo per la stabilizzazione di campo magnetico", L. Ricci
2007
• Brugnara, Maurizio: "Probing molecular structures by IR spectroscopy in a cooled ion trap", P.
Tosi
2008
• Faccioli, Flavio: "Rivelazione infrarossa tramite spettroscopia infrarossa", M. Scotoni
• Mazzalai, Andrea: "Sviluppo di apparato optotermico per misure di allineamento molecolare:
misura di temperatura rotazionale dell’Acetilene", M. Scotoni
• Vanin, Mattia: "Studio sperimentale di processi indotti da ionizzazione nell'Acetonitrile con
tecniche di spettrometria di massa e luce di sincrotrone", P. Tosi
• Cont, Nives: "Studio sperimentale della reattività di sistemi ionici molecolari", D. Ascenzi, P.
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BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Short description
The principal focus of the research activities is to investigate topics laying at the interface between
chemistry and other fundamental disciplines like biology and physics. by using the modern
methodologies of organic and analytical chemistry. The solution of these problems is of great interest
also in other applied sciences like pharmacology, medicine, biotechnology, agronomics and in the
environmental-ecological sciences.
In particular the main research topic, broadly named "Natural Product Chemistry", requires a strongly
interdisciplinary approach affording the basic information on selected, biologically active, natural
products (leads), a condition necessary for their exploitation in any applied field.
Chemistry of natural products represents a major avenue in drug discovery and development. Indeed,
a large portion of today's major drugs have their origins in Nature making natural metabolites a
rewarding frontier in modern science.
The activities in the Lab. are organized in two distinct research teams, called:
LB01 - Structural, synthetic, biological and biotechnological aspects of natural products
LB02 - Biological control in agriculture and metabolite profiling of officinal plants
Post-docs and
Fellows
Coordinator:
Ines Mancini 36
Michele 36
D’Ambrosio Alessandro Ciocarlan 6
36
Graziano Guella Claudia Contrini 10
36
Antonio Guerriero Petra Egger 4 rd
Tommaso Sandron 23 cycle
Ines Mancini Assunta Iannone 5
Rossella Tommazzoli 3
Technical staff Rita Frassanito 36
36
Andrea Defant 20
36
Sandro Gadotti 36
Mario Rossi
Adriano Sterni
Other permanent
collaborators
Rita Frassanito 36 CIBIO
Andrea Defant 20 Secondary HIgh School "A. Pozzo" Trento
BIOORGANIC CHEMYSTRY
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RESEARCH LINE 1: LB01

STRUCTURAL, SYNTHETIC, BIOLOGICAL AND
BIOTECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF NATURAL PRODUCTS
(Principal Investigators: G. Guella, I. Mancini)
Research activities
From biological to chemical diversity: structural characterization of new natural products and their
exploitation in drug discovery projects. Once biological extracts have been obtained from a natural
source, the chemical structures of the active constituents have to be elucidated. The detailed structural
information of isolated metabolites, carried out by using the most advanced Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance (NMR) and Mass Spectrometry (MS) techniques, still represent a condicio sine qua non for
their biotechnological exploitation. Biological screenings and the creation of libraries of purified and
identified natural products (priority database) can thus compete directly with synthetic libraries in drug
discovery/development strategies.
Analysis of cell’s lipids composition. Lipids are of crucial importance for basic cell functions such as cell
trafficking and signal transduction. Fingerprinting' techniques are used for rapid profiling and specific
chemical information. Samples are examined after solvent extraction, or as intact tissues (magic angle
spinning NMR), liquids or semi-solids (multinuclear NMR, advanced LC-ESI-MS techniques), or dried
materials (FT-IR). The aim of this approach (metabolomics) is to obtain the widest possible coverage,
in terms of the type and number of compounds analyzed; in particular, we are now strongly interested
in the role played by membranes lipids in the cold adaptation of psychrophilic microorganisms. Since
the metabolites production is genetically controlled, they are taken into consideration also for
systematic, taxonomic and ecological purposes. Our multidisciplinary approach allows to establish a
polyphasic database wherein morphological and genetic information are compared with chemo-
diversity as obtained by using general metabolic fingerprinting methods (NMR, MS and IR) from crude
extracts or whole organisms.
Other fields of interest: bindings in non-covalent host-guest complexes, supramolecular chemistry, MS
and NMR measurements on artificial membranes liposomes, micelles and bicelles, structural
characterization of pore-forming peptides NMR kinetics measurements on metal-catalyzed processes
(borohydrides), conformational analysis, mechanistic investigations of ion-molecules processes in MS
ion-sources, gas phase oxidations organic compounds, ab initio computations on small-medium
organic molecules or complexes.

2006
New Insights on the mechanism of Palladium-catalyzed hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride from 11B
NMR measurements
Guella G., Zanchetta C., Patton B., Miotello A.
J. Phys. Chem, B, 110, 17024-17033, 2006
Regioselectivity in the multi-component synthesis of Indolizinoquinoline-5, 12-dione derivatives
Defant A., Guella G., Mancini I.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 4201-4210, 2006
Vibrational properties of inclusion complexes: the case of indomethacin-cyclodextrin
Rossi B., Verrocchio P., Viliani G., Scarduelli G., Guella G., Mancini I.
J. Phys. Chem, 125, 044511-7, 2006
High production of unexpected carotenoids in Dinophyceae: Astaxanthin esters from the freshwater
dinoflagellate Tovellia sanguinea
Frassanito R., Flaim G., Mancini I., Guella G.
Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, v. 34, p. 843-853, 2006
BIOORGANIC CHEMYSTRY – LB01

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Structure and Activity of the N-Terminal region of the Eukaryotic Cytolysin Equinatoxin II
Drechsler A., Potrich C., Sabo J. K., Frisanco M., Guella G., Dalla Serra M., Anderluh G., Separovic
F., Norton R. S.
Biochemistry, v. 45, p. 1818-1828, 2006
Phenol production in Benzene/Air plasmas at atmospheric pressure: role of radical and ionic routes
J. Phys. Chem. A, v. 110, n. 25, p. 7841-7847, 2006
Isolation, synthesis and photochemical properties of almazolone, a new indole alkaloid from a red alga
of Senegal
Guella G., N'Diaye I., Fofana M., Mancini I.
Tetrahedron, 62, 1165-1170, 2006
On the first polyarsenic organic compound from nature: Arsenicin A from the New Caledonian marine
sponge Echinochalina bargibanti
Mancini I., Guella G., Frostin M., Hnawia E., Laurent D., Debitus C., Pietra F.
Chemistry, 12, 8989-8994, 2006
A fluorescence-based assay for the reductase activity of protein disulfide isomerase
Tomazzolli R., Dalla Serra M., Bellisola G., Colombatti M., Guella G.
Analytical Biochemistry, 350, 105-112, 2006
Cytotoxic effects and apoptotic signalling mechanisms of the sesquiterpenoid euplotin C, a secondary
metabolite of the marine ciliate Euplotes crassus, in tumour cells
Cervia D., Martini D., Garcia-gil M., Di Giuseppe G., Guella G., Dini F., Bagnoli P.
Apoptosis, 11, 829-843, 2006
Comparative antibacterial activity of polymeric 3-alkylpyridinium salts isolated from the Mediterranean
sponge Reniera sarai and their synthetic analogues
Chelossi E., Mancini I., Sepcic K., Turk T., Faimali M.
Biomolecular Engineering, 23, 317-323, 2006
2007
Thin films of Co-B prepared by pulsed laser deposition as efficient catalysts in hydrogen producing
reactions
Patel N., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Mirenghi L., Rotolo P.
Applied Catalysis A, 323, 18-24, 2007
A comparative study of the actions of alkylpyridinium salts from a marine sponge and related synthetic
compounds in rat cultured hippocampal neurons
Koss D., Hindley K., David K., Mancini I., Guella G., Sepcic K., Turk T., Rebolj K., Riedel G., Platt
B., Scott R. H.
BMC Pharmacology, 7, 1, 2007
Kinetic features of the Platinum catalyzed hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride from 11B NMR
measurements
Guella G., Patton B., Miotello A.
J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 50, 18744-18750, 2007
The intriguing case of organic impurities contained in synthetic methanol: a mass spectrometry based
investigation
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Franceschi P., Tosi P.
Recent synthesis of marine natural products with antibacterial activities
Mancini I., Defant A., Guella G.
Anti-infective Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, 6, 17-48, 2007
Pulsed-laser deposition of nanostructured Pd/C thin films: a new entry into metal-supported catalysts
for hydrogen producing reactions
Patel N., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Ossi P. M., Russo
V.
Applied Surface Science, 254, 1307-1311, 2007
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An integrated apparatus for production and measurement of molecular hydrogen

Zanchetta C., Patton B., Guella G., Miotello A.
Measurement Science and Technology, 18, N21-N26, 2007
New insights into the reaction mechanisms of Phenylium ions with Benzene
Ascenzi D., Cont N., Guella G., Franceschi P., Tosi P.
J. Phys. Chem. A, 111, 12513-12523, 2007
Hemivannusal and Prevannusadials - New Sesquiterpenoids form the marine ciliate protists Euplotes
vannus: the putative biogenetic precursorsof dimeric terpenoid Vannusals
Guella G., Callone E., Di Giuseppe G., Frassanito R., Frontini F., Mancini I., Dini F.
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 5226-5234, 2007
Molecular mechanisms of euplotin C-induced apoptosis: involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction,
oxidative stress and proteases
Cervia D., Garcia-gil M., Simonetti E., Di Giuseppe G., Guella G., Bagnoli P., Dini F.
Apoptosis, 12, 1349-1363, 2007
study
Rossi B., Verrocchio P., Viliani G., Scarduelli G., Mancini I., Guella G., Rossi F.
Philosophical Magazine, 87 559-567, 2007
Synthesis and in vitro cytotoxicity evaluation of novel naphthindolizinedione derivatives
Archive der Pharmazie, 340, 147-153, 2007
Effect of the bioactive metabolite euplotin C on phagocytosis and fluid-phase endocytosis in the single-
celled eukaryote Paramecium
Ramoino P., Usai C., Maccione S., Beltrame F., Diaspro A., Fato M., Guella G., Dini F.
Aquatic Toxicology, 85, 67-75, 2007
Chemical processes in the atmospheric pressure treatment of benzene
Franceschi P., Guella G., Scarduelli G., Tosi P., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S.
Plasma Processes and Polymers, 2007, 4, 548-555
Pyrolysis of cellulose catalysed by nanopowder metal oxides: production and characterisation of a
chiral hydroxylactone and its role as building block
Fabbri D., Torri C., Mancini I.
Green Chemistry, 9, 1374-1379, 2007
2008
A new method for the identification and the structural characterisation of carotenoid esters in
freshwater microorganisms by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation tandem mass
spectrometry
Frassanito R., Cantonati M., Flaim G., Mancini I., Guella G.
Structured and Nanoparticle Assembled Co-B Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition: a very
Efficient Catalyst for Hydrogen Production
Patel N., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A., Patton B., Zanchetta C.
The Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, 112, 6968-6976, 2008
Pd-C powder and thin film catalysts for hydrogen production by hydrolysis of sodium borohydride
Patel N., Patton B., Zanchetta C., Fernandes R., Guella G., Kale A., Miotello A.,
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 33, 287-292, 2008
Computational NMR spectroscopy of organoarsenicals and the natural polyarsenic compound
Arsenicin A
Tähtinen P., Saielli G., Guella G., Mancini I., Bagno A.
Chemistry, 33, 10445-10452, 2008

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Action mechanisms of the secondary metabolite Euplotin C: signaling and functional role in Euplotes
Trielli F., Cervia D., Di Giuseppe G., Ristori C., Kruppel T., Burlando B., Guella G., Viarengo A.,
Bagnoli P., Delmonte Corrado M., Dini F.
Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 55, 365-373, 2008
Synthesis of marine natural products with antimalarial activity
Mancini I., Guella G., Defant A.
Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, 8, 1265-1284, 2008
Microwave-assisted multi-component synthesis of aza- and diaza-, benzo- and dibenzofluorenedione
derivatives
Synthetic Communications, 38, 3003-3016, 2008
Structural features affecting antimicrobial activity, membrane interaction and resistance to proteases of
distinctin
M. Dalla Serra, A. Giacometti, G. Renzone, R. M. Vitale, M. Coraiola, C. Potrich, O. Cirioni, E.
Baroni, G. Guella, M. Sanseverino, D. Raimondo, G. Scalise, P. Amodeo, A. Scaloni
Biochemistry, 47, 7888-99, 2008
2006
In vitro antibacterial activity of synthetic analogues of polymeric 3-alkylpyridinium salts isolated from
the Mediterranean sponge Reniera sarai: a preliminary screening
Chelossi E., Mancini I., Sepcic K., Turk T., Garaventa F., Faimali M.
th
"13 International Congress on Marine Corrosion and Fouling", Rio de Janeiro, July 23-28 2006
In: Conference Abstract, 2006
Atmospheric pressure plasma as catalysts of bioorganic gas phase reactions
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Cont N., Franceschi P., Mancini I., Tosi P.
th
September 2006
URL: http://:www.unitn.it/events/molec2006/index.htm
Isolamento, sintesi e proprietà fotochimiche dell'almazolone, un nuovo alcaloide indolico da un'alga
rossa del Senegal
Guella G., Mancini I., N'Diaye I., Fofana M.
"VII convegno nazionale: giornate di chimica delle sostanze naturali", Acquafredda - Maratea,
Potenza, 7-10 June 2006
In: Book of Abstract, University of Basilicata, p. 75, 2006
study
Rossi B., Viliani G., Verrocchio P., Scarduelli G., Mancini I., Guella G., Rossi F.
th
"10 International Workshop on Disorder System", Molveno, Italy, 18-21 March 2006
th
In: Book of Abstract of "10 International Workshop on Disorder System", 2006
Raman scattering experiments and numerical simulation on inclusion complexes formed by beta-
cyclodextrin with the anti-inflammatory drug indomethacin
Rossi B., Viliani G., Verrocchio P., Scarduelli G., Mancini I., Guella G., Rossi F.
nd
"2 International Congress Zaragoz", Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, 8- 11 February 2006
In: Book of Abstracts: From Physics to Biology: the Interface between Experiment and
Computation, BIFI, p. 151, 2006
Natural products from freshwater ecosystems: unexpected high production of astaxanthin esters from
the dinoflagellate Tovellia sanguinea sp. inedit
Frassanito R., Flaim G., Mancini I., Guella G.

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th
"4 International Conference on Natural Products", Leysin, 28-31 May 2006
In: Book of Abstracts: Natural products: a chance for the future of mankind, p. 36, 2006
Molecular characterization of the pore formed by the bicomponent gamma-hemolysins of
Staphylococcus Aureus
Dalla Serra M., Viero G., Potrich C., Comai M., Cunaccia R., Bachmeier C., Vinante M., Pederzolli
C., Lunelli L., Mancini I., Joubert O., Keller D., Monteil H., Prevost G.
th
"6 Meeting of the Slovenian Biochemical Society with international participation", 21-25 September
2006
In: Book of Abstracts: Slovenian Biochemical Society, Lipica, p. 27, 2006
The mechanism of action of Staphylococcus aureus gamma-hemolysins inhibitor
Potrich C., Prevost G., Colin D., Joubert O., Le Brun C., Anderluh G., Mancini I., Atmanene C.,
Sanglier S., Van Dorsselaer A., Dalla Serra M.
"XVIII Congresso Società Italiana Di Biofisica Pura e Applicata" SIBPA, Terrasini- Palermo, 17-21
September 2006
In: Book of Abstracts p. 108, 2006
Structural characterization of the pore formed by Staphylococcal bi-component gamma-hemolysins:
hints to the search for inhibitory molecules
Viero G., Potrich C., Gropuzzo A., Colin D., Joubert O., Le Brun C., Anderluh G., Mancini I.,
Atmanene C., Sanglier S., Van Dorsselaer A., Alessandrini A., Keller D., Prevost G., Dalla Serra
M.,.
"XVIII Congresso Società Italiana Di Biofisica Pura e Applicata" SIBPA, Terrasini- Palermo, 17-21
September 2006
In: Book of Abstracts p. 84, 2006
Sintesi altamente selettiva di entrambi i regioisomeri di derivati Indolizino-5,12-dionici
Mancini I., Defant A., Guella G.
"XXII Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana", Firenze, 10-15 settembre 2006
In: Book of Abstracts: SCI ORG-P064, 2006
URL: http://www.sci2006.unifi.it/varie/congresso_sci_atti.pdf
The oxidation chemistry of benzene/air mixtures in atmospheric pressure plasma environments
Ascenzi D., Casagrande F., Franceschi P., Guella G., Tosi P.
th
Tosi P., Franceschi P., Scarduelli G., Dilecce G., Guella G., De Benedictis S.
th
In: Europhysics Conference abstracts, [S.l.]: European Physical Society, p. 497-497, 2006
Determinazione del 4-(4'-hydroxyphenyl)-2-butanone (raspberry ketone) mediante cromatografia
liquida-spettrometria di massa a pressione atmosferica
Frassanito R., Gropuzzo A., Baroni E., Dalla Serra M., Guella G., In Book of Abstracts:, La chimica
"22° Congresso Nazionale della Società Chimica Italiana SCI 2006", Firenze, 10-15 September
2006
In: Book of abstracts of SCI 2006: La chimica e le grandi domande della scienza e della società:
l'eredità di Avogadro, Università degli studi di Firenze, p. 9, 2006
Radical and ionic pathways in the oxidation of benzene/air mixtures in atmospheric pressure plasmas
Ascenzi D., Franceschi P., Guella G., Cont N., Scarduelli G., Tosi P.
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September 2006

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Autoecology of a a new freshwater dinoflagellate from Lake Tovel (Italy)

Flaim G., Moestrup O., Calliari D., Guella G., Frassanito R.
th
"14 Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology (IAP),
Sapanca, 4-11 September 2006
In: Book of abstracts: IAP, p. 8, 2006
th
Gas phase processes of biological relevance activated by non thermal plasmas
Ascenzi D., Guella G., Franceschi P., Mancini I., Tosi P.
"ESF Research Conference on Biomolecules in the Gas Phase", Obergurgl, 24-29 June 2006
URL:
http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=10&language=0&genericpage=2434&shortcut=1
Secondary metabolism and ecophysiology of target spring organisms
Frassanito R., Guella G., Lazzara M., Scola S
nd
"2 Workshop of the CRENODAT project: Planning the last Sampling Activities in 2006", Trento, 4-
5 April 2006
Il Sottoprogetto 6 (Ecofisiologia del Gs in situ mediante mesocosmi) del Progetto SALTO / BEST:
sintesi e conclusioni
Spitale D., Dini F., Guella G., Ghetti F., Tardio M., Cantonati M.
Studi Trent. Sci. Nat., Acta Biologica, 81, 439-443, 2006
Laboratory investigation of chemical reactions relevant in Titan atmosphere
Franceschi P., Ascenzi D., Guella G., Scarduelli G., Tosi P.
"EPSC #1 European Planetary Science Congress", Berlin, 18-22 September 2006
2007
Analisi del raspberry ketone tramite HPLC/APCI-MS
Frassanito R., Mancini I., Gropuzzo A., Dalla Serra M., Guella G.
"20° Congresso Nazionale di Chimica Analitica: la chimica analitica per l'ambiente e gli alimenti",
organized by Università della Tuscia, Dipartimento di scienze ambientali, Società chimica italiana,
Divisone di chimica analitica, S. Martino al Cimino, Viterbo, 16-20 settembre 2007
In: Book of Abstracts,Tuscia University, 2007
Chemistry of methane-nitrogen in a dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure
Scarduelli G., Franceschi P., Guella G., Dilecce G., De Benedictis S., Tosi P.
th
July 2007
Plasma Physics As CR, Czech Republic, p. 118-118, 2007
Secondary metabolites from target Spring organism and monitoring of target compunds in Spring
habitats
Frassanito R., Cantonati M., Spitale D., Mancini I., Scalfi A., Guella G.
th
"30 Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology", Montréal,
Canada, 12-18 August 2007
Ion-molecule reactions of interest in the growth of polyaromatic molecules
Ascenzi D., Cont N., Franceschi P., Guella G., Scarduelli G., Tosi P.
"ISMB2007: International Symposium on Molecular Beams", Freiburg, Germany, 27 May - 1 June
2007
URL : http://www.ismb2007.uni-freiburg.de/
Autotrophs in Spring-habitats: results from a multidisciplinary project in the SE Alps (Crenodat)
Cantonati M., Spitale D., Bertuzzi E., Angeli N., Guella G., Nascimbene J., Petraglia A., Rott E.,
Tomaselli M., Scalfi A., Frassanito R., Lange-bertalot H., Komarek J.

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th
"30 Congress of the International Association of Theoretical and Applied Limnology", Montréal,
Canada, 12-18 August 2007
Metaboliti secondari ed ecofisiologia di organismi selezionati di sorgente
Frassanito R., Guella G.
rd
"3 Workshop of the CRENODAT project 2007", Trento, Italy, 27-29 March 2007
Il contributo del progetto CRENODAT allo studio della biodiversità delle sorgenti del Trentino
Cantonati M., Angeli N., Bertuzzi E., Spitale D., Lange-Bertalot H., Gerecke R., Komáreck J.,
Sambugar B., Guella G., Nascimbene J., P. Oss Cazzador
"80° Meeting della Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale", Trento, 29 November – 11 December
2007
In Book of Abstracts of 80° Meeting della Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, 2007
2008
Spettroscopia NMR computazionale di derivati arsenicali: il poliarsenicale naturale arsenicina A
Bagno A., Guella G., Mancini I., Saielli G., Tahtinen P.
"COFEM 2008 Giornate di chimica organica fisica e meccanicistica", Sestri Levante, Italy, 24-26
September 2008
In: Book of abstracts, Roma, Italy, Società Chimica Italiana, 2008
Spectroscopy and DFT calculations of transition metal complexes inducing regioselectivity in organic
Synthesis
Mancini I., Defant A., Rossi B., Viliani G.
th
"11 International Workshop on Complex Systems", Andalo, Trento, 17-20 March 2008
An NMR-DFT study of the first natural polyarsenical in nature: arsenicin A
Tahtinen P., Saielli G., Guella G., Mancini I., Bagno A.
"WATOC 2008", Sydney, 14-19 September 2008
In: Book of abstracts of World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists
URL : http://www.watoc2008.com
Eco- fingerprinting of Borghiella dodgei (Dinoflagellata): experimental evidence of a narrow
environmental niche
Flaim G., Rott E., Guella G., Frassanito R.
th
"15 Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology (IAP)",
Ramat, Israel , 23-30 November 2008
In: Book of Abstracts, 2007
Lipid composition analysis of detergent resistant membranes through a multi-technique approach
Tomazzolli R., Dalla Serra M., Frassanito R., Fracasso G., Cingarlini S., Colombatti M., Guella G.
nd
"22 European Conference on Chemistry for Life Sciences", Wroclaw, Bologna, Italy, 4-8
September 2007,
In: Medimond International Proceedings, Monduzzi, p. 113-116, 2008
Multidisciplinary characterization of two new species of colored stichotrichs belonging to the genus
Pseudokeronopsis (Ciliophora, Spirotrichea) which produce novel secondary metabolites
Modeo L., Frassanito R., Andreoli I., Carducci D., Guella G., Rosati G., Verni F., Dini F., Petroni G.
"Convegno nazionale della Società Italiana di Protistologia", Società italiana di protistologia,
Camerino, Italy, 11-12 April 2008
In: Book of abstracts, p. 27, 2008
ElectroSpray mass spectrometric investigations of the Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox cycle in copper-nucleobases
complexes
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Bassi D., Braga E., Tosi P.
th
20-25 January 2008
URL: http://sasp2008.epfl.ch/1

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ElectroSpray mass spectrometric investigations of Cu(II)-complexes with Guanine-based nucleosides

Guella G., Ascenzi D., Mancini I., Tosi P.
"Isolated Biomolecules and Biomolecular Interactions IBBI08", Valladolid, Spain, 13-18 April 2008
Role of metal complexes in the oxidation of guanine-based nucleosides: an ESI-MS investigation
Guella G., Ascenzi D., Mancini I., Tosi P.
st
"1 French-Italian Conference on Mass Spectrometry", Siena, Italy, 30 June - 4 July 2008
URL : http://www.unisi.it/eventi/mass_spectrometry/
Isolation and structural elucidation of new viniferins in infected grapevine leaves
Malacarne G., Vrhovsek U., Masuero D., Zulini L., Stefanini M., Moser C., Velasco R., Guella G.,
Mattivi F.
"Second International Symposium on Macromolecules and Secondary Metabolites of Grapevine
and Wines: Macrowine 2008", Montpellier, France, 4-6 June 2008
In: Book of abstracts of Macrowine, p. 51, 2008
Tassonomia ed ecologia di nuovi generi e specie di diatomee e cianobatteri di sorgenti delle Alpi
Cantonati M., Lange-Bertalot H., Komáreck J., Angeli N., R. Frassanito, Scalfi A. , G. Guella
"Annual Meeting of the Italian Phycology Working Group", Abano Terme, Italy, 14-15 novembre
2008
In: Book of abstracts of Società Botanica Italiana, Dipartimento di Biologia dell’Università di Padova,
Centro Studi Termali "Pietro Abano", p. 19, 2008

2007
Vibrational properties of inclusion complexes: the case of indomethacin-cyclodextrin
Rossi B., Verrocchio P., Viliani G., Scarduelli G., Guella G., Mancini I.
In: "SOFT-INFM Research and Development Center on Complex Dynamics in Structured Systems:
Activity Report 2004-2006", La Sapienza University, Roma, Italy, CSU, p. 77-77, 2007
2008
Ecologic and philogenetic roles of secondary metabolites of spring organisms: introduction, methods
and perspectives
Frassanito R., Mancini I., Guella G.
In: "The spring habitat: biota and sampling methods", Eds.: Cantonati M., Bertuzzi E., Spitale D.
Monografie del Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali, p. 307-316, 2008
3-Aklypyridinium and 3-alkylpyridine compounds from marine sponges, their synthesis, biological
activities, and potential use
Turk T., Sepcic K., Mancini I., Guella G.
In: "Cap. Rahman A., Studies in Natural Products Chemistry", vol. 35, Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 355-
397, 2008

2006
Ines Mancini
Oral communication: Determinazione strutturale di metaboliti poliarsenicali bioattivi isolati
dalla spugna tropicale Echinochalina bargibanti, Mancini I., Guella G., Frostin M., Hnawia E.,
Laurent D., Debitus C., Pietra F., VII Convegno Nazionale: giornate di chimica delle sostanze
naturali: (NAT7), Maratea, Italy, 2006
2007
Ines Mancini
Contribution: Synthesis of 3-alkylpyridinium oligomers and a brief overview on their biological
st
activities, Mancini I., Guella G., Frostin M., Hnawia E., Laurent D., Debitus C., Pietra F., 1

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Poly-APS Meeting, Genoa, Italy, Istituto di Scienze del Mare, CNR, 2007
Invited seminar: Natural products from marine organisms, University of Bologna, Department
of Chemistry, Bologna, Italy, 5 June 2007
Graziano Guella
Invited talk: Experiments and theory in structural determination of natural products, V
European Conference on Marine Natural Products, Ischia, Italy, September 2007
Invited seminar: Structure and ecological role of secondary metabolites, University of Pisa,
Department of Biology, Pisa, Italy, 24 April 2008
2008
Graziano Guella
Oral communication: Natural products chemistry and metabolomics, Meeting CIBIO-FBK,
Povo, Italy, May 2008
Oral communication: A mass spectrometric identification of the ubiquitous organic impurities

st
of methanol, Guella G., Ascenzi D., Franceschi P., Tosi P., 1 French-Italian Conference on
Mass Spectrometry, MASSA, Siena, Italy, 2008
Ines Mancini
Progress report: Chemistry and biological activities of marine natural products: two peculiar
examples, Centre CIBIO, University of Trento, Povo, Italy, 14 May 2008
CRENODAT MTSN: Biodiversity assessment and integrity evaluation of springs of

Trentino (Italian Alps) and long--term ecological research (Principal coordinator: € 59.994
Marco Cantonati, Local coordinator: G. Guella) 2004/2007
IPFO Intereg Department of Biology University of Pisa: Individuazione preventiva di

fattori organismici potenziali causa di importanti alterazioni ambientali (Principal € 35.000
coordinator: G. Guella) 2006/2007
CNR Institute of Biophysics TN/FBK CARITRO: Development of new methodologies

in the qualitative and quantitative analysis of lipid composition of synaptic vesicles € 20.000
(Principal coordinator: M. Dalla Serra, Local coordinator: G. Guella) 2008/2010
Total € 114.994
PROVINCIA DI RAVENNA CIRSA: "Sviluppo e applicazione di nuovi composti dalla

pirolisi catalitica della cellulosa e di altri componenti della biomassa" (Principal € 7.200
coordinator: D. Fabbri, Local coordinator: I. Mancini) 2008-2009
PAT ACE-SAP 2008-2011 "GRANDI PROGETTI": "Alpine ecosystems in a Changing

Environment: biodiversity Sensitivity and Adaptive Potential" (Principal coordinator: D. € 57.000
Neale; Local Coordinator: G. Guella) 2008/2011
Total € 64.200

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• T. Turk, K. Sepcic K., Dept of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• M. Jaspars, R. Scott, College of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
• National Cancer Institute (NCI), Chemotherapeutic Agents Repository, Rockville, MD 20852,
USA
• D. Skropeta, School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
• I. N’Diaye, Departement de Chimie, Faculté des Sciences, Université Cheikh Anta Diop,
Dakar, Senegal
• S. Ferrari, Institute of Molecular Cancer Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• C. Debitus, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, France
• D. Laurent, Pharmacochimie des Substances Naturelles et Pharmacophores, Noumea,
Nouvelle-Caledonie
• P. Tähtinen, Department of Chemistry, University of Turku, Finland
• F. Dini, P. Bagnoli, Department of Biology, University of Pisa
• M. Dalla Serra, CNR - Istituto Biofisica, Trento
• C. Pederzolli, Lorenzo Lunelli, FBK, Trento
• A. Fontana, Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, CNR, Napoli
• M. Cantonati and V. Lencioni, Museo Tridentino Scienze Naturali, Trento
• G. Flaim and F. Mattivi, Fondazione Mach, San Michele, Trento
• A. Bagno, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Padova
• G. Mariotto, Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Verona
• D. Cervia, Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Tuscia University, Viterbo
• M. Faimali, CNR, ISMAR - Istituto di Scienze Marine, Genova
• D. Fabbri, University of Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Scienze Ambientali, Ravenna
PhD thesis
2006
• Barbara Rossi: Vibrational and structural properties of cyclodextrin inclusion complexes: Raman
scattering and numerical simulation, G. Viliani, I. Mancini, 2006

2007
• Braga, Eleonora: "Processi di trasferimento elettronico in composti di coordinazione del rame con
nucleosidi a base guaninica", G. Guella
• Dalbosco, Luca: "Agenti di contrasto in risonanza magnetica (mri): rilassamento di spin nucleare
indotto da composti paramagnetici del gadolinio (iii)", G. Guella
2008
• Raspor, Lucija: "Isolation and biological actvities of saraines, alakaloids from the sponge Reniera
sarai (Pulitzer-Finali)" (External undergraduated thesis in Biology (Erasmus student from University
of Lubiana, Slovenia), I. Mancini, K. Sepcic

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RESEARCH LINE 2: LB02

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL IN AGRICULTURE AND METABOLITE
PROFILING OF OFFICINAL PLANTS
(Principal Investigators: A. Guerriero, M. D’Ambrosio)
Research activities
Five fungal endophytic microorganisms were isolated from grapevine leaves and inhibited the
sporulation of P. viticola; all of these were identified as Alternaria alternata. The production of toxic
metabolites by the grapevine endophyte A. alternata was checked using a liquid culture of the fungus.
The main metabolites extracted from the liquid culture revealed to be compounds belonging to the
family of diketopiperazines and showed a marked ability to prevent P. viticola sporulation, thus
representing a promising means to control the pathogen.
The development of fast and effective analytical methods for standardization, quality control and
metabolomic fingerprinting of plant extracts is of high interest in particular when such extracts are used
for medicinal purposes. In the context of a project carried out in the Trentino Alpine environment and
named "PARMA" (Piante Alimentari Aromatiche e Medicinali Alpine) we have chosen five medicinal
species (Centaurim erythraea Rafn, Euphrasia rostkoviana Hayne, Hieracium pilosella L., Lytrum
salicaria L., Rhodiola rosea L.) in order to bring them into cultivation and characterize in terms of
genetic variability and content of active principles. This latter chemical task has been already
accomplished by our research unit. Owing to the large number of experimental data to be acquired,
only communications to Congress are available at the moment.

2006
Inhibition of sporulation and ultrastructural alterations of grapevine downy mildew by the endophytic
fungus "Alternaria alternata"
R. Musetti, A. Vecchione, L. Stringher, S. Borselli, L. Zulini, C. Marzani, M. D’Ambrosio, L. Sanità di
Toppi, I. Pertot
Phytopathology, Vol. 96, 689-698, 2006
2007
Antifungal activity of diketopiperazines extracted from "Alternaria alternate" against Plasmopara
viticola: an ultrastructural study
R. Musetti, R. Polizzotto, A. Vecchione, S. Borselli, L. Zulini, M. D’Ambrosio, L. Sanità di Toppi, I.
Pertot
Micron, Vol. 38, 643-650, 2007
2007
Exploring chemical differences in five subpopulations of "Hieracium pilosella L." by HPLC-ESI-MS/MS
and comparison with genetic variability
D'Ambrosio M., Egger P., Guerriero A., Komjanc M., Zini E.
th
"55 International Congress & Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research", Graz,
2-6 September 2007
In: Planta Medica, v. 73, n.9, p. 910-910, 2007
Active constituents profiling of "Rhodiola Rosea L."

Egger P., D'Ambrosio M., Aiello N., Fusani P., Scartezzini F., Vender C.

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th
"55 International Congress & Annual Meeting of the Society for Medicinal Plant Research", Graz,
2-6 September 2007
In: Planta Medica, v. 73, n. 9, p. 907-907, 2007
PAT Progetti Liberi 2004: PARMA: Food, aromatic and medicinal Alpine plants: a
resource to valorize (Principal: C. Vender, Local coordinator: M. D’Ambrosio) € 83.000
2004/2006
ARSIA, Agenzia Regionale per lo Sviluppo e l’Innovazione nel Settore Agricolo-

forestale, Regione Toscana: Peronospora control: "Sperimentazione in territorio
toscano di nuovi sistemi di lotta alla peronospora della vite: messa a punto di
€ 2.000
protocolli per l’estrazione delle Diketopiperazine dai mezzi di coltura liquida del fungo
"Alternaria alternata" (Principal Coordinator: R. Musetti, Local coordinator: M.
D’Ambrosio) 2007
PAT-CRS 2007: Valuable product recovery: "Supercritical carbon dioxide/ethanol

mixture for the recovery of precious compounds from food industry waste and
€ 25.000
medicinal plants" (Principal coordinator: L. Fiori, Local Coordinator A. Guerriero)
2007
IRB: Edelweiss cell colture: "Antioxidat metabolites from Leontopodium alpinum cell
---
cultures" (Principal Coordinator: R. Dal Toso, Local Coordinator: A. Guerriero) 2007
Total € 110.000

• R. Dal Toso, G. Pressi, Institute for Biotechnological Research (IRB), Altavilla Vicentina,
Vicenza
• J. Dalla Via, M. Pramsohler, Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Laimburg, Ora,
Bolzano
• P. Braga, Dipartimento di Farmacologia, Chemioterapia e Tossicologia Medica, University of
Milano
• P. Andreatta, E-Pharma Trento S.p.A., Ravina, Trento
• R. Della Loggia, Aurelia Tubaro, Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali, University
of Trieste
• L. Fiori, DICA, University of Trento
• C. Vender, Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA), Villazzano,
Trento
• R. Musetti, Dipartimento di Biologia e Protezione delle Piante, University of Udine
• E. Bosisio, Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacologiche, University of Milano
• P. F. Vlad, A. Ciocarlan, Institute of Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of
Moldova, Chisinau
• J. I. Okogun, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abuja, Nigeria

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BIOPHYSICS AND BIOSIGNALS
Short description
At the Biophysics and Biosignal Laboratory the structure and dynamics of biological systems are
investigated with a multi-scale approach by experimental and application-oriented interdisciplinary
researches. Advanced techniques for structural and functional imaging (electrical activity mapping, non
linear optics, electron microscopy) are applied to cellular, tissue and whole systems combined to
quantitative modeling and computer simulation for investigating cardiovascular and neural systems.
The aim of the laboratory is to lay a two-way bridge from fundamental research to clinical
applications. We provide clinicians with new tools for use in patients and for assessment of their
impact, and we obtain from clinical observations new inputs to stimulate further basic investigations. In
such a way we follow a truly translational research approach that has proven to be a powerful process
that drives the clinical and industrial research engine.
Post-docs and
Fellows
11
Daniela Calzi
5 th
Coordinator: Roberta Cucino Alessandro Cristoforetti 20 cycle
6 th
Renzo Antolini Silvia Erla Chiara Broggio 20 cycle
36 30 st
Luca Faes Chiara Stringari 21 cycle
29
Michela Masè
21
Francesco Tessarolo

Other permanent
collaborators
Giandomenico Nollo 36 FBK - PAT - Trento

Flavia Ravelli 36 FBK - PAT - Trento
Long term visitors

• Lev Feygin Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy
of Science, Moscow
• Cheong Vee San Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Research activities
The research activities, in collaboration with medical institutions and biomedical companies, concerned
on:
• Physical basis of heart and brain function (cardiac arrhythmias, cardiovascular regulatory
systems, brain cortical connectivity)
• Development of advanced methodologies for diagnosis and treatment of heart dysfunctions
• Assessment of health technologies
• Molecular and Functional Imaging characterization of biologic processes (non linear optical
microscopy)
• Biomaterials and biomedical implant devices characterization (failure analysis)

2006
New techniques in linear and non-linear laser optics in muscle research

Vanzi F., Capitanio M., Sacconi L., Stringari C., Cicchi R., Canepari M., Maffei M., Piroddi N.,
Poggesi C., Nucciotti V., Linari M., Piazzesi G., Tesi C., Antolini R., Lombardi V., Bottinelli R.,
Pavone FS.
J. Muscle. Res. Cell. Motil, 27(5-7):469-79, 2006
Cell imaging and manipulation by nonlinear optical microscopy
Sacconi L., Tolic-Nørrelykke IM., D'Amico M., Vanzi F., Olivotto M., Antolini R., Pavone FS.
Cell. Biochem. Biophys., 45(3):289-302, 2006 (invited Rewiew)
Distribution of the atrial fragmented potentials in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation
Del Greco M., Coser A., Marini M., Magagna L., Ravelli F., Disertori M.
G. Ital. Aritm. Cardiostim 9(4), 74, 2006
Three-dimensional reconstruction of right lung circulation in a patient with isolated absence of right
pulmonary artery
Del Greco M., Centonze M., Marini M., Cristoforetti A., Donner D., Palermo A., Disertori M.
Eur. Heart J., 27:1281, 2006
Mixed Predictability and Cross-Validation to Assess Nonlinear Granger Causality in Short
Cardiovascular Variability Series
L. Faes, R. Cucino, G. Nollo
Biomedizinische Technik (Biomedical Engineering), 51:255-259, 2006
Causal Coherence Analysis to Disclose Feedback and Feedforward Cardiovascular Regulatory
Mechanisms in Humans
G. Nollo, L. Faes, R. Cucino A., Porta
Biomedizinische Technik (Biomedical Engineering), 51:A7, 2006
Quantification of phase recurrences in atrioventricular (AV) conduction during atrial arrhythmias
Masé M., Glass L., Ravelli F.
Comp. Cardiol., 33, 761-764, 2006
Evaluation of a Nonlinear Prediction Algorithm Quantifying Regularity, Synchronization and
Directionality in Short Cardiovascular Variability Series
Faes L., Cucino R., Nollo G.
Comp. Cardiol., 33, 177-180, 2006
Exploring Causal Interactions between Blood Pressure and RR Interval at the Respiratory Frequency
Cucino R., Faes L.,Nollo G.
Comp. Cardiol., 33, 649-652, 2006
Efficiency in endotoxins removal by a reprocessing protocol for electrophysiology catheters based on
hydrogen peroxide sterilization
F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, G. Nollo, R. Antolini, G. M. Guarrera, P. Caciagli

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International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health;209(6):557-565

Functional Properties and Performance of New and Reprocessed Coronary Angioplasty Balloon
Catheters
M. Fedel, F. Tessarolo, P. Ferrari, C. Lösche, N. Ghassemieh, G. M. Guarrera, G. Nollo
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part B - Applied Biomaterials , 78(2):364-72, 2006
Sterility and microbiological assessment in reusing single-use cardiac electrophysiology catheters
F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, P. Caciagli, G. M. Guarrera, G. Nollo
Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology, 27(12):1385-92, 2006
Global versus local linear beat-to-beat analysis of the relationship between arterial pressure and pulse
transit time during dynamic exercise
A. Porta, C. Gasperi, G. Nollo, D. Lucini, P. Pizzinelli, R. Antolini, M. Pagani
Med. Biol. Eng. Comput., 44, 331-337, 2006
Causal cross-spectral analysis of heart rate and blood pressure variability for describing the
impairment of the cardiovascular control in neurally mediated syncope
L. Faes, L. Widesott, M. Del Greco, R. Antolini, G. Nollo
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 53, 65-73, 2006
Bivariate nonlinear prediction to quantify the strength of complex dynamical interactions in short-term
cardiovascular variability
Faes L., Nollo G.
Med Biol Eng Comp., 44:383-392, 2006
A novel phantom for the in-vitro quantification of electrophysiology catheter slipperiness:
implementation and testing
F. Tessarolo, M. Fedel, G. Nollo, A. Motta
Journal of Applied Biomaterials and Biomechanics, 4:70, 2006
2007
Small-sample characterization of stochastic approximation staircases in forced-choice adaptive
threshold estimation
L. Faes, G. Nollo, F. Ravelli, L. Ricci, M. Vescovi, M. Turatto, F. Pavani, R. Antolini
Perception & Psychophysics, 69(2):254-262, 2007
Multidetector CT in the anatomical evaluation of left atrium and pulmonary veins in atrial fibrillation
patients: A pictoral assay
Centonze M., Del Greco M., Marini M., Nollo G., Ravelli F., Manera V., Dalla Palma F.
European Radiology, 17(1), 368, 2007
A morphology-based approach to the evaluation of atrial fibrillation organization
L. Faes, F. Ravelli
IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Mag., 26(4):59-67, 2007
Image fusion shows the role of incomplete ablation lines in creating a substrate for left atrial flutter
occurring after atrial fibrillation ablation
Del Greco M., Cristoforetti A., Marini M., Ravelli F.
Heart Rhythm., Sep 20, 2007
A stochastic approach for automatic registration and fusion of left atrial electroanatomic maps with 3D
CT anatomical images
Cristoforetti A., Masè M., Faes L., Centonze M., Del Greco M., Antolini R., Nollo G., Ravelli F.
Phys. Med. Biol., 52:6323-37, 2007
Microbial Biofilm Imaging: ESEM vs HVSEM: Complementary information and minimization of artifacts
M. Fedel, V. Chistè, I. Caola, F. Tessarolo
G.I.T. Imaging and Microscopy, 2:44-47, 2007
An integrated approach based on uniform quantization for the evaluation of complexity of short-term
heart period variability: Application to 24 h Holter recordings in healthy and heart failure humans
Porta A., Faes L., Mase M., D'Addio G., Pinna G.D., Maestri R., Montano N., Furlan R., Guzzetti S.,
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Deterioration of organization in the first minutes of atrial fibrillation: a beat-to-beat analysis of rate and
wave similarity
Ravelli F., Masé M., Del Greco M., Faes L., Disertori M.
J. Cardiovasc. Electrophysiol., 18:60-65, 2007
Different protocols for decontamination affect cleaning of medical devices. A preliminary electron
microscopy analysis
F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, M. Fedel, P. Caciagli, G. M. Guarrera, A. Motta, G. Nollo
Journal of Hospital Infection, 65, 326-33, 2007
Effects of acute atrial dilatation on conduction velocity and vulnerability to atrial fibrillation in the human
atrium
Ravelli F., Masè M., Del Greco M., Marini M., Disertori M.
G. Ital. Aritm. Cardiostim. 10, 23, 2007
Fusion of electroanatomic maps and multidetector computer tomography images for validation of left
atrium catheter ablation pints in atrial fibrillation patients
Del Greco M., Cristoforetti A., Marini M., Giovanelli C., Ravelli F., Centonze M., Nollo G., Disertori
M.
G. Ital. Aritm. Cardiostim., 10, 2007
2008
Quantifying the complexity of short-term heart period variability through K- nearest neighbor local linear
prediction'
L. Faes, S. Erla, G. Nollo
Comp. in Cardiol., 35:549-552, 2008
Nonlinear coupling is absent in acute myocardial patients but not healthy Subjects
Y. Bai, KL. Siu, S. Ashraf, L. Faes, G. Nollo, KH. Chon
Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol., 295(2):H578-586, 2008
Mutual nonlinear prediction as a tool to evaluate coupling strength and directionality in bivariate time
series: Comparison among different strategies based on k nearest neighbors
L. Faes, A. Porta, G. Nollo
Phys. Rev. E; 78:026201, 2008
MDCT role in the left atrium-pulmonary veins complex anatomic definition in atrial fibrillation patients.
Personal experience and pictorial assay
Benini K., Marini M., Del Greco M., Nollo G., Manera V., Centonze M.
Radiol. Med., 113(6): 779-98, 2008
Assessment of Granger causality by nonlinear model identification: application to short-term
cardiovascular variability
L. Faes, G. Nollo, K. H. Chon
Ann. Biomed. Eng., 36(3):381-395, 2008
Isolation of the left atrial surface from cardiac multi-detector CT images by means of marker controlled
watershed segmentation
Cristoforetti A., Faes L., Ravelli F., Centonze M., Del Greco M., Antolini R., Nollo G.
Med. Eng. Phys. 30: 48-58, 2008
Image fusion shows the role of incomplete ablation lines in the creation of a substrate for left atrial
flutter occurring after AF ablation
Del Greco M., Cristoforetti A., Marini M., Ravelli F.
Heart Rhythm., 5: 163-164, 2008
Mechanical modulation of atrial flutter cycle length
Ravelli F., Masè M., Disertori M.
Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 97(2-3):417-434, 2008 (invited review)

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An automatic system for the analysis and the classification of human atrial fibrillation patterns from
intracardiac electrograms
Nollo G., Marconcini M., Faes L., Bovolo F., Ravelli F., Bruzzone L.
IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., 55: 2275-2285, 2008
A model for mechano-electrical feedback effects on atrial flutter interval variability
Masé M., Glass L., Ravelli F.
Bull. Math. Biol. 70(5):1326-1347, 2008
Linear and nonlinear parametric model identification to assess Granger causality in short-term
cardiovascular interactions
L. Faes, G. Nollo, KH. Chon
Comp. in Cardiol., 35:793-796, 2008
Refereed Proceeding
2006
Il riutilizzo dei dispositivi monouso in cardiologia interventistica: aspetti tecnici, economici ed etico-legali
C. Favaretti, G. Nollo, G.M. Guarrera, G. Pascuzzi, A. Rigo, M. Rassu, C. Migliaresi, F. Tessarolo
I Forum Italiano per la valutazione delle tecnologie sanitarie, Trento, Italy, 19-21 January 2006
(Poster)
Microbiological approach to reprocessing of single use devices for interventional cardiology
I. Caola, F. Tessarolo, M. Disertori, G.M. Guarrera, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli
th
ECCMID, 16 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Nice, Italy, 1-4
April 2006 (Poster)
An experimental approach to study biofilm formation by single and multiple environmental bacterial
species
M. Fedel, I. Caola, F. Tessarolo, V. Chistè, P. Caciagli
International Conference BIOFILMS II - Attachment and Detachment in Pure and Mixed Cultures,
Leipzig, Germany, 23-24 March 2006 (Poster)
Contaminazioni batteriche di lavaendoscopi: studio del biofilm
I. Caola, M. Monterosso, M. Fedel, V. Chistè, F. Tessarolo, C. Eccel, P. Caciagli
SIMPIOS, II Congresso Nazionale, Riccione, Italy, 18-20May 2006 (Poster)
Procedure per la pulizia di frese in odontostomatologia: valutazione in microscopia elettronica
I. Caola, M. Fedel, F. Tessarolo, M. Monterosso, F. Leonardi, P. Dallapè, P. Caciagli
SIMPIOS, II Congresso Nazionale, Riccione, Italy, 18-20 May 2006 (Poster)
Reuse of single-use medical devices for intervential cardiology: scientific evidence from Italy
F. Tessarolo
Inaugural European Forum on Medical Device Reprocessing, Tours, France, 11 April 2006
2007
Predictability maps of the brain electrical activity
Erla S., Greiner S., Faes L., Orrico D., Tranquillini E., Lisanti M., Nollo G.
Neuromath Workshop 2007, Roma, Italy, 4-5 December 2007
Time varying nonlinear prediction of EEG signals
Faes L., Erla S., Greiner S., Ki H Chon., Nollo G.
Neuromath Workshop 2007, Roma, Italy, 4-5 December 2007
Effects of acute atrial dilatation on conduction velocity and vulnerability to atrial fibrillation in the human
atrium
Ravelli F., Masè M., Del Greco M., Marini M., Disertori M.
XIII World Congress on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Roma, Italy, 2007
Time-varying nonlinear prediction of EEG signals
S. Erla, S. Greiner, L. Faes, D. Orrico, E. Tranquillini, M. Lisanti, G. Nollo

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Proc. of the Neuromath Workshop 2007, 45-46. Rome, Italy, 4-5 December 2007
Effects of mechano-electrical feedback on atrial flutter interval: a mathematical model
Masè M., Glass L., Ravelli F.
80° Meeting Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, Trento, Italy, 2007
Acute atrial stretch slows conduction velocità in the human atrium
Ravelli F., Masè M., Marini M., Del Greco M.
80° Meeting Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, Trento, Italy, 2007
Health Technology Assessment on Reprocessing Single-use Catheters for Cardiac Electrophysiology:
Results of a Three-years Study
F. Tessarolo, M. Disertori, I. Caola, G. M. Guarrera, C. Favaretti, G. Nollo
th
29 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society,
Lyon, France, 23-26 August 2007
Imaging microbial biofilms by high-vacuum and environmental SEM
F. Tessarolo, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli, I. Caola
th
80 SIBS Meeting - Italian Society of Experimental Biology, Trento, Italy, 29 November - 1
December 2007
Kinetic characterization of bactericidal and fungicidal properties realized by nanosized fotocatalytic
TiO2 added in polyester-stone composite
F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli
th
80 SIBS Meeting - Italian Society of experimental Biology, Trento, Italy, 29 November - 1
December 2007
Characterization and quantification of slipperiness properties of cardiac electrophysiology catheters
by a venous phantom model
F. Tessarolo, M. Fedel G. Nollo
st
Trento Innovation Conferences in Materials Engineering, 1 Meeting: Advances in Polymers,
Composites and Biomaterials, Trento, Italy, 16-19 December 2007
Bactericidal and fungicidal properties of nanosized fotocatalytic TiO2 in polyester-stone composite
F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, M. Fedel, P. Tassone, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli
st
Trento Innovation Conferences in Materials Engineering - 1 Meeting: Advances in Polymers,
Composites and Biomaterials, Trento, Italy, 16-19 December 2007
MEF effects on atrial flutter cycle length variability: a mathematical model
Masè M., Glass L., Ravelli F.
Cardiac MEF and Arrhythmias, Oxford, UK, 2007
Effects of acute atrial dilatation on conduction velocity in the human atrium
Ravelli F., Masè M., Cristoforetti A., Marini M., Del Greco M.
Cardiac MEF and Arrhythmias, Oxford, UK, 2007
Valutazione dell’efficacia di procedure per la pulizia di frese per odontoiatria con microscopia
elettronica
M. Fedel, F. Tessarolo, M. Coser, I. Caola, P. Caciagli
Proceedings of II Forum Italiano per la Valutazione delle Tecnologie Sanitarie, vol. 2, 2007 (CD)
Dalla sperimentazione alla formazione sul campo: un percorso per migliorare la pratica professionale
I. Caola, P. Caciagli, M. Fedel, F. Tessarolo, M. Coser, R. Roni
Proceedings of II Forum Italiano per la Valutazione delle Tecnologie Sanitarie, vol. 2, 2007 (CD)
Surface modified porous silicon matrices for biological applications
E. Froner, F. Baschera, R. Adamo, E. D’Amato, P. Bettotti, F. Tessarolo, B. Rossi, M. Scarpa, G.
Mariotto
th
4 Optoelectronic and Photonic Winter School on Biophotonics, Sardagna, Italy, 25 February-3
March 3 2007
Mutual nonlinear prediction of cardiovascular variability series: comparison between exogenous and
autoregressive exogenous models
L. Faes, A. Porta, G. Nollo

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Health Technology Assessment on Reprocessing Single-use Catheters for Cardiac Electrophysiology:
Results of a Three-years Study
Tessarolo F., Disertori M., Caola I., Guarrera GM., Favaretti C., Nollo G.
Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Bio.l Soc., 1:1758-61, 2007
2008
Respiratory mechanical modulation of atrial intervals during atrial flutter
Masè M., Ravelli F.
Proceedings of ESGCO, O11, 4-6, 2008
Cardio-respiratory interactions in patients with atrial flutter
Masé M., Disertori M., Ravelli F.
Proceedings of Physiology 2008 - Main Meeting of the Physiological Society, Cambridge, UK, 53
pag., 2008
Low frequency cardiovascular oscillations investigated by causal cross-spectral analysis during a-
blockade in healthy humans
Nollo G., Faes L., Masè M., Gasperi C., Ravelli F., Cevese A.
Proceedings of ESGCO 2008, O12, 11-13, 2008
A method to assess nonlinear dynamics in nonstationary time series based on time-varying surrogate
data'
L. Faes, H. Zhao, K. H. Chon, G. Nollo
th
5 European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, Parma, Italy, 7-9 April 2008
Confronto fra TC singolo (TCSD) e multidetettore (TCMD) nella diagnosi e nella pianificazione
terapeutica delle lesioni traumatiche dell’aorta toracica (TAAT): 9 anni di esperienza dell’Unità
Operativa di Radiologia dell’Ospedale di Trento
N. Pace, W. Spagnolli, G. Nollo, L. Ventura, E. Moser, P. Peterlongo, M. Centonze
Health Technology Assessment in Italia: Modelli, Strumenti, ed Esperienze, Rome, Italy, 8-9
February 2008
Confronto fra differenti tecniche di imaging per la diagnosi e la valutazione della dissezione aortica
acuta: revisione sistematica e metanalisi
N. Pace, D. Bainbridge, G. Nollo, C. Ramponi, M. Centonze, J. Frey Martin
Health Technology Assessment in Italia: Modelli, Strumenti, ed Esperienze, Rome, Italy, February
8-9, 2008
Periprosthetic environment in tissue-implant interface of the failed arthroprosthesis
F. Tessarolo, P. Dorigotti, I. Caola, F. Piccoli, M. Barbareschi, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli
COST-WG3 Training School: Core Laboratories for the Improvement of Medical Devices in Clinical
Practice from the Failure of the Explanted Prostheses Analysis (FEPA), Biomedical Engineering
Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 5-7 June 5-7 2008
La valutazione dei protocolli di pulizia per frese e fili in odontoiatria: dalla sperimentazione
all’implementazione delle procedure attraverso un percorso di formazione sul campo
I. Caola, F. Tessarolo, M. Coser, M. Monterosso, G.M. Guarrera, P. Caciagli
III Congresso Nazionale SIMPIOS. Grado, Slovenia, 7-9 April 2008
Preparation and imaging of dental implant and perimplantar tissues in high vacuum, low vacuum, and
environmental SEM
F. Piccoli, F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, C. Tomasi, E. Bressan, P. Caciagli
COST-WG3 Training School: Core Laboratories for the Improvement of Medical Devices in Clinical
Practice from the Failure of the Explanted Prostheses Analysis (FEPA). Biomedical Engineering
Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, 5-7 June 2008
Caratterizzazione dell’ambiente perimplantare in interventi di revisione dell’artroprotesi: un approccio
combinato mediante tecniche istologiche, microbiologiche e ultrastrutturali
F. Tessarolo, F. Piccoli, P. Dorigotti, E. Demattè, M. Malavolta, I. Caola, M. Barbareschi, P.
Caciagli, G. Nollo
Congresso Nazionale Biomateriali 2008, Follonica, Italy, 17-19 September 2008

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Preparazione e osservazione di denti naturali, impianti dentali e tessuti perimplantari in microscopia

elettronica ad alto vuoto, basso vuoto e ambientale
F. Piccoli, F. Tessarolo, I. Caola, C. Tomasi, E. Bressan, G. Nollo, P. Caciagli
Congresso Nazionale Biomateriali 2008, Follonica, Italy, 17-19 September 2008
Fluorimetric Determination of Semicarbazide-Sensitive Amine Oxidase (SSAO/VAP-1) Activity In
Human Plasma
E. Bonaiuto, A. Rigo, M. Scarpa, F. Tessarolo, M. Barbareschi, A. Cagnin, M.L. Di Paolo
th
The 13 Amine Oxidases and Related Diseases Workshop-AO 2008, Beijing, China, 11-15 October
2008
Parametric and nonparametric methods to generate time-varying surrogate data
H. Zhao, L. Faes, G. Nollo, KH. Chon
th
Proc. of the 30 Annual Int. Conf. IEEE EMBS, 3504-3507, 2008

2006
Lo studio dell’atrio sinistro e delle vene polmonari. In: La TC multistrato nella diagnostica
cardiovascolare. Le applicazioni non coronariche delle cardio-TC
Centonze M., Del Greco M., Marini M., Cristoforetti A., Ravelli F.
Volume 4, Springer-Verlag Italia, Milano, 1-17, 2006 (Invited chapter)
2007
Vene polmonari e vene cardiache
Del Greco M., Ravelli F., Marini M.
Capitolo 11: In: La TC del Cuore nella Pratica Clinica. Ed.: F. Cademartiri, G. Casolo, M. Midiri,
Springer Italia - Springer-Verlag, 2007 (invited chapter)
Semeiotica. Vene cardiache e vene polmonari
Centonze M., Cristoforetti A., Manera V., Nollo G.
Parte II. In "La TC del Cuore nella pratica Clinica", Eds.: Cademartiri F, Casolo G, Midiri M.
Publisher: Springer Italia, pp. 293-310, 2007
2008
Organization measures of atrial activity during fibrillation. In: Understanding atrial fibrillation: the signal
processing contribution
Ravelli F., Faes L., Corino., Mainardi L.
Eds.: Mainardi L, Sörnmo L, Cerutti S., Morgan &Claypool Inc., 2008 (invited chapter)
Pulmonary veins and cardiac veins
Del Greco M., Ravelli F., Marini M.
In: Clinical applications of cardiac CT. Eds.: F. Cademartiri, G. Casolo, M. Midiri, Springer-Verlag
Italia, pp 135-148, 2008 (invited chapter)
Mechanical modulation of a reentrant arrhythmia: the atrial flutter case
Ravelli F., Masè M.
In: Mechanosensitivity of the Heart Series Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues Vol.3, Eds.: A.
Kamkin and I. Kiseleva, Springer Verlag, Dordrecht, (invited chapter)
Sterilization of biomedical materials
F. Tessarolo, G. Nollo
In: The Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, II ed. Eds.: Taylor & Francis
Group, New York, 2008 (invited paper)

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2006
Re-use of single use medical devices - Il riutilizzo dei dispositivi medici in cardiologia interventistica
Caola I., Capri S., Caciagli P., Disertori M., Fedel M., Guarrera G.M., Izzo I., Nollo G., Tessarolo F.
SICC-SIX Project Results Overview. Part I, APSS and University of Trento, ISBN 88-8443-122-0,
2006

2006
Francesco Tessarolo
Invited lecture: Reuse of single-use medical devices for intervential cardiology: scientific
evidence from Italy, Inaugural European Forum on Medical Device Reprocessing, Tours,
France, 11 April 2006
Renzo Antolini
Invited Lecture: Physics and cardiac electrophysiology. Opening lecture of the 79° SIBS
Congress, Bologna, Italy, 1-2 December 2006
2007
Renzo Antolini
Invited lecture: Clinical cardiac electrophysiology: from calliper to imaging of arrhythmias, XIV
Congresso Nazionale Società Italiana di Ricerche Cardiovascolari. Imola, Italy, 27-29
September 2007
2008
Renzo Antolini
Invited lecture: Seeing the rhythms inside the heart to treat the arrhythmias, XIX National
Congress of Società Italiana Biofisica Pura e Applicata, Roma, Italy, 17-20 September 2008
o
80 Congresso Nazionale SIBS - Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale
Organizer: R.Antolini
Trento, 29 November - 1 December 2007
MINISTERO DELLA SALUTE: Naprest (Principal coordinator: R. Antolini, Local

€ 138.000
coordinator: M. Scarpa) 2005/2007
PAT: SICCSIX (Principal coordinator: C. Favaretti, Local coordinator G. Nollo) 2006 € 29.972
2+
PRIN: Imaging intracellulare dell'attività proteolitica Ca -dipendente in cellule
immunocompetenti (Principal coordinator: E. Melloni, Local coordinator: R. Antolini) € 32.500
2006/2008
FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO TN E RV: Integrazione Immagini FA

€ 55.000
(Principal coordinator: M. Disertori, Local coordinator: F. Ravelli) 2006/2007

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FONDAZIONE CASSA DI RISPARMIO TN E RV: RifendO (Principal coordinator: P.

€ 46.500
Caciagli, Local coordinator: G. Nollo) 2006/2009
CNR: SIBS (Principal coordinator: R. Antolini) 2007 € 1.600
PAT: COMNF - Combinatorial optical microscopy for neural functional imaging.

€ 449.000
(Principal investigator: C. Vinegoni) 2007/2009
PAT Sanità: Monitoraggio elettrofisiologico in cardiochirurgia (Principal investigator:

€ 64.500
F. Ravelli) 2008/2010
Total € 817.072
PAT/MINISTERO DELLA SALUTE: Progetto Restenosi (Principal coordinators: R.

€ 26.000
Antolini, M. Scarpa) 2004/2006
APSS: Forum VTS2006 (Principal coordinator: G. Nollo) 2006 € 14.400
QUARELLA spa, Verona: Caratterizzazione microstrutturale e microbiologica di

materiali addizionati con nanoparticelle di titanio fotocatalitico (Principal coordinator: € 1.087
P. Caciagli, Local coordinator: G. Nollo) 2006/2007
APSS: Forum VTS20067 (Principal coordinator: G. Nollo) 2007 € 7.000
ET MEDICAL DEVICES, Trento: Home care for cardiovascular disease (Principal

€ 60.000
investigator: G. Nollo) 2007/2009
QUARELLA spa, Verona: Caratterizzazione microstrutturale e microbiologica di

materiali addizionati con nanoparticelle di titanio fotocatalitico (Principal coordinator: € 7.189
P. Caciagli, Local coordinator: G. Nollo) 2008
ATTREZZATURE MEDICO SANITARIE, Trento: Sviluppo di sistemi per la fisica

€ 17.000
sanitaria e l’ingegneria clinica (Principal investigator: G. Nollo) 2008
Total € 132.676
Other grants
• Grant from the McGill University for the Summer School Systems Biology Dynamics from Genes to
Organisms, 2006
• Marie Curie Grant for the Summer School & Workshop Biomedical Modeling and Cardiovascular-
nd st
Respiratory Control: Theory and Practice (Schloss Seggau, Leibniz, Austria, 22 July - 1 August
• 2007), in the context of the project Mathematical Modeling of the Human Physiological Systems
with Biomedical Application (2007-2010), supported by the Marie Curie Conference and Training
Courses Program
• Marie Curie Grant for the Summer School & Workshop Stochastic Differential Equation Models
th
with Applications to the Insulin-Glucose System and Neuronal Modelling (Middelfart, Denmark, 4 -
th
15 August 2008), in the context of the project Mathematical Modeling of the Human Physiological
Systems with Biomedical Application (2007-2010), supported by the Marie Curie Conference and
Training Courses Program

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• Biophotoncs Lab., European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS)
• Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute
• Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Science
• Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, USA
• Center for Non linear Dynamics in Physiology and Medicine, McGill University, Canada
• Bioengineering Department, Stony Brook University, SUNY, USA
• Dipartimento di Tecnologie per la Salute, Universty of Milano, Italy
• Department of Periodontology, Sahlgenska Academy, Göteborg University, Sweden
• Department of Electrical and Information Technology, Lund University, Sweden
• Center for Molecular Imaging Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University,
USA
• Azienda Provinciale per i Servizi Sanitari - APSS, Trento

• Agenzia Provinciale per l’Ambiente - APPA, Trento
• Interdepartmental Center BIOtech-Tecnologie Biomediche, Trento
• Interdepartmental Center for Integrative Biology (CIBIO), Trento
• Center for Brain and Mind Research (CiMEC), Trento
• Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK, Trento
• Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento

• ET MEDICAL DEVICES, Cavareno, Trento
• QUARELLA spa, Verona
• VANGUARD Ag., Berlino
• EUROCOATING, Pergine, Trento
• AMS, Trento
2006
Renzo Antolini
• President of the I Forum Italiano per la Valutazione delle Tecnologie Sanitarie, Trento, 2006
Giandomenico Nollo
• Chairman at WONCA, Florence August, 25-29 2006 Session: New technology chances for
early diagnosis of cardiovascular disease and shared management of cardiac patients
th
• Chairman at the 4 European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, Jena, Germany,
April, 2006
Luca Faes
• Associate Editor for the Signal Processing theme of the annual International Conference of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, since 2006
2007
Renzo Antolini
• President of the 80° Meeting Società Italiana di Biologia Sperimentale, Trento 2007

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• President of the II Forum Italiano per la Valutazione delle Tecnologie Sanitarie 2007, Trento
2007
Giandomenico Nollo
th
• Chairman at the 29 IEEE EMBC 2007 Conference, Lyon
Luca Faes
th
• Chairman at the 29 IEEE EMBC 2007 Conference, Lyon
2008
Renzo Antolini
• President of SIHTA 2008 Conference: Health Technology Assessment in Italia: Modelli,
Strumenti, ed Esperienze, Rome, Italy, 8-9 February 2008
Giandomenico Nollo
• Member of the Scientific Committee at SIHTA 2008: Health Technology Assessment in Italia:
Modelli, Strumenti, ed Esperienze, Rome, Italy, 8-9 February 2008
th
• Chairman at the 5 European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations, Parma, Italy, 7-9
April 2008
• Chairman at SIHTA 2008: Health Technology Assessment in Italia: Modelli, Strumenti, ed
Esperienze, Rome, Italy, February 8-9, 2008
PhD thesis
2006
• Michela Masè: Synchronization of electrical activity in the heart during atrial arrhythmias: computer
modelling and data analysis, F. Ravelli, R. Antolini, 23.2.2006
• Francesco Tessarolo: Reuse of single-use medical devices for interventional cardiology, C.
Migliaresi, G. Nollo., School of Doctorate in Material Science and Engineering, University of Trento,
17.03.2006
2007
• Chiara Broggio: Realizzazione e caratterizzazione di un apparato in onda evanescente per studi di
biofisica molecolare e cellulare, F.S. Pavone, R. Antolini, 19.12. 2007
• Mariangela Fedel: Surface properties, microstructure and performance of biomaterials for
cardiovascular implants, C. Migliaresi, A. Motta, G. Nollo. (School of Doctorate in Material
Engineering, University of Trento) 15.03.2007
2008
• Stringari Chiara: Second-harmonic generation imaging of muscle tissue, Renzo Antolini, Francesco
Pavone, 16.12. 2008
Physics Master’s degree theses

2006
• Vantini, Chiara: "Sistemi di produzione di immagini digitali in radiologia medica: valutazione della
funzione di trasferimento della modulazione e dell'efficienza quantica di rilevazione", R. Antolini
2007
• Frasnelli, Elisa: "Frequency domain near infra-red spectroscopy in brain perfusion measurements:
development of a non- contact optical scanning system", R. Antolini
• Lorentini, Stefano: "Approccio multimodale alla preparazione di un piano di trattamento
radioterapico: definizione del volume tumorale con l'utilizzo di imaging funzionale", R. Antolini
• Lutteri, Paola: "Caratterizzazione dimensionale e morfologica del particolato atmosferico mediante
microscopia elettronica ed analisi dell'immagine", R. Antolini

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• Nollo, Nadia: "Radioterapia guidata dalle immagini: caratterizzazione di un sistema ecografico per
un corretto posizionamento del bersaglio terapeutico", R. Antolini
• Ossato, Giulia: "Near infrared spectroscopy for breast cancer detection and planning of a new non-
contact instrument", R. Antolini
2008
• Cutrale, Francesco: "P.A.L.M.: photo - activated localization microscopy", R. Antolini
• Erla, Silvia: "Caratterizzazione della complessità dell'attività neuro-elettrica corticale nell'uomo
tramite metodi di predizione non lineare dei segnali EEG", R. Antolini, G. Nollo
• Giarola, Marco: "Indagini micro-spettroscopiche di tessuti adiposi", R. Antolini
• Nicolini, Carlo: "Simulazione montecarlo di un linac per radioterapia basata sul toolkit geant4.
Validazione del modello e calcolo distribuito", R. Antolini
• Pace, Nicola: "Health technology assessment: comparison amongst different imaging strategies
for the diagnosis and the assessment of acute thoracic aortic dissection", R. Antolini
• Pasetto, Stefano: "Metodi di pianificazione per trattamenti radioterapici ad intensità modulata
(imrt): strategie di ottimizzazione e misure dosimetriche di verifica con 2d array", R. Antolini
• Ravanelli, Daniele: "Valutazione della dose assorbita dal paziente in radiologia digitale, Sviluppo di
un modello fisico basato sull'immagine digitale", R. Antolini
• Silvestri, Luigi: "Spettroscopia vibrazionale su tessuto murino affetto da glioblastoma multiforme",
R. Antolini
• Zeni, Stefano: "Un modello fenomenologico di corrente stretch-attivata nel tessuto cardiaco", R.
Antolini

2006
• Cutrale, Francesco: "Aspetti radiobiologici legati all'interruzione del trattamento radioterapico:
analisi del trattamento capo-collo", R. Antolini, A. Valentini
• Foss, Cristina: "Determinazione mediante MRI della massa e dei parametri funzionali cardiaci su
un modello sperimentale", R. Antolini
• Nicolini, Carlo: "Sistemi di controllo a Feedback in fisiologia umana: la regolazione della pressione
nel sistema cardiovascolare", R. Antolini, G. Nollo
• Pasetto, Stefano: "Misura del tempo di rilassamento T1 in risonanza magnetica nucleare:
confronto tra tecniche spettroscopiche e tecniche di imaging", R. Antolini
• Ravanelli, Daniele: "Valutazione dei rischi di complicazioni in radioneurochirurgia stereotassica con
gamma Knife mediante stogrammi dose-volume", R. Antolini
2007
• Caldini, Claudia: "Visualizzazione di microstrutture in sistemi biologici tramite tomografia a
coerenza ottica", R. Antolini
• Moretti, Marco: "Dosimetria personale a TLD: taratura e verifica sperimentale di un nuovo sistema
dosimetrico", R. Antolini
• Poli, Matteo: "Caratterizzazione di un microscopio non lineare a due fotoni per applicazioni
biofisiche", M. Scarpa
2008
• Miori, Gloria: "Isolamento e caratterizzazione microscopica di frammenti da usura nei tessuti
perimplantari", R. Antolini

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DOCTORAL SCHOOL IN PHYSICS

The Physics Department organizes and sponsors the Doctoral School in Physics. The aim is to provide
students with the necessary skills for highly qualified employments at universities, public and private
research institutions and industries.
The Doctoral School is an important and valuable part of the Physics Department.
The Physics Department offers all doctoral students facilities such as personal computer, network
connection, computing resources, use of the library, access to several other Department facilities.
Each doctoral student is assigned to a scientific supervisor who is a staff member of the Department or
one of the partner institutions.
The scientific activity is stimulated by the numerous seminars and conferences regularly sponsored by
the Department and by the other local research institutions.
The number of grant-assisted fellowships may be increased by funds from Universities and public or
private research agencies.
The large majority of doctoral students is granted a fellowship funded by the University or by research
institutions which collaborate with the Physics Department.
Structure of the graduate studies

The Doctoral School in Physics is designed to train students to carry out autonomous, original, and
rigorous scientific research, required for highly-qualified activities in a variety of work environments.
The School offers a European doctoral qualification, according to the regulations laid down in the
Declaration of the Confederation of EU Rectors' Conferences.
The Doctoral School in Physics lasts three years. Candidates are admitted to it after passing a
competitive examination. The doctoral training is based on research activities and attendance of
advanced courses and seminars.
The courses are expected to be mainly attended during the first year aiming to complete the students’
cultural background in physics.
During the first year, all PhD students must select the subject of their thesis work among those
proposed by the Physics Department. A tutor will be assigned to each student by the Doctoral School
Committee. The research programme of the thesis is approved every year by the Doctoral School
Committee.
The discussion of the thesis is held in Trento, in front of a committee of professors of Trento and of
other Italian and foreign Universities and Research Institutions.
The following local research institutions are partners of the Doctoral School, offering teaching and
research support as well as sponsoring individual fellowships on specific research topics:
• MIS- FBK - Material and Microsystem Centre of the Fondazione "Bruno Kessler"
• CeFSA - FBK - Condensed Matter Centre of the Fondazione "Bruno Kessler"
• BEC - Research and Development Center on Bose Einstein Condensation
• ECT* - European Centre fon Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas
• INFN - National Institute of Nuclear Physics
The main research activities of the Physics Department are internationally recognised, and cover the
following scientific areas:

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• Low temperature physics

• Biophysics and biosignals
• Biorganic chemistry
• Physical science communication
• Atomic and molecular physics
• Material science - IdEA (Hydrogen, Energy, Environment) Laboratory
• X-ray spectroscopy
• Optical spectroscopy
• Nanoscience
• Theoretical physics of fundamental interactions
• Theoretical nuclear and subnuclear physics
• Theoretical condensed matter physics
Teaching activity
Each PhD student must attend courses corresponding to 12 credits by choosing advanced courses
offered by the School.
The list of courses is reported in the annexe to the Training programme
Usually the teaching activity ends by the first semester of the second year.
PhD students can submit a personalized study plan to the Doctoral School Committee for the approval,
asking for the attendance of external courses (for example, courses of the Master degree in Physics or
Engineering and courses of other Doctoral Schools).
For every course, PhD students must pass an examination in a form agreed upon with the teacher.
Besides, PhD Students must attend:
• Seminars organised by his/her own Research group

• Dialogues and Joint Colloquia organized by the Department of Physics also on topics different from
the research activity carried out by the PhD students
• Students are also encouraged to attend Summer Schools and Conferences related to the subjects
of their research activity.
Awards
2006
Marco Cozzini
Best PhD thesis award, by the Universty of Trento
2007
Mauro Antezza
2008
Stefano Gandolfi
"Premio Nazionale Sergio Fubini", by Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare for the best PhD
thesis

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Publications
PhD students actively participate to the research activity carried out in the group they are in. Their
publications are listed together with the ones of the various Laboratories and research units.
Students
PhD students’ names, already cited together with the staff members of each Laboratory and Unit, are
reported here with their research activity.
XIX cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2003/2004
Graduation
Name and surname Title of the thesis Tutor
year
Thermal dependence of the Casimir-

Mauro Antezza Polder-Lifshitz force and its effects on L. Pitaevskii 2006
ultra-cold gases
Fabrication and Characterization of Silica

Shivakiran Bhaktha based Rare-earth Doped Waveguides and M. Montagna 2006
1-D Photonics Crystals for Integrated
Realization and characterization of
Andrea Chiappini confined structures: control of optical and M. Montagna 2006
spectroscopic properties
Maria Silvia Rapporti fra apprendimento formale e
S. Oss 2006
Defrancesco informale: alcune proposte
Study of the inclusive transverse
Sara Della Monaca responses for three-nucleon systems with G. Orlandini 2007
the Lorentz Integral Transform Methods
Non trivial string backgrounds: tachyons in
Valentina Forini string field theory and plane-waves in G. Nardelli 2006
DLCQ strings
Joint use of X-ray synchrotron radiation
microbeams and tip assisted photon
Silvia Larcheri detection for nano-scale EXAFS G. Dalba 2007
spectroscopy and chemically sensitive
surface mapping
Interdeterminazione interferenza
entanglement. Interpretazioni e
Fabrizio Logiurato S. Oss 2007
misinterpretazioni nei fondamenti della
teoria dei quanti
Study of the properties of pure and

Francesco Operetto defective hydrogen crystals with Quantum F. Pederiva 2007
Monte Carlo Methods
Quantum interferometry with photons and

Luca Pezzè S. Stringari 2007
Bose-Einstein condensates

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Vibrational and Structural properties of

Rossi Barbara cyclodextrin inclusion complexes: raman G. Viliani 2006
scattering and numerical simulation
Local dynamics and negative thermal

Marco Vaccari G. Dalba 2006
expansion: an EXAFS study of CuCi
Fabrication and assessment of sol-gel

Luca Zampedri silica-based photonics systems improving M. Montagna 2007
spectroscopic properties at 1.5 µm
XX cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2004/2005
Graduation
Year
Surface modification and its role on

Roberta Adamo reactivity, photoluminescence and M. Scarpa 2008
solubility of silicon quantum dots
Local dynamics and negative thermal

Sameh Ahmed expansion in delafossite structure: an G. Dalba 2007
exafs study of CuScO2 and CuLaO2
Realizzazione e caratterizzazione di un
F.S. Pavone,
Chiara Broggio apparato in onda evanescente per studi 2007
R. Antolini
di biofisica molecolare e cellulare
Free-fall of LISA test masses: a new
Giacomo Ciani torsion pendulum facility to test linear S. Vitale 2008
motion
Measurement of the top quark pair
Gabriele Compostella production cross section in the Missing I. Lazzizzera 2008
ET plus jets channel at CDF
Imaging, modelling and simulation
Alessandro Cristoforetti techniques for study and treatment of R. Antolini 2009
cardiac arrhytmia
Chiral Dynamics in light hadrons with
Marco Cristoforetti M.C. Traini 2007
instantons
Objetcts and history in physics

Beniamino Danese S. Oss 2007
education
Luminescent and dielectric properties of

Luigi Ferraioli low dimension silicon structures formed L. Pavesi 2007
in various matrices
The auxiliary field diffusion Monte Carlo
Stefano Gandolfi method for nuclear physics and nuclear F. Pederiva 2007
astrophysics
Development of wide band gravitational
Paola Leaci G.A. Prodi 2008
wave detectors
Hawking radiation as a dynamical
Mario Nadalini process for stationary and dynamical S. Zerbini 2007
black holes

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The role of thin film in hydrogen science

Neinesh Patel A. Miotello 2007
and technology
Produzione di idrogeno da idrolisi di

Barbara Patton NaBH4 catalizzata da metalli di A. Miotello 2007
transizione
Studies of ultracold gases using

Sebastiano Pilati S. Giorgini 2008
quantum Monte Carlo techniques
Electric transport abd light emission in

Stefano Prezioso L. Pavesi 2008
silicon rich dielectrics
A laboratory verification of the force
disturbance physical model for the LISA
David Tombolato S. Vitale 2008
path finder free fall demonstration
mission
XXI cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2005/2006
Graduation
Year
Quantum Monte Carlo Methods applied

Lucia Dandrea to strongly correlated and highly F. Pederiva 2009
inhomogeneous many Fermion Systems
Synthesis and optical properties of
Matteo Martini fluorescein encapsulated in gold (core)/ M. Montagna 2009
silica (shell) architectures.
String inspired non-local scalar field

Michele Montobbio G. Nardelli 2009
theories in FRW cosmologies
Vibrational dynamics in tetrahedral
Laura Orsingher strong glasses: the cases of densified A. Fontana 2009
GeO2 and of GeSe2
La distribuzione del gas radon indoor:
Stefano Pegoretti A. Miotello 2008
analisi con moderne tecniche statistiche
Diagnostica di processi molecolari in

Giorgina Scarduelli P. Tosi 2008
scariche a pressione atmosferica
Non linear properties of Si nanocrystals

Rita Spano and their applications in photonics L. Pavesi 2008
structures
Second -harmonic generation imaging

Chiara Stringari R. Antolini 2008
of muscle tissue
La dinamica del criterio nella percezione
Davide Tabarelli L. Ricci 2009
umana
Studio tramite spettroscopia positronica
di difetti di tipo vacanza in idruri metallici
Laura Toniutti R.S. Brusa 2008
a base magnesio e di porosità in
membrane selettive

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Toward 3D imaging: theoretical and

experimental performance analysis of
Monica Vatteroni I. Lazzizzera 2008
CMOS technologies in image sensing
applications
XXII cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2006/2007
Name and surname Research Tutor
Effetti di spin-orbita nel gas di elettroni

Alberto Ambrosetti F. Pederiva
bidimensionale
Francesco Bariani Propagazione della luce in isolanti di Mott I. Carusotto

Ingrid Bausmerth Properties of a trapped Fermi Gas S. Stringari
Teorie della transizione vetrosa in sistemi con
Giacomo Gradenigo P. Verrocchio
interazioni a corto range
Romain Guider Studio di guide d'onda in Si con tecnica Sol-Gel L. Pavesi

Alessandro Pitanti Light amplifiers with Nano-Cluster and ERbium L. Pavesi
Realizzazione di concentratore solare ad

Alessandro Salemi R.S. Brusa
inseguimento
XXIII cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2007/2008
Studio comparato dell'espansione termica e dei

Abd El All Naglaa G. Dalba
fattori termici in semiconduttori tetraedrici
Armani Paolo Studio di sistemi di molti nucleoni F. Pederiva
Studio delle fasi possibili di un gas di Fermi

Bertaina Gianluca S. Giorgini
ultrafreddo
Chiari Luca Fisica del clima: glaciazioni A. Zecca
Materiali attivi per concentratori solari e per

Dholam Rupali A. Miotello
fotocatalisi
Catalizzatori per produzione di idrogeno da idruri

Fernandes Rohan A. Miotello
chimici
Sviluppo e sperimentazione di percorsi didattici
Guglielmino Michela S. Oss
per scuole secondarie in astrofisica
Rilevanza cosmologica del campo scalare di
Marin Diego S. Zerbini
Higgs anche in modelli con dimensioni extra
Masi Giulio Marco Fotonica in silicio L. Pavesi
Studio degli aspetti non-perturbativi del vuoto

Millo Raffaele P. Faccioli
nella QCD
Nicolodi Daniele Pendolo torsionale LISA W.Weber
Piazza Francesco Condensazione di Bose-Einstein A. Smerzi

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Sviluppo di tecniche NMR in soluzione ed in stato

Sandron Tommaso G. Guella
solido
Torrengo Simona Materiali nanostrutturati per utilizzo nei sensori A. Miotello
XXIV cycle: PhD students enrolled in the a.y. 2008/2009
Metodo DRP per lo studio della dinamica

Autieri Emmanuel F. Pederiva
stocastica di sistemi multi dimensionali
Development of new methodologies for

Aysina Julia investigating molecular compounds in complex P. Tosi
chemical mixtures and matrices
Simulazioni di proprietà ottiche ed elettroniche di
Battisti Anna M. Dapor
superficie
Congedo Giuseppe Lisa data analysis S. Vitale

Studio di buchi neri dinamici e loro proprietà
Di Criscienzo Roberto L. Vanzo
termodinamiche.
Studio teorico e realizzazione sperimentale di un

interferometro basato su stati entangled di
Landini Manuele condensati di Bose Einstein per misure di fase A. Smerzi
con sensibilità al di sotto del limite quantistico
standard e potenzialmente al limite di Heisenberg
Plasma synthesis and treatment of transparent

Luciu Ioana B. Laidani
conductive oxides for photovoltaic applications
Caratterizzazione elettrica ed elettro-ottica di
Marconi Alessandro dispositivi a nanocristalli di silicio per lo sviluppo L. Pavesi
di una sorgente ottica Cmos compatibile
Caratterizzazione spettroscopica e
modellizzazione di guide d’onda in ossido di
Prtjaga Nikola silicio, co-drogate con nanocristalli di silicio ed L. Pavesi
erbio, per lo sviluppo di un amplificatore ottico
nella terza finestra telecom
Teorie della gravità modificata, studio inflazione,

Sebastiani Lorenzo S. Zerbini
costante cosmologica, accelerazione cosmica
Studies of biomolecular complexes by mass
Tamboli Vajir P. Tosi, I. Mancini
spectrometry and spectroscopic techniques
Ottimizzazione di materiali nanostrutturate
Tonezzer Matteo A. Miotello
organici, inorganici e ibridi per la sensoristica
Studio della struttura del v-GeO2 in funzione della
temperatura, della dinamica vibrazionale del v-
Zanatta Marco A. Fontana
SiO2 densificato e delle eccitazioni collettive nel
v-SiSe2

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Professional career
Since 1993, the year in which an autonomous Doctoral School in Physics was established in Trento,
seventy doctoral students have been awarded the Doctoral degree.
The employment they have found, yearly monitored by the Secretariat of the Doctorate School, is
summarized in the following graph:
Academic position:
38,63%
Research
Institutions:
32,95%
Private Industries:
Public 15,90%
Administration:
12,52%

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TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES
Short description
The Technical Support Services (TSS) of the Physics Department offer high level and specialized
technical assistance to the scientific activities of the Department. The Services, in operation for more
than thirty years, interact with the various research laboratories in the Physical Sciences, and they offer
support to the other structures of the Science Faculty, as well as to other Faculties and
Interdepartmental Centers of the University. In some cases they collaborate also with external
partnerships, such as private companies interested in the available know-how of the Services.
The main activities of the TSS involve all the machinery that is generally considered as complementary
to scientific research, ranging from preliminary analysis of research needs to offering solutions related
to the implementation, integration and logistics of systems inside and outside the research laboratories,
with special attention to the issues of safety.
The principal mission of the TSS is the development of a strong collaboration with the users. This task
is achieved by starting from a detailed assessment of the user’s needs, followed by an analysis and
proposal of a suitable technical answer to the problem and by the implementation and instalment of the
required instrument/set-up within the users’ laboratory. The requested services are usually offered in a
"ready-to-use" form and unlimited technical assistance is guaranteed for the lifetime of the instrument.
The widespread use of advanced technologies, from the early stages of the design phase, allows to
quickly and effectively adapt to the changes in course of action that are typical of scientific research
activities, and to propose innovative solutions in a broad range of contexts.
The proficiency and training of the TSS personnel play an important role, and the continuous upgrade
of skills is a high priority, as it provides the users with a service carried out by technologically updated
and professionally prepared personnel.
The main activity of the TSS is the design and implementation of prototypes that are usually not
available for purchase in the fields of electro technical and electronic components, mechanical and
vacuum systems, information technology and data acquisition systems, according to the requirements
coming from internal and external users.
The TSS are organized in an agile and autonomous structure that guarantees the best optimization of
timings in the workflow and an easy management of priorities to deal with any requirements set by the
users.
The TSS are directed by a Coordinator, who supports the Director of the Physics Department by
providing technical assistance and by collaborating on planning and budget processes, with the
management of departmental activities and with the review and improvement of the quality of services
offered by TSS.
The activities of the technical services are organized in four distinct sections:
1. Cryogenic Service
2. Electronic and Design Service
3. Mechanics Services
4. Shipping/receiving and store Service

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Members (2006-2008)
Coordinator
Adriano Gasparoli
Mechanics Services Electronic and Design Service

Claudio Salomon (Coordinator)
Pierino Gennara (Coordinator) Maurizio Cont
Dario Andreis Giulietto Chini (2006-2007)
Franco Berti Massimo Gennara
Paolo Manfredi Sandro Pedrotti
Giuseppe Pinto Luca Penasa
Michele Tomasi Luca Pichenstein
Cryogenic Service Shipping/receiving and Store Service
Fabrizio Gottardi Diego Franch

Other permanent collaborators Research unit
Roberto Graziola Synchrotron radiation laboratory: X rays
Mariano Talevi Superintendent physical plant of the Science Faculty

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1. Cryogenic Service
The Cryogenic Services Facility of the Department of Physics provides cryogens (liquid Helium and
Nitrogen) to the research laboratories. The Facility offers also technical support for the optimization of
cryogens consumption in laboratory activities, for the correct use of the distributed products, the
definition of operational procedures and personnel training on the installed systems. The Facility is
provided with two plants for helium liquefaction (≥12 l/h) with related equipment for helium gas
recovery; the storage capacity for the liquid phase is 500 litres, while for the gas phase is 250 m3.
The plants are able to satisfy the requests coming also from users external to the Physics Department
and at present the Facility is in the process of finalizing a supply contract with the CIMeC research
center. The Facility manages the purchase and distribution of liquid nitrogen that is stored in a 6.000
litre cryogenic tank, equipped with a withdrawal system to be used by research personnel (with a
withdrawal rate of about 60.000litres/year). In addition to cryogens, the Service is in charge of
supplying cylinders of different types of compressed gases and gas mixtures used in the Science
Faculty.
Additionally, it manages the logistics, transport and operation of the various pressurized storage
systems (dewars and cylinders) available for laboratory usage, in compliance with the effective Safety
Rules. The Facility collaborates in the design and implementation of new compressed gas systems by
taking care of the logistics and functional aspects. Finally, it presides over the correct operation of all
the plants and systems, and takes care of supplying materials and spare parts related to the above
mentioned activities.
Cryogenic Service Cryogenic Service

PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUID NITROGEN TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIQUID HELIUM TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
90000 6000
81200
80000
4950
5000
70000
62850 61950
60000 4000
3400
50000
LITERS
LITERS
2896
3000
40000
30000 2000
20000
1000
10000
0
0
2006 2007 2008
2006 2007 2008
YEAR
YEAR
Typical products
• Helium gas liquefaction
• Expertise in the management of storage systems (both compressed gasses and cryogenics) and
in compression, gasification and distribution methods for cryogens
• Providing counsel on safety rules in gas handling and storage

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2. Electronic and Design Service

The Electronic and Design Service of the Physics Department supports the activity of the research
laboratories by completing tasks related to electronic and mechanical systems design as well as
scanning and computer aided elaboration of images and graphical materials. The Facility takes care of
planning, manufacturing, and optimization and repair of the electric and electronic equipment used in
the research and teaching laboratories. Some of this equipment requires special features not available
in commercial instruments and therefore are built as prototypes. The Facility provides technical support
and counselling during the operative phases of development of a new scientific apparatus, from the
design to the manufacturing, installation and usage phases. This task is performed by working in close
contact with research scientists and establishing a daily feedback process. The Service carries out
market analysis and technical-economical appraisals on the best instruments and technologies to
employ in a specific project. The successful process of instrument design and implementation requires
competences in various fields such as electronics, electrotechnics, information technology for process
automation, data acquisition and CAD applications, vacuum and cryogenic technologies.
The Service is equipped with advanced and up-to-date instruments for the development, testing,
calibration and validation of electric safety in circuits and electric devices. The use of an advanced
CAD system integrated with a modern milling machine to make electronic circuits provides a quick and
precise tool for the development and realization of prototype circuit boards. A small mechanical
workshop inside the Electronic Service is used to carry out all the necessary machine operations
required for the assembly of prototypes.
The widespread use of micro-controlled systems allows to satisfy user needs related to the
development of automation in scientific apparatuses of increased complexity. Such control
technologies guarantee also an easy and rapid system modification, that are typical of experimental
research activities. Another duty of the Facility is the design and development of software systems for
instrument control and data acquisition.
In the field of mechanical development, the Service provides its competence in the design of
prototypes of instruments to be used in research or teaching activities, with special reference to high
and ultra-high vacuum chambers and low temperature equipments. The drawing of technical plans for
the realization of such prototypes is carried out using the CAD 3D design programs.
Electronic and Design Service Electronic and Design Service

% OF JOBS PERFORMED FOR THE USERS % OF TIME DEDICATED TO THE USERS
60 50
47
53 44
50 40
47 40
38
36 36
41
40
37 38
30
26
30
%
30
%
20
21 17
20
16
17
16
10
10
0 0
2006 2007 2008 2006 2007 2008
YEAR YEAR
Other scientific structures in Povo: DISI, Mathematics,

Science Faculty, Didactic Laboratories, etc.
Structures of the Engineering Faculty, Cognitive Science Faculty,

Inter-departmental Center/Labs, users outside the University

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In the field of graphics, the Service is equipped with scanning facilities and hardware and software
systems for the elaboration of images, graphics, slides, transparencies and high resolution
photographic films. It carries out formatting and printing of large size (A0) posters with photographic
quality.
The Electronic and Design Facility offers its services also to external users, by providing its expertise
and instrumentation to public and private companies in the field of support and technical advising,
design and prototype development.
Typical products
• custom power supplies for high voltage and/or high current applications
• graphical processing and printing
• electronics for high frequencies
• exhibits related to the Communication of Physical Sciences
• mechanical design of custom scientific instruments and components
• repair and calibration of electronic instruments
• Embedded control systems based on microprocessors
• Moving and transport systems
• Systems for conditioning, acquisition and handling of electric signals
• Support and technical advising
• Software development for the automation of scientific instruments
Most significant activities

• "Monitoring system of the Adige embankment", Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano;
• "Sun Tracker control" for a solar concentrator, IDeA Laboratory – Department of Physics;
• "Convergence measurements" in the train galleries of the Merano-Malles trainline, DIMS –
Geotechnical Laboratory – Faculty of Engineering, UNITN;
• "Automated systems for sensor positioning and data acquisition on hydrodynamic pipelines for
the study hydraulic phenomena", DICA – Hydraulics Laboratory - Faculty of Engineering
UNITN;
• "RF system for ionic guides and traps": development of the RF electronics of an ion trap for the
Ulisse experiment at the Fermi@Elettra Facility, Trieste;
• "EXAFS control system" at the GILDA beamline at the ESRF Synchrotron Radiation Facility -
Grenoble (F);
• "Exhibits for the Communication of Sciences to the general public" by the Trento Museum of
Natural Science, within the exhibitions: "Spaziale! Astronomia in Mostra" – "Prova a Volare!" –
"Giochi di Einstein" - "Destinazione stelle";
• "Conditioning and signal transmission for load tests on rock fall protection nets", DIMS -
Laboratory of Materials and Testing - Faculty of Engineering UNITN;
• "Automatic control of a set-up for the coating of stainless steel balls with lubricating films" -
IDeA Laboratory – Department of Physics and IAE Spa.

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3. Mechanics Services
The Mechanical Service Facility provides technical assistance to the research laboratories of the
Department of Physics. It has a thirty-year long experience in the development of equipment and
systems for scientific and technological research. It realizes and optimizes innovative systems and
prototypes of high technological standards. It also develops advanced structures to provide services
characterized by high technical-scientific performance.
To this goal, the Mechanical Service collaborates with research institutes and industries which are
active in the fields of interest from the mechanical sectors, and in particular of those specifically dealing
with advanced materials, as well as with optical, electronics and aerospace components. The
Mechanical Service promotes training activities aiming to increase the in-loco know how in this sector,
in order to continuously improve the performance of the Service and prepare to face the forthcoming
challenges. The Mechanical Service Facility is equipped with a set of machines, mostly of the
traditional type, which allow realization of a wide range of assemblies, even including special materials
such as ceramics, tungsten, molybdenum, arcap, nickel and special aluminum alloys or inox steels,
and plastic materials such as PTFA, ERTALON, policarbon, polymethylmethacrylate, PVC, nylon.
The specialists working in the Mechanical Service offer technical assistance and advising to
investigators and students, as well as external users. The laboratory can usually meet most of the user
needs, as far as the design and realization of pieces of equipment is concerned.
The work management of this Service is structured in order to maximize the flexibility and the
independence in the realization of the different products. This is an essential aspect, since most of the
components produced for the experimental setups have to be realized in a single copy. In addition,
independence and flexibility in the operation allow efficient production and testing of new pieces which
were not planned in advance. This is often necessary in the testing and design phase of new
experimental equipments and prototypes. Such an activity has a significantly impact in reducing waiting
times and contributes to increase the productivity of the different research laboratories.
Mechanics Services
Mechanics Services
% OF JOBS PERFORMED FOR THE USERS % OF TIME DEDICATED TO THE USERS
70
80
68 70 58 59
70 60
56
59
60
50
50
40
WORKS
40 31
28
30
25
30
21 20 20
20 16 16
20
15 15 11
12
10
10
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2006 2007 2008 2006 2007 2008
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Typical products
• Ionization chambers for particle beams
• Cryogenic systems and tools
• Exhibits for Physics education and Science Communication
• Precision manufacturing, with special materials
• Robotic micrometric movements in vacuum
• Driving and positioning of complex systems
• Mechanical design of experimental setups
• Quadrupoles, electron guns, and magnetic deflectors
• Repair and calibration of mechanical facilities
• Geotechnical instrumentation
• TIG Technology: special welding, also with niobium
• Ultra high vacuum chambers and facilities
Most significant activities

• "Exhibits for the Communication of Sciences to the general public" by the Trento Museum of
Natural Science, within the exhibitions: "Spaziale! Astronomia in Mostra", "Prova a Volare!",
"Giochi di Einstein", "Destinazione Stelle"
• "Polariscopy for photoelasticity measurements", DIMS – Geotechnical Laboratory, Faculty of
Engineering UNITN
• "Electron gun for positrons physics", Università la Sapienza – Roma
• "Tunable support, with linear and angular mobility for parabolic mirrors", IDeA Laboratory –
• "Chemical reactor for immobilization of micro-organism in alginate microspheres" DIMTI –
Chemistry Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering
• "Infiltration column for measurement of ground pressure", DIMS – Geotechnical Laboratory-
Faculty of Engineering
• "Tunable support for mass tests", LISA project, Low-Temperature Laboratory - Department of
Physics
• "Photo-acoustic cells for detection of trace gases", FAM Laboratory, Department of Physics
and CNR-IFN
• "Mixer for deposition of micro-organisms by the Biosil technique", DIMTI – Chemistry
Laboratory – Faculty of Engineering
• "UHV Linear translator for micro-balance", CNR-IFN, Trento
• "Vacuum Heat transmitter for solar energy concentrator", IDeA Laboratory – Department of
Physics
• "Assembling system for 4-mass pendulum", LISA project, Low-Temperature Laboratory –

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4. Shipping/receiving and Store Service
The Warehouse Service of the Department of Physics performs the following types of logistic support:
• Administration of the storage and stocking of materials
• Purchasing for the different structures within the Faculty of Science
• Shipping, receiving and delivering.
The warehouse material consists mainly of the following items: stationery and information materials
electric and electronic materials, iron and alloy products, nuts/ bolts/hardware store materia,
components for vacuum systems and individual protection devices. In collaboration with the other
Facilities of the Technical Support Services, the Shipping/receiving and Store service selects and takes
care of the supply and management of storage materials required by all the structures of the Science
Pole and by other external users interested in this service.
The introduction of the bar-code system and of software tools for management developed within the
Physics Department allowed the automatic identification of the materials available in stock, assuring
fast operation and optimal control of the resources.
The availability of the material selected by this Service is essential for the research laboratories, since
it reduces the time and cost for tracing the requested material.
The Store Service receives all the shipping and priority mails and takes care of their delivery within the
Department. It deals with the shipping of items ranging from simple documents to complex
instrumentation used in collaborations with other Universities of private structures. In collaboration with
the Administrative Office it traces the purchases, keeping records and performing inventory.
Shipping/receiving and Store Service Shipping/receiving and Store Service

% PURCHASE AND DISTRIBUTION % CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
60 70
56 56
53
59
60
50
50
50
40 46
41 41
40 39
30
%
28 32
%
24 30
22 22
20 19
20
20
10
10
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0 0
2006 2007 2008 2006 2007 2008
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A simple and cost effective high voltage RF driver for multipolar ion guides
P. Franceschi, L. Penasa, D. Ascenzi, D. Bassi, M. Scotoni, P. Tosi
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry 265, 224-229, 2007
Referred Proceedings
th
Internal reports
Sistema di telelettura dei consumi di azoto nei laboratori del Dipartimento di Fisica
G. Chini
Progetto di fattibilità tecnico-economica del sistema di automazione delle procedure di carico e
prelievo del Magazzino del Polo di Scienze MM.FF.NN.
G. Chini, C. Salomon
Manuale uso terminale MC1000 per gestione prelievi da magazzino con barcode
G. Chini

• CNR/IFN Trento
• ELETTRA Synchrotron Radiation Facility – Trieste
• ENAIP - Villazzano, Trento
• E.S.R.F. Syncrotron Radiation Facility - Grenoble (F)
• FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler – Trento
• Istituto Agrario San Michele all'Adige Fondazione Edmund Mach – Trento
• INFN Group at Trento
• INFN National Laboratories – Legnaro
• Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali – Trento
• Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano
• Provincia Autonoma di Trento
Collaborations with other structures of the University of Trento

• Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
• Didactic laboratories
• Engineering and Information Science
• Mathematics
• Faculty of Engineering
• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Department of Materials Engineering and Industrial Technologies
• Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering

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• Faculty of Cognitive Science

• Department of Cognitive Science and Education
• Inter-departmental Centres/Labs
• CEBISM – Research Centre for Bioengineering and Motor Sciences
• CIMeC – Center for Mind/Brain Science
• CIBIO – Centre for Integrative Biology
• Biotech – Interdepartmental Center for Biomedical Technologies

169
LIST OF SEMINARS
2006
Joint Colloquium
William A. Eaton
31 January National Inst. Health, Bethesda, Ultrafast Protein Folding
Maryland
Lev Pitaevsky
21 February Dipartimento di Fisica - BEC- Surface-atom Casimir force out of thermal equilibrium
INFM Trento
Shunri Oda Nano-silicon for novel quantum dot based electronic and photonic
6 June
Ins. of Technology, Tokyo devices
Eric A. Cornell
NIST/JILA-University of Progress towards an improved limit on the electron electric dipole
14 November
Colorado Boulder, Colorado, moment using trapped molecules
USA
Dialoghi
G. Gabetta - G. Timò
Celle solari ad altissima efficienza di conversione: dalle applicazioni
4 April CESI Spa and CESI Ricerca -
spaziali all'impiego terrestre
Milano
Seminars
Roberto Longo
18 January University of Roma 2 "Tor Invarianti spettrali non commutative ed entropia di buchi neri
Vergata"
Nikolai Prokof'ev
Weak first-order superfluid-solid quantum transitions: is deconfined
30 January University of Massachusetts,
criticality a self-consistent theory?
Amherst, USA
Angela M. Guzmán
2 February Universidad Nacional de Dipole-dipole interaction in quantum logic gates and quantum reflection
Colombia, Bogotá
Nikolai Prokof'ev
6 February University of Massachusetts, Quasicondensate mean-field for the weakly interacting Bose gas
Amherst, USA
Nikolai Prokof'ev
Diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo: from polarons to fermions with
13 February University of Massachusetts,
contact interactions
Amherst, USA
Nathan L. Harshman
17 February American University - Dynamical entanglement in particle systems
Washington, DC, USA
Nikolai Prokof'ev
20 February University of Massachusetts, Worm Algorithms for classical and quantum models
Amherst, USA
LIST OF SEMINARS
170
Alexander Kamenschik
21 February Tachioni e campi scalari in cosmologia
University of Bologna
Nikolai Prokof'ev
Worm Algorithms for Path-Integral Monte Carlo and new results for the
27 February University of Massachusetts,
supersolid He-4
Amherst, USA
Roberto Casadio Developing a Monte Carlo code to probe quantum gravity effects with
1 March
University of Bologna micro-black holes
Joaquin E. Drut
6 March Spin 1/2 Fermions in the Unitary Regime at Finite Temperature
University of Washington
Zdenek Herman Dynamics of Chemical and Charge Transfer Reactions of Molecular

9 March
Academy of Sciences, Prague Dications
Andrei Slavnov
Renormalizable model of electroweak interaction without fundamental
9- March Mathematical Steklov Institute,
scalar mesons
Moscow
Vladimir Fridkin
10 March Ferroeletricity on Molecular Level
Science Academy, Russia
Joseph L. Feldman
23 March George Mason University, The kubo theory of thermal conductivity
Fairfax, USA
Giacomo Roati Measurement of the thermal Casimir-Polder force with degenerate

3 April
LENS, Florence bosons
Gianluca Allemandi Applicazioni cosmologiche del formalismo del primo ordine nelle teorie
7 April
University of Torino alternative della gravità
Raul Santachiara Increasing of entanglement entropy from pure to random quantum

10 April
LPT, Strasbourg critical chains
Giovanni Garberoglio
18 April Assorbimento di idrogeno in reticoli metallo-organici
Dipartimento di Fisica, Trento
M. Ghulinyan
27 April Optical super lattices: where photons behave as electrons
Christophe Salomon
8 May Experiments in the BEC-BCS crossover
ENS, Paris
Remo Garattini
9 May Self-Substantiated Wormholes and Phantom Energy
University of Bergamo
Alastair Cormack Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Structure and Reactivity of

19 May
Alfred University, USA Bioactive Glasses
Giovanni Garberoglio
23 May Quantum sieving of hydrogen isotopes in carbon nanotubes
LIST OF SEMINARS
171
Vincente Vento
30 May Pentaquarks: from excitement to caution
University of Valencia
C.D. Hoyle
30-May Testing gravity from the dark energy scale to the moon and beyond
Victor Erokhin Fabrication, properties and applications of nanostructured organic,

13 June
University of Parma bioorganic, and composite systems
Emilio Elizalde
13 June Zeta regularization: new results
University of Barcelona
Stefano Turchini
15 June Natural circular dichroism in photoemission of free chiral molecules
ISM-CNR, Roma
Akira Takada Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Silica and Alkali-Silicate Glasses -

19 June
Imperial College, London Glass structures and Rheological properties
Ernesto Fattorusso Biotossine marine: un problema per la salute pubblica ed un danno per
23 June
University of Napoli "Federico II" le acquacolture
Computing NMR spectra with quantum-mechanical methods:

Alessandro Bagno
29 June applications to structure determination of organic and inorganic
University of Padova
systems, and to non-covalent interactions
Rène Stock How to Sort put the Pseudopotential Mess - Generalizing

3 July
University of Calgary Pseudopotentials beyond s-wave Interactions
Gianpietri Cagnoli Rivelatori di onde gravitazionali e limiti intrinseci alla misura di piccoli
5 July
INFN, Firenze spostamenti meccanici
Gianpietri Cagnoli Rivelatori di onde gravitazionali e limiti intrinseci alla misura di piccoli
6 July
INFN, Firenze spostamenti meccanici
Mariel Santangelo
8 September Effetto Hall relativistico e simmetrie 2+1
University of La Plata, Argentina
Peter Bender
25 September Measuring the gravitational time delay between drag free spacecraft
University of Colorado
Doerte Blume
25 September Two-and many-body physics of interacting dipoles
Washington State University
Sergei Odintsov
27 September Introduction to modified gravity
ICRA, Barcelona
Grigori E. Astrakharchik
2 October Universistat Politecnica Quantum phase transition in a two-dimensional system of dipoles
Catalunya, Barcelona
S.Minhaz Hossain
Department of Physics - Bengal Light Emission From Semiconducting nanoparticles: Role of Interface
6 October
Engineering and Science states
University, Shibpur - India
LIST OF SEMINARS
172
Sergey V. Iordanski
9 October Londau Institute for Theoretical On the relaxation of order parameter in BCS model
Physics, Russia
Massimo Boninsegni
16 October Phases of Hard Core Bosons in Optical Lattices
University of Alberta, Canada
Doerte Blume
23 October Two-and three dimensional bosonic clusters near threshold
Alessia Gorbunova
27 October Dark energy in the universe with bilk viscosity and modified gravity
University of Tomsk
Serguei Odintsov On the way from matter dominated stage to acceleration in modified
27 October
ICRA, Barcelona gravity
Vittorio Giovanetti
30 October Quantum limits in parameter estimation
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
Ryan Kalas
6 November Dilute Bose and Fermi gases with large generalized scattering lengths
Jiri Podolsky
16 November Accelerating and rotating black holes
Charles University, Prague
Vojtech Pravda
Algebraic classification of space-time in higher dimensions and its
23 November Academy of Sciences, Czech
applications
Republic
Massimo Boninsegni
4 December Siuperfluid and Quantum Melting of para-Hydrogen clusters
University of Alberta, Canada
Andrei Bytsenko
6 December Homology of branes wrapping hyperbolic cycles
Condrina University, Brasile
Roberto Onofrio
18 December Ultracold Fermi-Bose mixtures in light-assisted magnetic traps
University of Padua
Claudio Vinegoni
Development of New Molecular Optical Imaging Techniques for
20- December Lab. Molec. Imag. Gen..Hospital
Biomedical Applications
Massachusset
Pasquina Marzola
20 December Tumour angiogenesis studied by dynamic-contrast enhanced MRI
University of Verona
Andrea Trombettoni Inhomogeneous networks of Bosonic and Superconducting Josephson

20 December
SISSA-ISAS - Trieste Junctions
LIST OF SEMINARS
173
2007
Joint Colloquium
Sergio Doplicher
24 January University of Rome "La Space-time, quantum field theory and operator algebras
Sapienza"
Randall Hulet
21 March Fermion Pairing with Ultracold Atoms
Rice University
Francesco Buonsante Ground-State Fidelity and Bipartite Entanglement in the Bose-Hubbard

21 May
Politecnico di Torino Model
Roger Balian
23 May CEA, Saclay Information in statistical physics
Harald Fritzsch
5 September Institute d'Optique CNRS et Fundamental Constants in Physics and their Time Dependence s
Unversitee de Paris Sud XI
Alain Aspect
21 November From Einstein intuitions to quantum bits: a new quantum age?
Unversitee de Paris Sud XI
Dialoghi
Laura Cadonati
21 February Massachusetts Institute of LIGO e la Sfida delle Inafferrabili Onde Gravitazionali
Technology, Massachusetts
Andrea C. Ferrari
11 April Cambridge University, Nuovi materiali per nanotecnologia
Cambridge
Renato Tinti Stato dell'arte degli impianti nucleari nel mondo e prospettive dei reattori
16 May
ENEA, Bologna di nuova generazione
Marco Prevedelli
12 June Misura della costante gravitazionale G tramite interferometria atomica
Michele Muccini Dispositivi multifunzionali ad effetto di campo: transistor organici emittori

31 October
CNR-ISMN, Bologna di luce
Francesco Stellacci
7 November Inst. of Technology , Supramolecular nanomaterials and Lithography
Cambridge, USA
Mauro Francaviglia
Più veloce della luce? 1) spazio tempo e spaziotempo, da Euclide ad
10 December Marcella G. Lorenzi
Einstein - 2) E=MC2-un video per visualizzare la relatività speciale
University of Calabria
Seminars
Simone Montangero
15 January Entanglement Entropy dynamics in Heisenberg chains
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa
LIST OF SEMINARS
174
P. Perriat - S. Roux
22 January Universite Claude Bernard, New nanosized hybrid particles for biological detection and imaging
Lyon
Maria Luisa Chiofalo Evidence of Luttinger liquid behaviour in one-dimensional dipolar

22 January
Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa quantum gases
29 January Carlos Lobo Criterion for bosonic superfluidity in an optical lattice
Guixin Xuan
1 February East China Normal University, Fish basin standing waves and tsunami physics
Shanghai
Guido Pupillo 2D Self-Assembled Crystals with Polar Molecules: Shaping the

9 February
University of Innsbruck Interaction Potentials
Ennio Gozzi
13 February Quantization as a dimensional reduction phenomena
University of Trieste
Oliver Morsch
19 February Resonantly enhanced tunnelling in optical lattices
University of Pisa
Jagannathan Govindarajan
Positron physics research activity at the Institute for Plasma Physics
26 February Institute for Plasma Research -
Research
Gandhinagar - Gujarat - India
Salvatore Capozziello
26 February University of Napoli "Federico Dark energy and dark matter or extended gravity?
II"
M.V. Kovalchuk
26 February Russian research Centre Nanotecnology as a new basis for material science of the XXI century
"Kurchatov Institute" Moscow
Ahamd Darudi Determination of refractive index profile of planar waveguides by wedge

26 February
Zanjan University, Iran technique and Fourier transform fringe analysis
Giuseppe Lacagnina
1 March Monopole condensation in two-flavour Adjoint QCD
University of Pisa
Davide Sarchi
Institut de Theorie des
5 March Bose-Einstein condensation of micro cavity polaritons
Phenomenes Physiques
Lausanne, Switzerland
Emilio Elizalde
9 March Quadratic zeta functions in Mathematics and Physics
IEEE, CSIC Barcelona
Ippei Danshita Super fluid-to-Mott insulator transition of ultracold bosons in double-well

14 March
NIST, Gaithersburg - USA optical lattices
Yann G. Boucher From "Canonical alpinism" to " couplonics" (Some new light on wave
22 March
ENIB/RESO, France propagation in one- dimensional periodic structures)
Mher Ghulinyan
18 April Oscillating Anderson localization
FBK – IRST, Trento
LIST OF SEMINARS
175
Francesco Nesi
26- April Institute for Theoretical Spin-boson dynamics: A unified approach from weak to strong coupling
Physics, Regensburg
Gabriele De Chiara
10 May Optimal control of single atom motion in optical lattices
CNR-INFM BEC Trento
Sergio Gaudio
Fermi liquid behaviour in two component Fermi systems close to a
14 May University of Roma "La
diverging scattering length
Sapienza"
Giuliano Benenti Quantum ratchets for periodically kicked cold atoms and Bose-Einstein
17 May
Insubria University, Como condensates
Francesco Buonsante Ground-State Fidelity and Bipartite Entanglement in the Bose-Hubbard

21 May
Politecnico di Torino Model
Donata Favretto Sulla scena del crimine la spettrometria di massa e la verità a livello
31 May
University of Padova molecolare
Francesco Bariani
31 May The importance of being old
CNR-INFM BEC, Trento
Sara Vaiana
Dynamics of Intramolecular Contact Formation in Islet Amyloid
11 June National Institute of Health,
Polypeptide (IAPP)
Bethesda
Vincente Vento
3 July Glueball enhancement by colour deconfinement
University of Valencia
Shyamal Biswas
Indian Association for the Temperature dependence of critical number of particles for attracting
6 July
Cultivation of Science - atomic Bose gas
Jabalpur - India
Jean-Noel Fuchs
Laboratoire de Physique des
11 July Introduction to grapheme
Solides - Orsay – Paris -
France
Nir Barnea
6 September The Fermi Gas in Dynamic Mean Field Approximation
Hebrew University - Jerusalem
Sonia Bacca
7 September Institut GSI - Darmstadt Longitudinal response function of 4He with a realistic force
(Germania)
Gerald Feldman
7 September Compton Scattering from Deuterium: An Experimental Program at Lund
George Washington University
Sofia Quaglioni
7 September Lawrence Livermore National Ab initio no-core shell model and microscopic light-ion reactions
Laboratory
Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

11 September Joint Quantum Institute Mixtures of Ultra-cold Fermions with Unequal Masses
University of Maryland
Petrea Scudo
25 September Entanglement in the quantum Ising model
SISSA-ISAS - Trieste
LIST OF SEMINARS
176
Eve Marie Santangelo

26 September Universidad de la Plata, Quantum Hall Effect in grapheme samples: Condensed
Argentina
Baris A. Malomed
1 October Localized states in a super fluid fermion gas in optical lattices
Tel Aviv University
Anna Posazhennikova Shuttle for cold atoms: atomic quantum dot inside Bose Josephson
17 October
University Karlsruhe junction
Michal Kolar Orbital angular momentum single photon interferometry with which-path
6 November
Palacky University detection
Georg M. Bruun
13 November Problems in Cold Fermi Gases
Niels Bohr Institut
Juan Carlos Alonso Huitron

15 November Luminescent Si Nanoclusters Embedded in SiNx Thin Films
University of Mexico
Ralph Gaebler
20 November Ins. For Trace Gas Analysis St. Trace gas detection in the life sciences
Augustin - Germany
C.De Angelis-Stefan Wabnitz

23 November Optical signal processing in photonic crystal and nanostructure devices
University of Brescia
Craig J Hogan
28 November New physics and cosmology with gravitational wave directors
Stefano Ossicini
Frode e la struttura della ricerca scientifica, il caso Emil Rupp versus il
30 November University of Modena and
caso Jan Hendrik Schon
Reggio Emilia
Ed Taylor
7 December Two-fluid hydrodynamic modes in trapped Fermi super fluids at unitarity
CNR-IMFM BEC Trento
Ralph Gaebler
Laser magnetic resonance (LMR) spectroscopy of molecular radical
11 December Institute for trace gas analysis -
ions
St. Augustin – Germany
Ralph Gaebler
12 December Institute for trace gas analysis - Trace gas detection and breath test analysis in medicine
St. Augustin – Germany
Yoji Takikawa
18 December Current science education in Japan
University of Tokyo
LIST OF SEMINARS
177
2008
Joint Colloquium
William D. Phillips
2 April Spinning atom with light: a new twist on coherent deBroglie-wave optics
NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland
Martin Green
25 September University of New south Third generation photovoltaic technologies
Wales, Sydney, Australia
Renzo Vallauri Computer simulation methods in Statistical mechanics: from simple to

4 November
Physics Department, Trento complex systems
Ettore Fiorini An unusual application of the Physics of Rare events: the mystery of the
19 November
University of Milano Bicocca death of Napoleon
Dialoghi
Dario Narducci
14 February Bioinspired Chemical Sensing using Nanostructured Surfaces
University of Milano Bicocca
Lev Pitaevskii
23 April Landau as a teacher
Dipartimento di Fisica - Trento
Alastair N. Cormack
3 July Alfred University - Alfred - NY - Structure and properties of silicate glasses from atomistic modelling
USA
Marco G. Giammarchi
17 December Fisica dei Neutrini
INFN - Milano
Seminars
Georg M. Bruun Magnetic and super fluid phases of confined fermions in two-
22 January
Niels Bohr Institut dimensional optical lattices
Paul Eastham Beyond Bose Condensation of Polaritons: Non-Equilibrium Quantum

29 January
Imperial College London Condensation without Relaxation in a Semiconductor Microcavity
Dietmar Klemm
5 February Black strings and bubbles in AdS
University of Milano
Nicola Pinamonti
7 February Stable cosmological models with a free quantum field as a source
University of Hamburg
Nicolas Pavloff
7 February Super fluidity versus Anderson localization in a dilute Bose gas
LPTMS, Orsay, France
Sebastiano Pilati
12 February Phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas at zero temperature
CNR INFM BEC - Trento
LIST OF SEMINARS
178
Tapan Kumar Das

19 February Hyperspherical many-body approach for Bose-Einstein condensation
University of Calcutta
Tapan Kumar Das

26 February Research at the Department of Physics of the University of Calcutta
University of Calcutta
Thierry Gianmarchi
4 February Quasi-one dimensional physics in cold gases
University of Geneva
Luca Dal Negro Silicon-based nanomaterials, plasmon localization and bio-compatible

7 February
Boston University photonic structures"
Ki H. Chon
Linear and non linear model identification in interacting physiological
10 April department of Biomedical
systems
Engineering Suny@Stony Brook
Andrea Bertoldi
17 April Neutral atom cooling techniques and atom interferometry
LENS, Firenze
Andrea Bertoldi
18 April Neutral atom cooling techniques and atom interferometry
LENS, Firenze
Andrea Bertoldi
18-apr Neutral atom cooling techniques and atom interferometry
LENS, Firenze
Nicola Daldosso
13-15 April Sedwal Workshop
Physics Department, Trento
Grigory E. Astakharchik
Quasi-condensation of pairs of attractive fermions in one-dimensional
22 April Universitat Politecnica de
geometry
Catalunya - Barcelona
Michiel Wouters
6 May Mean field theory for excition-polariton condensates
EPFL - Lausanne
Fausto Borgonovi
23 May Università Cattolica del Sacro Sistemi dinamici e caos
Cuore - Brescia
Sebastiano Anderloni
26 May Quantum measuring processes for trapped ultracold gases
University of Trieste
David Clement Localization phenomena in disordered media: recent experiments with

3 May
LENS, Firenze gaseous matter-waves
Philipp Hyllus
6 June Resonant spin-changing collisions in spinor Fermi gases
Leibniz University, Hannover
Gustavo Garcia Gomez

Tejedor Modelling low energy electron and positron tracks for medical
17 June
Consejo Superior de applications
Investigaciones Cientificas -
Stefan Hollands Quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the operator product
10 June
University of Cardiff - UK expansion, and dark energy
LIST OF SEMINARS
179
Antonio Bassetto
14 July Many gluon amplitudes and related Wilson loops in SUSY N=4
INFN, Padova
Christian Schunck
17 July MIT - Harvard Center for Painting and Superfluidity in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Ultracold Atoms
Giorgio Pettinari
Magneto-Optical Properties of Dilute Nitride (GaAsN) Indium Nitride:
24 July University of Roma "La
Carrier Mass and H as Donor
Sapienza"
Boubanga Albon
28 July Plasma waves oscillations in field effects transistors
Universitè Montpellier 2
Roberto Casadio
28 July Gravitational renormalization of Q.F.T.
Sergei Odintsov
11 August Models of modified gravity
ICREA, Barcelona
Sean Hayward
10 September Dynamical black holes
University of Shangai
Kunji Chen Light emission and charge storage properties in 3D controllable is

23 September
Nanjiing University nanostructures
Klaus Fredenhagen On the renormalization group in perturbative algebraic quantum field

25 September
University of Hamburg theory
Oriol Bohigas
Quantum chaos: from the compound nucleus to the Riemann zeta
26 September LPTMS, Universite Paris Sud -
function
Orsay, France
Michele Modugno
2 October Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
LENS, Firenze
Dana Cristea
Research activity on Si and polymer-based microphotonic components
9 October National Institute for R&D in
in IMT Bucharest
Microtechnologies
Emilio Elizalde Semi-transparent boundary conditions and the fate of gravity equations
24 October
University of Barcelona as equations of state
Valerio Faraoni
13 November New and views of modified gravity
Bishop's University - Canada
Samit K. Ray
21 November SiGe Nanostructures for Electronic & Optoelectronic Devices
Indian Institute of Tecnology
Sergei Odintsov
21 November Accelerating cosmology from non local gravity
ICREA - Barcelona
Markus Holzmann
Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition of a Quasi Two-Dimensional Trapped
28 November Univ. Pierre Marie Curie Paris –
Bose Gas
LPMMC, Grenoble
LIST OF SEMINARS
180
Andrea Trombettoni
15 November Bose Gases on Disordered Lattices
SISSA - Trieste
Marcello Ortaggio On the Newman Penrose formalism in higher dimension: Robinson-

15 November
University of Prague Trautman
Federico Becca
16 November Variational wave functions for Mott insulator
SISSA - Trieste
LIST OF SEMINARS
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Scientific production and grants pag. 5

Laboratory for Communication of Physical Sciences pag. 7

Theoretical and Computational Physics pag. 15

Fundamental Interactions: High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology pag. 16

Ultracold Gases, Bose-Einstein Condensation and Fermi Superfluidity pag. 43

Experimental Gravitation and Low Temperature Physics pag. 53

Optical Spectroscopy pag. 77

X-ray Synchrotron Radiation pag. 91

IdEA (Hydrogen, Energy, Environment) pag. 99

Atomic and Molecular Physics pag. 113

Bioorganic Chemistry pag. 123

Biophysics and Biosignals pag. 137

Doctoral School in Physics pag. 151

Technical support service pag. 159

List of seminars pag. 169

The Physics Department

Associate professors (n. 14):

Researchers (n. 17):

Daniela ASCENZI, Riccardo CHECCHETTO, Guido COGNOLA, Michele D'AMBROSIO, Alessandra

Administrative staff (n. 4):

Anna BROLL, Karine FRISINGHELLI, Micaela PAOLI, Marina ZUANELLI

Technical Staff (n. 31):

Post-docs and Fellows (n. 35)

Silvio aBECCARA, Oleksiy ANOPCHENKO, Giacomo CIANI, Alessandro CRISTOFORETTI, Nicola

PhD Students (n. 33):

Department Scientific Production

2006 2007 2008

Research articles published on books 14 12 13

Published Research Articles 132 138 128

Authored or edited books - DVDs 7 2 10

Projects and grants

Fundamental Interactions: High Energy Physics, 4 199.500

Optical Spectroscopy 11 1.873.702

X-ray Synchrotron Radiation 7 1.213.500

IdEA (Hydrogen, Energy, Environment) 26 3.718.295

Atomic and Molecular Physics 9 141.300

Bio-organic Chemistry 9 289.194

Biophysics and Biosignals 15 9.49.748

DEPARTMENT SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION – PROJECTS AND GRANTS

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION

Members of the laboratory (2006-2008)

Faculty members Months Post-docs and Fellows Months PhD students

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Other permanent collaborators

Massimo Bosetti 4 Museo Tridentino di Scienze Naturali

Research articles published on journals

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Making light rays visible in 3-D

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Research articles published on books

Authored or edited books, DVDs

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Non era via da vestito di cappa…

Invited talks, oral contributions and seminars

Participation in national and international research projects

L. 6/2000 MIUR DIFFUSIONE DELLA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA 2006: Costruzione di

MPI-MURST and FONDO SOCIALE EUROPEO, FONDAZIONE CASSA

L. 6/2000 MIUR DIFFUSIONE DELLA CULTURA SCIENTIFICA 2007: Postazioni

LABORATORY FOR COMMUNICATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Participation in projects with private and public institutions and companies

MUSEO TRENTINO DI SCIENZE NATURALI: Pole position (Principal local