Research interests
Soft and photo lithography (micro-contact printing, micro-transfer molding, nano-transfer printing and microfluidic) for different application like lab-on chip, preparation and morphological characterization of lithography organic and inorganic materials. Fabrication of Silicon master for nano-patterning; wet and dry chemical etching of semiconductors, deposition of organic films through by spin-coating. Realization of optoelectronic devices based on organic molecules OLEDs. Metallic and oxide films deposition by thermal evaporator and Electron beam.
Biographical sketch
Eliana D’Amone was born in Campi Salentina (Lecce, Italy) on 27th October 1980. She graduated in chemical-biological technology in 1999 from High School Lecce and she is a qualified specialist in bio-organic and microbiological chemistry. She attended a three years training stage focused on the environment pollution analysis. Since 5th Novembre 1999 she works at the CNR Institute of Nanoscience University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) as chemical-biological technician, in the Nanobiotechnology division under the direction of the Prof. Rosaria Rinaldi. In August 2000 she attended a stage in the Laboratory of Surface Science at the University of Liverpool (England), implementing the techniques of characterization of surface and semiconductor. In April 2003 she attended a course certificated from the University of Lecce “Insurance and hygiene for technicians responsible for chemical and biological laboratories”. Since August 2001 she works at NNL.
Skills the expertise: Contact Angle, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Micro-soldering, Spin-Coater, Spectrophotometry technique, Fluorimetric technique, Profilometer, Soft-litography (micro-contact printing, micro-transfer molding, nano-transfer printing and microfluidic), Optical lithography, Mask Aligner, Thermal evaporation, Electron Beam Evaporator, Idraulic Press, Alpha Step Profilometer, Reactive Ion Etching (RIE),Galvanic Bench, PECVD(Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition).
Selected publications
“The fabrication of sub-10 nm planar electrodes and their use for a molecule-based transistor”, P. Visconti, A. Della Torre, G.Maruccio, E. D’Amone, A. Bramanti, R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, , Nanotechnology 15, 807-811 (2004)
“Ambipolar Transistors Based on Azurin Proteins”, S. D’Amico, G.Maruccio, P. Visconti, E. D’Amone, A. Bramanti, R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, , IEE Proceedings Nanobiotechnology, 151, 173-175 (2004)
“Nano-scaled biomolecular field-effect transistors: prototypes and evaluations”, G.Maruccio, P. Visconti, A. Biasco, A. Bramanti, A. Della Torre,P.P. Pompa, V. Frascerra, V. Arima, E. D’Amone, R. Cingolani and R. Rinaldi, , Electroanalysis, 16, 1853-1862 (2004, special issue dedicated to “Application of Field-Effect Transistors for Electroanalysis”)
“Metalloprotein-based field-effect transistor: a prototype”, G.Maruccio, P.Visconti, A. Biasco, A. Bramanti, E. D’Amone, R. Cingolani, R. Rinaldi, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (Munich, Germany - 17-19/08/2004), 113-115 (2004)
“Fabrication of nanoelectrodes for hybrid molecular-electronic devices”, A. Della Torre, P. Visconti, G.Maruccio, E. D'Amone, R. Krahne, L. Manna, R. Rinaldi, R. Cingolani, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (Munich, Germany - 17-19/08/2004) ,456-458 (2004)