Arrigo Calzolari

  • CNR Researcher
  • arrigo.calzolari@nano.cnr.it
  • Modena
  • +39-059-2055627
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Arrigo Calzolari received his PhD in Physics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2003. He is researcher at Institute of Nanoscience (CNR-NANO) in Modena since 2010, and member of the AFLOW consortium for material Materials Genomics (Duraham NC USA) since 2015. AC is faculty member of the PhD school in Physics and Nanoscience at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2018-present), member of scientific panel of PRACE-ICEI EU initiative (since 2020), and member of the European Materials Modelling Council- EMMC ASBL (since 2021). Previously, he operated as researcher at CNR-IOM Institute (Trieste, IT, 2009-2010), as external collaborator at SISSA (Trieste IT, 2013-2015), and adjunct research professor at Physics Dept., University of North Texas (Denton TX, USA 2012-2014). Calzolari coordinates the research group “ab initio materials simulations for optoelectronics and energy - AMUSE'', which operates in the field of condensed-matter and solid-state physics, performing first principles simulations at the DFT level and beyond.

Research Interests

My research activity is focused on computational material science, mostly based on ab initio studies - within the Density Functional Theory (DFT) framework and beyond (TDDFT, DFPT) - of the structural, electronic, optical, vibrational, plasmonic and transport properties of materials, nanostructures, molecules, and interfaces, for energy conversion, electronics, and nanotechnology applications.

The research activity deals both with the application of state-of-the-art packages for (TD)DFT calculations to interesting physical systems, and with the development and the implementation of original methods for the evaluation of the electronic and transport properties in nanostructure (WanT PROJECT) and spectroscopies (AFLOWpy project).

Specific themes of research include: (i) alternative materials for plasmonics; (ii) amorphous and disordered systems for synaptic electronics and neuromorphic computing; (iii) hybrid interfaces for organic electronics and spintronics; (iv) soft-matter and low-dimensional systems for optoelectronics and energy conversion; (v) development and implementation of numerical methods for materials analysis.

 

For further details, visit http://amuse.nano.cnr.it

Selected Recent Projects

INTERSECT (PC) https://intersect-project.eu
OPENMODEL (PI) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/953167
iQubits (Participant) https://www.iqubits.eu

Selected Publications

"Hyperbolic metamaterials with extreme mechanical hardness", A. Calzolari, A. Catellani, M. Buongiorno Nardelli, and M. Fornari, Adv. Opt. Mater. 9, 2001904 (2021).

"Challenges in controlled thermal deposition of organic diradicals", T. Junghoefer, N. M. Gallagher, K. Kolanji, E. Giangrisostomi, R. Ovsyannikov, T. Chassé, M. Baumgarten, A. Rajca, A. Calzolari, M. B. Casu, Chem. Mater. 33, 2019 (2021).

"Hierarchical short- and medium-range order structures in amorphous GexSe1-x for selectors applications", F. Tavanti, B. Dianat, A. Catellani, and A. Calzolari, ACS Appl. Elec. Mater. 2, 2961 (2020).

"Controlling the plasmonic properties of ultrathin TiN films at the atomic level", D. Shah, A. Catellani, H. Reddy, N. Kinsey, V. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, and A. Calzolari, ACS Photonics 5, 2816 (2018).

"VO2 as a natural optical metamaterial", M. Eaton, A. Catellani, and A. Calzolari, Opt. Express 26, 5342 (2018).

“Shear piezoelectricity in poly(vinylidenefluoride-co-trifluoroethylene): full piezotensor coefficients by molecular modeling, biaxial transverse response, and use in suspended energy-harvesting nanostructure”, L. Persano, A. Catellani, C. Dagdeviren, Y. Ma, X. Guo, Y. Huang, A. Calzolari, and D. Pisignano, Adv. Mater. 28, 7633 (2016).

Istituto Nanoscienze 

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

 

PEC: protocollo.nano@pec.cnr.it

Partita IVA 02118311006

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