Federica Bianco

  • CNR Researcher
  • federica.bianco@nano.cnr.it
  • Pisa
  • +39-050-509378
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Short Bio

- 2018 – present: permanent research scientist (Ricercatore di III livello) at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy).

- October 2018: visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute for the Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany) in the group of Dr. J. Smet.

- 2017 – 2018: Fix-term research scientist at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy) in the group of Prof. A. Tredicucci.

- 2013 – 2017: Post-doctoral fellow at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy) in the group of Prof. A. Tredicucci.

- 2011 September - December: visiting PhD student at McMaster University, (Hamilton, Canada), in the group of Prof. H. Haugen and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) (Montreal, Canada) in the group of Prof. R. Morandotti.

- 2009 – 2013: PhD student in Physics at Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy) in the group of Prof. L. Pavesi.

- 2009: Master Sc. in Physics and Astrophysics at University of Florence with a thesis carried out in the group of Prof. G.C. Righini

Research Interests

- 2D materials quantum optics
- Defect-engineering in 2D materials
- 2D materials-based optoelectronics devices
- 2D materials-based sensor devices
- Miniaturized quantum cascade laser
- Raman spectroscopy

Selected Recent Projects

THESEUs “Miniaturized Terahertz sources for Humans and Environmental SEcUrity”, sponsored by NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, co-PI http://web.nano.cnr.it/theseus/
q-LIMA “Light-matter interactions and the collective behavior of quantum 2D materials”, PRIN2020, co-PI

Selected Publications

"Antenna-coupled graphene field-effect transistors as a terahertz imaging array", F. Bianco, V. Miseikis, D. Perenzoni, C. Coletti, M. Perenzoni, A. Tredicucci, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 70-78 (2021).

"Electron Cooling with Graphene-Insulator-Superconductor Tunnel Junctions for Applications in Fast Bolometry",F. Vischi, M. Carrega, A. Braggio, F. Paolucci, F. Bianco, S. Roddaro, and F. Giazotto, Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 054006 (2020).

"Line-defect photonic crystal terahertz quantum cascade laser", A. Klimont, A. Ottomaniello, R. Degl’Innocenti, L. Masini, F. Bianco, Y. Wu, Y. D. Shah, Y. Ren, D. S. Jessop, A. Tredicucci, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie, Journal of Applied Physics 126, 153104 (2019).

"Patterned tungsten disulfide/graphene heterostructures for efficient multifunctional optoelectronic devices", A. Rossi, D. Spirito, F. Bianco, S. Forti, F. Fabbri, H. Büch, A. Tredicucci, R. Krahne and C. Coletti, Nanoscale 10, 4332-4338 (2018).

"Coherent absorption of light by graphene and other optically conducting surfaces in realistic on-substrate configurations", S. Zanotto, F. Bianco, V. Miseikis, D. Convertino, C. Coletti, and A. Tredicucci, APL Photonics 2, 016101 (2017) (* both authors equally contributed to the work)

“Terahertz detection by epitaxial-graphene field-effect-transistors on silicon carbide”, F. Bianco, D. Perenzoni, D. Convertino, S. L. De Bonis, D. Spirito, M. Perenzoni, C. Coletti, M. S. Vitiello, and A. Tredicucci, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 131104 (2015).

“THz saturable absorption in turbostratic multilayer graphene on silicon carbide”, F. Bianco, Ji-Hua Xu, F. Castellano, M. S. Vitiello, A. Tredicucci, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, Opt. Express 23 (9), 11632-11640 (2015).

 

 

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