Pino D’Amico

Short Bio

October 2016 - present: CNR-NANO Research Center S3, Modena, Italy. Researcher.

 

September 2011 - September 2016: CNR-NANO Research Center S3 and Physics Department Unimore, Modena, Italy. Post-Doc.

April 2010 - September 2011: Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy. Post-Doc.

2010 PhD in Physics, University of Regensburg, Germany.

"Switching and memory effects in electron-vibron systems: from single-site junctions to chains and networks"

2006 Master in Physics, University of Pisa, Italy.

"Spin-selective thermoelectrical transport in hybrid SINIS junctions" (In Italian)

Research Interests

  • Many Body Perturbation Theory
  • High-Throughput Material Discovery and Inverse Material Design
  • Ab-Initio Tight-Binding modeling of Materials
  • Few Fermi-atoms systems: confinement and interaction
  • Transport in Mesoscopic Junctions

Selected Recent Projects

MaX – Materials design at the eXascale http://www.max-centre.eu/

Selected Publications

“Intrinsic edge excitons in two-dimensional MoS2“, P.D’Amico et al., Phys. Rev. B 101, 161410(R) (2020).

“Tailoring the plasmonic properties of metals: The case of substoichiometric titanium nitride”, A. Catellani, P.D’Amico, A.Calzolari, Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 015201 (2020).

“New energy with ZnS: novel applications for a standard transparent compound”, P.D’Amico, A. Calzolari, A. Ruini, A. Catellani, Scientific Reports 7, 16805 (2017).

“Accurate ab initio tight-binding Hamiltonians: Effective tools for electronic transport and optical spectroscopy from first principles”, P. D’Amico et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 165166 (2016).

“Pairing of few Fermi atoms in one dimension”, D’Amico, M. Rontani, Phys. Rev. A 91, 043610 (2015).

“Engineering Interband Tunneling in Nanowires with Diamond Cubic or Zincblend Crystalline Structure based on atomistic modeling”, D’Amico, P. Marconcini, G. Fiori, G. Iannaccone, IEEE Transaction on Nanotechnology 12, 839 (2013).

“Charge-memory effect in a polaron model: equation-of-motion method for Green functions”, D’Amico, D.A. Ryndyk, G. Cuniberti, K. Richter, New J. Phys 10, 085002 (2008).

“Nonequilibrium spin-dependent phenomena in mesoscopic superconductor-normal metal tunnel structures”, Giazotto, F. Taddei, P. D’Amico, R. Fazio, F. Beltram, Phys. Rev. B 76, 184518 (2007).