Maurizia Palummo

Researcher of the Physics Department

University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

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Research activity since 1990 in SOLID STATE PHYSICS. Author of more than 70 articles in international journals.

Research Activity

After a stage in experimental Condensed Matter Physics on the optical properties of defects and color centers in isolant matrices, I am working, since 1991, in the field of first-principles calculations of the structural and electronic properties of materials. During my PhD thesis, I started to focus on ab-initio calculations, within the density functional theory and many-body perturbation theory, studying of the electronic properties of bulk wide band-gap semiconducting compounds, including self-energy corrections. After 1996 I worked on the electronic, linear and non linear optical properties of several semiconducting and metal surfaces, clean or covered with atomic and molecular adsorbates. In particular I am expert of reflectance anisotropy and surface differential reflectivity spectra calculations. In the last years, my research activity focused on the first-principle study of the many-body effects of wide-gap and low-gap semiconductor surfaces and also on the dielectric response and electronic excitations of low dimensional systems like Germanium and Silicon nanowires. Trough my work, I earned expertise in computational physics and became familiar with the most modern theories and computational tools of first--principles electronic structure calculations (Car Parrinello, GW method, exciton calculation, parallelization).

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