Paola Castrucci

Professore Associato in Fisica Sperimentale della Materia
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Paola Castrucci is Associate Professor of Structure of Matter at the Department of Physics of University of Roma Tor Vergata.

Over the last two decades she has dealt with nanostructures as Ge quantum dots; carbon, AlN and Si nanotubes; Si nanowires; applications of carbon nanotubes in solar cells and in photodetectors. She is currently working on the growth and characterization of two dimensional materials like silicene; on the fabrication and characterization of photodetectors based on the graphene/Si and Bi2Se3 thin film/Si heterojunctions; on the investigation of the fundamental properties of topological material like Bi2Se3 thin films and nanobelts.

She has experience in: chemical vapor deposition, molecular beam epitaxy and thermal evaporation growth processes; structural and electronic characterization through spectroscopic (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron and Auger electron diffraction, Near edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy and Extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, Electron energy loss spectroscopy, optical absorption spectroscopy, photoluminescence…), microscopic (scanning tunneling microscopy, atomic and magnetic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy) and diffraction (X-ray diffraction, X-ray standing wave technique,…) techniques; fabrication and characterization of solar cells and photodetectors.

She has published about 140 refereed publications in prestigious ISI-peer reviewed journals, obtaining an H-index of 29 (Google Scholar) and 25 (Scopus), with around 2100 citations. The results of her R&D work has been presented at about 50 among national and international conferences. She is member of the organizing committee or program of 7 International Conferences and referee of 23 international ISI referenced journals. Referee of Projects for the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) (UK) and for the American Chemical Society Petroleum Fund, University of Firenze and MIUR. Member of the Advances in Nano Research editorial board edited by TechnoPress (SouthKorea). Principal investigator in several research projects and participant in dozens. She has held about 40 among Physics courses and exercitations. She has been tutor or supervisor of about 20 students (three-year, master and doctorate degrees) and post-doc. Since 2017 she is member of the Commission of PhD in Physics. She was rewarded in 2016 with the "Nanoscience Prize" for his "Outstanding Achievements in Nanoscience" by ACSIN-13 and in 2010, together with her Canadian colleagues, with the Venice-2010 Award of Excellence from the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Canada for excellence, quality and productivity of collaboration between an Italian and a Canadian group.

Pubblicazioni degli ultimi 5 anni:

1.     Freddi, S., Achilli, S., Soave, R., Pagliara, S., Drera, G., De Poli, A., De Nicola, F., De Crescenzi, M., Castrucci, P., Sangaletti, L., Dramatic efficiency boost of single-walled carbon nanotube-silicon hybrid solar cells through exposure to ppm nitrogen dioxide in air: An ab-initio assessment of the measured device performances (2020) Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 566, pp. 60-68.  

2.     Ronci, F., Colonna, S., Flammini, R., De Crescenzi, M., Scarselli, M., Salvato, M., Berbezier, I., Jardali, F.,  Lechner, C., Pochet, P., Vach, H., Castrucci, P. High graphene permeability for room temperature silicon deposition: The role of defects (2020) Carbon, 158, pp. 631-641.

3.     Scagliotti, M., Salvato, M., De Crescenzi, M., Kovalchuk, N.G., Komissarov, I.V., Prischepa, S.L., Catone, D., Di Mario, L., Boscardin, M., Crivellari, M., Castrucci, P. Femtosecond light pulse response of photodetectors based on Graphene/n-Si heterojunctions (2019) Carbon, 152, pp. 643-651.

4.     Agati, M., Castrucci, P., Dolbec, R., El Khakani, M.A., Boninelli, S. Formation of Hybrid Silicon Nanostructures via Capillary Instability Triggered in Inductively-Coupled-Plasma Torch Synthesized Ultra-Thin Silicon Nanowires (2019) Physica Status Solidi (B) Basic Research, 256 (7), art. no. 1800620.

5.     Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M., Boscardin, M., Attanasio, C., Avallone, G., Cirillo, C., Prosposito, P., De Matteis, F., Messi, R., Castrucci, P. Time response in carbon nanotube/Si based photodetectors (2019) Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, 292, pp. 71-76.

6.     Berbezier, I., Michon, A., Castrucci, P., Scarselli, M., Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M. Silicene Nanostructures Grown on Graphene Covered SiC (0001) Substrate (2019) International Journal of Nanoscience, 18 (3-4), art. no. 1940039.

7.     Scagliotti, M., Salvato, M., De Crescenzi, M., Castrucci, P., Kovalchuk, N.G., Komissarov, I.V., Prischepa, S.L., Catone, D., Di Mario, L., Boscardin, M., Crivellari, M., 2D Carbon Material/Silicon Heterojunctions for Fast Response Self-Powered Photodetector (2019) International Journal of Nanoscience, 18 (3-4), art. no. 1940088.

8.     Kupchak, I., Fabbri, F., De Crescenzi, M., Scarselli, M., Salvato, M., Delise, T., Berbezier, I., Pulci, O., Castrucci, P. Scanning tunneling microscopy and Raman evidence of silicene nanosheets intercalated into graphite surfaces at room temperature (2019) Nanoscale, 11 (13), pp. 6145-6152.

9.     Castrucci, P., Fabbri, F., Delise, T., Scarselli, M., Salvato, M., Pascale, S., Francini, R., Berbezier, I., Lechner, C., Jardali, F., Vach, H., De Crescenzi, M. Raman investigation of air-stable silicene nanosheets on an inert graphite surface (2018) Nano Research, 11 (11), pp. 5879-5889.

10.   Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M., Crivellari, M., Messi, R., Castrucci, P. Increasing Efficiency in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube/n-Si Photodetectors by Voltage Doping (2018) IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, 17 (4), pp. 837-840.

11.   Scagliotti, M., Salvato, M., De Crescenzi, M., Boscardin, M., Castrucci, P. Influence of the contact geometry on single-walled carbon nanotube/Si photodetector response (2018) Applied Nanoscience (Switzerland), 8 (5), pp. 1053-1058.

12.   Salvato, M., Scagliotti, M., De Crescenzi, M., Crivellari, M., Prosposito, P., Cacciotti, I., Castrucci, P. Single walled carbon nanotube/Si heterojunctions for high responsivity photodetectors (2017) Nanotechnology, 28 (43), art. no. 435201.

13.   Le Borgne, V., Agati, M., Boninelli, S., Castrucci, P., De Crescenzi, M., Dolbec, R., El Khakani, M.A. Structural and photoluminescence properties of silicon nanowires extracted by means of a centrifugation process from plasma torch synthesized silicon nanopowder (2017) Nanotechnology, 28 (28), art. no. 285702.

14.   Ponzoni, S., Achilli, S., Pintossi, C., Drera, G., Sangaletti, L., Castrucci, P., De Crescenzi, M., Pagliara, S. Hybridized C-O-Si Interface States at the Origin of Efficiency Improvement in CNT/Si Solar Cells (2017) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 9 (19), pp. 16627-16634.

15.   De Nicola, F., Salvato, M., Cirillo, C., Crivellari, M., Boscardin, M., Passacantando, M., Nardone, M., De Matteis, F., Motta, N., De Crescenzi, M., Castrucci, P. 100% internal quantum efficiency in polychiral single-walled carbon nanotube bulk heterojunction/silicon solar cells (2017) Carbon, 114, pp. 402-410.

16.   Rigoni, F., Pintossi, C., Drera, G., Pagliara, S., Lanti, G., Castrucci, P., De Crescenzi, M., Sangaletti, L. A cross-functional nanostructured platform based on carbon nanotube-Si hybrid junctions: Where photon harvesting meets gas sensing (2017) Scientific Reports, 7, art. no. 44413.

17.   Agati, M., Amiard, G., Le Borgne, V., Castrucci, P., Dolbec, R., De Crescenzi, M., El Khakani, M.A., Boninelli, S. Self-assembly of silicon nanowires studied by advanced transmission electron microscopy (2017) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 8 (1), pp. 440-445.

18.   De Crescenzi, M., Berbezier, I., Scarselli, M., Castrucci, P., Abbarchi, M., Ronda, A., Jardali, F., Park, J., Vach, H. Formation of Silicene Nanosheets on Graphite (2016) ACS Nano, 10 (12), pp. 11163-11171.

19.   Boninelli, S., Agati, M., Amiard, G., Paillard, V., Castrucci, P., Dolbec, R., Khakani, M.A.E. Structural investigations of Inductively Coupled Plasma ultra-thin silicon nanowires (2016) Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference, NMDC 2016 - Conference Proceedings, art. no. 7777167.

20.   Agati, M., Amiard, G., Le Borgne, V., Castrucci, P., Dolbec, R., De Crescenzi, M., El Khakani, M.A., Boninelli, S. Growth Mechanisms of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Torch Synthesized Silicon Nanowires and their associated photoluminescence properties (2016) Scientific Reports, 5, art. no. 37598.

21.   Salvato, M., Cirillo, C., Fittipaldi, R., Prischepa, S.L., Vecchione, A., De Nicola, F., Castrucci, P., De Crescenzi, M., Scarselli, M., Attanasio, C. Transport properties in aggregates of Nb nanowires templated by carbon nanotube films (2016) Carbon, 105, pp. 544-550.

22.   Aramo, C., Ambrosio, M., Bonavolontà, C., Boscardin, M., Castrucci, P., Crivellari, M., De Crescenzi, M., De Lisio, C., Fiandrini, E., Grossi, V., Maddalena, P., Passacantando, M., Santucci, S., Scarselli, M., Valentini, A., Valentino, M. Light induced tunnel effect in CNT-Si photodiode (2016) Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, 824, pp. 76-78.

23.   Manzoni, G., Ponzoni, S., Galimberti, G., Scarselli, M., Pulci, O., Camilli, L., Matthes, L., Castrucci, P., Pagliara, S. Ultrafast dynamics in unaligned MWCNTs decorated with metal nanoparticles (2016) Nanotechnology, 27 (23), art. no. 235704.

24.   De Nicola, F., Salvato, M., Cirillo, C., Crivellari, M., Boscardin, M., Scarselli, M., Nanni, F., Cacciotti, I., De Crescenzi, M., Castrucci, P. Record efficiency of air-stable multi-walled carbon nanotube/silicon solar cells (2016) Carbon, 101, pp. 226-234.

25.   De Nicola, F., Pintossi, C., Nanni, F., Cacciotti, I., Scarselli, M., Drera, G., Pagliara, S., Sangaletti, L., De Crescenzi, M., Castrucci, P. Controlling the thickness of carbon nanotube random network films by the estimation of the absorption coefficient (2015) Carbon, 95, art. no. 10167, pp. 28-33.

26.   Pintossi, C., Pagliara, S., Drera, G., De Nicola, F., Castrucci, P., De Crescenzi, M., Crivellari, M., Boscardin, M., Sangaletti, L. Steering the efficiency of carbon nanotube-silicon photovoltaic cells by acid vapor exposure: A real-time spectroscopic tracking (2015) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 7 (18), pp. 9436-9444.

27.   De Nicola, F., Castrucci, P., Scarselli, M., Nanni, F., Cacciotti, I., De Crescenzi, M. Super-hydrophobic multi-walled carbon nanotube coatings for stainless steel (2015) Nanotechnology, 26 (14), art. no. 145701, .

28.   De Nicola, F., Castrucci, P., Scarselli, M., Nanni, F., Cacciotti, I., De Crescenzi, M. Multi-fractal hierarchy of single-walled carbon nanotube hydrophobic coatings(2015) Scientific Reports, 5, art. no. 8583.

29.   De Nicola, F., Castrucci, P., Scarselli, M., Nanni, F., Cacciotti, I., De Crescenzi, M. Exploiting the hierarchical morphology of single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube films for highly hydrophobic coatings(2015) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 6 (1), pp. 353-360.

30.   Scarselli, M., Castrucci, P., De Nicola, F., Cacciotti, I., Nanni, F., Gatto, E., Venanzi, M., De Crescenzi, M. Applications of three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks (2015) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 6 (1), pp. 792-798.

31.   Aramo, C., Ambrosio, A., Ambrosio, M., Boscardin, M., Castrucci, P., Crivellari, M., Cilmo, M., De Crescenzi, M., De Nicola, F., Fiandrini, E., Grossi, V., Maddalena, P., Passacantando, M., Santucci, S., Scarselli, M., Valentini, A. Observation of a photoinduced, resonant tunneling effect in a carbon nanotube-silicon heterojunction (2015) Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, 6 (1), pp. 704-710.

32.   Ponzoni, S., Galimberti, G., Sangaletti, L., Castrucci, P., Del Gobbo, S., Morbidoni, M., Scarselli, M., Pagliara, S. Selective optical switching of interface-coupled relaxation dynamics in carbon nanotube-Si heterojunctions (2014) Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118 (41), pp. 24110-24116.

33.   Camilli, L., Pisani, C., Gautron, E., Scarselli, M., Castrucci, P., D'Orazio, F., Passacantando, M., Moscone, D., De Crescenzi, M. A three-dimensional carbon nanotube network for water treatment (2014) Nanotechnology, 25 (6), art. no. 065701.

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