Innovative Nanowire DEvicE Design.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions– Innovative Training Network (ITN) – project funded by the European Commission, under the H2020

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New light on Transient States in Condensed Matter.

PRIN project, a National research programme by the Italian Ministry for Instruction, University and Research (MIUR)

In compliance with the measures described in the recent Prime Minister’s Decree issued by the Italian government to counter the COVID-19 epidemic, the EuroFel Support Laboratory has stopped its experimental activities.

The laboratory is currently closed, but the EFSL staff continues work from home.

On our site you can find information and updates on EFSL, and for any collaboration proposal, you can contact us via the contact page.

The EFSL research group, in collaboration CNR-SPIN, CNR-IFN and University of Genoa, has published a paper in the ACS Photonics on the “Thermometric Calibration of the Ultrafast Relaxation Dynamics in Plasmonic Au Nanoparticles”, by Marzia Ferrera, Giuseppe Della Valle, Maria Sygletou, Michele Magnozzi, Daniele Catone, Patrick O’Keeffe, Alessandra Paladini, Francesco Toschi, Lorenzo Mattera, Maurizio Canepa, and Francesco Bisio

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01605

The EFSL research group, in collaboration with CNR-SPIN and University of Genoa has published a study in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C on the efficiency of ultrafast melting of gold nanoparticles upon either interband (5d →6sp) or plasmonic excitation. Interestingly the interband excitation turns out to be more efficient than plasmonic excitation for melting of the particles suggesting not all the energy absorbed by the plasmonic absorption is turned into heat. These results will have consequences both of thermoplasmonics and photocatalysis.

"Interband Transitions Are More Efficient Than Plasmonic Excitation in the Ultrafast Melting of Electromagnetically Coupled Au Nanoparticles", by Michele Magnozzi, Remo Proietti Zaccaria, Daniele Catone, Patrick O’Keeffe, Alessandra Paladini, Francesco Toschi, Alessandro Alabastri, Maurizio Canepa and Francesco Bisio.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b03668

On December 20th 2019, Tadele Otomalo has successfully discussed his doctoral thesis on the subject “Ultrafast optical response of complex plasmonic nanoparticles” at the University Paris-Saclay. 

The thesis was carried out at the Laboratory for Quantum and Molecular Photonics, under the supervision of Prof. Bruno Palpant, and the experimental measurements have been partially performed at the EFSL lab, in the frame of a fruitful collaboration among the two labs.

The EFSL research group, in collaboration with CHOSE - Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy, IIT - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia - Graphene Labs, LASE - Laboratory for Advanced Solar Energy, has published a study in Nano Letters on perovskite solar cells and the role of the graphene embedded in the TiO₂ layer on the hot-carrier production in these devices and their stability over time.

Graphene-Induced Improvements of Perovskite Solar Cell Stability: Effects on Hot-Carriers
P. O’Keeffe, D. Catone, A. Paladini, F. Toschi, S. Turchini, L. Avaldi, F. Martelli, A. Agresti, S. Pescetelli, A. E. Del Rio Castillo, F. Bonaccorso, A. Di Carlo
Nano Letters 2019, 19, 684-691

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03685

After more than 6 months of graduate research work in the EFSL lab, Valentina Utrio Lanfaloni graduated on the 25th October 2019 at Sapienza University.

EFSL Staff congratulate Valentina warmly on receiving her Master’s of Science in Chemistry, with a thesis entitled “Ultrafast dynamics of bimetallic plasmonic nanostructures”.

We wish her all the best for the future.