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Research

The research is carried out in various fields of Applied Physics: FIS/01, FIS/04, FIS/07.
It is divided into different themes and lines of research in issues of major importance on the international level:

• Particle accelerators
  • Design and construction of prototype devices for particle beams in colliders for High Energy Physics, synchrotron radiation sources, Free Electron Lasers. Development of charged particle sources for industrial and medical applications. Theoretical and numerical study of relativistic beams dynamics.
• Acoustic Physics
  • Study of elastic nonlinearity of material resources to improve the image resolution and to use in non-destructive techniques, defects analysis and medical diagnostics. Investigations by spectroscopy SPM (Scanning Probe Microscopies) and AFM (Atomic Force Mic.)
• Archaeometry
  • Non-destructive analysis for the cultural heritage characterization. Construction and improvement of portable instrumentation to perform diagnostics in case of irremovable works.
• Biophotonics
  • Development and study of materials (inorganic and organic) and photonic devices for bio-and gas-sensing. Biophotonics relative to the study of ultra weak biophotonic emission by molecular and cellular systems; Imaging of a single molecule – a single cell; molecular-cellular communication
• Quantum Electronics
  • Modeling, simulation and experimental analysis of processes, optical and non-linear optical devices (source filters, modulators, sensors) with applications in nanophotonics, plasmonics and Quantum Information ". Free electron laser for coherent X-ray generation.
• Medical Physics
  • Development of methodologies for the processing of treatment plans for cancer hadrontherapy (GSI ions accelerators and INFN-LNS) and optimization of detectors for biomedical applications and diagnostics.
• Nuclear and Subnuclear Physics
  • Experiments with DAØNE electron-positron ring at the National Laboratories of Frascati, INFN and LHC proton-proton ring at CERN's International Laboratory for discrete symmetries study (parity inversion, temporal inversion and charge conjugation) in quantum systems composed of s and b quarks.
• Laser-Plasma Physics and their Applications
  • Multi-dimensional evolutionary modeling and simulation with high-resolution plasmas for inertial confinement fusion, laser plasma interaction experiments, charged particles beams and free-electron laser.
• Molecular Photonics
  • Study of organic materials for applications in optical telecommunications for molecular optoelectronics (OLED) and organic photovoltaic (DSCC cells or organic hybrids).
• Radiation Engineering
  • Gamma techniques (active and passive) for fissile / fertile materials characterization. Passive neutron techniques to measure the mass and isotopic composition of fissile / fertile materials in homogeneous matrices. Active neutron techniques to determine the fissile / fertile materials content in radioactive waste packages (light and / or heavy matrix).
• Microscopy and nanocharacterizations
  • Morphological and structural characterization at the nanoscopic level by electron microscopy techniques both in transmission (TEM) and scanning (SEM), electron diffraction techniques, both in reflection (RHEED) and transmission (TED, CBED, SAED, nanodiffraction), and X-ray diffraction. Definition of methods for functional characterization (optical, electrical and mechanical) at the nanoscale, using combined techniques of microscopy, electron diffraction and SPM (Scanning Probe Microscopy).
• Optics
  • Ultrafast optics and photonics through the use of a laser source with short fs pulses tunable in frequency. Optics and nonlinear optics of the second and third order. Optical spatial solitons. Development of non-destructive laser techniques for optical and thermal characterization of materials.
• Semiconductors and Insulators Structure
  • Theoretical activity with atomistic simulations of nano-structures and innovative materials by means of quantum computational physics approaches. Experimental works on the electrical and structural characterization of innovative materials and nano-structures.

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