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My work falls within the fields of experimental condensed matter Physics, bio-Physics, Optical Spectroscopies, Metrology, and Plasmonics.
I devoted a significant part of my activity to the design and realization of many successful experimental apparatuses, innovative optical and electrons’ spectrometers, either form the electro-mechanical either control-software points of view. Exploiting high vacuum and advanced temperature control technology I was able to access the physical properties in extended temperature ranges from few to over two thousand kelvins by means of the environmental chambers I projected to fit with synchrotrons x-ray and UV beamlines, as well as optical Raman and Brillouin spectrometers.
During PhD and Postdoctoral studies, aiming the experimental determination of the generalized dynamics of the soft matter (MHz to THz frequency range) and the influence of the structural relaxation and the fast dynamic on macroscopic properties of materials, participating in many national research projects and international collaborations, I was able to pin down important results for the mesoscopic regime of the matter, clarifying how the glass formation is related to the “progressive arrest” of long time density fluctuations, known as structural arrest, to the dynamic and static features that characterize the samples microscopically. It was possible thanks to a consistent description of the entire relaxation processes in terms of model-relaxing shear and bulk contributions for many prototype glass formers.
In 2009, I gained a research position at INRiM in Torino participating in the European project Nanotrace, I co-develop new interferometric techniques for traceable measurements at the nanoscale with a 10 pm level uncertainty. A challenging task that produced the first portable picometer metrological referred reference actuator, used to compare metrology institute standards and in more recent days to calibrate spacecraft mission satellites’ tools.
I have used optical setups, numerical tools, and FDTD electromagnetic simulations, to get a deeper description of the functional and physical principles exploited in large-scale optical setups used, as well as since 2010 in metallic nanostructures and many of nano-sized sensing devices I realize for the investigation of material and biological samples at macro-, meso- and nanoscales. All these activities led to original and significative scientific results, in all the experimental fields investigated.
Well recognized results have been obtained in Plasmonics, the science of Optics at the nanoscale, where the electro-mechanic nature of the conduction electrons mediates the energy transport in a large class of metals. In 2013, exploiting specific nanofabrication techniques, original optical and electronic solutions, I was able to demonstrate high-efficiency in the surface-plasmon-polariton to the hot-electron conversion process. The result has been recognized as a seminal work in plasmonic and energy conversion efficiency at the nanoscale. Moving from this, I have developed a new hot-electron-based nanoscopy technique that has opened a new scenario for the investigation of structural properties of samples at the nanoscale. The novel nanoscopy finds applications in surface science, nanotechnology, microelectronics, and structural biology of cells’ membranes. It is also fully compatible with Raman spectroscopy and other complemental optical investigation techniques.
In 2013 I move at KAUST university in Saudi Arabia where I consolidated experiences in Plasmonics and in the realization and organization of multidisciplinary research laboratories for bio- and solid-state matter. The considerable number of research topics addressed, Universities, and Research Institutes in which I have had the pleasure of working has given me a solid background and high-level competences in many experimental scientific fields.
In 2018 I got the Italian ASN license in 02/B1 Experimental Physic of Matter.
My research has been partially funded by 15 peer-reviewed projects I have participated responding to national and international calls, outlining the arguments, the research strategies, the tasks, and when requested, the beam-time at inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering facilities.
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Nano energy (2024): 109324-109324
ACS Materials Auno. 3 (2023): 242-254
Rajeshkumar Mupparapu, João Cunha, Francesco Tantussi,Andrea Jacassi, Leopold Summerer, Maddalena Patrini,Andrea Giugni,Alessandro Alabastri, Remo Proietti Zaccaria
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International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2010 (2019)
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