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Simonpietro Agnello

(address)

Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica E. Segrè

Università degli Studi di Palermo

Via Archirafi 36, Palermo

90123 - Italy

Tel. +39 091 23891703

Fax +39 091 6162461

e-mail: simonpietro.agnello@unipa.it

AVVISO PER GLI STUDENTI DEI CORSI DI LAUREA IN INGEGNERIA

Simonpietro Agnello

Actually Associate Professor at the Department of Physics and Chemistry of the University of Palermo

(curriculum)

Degrees:

a) Physics (University of Palermo)

b) PhD in Physics (University of Palermo)

Profile: Research activity in Experimental Physics focusing on the spectroscopic characterization of advanced materials and on the study of the radiation-matter interaction processes and on the thermal modification of materials. Spectroscopic techniques expertise ranges from electron paramagnetic resonance to optical absorption spectroscopy, luminescence and Raman scattering including also time-resolved optical spectroscopy.

The experimental studies have been carried out in a wide context of materials of interest mainly for optical, photonic and electronic frontier applications, using techniques in a wide spectral range, from microwaves to ultraviolet and vacuum-ultraviolet, and mainly concern:

- the electronic, spin and vibrational states, both in steady state and time-domain, in the temperature range 4-300 K;

- the structural characteristics of solid materials and the formation of point defects;

- the thermodynamic processes of diffusion of small molecules and of structural modifications of solids;

- the electronic, structural and optical properties of nanomaterials and 0D, 2D materials;

- the effects of doping.

At the same time, skills have been developed in irradiation techniques with ionizing radiation (gamma rays, beta, lasers, ...), with particles (neutrons, deuterons, alpha, ...) and in heat treatment processes up to high temperatures (~ 1000° C) and high pressures (~ 350 bar) in a controlled atmosphere (O₂, He, H₂, H₂O, ...), using them also for suitable modifications of the studied materials.

· PhD thesis (PDF.file)

· List of publications

Current research activities:

Advanced materials

Bulk and Nanostructured silica systems

Carbon related materials

Magnetic and optical properties of point defects in pure and doped silica

Optical fibers

2D Materials

Utilities

Laboratory courses

project