PROFILE

Aldo Di Carlo graduated in physics (cum laude) at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", obtained the Ph.D. at the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich (Germany). In 1996 he became research assistant at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and, on 2001, Associated professor. In December 2012 become Full Professor of Opto and Nanoelectronics in the same department. Since semprember 2019 he is Director of the Institute for Structure of Matter of the National Research council (CNR-ISM). His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. An important aspect of the research concerns the simulation of micro and nanoelectronic devices. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in nanostructured devices and its multiscale implementation has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. In recent years his research was particularly focused on the development of organic solar cells, in particular Dye Solar Cells and Pervoskite Solar Cells, and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. Di Carlo founded and direct (2007-2019) of the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which involve more than 30 researchers.  CHOSE has generated 5 spin-off company and a public/private consortium for-industrialization of DSC cells.

Aldo Di Carlo is the European coordinator of the H2020 project CITYSOLAR on the development of Tandem cells perovskite/organics dor building integration. He is/was node coordinator of 8 H2020 project (IMPRESSIVE on tandem cell perovskite/DSSC, MOSTOPHOS on simulation of organic LEDs, CHEOPS on pervoskite solar cells, GRAPHENE FLAGSHIP CORE 2 and Core 3 on perovskie/graphene solar cells, CHIPSCOPE on GaN Nanowire for superesolution microscopes, MAESTRO for perovskite optoelectronics and ESPRESSO for the fabrication of large area Perovskite solar modules,).
Aldo Di Carlo is/has been node coordinator of eigth H2020 projects ( Impressive for tandem perovskite/DSSC). He was European Coordinator of the FP7 Project ULTRADSSC on time-resolved characterization of DSSC solar cells and of the EU FP7 project OPTHER on THz Amplifiers. He was node coordinator of several national and european research projects, including five FP7 STREP projects (NEWLED on the development of GaN-LEDs, GRAPHENE Flagship, SMASH on Gan Leds and HYMEC on organic memories, CHEETAH fo fotovoltaics), three European Marie Curie Project (DESTINY of organic photovoltaic cells, CLERMONT and CLERMONT II on Microcavities), a European FP6 STREP Project (STIMSCAT on Polariton Lasers). He was coordinating also several National projects (PRIN, MADESS, PF etc.)

Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 450 scientific publications in international journals (h-factor = 57, Citations = 13700, Scopus), 13 international patents, several review papers and books chapters and coauthor of two books (in Italian language) "Appunti di Optoelettronica: I materiali semiconduttori" e "Appunti di Optoelettronica: fibre ottiche e componenti a semiconduttore" (Aracne ed.). Di Carlo is in the Top Italian Scientist Engineering (Rank 15)

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Prof. Aldo Di Carlo research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. An important aspect of the research concerns the simulation of micro and nanoelectronic devices. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in nanostructured devices and its multiscale implementation has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. In recent years his research was particularly focused on the development of organic solar cells, in particular Dye Solar Cells and Pervoskite Solar Cells, and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. Additional info can be found at   "Polo Solare Organico della Regione Lazio" (Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy) CHOSE.

TEACHING

1. Optoelectronics (I year Magistrale, 9 CFU)
2. Nanoelectronics (II year Magistrale, 6 CFU)
3. Nanotechnologies (I year Master in Mecatronics) 

PUBLICATIONS

Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 450 scientific publications in international journals (h-factor = 57, Citations = 13700, Scopus), 13 international patents, several review papers and books chapters and coauthor of two books (in Italian language) "Appunti di Optoelettronica: I materiali semiconduttori" e "Appunti di Optoelettronica: fibre ottiche e componenti a semiconduttore" (Aracne ed.). Di Carlo is in the Top Italian Scientist Engineering (Rank 15). ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6828-2380

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The 38 most cited publications (Di Carlo's h factor = 38)

1. Frauenheim, T., Seifert, G., Elstner, M., Niehaus, T., Köhler, C., Amkreutz, M., Sternberg, M., Hajnal, Z., Di Carlo, A., Suhai, S. Atomistic simulations of complex materials: Ground-state and excited-state properties 2002 Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 14 3015 3047 Cited by 353
2. Fiorentini, V., Bernardini, F., Della Sala, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Effects of macroscopic polarization in III-V nitride multiple quantum wells 1999 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 60 8849 8858 Cited by 338
3. Della Sala, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Bernardini, F., Fiorentini, V., Scholz, R., Jancu, J.-M. Free-carrier screening of polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN laser structures 1999 Applied Physics Letters 74 2002 2004 Cited by 218
4. Pecchia, A., Di Carlo, A. Atomistic theory of transport in organic and inorganic nanostructures 2004 Reports on Progress in Physics 67 1497 1561 Cited by 189
5. Cingolani, R., Botchkarev, A., Tang, H., Morkoç, H., Traetta, G., Coli, G., Lomascolo, M., Di Carlo, A., Della Sala, F., Lugli, P. Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric field in GaN/Al0.15Ga0.85N quantum wells: Impact on the optical spectra 2000 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 61 2711 2715 Cited by 161
6. Malpuech, G., Di Carlo, A., Kavokin, A., Baumberg, J.J., Zamfirescu, M., Lugli, P. Room-temperature polariton lasers based on GaN microcavities 2002 Applied Physics Letters 81 412 414 Cited by 139
7. Malpuech, G., Kavokin, A., Di Carlo, A., Baumberg, J.J. Polariton lasing by exciton-electron scattering in semiconductor microcavities 2002 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 153310 1533101 1533104 Cited by 126
8. Di Carlo, A., Piacenza, F., Bolognesi, A., Stadlober, B., Maresch, H. Influence of grain sizes on the mobility of organic thin-film transistors 2005 Applied Physics Letters 86 263501 1 3 Cited by 123
9. Bolognesi, A., Berliocchi, M., Manenti, M., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Lmimouni, K., Dufour, C. Effects of grain boundaries, field-dependent mobility, and interface trap states on the electrical characteristics of pentacene TFT 2004 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 51 1997 2003 Cited by 90
10. Di Carlo, A. Microscopic theory of nanostructured semiconductor devices: Beyond the envelope-function approximation 2003 Semiconductor Science and Technology 18 R1 R31 Cited by 85
11. Solomon, G.C., Gagliardi, A., Pecchia, A., Frauenheim, T., Di Carlo, A., Reimers, J.R., Hush, N.S. Understanding the inelastic electron-tunneling spectra of alkanedithiols on gold 2006 Journal of Chemical Physics 124 94704 Cited by 84
12. Di Carlo, A., Vogl, P., Pötz, W. Theory of Zener tunneling and Wannier-Stark states in semiconductors 1994 Physical Review B 50 8358 8377 Cited by 78
13. Zardetto, V., Brown, T.M., Reale, A., Di Carlo, A. Substrates for flexible electronics: A practical investigation on the electrical, film flexibility, optical, temperature, and solvent resistance properties 2011 Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics 49 638 648 Cited by 74
14. Schulze, G., Franke, K.J., Gagliardi, A., Romano, G., Lin, C.S., Rosa, A.L., Niehaus, T.A., Frauenheim, Th., Di Carlo, A., Pecchia, A., Pascual, J.I. Resonant electron heating and molecular phonon cooling in single C60 junctions 2008 Physical Review Letters 100 136801 Cited by 72
15. Butté, R., Delalleau, G., Tartakovskii, A.I., Skolnick, M.S., Astratov, V.N., Baumberg, J.J., Malpuech, G., Di Carlo, A., Kavokin, A.V., Roberts, J.S. Transition from strong to weak coupling and the onset of lasing in semiconductor microcavities 2002 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 65 205310 2053101 2053109 Cited by 71
16. Xie, R.-H., Bryant, G.W., Zhao, J., Smith Jr., V.H., Di Carlo, A., Pecchia, A. Tailorable acceptor C60-nBn and donor C60-mNm pairs for molecular electronics 2003 Physical Review Letters 90 206602/1 206602/4 Cited by 68
17. Bolognesi, A., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Influence of carrier mobility and contact barrier height on the electrical characteristics of organic transistors 2002 Applied Physics Letters 81 4646 4648 Cited by 63
18. Sacconi, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Morkoc, H. Spontaneous and piezoelectric polarization effects on the output characteristics of AlGaN/GaN heterojunction modulation doped FETs 2001 IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 48 450 457 Cited by 58
19. Pecchia, A., Romano, G., Di Carlo, A. Theory of heat dissipation in molecular electronics 2007 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 75 35401 Cited by 56
20. Bolognesi, A., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Kampen, T., Zahn, D.R.T. Experimental investigation and simulation of hybrid organic/inorganic Schottky diodes 2003 Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 15 S2719 S2728 Cited by 56
21. Paolesse, R., Lugli, P., Smith, K.M., Jaquinod, L., Della Sala, F., Nurco, D.J., Prodi, L., Montalti, M., Di Natale, C., D'Amico, A., Di Carlo, A. β-fused oligoporphyrins: A novel approach to a new type of extended aromatic system 2000 Journal of the American Chemical Society 122 11295 11302 Cited by 54
22. Di Carlo, A., Gheorghe, M., Lugli, P., Sternberg, M., Seifert, G., Frauenheim, T. Theoretical tools for transport in molecular nanostructures 2002 Physica B: Condensed Matter 314 86 90 Cited by 51
23. Tan, K., Jaquinod, L., Paolesse, R., Nardis, S., Di Natale, C., Di Carlo, A., Prodi, L., Montalti, M., Zaccheroni, N., Smith, K.M. Synthesis and characterization of β-fused porphyrin-BODIPY® dyads 2004 Tetrahedron 60 1099 1106 Cited by 50
24. Gagliardi, A., Solomon, G.C., Pecchia, A., Frauenheim, T., Di Carlo, A., Hush, N.S., Reimers, J.R. A priori method for propensity rules for inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of single-molecule conduction 2007 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 75 174306 Cited by 49
25. Malpuech, G., Kavokin, A., Panzarini, G., Di Carlo, A. Theory of photon Bloch oscillations in photonic crystals 2001 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 63 35108 351081 3510811 Cited by 47
26. Di Carlo, A., Della Sala, F., Lugli, P., Fiorentini, V., Bernardini, F. Doping screening of polarization fields in nitride heterostructures 2000 Applied Physics Letters 76 3950 3952 Cited by 47
27. Di Giacomo, F., Razza, S., Matteocci, F., D'Epifanio, A., Licoccia, S., Brown, T.M., Di Carlo, A. High efficiency CH3NH3PbI(3-x)Cl x perovskite solar cells with poly(3-hexylthiophene) hole transport layer 2014 Journal of Power Sources 251 152 156 Cited by 46
28. Ristić, J., Rivera, C., Calleja, E., Fernández-Garrido, S., Povoloskyi, M., Di Carlo, A. Carrier-confinement effects in nanocolumnar GaN AlxGa1-xN quantum disks grown by molecular-beam epitaxy 2005 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 72 85330 Cited by 45
29. Städele, M., Sacconi, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Enhancement of the effective tunnel mass in ultrathin silicon dioxide layers 2003 Journal of Applied Physics 93 2681 2690 Cited by 44
30. Kavokin, A., Malpuech, G., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Rossi, F. Photonic Bloch oscillations in laterally confined Bragg mirrors 2000 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 61 4413 4416 Cited by 44
31. Lucci, M., Reale, A., Di Carlo, A., Orlanducci, S., Tamburri, E., Terranova, M.L., Davoli, I., Di Natale, C., D'Amico, A., Paolesse, R. Optimization of a NOx gas sensor based on single walled carbon nanotubes 2006 Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical 118 226 231 Cited by 43
32. Picozzi, S., Pecchia, A., Gheorghe, M., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Delley, B., Elstner, M. Schottky barrier height at an organic/metal junction: A first-principles study of PTCDA/X (X = Al, Ag) contacts 2003 Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics 68 195309 1953091 1953097 Cited by 41
33. Checcoli, P., Conte, G., Salvatori, S., Paolesse, R., Bolognesi, A., Berliocchi, M., Brunetti, F., D'Amico, A., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Tetra-phenyl porphyrin based thin film transistors 2003 Synthetic Metals 138 261 266 Cited by 41
34. Di Carlo, A., Pescetelli, S., Paciotti, M., Lugli, P., Graf, M. Self-consistent tight-binding calculations of electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures 1996 Solid State Communications 98 803 806 Cited by 41
35. Susanna, G., Salamandra, L., Brown, T.M., Di Carlo, A., Brunetti, F., Reale, A. Airbrush spray-coating of polymer bulk-heterojunction solar cells 2011 Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 95 1775 1778 Cited by 39
36. Latessa, G., Brunetti, F., Reale, A., Saggio, G., Di Carlo, A. Piezoresistive behaviour of flexible PEDOT:PSS based sensors 2009 Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical 139 304 309 Cited by 39
37. Compagnone, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Monte Carlo simulation of electron dynamics in superlattice quantum cascade lasers 2002 Applied Physics Letters 80 920 922 Cited by 39
38. Rossi, F., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P. Microscopic theory of quantum-transport phenomena in mesoscopic systems: A Monte Carlo approach 1998 Physical Review Letters 80 3348 3351 Cited by 39