Profile

Aldo Di Carlo obtained the Laurea degree in physics (cum laude) at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", and the Ph.D. at 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". Since November 2001 he is Associate Professor in the same department.

Research Activity

The research activity concerns the study of electronic and optical properties of nanostructured devices, their analysis and optimization and the fabrication of organic electronic devices. In the last years his research activities focussed on the charge trasport in nanostructured devices, HEMT, organic TFT, molecular devices and CNT-FET. The development of the non-equilibrium theory for the microscopic description of the transport process in nanostructured devices has been the subject of invited talks at international conferences and University seminars. Recently, was involved in the realization of the "Polo per il fotovoltaico organico del lazio" (Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy) CHOSE and he is actually codirector of the center.

Aldo Di Carlo is European coordinator of the FP7 EU project OPTHER dedicated to the THz amplifiers based on vacuum nanoelectronics components and is node coordinator for the EU FP7 Project SMASH devoted to Nanowire LEDs with OSramas European Coordinator. He has been/is local scientific coordinator of several National and International projects: Two European Marie Curie Project (CLERMONT and CLERMONT II on Microcavities), European STREP Project (STIMSCAT on Polariton Lasers), MADESS II Project, (Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers), INFM-PRA Project (Experimental and theoretical investigation of optical and transport phenomena in superlattice long-wavelength infrared quantum cascade lasers), Progetto Finalizzato Nanoelettronica PF22 (Organic Semiconductor Light Emitters).

Teaching

1. Optoelectronics (I year Magistrale, 10 CFU)
2. Simulation of electronic devices and processes (II year Magistrale, 5 CFU)

Main Publications

Prof. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications in international journals, several review papers and book 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.).

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The 25 most cited publications (Di Carlo's h factor = 25)  

	1.	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 (12), pp. 8849-8858. Cited 205 times.
	2.	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 (14), pp. 2002-2004. Cited 153 times.
	3.	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 (11), pp. 3015-3047. Cited 151 times.
	4.	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 (4), pp. 2711-2715. Cited 115 times.
	5.	Pecchia, A., Di Carlo, A. Atomistic theory of transport in organic and inorganic nanostructures (2004) Reports on Progress in Physics, 67 (8), pp. 1497-1561. Cited 87 times.
	6.	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 (15), art. no. 153310, pp. 1533101-1533104. Cited 84 times.
	7.	Malpuech, G., Carlo, A.D., Kavokin, A., Baumberg, J.J., Zamfirescu, M., Lugli, P. Room-temperature polariton lasers based on GaN microcavities (2002) Applied Physics Letters, 81 (3), p. 412. Cited 80 times.
	8.	Morkoç, H., Carlo, A.D., Cingolani, R. GaN-based modulation doped FETs and UV detectors (2002) Solid-State Electronics, 46 (2), pp. 157-202. Cited 65 times.
	9.	Di Carlo, A., Vogl, P., Pötz, W. Theory of Zener tunneling and Wannier-Stark states in semiconductors (1994) Physical Review B, 50 (12), pp. 8358-8377. Cited 63 times.
	10.	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 (20), art. no. 205310, pp. 2053101-2053109. Cited 48 times.
	11.	Pecchia, A., Carlo, A.D., Gagliardi, A., Sanna, S., Frauenheim, T., Gutierrez, R. Incoherent electron-phonon scattering in octanethiols (2004) Nano Letters, 4 (11), pp. 2109-2114. Cited 47 times.
	12.	Di Carlo, A. Microscopic theory of nanostructured semiconductor devices: Beyond the envelope-function approximation (2003) Semiconductor Science and Technology, 18 (1), pp. R1-R31. Cited 47 times.
	13.	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 (20), pp. 206602/1-206602/4. Cited 44 times.
	14.	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 (26), art. no. 263501, pp. 1-3. Cited 43 times.
	15.	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 (9), art. no. 094704, . Cited 39 times.
	16.	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 (24), pp. 4646-4648. Cited 39 times.
	17.	Paolesse, R., Jaquinod, L., Della Sala, F., Nurco, D.J., Prodi, L., Montalti, M., Di Natale, C., D'Amico, A., Di Carlo, A., Lugli, P., Smith, K.M. β-fused oligoporphyrins: A novel approach to a new type of extended aromatic system (2000) Journal of the American Chemical Society, 122 (46), pp. 11295-11302. Cited 39 times.
	18.	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 (12), pp. 1997-2003. Cited 38 times.
	19.	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 (3), pp. 450-457. Cited 37 times.
	20.	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 (5), pp. 2681-2690. Cited 36 times.
	21.	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 (9), pp. 803-806. Cited 35 times.
	22.	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 (26), pp. 3950-3952. Cited 34 times.
	23.	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 (15), pp. 3348-3351. Cited 33 times.
	24.	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 (1-4), pp. 86-90. Cited 31 times.
	25.	Bonfiglio, A., Lomascolo, M., Traetta, G., Cingolani, R., Di Carlo, A., Della Sala, F., Lugli, P., Botchkarev, A., Morkoc, H. Well-width dependence of the ground level emission of GaN/AlGaN quantum wells (2000) Journal of Applied Physics, 87 (5), pp. 2289-2292. Cited 28 times.