Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics (Including Optics, Photonics, Liquids, Soft Matter) 09-13 september 2013

CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FisMat 2013 will host the annual Conferences of the Italian Society for Synchrotron Radiation Light (SILS) and of the Italian Society for Neutron Spectroscopy (SISN).

Dear colleagues, its a great pleasure for me to welcome all of you at FisMat 2013, the Italian conference on condensed matter physics and related fields. The conference is held at the Politecnico di Milano, which in 2013 is celebrating its 150th anniversary. The motivation which inspired all the people involved in the organization of this event has been the desire to bring under the same roof a large fraction of the Italian scientists working in this field of research, independently from their affiliation. We believe that our effort has been rewarded as testified by the 800 contributions received from researchers working in many Italian and foreign institutions. These contributions cover a large spectrum of arguments, many of them moving across the border that separates physics from other branches of science such as chemistry, biology, medicine, cultural heritage. The relevance of all this is that, after nearly a decade, for the Italian community of low energy physics this is the first chance to meet again after the suppression of INFM, the Italian Institute for the Physics of Matter, a dramatic event that caused a diaspora that has never been recovered. Our hope is that this conference will give to all of us the possibility to see whats going outside our laboratory and stimulate the reestablishment of links between the research groups and the creation of research networks for better facing the strongly competitive international scenario. And, at the end, well see, if they are roses they will bloom. Ezio Puppin (Conference Chairman)

Scientific Committee
Antonella Tajani (CNR) Lucio Claudio Andreani (Universit di Pavia) Stefano Atzeni (Universit di Roma "La Sapienza") Piero Baglioni (Universit di Firenze - CSGI) Massimo Carpinelli (Universit di Sassari - INFN) Pietro Carretta (Universit di Pavia) Maria Gabriella Castellano (IFN-CNR) Giovanni Ciccotti (Universit di Roma "La Sapienza") Lamberto Du (Politecnico di Milano) Dino Fiorani (ISM-CNR) Paolo Laporta (Politecnico di Milano) Paolo Mariani (Universit Politecnica delle Marche) Giorgio Paolucci (ELETTRA) Nicola Spinelli (Universit di Napoli "Federico II") Francesco Tassone (IIT)

Local Committee
Stefania Mosca (Politecnico di Milano) Silvia Maria Pietralunga (CNR - IFN, Milano) Monica Bollani (CNR - IFN, Milano) Maurizio Contran (Politecnico di Milano) Claudio Mazzoli (Politecnico di Milano) Ermanno Pinotti (Politecnico di Milano) Dario Polli (Politecnico di Milano) Alberto Tagliaferri (Politecnico di Milano) Maurizio Zani (Politecnico di Milano)

SITE LOCATION

[F] Conference site where all the conference activities will take place [A] Auditorium (sala Levi). It will be used for the plenary session and the round table on September 11 in the morning and for the concerto in the evening of the same day.

SOCIAL DINNER September 10th starting at 8:00 PM Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci Sala delle Colonne Entrance Via S. Vittore, 21 Metro M2 stop at S. Ambrogio

SITE MAP

FisMat 2013 AT A GLANCE

Mon 9 09:00 - 11:00 11:00 - 11:30 11:30 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30 13:30 - 14:30 14:30 - 17:00 Registration Opening ceremony Plenary session (Andrea Ferrari) Lunch break Plenary session (Erio Tosatti) Parallel sessions

17:00 - 18:00 Special event on the Human Brain Project (Egidio D'Angelo) 18:00 - 19:30 Poster session & happy hour Tue 10 08:30 - 09:30 Plenary session (Stuart Parkin) 09:30 - 12:30 Parallel sessions (coffe break 10:30 - 11:00) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break 13:30 - 16:00 Parallel sessions 16:00 - 17:00 Plenary session (Fernando Ferroni) 17:00 - 19:00 Poster session & happy hour 20:00 Social dinner at the "Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia" Wed 11 09:00 - 10:00 10:00 - 12:30 12:30 - 13:30 13:30 - 14:30 14:30 - 17:00 Plenary session (Roberto Cingolani) Round table Lunch break Plenary session (Francesco Sette) Parallel sessions (beginning of SILS and SISN conferences)

17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session (Chandrasekar Joshi) 18:00 - 19:30 Poster session & happy hour Thu 12 08:30 - 09:30 Plenary session (Dieter Richter) 09:30 - 12:30 Parallel sessions (coffe break 10:30 - 11:00) 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break 13:30 - 14:30 Plenary session (Massimo Inguscio) 14:30 - 17:00 Parallel sessions 17:00 - 18:00 Plenary session (Hardy Gross) 18:00 - 19:30 Poster session & happy hour Fri 13 08:30 : 09:30 Plenary session (Janos Haijdu) 09:30 : 10:30 Plenary session (Daan Frenkel) 10:30 : 13:30 Parallel sessions (coffe break 10:30 - 11:00) 13:30 Lunch

Plenary sessions
All plenary sessions (apart from that on Wednesday morning at 9:00, which will be in the Levi room at the Auditorium) will take place in room L.26.11 and will also broadcasted in video streaming in room L.26.12. Monday, September 9 11:30 - 12:30 13:30 - 14:30 Andrea Ferrari Erio Tosatti University of Cambridge, United Kingdom SISSA, ICTP, and CNR-IOM Democritos, Trieste, Italy Some frontiers in condensed matter physics 17:00 - 18:00 Egidio D'Angelo University of Pavia, Italy Special event on the Human Brain Project Tuesday, September 10 8:30 - 9:30 Stuart Parkin IBM Almaden, USA Turning insulators into metals! 16:00 - 17:00 Fernando Ferroni INFN, University of Rome Sapienza, Italy Higgs found. What next? Wednesday, September 11 9:00 - 10:00 13:30 - 14:30 Roberto Cingolani Francesco Sette IIT, Genoa, Italy European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France Next-generation X-ray analyses and the ESRF upgrade 17:00 - 18:00 Chandrasekar Joshi University of California, Los Angeles, US Charged particle acceleration using intense laser and particle beams

Thursday, September 12 8:30 - 9:30 Dieter Richter Julich Centre for Neutron Science, Germany Soft matter and life sciences: research with neutrons 13:30 - 14:30 Massimo Inguscio University of Florence and CNR Department of Physical Sciences and Technologies of Matter, Italy Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms 17:00 - 18:00 Hardy Gross Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany

Friday, September 13 8:30 - 9:30 9:30 - 10:30 Janos Hajdu Daan Frenkel University of Uppsala, Sweden University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Entropy and self-assembly

Parallel sessions - oral contributions

Monday, September 9
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:30 - 17:00 Multiferroics Chairman: Dino Fiorani
Jos Lorenzana (I) Order by disorder mechanism of multiferroic behavior in CuO Josep Fontcuberta (I) Magnetoelectric coupling via interface-coupling and phase-separation in multiferroics Claudio Mazzoli Chiara Pernechele Paolo Barone Davide Delmonte Paola Tiberto Francesco Ricci Resonant X-ray Diffraction contribution in understanding Multifunctional materials Magneto-electric characterization of BiMn7O12 polymorphs Homochiral magnetic cycloids driven by ferroelectric polarization in multiferroic BiFeO3 Study of complex thermally induced field dependent magnetization reversal in BiFe0.5Mn0.5O3, a potentially RT type-I multiferroic Magnetic and magnetotransport properties of multiferroic materials Magneto- and electroresistance in ferromagnet-ferroelectric junctions

Room L.26.11

14:30 - 17:00 Neural circuit functioning and computation Chairman: Alessandro Torricelli
Egidio D'Angelo

Room L.26.12

(I) Beyond structure-function relationship: dynamic properties of the cerebellar network in a realistic model

Michele Migliore (I) Neural circuits computation and functions in the olfactory bulb Sergio Solinas (I) Ensemble neuronal responses in a large-scale realistic model of the cerebellar cortex Leonardo Sacconi Stefano Masoli Ludovico Silvestri Silvia Maggi Thierry Nieus Jesus Garrido Advanced optical techniques to explore brain structure and function The intrinsic and synaptic responsiveness of a new realistic Purkinje cell model Exploring whole-brain anatomy on the micron-scale with confocal light sheet microscopy Electrophysiological characterization of the striatal FSI microcircuitry: a combined experimental and modeling study Investigating the interplay between intrinsic and evoked activities in cultured neuronal networks by dimensional reduction techniques Millisecond-scale regulation of spike timing by distributed synaptic plasticity at the cerebellum input stage

14:30 - 17:00 Superconductivity A Chairman: Giacomo Ghiringhelli

Andrey Varlamov (I) Quantum fluctuations and dynamic clustering of fluctuating cooper pairs Jeroen van den (I) Spin-orbital separation in the quasi 1D Mott-insulator Sr2CuO3 Brink Stefano Dal Conte Filippo Alpeggiani

Room L.26.13

Tracking the dynamics of the pairing glue in a cuprate superconductor with ultrashort laser pulses Josephson and two-dimensional plasma waves in nanoparticles of layered superconductors Monday, September 9

Angelo Agostino Matteo Capati Daniele Fausti

Structural modulation by chemical substitution in single crystal HTc superconductors Hidden ferronematic order in underdoped cuprates Resonant coherent phonon generation in superconducting YBCO thin films

14:30 - 17:00 Metrology and fundamental constants Chairman: Paolo La Porta

Luca Callegaro Gianluca Galzerano Marco Giulio Giammarchi Emilio Mariotti Marco Truccato

Room L.26.14

(I) Thermal noise correlations in quantum Hall effect devices: experimental check of a theorem by Battiker (I) Frequency metrology and high-precision molecular spectroscopy in the near-infrared spectrum Study of Fundamental Laws with Positronium and Antihydrogen High precision spectroscopy of Francium isotopes for APV measurements Fabrication of stacks of intrinsic Josephson junctions for metrological applications

14:30 - 17:00 Environmental physics and energy generation A Chairman: Francesco Tampieri
Xuan Wang Sandro Fuzzi Carmine Serio Vincenzo Rizi Maria Rita Perrone Hemanth Dinesan Giuliano Liuzzi

Room L.26.15

(I) Implementation of high dynamic Raman lidar system for 3D map of particulate optical properties and their time evolution (I) High Resolution-Time of Flight-Aerosol Mass Spectrometer: an innovative tool to characterize fine particulate matter (I) Fourier Transform Spectrometers from Space Applied to Atmospheric Physics and Earth Observations Atmospheric monitoring with Raman LIDAR at the Pierre Auger Observatory Sensitivity of solar and terrestrial HR profiles to the vertical distribution of aerosol properties Absolute frequency spectroscopy for the determination of the 17O/16O amount-ratio in water Search for Martian methane with TES data: development of a dedicated radiative transfer code. First results.

14:30 - 17:00 Organic materials and devices A Chairman: Marco Sampietro

Antonio Cassinese (I) Charge transfer at the interface betweenT6/PDI-8CN2 Heterostructures Emad A. Jaffar Al-Mulla Antonio Sasso Francesco Quochi Patrizia Borghetti Chiara Castiglioni Annalisa Colombo Poly(lactic acid) as a biopolymer-based modified clay nanoComposite

Room L.26.16

Surface-enhanced Raman based on highly uniform active substrates obtained using block copolymers Photophysical properties of NIR emitting lanthanide complexes with organic ligands Donor-to-acceptor core-level shift in molecular blend/metal interfaces Structure and vibrational dynamics of long CN chains investigated with IR and Raman spectroscopy Transparency in PMMA glasses:correlation between optical properties and Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy measurements

Monday, September 9

Riccardo Castagna Adele Sassella

Visualizing Light-Polarization through Photo-Polymerization Processes Organic droplet epitaxy for the growth of rubrene-based heterostructures

14:30 - 17:00 Plasmonics Chairman: Stefano Longhi

Francesco Tantussi Luca Vattuone Ilka Kriegel Paolo Biagioni Maurizio Canepa Stefania D'Agostino Tiziana Cesca Emanuela Esposito

Room L.26.01

(I) Near-field interaction with plasmonic waveguides and individual nanoemitters Acoustic surface plasmon: from Be (0001) to Au(111) Near infrared plasmonics with vacancy doped copper chalcogenide nanocrystals Dynamics of multi-photon luminescence in gold nanoantennas Au-Ag alloy nanoparticles 2D-arrays: fabrication and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy application. Dipole decay dynamics engineering within the discrete dipole approximation Luminescent ultra-small gold nanoparticles obtained by ion implantation in silica Fiber optic plasmonic nanoprobes: towards multifunctional photonic devices and components

14:30 - 17:00 Graphene A Chairman: Giulio Cerullo

Alberto Morpurgo (I) Interaction effects in suspended graphene devices Cecilia Mattevi (I) Interfacial engineering for graphene synthesis and applications Roman Sordan (I) Gigahertz multi-transistor graphene integrated circuits Matteo Tommasini Silvia Tognolini Mauro Ricc Stefano Lupi Manuela Scarselli Federico Bisti Infrared and Raman spectroscopy of molecular graphenes Graphene image potential states at the graphene/Cu interface Magnetism and hydrogen interaction in graphene probed by muons Plasmonic Excitations in Topological Insulators 3D multifunctional carbon nanotube networks Lithium electronic states after intercalation on SiC buffer layer

Room L.26.02

14:30 - 17:00 Statistical physics A Chairman: Stefano Ruffo

Fabrizio Lillo Matteo Marsili Fulvio Baldovin Maurizio Rossi Grazia Cottone Marco Zoli Emanuele Locatelli

Room L.26.03

(I) Systemic risk at high frequency: price cojumps and Hawkes factor models (I) Why do complex systems look critical? (I) Scaling symmetry, renormalization, and time series modeling - The case of Finance Quantum Monte Carlo study of quantized vortices in 4He Multiphoton absorption of myoglobin-nitric oxide complex: relaxation by D-NEMD of a stationary state Thermal fluctuations and denaturation bubbles in circular DNA Survival Probability of Interacting Particles in One Dimension

Monday, September 9

14:30 - 17:00 Diamond devices Chairman: Ermanno Pinotti

Daniele Maria Trucchi Alfio Battiato Daniele Gatto Monticone Federico Bosia Jacopo Forneris Giacomo Ulisse

Room L.26.04

(I) CVD Diamond: from Detection of High-Energy and Nuclear Radiation to Concentrated Solar Conversion Characterization of ion-implanted single-crystal diamond with spectroscopic ellipsometry Bright single colour centres in CVD diamond emitting in the 750 - 800 nm region Experimental/numerical analysis of strains in irradiated single-crystal diamond Fabrication and characterization by means of focused ion beams of a diamond detector with integrated graphitic micro-electrodes Use of carbon nanotubes cathodes in electron sources

Monday, September 9

Tuesday, September 10
MORNING SESSION
09:30 - 12:30 Magnetism and spintronics A Chairman: Dino Fiorani
Giorgio Bertotti (I) Probabilistic aspects of magnetization relaxation in nanomagnets Giovanni Carlotti (I) Magnetization reversal in nanomagnetic switches: energy dissipation and spin dynamics Gianfranco Durin Viewing Magnetic Noise through Windows: determination of critical exponents in the domain wall dynamics Fabio Boschini Roberto Zivieri Niloufar Faghihi Tomas Orlando Davide Peddis Paolo Arosio Disentanglement of spin and charge dynamics by means of time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr spectroscopy Effective description of magnonic mode dynamics in 2D ferromagnetic antidot lattices Magneto-Elastic Effects in Isotropic Ferromagnetic Solids Using Phase Field Crystal Approach Spin Dynamics in Magneto-Plasmonic Nanostructures Superspin glass behaviour in MnFe2O4 nanoparticles: blocking temperature in magnetization and Mossbauer time scale Study of spin dynamics in the molecular antiferromagnetic nanomagnet Ni7 by means of 1H NMR

Room L.26.11

09:30 - 12:30 Surface science A Chairman: Maria Grazia Betti

Room L.26.12

Paola De Padova (I) 1D nano-ribbons and 2D sheet Silicene: From Single Layer to Multilayer Francesco Silicene on Si3N4/Si(111) surface; a DFT study Filippone Alessandro Structure and electronic properties of self-assembled interlayers at the polymer/metaloxide Mattoni interface Giulia Berti Marco Smerieri Alessandro Fortunelli Barbara Apicella Michele Saba Bogdan Ranguelov Magnetic properties of self-organized Cr oxide monolayers on Fe(001) Glutamic Acid at Ag surfaces: Self-Assembly in the Non-Zwitterionic Form Nanoporous Metals - Structural and Catalytic Properties via Computational Simulations Photoionization study of water clusters Pt-decorated CdSe/CdS octapod nanocrystals for photocatalysis Homoepitaxy on Si(111) vicinal surface: spirals and pyramids - in situ reflection electron microscopy

09:30 - 12:30 Superconductivity B Chairman: Angelo Nucciotti

Sergey Borisenko (I) ARPES in cuprates and iron-based superconductors Roberto Caciuffo (I) Superconductivity in Actinide Compounds Laura Fanfarillo Pietro Carretta Hall Effect in pnictides

Room L.26.13

The onset of magnetism in optimally electron-doped LnFe1-xRuxAsO1-yFy (Ln = La, Nd or Sm) superconductors around x = 1/4 Tuesday, September 10

Fabio Ricci Lucia Bossoni Anita Guarino

Electronic structure of Iron-Chalcogenide thin films Glassy Transition in the Vortex Lattice of Ba(Fe0.93Rh0.07)2As2 superconductor probed by NMR and Ac-susceptibility Hard X-ray measurements on Nd2-xCexCuO4+delta films

09:30 - 12:30 Semiconductors-low dimensional materials A Chairman: Stefano Ossicini

Room L.26.14

Stefano Roddaro (I) Field-effect manipulation of single-electron systems Simonpietro Near Infrared emitting silica nanoparticle: O2 diffusion properties and excited state Agnello relaxation Jacopo Frigerio Monica Bollani Maria Luisa Polignano Valeria Mondiali Daniel Chrastina Anna Sgarlata Stefano Cozzini Electro-Refractive effect in Ge/SiGe multiple quantum wells SiGe stressors for tensile strain in Ge films by e-beam lithography top-down approach Proximity Gettering of Slow Diffuser Contaminants Dislocation engineering in SiGe epilayers on pre-patterned Si substrates. X-ray nanodiffraction in lithographically-defined semiconductor structures Fabrication of SiGe rings and holes on Si(001) and Si(111) by flash annealing The NFFA Nanoscience Data Repository

09:30 - 12:30 Environmental physics and energy generation B Chairman: Xuan Wang
Francesco Tampieri Gelsomina Pappalardo Guido Masiello Gianluca Pisani Giuseppe Leto Aldo Amodeo

Room L.26.15

(I) Atmospheric composition models: a personal review of some key problems and approaches to solution. (I) Integrated Aerosol Observing System Validation of Water Vapour, Carbon Dioxide and Ozone spectroscopic parameters in the Infrared region between 5 and 27 micron Aerosol typing over Beijing using a scanning Raman Lidar with enhanced dynamics Improving the monitoring of Etna's volcanic ash plumes using a new scanning Lidar Long term observations of desert dust at CIAO, the atmospheric observatory of Potenza

09:30 - 12:30 Organic materials and devices B Chairman: Antonio Cassinese

Room L.26.16

Marco Sampietro (I) Inkjet printed organic photodetector with high quantum yield for large area X-ray imager Michele D'Amico High Fluorescence of Thioflavin T Confined in Mesoporous Silica Xerogels Gianlorenzo Bussetti Giancarlo Canazza Fabiola Liscio Sergio Abbate Maria Ilenia Saba Exploiting the stable alignment of tautomers at RT in porphyrin single layers Photoluminescence enhancement and lasing from conjugated polymer in a full plastic microcavity Molecular re-organization in organic field effect transistors and its effect on 2D charge transport pathways Chiroptical techniques, CD and CPL, for investigating soft matter and organic - based conducting materials Structure and crystallinity of polymer/metal oxide hybrid interfaces at the molecular scale Tuesday, September 10

Gianluca Lattanzi Dario Natali

P3HT and PBTTT: a comparative molecular dynamics study inspired by OTFT fabrication techniques Reliable Extraction of the Density of States in Organic Semiconductors

09:30 - 12:30 Strongly correlated electron systems A Chairman: Riccardo Bertacco

Giacomo Ghiringhelli Marco Grilli Giovanni Mazzarella Ivana Vobornik Valentina Bisogni Sara Bordignon Paola Alippi

Room L.26.01

(I) 10 years of high resolution RIXS of high Tc superconductors: orbital, spin and charge excitations uncovered (I) Intrinsic charge instability in oxide heterostructures with Rashba spin-orbit Entanglement entropy and macroscopic quantum states with dipolar bosons in a triple-well potential Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Magnetically Doped Topological Insulators Spin-orbital separation beyond strictly 1D Stripe dynamics in the La2 - xSrxCoO4 layered cobaltates by 59Co and 139La NMR and muSR Ferromagnetism in Cr-doped In2O3 revisited with hybrid-density functionals

09:30 - 12:30 Graphene B Chairman: Roman Sordan

Davide Spirito Elisa Molinari Marco Polini Rosanna Larciprete Mattia Gaboardi Stefano Prezioso Marco Papagno

Room L.26.02

(I) Graphene plasma-wave Terahertz photodetectors and Graphene-GaAs hybrid systems (I) Illuminating graphene nanosystems (I) Fundamental properties of Dirac plasmons in graphene Transfer-Free Electrical Insulation of Epitaxial Graphene from its Metal Substrate Hydrogen absorption in alkali metal fullerides Graphene Oxide as a Convenient Platform for Nanotechnology and Sensing Applications Novel mismatched graphene-ferromagnetic interfaces

09:30 - 12:30 Statistical physics B Chairman: Giovanni - Jona Lasinio

Amos Maritan Stefano Ruffo Bernardo Spagnolo Andrea Gabrielli Luca Magazz Federico Corberi Giuliano Benenti (I) Emergence of criticality in living systems (I) Long-range interactions: results and perspectives (I) Nonlinear Relaxation and Environmental Noise in Biological Systems

Room L.26.03

Non-Markovian Models of Blocking in Concurrent and Countercurrent Flows Dynamics of a driven dissipative quantum system Large-deviations and condensation of fluctuations in equilibrium and off-equilibrium systems Coupled particle and heat transport: a dynamical system's perspective

09:30 - 12:30 Biophysics A Chairman: Enzo Orlandini

Laura Cant

Room L.26.04

(I) Amyloid-beta peptides from oligomers to fibrils: laser light, x-ray and neutron pictures Tuesday, September 10

Marco Capitanio (I) Ultrafast force-clamp laser trapping of single molecular motors and DNA binding proteins Rita Guzzi Molecular dynamics and docking of fatty acids interacting with beta-lactoglobulin Paola Brocca Barbara Rossi Massimo Vassalli Antonino Natalello Simona Motta Potassium channel Kcv interaction with model membranes. Connection between covalent and physical interactions in cyclodextrin-based hydrogel as studied by vibrational spectroscopy Dynamical stability of ovalbumin can provide insights into the molecular basis of serpinopathies Monitoring the structural order of peptides and proteins in supramolecular assemblies by FTIR spectroscopy Nanoparticles systems for gene delivery interacting with model cell membranes: a structural study

AFTERNOON SESSION
13:30 - 16:00 Magnetism and spintronics B Chairman: Pietro Carretta
Stefano Carretta (I) Spin dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets Pietro (I) Spin Coupling and Charge Transfer at Molecule/Metal Interfaces Gambardella Alessandro Cuccoli Valerio Bellini Massimo Solzi Lorenzo Bordonali Elena Garlatti Giacomo Porcari Federico Montoncello Very high-quality entanglement transfer through long uninform spin chains Graphene-mediated exchange coupling between cobaltocene and magnetic substrates Micromagnetic analysis of demagnetization processes in exchange-coupled hard/soft bilayers with surface anisotropy Local magnetic properties in Cr8, Cr7Cd and Cr7Ni molecular rings from 19F-NMR Design of Rare Earth-free molecular clusters as cryogenic magnetic refrigerants Complete magnetocaloric characterization of magnetic first order martensitic transformations Information carrier bandwidth and speed tunability in magnonic crystals in the vortex state

Room L.26.11

13:30 - 16:00 Surface science B Chairman: Paola De Padova

Marco Finazzi Mario Rocca Maurizio Donarelli Stefano Colonna Giovanni Stefani Antonio Politano Roberto Gunnella Maria Chiara Spadaro (I) Ultrathin oxide films on Fe(100) (I) Accretion Disk Origin of Earth's Water

Room L.26.12

Thermal effects on MoS2 liquid exfoliated flakes: sulfur vacancies and doping Self assembling of Titanyl-phthalocyanine on Ag(100) studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and low energy electron diffraction Plasmon resonant (e,2e) spectroscopy Angle-resolved energy loss spectroscopy experiments on epitaxial graphene on Pt(111) and Ru(0001) Depth Profiling of Melting and Metalization in Si(111) and Si(001) Surfaces Control of metal-oxide interface and tuning of exchange bias in Ni@NiO nanoparticles

Tuesday, September 10

13:30 - 16:00 Superconducting quantum detectors Chairman: M. Gabriella Castellano

Room L.26.13

Gregory Goltsman (I) Terahertz mixers, fast detectors and single-photon counters based on superconducting ultrathin NbN films Roberto Cristiano (I) Superconducting nanowire quantum detectors of molecules Mikkel Ejrnaes (I) Superconducting single photon detectors based on parallel NbN nanowires Angelo Nucciotti Developement of superconducting microwave microresonators for broad band high energy resolution particle detection Alessandro Gaggero Lapo Lolli Loredana Parlato Single-photon detectors with Superconducting nanowires integrated with passive optical elements for quantum information science Measurement of photon statistics with superconducting Transition edge sensors Photoresponse Studies of Proximitized Superconductor/Ferromagnet Nanostructures for Optical-Photon Detection

13:30 - 16:00 Semiconductors-low dimensional materials B Chairman: Stefano Roddaro

Stefano Ossicini Emilia Ridolfi Fabrizio Arciprete Adriano Cola Ernesto Placidi Enrico Giulotto Sergio Bietti Dario Narducci Margherita Zavelani-Rossi Riccardo Rurali

Room L.26.14

(I) Silicon nanostructures for advanced photovoltaic: carrier multiplication effects Anisotropic effective g-factor in IV-VI semiconductor quantum wells Selective Growth of InAs Quantum Dots on GaAs driven by As kinetics Conductivity and photoconductivity properties of single GaAs/AlGaAs core-shell nanowires Multi-stacked ordering of quantum dots driven by As kinetics Optical determination of the strain field in GaAsN/GaAsN:H planar heterostructures Embedded Ga nanoparticles on patterned Si substrate Strain-Controlled Generation of Silicon Nanopillars Laser emission from core or shell transitions in self-assembled microcavities of CdSe/CdS colloidal nanorods Silicon-Germanium Nanowires: chemistry and physics in play, from basic principles to advanced applications

13:30 - 16:00 Environmental physics and energy generation C Chairman: Nicola Spinelli

Room L.26.15

Claudia Roberta (I) I-AMICA: a high technology infrastructure for South Italian Mediterrean environmental Calidonna and climate monitoring Wolfango Plastino (I) ERMES-WORLD: Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring for Earth Sciences-WOrld Reference Laboratory and new Developments Sergio Lo Russo Luca Pasquini Daniele Pontiroli Stefano Cecchi Eugenio Fasci Hydrogen storage in solid state, recent developments Magnesium Nanostructures for Hydrogen Storage Ionic conductivity in light metal fullerides Ge-rich SiGe Multilayers for Thermoelectric Applications QCL-Optical FeedBack Cavity Enhanced Spectrometer for trace gas analysis in the mid infrared: validation of Non Thermal Plas

Tuesday, September 10

13:30 - 16:00 Electrons and phonons A Chairman: Francesco Mauri

Luciano Colombo (I) Thermal transport in nanostructured semiconductors Stefano Baroni (I) Not available Rossella Brunetti Giancarlo Jug Giovanni Onida Alberto Verdini Guido Fratesi Simulation of Charge Transport in Ovonic Materials The Glassy State, Magnetically Viewed from the Frozen End Phonon softening and structural instabilities in TiSe2

Room L.26.16

Intrinsic Nature of the Excess Electrons Distribution at the TiO2(110) surface Azimuthal Dichroism in Near-Edge X - ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectra of Planar Molecules

13:30 - 16:00 Strongly correlated electron systems B Chairman: Giacomo Ghiringhelli

Marco Salluzzo

Room L.26.01

(I) Competing phenomena at n-type interface between polar insulating-oxides and SrTiO3 band insulator Riccardo Bertacco (I) Inverse magnetoelectric effects at ferromagnet-ferroelectric interfaces Sergio Caprara Regina Ciancio Vincenzo Fiorentini Pietro Bonf Arianna Montorsi Adolfo Avella Inhomogeneous superconductivity in oxide interfaces Competing Magnli-like phases driven by substrate-induced strain in TiO2 anatase thin films Ordering and multiple phase transitions in ultrathin nickelate superlattices MuSR spectroscopy in the skyrmion candidate single crystal Ba2CuGe2O7 Gaps and hidden orders in correlated fermionic systems Defect states and excitations in a Mott insulator with orbital degrees of freedom: MottHubbard gap versus optical and transport properties

13:30 - 16:00 Quantum optics A Chairman: Paolo Mataloni

Massimo Palma Giuseppe Falci Gaurav Jayaswal Leonardo Mazza Stefano Olivares Sai Kiran Rajendran Carlo Gabbanini Alessandro Cuccoli

Room L.26.02

(I) new results in quantum simulation with cold atoms (I) Design of a Lambda system for population transfer in superconducting nanocircuits Weak measurement of the Goos-Hanchen shift Theoretical modelling of strongly coupled anthracene microcavities Correlations, entanglement or nothing: recent results on bilinear interactions of light modes Ultrafast cavity-polariton relaxation dynamics in a strongly-coupled J-aggregate microcavity Formation and optical pumping of ultracold RbCs molecules Open quantum systems in the parametric representation and the spin-1/2 Heisenberg star with frustration

13:30 - 16:00 Statistical physics C Chairman: Amos Maritan

Room L.26.03

Tuesday, September 10

Giovanni JonaLasinio

(I) Some recent developments in non equilibrium statistical mechanics

Alberto Guardone (I) On the Riemann problem of gasdynamics Luca Galantucci Normal fluid profiles in Helium II counterflow channels Mario Motta Riccardo Fantoni Nicola Manini Davide Emilio Galli Matthieu Cristelli Dynamical imaginary-time correlations from Auxiliary Fields Quantum Monte Carlo Quantum Gibbs ensemble Monte Carlo Static and dynamic friction in sliding colloidal monolaye Zero - sound mode in a neutral Fermi liquid: dynamic fermionic correlations applied to two - dimensional 3He New Metrics for Economic Complexity: Measuring the Intangible Growth Potential of Countries

13:30 - 16:00 Biophysics B Chairman: Laura Cant

Fabio Ferri Enzo Orlandini Davide Marenduzzo Fabio Cecconi Maria Grazia Ortore Ranieri Rolandi Eleonora Alfinito

Room L.26.04

(I) Fast two dimensional "bubble" analysis of biopolymer filamentous networks pore size from confocal microscopy thin data stacks (I) Modelling DNA organisation and ejection in viral capsids: hints from topology (I) Modelling genome organisation in 3D: applications to bacterial DNA and chromosomes Protein translocation in narrow pores: inferring bottlenecks from native-structure topology Time resolved experiments on amyloid-beta peptide fibrillization Interaction between amyloid oligomers and phospholipid membranes: a neutron diffraction study Charge transport in nano-structures: a percolative approach correlating electrical and topological properties

Tuesday, September 10

Wednesday, September 11
AFTERNOON SESSION
14:30 - 17:00 Sensors devices and applications A Chairman: Ermanno Pinotti
Pietro Siciliano Bruno Murari Luca Boarino Roberto Russo Francesco Armani Francesco Floris Michele Di Fraia (I) Smart System for societal challenging applications (I) From MEMS Dream to Today Reality (I) Nanofacility Piemonte: three years of activity in the field of nanofabrication by ion and electron beams High sensitivity nano-SQUIDs for nanomagnetism investigations A multisensor platform for thin film polymeric-based transducers Multilayer structures, pi-conjugated polymers and optical detection of nitroaromatic compounds 2D-detectors for Photoionization Studies of Atoms, Molecules and Clusters at ELETTRA and FERMI@ELETTRA

Room L.26.11

14:30 - 17:00 Surface science C Chairman: Marco Finazzi

Maria Grazia Betti Francesco Buatier de Mongeot Laura Fazi Maria Rutigliano Luca Passoni Simone Taioli Marcello Campione Claudia Cancellieri Michail Michailov (I) Organometallics architectures on surfaces

Room L.26.12

Transparent Plasmonic Nanowire Electrodes via Self-Organised Ion Beam Nanopatterning

Unveiling the electronic and optical contribution of Rebonded-Step surface reconstruction in Ge/Si heteroepitaxy H2 molecules formation on W(110) surface Tunable wettability through independent tuning of micro and nano scale features of self assembled hierarchical material Non-adiabatic ab initio molecular dynamics of supersonic beam epitaxy of silicon carbide at room temperature Frictional anisotropy of crystalline surfaces and its relationship with surface structure studied by atomic force microscopy Soft x-ray photoemission spectroscopy on buried complex oxide interfaces Computer modeling of surface-confined intermixing phenomena at epitaxial interfaces

14:30 - 17:00 Superconductivity C Chairman: Mikkel Ejrnaes

Daniel Esteve Alessandra Continenza Antonella Iadecola (I) Quantum physics with superconducting electrical circuits (I) Effective doping and chemical scaling law in Fe-based superconductors Effect of Ru substitution on atomic displacements in the layered SmFe xRuxAsO0.85F0.15 superconductor Wednesday, September 11

Room L.26.13

Luca de Medici Davide Massarotti Mikhail Lisitskiy Claudio Guarcello Fabio Chiarello

Selective Mottness as a key to iron superconductors Study of macroscopic quantum phenomena and phase dynamics in moderately damped Josephson junctions Materials and technologies of superconducting devices for quantum computation Analysis of soliton dynamics and noise induced effects on the superconductive lifetime in long Josephson junctions Coherent quantum manipulation of superconducting qubits by fast flux pulses: decoherence, adiabaticity and speed issues

14:30 - 17:00 Plasma physics A Chairman: Francesco Pegoraro

Paolo Buratti Antonino Di Piazza Luca Mezi Massimiliano Rom Dario Borgogno Petra Koester Emanuele Tassi

Room L.26.14

(I) Kink instabilities and magnetic reconnection in plasmas from millimetric to parsec length scales (I) Intense laser-plasma interaction as a tool for fundamental physics Efficient extreme ultraviolet and soft X-rays plasma sources at ENEA Frascati Investigation of non-neutral complex plasmas Barriers in the transition to global chaos in collisionless magnetic reconnection Experimental fast electron transport studies in a counterpropagating scheme Stability criteria in compressible reduced magnetohydrodynamics and analogy with the magnetorotational instability

14:30 - 17:00 SILS A Chairman: Antonella Balerna

Federico Boscherini Paola Coan Federico Zontone Paul Claude Diemoz Mattea Carmen Castrovilli Matteo Amati Matteo Minola Nicola Vigan Francesco Radica 21st SILS Conference

Room L.26.15

(I) Exploiting X-ray phase contrast imaging in medical diagnostics: towards clinical applications New opportunities with coherent hard X-rays at the refurbished ESRF beamline ID10 Edge illumination phase-contrast imaging: nanoradian angular resolution at synchrotrons and translation to conventional sources Photofragmentation of halogenated pyrimidine molecules in the VUV range Toward ambient pressure scanning photoemission imaging and spectromicroscopy - a feasibility test and first results Magnetic, orbital and charge fluctuations in layered cuprates studied by resonant soft x-ray scattering Discrete Representation of Local Orientation in Grains using Diffraction Contrast Tomography SR-FTIR imaging of carbon dioxide diffusion in cordierite-like structures

14:30 - 17:00 Electrons and phonons B Chairman: Stefano Baroni

Ivano Tavernelli

Room L.26.16

(I) TDDFT-based nonadiabatic dynamics with classical and quantum trajectories Wednesday, September 11

Francesco Mauri (I) Electron-phonon interaction and superconductivity in graphene and in intercalated graphite Alberto First principles study of donor wave functions in silicon nanowires Debernardi Maurizia Palummo Renato Colle Davide Campi Igor Bejenari Marco Cazzaniga Novel 2D materials for opto-electronics and photo-voltaics Structural, electronic and optical properties of PDI-FCN2 crystal Surface electronic properties and lattice dynamics of group-V semimetals from ab-initio calculations Atomistic calculation of thermoelectric properties of Si nanowires Ab initio many-body effects in TiSe2

14:30 - 17:00 Cultural heritage A Chairman: Marco Zoppi

Room L.26.01

Marcello Picollo (I) An overview on the application of Vis-NIR hyperspectral and THz-TDS imaging methodologies to the investigation of paintings Maria Grazia Bridelli Valentina Raimondi Anna Gueli Alessandro Re Austin Nevin Gianluca Valentini The skin of the ancient egyptian mummies: a fascinating source of informatio on body preservation Fluorescence hyperspectral lidar imaging of the cultural heritage: recent instrumental and application advances Crystal Luminescence and Cultural Heritage: from pottery authentication to historical buildings dating Use of a versatile instrument for X-ray radiography and tomography of artworks, precious objects and archaeological materials Semi-conductor pigments in 19th C. Paintings:Time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging Raman scanning device for the analysis of works of art

14:30 - 17:00 Quantum optics B Chairman: Lucio Andreani

Paolo Mataloni Rosario Fazio Marco Liscidini Maria Bondani Alessia Allevi Alessio Avella Alessandra Gatti (I) Integrated photonic quantum simulation (I) Optimal Control: From superadiabatic evolution to the speed limit

Room L.26.02

(I) From Classical to Quantum Nonlinear Photonics Efficient selection of mesoscopic twin-beam states for the optimal production of subPoissonian light Characterizing the nonclassical nature of mesoscopic optical twin-beam states Two-Photon Spectral Amplitude resolved in separable Schmidt modes X-entanglement, the non factorable spatio temporal correlation of twin photons

14:30 - 17:00 SISN A Chairman: Renato Magli

Luigi Paduano Francesco Spinozzi

Room L.26.03

(I) Nanodevices for cancer diagnosis and/or therapy QUAFIT: a Program to Evaluate Quaternary Structure and Heterogeneity of Proteins from Small-Angle Scattering Wednesday, September 11

Antonino Pietropaolo Valeria Maria Rondelli

Research and development on 3He free neutron counters Structural dynamics studies on single floating membranes by neutron and X-ray reflectivity

14:30 - 17:00 Spintronics Chairman: Riccardo Bertacco

Matthieu Jamet Roberta Citro Roberto Raimondi Federico Bottegoni Paolo Moras Edoardo Albisetti Dominique Persano Adorno Christian Rinaldi Jun Fujii (I) Silicon and germanium spintronics Super-magnetoresistance effect in triplet spin valves Variations on the Spin Hall effect Spin currents in Ge-based heterostructures Exchange and Rashba Interactions in Thin Film Systems

Room L.26.04

Storing magnetic information in antiferromagnetic tunnel junctions via field-cooling Enhancement of electron spin lifetime in GaAs bulks: the benefits of external noise Room temperature spin transport in Ge: optical and electronic measurement of the spin diffusion length Identifying the electronic character and the role of the Mn-derived states in (Ga,Mn)As via HAXPES

Wednesday, September 11

Thursday, September 12
MORNING SESSION
09:30 - 12:30 Biosensors Chairman: Bruno Murari
Fabrizio Pirri Romeo Bernini Annalisa Convertino Daniela Petti Davide Contini (I) Not available (I) Optofluidics as a novel platform for optical sensors Francesco Baldini Molecular beacon as oligonucleotide nanosensors for intracellular mRNA Forest of silica nanowires decorated by metal nanoparticles : light trapping at plasmon resonances and biosensing applications Bio-patterned magnetic biosensing platforms with sensitivity below the pM range Memory effect in gated single-photon avalanche diodes: a limiting noise contribution similar to afterpulsing

Room L.26.11

09:30 - 12:30 Quantum optics C Chairman: Paolo Mataloni

David Vitali Flavio Toigo Paolo Bordone Sergio Bietti Alessandro Chiesa

Room L.26.12

(I) Quantum cavity optomechanics with nanomembranes (I) Hydrodynamics of a Fermi gas at unitarity from a time-dependent Density Functional Quantum correlations in bipartite systems with 1/f^(alpha) noise Single photon emitters in AlGaAs epilayers at liquid nitrogen temperature on Silicon substrates Quantum-Information Processing with Hybrid Spin-Photon Qubits

09:30 - 12:30 Silicon Photonics Chairman: Francesco Tassone

Francesco Priolo (I) Nanostructures for Silicon Photonics Lorenzo Pavesi (I) Nanosilicon photonics, a new twist to silicon photonics Andrea Melloni (I) The bright and the dark sides of silicon photonics Daniele Bajoni Classical and quantum nonlinear optics in silicon integrated devices Giuseppe Faraci Giant Photo Luminescence Emission in Si Grains Marco Balucani

Room L.26.13

Porous silicon technology a breacktrough for silicon photonics: from packaging to molotithic integration

09:30 - 12:30 Plasma physics B Chairman: Stefano Atzeni

Francesco Pegoraro (I) What about magnetic reconnection?

Room L.26.14

Susanna Cappello (I) Plasma self-organization in a magnetic confinement system Angelo Schiavi (I) Perspectives for Inertial Fusion Pietro Mulser Sergio Briguglio Resonant and non-resonant ponderomotive effects in laser-matter interaction Nonlinear dynamics of Alfvn modes in tokamaks investigated by phase-space numerical diagnostics Thursday, September 12

Roberto Cesario David Dellasega

Non-linear plasma physics and current drive at density required for a tokamak thermonuclear reactor Nanostructured tungsten films exposed to high-flux deuterium plasmas for nuclear fusion research

09:30 - 12:30 SILS B Chairman: Paolo Ghigna

Bauer Matthias

Room L.26.15

(I) High energy resolution XAS and XES - Applications in catalysis and materials science Flavio Capotondi (I) Coherent Diffraction Imaging Project at FERMI@Elettra: present status and research opportunities Maddalena Pedio Erik Gallo Andrea Di Cicco Gianluca Di Filippo Mauro Coduri Alessandro Pagliero N K-edge Time Resolved X-ray absorption of the ZnOEP films dd Excitations in a Ni-based Metal-Organic Framework: Comparison between RIXS and Optical Spectroscopy EUV transmission and reflection measurements at Fermi@Elettra The L23VV Auger spectrum of Cu(001)-p(2x2)S studied by Auger-PhotoElectron Coincidence Spectroscopy Local disorder in doped ceria: from low temperature to operating conditions Investigation on structural and electrical modifications in Bi-2212 whiskers exposed to synchrotron nano-beam radiation

09:30 - 12:30 Photovoltaics A Chairman: Giuseppe Gigli

Simona Binetti Olindo Isabella Alessia Le Donne Isodiana Crupi Piotr Kowalczewski Christian Martella Sergio Bietti Piero Mazzolini

Room L.26.16

(I) State of the art and perspectives of inorganic photovoltaics (I) Approaching 4n2 classical limit in metal-free and ultra-thin crystalline silicon solar cells Photoluminescence study of chalcopyrite based PV absorbers Plasmonic metal nanoparticles for thin film solar cells Engineered disorder for light-trapping in thin-film solar cells Self-organised nanopatterning of thin film amorphous Silicon solar cells Featuring Broadband light trapping Quantum Dot Intermediate-band Solar Cell grown by Droplet Epitaxy Structural, electrical and optical properties of nanostructured Ta-doped TiO2 produced by PLD

09:30 - 12:30 Cultural heritage B Chairman: Marcello Picollo

Marco Zoppi

Room L.26.01

(I) Characterization of archaeometallurgical artifacts through neutron diffraction and neutron imaging techniques Ferruccio Petrucci Digital X-ray radiography of paintings Giulia Festa Emilio Giovenale Raffaella Fontana Aldo Romani Cristiano Riminesi Neutrons and Music: imaging investigation of ancient flute musical instruments. Phase sensitive mm-wave and Terahertz imaging for art conservation studies A study of surface optical properties for characterizing the cleaning process of paintings Luminescence spectroscopy: an investigative tool for art materials Microwave dielectrometry for the diagnostics of wall paintings Thursday, September 12

Adriano Mosca Conte

Ab-initio computational methods for the calculation of optical properties applied to cultural heritage

09:30 - 12:30 Photonics A Chairman: Carlo Sirtori

Ilaria Cristiani Miriam Serena Vitiello Heidi Ottevaere

Room L.26.02

(I) Integrated optical devices for single cell manipulation and analysis. (I) Terahertz quantum cascade laser: a powerful metrological source across the far-infrared

(I) Photonically enhanced polymer optofluidic chips Nataliia Kuzkova Advanced light scattering methods for studying supramolecular inhomogeneities in Hbonded liquids Jacopo Parravicini Marco Bazzan Paolo Olivero Scale-free optics in programmed dipolar glasses Temperature dependence of photorefractivity in iron doped lithium niobate and its polaron based interpretation Optical waveguides fabrication in single-crystal diamond using focused ion microbeams

09:30 - 12:30 SISN B Chairman: Milva Celli

Roberto Senesi

Room L.26.03

(I) Direct measurement of competing quantum effects in the melting of heavy water Annalisa Boscaino In situ powder neutron diffraction of microwave-induced reaction of TiC on D20 beam line, at ILL Giacomo Mariani Ubaldo Bafile Federica Sebastiani Electrostatic self-assembly investigated by time resolved SANS Peculiar and normal dynamics of hydrogen-bond liquids: a neutron scattering and simulation study of methanol High time resolution neutron reflectometry for understanding atmospheric chemical reactions

09:30 - 12:30 Microfluidics Chairman: Gianluca Galzerano

Room L.26.04

Roberto Osellame (I) Optofluidic chips fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining Giampaolo (I) Droplet based microfluidics Mistura Andrea Zanella Introducing purely hydrodynamic networking mechanisms in microfluidic systems Francesca Bragheri Antonio Sasso Mauro Sbragaglia Luigino Criante Michele Celebrano Femtosecond-laser-fabricated microfluidic chip for thermophoresis separation Optical Manipulation of Charged Microparticles in Polar Fluids Sliding Droplets on Chemically heterogeneous surfaces: a Lattice Boltzmann study Tunable microfluidic dye laser : coupling high quality factor microcavities with Liquid Crystals orientational properties Assembly and manipulation of nanophotonic elements in a fluid: towards reconfigurable photonic structures on a chip

AFTERNOON SESSION

Thursday, September 12

14:30 - 17:00 Sensors devices and applications B Chairman: Romeo Bernini

Room L.26.11

Elisabetta Comini (I) Oxide Nanowires for opto-electronics and energy harvesting Juan Ramn (I) Fully integrated all-solid-state electrochemical sensors on micromachined platforms: a new Morante type of gas sensors Jacopo Belfi Roberta De Angelis Claudio Goletti Paolo Bettotti Chiara Berrettoni Vincenzo Guidi Vincenzo Spagnolo Large frame ring laser gyroscopes Luminescence chemical sensitivity of Surface InP quantum dots Analyte Discrimination in Langmuir - Blodgett Porphyrin Films A case study of the optimization of a nanoporous material for sensing applications Refractive index and temperature characterization of a hybrid optical fiber LPG-FBG configuration Thick film technology for chemical sensors THz quantum cascade laser quartz enhanced photo-acoustic sensor

14:30 - 17:00 Microscopy A Chairman: Giuseppe Nicotra

Room L.26.12

Vittorio Morandi (I) Interferometric TEM characterization and theoretical investigation of the structural and electronic properties of graphene membranes Caroline Bonafos (I) A new approach for elaborating and designing plasmonic substrates for spectroscopy enhancement and high contrast imaging Elvio Carlino Luca Costa Eleonora Secchi Ettore Bernardi Massimo Rontani Giulia Fulvia Mancini Silvia Maria Pietralunga Sub - Angstrom resolution by TEM electron diffractive imaging Interaction forces at the nanoscale: new insights and new perspectives with the Force Feedback Microscope Ghost Particle Velocimetry: 3-D flow visualization using standard bright-field microscope An Electric Force Microscopy investigation of sub-superficial graphite microchannels in diamond Visualizing electron correlation in molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope: An abinitio prediction Femtosecond speckle diffraction with coherent electron pulses: dynamics of local order in polycrystalline nanostructures WO3 single crystal nanorods from PLD-grown amorphous-like W thin films

14:30 - 17:00 Soft matter and complexity A Chairman: Barbara Ruzicka

Room L.26.13

Eleonora Guarini (I) Does the dynamics of metallic and insulating liquids really differ? A "golden" answer from neutrons and simulations Dino Costa Carla Andreani Daniele Fioretto Thermodynamic and structural properties of model fluids interacting through microscopic competing interactions The quantum nature of the OH stretching mode in ice and water probed by neutron scattering experiments More is different: the effect of biomolecules on hydration water Thursday, September 12

Santi Prestipino Silvia Nappini Adriano Filipponi Lucio Isa

Adiabatic freezing of supercooled liquids: A maximum-entropy analysis Magnetic fluids: an x-ray spectroscopy characterization Undercooling and crystal nucleation in Germanium In-situ measurements of the wetting properties of individual micro and nanopartciles at liquid-liquid interfaces

14:30 - 17:00 Plasma physics C Chairman: Paola Mantica

Andrea Macchi Fulvio Zonca Stefano Atzeni Bruno Paroli Federica Baffigi Angelo Bozzola

Room L.26.14

(I) Superintense Laser-Plasma Interactions: Relativistic Condensed Matter Physics (I) Physics of magnetically confined thermonuclear plasmas Energy and wavelength scaling of shock-ignited inertial fusion targets Low-frequency oscillations in a RF-generated electron plasma in a Penning-Malmberg trap study of parametric instabilities and supra-thermal electrons generation in Shock Ignition relevant regime Reduce thickness and trap sunlight: how thin-film solar cells can be more efficient than bulk ones

14:30 - 17:00 SILS C Chairman: Federico Boscherini

Giorgio Paolucci (I) The Future of Elettra and FERMI Pantaleo (I) ESRF Status and Upgrade Program Raimondi Massimo Altarelli (I) The European X-ray Free-electron Laser Facility: Status Report Luc Patthey (I) The SwissFEL Project Antonella Balerna The DAFNE-Light synchrotron radiation facility.

Room L.26.15

14:30 - 17:00 Photovoltaics B Chairman: Simona Binetti

Giuseppe Gigli Aldo Di Carlo Daniela Marongiu Paolo Gondoni Luca Lozzi Valentina de Renzi Alberto Calloni Roberta Totani (I) Hybrid Photovoltaics (I) Dye solar cells: from basic research to industrialization Bi2S3 colloidal nanocrystals for non-toxic solar cells

Room L.26.16

Nanostructured Al-doped ZnO grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition as a Transparent Conducting Oxide for Advanced Photovoltaics Photocatalytic properties of doped TiO2 nanofibers Nitro-catechol/ZnO(10-10): molecular dipole and energy level alignment in a model system for Dye/ metal oxides interfaces X-ray photoemission spectroscopy investigation of the bonding between 4Mercaptopyridine and the TiO2 surface Interface properties between CuPc:C60 blend films and graphene

14:30 - 17:00 Ultrafast phenomena A Chairman: Christoph Lienau

Luca Perfetti (I) Visualization of electrons dynamics in real time Thursday, September 12

Room L.26.01

Daniele Brida Luca Poletto Federico Tommasi Cristian Manzoni Dario Polli Salvatore Stagira Mauro Nisoli

(I) Generation of high-field multi-THz transients and their application for nonlinear spectroscopy of semiconductors Development of active gratings for ultrashort pulses in the extreme-ultraviolet Recovering propagation delay of an optical pulse to achieve a "true" c-velocity Ultrafast Non-Thermal Electron Dynamics in Single Layer Graphene Longitudinal acoustic phonons in 3-dimensional cobalt supracrystals detected by broadband picosecond acoustics Time-resolved Cluster Dynamics driven by 1.5-micron Laser Pulses Attosecond control of electron dynamics in highly-excited nitrogen molecules

14:30 - 17:00 Photonics B Chairman: Francesco Priolo

Carlo Sirtori Marco Peccianti Pietro Patimisco Cosimo Lacava Alessandro Chiasera Chiara Maurizio Giovanni Nava Matteo Bina (I) Active mode-locking of THz quantum cascade lasers (I) Nonlinear microresonators: towards integrated ultrafast optical clocks

Room L.26.02

Measurement of the subband electronic and lattice temperatures in scattering-assisted terahertz quantum cascade devices Ultra High Figure of Merit hydrogenated amorphous silicon waveguides for all optical signal processing High quality factor 1-D Er3+ activated dielectric microcavity fabricated by RF sputtering Effect of ultrasmall Au-Ag aggregates in Er-implanted silica on the 1.54 micron Er3+ luminescence Photorefractive response in the visible range of Mg- and Zr- Doped Lithium Niobate Crystals Backscattering Differential Ghost Imaging in Turbid Media

14:30 - 17:00 SISN C Chairman: Alessio De Francesco

Room L.26.03

Marco Maccarini (I) Effect of functionalized gold nanoparticles on floating lipid bilayers Nicol Violini A Time-of-flight chopper spectrometer for poly-chromatic investigations @ESS Yuri Gerelli Giuseppe Gorini Kinetics of lipid exchange in model bilayer systems What can the European Spallation Source do for Fusion?

14:30 - 17:00 Biomedical applications A Chairman: Paolo Ossi

Dan Cojoc Luca Nardo Riccardo Cicchi Antonio Pifferi Davide Contini Luca Labate

Room L.26.04

(I) Speckle Sensing Microscopy for Fast Detection of Malaria (I) Time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer as a diagnostic tool for population screening of susceptibility to diabetes A Combined Fluorescence-Raman Optical Probe for Tissue Diagnostics Applications Extension of Time-Domain Diffuse Spectroscopy beyond 1100 nm A Method for Discriminating Systemic and Cortical Hemodynamic Changes by Time Domain fNIRS Small-scale laser based electron accelerators for biology and medicine: a comparative study of the biological effectiveness Thursday, September 12

Andreas Riedinger

Azo Functionalized Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for sub-nanometer spatially resolved temperature mapping and drug release modulation

Thursday, September 12

Friday, September 13
MORNING SESSION
10:30 - 13:30 Theoretical biology Chairman: Giovanni Ciccotti
Davide Valenti Ursula Roethlisberger Tatjana Skrbic Silvio A Beccara Antonio Trovato Francesco Zonta Luca Maragliano Marco Baiesi Angelo di Garbo (I) Picophytoplankton dynamics in a real ecosystem in the presence of environmental noise (I) Not available Knotted Proteins: Folding Pathways and the Role of Non-Native Interactions Dominant Reaction Pathways for protein folding Flexibility and growth polarity in fungal prion amyloid fibrils Molecular Dynamics investigation of permeation properties of gap junction channels Temperature Accelerated Molecular Dynamics simulations of rare events in biological molecules Unwinding dynamics of polymers Localized longitudinal nonlinear excitations in DNA

Room L.26.11

10:30 - 13:30 Microscopy B Chairman: Alberto Tagliaferri

Marco Vittori Antisari Giovanni Maria Vanacore Maurizio Zani Marco Di Giovannantonio Rosa Ruggeri Antonio Massimiliano Mio (I) Recent developments in electron and ion microscopy.

Room L.26.12

(I) Exploring the interplay among morphology, strain and electronic structure in SiGe nanosystems by spectro-microscopy techniques Ge on C-covered Si(100) surface: from continuous surface diffusion to discrete islands nucleation Solid-Liquid Interfaces studied by Electrochemical Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Crystallization of amorphous Silicon by infrared laser irradiation Maskless Implants of 20 keV Ga+ in Thin Crystalline SOI and in Si Substrate

10:30 - 13:30 Soft matter and complexity B Chairman: Paolo Mariani

Emanuela Zaccarelli

Room L.26.13

(I) Tuning colloidal interactions by controlling the solvent properties: critical Casimir forces and beyond

Barbara Ruzicka (I) Multiple arrested states in a charged colloidal system Christoph Dellago (I) From freezing to boiling: simulating nucleation phenomena in metastable liquids Roberta Angelini Luigi Cristofolini Davide Orsi Liana Lucchetti Dichotomic aging behaviour in a colloidal glass Dynamical heterogeneities and morphology of a 2D gel network at the air/water interface Structure, Mechanical properties and Dynamics of 2D DPPC Based Foam-Like Structures Stabilized by Silica Nanoparticles Optoelastic effects in nematic colloids

Friday, September 13

Claudia Caddeo

Solubility of oligo(3-alkylthiophenes) in molecular solvents by model potential molecular dynamics

10:30 - 13:30 Plasma physics D Chairman: Fulvio Zonca

Leonida Antonio (I) All-optical radiation sources for applications Gizzi Paola Mantica Pierluigi Veltri Andrea Malizia Luca Volpe Gaetano Zimbardo

Room L.26.14

(I) State-of-art of transport understanding in toroidal plasmas: experimental results and model validation (I) Cross Scale Phenomena in Solar Wind Plasma Radioactive dust re-suspension problems inside a tokamak in case of L.O.V.A: STARDUST facility fast electron beam transport in plasmas: experimental results and simulation Superdiffusive transport in space and laboratory plasmas

10:30 - 13:30 SILS-AIC Joint session Chairman: Alessandro Gualtieri

Keith Wilson Bauke Dijkstra Nadege Hilairet Marco Merlini Rossella Arletti Paola Brocca Marco Sommariva Letizia Monico Federica Cossu (I) Not available (I) Not available

Room L.26.15

(I) Rheology at high pressure and high temperature using large volume press and synchrotron radiation New structures of carbonates in the lowermost Earth's mantle determined by single crystal techniques High Pressure-induced supermolecular organization of water and ethanol in an all-Silica hydrophobic zeolite Inside the lipid main transition by SAXS in an ultra-stable temperature scan: what gel and fluid phase co-existence? How multipurpose in-house XRD systems can contribute to an efficient use of synchrotron beamlines: from SAXS to PDF The Degradation Process of Lead Chromate Yellows in Paintings by Vincent Van Gogh Structural insights into inhibitor of apoptosis proteins recognition by pro-apoptotic compounds

10:30 - 13:30 Photovoltaics C Chairman: Aldo Di Carlo

Paola Castrucci Margherita Maiuri Ilaria Valenti Roberto Gunnella Fabio Di Fonzo Rafael Ferragut (I) Carbon nanotube/silicon hybrid solar cell devices Ultrafast Hot Exciton Dissociation at Organic Interfaces ZnO nanostructured metal/oxide systems for solar energy conversion Record polymeric solar cells synthesized at low temperature

Room L.26.16

Hyperbranched quasi-1D hierarchical mesostructures for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells and Hydrogen Generation Characterization of hybrid solar cells by Positron Annihilation Spectroscopy

Friday, September 13

Alessandro Ruocco

Plasmon-enhanced secondary electron emission from copper phtalocyanine deposited on Al(111)

10:30 - 13:30 Ultrafast phenomena B Chairman: Luca Poletto

Tullio Scopigno

Room L.26.01

(I) Vibrational dynamics in amorphous materials revealed by broadband photo-acoustics Giancarlo Soavi Ultrafast Charge Photogeneration in Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes Christoph Lienau (I) Ultrafast nano-optics: Using strong laser fields to control the motion of electrons in and around metallic nanostructures Giuseppe Della Valle Stefano Ponzoni Hamoon Hedayat Zadeh Roodsari Giuseppe Sansone Ultrafast optical mapping of nonlinear plasmon dynamics in Cu2xSe nanocrystals Time-resolved charge carriers dynamics in Carbon Nanotube / n-Silicon heterojunctions for photovoltaic applications Charge and Spin Dynamics Information from Magneto Optical Signal Attosecond electronic wave packets in molecular nitrogen

10:30 - 13:30 Photonic crystals Chairman: Silvia Pietralunga

Thomas Krauss

Room L.26.02

(I) Tailoring diffractive properties of photonic crystals for out-of plane operation Massimo Gurioli (I) Imaging and tuning of photonic nanocavities Lee Carroll Optimizing silicon-on-oxide polarization diversity 2D-grating couplers for integrated Siphotonic circuits Andrea Crespi Andrea Chiappini Sara Ferretti Luigino Criante Maria Caterina Giordano Fractional Bloch oscillations in photonic lattices Colloidal Systems: suitable tools for photonic applications Single photon nonlinear optics in passive photonic nanocavities Thin porous structure containing liquid crystal: key technology for low voltage tuning capability of photonics devices Hybrid plasmonic - photonic nanostructures: gold nanocrescent over opals

10:30 - 13:30 Neurobiosensors Chairman: Emilio Carbone

Alberto Pasquarelli Valentina Carabelli Federico Picollo Tobias Cramer Jonathan Mapelli Sara Gosso (I) Diamond technology for multielectrodes electrochemical biochips

Room L.26.03

(I) Boron-doped diamond MEAs for revealing amperometric and potentiometric signals in living cells A diamond-based biosensor for exocytosis detection from chromaffin cells realized with ion beam lithography Organic Ultra-Thin Film Transistorfor Extracellular Stimulation and Recording of Stem Cell Derived Neuronal Networks Three-dimensional MEA to record long-term plasticity in brain slices Spatial detection of amperometric spikes in microareas of chromaffin cells using highdensity diamond MEAs

Friday, September 13

Federico Alessandro Ruffinatti

Recording of neuronal activity from cellular subdomains by Ca2+ imaging: an innovative analytical approach

10:30 - 13:30 Biomedical applications B Chairman: Luca Nardo

Alessandro Lascialfari Paolo Ossi Claudio Melis Francesco Flora Margaux Bouzin Marta Filibian Paola Taroni Maurizio Marrale Anna Vedda (I) Magnetic nanoparticles in biomedicine

Room L.26.04

(I) Controlled Synthesis of Noble Metal Nanoparticle Arrays and Their Behaviour as SERS Substrates Neutral-cluster implantation in polymers by computer experiments Contact X-ray microscopy on lithium fluoride using laser-plasma soft X-ray sources Blood Fluxes Studies in Zebrafish Embryos by Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy NMR study of the fundamental polarization and relaxation processes in biological molecules hyperpolarized by DNP Non-invasive optical assessment of breast density and identification of subjects at high-risk for developing breast cancer Investigation of spatial distributions of free radicals irradiated samples by means of cw- and pulsed EPR techniques From Eu3+ incorporation in sol-gel silica to real time monitoring of therapy beams by Eu3+ doped scintillating fibers

Friday, September 13

Poster sessions
Monday, September 9
Multiferroics
Daniela Grando Maria Barbara Maccioni Angelo Rettori William Capra Migration from Lithium Niobate to Lithium Tantalate in LiNb1-xTaxO3 solid solutions Electrical switching of magnetization in ferromagnetic V-doped La2Ti2O7 Brillouin Light Scattering study of spin waves in hard-soft [Co/Pd]-NiFe films with tunable magnetization tilt angle Resonant X-ray diffraction experiment on Ba2CuGe2O7

Superconductivity A
Stefano Dal Conte Lucia Bossoni Maria Li Vigni Laura Fanfarillo Andrea Guidini Marco Truccato Electron-phonon coupling in MgB2 superconductor: a comparative study by photoemission and time resolved optical spectroscopy Unconventional superconducting fluctuations in 122 iron-based superconductors Microwave properties of Pb-BSCCO and MgB2 bulk materials by coaxial cavity resonator Current-current Fermi-liquid corrections to the superconducting fluctuations in underdoped cuprates Screening of superconducting fluctuations in a two-band superconductor: a root to high-Tc superconductivity Photoconductivity behavior of double-phase BSCCO crystals with filamentary inclusions

Metrology and fundamental constants

Hemanth Dinesan Absolute frequency stabilization of an extended-cavity diode laser by NICE-OHMS Maria Domenica De Highly accurate line-shape studies in the near-IR spectrum of water and consequences for Vizia the spectroscopic determination of kB

Environmental physics and energy generation A

Andrea Malizia Giuseppe Leto Free licence codes to determine radiological contamination: 2 caso studies Improving the monitoring of Etna's volcanic ash plumes using a new scanning Lidar

Organic materials and devices A

Guido Raos Milani Alberto Daniele Fazzi Giovanna Longhi Gianbattista Parravicini An effective quantum chemical investigation of the charged and excited states in molecular organic semiconductors Raman, SERS and computational investigation of charge transfer effects in phenyl-capped polyynes Spectroscopic characterization and modelling of P(NDI2OD-T2) co-polymer: from molecular structure to charge transport. Polaronic states in inherently chiral polythiophenes revealed by circular dichroism spectroelectrochemistry and DFT calculations Assessment of nonergodicity in tetracene crystals

Plasmonics
Paolo Biagioni Filippo Alpeggiani Niccolo Michieli Mid-infrared plasmonics with heavily-doped Ge on Si Surface plasmons and strong light-matter coupling in metallic nanoshells Plasmonic Properties of Growing Fractal Aggregates

Milena Luisa Baselli Near-field scattering analysis of gold gap nanoantennas Paolo Masala Diffractometric characterization of magneto-plasmonic nanostructures

Graphene A
Mattia Gaboardi Mohammad Javad Vahid Dastjerdi Daniela Pacil Alberto Zeffiro Manuela Scarelli Metal decorated graphenes: synthesis and characterization The Thickness Estimation Of Graphene And Graphene Oxide Films By Auger Electron Spectroscopy Electronic structure of epitaxial graphene grown on the vicinal Pt(997) surface Lignin pyrolysis as a novel method for graphene production: synthesis and characterization Studies on the morphological and electronic properties of noble metal nanoparticles-multi walled carbon nanotube composites

Tuesday, September 10
Magnetism and spintronics A
Marco Madami Silvia Tacchi Federico Spizzo Diego Bisero Roberto Zivieri Marco Madami Roberto Zivieri Sara Laureti Franco D'Orazio Roberto Zivieri Yahiaoui Ihab Eddine Cesar de Julian Fernandez Study of the spin excitations in antidot lattices with line defects Forbidden band gaps in the spin-wave band diagram of a two-dimensional bicomponent magnonic crystal Static and dynamic magnetic behavior of exchange-coupled IrMn/NiFe films and nanodots Tailoring the magnetic domain patterns and magnetic anisotropy of sputtered TbFeGa alloys Size effects on magnonic mode dynamics in 2D ferromagnetic antidot lattices Spin wave dispersion in NiFe antidot array with alternating holes diameter Equation of density of chirality in a vortex-state cylindrical ferromagnet Production, characterization and modeling of exchange coupled hard-FM/soft-FM nanostructures Aging and training effects on the exchange interaction in FeMn/FeCo bilayers Symmetries of vortex-state linearized equations of motion in ferromagnetic dots First principles study of electronic and magnetic properties of XSiP (X = Sm,Dy) compounds Nanostructure, optical and magnetic properties of Magneto-plasmonic Au-Co-Au multilayers

Surface science A
Giovanni Onida Erik Gallo Monica de Simone Letteria Silipigni Stefano Colonna Guido Fratesi Structural and electronic properties of a-Si:H/c-Si interfaces: a first principles study. Ligand Identification in Zinc Compounds using Valence to Core X-ray Emission Spectroscopy Importance of vibronic coupling in core level photoemission spectra of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon molecules Dielectric properties of Li2xMn1-xPS3 films STM and LEED investigation of the self-assembled Si nanostructures at Ag(110) surface Electronic and structural properties of pentacene on Al(001)

Superconductivity B
Massimo Valentino Lucia Bossoni Marco Truccato Pietro Bonfa' MOKE analysis in thin film of Ba(Fe1-x Asx)2Co Very-low frequency dynamics in iron-based superconductors as probed by NMR transverse relaxation rate Magnetic hysteresis effects in water-treated graphite Effect of magnetic impurities on the ground state of the optimally doped La-1111 iron-based superconductor

Semiconductors-low dimensional materials A

Djelti Radouan Olga Kazheva Daniele Chiappe Francesco Floris David Scarpellini Martina Perani Luca Marmugi The emission study of a one-dimensional GaAs-AlxGa1-xAs superlattice under mixed disorder New organic semiconductors with chlorine cobalt bis(dicarbollide) anions In situ characterization of epitaxial silicene Extending the Lasing Wavelength Coverage of Periodically Grown Semiconductor Nanofibers by Organic-Organic Heteroepitaxy Controlling Growth of Zn/Al-Double Layered Hydroxyde Nanosheets by Combining Physical and Chemical Techniques Microscopical and macroscopical investigation of electrical properties of silicon nanodots/Si rich carbide systems Laser-driven K clusters formation in randomly oriented glass nanopores

Environmental physics and energy generation B

Barbara Apicella Data analysis of mass spectra of complex

Organic materials and devices B

Luca Boarino Tatiana Prutskij Beatrice Fraboni Federico Bisti Nanostructured self-assembled models for 3D nano-electrical characterisation Polarization anisotropy of (Z)-3-(4-(diphenylamino)phenyl)-2-(pyridin-2-yl)-acrylonitrile single crystal photoluminescence emission Ion implantation effects on organic thin film transistors Electronic structure of AlQ3 and ErQ3 revisited using the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof hybrid functional: theory and experiments

Strongly correlated electron systems A

Irfan Mansuri Filippo Tramonto Giovanni Onida Sructural and transport properties of some doped manganites Quantum Monte Carlo study of dynamic properties of ultracold gases Theoretical Spectroscopy of complex and realistic systems: a challenge for theories and numerical codes

Graphene B
Mario Italo Trioni Francesco Maria Dimitri Pellegrino Simona Achilli Virginia Carnevali Transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrode Resonant modes in strain-induced graphene superlattices Spin dependent transport in FeN4-graphene and non equilibrium effects Stress and Strain Effects on the Vibrational Properties of Graphene

Statistical physics B
Dominique Persano New insights into the translocation dynamics of a short polymer driven by an oscillating field Adorno Bernardo Spagnolo First hitting time in the dynamics of financial markets Chahrazed Meddah Formation of helical structures in homopolymer chains using the multi-canonical Monte Carlo simulation Grazia Cottone Acceleration of the AChBP conformational transition using Temperarure Accelerated Molecular Dynamics

Biophysics A
Camilla Ferrante Interaction of gold nanoparticles with proteins and HUVEC cells followed with confocal fluorescence microscopy techniques Diletta Ami Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy to monitor fatty acid production in oleaginous yeasts for biodiesel production Sergio Giuffrida Water effects on saccharide matrices studied with Molecular Dynamics Rosa Bartucci Stabilizing effect of transport proteins on the trans-to-cis conversion of resveratrol Laura Bartolucci Giant Unilamellar Vesicles: a model for studying the effects of amyloid proteins on biological membranes Giuseppe Sancataldo Oxidation effects on HSA amyloid fibril formation Khaoula Khouzami Structural and rheological characterization of chemically crosslinked guar gum and organically modified montmorillonite hydrogel Luigi Sportelli Librational fluctuations in protein glasses Federica Piccirilli THz spectroscopy study of proteins: exploring vibrational modes of amyloid fibrils Fabio Librizzi Effects of external parameters on the different steps of protein aggregation: the case of amyloid formation in Concanavalin A

Valeria Militello Stefano Zamuner Enrico Junior Baldassarri

BSA hydrogels: from the early aggregates to the final novel biomaterials Lattice-proteins: statistical potentials for Delta and Delta-Delta G estimation Structural studies on self-assembling, stability and energetics of guanosine four-stranded nanotubes

Electrons and phonons A

Elisabetta del Castillo Silvia Gabardi Davide Ceresoli Spin asymmetric band gap in graphene by Fe adsorption Density functional simulations of InSbTe phase change alloys Development of Frozen Density Embedding in the plane wave code Quantum-Espresso

Strongly correlated electron systems B

Rosalba Fittipaldi Carlo Castellano Fabio Orlandi Crystal growth of the Ca2RuO4-Ru eutectic system by a floating-zone method EXAFS and neutron powder diffraction study of Cu2+ and Ni2+ substituted (La0.63Ca0.37)(Mn1-yCu/Niy)O3 manganites Magnetic and electric property of the system Pb2Mn1-xCoxWO6 (0

Biophysics B
Palma D'Antonio Giovanni Onida Eugenia Polverini Giuseppe Perna Silvia Moscatelli Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Rosa Bartucci Dario Polli Elena delFavero Paolo Arosio AFM analysis of morphological and mechanical modifications of human keratinocytes exposed to low doses of pesticide Ab initio circular dichroism spectra of small biomolecules Study of topoisomerase inhibitors as potential anti - cancer drugs Morphological and optical investigation of synthetic DOPA-melanin The self-assembly and polymorphism of sDNA and DNA derivatives: from quadruplexes to reversible nano-architectures New insights on protein crystal growth from ab initio study of MICROGISAXS experiments with and without LB Interaction of alpha-synuclein and mutants with lipid membranes probed by spin-label ESR Conical Intersection Dynamics in Rhodopsin and its Analog Isorhodopsin Enzyme Reaction on Fragmented-Condensed Substrates: Transient Step-Like Kinetics and Nanoscale structural response Multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles protein-based from fundamental physics to theranostic application

Wednesday, September 11
Sensors devices and applications A
Antonietta Taurino Ambra Fioravanti Massimo Fedel Francesco Floris MIM diodes fabricated by Electron Beam Induced Deposition ZNO thick fils gas sensors: functional properties of different nanostructures Spectroscopic method and apparatus for measurement of oxygen concentration in beverage and pharmaceutical industry applications Plasmonic Structures For Near Infrared Applications

SILS A
Chiara Maurizio Fast hydrogen desorption of Nb-doped Mg hydride triggered by Nb clusters: combined XRD and XAS in-situ analyses Federico Boscherini Progress in appearance potential spectroscopy of solids Marco Malvestuto Ultra fast magnetodynamical studies in the light of FERMI@Elettra: the MagneDyn project Stefano Colonna XAS and XMCD study of the Mn interface formation at the GaAs(001) 2x4 surface Francesco Offi Hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy used to investigate the resistive switching behavior at Ti/PrCaMnO3 interface Francesco Rocca Negative thermal expansion of ScF3: an EXAFS study at the Scandium K-edge . Marcello Coreno From Energetics to Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Cluster with Synchrotron and FEL radiation at Elettra Luca Pasquini X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Ti-based Nanoparticles Andrea Di Cicco Liquid and amorphous selenium under high pressure probed by x-ray absorption spectroscopy Greta Dellea Charge and magnetic excitations in hole- and electron-doped infinite layer cuprate superconductors Marco Scavini Role of intrinsic disorder in the structural phase transitions of EuTiO3 magnetoelectric perovskite: a PDF study Andrea Perucchi TeraFERMI - The THz beamline of the FERMI Free-Electron-Laser Lucia Amidani Electronic structure of dilute GaAsN: a N-local perspective Fabrizia Somma Luminescent lithium fluoride film detectors for broadband in-line X-ray lensless imaging at a synchrotron source Silvia Nappini The BACH beamline: recent upgrades and scientific results Alessandro Barla BOREAS, the Beamline fOr REsonant Absorption and Scattering at the Alba synchrotron light source Andrea Ciavatti Characterization of organic semiconducting single crystals as x-ray dosimeter for medical applications Paolo Ghigna X-ray Absorption Detected Voltammetry: a new tool for Electrochemistry Gennaro Ventruti The thermal stability of hohmannite and its decomposition products. Elisa Borfecchia Ultrafast X-ray absorption and scattering techniques to probe the photochemistry of cis[Ru(bpy)2(py)2]2+ Angela Trapananti 2D mapping of Iron content, oxidation state and local structure by XANES: an application to natural volcanic glasses Luigi Cristofolini Dynamical Heterogeneities in a 2D Gel Isabella Farella Charge transport mechanisms and electric fields in Schottky CdTe X-Ray detectors Giorgio Rossi APE-NFFA Demonstrator Giuseppe Zanotti Protein function assignment through the 3D structure: Examples from Helicobacter pylori Paolo Dolcet EXAFS: a powerful tool for assessing dopant geometry and environment in semiconductors obtained via miniemulsion Simona Quartieri Organophilic zeolite Y used in PRB technology: regeneration after sulfonamide antibiotics removal from water

Lucia Amidani Lorenzo Avaldi

Four-hydrogen complexes in In-rich InxGa1-xN Controlling electron and radical cation emission in ICD via inner shell resonant excitation

Cultural heritage A
Maurizio Marrale Debora Angelici Maurizio Marrale Lorenzo Teodonio Jacopo Corsi Combined use of XRF and LIBS for pictorial materials analysis A multi-technique approach for provenance study of lapis lazuli Evaluation of effectiveness of nanostructured protective products for the conservation of Cultural Heritage samples an innovative approach for ancient paper degradation Neutron diffraction measurements: technological and compositional features of Celtic coins from northern Italy

SISN A
Chiara Bruckmann Structural characterization of the transcription factors Prep1, Pbx1 and HoxB1 in complex with DNA Gaetano Mangiapia Investigation of liposome-based membranes formed by lipopolysaccharides and their interaction with hybrid antimicrobial peptides Paolo Mariani Quaternary Structure Heterogeneity of Oligomeric Proteins: A SAXS and SANS Study of the Dissociation Products of Octopus vulgaris Domiziano Mostacci Dispersion relation of longitudinal waves in liquid He - II Marco Zanatta Tempus Fugit (Time Flies): a time-focusing spectrometer for ESS Anna Fedrigo Basic Design Parameters for a Vibrational Spectroscopy Instrument at ESS Roberto Caniello Multilayer amorphous boron carbide coatings: adhesion to the substrate and application to the thermal neutron detector Fabrizio Fiori Evaluation of different kind of inhomogeneities to SANS data: and application to the study of a nuclear steel

Thursday, September 12
Biosensors
Maria Guglielmina Pelizzo Francesco Baldini Daniele Farnesi Lucia Fornasari Maria Lepore Francesco Baldini Thin film materials for Surface Plasmon Resonance biosensing Optical immunosensor based on a long period grating Microsphere resonators based biosensors Imaging sensor based on a 2D plasmonic crystal: sensitivity and multiplexed label-free detection. Preliminary investigation on physico-chemical properties of sol-gel immobilized laccase for optical biosensing NANODEM: an European projects for the continuous therapeutic drug monitoring using the POCT format

Plasma physics B
Paolo Scarin Monica Spolaore Francesco Barbato Carlo Sozzi Emilio Martines Boundary plasma physics in magnetic confinement devices Inter-machine comparison of electromagnetic turbulent structures X-ray diagnostic of dense laser-produced plasmas Real-time analysis of magnetohydrodynamics instabilities in the FTU tokamak Quasi-Single Helicity in the RFP: spontaneous emergence of order from chaos in a fusion plasma Gabriele Spatially resolved analysis of Kalpha x-ray emission from plasmas induced by a Cristoforetti femtosecond laser pulse at various polarizations Gaetano Zimbardo Ion beamlets in the plasma sheet boundary layer of the Earth's magnetotail: resonant acceleration versus stochastic acceleration Dario Del Sorbo Effect of Nonlocal Heat Transport on the Structure of the Laser Induced Ablation Front Giulia Folpini Study of shock wave generation and laser-matter interaction for ICF regimes Fabio Sattin Heating-by-cooling effects in magnetized plasmas: a proposal of explanation, and analogies from solid-state physics Daria Ricci Simulation of EC assisted plasma startup phase on FTU tokamak Enrico Perelli Cippo Neutron analysis of fusion materials Giancarlo Maero Modelling of electron heating in a Penning-Malmberg trap by means of a chaotic map Fabio Lepreti Numerical simulations of magnetized non-neutral complex plasmas Lorenzo Figini Optimization of the ECH&CD functional capabilities in ITER Denise Perrone Temperature anisotropy of the solar-wind heavy ions in hybrid-Vlasov simulations

Photovoltaics A
Gabriele Salvinelli Stefano Ponzoni Angelo Bozzola Arianna Creti Profiling nanostructured interfaces and buried layers for photovoltaic applications by AngleResolved XPS Transient optical spectroscopy of varied MWCNT network morphologies for future photovoltaic applications Broadband light trapping in thin-film silicon solar cells: the case of partially disordered photonic structures InAs/GaAs and InAlGaAs/AlGaAs quantum dot based solar cells for intermediate band operation

Photonics A
Annamaria Zaltron Marco Lamperti Local study of photorefractive properties in processed lithium niobate by micro - beam coupling technique Detecting fluorescence emission in beta-Barium borate crystals

Angelica Simbula Gianluca Pozza Suad Abuzariba

Refractive index sensing with photonic crystal cavities Fabrication and Characterization of Zirconium - doped Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Optimum Values of the Bandwidth of the Optical and Electrical Filters for a System of High Mode Coupling Optical Fibers

SISN B
Alessandra Luchini Preparation and structural characterization of functionalized theranostic nanoparticles Lucia Capogna Magnetic and structural properties of Sr4Ru3O10 Alessio De Francesco Bayesian model selection and parameter estimation of inelastic neutron scattering spectra Roberto Senesi Inelastic neutron scattering determination of nuclear quantum effects Maria Teresa Neutron Activation Device for Elemental Analysis Caccamo Federica Migliardo Updating of the Resolution Elastic Neutron Scattering (RENS) Approach Gabriele Bicocchi Mineralogy and microporous structure of rocks from a natural CO2 reservoir Elisa Barzagli The phase composition of six ferrous Japanese arrows of the Edo period

Microfluidics
Silvia Varagnolo Sliding Droplets on Chemically Heterogeneous Surfaces

Sensors devices and applications B

Sabina Botti Massimo Calamai Massimo Fedel Federica Rigoni Cinzia Sada Rapid and ultrasensitive detection with surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy: next generation substrates enhancing properties. Fibre optic sensors based on Bragg grating Optical device for the improvement of positioning accuracy in large machine tools Exploring novel functionalities in Zinc Oxide-Carbon nanostructured architectures Integrated opto-microfluidics prototype on lithium niobate crystals for sensing applications

Soft matter and complexity A

Gabriele Cesare Sosso Santi Prestipino Santi Prestipino Ejikeme Nwosu LARGE SCALE Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Supercooled Liquid GeTe Cluster formation energy beyond classical nucleation theory Volumetric anomaly of softly repulsive particles in various confining geometries Gason: a new state of water

Photovoltaics B
Paola Castrucci Sthy Warren Flores Daorta Margherita Maiuri Regeneration of photovoltaic hybrid devices based on heterojunctions between carbon nanotubes and silicon. Role of dyes spectral properties in the optimization of Luminescent Solar Concentrators Ultrafast Energy Transfer in an Artificial Photosynthetic Antenna

Ultrafast phenomena A
Stefano Dal Conte Daniela Grando Giuseppe Sansone Mauro Nisoli Marcello Coreno Giancarlo Soavi Giovanni Onida Transient optical response of a Metal Dielectric Distributed Bragg Reflector Femtosecond laser inscription of embedded gratings in transparent media Non-linear excitation of Neon using the seeded-Free Electron Laser FERMI@ELETTRA Electron dynamics in an amino acid initiated by attosecond pulses CITIUS: the Italo-Slovenian Initiative for Ultrafast Spectroscopy Ultrafast Study of S1, S2 and S3 Excitons in (6,5) Carbon Nanotubes Multi-photon angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of Au(111) with 800nm femtosecond laser pulses

Salvatore Stagira Margherita Maiuri

Molecular orbital tomography of fragile molecules Explaining the Temperature Dependence of Spirilloxanthin's S* Signal by an Inhomogeneous Ground State Model

Photonics B
Paola Zuppella Eugenio Monticone Andrea Gasparotto Maria Guglielmina Pelizzo Maria Guglielmina Pelizzo Optical calibration of Vacuum Ultraviolet Instrumentation in laboratory High responsivity UV photodetectors based on ZnO thin films High temperature annealing of blue InGaN/GaN LEDs Optical coatings for solar physics application Development of multilayer mirrors for Free Electron Laser applications

Biomedical applications A
Tatjana Skrbic Maria Lepore Emilio Martines Predicting the Binding Affinities of Protein Complexes Raman microspetroscopy investigation of X-ray radiation induced effects in human mammary epithelias cells Applications of ionized gases in medicine: towards a treatment of eye-surface infections