Search Results - "Ortolani, Michele"
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Room temperature operation of n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade lasers predicted by non-equilibrium Green's functions
Published in Applied physics letters (18-03-2019)“…n-type Ge/SiGe terahertz quantum cascade lasers are investigated using non-equilibrium Green's functions calculations. We compare the temperature dependence of…”
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Enhancing the Thermal Images of the Upper Scarp of the Poggio Baldi Landslide (Italy) by Physical Modeling and Image Analysis
Published in Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland) (01-02-2023)“…We present new methods for physical interpretation and mathematical treatment of the imaging contrast observed in thermal images of the rocky upper scarp of…”
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Tip-Enhanced Infrared Difference-Nanospectroscopy of the Proton Pump Activity of Bacteriorhodopsin in Single Purple Membrane Patches
Published in Nano letters (08-05-2019)“…Photosensitive proteins embedded in the cell membrane (about 5 nm thickness) act as photoactivated proton pumps, ion gates, enzymes, or more generally, as…”
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Thermoplasmonic Effect of Surface-Enhanced Infrared Absorption in Vertical Nanoantenna Arrays
Published in Journal of physical chemistry. C (21-06-2018)“…Thermoplasmonics is a method for increasing temperature remotely using focused visible or infrared laser beams interacting with plasmonic nanoparticles. Here,…”
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Infrared Nanospectroscopy of Individual Extracellular Microvesicles
Published in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (08-02-2021)“…Extracellular vesicles are membrane-delimited structures, involved in several inter-cellular communication processes, both physiological and pathological,…”
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THz intersubband electroluminescence from n-type Ge/SiGe quantum cascade structures
Published in Applied physics letters (08-03-2021)“…We report electroluminescence originating from L-valley transitions in n-type Ge/Si0.15Ge0.85 quantum cascade structures centered at 3.4 and 4.9 THz with a…”
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Out-of-Equilibrium Collective Oscillation as Phonon Condensation in a Model Protein
Published in Physical review. X (10-09-2018)“…We describe the activation of out-of-equilibrium collective oscillations of a macromolecule as a classical phonon condensation phenomenon. If a macromolecule…”
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Free electron harmonic generation in heavily doped semiconductors: the role of the materials properties
Published in EPJ applied metamaterials (2022)“…Heavily doped semiconductors have emerged as low-loss and tunable materials for plasmonics at mid-infrared frequencies. We analyze the nonlinear optical…”
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Asymmetric-coupled Ge/SiGe quantum wells for second harmonic generation at 7.1 THz in integrated waveguides: a theoretical study
Published in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) (29-04-2024)“…We present a theoretical investigation of guided second harmonic generation at THz frequencies in SiGe waveguides embedding n-type Ge/SiGe asymmetric coupled…”
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Antenna-enhanced mid-infrared detection of extracellular vesicles derived from human cancer cell cultures
Published in Journal of nanobiotechnology (13-12-2022)“…Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) are sub-micrometer lipid-bound particles released by most cell types. They are considered a promising source of cancer biomarkers…”
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Visualizing coherent phonon propagation in the 100 GHz range: A broadband picosecond acoustics approach
Published in Applied physics letters (03-01-2011)“…Building on a 1 kHz amplified Ti:sapphire laser source, we developed a novel pump-probe setup for broadband picosecond acoustics using a white-light continuum…”
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High-quality CMOS compatible n-type SiGe parabolic quantum wells for intersubband photonics at 2.5–5 THz
Published in Nanophotonics (Berlin, Germany) (29-04-2024)“…A parabolic potential that confines charge carriers along the growth direction of quantum wells semiconductor systems is characterized by a single resonance…”
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Cross-Correlation of THz Pulses from the Electron Storage Ring BESSY II
Published in Condensed matter (01-06-2020)“…Coherent synchrotron radiation from an electron storage ring is observed in the THz spectral range when the bunch length is shortened down to the sub-mm-range…”
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Intersubband Transition Engineering in the Conduction Band of Asymmetric Coupled Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells
Published in Crystals (Basel) (01-03-2020)“…n-type Ge/SiGe asymmetric coupled quantum wells represent the building block of a variety of nanoscale quantum devices, including recently proposed designs for…”
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Long intersubband relaxation times in n -type germanium quantum wells
Published in Applied physics letters (14-11-2011)“…We measured the non-radiative intersubband relaxation time in n-type modulation-doped Ge/SiGe multi-quantum wells of different thickness by means of degenerate…”
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Infrared nanospectroscopy study of the light-induced conformational changes of Channelrhodopsin
Published in EPJ Web of Conferences (2021)“…The channelrhodopsin-ChR2 is a light-sensitive transmembrane protein that acts as a selective ion channel between the intra- and the extra-cellular…”
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Superconductivity-Induced Transparency in Terahertz Metamaterials
Published in ACS photonics (16-07-2014)“…A plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency is activated and tuned in the terahertz (THz) range in asymmetric metamaterials fabricated…”
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Immediate functional loading of single implants: a multicenter study with 4 years of follow-up
Published in Journal of dental research, dental clinics, dental prospects (01-01-2018)“…In the current scientific literature there are only few studies on the immediate functional loading of single implants. The aim of the present present study…”
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Downconversion of terahertz radiation due to intrinsic hydrodynamic nonlinearity of a two-dimensional electron plasma
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (30-04-2015)“…We have measured the electric signal downconverted from a terahertz frequency by an unbiased high mobility two-dimensional electron-gas (2DEG) device. The 2DEG…”
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Modeling of second harmonic generation in hole-doped silicon-germanium quantum wells for mid-infrared sensing
Published in Optics express (26-11-2018)“…The development of Ge and SiGe chemical vapor deposition techniques on silicon wafers has enabled the integration of multi-quantum well structures in silicon…”
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