Catalogo dei Corsi di studio

Marco Centini, Ph.D.
Born: 03/07/1974, Fermo, Italy
Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for engineering, (SBAI). SAPIENZA Università di Roma Via A. Scarpa 16, 00161 Roma Italy
Telephone(work): +39 (06) 4991-6535
Email: marco.centini@uniroma1.it

Professional Experience
03/18-present: Associate Professor Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for engineering, (SBAI). SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
11/10- 02/18: Researcher Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for engineering, (SBAI). SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy
10/09- 09/10: Post Doc research fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Theoretical study on second harmonic generation in metallic nanostructures 1-year project
10/07- 09/09: Post Doc research fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Photonic devices for nonlinear optical frequency conversion in photonic crystals 2-year project
9/05- 8/07: Post Doc research Fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Photonic Crystals for nonlinear optics applications 2-year extended
9/03- 8/05: Post Doc research Fellowship Department of Energetics SAPIENZA Università di Roma, Italy Photonic Crystals for nonlinear optics applications 2-year project

Other appointments
01/07/19 - 31/07/19 Visiting researcher Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, MONTPELLIER, France
08/10-02/11 Visiting researcher Université de Montpellier, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb and CNRS, Montpellier, France
10/99-07/02 Visiting scholar Army Missile Command Weapons Sciences Directorate Redstone Arsenal, AL (USA)
10/99-07/02 Visiting scholar (during Ph.D.) Army Missile Command Weapons Sciences Directorate Redstone Arsenal, AL Supervisor: Dr. Michael Scalora

Education
2018 - Habilitation to Full professorship - Experimental condensed matter physics (S.C. 02/B1) MIUR, Italian Ministry of University and Research
2012 - Habilitation to Associate professorship - Experimental condensed matter physics (S.C. 02/B1) MIUR, Italian Ministry of University and Research
2003 - Ph.D. in Applied Electromagnetism Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
1999 - Laurea degree (110/110) - Physics Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Teaching experience
2018-present; Modern Physics for nanotechnology: Elements of Quantum Mechanics, Nanotechnology Engineering, Industrial and Civil engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(6 credits)
2011-present; Physics II (Electromagnetism and Optics), Industrial and Civil engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(9 credits)
2009-2011; Physics I (Mechanics and Thermodynamics), engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(9 credits)
2006-2009; Physics Laboratory, engineering faculty at SAPIENZA University of Rome.(6 credits)

Research activities
- Enhancement of second harmonic generation in photonic crystals, disordered structures and metallo-dielectric nanostructures.
- Transit time and dispersion of optical pulses propagating through finite size 1D photonic crystals, numerical and experimental study.
- Theoretical and numerical models for spontaneous parametric down conversion in photonic crystals, optimization of generation of twin photons in periodic and quasi-periodic structures.
- Numerical models for simulation of linear and nonlinear propagation of optical pulses in dielectric and metallodielectric photonic crystals.
- Theoretical and numerical models for tailored second harmonic generation and nonlinear interactions in metallic nanostructures and nanoantennas.
- Experimental data interpretation and analysis on second harmonic circular dichroism in plasmonic chiral nanostructures and metasurfaces.
- Numerical and experimental studies on the extrinsic chirality response of self-assembled hybrid metallodielectric structures.
- Theoretical and numerical study of near- and far-field thermal radiation from nanostructured objects. - Control of the emissivity and of the near field heat transfer between coupled nanoantennas of arbitrary shapes.
- Numerical study and design of metallo-dielectric nanostructured devices and metamaterials for IR applications, selective absorption/emission, including the control of IR radiation polarization and/or temporal and spatial coherence.
- Near field heat transfer, taming and management of IR emissivity.

Patents
2002 - Photonic Signal Reflectivity and Transmissivity Control Using a Photonic Band Gap Structure, United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington D.C. patent # 6,414,780. Inventors: G. D Aguanno, M. Centini, C. Sibilia, M. Scalora, M. Bloemer.
2003 - Efficient Non-Linear Phase Shifting Using a Photonic Band-Gap Structure, United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington D.C., patent # 6,538,794 Inventors: G. D Aguanno, M. Centini, C. Sibilia, M. Scalora, M. Bloemer.
2004 - Photonic signal frequency up and down-conversion using a photonic band gap structure, United States Patent and Trademark Office in Washington D.C. patent # 6,744,552. Inventors: M. Scalora, M. Bloemer, M. Centini, G. D Aguanno.
2010 - (WO/2010/058432): Optical Logic Gate - PCT/IT2008/000724. Authors: BOVINO Fabio Antonio, GIARDINA Maurizio, LARCIPRETE Maria Cristina, CENTINI Marco, BELARDINI Alessandro, SIBILIA Concita, BERTOLOTTI Mario, PASSASEO Adriana, TASCO Vittorianna, CINGOLANI Roberto

Invited oral contributions to national and international conferences
2002- SPIE, Photonic West 2002, Jan. 2002 San Jose CA USA. Nonlinear Pulse propagation in photonic crystals
2005 - 14th INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP (Kyoto-Japan, July 4-8, 2005) Twin photon generation by spontaneous parametric down-conversion in 1D photonic crystals
2007 - The OSA Topical conference on NANOPHOTONICS, Hangzhou (China), June 18-21, 2007, Parametric generation of twin photons in finite size photonic crystals
2012 - Nanoforum, VIII edizione, Roma, 24-26 Settembre 2012, LA NANOFOTONICA E LE SUE APPLICAZIONI , invited Tutorial presentation.
2015 - META 15, the 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, City College of New York, New York City, NY, USA August 4, 2015 August 7, 2015 Optical characterization of selfassembled chiral meta and nano surfaces by nonlinear second harmonic generation
2017 - PIERS, Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, St Petersburg, Russia, 22-25 May, 2017, Nano Antenna Arrays for Tailored Infrared Thermal Emission

Summary of Scientific Achievements
H-index:30; Total publications: 204 (104 peer reviewed journals); Total citations: 3147, Source: Scopus, 10/03/2022.

Funding Information [grants as PI-principal investigator or I-investigator]
2003-2008 Low noise single photon sources in the near infrared . Progetto 667 di Rep. Del 21/11/2003 financed by the Italian Ministry of Defence. PI: Prof. C. Sibilia. I investigator Responsible of work packages on theoretical and numerical models for npnlinear parametric down conversion. 334686,82
2005-2006 Pulse Propagation, Dispersion, and Energy in magnetically active Materials European Research Office of the U.S. Army, London, UK. Research grant: N62558-05-P-0410 PI-principal investigator 16000 $
2003-2008 "Miniaturized all optical delay line in the near infrared", 665 di Rep. Del 21/11/2003 financed by the Italian Ministry of Defence. PI: Prof. F. Michelotti. I investigator: Responsible of work packages on numerical simulations. 205800,52
2006 AlGaAs/AlOx Random Structures as Efficient Second Harmonic Generators Phoremost, european network of excellence, short term project ( 6 months) PI-principal investigator 20000
2008 Optimization of Enhanced Second Harmonic Generation in sub wavelength patterned metallic screen on dielectric substrates . US Army RDECOM ACQ CTR - W911NF, DURHAM NC 2770 Research Grant: W911NF-08-1-0068. PI-principal investigator 12000 $
2009-2015 Negative index materials in the visible range and sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Defence. PI: Prof. C. Sibilia. Cod. 1196 Del 23/12/2009 I investigator, Responsible of work packages on numerical simulation of optical properties of nanostructured materials. 726068,32
2011 Progetti di Ateneo 2011, Sapienza Università di Roma. "Nonlinear optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures" PI-principal investigator 8000
2013 Progetti di Ateneo 2013, Sapienza Università di Roma. Anomalous reflection in nonlinear plasmonic structures PI-principal investigator 7000
2014 Progetti di Ateneo 2014, Sapienza Università di Roma. Hybrid plasmonic nanostructures for infrared thermal emission control PI-principal investigator 9000
2016 Progetti di Ateneo 2016, Sapienza Università di Roma. Control of radiative heat transfer in nanostructured systems with based on phase-change materials , PI-principal investigator 10000
2018 Progetti di Ateneo 2018, Sapienza Università di Roma. Gold nanoantennas on VO2 based layered structures for ultrafast control and enhancement of light emission , PI-principal investigator 12000
2020 Progetti di Ateneo 2020, Sapienza Università di Roma. Eccitazione e controllo in temperatura di polaritoni fononici di superficie in mezzi bidimensionali su film di Diossido di Vanadio , PI-principal investigator 14000

International Teaching activity
2006 University of Nottingham (UK) Lecturer: COST P11 training school on Modelling and Simulation Techniques for Linear, Nonlinear and Active Photonic Crystals , June 19-22 2006
2007 ICTP, Trieste (Italy) Lecturer: Preparatory School to the Winter College on Fibre Optics, Fibre Lasers and Sensors, February 5-9 2007
2008 ICTP, Trieste (Italy) Lecturer: Winter College on Micro and Nano Photonics for Life Sciences, February 11-22 2008
2012 ICTP, Trieste (Italy) Lecturer: Winter College on Optics: Advances in Nano-Optics and Plasmonics 6-17 February 2012
Pubblicazioni selezionate: 20
Abedini Dereshgi, Sina, Larciprete, Maria Cristina, Centini, Marco, Murthy, Akshay A., Tang, Kechao, Wu, Junqiao, Dravid, Vinayak P., Aydin, Koray (2021). Tuning of optical phonons in -MoO3 VO2 multilayers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, vol. 13, p. 48981-48987, ISSN: 1944-8244, doi: 10.1021/acsami.1c12320
Centini M., Larciprete M. C., Li Voti R., Bertolotti M., Sibilia C., Antezza M. (2020). Hybrid thermal Yagi-Uda nanoantennas for directional and narrow band long-wavelength IR radiation sources. OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 28, p. 19338-19348, ISSN: 1094-4087, doi: 10.1364/OE.389837
Larciprete M. C., Centini M., Paoloni S., Dereshgi S. A., Tang K., Wu J., Aydin K. (2020). Effect of heating/cooling dynamics in the hysteresis loop and tunable IR emissivity of VO2 thin films. OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 28, p. 39203-39215, ISSN: 1094-4087, doi: 10.1364/OE.411556
Larciprete M. C., Centini M., Paoloni S., Fratoddi I., Dereshgi S. A., Tang K., Wu J., Aydin K. (2020). Adaptive tuning of infrared emission using VO2 thin films. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 10, ISSN: 2045-2322, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68334-2
Osewski P., Belardini A., Centini M., Valagiannopoulos C., Leahu G., Li Voti R., Tomczyk M., Alu A., Pawlak D. A., Sibilia C. (2020). New Self-Organization Route to Tunable Narrowband Optical Filters and Polarizers Demonstrated with ZnO ZnWO4 Eutectic Composite. ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, vol. 8, ISSN: 2195-1071, doi: 10.1002/adom.201901617
Cesarini G., Leahu G., Belardini A., Centini M., Li Voti R., Sibilia C. (2019). Quantitative evaluation of emission properties and thermal hysteresis in the mid-infrared for a single thin film of vanadium dioxide on a silicon substrate. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES, vol. 146, ISSN: 1290-0729, doi: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.106061
E. Petronijevic, M. Centini, T. Cesca, G. Mattei, F. A. Bovino, C. Sibilia (2019). Control of Au nanoantenna emission enhancement of magnetic dipolar emitters by means of VO2 phase change layers. OPTICS EXPRESS, ISSN: 1094-4087
Larciprete M. C., Paoloni S., Orazi N., Mercuri F., Orth M., Gloy Y., Centini M., Li Voti R., Sibilia C. (2019). Infrared emissivity characterization of carbon nanotubes dispersed poly(ethylene terephthalate) fibers. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCES, vol. 146, ISSN: 1290-0729, doi: 10.1016/j.ijthermalsci.2019.106109
Larciprete, Maria Cristina, Centini, Marco, Li Voti, Roberto, Sibilia, Concita (2019). Asymmetric and tunable infrared emission in metamaterials composed by oriented air voids into a polar material. JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS, vol. 66, p. 299-303, ISSN: 0950-0340, doi: 10.1080/09500340.2018.1520933
Collins, Joel T., Kuppe, Christian, Hooper, David C., Sibilia, Concita, Centini, Marco, Valev, Ventsislav K. (2017). Chirality and Chiroptical Effects in Metal Nanostructures: Fundamentals and Current Trends. ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, vol. 5, ISSN: 2195-1071, doi: 10.1002/adom.201700182
LEAHU, GRIGORE, PETRONIJEVIC, EMILIJA, BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, CENTINI, MARCO, SIBILIA, Concetta, Hakkarainen, Teemu, Koivusalo, Eero, Rizzo Piton, Marcelo, Suomalainen, Soile, Guina, Mircea (2017). Evidence of Optical Circular Dichroism in GaAs-Based Nanowires Partially Covered with Gold. ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, vol. 2017, ISSN: 2195-1071, doi: 10.1002/adom.201601063
Osewski, Pawel, BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, PETRONIJEVIC, EMILIJA, CENTINI, MARCO, LEAHU, GRIGORE, Diduszko, Ryszard, Pawlak, Dorota A, SIBILIA, Concetta (2017). Self-Phase-Matched Second-Harmonic and White-Light Generation in a Biaxial Zinc Tungstate Single Crystal. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 7, ISSN: 2045-2322, doi: 10.1038/srep45247
BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, CENTINI, MARCO, LEAHU, GRIGORE, Hooper, David C., LI VOTI, Roberto, FAZIO, Eugenio, Haus, Joseph W., Sarangan, Andrew, Valev, Ventsislav K., SIBILIA, Concetta (2016). Chiral light intrinsically couples to extrinsic/pseudo-chiral metasurfaces made of tilted gold nanowires. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, vol. 6, p. 31796, ISSN: 2045-2322, doi: 10.1038/srep31796
CENTINI, MARCO, BENEDETTI, ALESSIO, LARCIPRETE, Maria Cristina, BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, LI VOTI, Roberto, BERTOLOTTI, Mario, SIBILIA, Concetta (2015). Midinfrared thermal emission properties of finite arrays of gold dipole nanoantennas. PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS, vol. 92, ISSN: 1098-0121, doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.205411
BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, BENEDETTI, ALESSIO, CENTINI, MARCO, LEAHU, GRIGORE, Francesco Mura, Simona Sennato, SIBILIA, Concetta, Valentina Robbiano, Maria Caterina Giordano, Christian Martella, Davide Comoretto, Francesco Buatier De Mongeot (2014). Second harmonic generation circular dichroism from self-ordered hybrid plasmonic-photonic nanosurfaces. ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS, vol. 2, p. 208-213, ISSN: 2195-1071, doi: 10.1002/adom.201300385
BENEDETTI, ALESSIO, BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, VEROLI, ANDREA, CENTINI, MARCO, SIBILIA, Concetta (2014). Numerical tailoring of linear response from plasmonicnano-resonators grown on a layer of polystyrene spheres. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS, vol. 116, p. 164312, ISSN: 0021-8979, doi: 10.1063/1.4900992
LARCIPRETE, Maria Cristina, CENTINI, MARCO, LI VOTI, Roberto, BERTOLOTTI, Mario, SIBILIA, Concetta (2014). Polarization insensitive infrared absorbing behaviour of one-dimensional multilayer stack: a fractal approach. OPTICS EXPRESS, vol. 22, p. A1547-A1552, ISSN: 1094-4087, doi: 10.1364/OE.22.0A1547
BELARDINI, ALESSANDRO, LEAHU, GRIGORE, LARCIPRETE, Maria Cristina, CENTINI, MARCO, SIBILIA, Concetta, C. Martella, M. Giordano, D. Chiappe, Francesco Buatier De Mongeot (2013). Anomalous refraction of self assembled gold nanowires studied by the generalized Snell's law. PHOTONICS LETTERS OF POLAND, vol. 5, p. 45-47, ISSN: 2080-2242, doi: 10.4302/plp.2013.2.04
CENTINI, MARCO, BENEDETTI, ALESSIO (2013). Second Harmonic Generation in Plasmonic Nanoresonators. JOURNAL OF NANOPHOTONICS, vol. 7, p. 078501-078501-4, ISSN: 1934-2608, doi: 10.1117/1.jnp.7.078501
Ventsislav K. Valev, 1. Wim Libaers, Urs Zywietz, Xuezhi Zheng, CENTINI, MARCO, Nils Pfullmann, Lars O. Herrmann, Carsten Reinhardt, Vladimir Volskiy, Alejandro V. Silhanek, SIBILIA, Concetta, A. E. Vandenbosch Guy, V. Moshchalkov Victor, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Verbiest Thierry (2013). Nanostripe length dependence of plasmon-induced material deformations. OPTICS LETTERS, vol. 38, p. 2256-2258, ISSN: 0146-9592, doi: 10.1364/ol.38.002256