Research interests
- Defect-engineering in 2D materials
- Quantum sources in 2D materials
- 2D materials-based optoelectronics devices
- 2D materials-based sensor devices
- Miniaturized quantum cascade laser
- Raman spectroscopy
Biographical sketch
- 2018 – present: permanent research scientist (Ricercatore di III livello) at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy).
- October 2018: visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute for the Solid State Research, Stuttgart (Germany) in the group of Dr. J. Smet.
- 2017 – 2018: Fix-term research scientist at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy) in the group of Prof. A. Tredicucci.
- 2013 – 2017: Post-doctoral fellow at Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Pisa (Italy) in the group of Prof. A. Tredicucci.
- 2011 September - December: visiting PhD student at McMaster University, (Hamilton, Canada), in the group of Prof. H. Haugen and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) (Montreal, Canada) in the group of Prof. R. Morandotti.
- 2009 – 2013: PhD student in Physics at Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy) in the group of Prof. L. Pavesi.
- 2009: Master Sc. in Physics and Astrophysics at University of Florence with a thesis carried out in the group of Prof. G.C. Righini
Selected publications
1. F. Bianco, V. Miseikis, D. Perenzoni, C. Coletti, M. Perenzoni, A. Tredicucci, "Antenna-coupled graphene field-effect transistors as a terahertz imaging array", IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 70-78 (2021).
2. F. Vischi, M. Carrega, A. Braggio, F. Paolucci, F. Bianco, S. Roddaro, and F. Giazotto, "Electron Cooling with Graphene-Insulator-Superconductor Tunnel Junctions for Applications in Fast Bolometry", Phys. Rev. Applied 13, 054006 (2020).
3. A. Klimont, A. Ottomaniello, R. Degl’Innocenti, L. Masini, F. Bianco, Y. Wu, Y. D. Shah, Y. Ren, D. S. Jessop, A. Tredicucci, H. E. Beere, and D. A. Ritchie, "Line-defect photonic crystal terahertz quantum cascade laser", Journal of Applied Physics 126, 153104 (2019).
4. A. Rossi, D. Spirito, F. Bianco, S. Forti, F. Fabbri, H. Büch, A. Tredicucci, R. Krahne and C. Coletti, "Patterned tungsten disulfide/graphene heterostructures for efficient multifunctional optoelectronic devices", Nanoscale 10, 4332-4338 (2018).
5. S. Zanotto*, F. Bianco*, V. Miseikis, D. Convertino, C. Coletti, and A. Tredicucci, "Coherent absorption of light by graphene and other optically conducting surfaces in realistic on-substrate configurations", APL Photonics 2, 016101 (2017) (* both authors equally contributed to the work)
6. F. Bianco, D. Perenzoni, D. Convertino, S. L. De Bonis, D. Spirito, M. Perenzoni, C. Coletti, M. S. Vitiello, and A. Tredicucci, “Terahertz detection by epitaxial-graphene field-effect-transistors on silicon carbide”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 131104 (2015).
7. F. Bianco, Ji-Hua Xu, F. Castellano, M. S. Vitiello, A. Tredicucci, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, “THz saturable absorption in turbostratic multilayer graphene on silicon carbide”, Opt. Express 23 (9), 11632-11640 (2015).