Vincenzo Grillo
CNR Senior reseacher
tel. +39 059 2055315
vincenzo.grillo
nano.cnr .it
Address
CNR NANO S3 @ Department of Physics
University of Modena & Reggio Emilia
via Campi 213A
I-41125 Modena
Running projects
Vincenzo Grillo is the Principal inestigator of the Qsort (FET-OPEN) project
http://www.qsort.eu/
financed for 3 Milion Euro
Research interests
1. Electron beam shaping and vortex beams
2. Spin and relativistic effects in Transmission electron microscopy
3. Electron ( quantum) optics.
4. Quantitative transmission electron microscopy by HRTEM and STEM-HAADF techniques.
5. Strain analysis on the nanoscale by advanced (S) TEM
Biographical sketch
Vincenzo Grillo is the head of the electron microscopy group and Research Director at CNR. He graduated in physics from the University of Genova (110/110 cum laude).
He received his PhD in electron microscopy at the University of Parma, while performing collaborative work with Erlangen university (Germany). In 2001 he was a visiting scientist at the Tokyo Institute of Technology working on cathodoluminescence in TEM. Since 2003 he has been working in the INFM (now absorbed by CNR) as a scientist in electron microscopy. He has developed innovative TEM-STEM methodology and published the first quantitative use of STEM with HAADF detector for chemical analyses. He is now working on beam shaping and innovative electron optics. He and his group are now among the world’s leading groups in this sector for their work on MEMS based optics, phase holograms, vortex beams, spin-orbit coupling in a TEM and Light-Electron interaction based beam shaping. In 2015 he was a visiting researcher at the University of Oregon. In 2016 he received the Humboldt Foundation’s BESSEL research award for his work on Beam shaping. Dr. Grillo is co-author of at least 100 articles and 5 book chapters and was invited or plenary speaker in at least 20 conferences. He is coordinator of 2 Eu project and advisor for a few important laboratories. The H-factor of his publications is 38.
Selected publications
V Grillo, TR Harvey, F Venturi, JS Pierce, R Balboni, F Bouchard ...
"Observation of nanoscale magnetic fields using twisted electron beams"
Nature communications 8 (2017), 689
V Grillo, AH Tavabi, F Venturi, H Larocque, R Balboni, GC Gazzadi, ...
"Measuring the orbital angular momentum spectrum of an electron beam"
Nature communications 8 (2017), 15536
J Harris, V Grillo et al. “Structured quantum waves” Nature Physics 11 (2015) 629
V Grillo, G C Gazzadi,; E Mafakheri, S. Frabboni, E Karimi, R W Boyd Holographic generation of highly twisted electron beams. Physical review letters 114 (2015) 034801
V Grillo, E. Karimi, et al “Generation of Nondiffracting Electron Bessel Beams” Physical Review X 4, 011013 (2014)