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Paola Prete is a research staff member at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Lecce, where she is responsible of the Epitaxial Growth Laboratory and the related research groups. She graduated in Physics from the University of Lecce in 1991 and gained the PhD degree in Solid State Physics from the University of Bari in 1996. She has been visiting staff scientist at Glyndwr University, Wrexham (UK) in 1996-1997, where she received a temporary professorship. In 1998 she joined the IMM-CNR research Institute in Lecce. She has been also contract professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Salento in Lecce during the years 1997-2011.
She has more than 30-years research experience in the field of materials science, focussing on the MOVPE and MBE growth and characterization of a) wide band-gap II-VI compound semiconductor heterostructures for applications to blue-green optoelectronics; b) III-V and II-VI compound semiconductors based nano-structures synthesized by bottom-up approaches for applications to nano-/opto-electronics, sensing and photovoltaics and, more recently, on c) graphene and graphene-like materials based van der Waals heterostructures for nano-electronics, photovoltaics and quantum science technology.
She is author of more than 130 articles published in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, 220 contributions to International Conferences, Workshops and 20 Invited presentations to International Conferences.
Among several projects, more recently, Dr. Prete is also scientific responsible for the CNR-IMM Unit for the Spoke 4 of the project “National Quantum Science and Technology Institute – NQSTI” (2022-2025) within the PNRR - Partenariato Esteso 04: Quantum Science and Technology.
She was awarded by the Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC) the Young Scientist Prize, in the year 2000.
Since 2011she is Founding Editor and Topic-Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed ISI-indexed open access journal, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology, SAGE Publications - 2021 Clarivate Impact Factor=3.280 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/nax.
Since December 2016 she is also an Associate Editor of the journal “Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials”, Elsevier, 2021 Clarivate Impact Factor = 4.077
Since March 2023 she is member of the Editorial Board of "Spectroscopy journal" MDPI.
She has been Guest Editor of several International review volumes, books and Conference Proceedings. Chair of several International and National Congresses, and Chair of the European School on Crystal Growth (ESCG 2015), organized in Bologna (Italy) in September 2015.
She is Advisory Committee member of several International Conferences in the field.
She has been Coordinator of the AIC Crystal Growth Section and Italian Councillor for the International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG) in 2012-2014 and member of the Crystal Growth Commission of AIC in the years 2006-2011 and 2015-2017.
She has got the National Scientific qualification as full professor in the Italian higher education system, in the call 2021/2023 (Ministerial Decree n. 553/2021 and 589/2021) for the disciplinary field of 02/B1 - Experimental physics of matter (validity 27/01/2022 - 27/01/2031).
Scientific Productions
Carbon [Pergamon], Volume: 206 Pages: 142-149
ACS Applied Nano Materials [American Chemical Society],
MRS Advances [Materials Research Society], Volume: 5 Issue: 64 Pages: 3565-3565
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS [AMER INST PHYSICS], Volume: 115 Issue: 21
Crystal Growth & Design [American Chemical Society], Volume: 19 Issue: 10 Pages: 5523-5530
Nanophotonics [De Gruyter], Volume: 8 Issue: 9 Pages: 1567-1577
Publications Repository-Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 18 Issue: 8 Pages: 4777-4784
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 18 Issue: 8 Pages: 4777-4784
Nano Letters [], Volume: 18 Pages: 4777-4784
Publications Repository-Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
Nano Letters [], Volume: 18 Pages: 4777-4784
Observation and Impact of a “Surface Skin Effect” on Lateral Growth of Nanocrystals
The Journal of Physical Chemistry C [American Chemical Society], Volume: 121 Issue: 27 Pages: 14845-14853
CdTe nanowires by Au-catalyzed metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 17 Issue: 7 Pages: 4075-4082
Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing [Pergamon],
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics [IOP Publishing], Volume: 49 Issue: 36 Pages: 364004
Solvent-free functionalization of carbon nanotube buckypaper with amines
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 357 Pages: 1355-1368
Subsurface Imaging of Coupled Carrier Transport in GaAs/AlGaAs Core–Shell Nanowires
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Pages: 75-79
CrystEngComm [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 17 Issue: 31 Pages: 5998-6005
Direct epitaxial CVD synthesis of tungsten disulfide on epitaxial and CVD graphene
RSC advances [Royal Society of Chemistry], Volume: 5 Issue: 119 Pages: 98700-98708
physica status solidi (b) [], Volume: 252 Issue: 1 Pages: 11-18
Subsurface Imaging of Coupled Carrier Transport in GaAs/AlGaAs Core–Shell Nanowires
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 15 Issue: 1 Pages: 75-79
MRS Online Proceedings Library [Springer International Publishing], Volume: 1707 Pages: 61-66
Applied Physics Letters [AIP Publishing LLC], Volume: 105 Issue: 17 Pages: 173101
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 313 Pages: 418-423
Applied surface science [North-Holland], Volume: 313 Pages: 418-423
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 90 Issue: 12 Pages: 125404
arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.1781 [],
Full text on our homepage at www. crt-journal. org
Cryst. Res. Technol [], Volume: 49 Issue: 8 Pages: A39-A44
physica status solidi (RRL)–Rapid Research Letters [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 7 Issue: 10 Pages: 874-877
Nano letters [American Chemical Society], Volume: 13 Issue: 9 Pages: 4152-4157
Probing Interface Band Edge Discontinuity in Single Core-shell Nanowire by Photocurrent Spectroscopy
APS March Meeting Abstracts [], Volume: 2013 Pages: Y6. 003
Large Light Emission Enhancement in GaAs/AlGaAs CoreShell Nanowires
International Conference on One-Dimensional Nanomaterials, ICON2013, Annecy, France [],
Photocurrent properties of single GaAs/AlGaAs core–shell nanowires with Schottky contacts
Nanotechnology [IOP Publishing], Volume: 23 Issue: 46 Pages: 465701
Tunable hot-electron transfer within a single core-shell nanowire
Physical review letters [American Physical Society], Volume: 107 Issue: 15 Pages: 156802
Crystal Research and Technology [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 46 Issue: 8 Pages: 795-800
Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 98 Issue: 26 Pages: 264103
Picosecond response times in GaAs/AlGaAs core/shell nanowire-based photodetectors
Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 98 Issue: 24 Pages: 241113
Polarization anisotropy of individual core/shell GaAs/AlGaAs nanowires by photocurrent spectroscopy
Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 98 Issue: 15 Pages: 153106
On optical properties of GaAs and GaAs/AlGaAs core-shell periodic nanowire arrays
Journal of Applied Physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 109 Issue: 6 Pages: 064314
On optical properties of GaAs and GaAs
Journal of applied physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 109 Issue: 6
MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 1350
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 1350
Inner composition, defects and morphology of AlGaAs nanowires grown by Au-catalyzed MOVPE
MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 1350
Single Al {sub x} Ga {sub 1-x} As nanowires probed by Raman spectroscopy
Physica Status Solidi B (Basic Research) [], Volume: 247
Single AlxGa1− xAs nanowires probed by Raman spectroscopy
physica status solidi (b) [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 247 Issue: 8 Pages: 2027-2032
Front Cover (Phys. Status Solidi B 8/2010)
physica status solidi (b) [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 247 Issue: 8
Front Cover (Phys. Status Solidi A 8/2010)
physica status solidi (a) [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 207 Issue: 8
Front Cover (Phys. Status Solidi B 8/2010)
physica status solidi (b) [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 247 Issue: 8
Single As-grown Al {sub x} Ga {sub 1-x} As nanowires probed by raman spectroscopy
Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft [],
On direct-writing methods for electrically contacting GaAs and Ge nanowire devices
Applied Physics Letters [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 96 Issue: 22 Pages: 223107
Tribomechanisms of pure electrodeposited Ni at ultra-fine and nanoscale level
Wear [Elsevier], Volume: 268 Issue: 11-12 Pages: 1490-1503
On-Chip Tungsten Oxide Nanowires Based Electrodes for Charge Injection
Intech, Croatia [],
MRS Online Proceedings Library [Springer International Publishing], Volume: 1206 Issue: 1 Pages: 113601-113606
Erratum: Formation of epitaxial gold nanoislands on (100) silicon [Phys. Rev. B 78, 035305 (2008)]
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 80 Issue: 4 Pages: 049905
Pulsed plasma ion source to create Si nanocrystals in SiO 2 substrates
Applied Surface Science [North-Holland], Volume: 255 Issue: 10 Pages: 5401-5404
Luminescence of GaAs/AlGaAs core–shell nanowires grown by MOVPE using tertiarybutylarsine
Journal of Crystal Growth [North-Holland], Volume: 310 Issue: 23 Pages: 5114-5118
Formation of epitaxial gold nanoislands on (100) silicon
Physical Review B [American Physical Society], Volume: 78 Issue: 3 Pages: 035305
Applied Physics A [Springer-Verlag], Volume: 91 Issue: 1 Pages: 23-28
Applied Physics A [Springer-Verlag], Volume: 88 Issue: 1 Pages: 21-26
Characterization of ZnTe homo-epitaxial layers by means of synchrotron X-ray topography
Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials [], Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Pages: 1273-1276
Nuclear Physics B-Proceedings Supplements [North-Holland], Volume: 166 Pages: 262-265
Optical Phonon Modes in GaAs Nanowires
APS March Meeting Abstracts [], Pages: L43. 011
Microscopical Study of Au Nanocrystals Self-Assembled on (100) Si and SiO2/(100) Si Substrates
MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS [Warrendale, Pa.; Materials Research Society; 1999], Volume: 959 Pages: 12
GaAs nanowires grown by Au-catalyst-assisted MOVPE using tertiarybutylarsine as group-V precursor
Journal of crystal growth [North-Holland], Volume: 298 Pages: 620-624
Characterization of ZnTe homo-epitaxial layers by means of synchrotron X-ray topography
Journal of optoelectronics and advanced materials [INOE 2000], Volume: 9 Issue: 5 Pages: 1273-1276
Journal of applied physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 100 Issue: 9 Pages: 094305
Assessment of heteroepitaxial ZnSe layers on GaAs by means of grazing incident X-ray topography
Physica B: Condensed Matter [North-Holland], Volume: 376 Pages: 782-785
MOVPE growth optimisation of CdTe epitaxial layers for p‐i‐n diode X‐ray detector fabrication
physica status solidi c [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 3 Issue: 4 Pages: 754-757
Microscopical Study of Au Nanocrystals Self-Assembled on (100) Si and SiO2/(100) Si Substrates
MRS Online Proceedings Library Archive [Cambridge University Press], Volume: 959
Crystal Research and Technology: Journal of Experimental and Industrial Crystallography [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 40 Issue: 10‐11 Pages: 1011-1017
Crystal Research and Technology: Journal of Experimental and Industrial Crystallography [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 40 Issue: 10‐11 Pages: 1018-1022
Homoepitaxy of ZnTe on (100) oriented substrates: Technology issues and MOVPE growth aspects
Crystal Research and Technology: Journal of Experimental and Industrial Crystallography [WILEY‐VCH Verlag], Volume: 40 Issue: 10‐11 Pages: 1003-1010
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B [American Chemical Society], Volume: 109 Issue: 37 Pages: 17347-17349
Journal of applied physics [American Institute of Physics], Volume: 97 Issue: 8 Pages: 083540
Journal of Crystal Growth [North-Holland], Volume: 275 Issue: 1-2 Pages: e1189-e1195
Correlating spectroscopic and nanoscale structural properties in quantum well tubes III-V nanowires
Low-Dimensional Materials and Devices 2021 [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 11800 Pages: 118000R
A Core-Shell Nanowire Platform for Silicon Photonics
Laser Science [Optical Society of America], Pages: JW4A. 45
Electro-Optically Sampled Time Response of Core-Shell Nanowires
Frontiers in Optics [Optical Society of America], Pages: FTh2D. 2
Au-Catalyst Assisted MOVPE Growth of CdTe Nanowires for Photovoltaic Applications
AISEM Annual Conference on Sensors and Microsystems [Springer, Cham], Pages: 279-288
Lasing from As Grown GaAs-AlGaAs Core-Shell Nanowires up to Room Temperature
Laser Science [Optical Society of America], Pages: LTh2I. 4
Low-Dimensional Materials and Devices [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 9553 Pages: 955306
2015 1st Workshop on Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOFIM) [IEEE], Pages: 155-158
Surface-mediated electrical transport in single GaAs nanowires
2015 1st Workshop on Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOFIM) [IEEE], Pages: 136-140
Surface-mediated electrical transport in single GaAs nanowires
2015 1st Workshop on Nanotechnology in Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOFIM) [IEEE], Pages: 136-140
GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowire arrays: correlating MOVPE growth and luminescence properties
Nanoepitaxy: Materials and Devices VI [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 9174 Pages: 91740P
Morphology and microstructure of core-shell GaAs/Ga
2014 MRS Spring Meeting [],
Photoconduction Properties of Single GaAs/AlGaAs Core-Shell Nanowires
Frontiers in Optics [Optical Society of America], Pages: FTh4D. 2
On Dimensional Dependence of Interaction of Light and Nano Structures
Frontiers in Optics [Optical Society of America], Pages: FTh3C. 1
Quantum Sensing and Nanophotonic Devices IX [International Society for Optics and Photonics], Volume: 8268 Pages: 82680Q
On Absorption Properties of GaAs/AlGaAs Nanowire Arrays
Frontiers in Optics [Optical Society of America], Pages: JWA40
2007 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interface [IEEE], Pages: 1-5
Phonon Confinement Effect in III-V Nanowires
[BoD–Books on Demand],
Phonon Confinement Effect in III-V Nanowires
Nanowires [Intech], Pages: 255-272
Abstracts of 14th International Conference on Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (ICMOVPE-XIV) [University of Metz], Pages: 197-198
Au-catalyst assisted MOVPE of GaAs nanowires using tertiarybuthylarsine as V-group precursor
Abstracts of 13rd Intern. Conf. on Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (ICMOVPE-XIII) [Miyazaki University], Pages: 247-248
MOVPE growth and characterisation of CdTe layers on detector-grade (111) B-CdTe crystals
Abstracts of 13th Int. Conf. on Metal Organic Vapour Phase Epitaxy [Miyazaki University], Pages: 295-296