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Overview

Maria Losurdo is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research spans primarily the fields of Materials Science and Engineering, with a focus on Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering as significant subfields.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics related to advanced materials, including:

  • Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
  • Phase-change materials and chalcogenides
  • Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
  • Solid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications

Maria Losurdo has contributed to scientific literature frequently publishing in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Optical Materials Express, iScience, Nanomaterials, and Journal of Applied Physics. Some recently published papers include:

  • Plasmonics beyond noble metals: Exploiting phase and compositional changes for manipulating plasmonic performance, 2020, Journal of Applied Physics
  • Roadmap for phase change materials in photonics and beyond, 2023, iScience
  • Interlaboratory study on Sb2S3 interplay between structure, dielectric function, and amorphous-to-crystalline phase change for photonics, 2022, iScience
  • Exploring the Thickness-Dependence of the Properties of Layered Gallium Sulfide, 2021, Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Nanoplasmonic Photothermal Heating and Near-Field Enhancements: A Comparative Survey of 19 Metals, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their career. Frequent co-authors include Yael Gutiérrez, Fernando Moreno, Maria M. Giangregorio, Gonzalo Santos, and Stefano Dicorato, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork and consistent partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Graphene CVD growth on copper and nickel: role of hydrogen in kinetics and structure

    Maria Losurdo;Maria Michela Giangregorio;Pio Capezzuto;Giovanni Bruno

  • UV Plasmonic Behavior of Various Metal Nanoparticles in the Near- and Far-Field Regimes: Geometry and Substrate Effects

    J. M. Sanz;D. Ortiz;R. Alcaraz de la Osa;J. M. Saiz

  • Spectroscopic ellipsometry and polarimetry for materials and systems analysis at the nanometer scale: state-of-the-art, potential, and perspectives

    Maria Losurdo;Michael Bergmair;Giovanni Bruno;Denis Cattelan

  • Ellipsometry at the nanoscale

    Maria Losurdo;Kurt Hingerl

  • Gallium plasmonics: deep subwavelength spectroscopic imaging of single and interacting gallium nanoparticles.

    Mark W Knight;Toon Coenen;Yang Yang;Benjamin J M Brenny

  • Thermally stable coexistence of liquid and solid phases in gallium nanoparticles

    Maria Losurdo;Alexandra Suvorova;Sergey Rubanov;Kurt Hingerl

  • The structural properties of CdS deposited by chemical bath deposition and pulsed direct current magnetron sputtering

    F. Lisco;P.M. Kaminski;A. Abbas;K. Bass

  • Optimization of ITO layers for applications in a-Si/c-Si heterojunction solar cells

    J. Plá;M. Tamasi;R. Rizzoli;M. Losurdo

  • Real-time plasmon resonance tuning of liquid Ga nanoparticles by in situ spectroscopic ellipsometry

    Pae C Wu;Tong-Ho Kim;April S. Brown;Maria Losurdo

  • Role of sapphire nitridation temperature on GaN growth by plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy: Part I. Impact of the nitridation chemistry on material characteristics

    Gon Namkoong;W. Alan Doolittle;April S. Brown;Maria Losurdo

  • Enhanced absorption in Au nanoparticles/a-Si:H/c-Si heterojunction solar cells exploiting Au surface plasmon resonance

    Maria Losurdo;Maria M. Giangregorio;Giuseppe V. Bianco;Alberto Sacchetti

  • Demonstration of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Tunable, Plasmonic Gallium Nanoparticles

    Pae C Wu;Christopher G. Khoury;Tong-Ho Kim;Yang Yang

  • Parametrization of optical properties of indium–tin–oxide thin films by spectroscopic ellipsometry: Substrate interfacial reactivity

    M. Losurdo;M. Giangregorio;P. Capezzuto;G. Bruno

  • Graphene as an Electron Shuttle for Silver Deoxidation: Removing a Key Barrier to Plasmonics and Metamaterials for SERS in the Visible

    Maria Losurdo;Iris Bergmair;Babak Dastmalchi;Tong-Ho Kim

  • Plasmonics beyond noble metals: Exploiting phase and compositional changes for manipulating plasmonic performance

    Yael Gutiérrez;April S. Brown;Fernando Moreno;Maria Losurdo

  • Nanostructure and optical properties of CeO2 thin films obtained by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition

    D. Barreca;G. Bruno;A. Gasparotto;M. Losurdo

  • Plasma cleaning and nitridation of sapphire (α-Al2O3) surfaces: New evidence from in situ real time ellipsometry

    M. Losurdo;P. Capezzuto;G. Bruno

  • Is There a ZnO Face Stable to Atomic Hydrogen

    Giovanni Bruno;Maria Michela Giangregorio;Graziella Malandrino;Pio Capezzuto

  • N2-H2 remote plasma nitridation for GaAs surface passivation

    Maria Losurdo;P. Capezzuto;G. Bruno;G. Perna

  • Er2O3 as a high-K dielectric candidate

    Maria Losurdo;Maria M Giangregorio;Giovanni Bruno;Dongxing Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Bruno
Giovanni Bruno National Research Council (CNR)
Henry O. Everitt
Henry O. Everitt Duke University
Eugenio Tondello
Eugenio Tondello University of Padua
Davide Barreca
Davide Barreca University of Padua
Ignazio L. Fragalà
Ignazio L. Fragalà University of Catania
Gianluca M. Farinola
Gianluca M. Farinola University of Bari Aldo Moro
Lidia Armelao
Lidia Armelao University of Padua
Eugene A. Irene
Eugene A. Irene University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eduardo Alves
Eduardo Alves Instituto Superior Técnico
Alberto Gasparotto
Alberto Gasparotto University of Padua

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