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Overview

Roberto Paiella is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering, Physics and Astronomy, and Materials Science. Within these areas, Paiella has focused on subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biophysics.

Their main research topics include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Photonic and Optical Devices, Optical Wireless Communication Technologies, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics, and Digital Holography and Microscopy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paiella demonstrate activity across various high-impact journals and conferences. These papers include:

  • Plasmonic ommatidia for lensless compound-eye vision, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Graphene plasmonic devices for terahertz optoelectronics, 2020, Nanophotonics
  • Geometrically Tunable Beamed Light Emission from a Quantum-Dot Ensemble Near a Gradient Metasurface, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials
  • Asymmetric metasurface photodetectors for single-shot quantitative phase imaging, 2023, Nanophotonics
  • Optical spatial filtering with plasmonic directional image sensors, 2022, Optics Express

Frequent collaborators have included Lei Tian, Yuyu Li, Leonard C. Kogos, Yunzhe Li, and Jianing Liu. The partnership with these co-authors highlights interdisciplinary work and a network of scientific cooperation over numerous publications.

In terms of publishing venues, Paiella often disseminates findings in the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Nanophotonics, Optics Letters, Optics Express, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Quantum cascade lasers: ultrahigh-speed operation, optical wireless communication, narrow linewidth, and far-infrared emission

    F. Capasso;R. Paiella;R. Martini;R. Colombelli

  • Direct-bandgap light-emitting germanium in tensilely strained nanomembranes

    Jose R. Sánchez-Pérez;Cicek Boztug;Feng Chen;Faisal F. Sudradjat

  • New frontiers in quantum cascade lasers and applications

    F. Capasso;C. Gmachl;R. Paiella;A. Tredicucci

  • Optoelectronic device physics and technology of nitride semiconductors from the UV to the terahertz.

    Theodore D Moustakas;Roberto Paiella

  • Self-Mode-Locking of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Giant Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities

    Roberto Paiella;Federico Capasso;Claire Gmachl;Deborah L. Sivco

  • High-frequency modulation without the relaxation oscillation resonance in quantum cascade lasers

    Roberto Paiella;Rainer Martini;Federico Capasso;Claire Gmachl

  • Intersubband Transitions In Quantum Structures

    Roberto Paiella

  • Free-space optical transmission of multimedia satellite data streams using mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

    R. Martini;C. Bethea;F. Capasso;C. Gmachl

  • Monte Carlo study of GaN versus GaAs terahertz quantum cascade structures

    Enrico Bellotti;Kristina Driscoll;Theodore D. Moustakas;Roberto Paiella

  • Monte Carlo simulation of terahertz quantum cascade laser structures based on wide-bandgap semiconductors

    Enrico Bellotti;Kristina Driscoll;Theodore D. Moustakas;Roberto Paiella

  • Strained-Germanium Nanostructures for Infrared Photonics

    Cicek Boztug;José R. Sánchez-Pérez;Francesca Cavallo;Max G. Lagally

  • High-speed modulation and free-space optical audio/video transmission using quantum cascade lasers

    R. Martini;Claire F. Gmachl;J. Falciglia;F. G. Curti

  • Ultrafast all-optical switching with low saturation energy via intersubband transitions in GaN/AlN quantum-well waveguides

    Yan Li;Anirban Bhattacharyya;Christos Thomidis;Theodore D. Moustakas

  • Enhanced near-green light emission from InGaN quantum wells by use of tunable plasmonic resonances in silver nanoparticle arrays.

    John Henson;Emmanouil Dimakis;Jeff DiMaria;Rui Li

  • High-speed digital data transmission using mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

    R. Martini;R. Paiella;C. Gmachl;F. Capasso

  • Graphene plasmonic devices for terahertz optoelectronics

    Yuyu Li;Khwanchai Tantiwanichapan;Anna K. Swan;Roberto Paiella

  • Plasmonic ommatidia for lensless compound-eye vision.

    Leonard C. Kogos;Yunzhe Li;Jianing Liu;Yuyu Li

  • Tensilely strained germanium nanomembranes as infrared optical gain media.

    C. Boztug;J. R. Sánchez‐Pérez;F. F. Sudradjat;RB Jacobson

  • Tunable surface plasmons in coupled metallo-dielectric multiple layers for light-emission efficiency enhancement

    Roberto Paiella

  • Far-infrared intersubband photodetectors based on double-step III-nitride quantum wells

    Faisal F. Sudradjat;Wei Zhang;Jeffrey Woodward;Habibe Durmaz

  • Monolithic active mode locking of quantum cascade lasers

    Roberto Paiella;Federico Capasso;Claire Gmachl;Harold Y. Hwang

  • Influence of nanoparticle height on plasmonic resonance wavelength and electromagnetic field enhancement in two-dimensional arrays

    John Henson;Jeff DiMaria;Roberto Paiella

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodore D. Moustakas
Theodore D. Moustakas Boston University
Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Deborah L. Sivco
Deborah L. Sivco Princeton University
Max G. Lagally
Max G. Lagally University of Wisconsin–Madison
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University
Harold Y. Hwang
Harold Y. Hwang Stanford University
Alfred Y. Cho
Alfred Y. Cho Nokia (United States)
Albert L. Hutchinson
Albert L. Hutchinson Nokia (United States)
H. C. Liu
H. C. Liu Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Luca Dal Negro
Luca Dal Negro Boston University

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