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Vincenzo Fiorentini

Vincenzo Fiorentini

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Materials Science

D-Index
56
Citations
17411
World Ranking
8127
National Ranking
137

Overview

Vincenzo Fiorentini is affiliated with the University of Cagliari in Italy. Their research resides primarily within the field of Materials Science, with a particular focus on Materials Chemistry, General Health Professions, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The scientist's recent published papers include:

  • Efficient thermoelectricity in Sr2Nb2O7 with energy-dependent relaxation times, 2020, Physical Review Materials
  • Giant thermoelectric figure of merit in multivalley high-complexity-factor LaSO, 2021, Physical Review Materials
  • A three-order-parameter bistable magnetoelectric multiferroic metal, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Vanadium-doped HfO$_2$, multiferroic uncompromised, 2025, arXiv (Cornell University)

Fiorentini frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Physical Review Materials
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has collaborated with several coauthors, including:

  • Giulio Casu
  • Francesco Ricci
  • Andrea Bosin
  • Roberta Farris
  • Diana Dahliah

Their main research topics focus on advanced thermoelectric materials and devices, electronic and structural properties of oxides, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, hermeneutics and narrative identity, aging, elder care and social issues, and health, medicine and society.

Best Publications

  • Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric constants of III-V nitrides

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini;David Vanderbilt

  • Pyroelectric properties of Al(In)GaN/GaN hetero- and quantum well structures

    O Ambacher;J Majewski;C Miskys;A Link

  • Evidence for nonlinear macroscopic polarization in III-V nitride alloy heterostructures

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Fabio Bernardini;Oliver Ambacher

  • Effects of macroscopic polarization in III-V nitride multiple quantum wells

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Vincenzo Fiorentini;Fabio Bernardini;Fabio Della Sala;Aldo Di Carlo

  • First-principles prediction of structure, energetics, formation enthalpy, elastic constants, polarization, and piezoelectric constants of AlN, GaN, and InN: Comparison of local and gradient-corrected density-functional theory

    Agostino Zoroddu;Fabio Bernardini;Paolo Ruggerone;Vincenzo Fiorentini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • MACROSCOPIC POLARIZATION AND BAND OFFSETS AT NITRIDE HETEROJUNCTIONS

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • Nonlinear macroscopic polarization in III-V nitride alloys

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • Extracting convergent surface energies from slab calculations

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;M Methfessel

  • Spontaneous versus Piezoelectric Polarization in III–V Nitrides: Conceptual Aspects and Practical Consequences

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • Free-carrier screening of polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN laser structures

    Fabio Della Sala;Aldo Di Carlo;Paolo Lugli;Fabio Bernardini

  • Spontaneous vs. piezoelectric polarization in III-V nitrides: conceptual aspects and practical consequences

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • Reconstruction mechanism of fcc transition metal (001) surfaces.

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Michael Methfessel;Matthias Scheffler

  • Free-carrier screening of polarization fields in wurtzite GaN/InGaN laser structures

    F. Della Sala;A. Di Carlo;P. Lugli;F. Bernardini

  • Polarization-based calculation of the dielectric tensor of polar crystals

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini;David Vanderbilt

  • Accurate calculation of polarization-related quantities in semiconductors

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini;Vincenzo Fiorentini;David Vanderbilt

  • Spontaneous 2-dimensional carrier confinement at the n-type SrTiO3/LaAlO3 interface.

    Pietro Delugas;Alessio Filippetti;Vincenzo Fiorentini;Daniel I. Bilc

  • Electronic and structural properties of GaN by the full-potential linear muffin-tin orbitals method: The role of the d electrons.

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Michael Methfessel;Matthias Scheffler

  • Theoretical evaluation of zirconia and hafnia as gate oxides for si microelectronics.

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Gianluca Gulleri

  • Dielectric scaling of the self-energy scissor operator in semiconductors and insulators.

    Vincenzo Fiorentini;Alfonso Baldereschi

  • First-principles calculation of the piezoelectric tensor d⇊ of III–V nitrides

    Fabio Bernardini;Vincenzo Fiorentini

  • Computational Materials Science X

    Paolo Ruggerone;Vincenzo Fiorentini;F. Meloni

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessio Filippetti
Alessio Filippetti University of Cagliari
Matthias Scheffler
Matthias Scheffler Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
David Vanderbilt
David Vanderbilt Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paolo Lugli
Paolo Lugli Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Marco Fanciulli
Marco Fanciulli University of Milano-Bicocca
Oliver Ambacher
Oliver Ambacher University of Freiburg
Aldo Di Carlo
Aldo Di Carlo University of Rome Tor Vergata
Wolfgang Stolz
Wolfgang Stolz Philipp University of Marburg
Philippe Ghosez
Philippe Ghosez University of Liège
Lester F. Eastman
Lester F. Eastman Cornell University

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