Marco Bernasconi
Professor
Materials Science
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italy
Biography
Associate Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano. He is author of 119 articles on international journals with peer review that received about 3300 citations (H-index=30 from ISI Web of Knowledge, November 2013).
Research Interest
His research activity is devoted to the theoretical modelling of the properties of condensed matter systems by means of ab-initio methods, mainly Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics. He gave contributions to the development of the package for Car-Parrinello simulations CPMD, distributed by Ibm Zurich and MPI-FKF Stuttgart. His present research activity is devoted to ab-initio simulations of i) chalcogenide phase change materials (e.g. GeSbTe) for non-volatile memories and iii) Hydrogen-storage materials (alanates and other complex hydrides). His past research activity was also devoted to ab-initio simulations of solid-solid phase transitions under pressure and to the study of several other systems of interest for materials science and chemical physics including hydrogen-bonded systems (mainly water and aqueous solutions), low-Z superconductors (fullerenes, boron-based materials), and oxide materials for photonics (silica, TeO2).
Publications
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G. C. Sosso, G. Miceli, S. Caravati, J. Behler, and M. Bernasconi, A neural-network interatomic potential for the phase change material GeTe, Phys. Rev. B 85, 174103 (2012).
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R. D. Brown, Z. M. Hund, D. Campi, L. E. O’Leary, N. S. Lewis, M. Bernasconi, G. Benedek, and S. J. Sibener, The Hybridization of Surface Waves with Organic Adlayer Librations: A Helium Atom Scattering and Density Functional Perturbation Theory Study of Methyl-Si(111), Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 156102 (2013).
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G. C. Sosso, G. Miceli, S. Caravati, F. Giberti, J. Behler, and M. Bernasconi, Fast Crystallization of the Phase Change Compound GeTe by Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. DOI: 10.1021/jz402268v (2013).
