LUCA BURSI

Dr. Luca Bursi

Dr. Luca Bursi
CNR-NANO Istituto Nanoscienze, Centro S3
email: luca.bursi[at]nano.cnr.it
phone: +39 059 2055273 | fax: +39 059 374794
url : amuse.nano.cnr.it

SHORT CV

Present position & appointments

- Since Aug 2020 – Senior Postdoctoral Researcher, CNR-NANO S3, via Campi 213/A, 41125, Modena, Italy.

- Academic visitor, Dept. of Physics, University of North Texas (UNT), 1155 Union Cir., Denton, TX 76203, USA.

Research
My research interest involves the investigation of elecronic and optical properties of solid state materials and molecular assemblies using (time dependent) density functional theory, and beyond.

Currently, my activity focuses on the development, testing and application of  first principles simulations high-throughput workflows for the study of complex systems (e.g. disordered, polycrystalline, amorphous, etc.), in order to  model devices for synaptic electronics and neuromorphic computing, as part of the European project INTERSECT.

List of publications

  1. K. D. Chapkin, L. Bursi, B. D. Clark, G. Wu, A. Lauchner, A.-L. Tsai, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas. Effects of electronic structure on molecular plasmon dynamics. J. Phys. Chem. C, (2020) in press.
  2. L. A. McCarthy, K. W. Smith, X. Lana, S. A. Hosseini Jebeli, L. Bursi, A. Alabastri, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, S. Link. Polarized evanescent waves reveal trochoidal dichroism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 117, 16143–16148, (2020).
  3. B. D. Clark, C. R. Jacobson, M. Lou, D. Renard, G. Wu, L. Bursi, A. S. Ali, D. F. Swearer, A.-L. Tsai, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas. Aluminum nanocubes have sharp corners. ACS Nano, 13, 9682–9691, (2019).
  4. B. D. Clark, C. J. DeSantis, G. Wu, D. Renard, M. J. McClain, L. Bursi, A.-L. Tsai, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas. Ligand-dependent colloidal stability controls the growth of aluminum nanocrystals. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 1716–1724 (2019). [JACS Spotlights: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141, 1393–1393 (2019)].
  5. K. W. Smith, L. A. McCarthy, A. Alabastri, L. Bursi, W.-S. Chang, P. Nordlander, S. Link. Exploiting evanescent field polarization for giant chiroptical modulation from achiral gold half-rings. ACS Nano, 12, 11657–11663 (2018).
  6. K. D. Chapkin, L. Bursi, G. J. Stec, A. Lauchner, N. J. Hogan, Y. Cui, P. Nordlander, N. J. Halas. Lifetime dynamics of plasmons in the few-atom limit. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 9134–9139 (2018).
  7. R. Zhang, L. Bursi, J. D. Cox, Y. Cui, C. M. Krauter, A. Alabastri, A. Manjavacas, A. Calzolari, S. Corni, E. Molinari, E. A. Carter, F. J. García de Abajo, H. Zhang, P. Nordlander. How to identify plasmons from the optical response of nanostructures. ACS Nano, 11, 7321–7335 (2017).
  8. L. Bursi, A. Calzolari, S. Corni, E. Molinari. Quantifying the plasmonic character of optical excitations in nanostructures. ACS Photonics, 3, 520–525 (2016).
  9. F. J. García de Abajo, R. Sapienza, M. Noginov,
F. Benz, J. Baumberg, S. Maier, D. Graham,
J. Aizpurua, T. Ebbesen, A. Pinchuk, J. Khurgin, K. Matczyszyn, J. T. Hugall, N. van Hulst, P. Dawson, C. Roberts, M. Nielsen, L. Bursi, M. Flatté, J. Yi, O. Hess, N. Engheta, M. Brongersma, V. Podolskiy, V. Shalaev, E. Narimanov, A. Zayats. Plasmonic and new plasmonic materials: general discussion. Faraday Discuss., 178, 123–149 (2015).
  10. L. Bursi, A. Calzolari, S. Corni, E. Molinari. Light-induced field enhancement in nanoscale systems from first-principles: the case of polyacenes. ACS Photonics, 1, 1049–1058 (2014).