Dr. Enrico Giannini
Enrico Giannini obtained his BSc and MSc in physics at the University of Genoa in Italy. After a three-year professional experience in technology transfer between the INFM-Genoa and the ENI Research Centre in Venice, he moved to the University of Geneva to pursue a PhD thesis in the field of high-Tc superconducting materials for technological applications. He performed his PhD research under the supervision of Prof. René Flükiger. His studies on the chemical phase diagrams and formation mechanisms of cuprate superconductors laid the foundation for his extensive knowledge and expertise in the field of crystal growth of complex oxides.
During his three-year post-doctoral activity as a scientist (Maître Assistant) in this field, Enrico Giannini achieved especially notable success in the area of crystal growth of the BiSCCO superconductors. In 2005, he was appointed to a permanent senior scientist position (Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche) at the DQMP of the University of Geneva. Here he built up a versatile crystal growth facility in which a variety of highly specialized growth techniques are available. These facilities allow for a broad range of materials to be grown in crystalline form, from cuprate superconductors grown in optical furnaces, to transition metal silicides grown by Czochralski pulling from levitating melt, from transition metal chalcogenides and halides grown by the chemical vapor transport to topological materials grown under GPa pressure. The expertise of Dr. Giannini covers a broad range of quantum materials. Since 2017, he has been a board member of the Swiss Society of Crystallography (SGK), and a Swiss delegate and councilor at the European Network for Crystal Growth (ENCG) and the International Organization for Crystal Growth (IOCG).
Publications
Mattias Matthiesen, Jorrit R. Hortensius, Samuel Mañas-Valero, Itzik Kapon, Dumitru Dumcenco, Enrico Giannini, Makars Šiškins, Boris A. Ivanov, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Eugenio Coronado, Alexey Kuzmenko, Dmytro Afanasiev and Andrea Caviglia
Physical review letters 130 7, 076702 (2023)
Archive ouverte UNIGEFengrui Yao, Volodymyr Multian, Zhe Wang, Nicolas Ubrig, Jérémie Teyssier, Fan Wu, Enrico Giannini, Marco Gibertini, Ignacio Gutierrez Lezama and Alberto Morpurgo
Nature communications 14 1, 4969 (2023)
In twisted two-dimensional (2D) magnets, the stacking dependence of the magnetic exchange interaction can lead to regions of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interlayer order, separated by non-collinear, skyrmion-like spin textures. Recent experimental searches for these textures have focused on …
Archive ouverte UNIGEWillem Rischau, Dorota Pulmannova, Gernot Scheerer, Adrien Stucky, Enrico Giannini and Dirk Van Der Marel
Physical Review Research 4 1, 013019 (2022)
Doped strontium titanate SrTiO3 (STO) is one of the most dilute superconductors known today. The fact that superconductivity occurs at very low carrier concentrations is one of the two reasons that the pairing mechanism is not yet understood, the other being the role played by the proximity to a…
Archive ouverte UNIGEDavid Soler Delgado, Fengrui Yao, Dumitru Dumcenco, Enrico Giannini, Jiaruo Li, Connor A. Occhialini, Riccardo Comin, Nicolas Ubrig and Alberto Morpurgo
Nano letters, 2c01361 (2022)
Archive ouverte UNIGEFrancesco Barantani, Michaël Tran, I. Madan, Itzik Kapon, Nimrod Bachar, T. c. Asmara, E. Paris, Y. Tseng, W. Zhang, Y. Hu, Enrico Giannini, G. Gu, T. p. Devereaux, Christophe Berthod, F. Carbone, T. Schmitt and Dirk Van Der Marel
Physical review. X 12 2, 021068 (2022)
Archive ouverte UNIGEDorota Pulmannova
Thèse (2022)
Strontium titanate is a cubic perovskite, which is insulating in its pristine state but becomes metallic upon electron doping. It is one of the most dilute superconductors and the pairing mechanism is unknown. In addition, SrTiO3 is a quantum paraelectric, in which zero-point…
Archive ouverte UNIGEGiulia Tenasini, David Soler Delgado, Zhe Wang, Fengrui Yao, Dumitru Dumcenco, Enrico Giannini, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Christian Moulsdale, Aitor Garcia-Ruiz, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Ignacio Gutierrez Lezama and Alberto Morpurgo
Nano letters 22 16, 6760-6766 (2022)
Archive ouverte UNIGEDorota Pulmannova, Céline Besnard, Petr Bezdička, Marios Hadjimichael, Jérémie Teyssier and Enrico Giannini
CrystEngComm 24 20, 3731-3740 (2022)
We have grown single crystals of a new polymorph of Sr 2 TiO 4 . It contains titanium in an unusual tetrahedral coordination and transforms to the Ruddlesden–Popper structure with an interesting orientational relationship.
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