Barone Carlo

Associate Professor

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Personal information: Carlo Barone was born in 1976 in Salerno (Italy), where he lives. His researcher identifiers are: ORCID ID = 0000-0002-6556-7556; Web of Science ResearcherID = L-8840-2015; Scopus ID = 12798772100. During the research activity, 91 scientific publications have been made on scientific journals with peer review, on journals or books with conference proceedings, and in books chapters. Carlo Barone has been the first author of 39 of these publications. The bibliometric indicators are:
• citations = 1024, h-index = 20, i10-index = 36 (Scopus source);
• citations = 994, h-index = 20, i10-index = 35 (Web of Science source).

Professional positions:
• November 2022 – today: Associate Professor at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno). Scientific Sector = 02/B1 - Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.
• November 2019 – November 2022: Senior Researcher (RTDB - Tenure Track) at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno). Scientific Sector = 02/B1 - Experimental Condensed Matter Physics.
• April 2008 – August 2019: Research Fellow at University of Salerno. Scientific Sectors = FIS/01 - Experimental Physics and FIS/03 - Condensed Matter Physics.
• November 2004 – October 2007: PhD in Physics (Research Area: Experimental Condensed Matter Physics) at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).

Education and training:
• February 2008: Philosophiæ Doctor in Physics (University of Salerno), by discussing a thesis entitled “Electrical transport and low-frequency noise in perovskitic magnetic compounds”.
• September 2003: Master in “Technologies and Applications of Computer science for the Territorial Management (GIS)” (IIASS - Vietri sul Mare, Salerno).
• July 2002: Degree in Physics (University of Salerno), by discussing a thesis entitled “Temporal variations of Q-coda parameter in Vesuvius area”.

Scientific habilitations and professional certificates:
• April 2017: National Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor in 02/B1 (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics).
• October 2014: Professional certificate as “Crane Operator” (EQF = 3).
• February 2004: Professional certificate as “Expert in Computer Applications for the Territorial Management” (EQF = 7).

Scientific responsibility in Italian and international projects:
• July 2023 – July 2026: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the project entitled: “Study of fluctuations and complexity in condensed matter, in quantum devices and in sanitary systems”, funded by University of Salerno.
• February 2021 – February 2024: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the project entitled: “Fluctuations and complexity in Condensed Matter Physics and modeling of Sanitary Systems”, funded by University of Salerno.
• December 2019 – December 2025: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the project entitled: “Study of the electric transport and fluctuation properties in innovative materials”, funded by University of Salerno.
• April 2012 – February 2013: Principal Investigator and Coordinator of the “Seed” project entitled: “Is weak localization detected by 1/f noise?”, funded by National Research Council (CNR-SPIN Institute).

Participation in Italian and international projects:
• 2022 – 2024: INFN Qub-IT Experiment - “Quantum sensing with superconducting qubits for fundamental physics”, funded by National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
• 2021 – 2023: INFN DARTWARS Experiment - “Detector Array Readout with Traveling Wave Amplifiers”, funded by National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
• 2019 – 2021: INFN SIMP Experiment - “Single Microwave Photon Detection”, funded by National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
• 2017 – 2021: INFN FEEL Experiment - “Future Energy Efficient Electronics”, funded by National Institute for Nuclear Physics.
• 2013 – 2020: FARB 2017 – 2015 – 2013 Projects, funded by University of Salerno.
• 2011 – 2014: European Project FP7-NMP IRON-SEA - “Establishing the basic science and technology for Iron-based superconducting electronics applications”, funded by European Union.

Fellowships:
• June 2008 – July 2008: Winner of a THIOX Short Visit Grant entitled “Low-frequency noise measurements in manganite thin films for bolometric applications” at GREYC-Ensicaen Laboratory (Université de Caen & ENSICAEN, Caen, France), funded by European Science Foundation (Strasbourg).
• April 2007 – June 2007: Winner of a THIOX Exchange Grant entitled “Low frequency noise measurements in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 thin films: effect of geometries, contact materials and substrates” at GREYC-Ensicaen Laboratory (Université de Caen & ENSICAEN, Caen, France), funded by European Science Foundation (Strasbourg).

Institutional activities:
• September 2023: of the Examining Committee for the admission to the PhD Course in “Physics and Emerging Technologies” (39th series) at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).
• May 2022 – today: Member of the Academic Board of the PhD Course in “Physics and Emerging Technologies” at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).
• August 2021 – November 2021: External Referee VQR 2015-19, to evaluate the scientific products submitted for VQR 2015-19 - Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del sistema Universitario e della Ricerca (ANVUR).
• November 2020 – today: Member of the Committee for the University Funds of Basic Research (FARB – ex 60%) at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).
• January 2020 – November 2020: Member of the Help Teaching/Tutoring Committee at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).
• November 2018 – today: Member of the Technical and Scientific Committee for Istituto Tecnico Superiore (ITS) ERMETE, funded by Regione Campania and Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (Italy).
• March 2018 – today: Member of REPRISE, the Register of Scientific Experts set up at the MIUR, for the sections: “Basic research” and “Applied research”.

Editorial and referee activities:
• July 2022 – January 2023: Co-Editor of the Special Issue WOLTE15, related to the “Workshop on Low Temperature Electronics (WOLTE-15)”, published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity.
• September 2021 – June 2022: Co-Editor of the Special Issue, entitled “Electric Transport and Magnetic Properties in Nanomaterials and Thin Films”, published in the journal Nanomaterials.
• June 2015 – today: Member of the Editorial Board for Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature Publishing Group.
• 2013 – today: Referee for several international scientific journals (Advanced Electronic Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Nanoscale, Nanomaterials, AIP Advances, Physics Letters A, Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, Physica Status Solidi (B), Materials Today: Proceedings, etc.).

Awards and recognitions for research activity:
• 2023: Research Award given as author of the paper “Characterization of Traveling-Wave Josephson Parametric Amplifiers at T = 0.3 K” [IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity 33, 0500107 (2023)], added as Front Cover for Issue 1 – Volume 33 – Year 2023 of the journal IEEE-TASC.
• 2022: Research Award given as first author of the paper “Electric Transport in Gold-Covered Sodium-Alginate Free-Standing Foils” [Nanomaterials 11, 565 (2021)], added into Highlights 2021 of the CNR-SPIN Institute.
• 2017: Research Award by the University of Salerno as contributing author of the paper entitled: “Correlation between Electronic Defect States Distribution and Device Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells” [Advanced Science 4, 1700183 (2017)], added into Highlights 2017 of the CNR-SPIN Institute.
• 2016: Research Award by the University of Salerno as first author of the paper entitled: “Unravelling the low-temperature metastable state in perovskite solar cells by noise spectroscopy” [Scientific Reports 6, 34675 (2016)], added into Highlights 2016 of the CNR-SPIN Institute.

Affiliations at Academies and Societies:
• 2023 – 2024: Member of the Italian Physical Society (SIF) - Società Italiana di Fisica – Via Saragozza 12, 40123 Bologna (Italy).

Participation at invited seminars and conferences:
• 8 invited talks and seminars from 2011 to 2023.
• 16 oral contributions at international conferences from 2005 to 2023.
• 22 poster contributions at international conferences from 2006 to 2023.

Didactic activity:
• Academic Years from 2019/2020 to 2022/2023: Didactic activity at the University of Salerno inside the courses of Laboratory of Physics II and Laboratory of Electric Circuits and Optics (Degree in Physics), Physics with Practice in Laboratory II (Degree in Mathematics), and Physics I (Degree in Chemistry).
• Academic Years 2016/2017 and from 2019/2020 to 2022/2023: Graduate School Lecture entitled “Electric noise spectroscopy: a window inside condensed matter properties” inside the PhD Course in “Physics and Emerging Technologies” and the PhD Course in “Mathematics, Physics and Applications” at University of Salerno.
• Academic Years 2021/2022 and 2022/2023: Equivalent Activity to the Didactic "Piano Lauree Scientifiche (PLS) – The solar energy: from theory to practice", at the Department of Physics (University of Salerno).
• July 2012: Member of the examination Committee for the assignment of the PhD title in "Electronics, microelectronics and nanoelectronics" at Université de Caen Basse-Normandie (Caen, France).

Brief description of the scientific activity:
The research activity of Carlo Barone has mainly concerned with the experimental study of low-temperature electric transport properties in superconductivity and in innovative materials and devices. A special attention has been focused on the analysis of intrinsic electric fluctuations in high critical temperature superconductors, in manganites, in polymer/carbon nanotubes composites, and in photovoltaic devices (such as: silicon, organic, and perovskite solar cells). In particular, recently photovoltaic devices based on perovskites have been developed, similar to polymeric cells but with significantly better energy efficiency. The investigation of electric transport, photoresponse and fluctuation mechanisms carried out on high-quality perovskitic cells, fabricated at the Institut für Silizium Photovoltaik in Berlin, has allowed to highlight the effects of structural transitions in the perovskite and the evaluation of active defect states. Beyond the experimental activity, theoretical models of transport and fluctuation mechanisms at work in the materials and devices studied have been developed, in order to obtain more detailed information on the kinetic and dynamic processes of the charge carriers.