SASSELLA ADELE

Adele Sassella devoted her research activity to eperimental solid state physics. During the first years, she studied impurities and defects in silicon and silicon related materials by optical pectroscopy techniques, in the infrared and UV-visible spectral ranges. More recently, her main research subject involves organic molecular semiconductors, in particular organic molecular beam epitaxy (OMBE) used to deposit thin films on different substrates, then studying their optical and transport properties, as well as their morphology and structure. The materials of interest include oligothiophenes, porphyrins, acridines, oligocenes. A relevant part of the research activity is now devoted to the growth and study of organic heterostructures, made of multilayers of different molecules, grown in view of obtaining high crystallinity by means of organic epotaxy. Research on these subects is funded by national projects on advanced materials for photovoltaic applications.

Since 1990 Adele Sassella published over 200 scientific papers in international journals and attended several national and international conferences, presenting her work as posters, oral presentations and invited talks. She is participating and/or responsible for some national research projects (INFM, MIUR, Fondazione Cariplo) and she contributed to Organizing committees of different conferences and schools. She is referee of several scientific journals, such as Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review, European Physical Journal. She collaboratrs with several groups in Italy and abroad.