- Nanoelectronics
- Nanophotonics
- Semiconductors
- 2D Materials
- Miniaturised energy Storage
- Miniaturised biosensors
Education:
M.Sc. in Physics, 1996, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Electrical Engineering, 2004, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
PhD Student Opportunities
Plasmonics, polaritonics and their combination enable the manipulation of light at the nanoscale, at size scales much smaller than the diffraction limit. Such strong confinement is not available for photons in conventional optical systems, and thus represents a “holy grail” for applications from integrated optical technologies for high resolution imaging to chemical-selective sensing for medicine and biology. Visit https://bit.ly/30IReNG for details and how to apply.
Francesca Iacopi has over 20 years’ international industrial and academic expertise in the miniaturisation of semiconductor technologies. She has led large R&D projects for IMEC (Belgium) and Globalfoundries Inc (USA) in interconnects, electronic devices and packaging. Her focus is the translation of basic scientific advances into nanomaterials and device concepts into integrated technologies. She is known for her influential work in porous dielectrics for interconnects, and, more recently, graphene for on-chip applications.
Recipient of an MRS Gold Graduate Student Award (2003), an ARC Future Fellowship (2012), and a Global Innovation Award in Washington DC (2014), she was listed among the most innovative engineers by Engineers Australia (2018). Francesca is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and currently serves in the Awards Committee of the Materials Research Society, the Electronic Materials Committee of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, and in the Emerging Research Materials Chapter of the International Roadmap for Systems and Devices (irds.ieee.org). She leads the Integrated Nanosystems Lab, in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney. She is a Chief Investigator and Chair of the Industry Liaison Committee of the Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS). She is also founder and inaugural Chair of the IEEE New South Wales EDS Chapter.
- (2021). Non-Invasive on-Skin Sensors for Brain Machine Interfaces with Epitaxial Graphene. In: Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 066035, 2021, ISSN: 1741-2560, 1741-2552.
- (2021). Additively Manufactured Millimeter-Wave Dual-Band Single-Polarization Shared Aperture Fresnel Zone Plate Metalens Antenna. In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 6261–6272, 2021, ISSN: 0018-926X, 1558-2221.
- (2021). Enhanced Absorption with Graphene-Coated Silicon Carbide Nanowires for Mid-Infrared Nanophotonics. In: Nanomaterials, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 2339, 2021, ISSN: 2079-4991.
- (2021). Compact Multilayer Bandpass Filter Using Low-Temperature Additively Manufacturing Solution. In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 68, no. 7, pp. 3163–3169, 2021, ISSN: 0018-9383, 1557-9646.
- (2020). Fabrication of Free-Standing Silicon Carbide on Silicon Microstructures via Massive Silicon Sublimation. In: Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 062202, 2020, ISSN: 2166-2746, 2166-2754.
- (2020). Graphitic-Based Solid-State Supercapacitors: Enabling Redox Reaction by In Situ Electrochemical Treatment. In: Batteries & Supercaps, vol. 3, no. 7, pp. 569–569, 2020, ISSN: 2566-6223, 2566-6223.
- (2020). Electronic and Transport Properties of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC and 3C-SiC/Si: A Review. In: Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 4350, 2020, ISSN: 2076-3417.
- (2020). Engineering the Dissipation of Crystalline Micromechanical Resonators. In: Physical Review Applied, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 044007, 2020, ISSN: 2331-7019.
- (2020). 3D-Printed Low-Profile Single-Substrate Multi-Metal Layer Antennas and Array With Bandwidth Enhancement. In: IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 217370–217379, 2020, ISSN: 2169-3536.
- (2020). P-Type Epitaxial Graphene on Cubic Silicon Carbide on Silicon for Integrated Silicon Technologies. In: ACS Applied Nano Materials, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 830–841, 2020, ISSN: 2574-0970, 2574-0970.