Publications by Francesco Barantani

Ultrafast momentum-resolved visualization of the interplay between phonon-mediated scattering and plasmons in graphite

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Alexey Sapozhnik, Thomas La Grange, Michele Puppin, Francesco Barantani

Scattering between charges and collective modes in materials governs phenomena such as electrical resistance, energy dissipation, and phase switching. Studying such scattering requires simultaneous access to ultrafast and momentum-resolved dynamics of sing ...

2025

Generation and control of localized terahertz fields in photoemitted electron plasmas

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

Dense micron-sized electron plasmas, such as those generated upon irradiation of nanostructured metallic surfaces by intense femtosecond laser pulses, constitute a rich playground to study light-matter interactions, many-body phenomena, and out-of-equilibr ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy Nanoscale Imaging of Femtosecond Plasma Dynamics

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Thomas La Grange, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Gabriele Berruto, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Luca Piazza, Francesco Barantani, Tom Theodorus Antonius Lummen

Understanding and actively controlling the spatiotemporal dynamics of nonequilibrium electron clouds is fundamental for the design of light and electron sources, high power electronic devices, and plasma-based applications. However, electron clouds evolve ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy of Nanoscale Charge Dynamics in Semiconductors

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani, Kangpeng Wang

The ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers in solids plays a pivotal role in emerging optoelectronics, photonics, energy harvesting, and quantum technology applications. However, the investigation and direct visualization of such nonequilibrium phenomena re ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Can dd excitations mediate pairing?

Christophe Berthod, Francesco Barantani

The Cu-3d states in the high-T-c cuprates are often described as a single band of 3d(x2-y2) states, with the other four 3d states having about 2 to 3 eV higher energy due to the lower-than-octahedral crystal field at the copper sites. However, excitations ...

Elsevier2023

Resonant Inelastic X-Ray Scattering Study of Electron-Exciton Coupling in High-T-c Cuprates

Fabrizio Carbone, Thorsten Schmitt, Ivan Madan, Christophe Berthod, Francesco Barantani, Yi Tseng, Dirk Van der Marel

Explaining the mechanism of superconductivity in the high-T-c cuprates requires an understanding of what causes electrons to form Cooper pairs. Pairing can be mediated by phonons, the screened Coulomb force, spin or charge fluctuations, excitons, or by a c ...

American Physical Society2022

Ultrafast Transverse Modulation of Free Electrons by Interaction with Shaped Optical Fields

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Alexey Sapozhnik, Thomas La Grange, Phoebe Marie Tengdin, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani, Veronica Leccese

Spatiotemporal electron-beam shaping is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the past decade, shaping methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic and magnetostatic displays. Recently, a swift change of paradigm utilizing lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Charge Dynamics Electron Microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Giovanni Maria Vanacore, Gabriele Berruto, Ido Kaminer, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

We probe plasma dynamics with nm-fs resolution through electron spectroscopy performed in an ultrafast transmission electron microscope. This approach would allow to disentangle the dynamic evolution of plasma parameters and observe previously inaccessible ...

IEEE2021

Nanoscale-femtosecond dielectric response of Mott insulators captured by two-color near-field ultrafast electron microscopy

Fabrizio Carbone, Ivan Madan, Thomas La Grange, Gabriele Berruto, Simone Gargiulo, Francesco Barantani

Characterizing and controlling the out-of-equilibrium state of nanostructured Mott insulators hold great promises for emerging quantum technologies while providing an exciting playground for investigating fundamental physics of strongly-correlated systems. ...

Nature Research2020