In international, peer-reviewed journals
2026
- M. La Mura, L. Vicarelli, A. Bagolini, A. Pitanti, A. S. Savoia and P. Lamberti
A Design Optimization Framework for a MEMS Bolometer for Room-Temperature Terahertz Imaging
J. Microelectromech. Syst., 1-11 (2026). [DOI] - T. Gabbrielli, C. Zhang, F. Cappelli, I. Galli, A. Ottomaniello, J. Faist, A. Tredicucci, A. Pitanti, P. De Natale, S. Borri and P. Vezio
Bridging Mid- and Near-Infrared by Combining Optomechanics and Self-Mixing
ACS Photonics 13, 1200-1206 (2026). [DOI] - L. Alborghetti, B. Bertoni, L. Vicarelli, S. Zanotto, S. Roddaro, A. Tredicucci, M. Cautero, L. Gregorat, G. Cautero, M. Cojocari, G. Fedorov, P. Kuzhir and A. Pitanti
Enhanced Sensitivity of Sub-THz Thermomechanical Bolometers Exploiting Vibrational Nonlinearity
ACS Photonics 13, 58-66 (2026). [DOI]
2025
- N. Ashurbekov, I. de Pedro-Embid, A. Pitanti, M. Msall and P. V. Santos
Method for GHz Optical Helicity Modulation by Acoustic Drum Modes on a Chip
Sci. Rep. 15, 38991 (2025). [DOI] - A. Pitanti, N. Ashurbekov, I. de Pedro-Embid, M. Msall and P. V. Santos
GHz Acousto-Optic Angular Momentum with Tunable Topological Charge
Nat. Commun. 16, 8116 (2025). [DOI] - P. Vezio, A. Ottomaniello, L. Vicarelli, M. Salih, L. Li, E. Linfield, P. Dean, V. Mattoli, A. Pitanti and A. Tredicucci
Membrane-Mediated Conversion of Near-Infrared Amplitude Modulation into the Self-Mixing Signal of a Terahertz Quantum Cascade Laser
Photonics 12, 273 (2025). [DOI]
2024
- L. Gregorat, M. Cautero, L. Vicarelli, D. Giuressi, A. Bagolini, A. Tredicucci, G. Cautero and A. Pitanti
Highly Dispersive Multiplexed Micromechanical Device Array for Spatially Resolved Sensing and Actuation
Microsyst. Nanoeng. 10, 179 (2024). [DOI] - L. Gregorat, M. Cautero, A. Pitanti, L. Vicarelli, M. La Mura, A. Bagolini, R. Sergo, S. Carrato and G. Cautero
FPGA Readout for Frequency-Multiplexed Array of Micromechanical Resonators for Sub-Terahertz Imaging
Sensors 24, 7276 (2024). [DOI] - A. Pitanti, G. Da Prato, G. Biasiol, A. Tredicucci and S. Zanotto
Gigahertz Modulation of a Fully Dielectric Nonlocal Metasurface
Adv. Opt. Mater. 12, 2401283 (2024). [DOI] - J. Jorudas, H. Rehman, M. Cojocari, D. Pashnev, A. Urbanowicz, I. Kasalynas, B. Bertoni, L. Vicarelli, A. Pitanti, S. Malykhin, Y. Svirko, P. Kuzhir and G. Fedorov
Ultra-Broadband Absorbance of Nanometer-Thin Pyrolyzed-Carbon Film on Silicon Nitride Membrane
Nanotechnology 35, 305705 (2024). [DOI]
2023
- T. Venanzi, V. Giliberti, M. E. Temperini, S. Sotgiu, R. Polito, F. Mattioli, A. Pitanti, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, S. Roddaro, L. Baldassarre and M. Ortolani
Mid-Infrared Photocurrent Nano-Spectroscopy Exploiting the Thermoelectric Effect in Graphene
Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 153509 (2023). [DOI] - A. Pitanti, M. Yuan, S. Zanotto and P. V. Santos
High-resolution acoustic field mapping of gigahertz phononic crystals with atomic force microscopy
Phys. Rev. Appl. 20, 054054 (2023). [DOI] Editor's Suggestion - E. Díaz-Escobar, Á. I. Barreda, L. Mercadé, A. Griol, A. Pitanti and A. Martínez
Light Guidance Aided by the Toroidal Dipole and the Magnetic Quadrupole in Silicon Slotted-Disk Chains
ACS Phot. 10, 707 (2023)
2022
- D. Navarro-Urrios, G. Arregui, M. F. Colombano, J. Jaramillo-Fernández, A. Pitanti, A. Griol, L. Mercadé, A. Martínez and N. E. Capuj
Giant injection-locking bandwidth of a self-pulsing limit-cycle in an optomechanical cavity
Commun. Phys. 5, 330 (2022) [PDF] - S. Zanotto, G. Biasiol, P. Santos and A. Pitanti
Metamaterial-enabled asymmetric negative refraction of GHz mechanical waves
Nat. Comm. 13, 5939 (2022) [PDF] - D. Giambastiani, C. Tommasi, F. Bianco, F. Fabbri, C. Coletti, A. Tredicucci, A. Pitanti and S. Roddaro
Strain-Engineered Wrinkles on Graphene Using Polymeric Actuators
Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 024069 (2022) - G. Conte, L. Vicarelli, S. Zanotto and A. Pitanti,
Mechanical Mode Engineering with Orthotropic Metamaterial Membranes
Adv. Mat. Tech. 7, 2200337 (2022) - N. Melchioni, F. Fabbri, A. Tredicucci, F. Bianco
Periodic Structural Defects in Graphene Sheets Engineered via Electron Irradiation
Micromachines 13, 1666 (2022). [DOI] PRIN MONSTRE-2D
- S. Zanotto, G. Conte, L. C. Bellieres, A. Griol, Daniel Navarro-Urrios, A. Tredicucci, A. Martínez and A. Pitanti,
Optomechanical Modulation Spectroscopy of Bound States in the Continuum in a Dielectric Metasurface
Phys. Rev. Appl. 17, 044033 (2022) [PREPRINT] - D. Giambastiani, F. Colangelo, A. Tredicucci, S. Roddaro and A.Pitanti,
Electron localization in periodically strained graphene
J. Appl. Phys. 131, 085103 (2022) PRIN MONSTRE-2D
- L. Vicarelli, A. Tredicucci and A. Pitanti
Micromechanical bolometers for sub-Terahertz detection at room temperature
ACS Phot. 9, 360 (2022) [PDF]
- D. Navarro-Urrios, M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui, G. Madiot, A. Pitanti, A. Griol, T. Makkonen, J. Ahopelto, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres and A. Martínez
Room-temperature silicon platform for GHz-frequency nano-electro-opto-mechanical systems
ACS Phot. 9, 413 (2022) [PDF]
- G. Ciampalini, F. Fabbri, G. Menichetti, L. Buoni, S. Pace, V. Mišeikis, A. Pitanti, D. Pisignano, C. Coletti, A. Tredicucci and S. Roddaro
Unexpected Electron Transport Suppression in a Heterostructured Graphene–MoS2 Multiple Field-Effect Transistor Architecture
ACS Nano 16, 1291 (2022)
Past publications
- A. Ottomaniello, G. Conte, A. Pitanti, L. Vicarelli, A. Profeti, H. E Beere, D. A. Ritchie, V. Mattoli, F. Bianco, A. Tredicucci
Continuous wave vertical emission from terahertz microcavity lasers with a dual injection scheme
Opt. Expr. 29, 33602 (2021)
- G. Arregui, M. F. Colombano, J. Maire, A. Pitanti, N. E. Capuj, A. Griol, A. Martínez, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres and D. Navarro-Urrios
Injection locking in an optomechanical coherent phonon source
Nanophot. 10, 1319 (2021) [PREPRINT] - M.F. Colombano, G. Arregui, F. Bonell, N.E. Capuj, E. Chavez-Angel, A. Pitanti, S.O. Valenzuela, C.M. Sotomayor-Torres, D. Navarro-Urrios, and M.V. Costache
Ferromagnetic Resonance Assisted Optomechanical Magnetometer
Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 147201 (2020) [PREPRINT] - A. Pitanti, T. Makkonen, M. F. Colombano, S. Zanotto, L. Vicarelli, M. Cecchini, A. Griol, D. Navarro-Urrios, C. Sotomayor-Torres, A. Martinez, J. Ahopelto
High-Frequency Mechanical Excitation of a Silicon Nanostring with Piezoelectric Aluminum Nitride Layers
Phys. Rev. Appl. 14, 014054 (2020) [PREPRINT] - D. Giambastiani, F. Dispinzeri, F. Colangelo, S. Forti, C. Coletti, A. Tredicucci, A. Pitanti, S. Roddaro
Stress-strain in electron-beam activated polymeric micro-actuators
J. Appl. Phys. 128, 115104 (2020) [PREPRINT] PRIN MONSTRE-2D - J. M. Fink, M. Kalaee, R. Norte, A. Pitanti, O. Painter
Efficient microwave frequency conversion mediated by the vibrational motion of a silicon nitride nanobeam oscillator
Quantum Sci. Tech. 5, 034011 (2020) [PDF] - S. Zanotto, A. Tredicucci, D. Navarro-Urrios, M. Cecchini, G. Biasiol, D. Mencarelli, L. Pierantoni and A. Pitanti
Optomechanics of chiral dielectric metasurfaces
Advanced Optical Materials 8, 1901507(2020) [PDF] - S. Zanotto, M. Colombano, D. Navarro-Urrios, G. Biasiol Giorgio, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres Clivia, A. Tredicucci and A. Pitanti
Broadband Dynamic Polarization Conversion in Optomechanical Metasurfaces
Front. Phys. 7, 231 (2020) [PDF] - S. Zanotto, G. Mazzamuto, F. Riboli, G. Biasiol, G. C. La Rocca, A. Tredicucci and A. Pitanti
Photonic bands, superchirality, and inverse design of a chiral minimal metasurface
Nanophotonics 8, 2291 (2019) - A. Ottomaniello, J. Keeley, P. Rubino, L. Li, M. Cecchini, E. H. Linfield, A. Giles Davies, P. Dean, A. Pitanti and A. Tredicucci,
Optomechanical response with nanometer resolution in the self-mixing signal of a terahertz quantum cascade laser
Opt. Lett. 44, 5663 (2019) - F. Colangelo, A. Morandi, S. Forti, F. Fabbri, C. Coletti, F. V. Di Girolamo, A. Di Lieto, M. Tonelli, A. Tredicucci, A. Pitanti and S. Roddaro
Tuning WS2 photoluminescence using polymeric micro-actuators in a van der Waals heterostructure
Appl. Phys. Lett. 115, 183101 (2019) - M. F. Colombano, G. Arregui, N. E. Capuj, A. Pitanti, J. Maire, A. Griol, B. Garrido, A. Martinez, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres and D. Navarro-Urrios
Synchronization of two optomechanical crystals by reactive mechanical interaction
Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 017402 (2019) - D. Mencarelli, B. Djafari-Rouhani, Y. Pennec, A. Pitanti, S. Zanotto, M. Stocchi and L. Pierantoni
Numerical emulation of Thru-Reflection-Line calibration for the de-embedding of Surface Acoustic Wave devices
Sci. Rep. 8, 9256 (2018) - F. Colangelo, A. Pitanti, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, P. Pingue, D. Pisignano, F. Beltram, A. Tredicucci and S. Roddaro
Controlling local deformation in graphene using micrometric polymeric actuators
2D Mat. 5, 045032 (2018) - L. Masini, A. Pitanti, L. Baldacci, M. S. Vitiello, R. Degl'Innocenti, H. E. Beere, D. A. Ritchie and A. Tredicucci
Continuous-wave laser operation of a dipole antenna terahertz microresonator
Light Sci. App. 6, e17054 (2017) - A. Toncelli, N. E. Capuj, B. Garrido, M. Sledzinska, C. M. Sotomayor-Torres, A. Tredicucci and D. Navarro-Urrios
Mechanical oscillations in lasing microspheres
J. Appl. Phys. 122, 053101 (2017) - F. F. Settembrini, F. Colangelo, A. Pitanti1, V. Miseikis, C. Coletti, G. Menichetti, R. Colle, G. Grosso, A. Tredicucci and S. Roddaro
Anisotropic straining of graphene using micropatterned SiN membranes
APL Materials 4, 116107 (2016) - L. Baldacci, A. Pitanti, L. Masini, A. Arcangeli, F. Colangelo, D. Navarro-Urrios and A. Tredicucci
Thermal noise and optomechanical features in the emission of a membrane-coupled compound cavity laser diode
Sci. Rep. 6, 31489 (2016) - J. M. Fink, M. Kalaee, A. Pitanti, R. Norte, L. Heinzle, M. Davanço, K. Srinivasan and O. Painter
Quantum electromechanics on silicon nitride nanomembranes
Nat. Comm. 7, 12396 (2016) - D. Navarro-Urrios, N. E. Capuj, J. Gomis-Bresco, F. Alzina, A. Pitanti, A. Griol, A. Martínez and C. M. Sotomayor Torres
A self-stabilized coherent phonon source driven by optical forces
Sci. Rep. 5, 15733 (2015) - A. Pitanti, J. M. Fink, A. H. Safavi-Naeini, J. T. Hill, C. U. Lei, A. Tredicucci and O. Painter
Strong opto-electro-mechanical coupling in a silicon photonic crystal cavity
Opt. Expr. 23, 3196 (2015) - D. Navarro-Urrios, J. Gomis-Bresco, S. El-Jallal, M. Oudich, A. Pitanti, N. Capuj, A. Tredicucci, F. Alzina, A. Griol, Y. Pennec, B. Djafari-Rouhani, A. Martínez and C. M. Sotomayor Torres
Dynamical back-action at 5.5 GHz in a corrugated optomechanical beam
AIP Adv. 4, 124601 (2014)