Stanford University

I joined Stanford University in September 2013 and I was a PostDoctoral Scholar in the group of Prof. Mark Brongersma till May 2016. This is one of the best environments I have been working in during my professional life. Located in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, it is really one of the world’s leading teaching and research universities. I tried to take advantages of as many as possible opportunities offered by the Farm.

My research project focuses on improving the existing solar cells and make them cheaper and a real alternative to traditional energy sources. My project here is funded by 3Sun / Enel Green Power / ST Microelectronics and the US Department of Energy through the Bay Area PhotoVoltaic Consortium.

Publication output

• Anti-reflection high-index metasurfaces combining Mie and Fabry-Pérot resonances
  A. Cordaro, J. van de Groep, S. Raza, E. F. Pecora, F. Priolo, M. L. Brongersma
  ACS Photonics 6, 453 (2019)
• Broadband Antireflection Coatings Employing Multi-resonant Metasurfaces
  E. F. Pecora, A. Cordaro, P. G. Kik, M. L. Brongersma
  ACS Photonics 5, 4456 (2018)
• Superabsorbing, artificial metal films constructed from Semiconductor Nanoantennas
  S. J. Kim, J. Park, M. Esfandyarpour, E. F. Pecora, P. Kik, M. L. Brongersma
  Nano Letters 16, 3801 (2016)

Patent

• Broadband, polarization-independent, omnidirectional, metamaterial-based antireflection coating for solar cells
  M. L. Brongersma, C. E. A. Cordaro, E. F. Pecora
  Provisional patent

Leadership experience

• Selected as group facilitator for the Management Matters class organized and offered by the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University
• Admitted at the full time Stanford Ignite program by the Stanford Graduate School of Business (Summer 2015)
• Admitted at the Stanford IFarm program by the Office of Technology Licensing (Winter 2014)
• Coach at the Stanford Leaders in Communication club (from 2013)
• Webmaster of brongersma.stanford.edu from 2013

Leadership formation

• Admitted at Adventures in Design Thinking: A d.school Experience class offered by the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (Summer 2015)
• Admitted at The Improviser’s Mindset class offered by the Stanford Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education (Summer 2014)
• Negotiation skills class, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
• Future Faculty Seminar INDE/CTL231 class, offered by the Stanford University
• iRite/iSpeak course, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
• Stanford future leaders: Mentoring Workshop, offered by the Stanford Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Invited talk

• Transparent Conductive Oxides: a new material platform for optoelectronic, plasmonic and photovoltaic
  Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania & EPS Young Minds Catania chapter & OSA Catania chapter
  2014, January 8th

Conference participation

• BAPVC meeting Spring 2013 – Stanford University
• BAPVC meeting Fall 2013 – UC Berkeley
• MRS Spring meeting 2014 – San Francisco, CA (USA) Poster presentation
• BAPVC meeting Spring 2014 – Stanford University
• BAPVC meeting Fall 2014 – UC Berkeley
• BAPVC meeting Spring 2015 – Stanford University
• MRS Fall meeting 2014 – Boston, MA (USA) Oral presentation
  Watch my presentation at MRS Fall meeting with MRS On Demand.
• MRS Spring meeting 2015 – San Francisco, CA (USA) Oral presentation
• MRS Fall meeting 2015 – Boston, MA (USA) Oral presentation
• MRS Spring meeting 2016 – Phoenix, AZ (USA) Oral presentation

For download

• Buried Nanoantenna Arrays Versatile Antireflection Coating
• Digital metamaterials
• Monolayer semiconductor nanocavity lasers with ultralow thresholds
• Dielectric metasurfaces for complete control of phase and polarization with subwavelength spatial resolution and high transmission

Teaching activity

• Guest lecturer for the CHEM26N class (The What, Why, How and wow’s of Nanotechnology) at Stanford University, Spring 2015 semester