Lucia Caramella

Phone number (Milan): +39 02 503 1 73 79 Fax number (Milan): +39 02 503 1 74 82 E-mail address : lucia.caramella@unimi.it Personal web-site:

Scientific interests

• Linear Response Theory, DFT, TDDFT, MBPT
• Ab initio calculations of structural, electronic and optical properties of crystals, molecules and surfaces
• Theoretical spectroscopy ( RAS, SDR, EELS and high-resolution EELS in reflectance and transmission geometry)
• Metals and magnetic systems

Curriculum vitae

• 2009-:Post doc at the Universit\'a degli Studi di Milano
  
• 2005-2009: joint PhD degree (co-supervision Universita' degli Studi di Milano and Universit\'e Paris 6).
  
• 2005: Master degree in Physics Universita' degli Studi di Milano
  

Selected publications

Regular articles

• Ab initio intraband contributions to the optical properties of metals
  M. Cazzaniga, L. Caramella, N. Manini and G. Onida
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 035104 (2010)
• High-resolution electron energy loss spectra of reconstructed Si(100) surfaces: First-principles study
  L. Caramella, C. Hogan, G. Onida and R. Del Sole
  Phys. Rev. B 79, 155447 (2009)
• Optical properties of real surfaces: local-field effects at oxidized Si(100)(2x2) computed with an efficient numerical scheme
  L. Caramella, G. Onida, F. Finocchi, L. Reining, and F. Sottile
  Phys. Rev. B 75, 205405 (2007)

Conference papers

• Norm conserving pseudopotentials for iron with semicore states
  L. Caramella, D. Tavella and G. Onida
  accepted for publication in Epioptics-10, The science and cuture - Physics vol. 31, pag. 37-45, Ed. by Cricenti, World Scientific (2010).
• Oxidation of dimers at the Si(100) surface studied by first-principles simulation of high-resolution EELS
  L. Caramella, C. Hogan, G. Onida and R. Del Sole
  Proceedings of OSI-VIII conference, Ischia (2009), phys. stat. sol. (b), DOI:10.1002/pssb.200983952 (2010).
• Electron Energy Loss Spectra of the oxidized Si(100)(2x2) surface
  L. Caramella, G. Onida, C. Hogan
  in Epioptics-9, The science and culture - Physics, vol. 29, pag. 62-69, Ed. by A. Cricenti, World Scientific (2008)

Thesis

• Theoretical spectroscopy of realistic condensed matter systems
  L. Caramella, PhD thesis (2009)
  
• L'interazione della luce con la superficie ossidata del silicio: sviluppo e applicazione di uno schema efficiente per il calcolo ab initio degli spettri ottici
  L. Caramella,"Laurea" thesis, Universita' di Milano (2005)