Selected
Publications
Novel optical materials:
A. Gocalinska,
M. Saba, F. Quochi, M. Marceddu, K. Szendrei, J. Gao, M.A. Loi, M. Yarema,
R. Seyrkammer, W. Heiss, A.
Mura, G. Bongiovanni
Size-Dependent Electron Transfer from Colloidal PbS Nanocrystals to Fullerene
Journal of Chemical Physics Letters 1, 1149
(2010) (PDF)
M. Saba, S. Minniberger, F. Quochi, J. Roither, m. Marceddu,
A. Gocalinska, M.V. Kovalenko,
D.V. Talapin, W. Heiss, A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni
Exciton-exciton interaction
and optical gain in colloidal CdSe/CdS dot/rod nanocrystals
Advanced Materials 21, 4942 (2009) (PDF)
F. Quochi,
M. Saba, F. Artizzu, M.L. Mercuri, P. Deplano,
A. Mura, and G. Bongiovanni
Ultrafast Dynamics of Intersystem Crossing and Resonance Energy Transfer in Er(III)−Quinolinolate
Complexes
Journal of
Chemical Physics
Letters 1,
2733 (2010)
F. Quochi, F. Artizzu,
M. Saba, F. Cordella, M.L. Mercuri,
P. Deplano, M.A. Loi, A. Mura and G. Bongiovanni
Population Saturation
in Trivalent Erbium Sensitized by Organic
Molecular Antennae
Journal of Physical Chemistry
Letters 1, 141 (2010)
F. Quochi,
M. Saba, F. Cordella, A. Gocalinska, R. Corpino, M. Marceddu, A. Anedda, A. Andreev, H. Sitter,
N.S. Sariciftci, A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni
Temperature Tuning of Nonlinear
Exciton Processes in Self-Assembled Oligophenyl Nanofibers under Laser Action
Advanced Materials
20, 3017 (2008) (PDF)
K. Szendrei,
F. Cordella, M. V. Kovalenko, M. Böberl,
G. Hesser, M. Yarema, D. Jarzab, O. V. Mikhnenko, A. Gocalinska, M. Saba, F. Quochi,
A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni, P. W. M. Blom,
W. Heiss, M. A. Loi
Solution-Processable Near-IR
Photodetectors Based on
Electron Transfer from PbS Nanocrystals to Fullerene
Derivatives
Advanced Materials
21, 683 (2009) ) (PDF)
F. Cordella, F. Quochi, M. Saba, A. Andreev, H. Sitter, N.S. Sariciftci, A. Mura, and G. Bongiovanni
Optical Gain Performance of Epitaxially Grown para-Sexiphenyl Films
Advanced Materials 19, 2252 (2007) (PDF)
F. Artizzu, L. Marchi, M.L. Mercuri, L. Pilia, A. Serpe, F. Quochi, R. Orrů, F.
Cordella, M. Saba, A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni, and P. Deplano
New Insights on Near-Infrared Emitters
Based on Er-quinolinolate Complexes: Synthesis, Characterization,
Structural, and Photophysical Properties
Advanced Functional Materials 17, 2365-2376 (2007) (PDF)
J. Moreau, U. Giovanella, J.-P. Bombenger, W. Porzio, V. Vohra, L. Spadacini, G. Di
Silvestro, L. Barba, G. Arrighetti, S. Destri, M. Pasini, M. Saba, F. Quochi, A.
Mura, G. Bongiovanni, M. Fiorini, M. Uslenghi, and C. Botta
Highly Emissive Nanostructured Thin Films of Organic
Host–Guests for
Energy Conversion
ChemPhysChem 10, 1-8 (2009).
Ultracold atoms:
M. Saba, T. A. Pasquini, C. Sanner, Y. Shin,
W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard
Light scattering to determine the relative phase of two Bose-Einstein
Condensates
Science 307, 1945 (2005) (PDF)
Y. Shin, M. Saba, T. Pasquini,
W. Ketterle, D.E. Pritchard, and A.E. Leanhardt,
Atom interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well
potential,
Phys. Rev. Letters 92, 050405 (2004)
(PDF)
Y. Shin, M. Saba, M. Vengalattore, T.A.
Pasquini, C. Sanner, A.E. Leanhardt, M. Prentiss,
D.E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle,
Dynamical Instability of a Doubly Quantized Vortex in a Bose-Einstein
condensate,
Phys. Rev. Letters 93, 160406 (2004) (PDF)
Y. Shin, M. Saba, A. Schirotzek,
T. A. Pasquini, A. E. Leanhardt,
D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle,
Distillation of Bose-Einstein condensates
in a double-well potential.
Phys. Rev. Letters, 92, 150401
(2004) (PDF)
A. E. Leanhardt, T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, A. Schirotzek, Y. Shin, D. Kielpinski, D. E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle,
Cooling Bose-Einstein
Condensates Below 500 Picokelvin,
Science 301, 1513 (2003) (PDF)
T. A. Pasquini, Y. Shin, C. Sanner, M. Saba,
A. Schirotzek, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle,
Quantum reflection of atoms from a solid surface at normal incidence.
Phys. Rev. Letters 93, 223201 (2004) (PDF)
Y. Shin, C. Sanner, G.-B. Jo, T. A. Pasquini,
M. Saba, W. Ketterle, and D. E. Pritchard,
Interference of Bose-Einstein condensates
split with an atom chip
Phys. Rev. A 72, 021604(R) (2005) (PDF)
Y. Shin, G.-B. Jo, M. Saba, T. A. Pasquini, W. Ketterle, and D. E.
Pritchard,
Optical Weak Link between Two Spatially
Separate Bose-Einstein Condensates
Phys. Rev. Letters 95, 170402
(2005) (PDF)
T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, G. Jo, Y. Shin, W. Ketterle,
D. E. Pritchard, T. A. Savas, and N. Mulders,
Low velocity quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates
Phys. Rev. Letters 97, 093201 (2006) (PDF)
G.-B. Jo, Y. Shin, S. Will, T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, W. Ketterle, D. E. Pritchard, M. Vengalattore
and M. Prentiss,
Long Phase Coherence Time and Number Squeezing of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates
on an Atom Chip
Phys. Rev. Letters 98, 030407 (2007) (PDF)
Semiconductors:
S. Kundermann, M. Saba,
C. Ciuti, T. Guillet, U. Oesterle, JL. Staehli, and B. Deveaud,
Coherent Control of
Polariton Parametric Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities,
Phys. Rev. Letters 91, 177402 (2003) (PDF)
M. Saba, C. Ciuti, J. Bloch, V. Thierry-Mieg, R. André, Le Si Dang,
S. Kundermann, A. Mura, G. Bongiovanni, JL. Staehli, and B. Deveaud,
High-temperature ultrafast polariton parametric amplification in semiconductor microcavities,
Nature 414, 731 (2001) (PDF)
M. Saba, F. Quochi, C. Ciuti, U. Oesterle, JL. Staehli, B. Deveaud, A. Mura and G. Bongiovanni,
Crossover from exciton to biexciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities,
Phys. Rev. Letters 85, 385 (2000) (PDF)
M. Saba, F. Quochi, C. Ciuti, D. Martin, JL. Staehli, B. Deveaud, A. Mura and G. Bongiovanni,
Direct observation of the excitonic ac Stark splitting in a quantum well,
Phys. Rev. B 62, R13622 (2000) (PDF)
F. Quochi, M. Saba, C. Ciuti, R.P. Stanley, R. Houdré, U. Oesterle, JL.
Staehli, B. Deveaud, G. Bongiovanni, and A. Mura,
Direct
observation of an ac Stark splitting in semiconductor microcavities
excited above the continuum onset,
Phys. Rev. B 61, R5113 (2000) (PDF)
F. Quochi, C. Ciuti, G. Bongiovanni, A. Mura, M. Saba, U. Oesterle, M.A.
Dupertuis, JL. Staehli and B. Deveaud,
Strong coherent gain from semiconductor microcavities in the regime of excitonic saturation,
Phys. Rev. B 59, R15594 (1999) (PDF)
M.
Saba, C. Ciuti, S. Kundermann, JL. Staehli and B. Deveaud,
Towards a
room-temperature polariton amplifier
Semiconductor Science and Technology 18,
S325 (2003) (PDF)
M. Saba, S. Kundermann ,C. Ciuti , T. Guillet, JL. Staehli and B. Deveaud,
Polariton
amplification in semiconductor microcavities
Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 238, 432 (2003) (PDF)
B. Deveaud, F. Quochi, M. Saba, C. Ciuti and JL. Staehli,
Femtosecond dynamics and non-linearities of exciton-photon coupling in semiconductor microstructures,
Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Series IV - Physics, 2, 1439 (2001) (PDF)
JL. Staehli, M. Saba, S. Kundermann, C. Ciuti and B. Deveaud
Quantum
kinetics of parametric polariton scattering in microcavities
Phys. Stat. Sol. (b) 234, 183 (2002) (PDF)
S. Kundermann, M. Saba,
C. Ciuti, T. Guillet, JL. Staehli and B. Deveaud,
Evidence for parametric memory and correlation in semiconductor microcavities
Phys. Rev. Letters, submitted, cond-mat/ 0312205 (PDF)