ANTONIO DI BARTOLOMEO

Via Lago, 84072, S. Maria di Castellabate, Salerno, Italy   

Phone : +39-339-8487110

E-mail : dibant@sa.infn.it

 

EDUCATION 

9/93-7/97

University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

PhD in Physics

 

11/86-5/93

University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Degree in Physics with maximum marks

 

9/80-7/86

Scientific High School, Agropoli, Italy

Diploma, maximum marks

 

LANGUAGES

Italian (mother tongue), English and French (very good), German (basic)

 

INTERESTS

Experimental High Energy Physics, Semiconductor Physics and Technology, Circuits Design and Simulation, Data Acquisition, Statistical Data Analysis, C/C++ and Internet Programming

 

EXPERIENCE

10/2000-present

University of Salerno, Engineering Faculty, Salerno, Italy

Position: Confirmed Researcher in Experimental Physics

Teaching of General Physics I and II. Research in condensed matter and sub-nuclear Physics.

 

5/99-10/2000

STMicroelectronics, Phoenix, AZ

Position: Device Engineer

Responsible for transfer to production, process integration, parametric test and yield improvement of CMOS and BICMOS technologies in a 8” fab. Investigation of electrical test failures, process and tool impact on yield, defectivity. Disposition of discrepant material. SPC monitoring of in-fab process control parameters and ET parameters, by ensuring good cpk. Planning, execution and evaluation of experiments; running of prototypes lots on new processes. Monitoring of inline lot movement. Fixing and preventing process issues by tight collaboration with process engineers. FMEA.

 

5/98-5/99

Creative Electronic System (CES), Geneva, CH

Position: System Engineer

Responsible for customer technical support and software development in C language under Lynx and VxWorks operating systems for PowerPC real-time VME boards.

 

8/97-5/98

CERN - European Organization for Particle Physics, Geneva, CH

Position: Unpaid Scientific Associate

Automatic image analysis processing, nuclear microscopy, C++ and Java programming, software maintenance (CVS).

 

9/96-8/97

University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy

Position: Temporary Professor

General Physics teaching, statistical analysis of experimental data.

 

6/94-6/95 Italian Army, Salerno, Italy

Position: NCO (national duty)

Database maintenance.

 

RESEARCH

I am investigating the conductivity, the dielectric properties and the radiation hardness (to gamma rays and ionizing particles) of polymers, like polyethylene and polypropylene, filled with carbon nanotubes, and of semiconductor materials and devices.

 

I am also collaborating with the group of Salerno University responsible for the time of flight (TOF) detector of the ALICE experiment at Large Hadron Collider of CERN. The TOF is a complex detector based on the MRPC technology, able to identify charged particles by measuring their time of flight with an accuracy better than 100ps. I am responsible for the design and the realization of the low and high voltage distribution system.

 

Together with a group of physicists and engineers of Salerno University and ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment) I am working to the development of the technology of amorphous silicon deposited on glass or polymer sheets and re-crystallized by an excimer laser for the production of thin film transistor (TFT) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED).

 

At Salerno University, I am technical responsible of a recently installed electronic laboratory, equipped with a broad range and of software tools and of test and measurement instruments, which is dedicated to material and device electrical characterization and to digital logic (CPLD and FPGA) programming.

 

I have been working on the process development of a new 90 nm silicon nitride flash memory. This memory, known as NROM, is a non volatile device able to store two bits in a single cell, by trapping charges in two distinct physical locations of a storage medium consisting of an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) stack.

I have transferred a BICMOS process in production, solved several process and electrical issues and achieved a very high yield.

 

From 92 to 97, I have been collaborating with CHORUS, an experiment at CERN

searching for neutrino oscillations. I was first involved in the set-up of the detector, then in the statistical analysis of data. I was also responsible for off-line software maintenance.

For several years, I have been working at the Physics Department of Salerno University in the Nuclear Emulsion Group, making research in image analysis and automatic nuclear emulsion microscopy. The main achievement of the group has been the development of an automatic system able to analyse video images of particle interactions in nuclear emulsions. Such system, constituted by an advanced optical microscope driven by a personal computer, is nowadays extensively used in High Energy Physics.    

 

TEACHING

Courses given at Salerno University:

2004/05; Physics II (60h), Degree in Electronic Engineering.

2003/04: Physics I (30h), Degree in Electronic Engineering; Physics II (30h), Degree in Chemical and Mechanical Engineering.

2002/03: Physics I (60h), Degree in Electronic Engineering; Physics I (60h), Degree in Civil Engineering; Physics I (60h), Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Physics II (60h), Degree in Mechanical Engineering; lectures of Quantum Electronics (15h), Degree in Electronic Engineering.

Electronics (90h) , Victoria College, Battipaglia, Italy.

2001/02:  Physics I (60h), Degree in Electronic Engineering; Physics I (60h), Degree in Civil Engineering; Physics I (60h), Degree in Mechanics Engineering; Physics II (60h), Degree in Electronic Engineering

2000/01: Physics II (60h), Degree in Electronic Engineering

1996/97: General Physics (90 h), Diploma in Environmental Engineering

 

Supervisor of the Master thesis: MOS Transistors in Dosimetry, Feb. 2004

 

 

TEXTBOOKS

1.             J. Quartieri, A. Di Bartolomeo, M. Guida, L. Siringano, Fisica I – Elementi di teoria ed applicazioni, Cues, Salerno, 2002, pp 230.

2.             J. Quartieri, L. Sirignano, A Di Bartolomeo, Fisica II – Elementi di teoria ed applicazioni, Cues, Salerno, 2004, pp 260.

3.             J. Quartieri, A. Di Bartolomeo, M. Guida, L. Siringano, Fisica I – Elementi di teoria ed applicazioni, 2nd Edition, Cues, Salerno, 2004, pp 375.

 

PUBLICATIONS

1.             S. Aoki,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… Charged particle multiplicity and transverse energy measured in 32S central interactions at 200 GeV per nucleon, Il Nuovo Cimento Vol. 108 A, N. 9, Sept. 1995.

2.             A.S. Ayan,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… The CHORUS experiment, Nuclear Physics B 48, 1996, pp 183-187

3.             E. Eskut,…, A Di Bartolomeo, … The Chorus neutrino oscillation search experiment, 28th Int. Conf. On High Energy Physics, Warsaw, Poland, 25-31 July 1996, Ed. by Adjuk et Al., World Scientific, Singapore 1997, pp. 1278-1281.

4.             A.S. Ayan,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… A  high sensitivity short baseline experiment  to search for  nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillation. Letter of intent, CERN-SPSC/97-5 SPSC/I 213, 14th March 1997.

5.             G. Rosa, A. Di Bartolomeo, G. Grella, G. Romano, Automatic scan and analysis of digitized TV images by a computer driven optical microscope, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 394, 1997, pp 357-367

6.             A.S. Ayan,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… The CHORUS experiment to search for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 401, 1997, pp 7-44.

7.             E. Eskut,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… A search for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillations, Physics Letters B 424, 1998, pp 202-212.

8.             A.S. Ayan,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… Search for nu_mu -> nu_tau oscillation using  the tau decay modes into a single charged hadron, Physics Letters B 434, 1998, pp 205-213.

9.             A.S. Ayan,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… Observation of neutrino induced diffractive Ds+* production and subsequent decay Ds* -> Ds -> tau -> mu, Physics Letters B 435, 1998, pp 458-464.

10.         A. Di Bartolomeo, Chorus: a status report, Invited talk at International Workshop on Aspects of Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics,  Heidelberg, Germany, 16-20  September 1996.  Published in  Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics,  ed.  Klapdor-Kleingrathaus and Ramakers,Scientific World, 1997, pp 670-680.

11.         A. Di Bartolomeo, Sysal:  a  new  fully  automatic  system  for  emulsion scanning, Invited  talk at Frontier Detectors for  Frontier Physics - 7th Pisa  Meeting on Advanced Detectors,  La  Biodola, Isola d'Elba, 25-31 May 1997. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 409, 1998, pp 471-476.

12.         C. Bozza,…A. Di Bartolomeo, … Measurements of the muon flux in the CERN SPS neutrino beam line, CHORUS internal note 97030, February 20th, 1998

13.         A. Di Bartolomeo, … Status of the Automatic Microscopes at CERN, CHORUS internal note, 98-006, June 19th 1998

14.         S. Amendola,…,A. Di Bartolomeo, … Sysal: System of Salerno, in Proceedings of The First International Workshop of Nuclear Emulsion Technique, Nagoya, Japan, June 1998, pp 26.

15.         S. Amendola,…,A. Di Bartolomeo, … Status of Salerno Laboratory (Measurement in Nuclear Emulsion, in Proceedings of The First International Workshop of Nuclear Emulsion Technique, Nagoya, Japan, June 1998, pp 15

16.         A. Di Bartolomeo, J. Quartieri, S. Steri, Perturbed Nonlinear Evolution Problems by Generalized Lie Series Method, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, Vol.3, n.1, 2002, p.75

17.         A. Di Bartolomeo, J. Quartieri, S. Steri, Lie and Lagrange Series in Nonlinear Equations with Controlled Evolution, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulations, Vol. 4, n. 1, 2003, p.95

18.         A. Di Bartolomeo, J. Quartieri, S. Steri, A Class of Nonlinear Implicit Cauchy Problems Integrated by Groebner's Method, International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation, Vol. 4, n. 1, 2003, p.103.

19.         S.Beole,…A. Di Bartolomeo,…Transition Radiation Detector – Alice Technical Design Report, CERN-LHCC 2001-021 – ALICE TDR9, 3 October 2001, ISBN 92-9083-184-7.

20.         P. Cortese,…A Di Bartolomeo,… Time of Flight - Addendum, CERN-LHCC 2002-016, Addendum to ALICE TDR 8, 24 April 2002, ISBN 92-9083-192-8, pp. 144

21.         A.Akindinov,…A. Di Bartolomeo,… A study of the Multigap RPC at the Gamma Irradiation Facility at CERN, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 490, 2002, pp 58-70.

22.         P. Cortese,… A. Di Bartolomeo,… The Time-Of-Flight Detector for the ALICE Experiment, presented at 15th Intl. Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Quark Matter 2001(QM 2001), Stony Brook, NY, USA, 15-20 Jan. 2001, Nuclear Physics A698, 2002, pp. 464-467

23.         P. Cortese,… A. Di Bartolomeo,…The Multigap RPC: The Time-Of-Flight Detector for the ALICE Experiment, presented at Vienna Conference on Instrumentation, Vienna (Austria), 19-23 Feb. 2001, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A478, 2002, pp. 183-186

24.         P. Cortese,… A. Di Bartolomeo,…A large time of flight array for the ALICE experiment based on the multigap resistive plate   chamber, presented by at 14th International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, Quark Matter  ’99 (QM 99), 10-15 May Torino, Italy, Nucl. Phys. A661, 2002, pp.707-711.

25.         P. Cortese,... A. Di Bartolomeo,…Status and Prospects of the CERN-LHC experiment ALICE,  Acta Phys. Pol. B33, 2002, 1651-1670

26.         P. Cortese,... A. Di Bartolomeo,… Physics perspectives of the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, at International Conference on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, Jaipur, India, 26-30 Nov. 2001, CERN-ALI-2002-001, CERN-ALICE-PUB-2002-001, Jan. 2002.

27.         A. Di Bartolomeo,J. Quartieri, S. Steri, Second Order Nonlinear Cauchy Problems in a Four Dimensional Space Equivalent to Evolution Cauchy Problems, Journal of Nonlinear Oscillations, Vol. 6, N.2, 2003, pp. 166-70.

28.         N. Akindinov, … A. Di Bartolomeo,… Algorithms and Methods for Particle Identification with the ALICE TOF Detector at Very High Particle Multiplicity, Nuclear Instruments and Methods A 502 (2003) pp. 716-718.

29.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,…Space charge limited avalanche growth in Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers, Eur. Phys. J., C 34 (2004) s325-s331

30.         P. Cortese, … A. Di Bartolomeo,… Photon multiplicity detector, addendum 1, CERN-LHCC-2003-038, Addendum 1 to ALICE TDR 6, 19 Sep.2003, ISBN 92-9083-215-0, pp 44.

31.         P. Cortese, … A. Di Bartolomeo, … Alice Technical Design Report: Trigger, Data Acquisition, High Level Trigger, Control System, CERN-LHCC-2003-062, Alice TRD 010, 7 Jan 2004, ISBN 92-9083-217-7, pp 470.

32.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,… Operation of the multigap resistive plate chamber using a gas mixture free of flammable components, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 531 (2004) 515-519

33.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,… Design aspects and prototype test of a very precise TDC system implemented for the MultigΦap RPC of the ALICE-TOF, In Press on Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Available online 22 July 2004

34.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,… Study of gas mixtures and ageing of the multigap resistive plate chamber used for the Alice TOF, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 533 (2004) 93-97

35.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,… Results from a large sample of MRPC-strip prototypes for the ALICE TOF detector, In Press on Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Available online 4 August 2004

36.         N. Akindinov,… A.Di Bartolomeo,… Latest results on the performance of the multigap resistive plate chamber used for the ALICE TOF, Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 533 (2004) 74-78.

37.         N. Akindinov,… A. Di Bartolomeo, …, Design aspects and prototype test of a very precise TDC system implemented for the multigap RPC of the ALICE-TOF Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., A 533 (2004) 178-182

38.         H. C. Neitzert, … A Di Bartolomeo, ... Modification of amorphous and microcrystalline silicon film properties after irradiation with MeV and GeV protons.  Presented at European Photovoltaic Conference, Barcellona, 2005

39.         N. Akindinov, …, A. Di Bartolomeo, … Study of QGP signatures with the Φ -> K+K- signal in Pb-Pb ALICE events. Submitted for publication to European Physics Journal, March 2005.

40.         F. Carminati,… A Di Bartolomeo,… ALICE: Physics Performance Report, Volume I, Nucl. Part. Physics 30, 2004, pp 1517-1763

41.         G. Gorrasi, ... A Di Bartolomeo, ... Structural organization and physical properties of Polyethylene/Carbon Nanotubes nanocomposites obtained by High Energy Ball Milling, preprint Salerno University, 2005

42.         L. Guadagno, ... A. Di Bartolomeo, ... Electrical Properties of Syndiotactic Polypropylene, Poster Session,  23rd Discussion Conference on Current and Future Trends in Polymeric Materials, Prague, 26 - 30 June 2005