Dr Paolo Imperia
Staff Profile
Role at ANSTO
Dr Paolo Imperia graduated at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and then joined the University of Potsdam (Germany) condensed matter group where he received his PhD (Dr Rer Nat) in Physics in 2002. Between 2002 and 2006 he has been Beam Line Scientist for the soft X-ray beam line UE-46 at the synchrotron radiation source BESSY II (Berlin) and Senior Scientist a the University of Hamburg (Germany) until October 2007. In November 2007 Paolo moved to Australia to join ANSTO at the Institute of Materials Engineering as Spectroscopist and Team Leader of the Nuclear Materials Chemistry group.
In November 2009 Paolo joined the Bragg Institute to become leader of the sample environments project inside the NBI-2 program with the responsibility of the design, acquisition and commissioning of different kind of devices and components providing high and low temperatures, high magnetic fields, high pressure etc… to the different neutron instruments.
Since February 2011 Paolo took additional responsibility of the sample environment day to day operations and become Sample Environments Group Leader. He and his team are supporting all sample environment aspects of the experiments of the Bragg users and Paolo is developing the next generation of sample environment equipment.
Between 17-20 September 2012, the 7th International Workshop on Sample Environment at Neutron Scattering Facilities will be held in Sydney and Paolo is Head of the local organising committee.
Paolo’s research interests are in the areas of organic and inorganic magnetic materials, organic electronics, functionalized materials and defects in solids. He has long experience with ultra high vacuum systems, high magnetic fields, low and high temperatures. He is member of the German Physical Society and author and co-author of more than 40 scientific publications.
Publications
P. Imperia, W. Kandulski, A. Kosiorek, H. G aczy ska, H. Maletta, and M. Giersig, Magnetic Anisotropy Study of Triangular-Shaped Co Nanostructures , J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 320 (2008) 2682.
P. Imperia, L. Glaser, M. Martins, P. Andreazza, J. Penuelas, V. Alessandrovic, H. Weller, C. Andreazza-Vignolle and W. Wurth XMCD Studies of Cox Pt100-x Nanoparticles Prepared by Vapour Deposition and Chemical Synthesis , Phys. Stat. Sol. (a), 205 (2008) 1047.
T. Hamamatsu, K. Yabe, M. Towatari, S. Osa, N. Matsumoto, N. Re, A. Pochaba, J. Mrozinski, J.-L. Gallani, A. Barla, P. Imperia, C. Paulsen and J.-P.l Kappler, Magnetic Interactions in CuII-LnIII Cyclic Tetranuclear Complexes: Is It Possible to Explain the Occurrence of SMM Behaviour in CuII-TbIII and CuII-DyIII Complexes? , Inorg. Chem., 46 (2007) 4458.
J. Bansmann, A. Kleibert, F. Bulut, M. Getzlaff, P. Imperia, C. Boeglin and K.H. Meiwes-Broer Temperature Dependent Magnetic Spin and Orbital Moments of Mass-Filtered Cobalt Clusters on Au(111) , Eur. Phys. J. D, 45 (2007) 521.
Barla, G. Schmerber, E. Beaurepaire, A. Dinia, H. Bieber and P. Imperia, Paramagnetism of the Co sublattice in Ferromagnetic Zn1-xCoxO films , Phys. Rev. B, 76 (2007) 125201.
P. Imperia, P. Andreazza, D. Schmitz, J. Penuelas and C. Andreazza-Vignolle XMCD Studies of Co and Co-Pt Nanoparticles Prepared by Vapour Deposition , J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 310 (2007) 2417.
F. Kronast, R. Ovsyannikov, A. Vollmer, H.A. D rr, W. Eberhardt, P. Imperia, D. Schmitz, G.M. Schott, C. Ruester, C. Gould, G. Schmidt, K. Brunner, M. Sawicki and L.W. Molenkamp, Mn 3d Electronic Configurations in (Ga1-xMnx)As Ferromagnetic Semiconductors and their Influence on Magnetic Ordering, Phys. Rev. B, 74 (2006)
H.H. Rossner, D. Schmitz, P. Imperia, H.J. Krappe and J.J. Rehr, Bayes-Turchin Analysis of X-ray Absorption Data Above the Fe L2,3 Edges, Phys. Rev. B, 74 (2006) 134107.
B. Sass, S. Buschhorn, W. Felsch, D. Schmitz and P. Imperia Thin Layers of Fe, Co, and Ni on V2O3(11-20) and V2O3(0001): a Comparison of the Interfacial Magnetic Interactions, J. Magn. Magn. Mater., 303 (2006) 167.
P. Imperia, D. Schmitz, H. Maletta, N.S. Sobal and M. Giersig Effect of Ar+ and H+ Etching on the Magnetic Properties of Co/CoO Core-Shell Nanoparticles, Phys. Rev. B, 72 (2005) 014448.