ANDREA DAL CORSO

SISSA, via Beirut 2-4, 34014 Trieste Grignano, Italy
tel: +39-0403787428
fax: +390403787528
e-mail: dalcorso@sissa.it

EDUCATION: 1993, Degree 'Dottore in Fisica', Trieste (Italy)

• Electronic, structural, and dynamical properties of metal surfaces
• Electronic and magnetic properties of nanowires
• Response properties of extended systems
• Algorithms for electronic structure calculations

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION:

About 35 scientific papers published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings. These papers have been cited more than 400 times in other scientific articles in the international literature over the past 9 years (source: ISI, July 2002).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• A. Dal Corso, A. Pasquarello, and A. Baldereschi, "Density functional perturbation theory with ultrasoft pseudopotentials'', Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication) 56, R11369 (1997).
• A. Dal Corso and S. de Gironcoli, "Ab-initio phonon dispersions of Fe and Ni'', Phys. Rev. B 62, 273 (2000).
• A. Dal Corso and F. Mauri, "Wannier and Bloch orbital computation of nonlinear susceptibility'', Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication) 50, 5756 (1994).
  
• A. Dal Corso, S. Baroni and R. Resta, "Density-functional theory of the dielectric constant: gradient corrected calculation for silicon'', Phys. Rev. B 49, 5323 (1994).
• F. Favot, A. Dal Corso and A. Baldereschi, "Ab-initio study of CO adsorption on Ni(110): effects on surface magnetism at low coverage'', Phys. Rev. B 63, 115416 (2001).
• F. Favot, A. Dal Corso and A. Baldereschi, "Adsorption geometry of Benzene on Pd(110): Results of first-principles calculations", Europhys. Lett. 52, 698 (2000).
• A. Dal Corso, M. Posternak, R. Resta and A. Baldereschi, "Ab-initio study of piezoelectricity in ZnO'', Phys. Rev. B 50, 10715 (1994).
• A. Dal Corso, S. Baroni, R. Resta, and S. de Gironcoli, "Ab-initio calculation of phonon dispersions in II-VI semiconductors'', Phys. Rev. B 47, 3588 (1993).
• S. Baroni, S. de Gironcoli, A. Dal Corso, and P. Giannozzi "Phonons and related properties of extended systems from density functional perturbation theory'', Rev. Mod. Phys. 73, 515 (2001).
• E. Tosatti, S. Prestipino, S. Kostlmeier, A. Dal Corso, and F. Di Tolla "String Tension and Stability of Magic Tip-Suspended Nanowires'', Science 291, 288 (2001).

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