PEOPLE
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Carlo Carraro
Research Staff
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
201 Gilman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: (510) 643-3489
Fax: (510) 642-4778
Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology , Pasadena, CA.
M.S. in Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
Laurea in Fisica (Summa Cum Laude), University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
Surface science and atomic beams: gas-surface interaction; wetting, lubrication and tribology; surface scattering and quantum coherence.
Computational methods: real-time quantum Monte Carlo methods and analytic continuation; simulated annealing; density-functional methods; large-scale molecular dynamics simulation.
Thin films and membranes: elastic properties and thermomechanical stability; kinetics of growth.
Complex fluids: structure/property relationship in water-oil-surfactant mixtures; amphiphilic self-assembly; pattern and mesoscopic correlations in self-assembled structures.
Selected Recent Publications:
C. Carraro, "Ordered Phases of Atoms Adsorbed in nanotube Arrays", Physical Review B, vol. 61, R16351 (2000).
C. R. Stoldt, R. Maboudian, and C. Carraro, "Vibrational Spectra of Hydrogenated
Buckminsterfullerene: A Candidate for the Unidentified Infrared Emission", The Astrophysical
Journal Letters, vol. 548, L225 (2001).
C. Carraro, "Existence and Nature of a Freezing Transition inside Three Dimensional Arrays of
Narrow Channels", Physical Review Letters, vol. 89, 115702 (2002).