CV

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Education

03/2018: Ph.D. in Materials Science and Nanotechnology, University of Milano-Bicocca.
Thesis title: GaAs nanostructures for the generation of entangled photons: design, development, and spectroscopy.
07/2014: M.S. in Physics, University of Milan.
Thesis title: Elastic and plastic properties of Ge mesostructures integrated on Si investigated by optical spectroscopy.
02/2012: B.S. in Physics, University of Milan.
Thesis title: Time-resolved emission spectroscopy of free carbon clusters.

Work experience

04/2025–current: Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTT, PHYS-03/A 02/PHYS-03) in the Physics Depertment of the Politecnico di Milano.
02/2022–01/2025: Researcher (RTDa, FIS/03 02/B1) at the Sapienza University of Rome.
03/2021–01/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome under the project FET Open QUROPE.
02/2018–02/2021: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Sapienza University of Rome under the project ERC Starting Grant SPQRel.
11/2016–06/2017: Research Traineeship at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Institute of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics. 8-month abroad research period, also supported by the Erasmus+ Traineeship program.

Publications

Towards a uniform and large-scale deposition of MoS$_2$ nanosheets via sulfurization of ultra-thin Mo-based solid films

S. Vangelista, E. Cinquanta, C. Martella, M. Alia, M. Longo, A. Lamperti, R. Mantovan, F. Basso Basset, F. Pezzoli, A. Molle, Nanotechnology 27, 175703 (2016).

Exceptional thermal strain reduction by a tilting pillar architecture: Suspended Ge layers on Si (001)

A. Marzegalli, A. Cortinovis, F. Basso Basset, E. Bonera, F. Pezzoli, A. Scaccabarozzi, F. Isa, G. Isella, P. Zaumseil, G. Capellini, T. Schroeder, L. Miglio, Materials and Design 116, 144--151 (2017).

High-yield fabrication of entangled photon emitters for hybrid quantum networking using high-temperature droplet epitaxy

F. Basso Basset, S. Bietti, M. Reindl, L. Esposito, A. Fedorov, D. Huber, A. Rastelli, E. Bonera, R. Trotta, S. Sanguinetti, Nano Letters 18, 505--512 (2017).

Ga metal nanoparticle-GaAs quantum molecule complexes for terahertz generation

S. Bietti, F. Basso Basset, D. Scarpellini, A. Fedorov, A. Ballabio, L. Esposito, M. Elborg, T. Kuroda, A. Nemcsics, L. Toth, C. Manzoni, C. Vozzi, S. Sanguinetti, Nanotechnology 29, 365602 (2018).

Spectral broadening in self-assembled GaAs quantum dots with narrow size distribution

F. Basso Basset, S. Bietti, A. Tuktamyshev, S. Vichi, E. Bonera, S. Sanguinetti, Journal of Applied Physics 126, 024301 (2019).

Entanglement swapping with photons generated on demand by a quantum dot

F. Basso Basset, M. Rota, C. Schimpf, D. Tedeschi, K. Zeuner, S. Silva, M. Reindl, V. Zwiller, K. Joens, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, Physical Review Letters 123, 160501 (2019).

Entanglement teleportation with photons from quantum dots: towards a solid-state based quantum network

M. Rota, F. Basso Basset, D. Tedeschi, R. Trotta, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 26, 6400416 (2020).

High-temperature droplet epitaxy of symmetric GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots

S. Bietti, F. Basso Basset, A. Tuktamyshev, E. Bonera, A. Fedorov, S. Sanguinetti, Scientific Reports 10, 6532 (2020).

Quantum teleportation with imperfect quantum dots

F. Basso Basset, F. Salusti, L. Schweickert, M. Rota, D. Tedeschi, S. Silva, E. Roccia, V. Zwiller, K. Joens, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, npj Quantum Information 7, 7 (2021).

Optical properties and symmetry optimization of spectrally (excitonically) uniform site-controlled GaAs pyramidal quantum dots

I. Ranjbar Jahromi, G. Juska, S. Varo, F. Basso Basset, F. Salusti, R. Trotta, A. Gocalinska, F. Mattana, E. Pelucchi, Applied Physics Letters 118, 073103 (2021).

Quantum dots as potential sources of strongly entangled photons: Perspectives and challenges for applications in quantum networks

C. Schimpf, M. Reindl, F. Basso Basset, K. Joens, R. Trotta, A. Rastelli, Applied Physics Letters 118, 100502 (2021).

Quantum key distribution with entangled photons generated on demand by a quantum dot

F. Basso Basset, M. Valeri, E. Roccia, V. Muredda, D. Poderini, J. Neuwirth, N. Spagnolo, M. Rota, G. Carvacho, F. Sciarrino, R. Trotta, Science Advances 7, eabe6379 (2021).

Quantum dot technology for quantum repeaters: from entangled photon generation toward the integration with quantum memories

J. Neuwirth, F. Basso Basset, M. Rota, E. Roccia, C. Schimpf, K. Joens, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, Materials for Quantum Technology 1, 043001 (2021).

Optically controlled dual-band quantum dot infrared photodetector

S. Vichi, S. Bietti, F. Basso Basset, A. Tuktamyshev, A. Fedorov, S. Sanguinetti, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology 12 (2022).

Quantum violation of local causality in an urban network with hybrid photonic technologies

G. Carvacho, E. Roccia, M. Valeri, F. Basso Basset, D. Poderini, C. Pardo, E. Polino, L. Carosini, M. Rota, J. Neuwirth, S. Silva, A. Rastelli, N. Spagnolo, R. Chaves, R. Trotta, F. Sciarrino, Optica 9, 572--578 (2022).

Multipair emission effects in quantum dot-based entangled photon sources

J. Neuwirth, F. Basso Basset, M. Rota, S. Silva, K. Jöns, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, Proc. SPIE 12206, Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems 2022, 1220603 (2022)

Multipair-free source of entangled photons in the solid state

J. Neuwirth, F. Basso Basset, M. Rota, J.-G. Hartel, M. Sartison, S. Silva, K. Jöns, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, Phys. Rev. B 106, L241402 (2022)

Daylight entanglement-based quantum key distribution with a quantum dot source

F. Basso Basset, M. Valeri, J. Neuwirth, E. Polino, M. B. Rota, D. Poderini, C. Pardo, G. Rodari, E. Roccia, S. Covre da Silva, G. Ronco, N. Spagnolo, A. Rastelli, G. Carvacho, F. Sciarrino, R. Trotta, Quantum Sci. Technol. 8, 025002 (2023)

Effects of random alloy disorder, shape deformation, and substrate misorientation on the exciton lifetime and fine structure splitting of GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs (111) quantum dots.

G. Pirard, F. Basso Basset, S. Bietti, S. Sanguinetti, R. Trotta, G. Bester, Phys. Rev. B 107, 205417 (2023)

Hyperfine interaction limits polarization entanglement of photons from semiconductor quantum dots

C. Schimpf, F. Basso Basset, M. Aigner, W. Attenender, L. Ginés, G. Undeutsch, M. Reindl, D. Huber, D. Gangloff, E. A. Chekhovich, C. Schneider, S. Höfling, A. Predojević, R. Trotta, A. Rastelli, Phys. Rev. B 108, L081405 (2023)

Signatures of the optical Stark effect on entangled photon pairs from resonantly pumped quantum dots

F. Basso Basset, M. B. Rota, M. Beccaceci, T. M. Krieger, Q. Buchinger, J. Neuwirth, H. Huet, S. Stroj, S. F. Covre da Silva, G. Ronco, C. Schimpf, S. Höfling, T. Huber-Loyola, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 166901 (2023)

A source of entangled photons based on a cavity-enhanced and strain-tuned GaAs quantum dot

M. B. Rota, T. M. Krieger, Q. Buchinger, M. Beccaceci, J. Neuwirth, H. Huet, N. Horová, G. Lovicu, G. Ronco, S. F. Covre da Silva, G. Pettinari, M. Moczała-Dusanowska, C. Kohlberger, S. Manna, S. Stroj, J. Freund, X. Yuan, C. Schneider, M. Ježek, S. Höfling, F. Basso Basset, T. Huber-Loyola, A. Rastelli, R. Trotta, eLight 4, 13 (2024)

Wavevector-resolved polarization entanglement from radiative cascades

A. Laneve, M. B. Rota, F. Basso Basset, M. Beccaceci, V. Villari, T. Oberleitner, Y. Reum, T. M. Krieger, Q. Buchinger, S. F. Covre da Silva, A. Pfenning, S. Stroj, S. Höfling, A. Rastelli, T. Huber-Loyola, R. Trotta, Nat. Commun. 16(1), 6209 (2025)