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Dr. Luisa M Scolfaro

  • Senior Lecturer - Physics
  • Piner, Edwin L (Principal), Haque, Ariful (Co-Principal), Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Miyahara, Yoichi (Co-Principal), Droopad, Ravindranath (Supporting), Holtz, Mark W (Supporting), Scolfaro, Luisa M (Supporting), Miller, David R von (Supporting), Ahmed, Mohammad Iqbal (Supporting). Center for Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Materials, National Science Foundation, Federal, $7500000. (Submitted: December 6, 2024, Funded: September 1, 2025 - August 31, 2029). Grant.
  • Droopad, Ravindranath (Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Haque, Ariful (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %35, Scolfaro, Luisa M (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Valles Molina, Damian (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %25. Integration of Diamond with Ultrawide Bandgap Oxides: Growth, Characterization, and Modeling with Artificial Intelligence, Army Research Office, Federal, $1000000. (Submitted: November 2023, Funded: April 2025 - March 2029). Grant.
  • Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Principal), Scolfaro, Luisa M (Co-Principal). Study of Migration and Diffusion in Hybrid Halide Perovskites Solar Cell Devices: effect on Stability and Efficiency., Research Enhancement, Texas State University, $15995. (Funded: January 1, 2024 - May 30, 2025). Grant.
  • Droopad, Ravindranath (Principal), Percent Contribution: %34, Geerts, Wilhelmus J (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %33, Scolfaro, Luisa M (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %33. Ultrawide Bandgap Heterostructures: Growth, Characterization and Modeling, Federal, $656949. (Submitted: July 2019, Funded: July 31, 2020 - July 30, 2023). Grant.
  • Piner, Edwin L (Principal), Scolfaro, Luisa M (Co-Principal). Improving Thermal Management in GaN HEMTs via Simulation of TDTR Characterization, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: January 2020 - May 2021). Grant.
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  • Shook, J., Scolfaro, L. M., Borges, P. D., & Geerts, W. J. (2019). Structural stability and electronic properties of XTO2 (X= Cu, Ag; T=Al, Cr): An ab initio study including X vacancies and Mg doping. Solid State Sciences, 88, 48.
  • Petersen, J. E., Scolfaro, L. M., Borges, P. D., & Geerts, W. J. (2019). Symmetry considerations on band filling and first optical transition in NiO. European Physics Journal B, 92, 232.
  • Martins, N. R., Scolfaro, L. M., Borges, P. D., & Borges, D. D. (2025). Understanding Oxygen Ion Diffusion Mechanisms in YTiO3 Structures with Native Defects. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 129, 10744–10754. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.113451
  • Viana, L. A. F. C., Martins, N. R., Santos, A. A. G., Scolfaro, L. M., & Borges, P. D. (2025). Interface study of the diamond/Q‑carbon heterostructure. Diamond and Related Materials, 162, 113246. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2025.113246
  • Santos, A. A. G., Martins, N. R., Scolfaro, L. M., Geerts, W. J., & Borges, P. D. (2025). Iodine vacancy and Acetate substitution on α-FaPbI(3-x)Acy perovskite. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 211, 113451. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2025.113451
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Non-tenure Line Faculty Workload Release, Texas State University. 2022 - December 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Nontenure Faculty Workload Release, Texas State University. August 2018 - December 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: “Best Oral” presentation category, International Materials Research Congress. 2010
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Excellence in Research Award, University of São Paulo, Brazil. 2008
  1. Coordinator / Organizer

    Brazilian MRS Meeting 2026, Symposium Proposal: Advanced Semiconductor Oxides: From Theory to Application in Next-Generation Devices

  2. Member

    Physics Scholarship Awards Committee

  3. Reviewer / Referee

    Applied Physics Letters

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    Physica B - Condensed Matter

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Physical Chemistry C

  6. Attendee / Participant

    Materials Design Webinar: Precision at Scale with Machine-Learned Potentials

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