Electronics (IINF-01/A)
The research activities carried out in the laboratories belonging to the ING-INF/01 sector are aimed at engineering applications that use innovative electronic and optoelectronic components, circuits, and systems to achieve state-of-the-art performance even at low power and in smart applications. The main topics of the group concern the design of low power dissipation analog and digital circuits to be integrated into sensor and actuator nodes and sensor networks with the aim of improving their characteristics, for example in terms of compactness, consumption, and processing capacity. In many cases, activities are carried out in collaboration with companies in the electronics sector and national and international research institutes. In particular, the main topics of interest are currently as follows: development of systems and sensors for biomedical and industrial applications, design of CMOS integrated electronics for particle detectors, modeling, design, manufacture, and characterization of optoelectronic and photonic components and devices in waveguides, design and characterization of miniaturized optoelectronic gyroscopes and biosensors and related read-out, definition of architectures, physical-mathematical models, and design of active photonic devices based on III/V semiconductors and SOI technology, electronic systems for environmental monitoring of pollutants dissolved in water, and sensors for home assistance to the elderly and disabled (AAL).
Main Research Areas
Below are details of the main areas of research that SSD researchers intend to develop further. These cover various fields relevant to the applications of electronic and optoelectronic devices and systems:
- Design, implementation, and testing of compact electronics for sensors that use photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) technology.
- Development of optoelectronic and electronic systems for next-generation satellite subsystems and payloads.
- Development of miniaturized avionics systems for micro and nanosatellites.
- Development of ultra-low-power wireless sensor nodes for the Internet of Things (IoT).
- Development of photonic and electronic devices and systems for early cancer diagnosis.
- Development of wearable electronic systems for active monitoring of physiological parameters for rehabilitation and sports purposes.
- Development of wearable electronic systems for the early diagnosis of progressive genetic diseases.
- Design and implementation of a Speed Monitoring and Odometry (SMO) system for Autonomous Train Operation (ATO).
- Photonics and electronic systems based on PT and anti-PT symmetry.
- Design of non-volatile photonic devices (switches, modulators, and memories).
- Optically driven electronic memory matrices.
- Programmable integrated photonic architectures.
- Innovative systems for microwave/millimeter wave position detection.
- Development of embedded systems (ES), system on chip (SoC), and artificial intelligence (TinyML) on FPGA.
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