PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

Clean Room

vincenzo.petruzzelli — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:40:21 +0000

Clean Room vincenzo.petruzzelli Mon, 02/11/2019 - 12:40

Lab full name

Clean Room

ERC 2nd Level Code

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

ERC 3rd level Code

PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components

PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling

Research Activities

Design and characterization of plasmonic nanostructures for applications in sensors, photovoltaics, near field enhancement.
Design and characterization of nanoantennas for optical wireless network on.chip.
Design and characterization of beam steering from subwavelength apertures in metal substrates.
Polymeric sensors for biomedical and industrial applications.
Design and characterization of optical interconnecting devices for chip multiprocessor architectures.
Design and characterization of III-V-N of semiconductor active photonic devices and photonic crystals for laser applications.
Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated optical devices by sputtering, ion-exchange, spin-coating techniques.

Department

DEI

Contact Person

Vincenzo Petruzzelli

vincenzo.petruzzelli@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), CNR Istituto di Nanoscienze – Lecce (Italy)

Centro di nanotecnologie bio-molecolari, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) – Arnesano – Lecce (Italy)

Institute of Inorganic and Plasmas Methods, IMIP-CNR (Italy)

Microphotonics Group – St. Andrews University (UK)

Department of Materials Science, University of Patras (Greece)

LAAS-CNRSM, Toulose (France)

Projects

Progetto di ricerca " Ottimizzazione delle proprietà ottiche e di trasporto di strati di graphene da impiegare in celle ad eterogiunzione a-Si:H/c-S"

Progetto Galileo 2018 Italia-Francia "Selective nanotweezers based on integrated plasmonic resonators for environmental monitoring"

PRIN 2015 dal titolo "Wireless Networks through on-chip Optical Technology - WiNOT"

Progetto Galileo Italia-Francia 2014 "Experimental demonstration of mesoscopic self-collimation guiding"

Progetto Regionale "Laboratorio Regionale di Sintesi e caratterizzazione di nuovi materiali organici e nanostrutturati per Elettronica, Fotonica e Tecnologie Avanzate"

FIRB 2008 dal titolo "PHOTONICA - Photonic Interconnect Technology for Chip Multiprocessing Architectures"

Facilities

Clean room in class 100-1000 equipped with chemical hood,

thermostat oven for ion exchange,

spin coater and DC - AC sputtering equipment.

Services

Fabrication and characterization of integrated optical devices by sputtering, ion-exchange, spin-coating techniques.

Deposition of dielectric or metal thin films on optical substrates with high degree of purity.

Treatments for the cleaning of optical subsatrates.

StakeHolder

Address / How to reach us

Via Re David 200, Bari, c/o Department of Electrical and Information Engineer

Hours

Hours (*) From Monday to Friday: hours 9:00-17:00

Area (mq)

Link to external content

http://npeg.poliba.it/

AP Lab

vincenzo.petruzzelli — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:30:43 +0000

AP Lab vincenzo.petruzzelli Mon, 02/11/2019 - 12:30

Lab full name

Apulia regional laboratory of characterization of new organicand nanostructured materials

ERC 2nd Level Code

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

ERC 3rd level Code

PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components

PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling

Research Activities

Design and characterization of plasmonic nanostructures for applications in sensors, photovoltaics, near field enhancement.
Design and characterization of nanoantennas for optical wireless network on.chip.
Design and characterization of beam steering from subwavelength apertures in metal substrates.
Polymeric sensors for biomedical and industrial applications.
Design and characterization of optical interconnecting devices for chip multiprocessor architectures.
Design and characterization of III-V-N of semiconductor active photonic devices and photonic crystals for laser applications.
Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated optical devices by sputtering, ion-exchange, spin-coating techniques.

Department

DEI

Contact Person

Vincenzo Petruzzelli

vincenzo.petruzzelli@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL), CNR Istituto di Nanoscienze – Lecce (Italy)

Centro di nanotecnologie bio-molecolari, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) – Arnesano – Lecce (Italy)

Institute of Inorganic and Plasmas Methods, IMIP-CNR (Italy),

Microphotonics Group – St. Andrews University (UK)

Department of Materials Science, University of Patras (Greece)

LAAS-CNRSM, Toulose (France)

Projects

Progetto di ricerca " Ottimizzazione delle proprietà ottiche e di trasporto di strati di graphene da impiegare in celle ad eterogiunzione a-Si:H/c-S"

Progetto Galileo 2018 Italia-Francia "Selective nanotweezers based on integrated plasmonic resonators for environmental monitoring"

PRIN 2015 dal titolo "Wireless Networks through on-chip Optical Technology - WiNOT"

Progetto Galileo Italia-Francia 2014 "Experimental demonstration of mesoscopic self-collimation guiding"

Progetto Regionale "Laboratorio Regionale di Sintesi e caratterizzazione di nuovi materiali organici e nanostrutturati per Elettronica, Fotonica e Tecnologie Avanzate"

FIRB 2008 dal titolo "PHOTONICA - Photonic Interconnect Technology for Chip Multiprocessing Architectures"

Facilities

• Spectrometric Ellipsometer,

• micro-controlled surface Profilometer,

• System for the deposition of thin films made of Spin coater,

• UV lamp and heating plate,

• Instrumentation for the characterization of thin films made of polarizing microscope including a BF/DF optical Kit.

Services

Characterization of thin films.

Measure of roughness and depth of optical films.

Deposition of polymeric film on glass substrates by spinning technique.

StakeHolder

Address / How to reach us

Via Re David 200, Bari, c/o Department of Electrical and Information Engineer

Hours

From Monday to Friday: hours 9:00-17:00

Area (mq)

Link to external content

http://npeg.poliba.it/

ETLC Lab

gianfranco.avitabile — Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:02:32 +0000

ETLC Lab gianfranco.avitabile Tue, 02/05/2019 - 12:02

Lab full name

Electronics for Telecommunications

ERC 2nd Level Code

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

ERC 3rd level Code

PE7_11 Components and systems for applications

PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components

PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

Research Activities

Electronics for Telecommunications Lab (ETL) focuses on studying, designing and deploying innovative electronic systems for telecommunications, operating at high frequencies. Main research fields deals with Internet of Things (IoT), indoor and outdoor positioning systems and smart-health.

During the years, the lab developed agreements with the most important electronics and telecommunications industries, like Texas Instruments Europe. Also, the ETL group participated national and international research projects.

With his test benches, CAD tools and measurement instruments, ETL has the possibility of developing the most interesting and innovative approaches to research problems resolution in the fields of high frequency electronics.

The ETL group is also active on teaching, bringing the new solutions coming from research to engineering students, who will become the engineers of tomorrow. RF, microwave and mm-wave component and circuit design - hybrid and ASIC developments.
The main activities are:

TLC system design and integration for personal communications, industrial and medical applications.
Integrated sensors wireless unit development for environmental monitoring.

Department

DEI

Contact Person

Gianfranco Avitabile

gianfranco.avitabile@poliba.it

Technical Staff

Coviello Giuseppe

giuseppe.coviello@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

IMT srl

GST

BEST srl

GST

Projects

Technologies for Innovative Therapeutic Approacches in the chronic patient care (Tech.Inn.Th.App.)

Funding

Regione Puglia - 159.426,00€

Facilities

3 oscilloscopes including 1 up to 3GHz

A spectrum analyzer up to 26.5 GHz

A network analyzer up to 26.5 GHz

A waveform generator up to 6 GHz

A waveform generator up to 4G Hz

A logic analyzer up to 125 MHz

6 dual voltage generators up to 32V

1 LPKF Protomat C60 micro-cutter

1 bench for welding SMD components made up of 4 welders

hot air rework station

PLA 3D printer

14 personal computers

2 printers

Softwares

Advanced design systems

CubeMx

MATLAB®/Simulink

Quartus

CodeWarrior

Services

System design and prototype development

Test and validation Measurements

StakeHolder

Boards

External Collaborators

Graduate

Organizations and Enterprise

Address / How to reach us

Laboratory of Electronics for Telecommunications – DEI – Polytechnic of Bari

Hours

From Monday to Friday: 9:00-19:00

Area (mq)

Link to external content

https://etlclab.poliba.it/

SST Lab

cataldo.guaragnella — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 11:07:42 +0000

SST Lab cataldo.guaragnella Thu, 01/17/2019 - 12:07

Lab full name

Signals and Systems for Telecommunications

ERC 2nd Level Code

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

PE10 Earth System Science

LS5 Neurosciences and Neural Disorders

LS7 Diagnostic Tools, Therapies and Public Health

LS9 Applied Life Sciences and Non-Medical Biotechnology

ERC 3rd level Code

PE7_4 (Micro and nano) systems engineering

PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components

PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

PE7_7 Signal processing

PE7_10 Robotics

PE10_14 Earth observations from space/remote sensing

LS5_10 Neuroimaging and computational neuroscience

LS7_1 Medical engineering and technology

LS7_2 Diagnostic tools (e.g. genetic, imaging)

LS9_5 Agriculture related to crop production, soil biology and cultivation, applied plant biology

Research Activities

Computer Vision

Signal Image and Video Analysis and processing

Pattern recognition

Multidimensional Signal Processing

Complex Networks

Department

DEI

Contact Person

Cataldo Guaragnella

cataldo.guaragnella@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

CNR – STIIMA – Bari

INFN - Bari

NASA – JPL – Pasadena (CA) – USA

Many companies of the regional area

Projects

Developed several projects funded by regional and national agencies jointly with industries

Facilities

Availability of embedded HW digital systems like FPGA Altera and DSP Texas

Microcontrollers and ADC/DAC

Powerful PC (Alienware) and desktops

Softwares

Open-source SW, mainly linux based

Proprietary developed SW for sound source localization, computer vision for third generation video surveillance systems, computer vision and environmental sensing for robotics applications like SLAM in GPS denied environments

Services

Joint projects

System design and prototype development

Test and validation

StakeHolder

External Collaborators

Graduate

Organizations and Enterprise

Tecnnical Administrative Staff

Visitor

Address / How to reach us

Politecnico di Bari Via E. Orabona, 4 70125 – Bari – Italy

Hours

h 24/24 by e-mail, WhatsApp, sms, skype,…

Link to external content

Youtube channel showing example experiments

MOE

francesco.prudenzano — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:18 +0000

MOE francesco.prudenzano Wed, 01/16/2019 - 10:37

Lab full name

Microwave and Optical Engineering

ERC 2nd Level Code

PE7 Systems and Communication Engineering

ERC 3rd level Code

PE7_3 Simulation engineering and modelling

PE7_5 (Micro and nano) electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components

PE7_6 Communication technology, high-frequency technology

PE7_11 Components and systems for applications

Research Activities

The research activities of Electromagnetic Fields and Telecommunications Laboratory at Magna Grecia Center in Taranto and of Microwave and Optical Engineering (MOE) Laboratory in Bari are performed by the Microwave and Optical Engineering (MOE) group (http://moe-group.poliba.it/). They are pertaining to the following main topics:

MICROWAVE - Design, fabrication and characterization of antennas and microwave devices for aerospace and communication; substrate integrated waveguide devices (SIW); measurement of electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic exposure investigation, bio-compatibility. Microwave applicators for thermal ablation medical therapy. Modeling of accelerating cavities for proton linear accelerators (LINAC) for medical proton-therapy.

Lab main microwave facilities:

1. LPKF ProtoLaser U3 for Rapid PCB Prototyping;

2. Anechoic chamber StarLab Antenna Test Station (SL18), 800 MHz to 18 GHz, automated anechoic chamber;

3. LPKF MiniContac RS Electroplating of Through-Holes;

4. LPKF MultiPress S: Press for Producing Multilayers (up to 8 layers);

5. R&S ESU EMI Test ReceiverESU26: standard-compliant EMI test receiver + high-end spectrum analyzer, 20 Hz to 26.5 GHz, full compliance with CISPR 16-1-1 standard;

6. R&S ENV216 LISN two-line V-network for disturbance voltage measurements on single-phase EUTs: 9 kHz - 30 MHz, isolation > 40 dB, max continuous current 16 A, high-pass filter 150 kHz;

7. E.M. field power meter: Narda 8053-2004/40 portable EM fields meter: E-field 100 kHz÷7 GHz, H-field 5 Hz÷400 kHz;

8. Narda Area Monitor System 2600: Remote Monitoring of Electromagnetic Fields; E-field 100 kHz÷7 GHz, H-field 5 Hz÷100 kHz;

9. Near field probes: active broadband probes for EMI diagnosis for frequencies of up to 1 GHz, H-field probe, High-impedance probe, E-field probe;

10. Microwave Network Analyzer Agilent N5224A PNA 10 MHz to 43.5 GHz, 2-ports;

11. Rohde&Schwarz R&S FSH3 handheld Spectrum Analyzer: 100 kHz to 3 GHz, resolution bandwidth 1 Hz, distance to fault measurement option, two-port measurements with tracking generator;

12. Vector Network Analyzer Agilent FieldFox N9917A, 30kHz-18GHz;

13. OscilloscopeTektronik TSD1002, Bandwidth 60 MHz, 2-channel

14. R&S SMB100A RF and Microwave Signal Generator: 100 kHz to 20 GHz, AM, FM and Pulse modulator, Pulse generator, Pulse train;

15. Function generator Instek GFG-8210: 0.1Hz-10MHz;

16. Dielectric probe kit SPEAG for dielectric constant measurement 10MHz-50GHz;

17. Weller soldering station WSD-081;

18. Printer Ink-Jet EcoTank ET-M1170 for flexible circuit printing on Novele IJ-220 coated PET substrate;

19. Antennas: R&S HL050 Antenna: Log-Periodic Directional Antenna for linear polarization: 850 MHz to 26.5 GHz, input impedance 50 W, VSWR≤2.5, gain=8.5 dBi; R&S HF907 Antenna: Double-Ridged Waveguide Horn Antenna: broadband directional antenna for EMC measurements: 0.8 GHz to 18 GHz input impedance 50 W, VSWR≤2.0, gain=5÷14 dBi; R&S HL040 Antenna: Log-periodic broadband antenna: 400 MHz to 3 GHz input impedance 50 W, VSWR≤2.0, gain=5÷7 dBi.

OPTICS - Design, fabrication and characterization of fiber lasers. Modeling of photonic crystal fibers (PCF), for near infrared (NIR) and medium infrared (MID-IR) applications. Modeling of innovative materials and rare earth doped optical devices in optical fiber and in planar optics; nonlinear device modeling; optical microresonators; design, fabrication and characterization of optical devices for environmental monitoring and biomedicine.

Lab main optical facilities:

1. Vytran GPX-2400 Splicer GPX PTR Fiber Optic Glass Processing Unit;

2. Automatic Cleaver Vytran LDC-400;

3. Fiber Optic Recoater PTR-200;

4. Ytterbium fiber Lasers CW 30 W and CW 100 W, with chiller Liekky;

5. Lightwave Component Analyzer HP 8703A 1300 nm/ 130 MHz – 20 GHz;

6. Light Source deuterium-halogen Ocean Optics DH-2000-S DUV: deuterium lamp 210–400 nm; halogen lamp 300–1500 nm;

7. SLED diode, wavelength 1550nm, Output power 15mW (typ.), Bandwidth 45nm (typ.), current 300mA, output Gaussian, package 14-BTF;

8. Nanoplus Mid-IR ICL;

9. Infrared Chamber;

10. EDFA;

11. UV-VIS Ocean Optics spectrometer HR4000;

12. equipped optical benches;

13. Nanoscan M2 beam quality measurement;

14. Farfield Beam Profiler Ophir® Pyrocam IIIHR;

15. Optical spectrum Analyzer 350-1000 nm, resolution up to 1 pm; Fast sweep time; max input level: ± 10 dBm;

16. FBGA interrogator module with USB 2.0 interface, Spectral Range: 1525-1565nm

17. OSA205C - Fourier Transform Optical Spectrum Analyzer, 1.0 - 5.6 µm

Department

DEI

Contact Person

Francesco Prudenzano

francesco.prudenzano@poliba.it

Technical Staff

Antonio Crudele

antonio.crudele@poliba.it

Companies and Institutions

District of Manduria (TA), District of Statte (TA), District of Volturino (FG), MISE – Bari.

IUT University du Main, L'Institut d'Electronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR) Rennes, University of Nice, Università Politecnica delle Marche

MERMEC/SITAEL, SOMACIS, ITEL, OPTEL InP, Dyrecta, Leanfa, EMITECH, SAFRAN.

Università di Rennes1 - Francia; UMR-CNRS - Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR) – France;

Institut de Recherche en Ingénierie Moléculaire et Matériaux Fonctionnels, UMR CNRS - Le Mans - France; laboratoire de Physique de l'Université de Bourgogne - France;

Physics Dep. Shiraz University, Shiraz - Iran; The Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS), Centre of Expertise in Photonics (CoEP) University of Adelaide - Australia; University of Tokyo – Giappone;

Mesures Physiques Department- IUT Institut Universitaire de Technologie du Mans – Francia; INFM – Lecce; CNR-FSA – Trento; IROE-CNR - Firenze Politecnico di Milano; Politecnico di Torino;

Dept. of Applied Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Education, Vietnam; IFN-CNR CSMFO Lab. and FBK Photonics Unit, Povo-Trento, Materials Physics Center CSIC-UPV/EHU San Sebastian, Spain;

Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, PAS, Wroclaw, Poland; Swansea University (UK), Nottingham University (UK)

La Verre Fluorè, ATLAS, FYLA, SELENOPTICS, Somacis, Emitech, Neetra, RTM, Quanta System, Centro Laser.

Projects

PON R&C 2007-2013 “Sviluppo di tecnologie in guida d’onda integrata (SIW) per applicazioni ICT a microonde” – Asse I - Azione II - Avviso D.D. n.01/Ric. del 18/01/2010

Potenziamento delle strutture e delle dotazioni scientifiche e tecnologiche del polo scientifico e tecnologico Magna Grecia" (Sez. Campi e.m

PON02_00576_3329762/1 "Development of innovative small size systems for radiotherapy (AMIDERHA)"

Horizon 2020 – PON 2014/2020 “Advanced Radiotherapy with hadrons (EHRA)"”

Research activity AR - A.2.1.1 Research Activity Title “Analisys and electromagnetic design of an applicator for thermal ablation” within the project FESR-FSE 2014-2020 “SINACH – Integrated navigation for mini invasive, surgery”

Research activity Task 3.3 Research Activity Title “Fiber optic systems for space application” – 30 months duration, within the project PON “New Satellite Generation Components (NSG)"

Research activities OR3 (A 3.5 e A 3.6) OR2 (A 2.1) of the electromagnetic field group within the MIUR project “Agriculture Green & Digital – AGREED”

Research activities of WP7 Fibre Pigtailing & Combining, of the project H2020 “PASSEPARTOUT Photonic Accurate and Portable Sensor Systems Exploiting Photo-Acoustic and Photo-Thermal Based Spectroscopy for Real-Time Outdoor Air Pollution Monitoring”

“Fast monitoring of aflatoxines in milk” pertaining to the optimization of a portable spectroscopy set up - contract between the DEE - Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Politecnico di Bari and Plurima Software SRL

MIUR PRIN 2022, NRPP – DD n. 1181 del 27-07-2023 - InnoVative tEchnoloGies for non-invasivE assessment of plAnt healTh conditIon to support precisiOn farmiNg “VEGETATION”

European Union under the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) of NextGenerationEU, with reference to the partnership on “Telecommunications of the Future” (PE00000001 - program “RESTART”, CUP: D93C22000910001) - STRUCTURAL PROJECT DREAMS

ASI 687/2022 - MUR 341 15/03/22 “SPACE IT UP”

ASI 2024-68-I.0 “Origami Reconfigurable Beam-steering Antennas with METAsurfaces for Communication on Small Satellites - ORBIT-META”

HORIZON TMA MSCA Staff Exchanges (101182995) “Cr4+:YAG/Polymer nanocomposite as alternative materials for Q-switched lasers: properties, modeling, and applications - ALTER-Q”

Softwares

Computer codes based on Transfer Matrix Method (TMM), Finite Element Method (FEM), Beam Propagation method (BPM), finite difference time domain (FDTD), Method of Moment (MoM)

CST, COMSOL, BEAMPROP

Services

Design of microwave devices and planar antennas for enterprises

Planning and optimization of electromagnetic field covering for mobile phone aims and identification of BTS geographical position

Measurement of electromagnetic field level at low (50Hz) and high frequency (2-20GHz), control of human exposure to the electromagnetic field

Study of biological effects due to the human exposure to the electromagnetic field

StakeHolder

Boards

External Collaborators

Organizations and Enterprise

Ph.D. Student

Researcher