Verrès

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Once a cotton mill, today it is the modern headquarters of a center for scientific research and technological innovation, a true high-tech district. 

All this thanks to an agreement between the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta, Politecnico di Torino, and the University of Valle d'Aosta.

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Ongoing research


IML- Interdisciplinary Mechatronics Laboratory

The Interdisciplinary Mechatronics Laboratory of Politecnico di Torino (IML) was founded in 1993 and brings together people from different departments of the Polytechnic University of Turin: Department of Automation and Computer Science-DAUIN, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications-DET, and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering-DIMEAS.

Its goal is to create a truly interdisciplinary environment where researchers and postgraduate students working in the field of mechatronics can conduct and develop their theoretical and experimental work.

The activities of the Laboratory (IML) are organized in terms of projects where different disciplinary skills are integrated in order to achieve the best overall performance. A significant number of projects involve experimental investigations into the integration of advanced technologies and methodologies, which usually lead to the construction of test equipment and demonstrators. In many cases, these projects are based on internal funding, while others are funded by research contracts with both public and private companies. 

The number of projects commissioned by companies is growing and usually leads to the design, construction, and testing of industrial prototypes.

The adjective industrial has a double meaning: on the one hand, it highlights that it is a functional and working prototype of an innovative product, and on the other hand, that it is a demonstrator that uses real technological components ready for use in production.

The activities and technological and scientific relevance of the laboratory are documented by a series of publications and conference proceedings at both national and international level.

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Scientific research in Physics of Matter

Research conducted up to 2010

The research project in physics of matter carried out at the Verrès technology center of Politecnico di Torino is aimed at the theoretical study of nonlinear magnetization dynamics in nanometric magnetic systems of different geometries (nanoparticles, thin films, point-contact multilayers, spin-valve multilayers) subjected to external excitations such as spin-polarized electric currents and radiofrequency magnetic fields.

The topic is of great interest to the international scientific community both because it addresses issues inherent in fundamental aspects of solid state physics and materials science, and because it has immediate repercussions in the most advanced applications of magnetic nanotechnology.

This research project, in particular, focuses on the description of magnetization dynamics through accurate mathematical methods, in order to obtain analytical and numerical solutions of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The scientific innovations arising from this project clarify the limits of applicability of the LLG equation, thus addressing one of the most debated aspects in the international scientific community. The proposed approach allows the study of nonlinear magnetization dynamics through a more adequate theory of dynamics far from equilibrium, enabling a more complete and correct description of some general phenomena such as the synchronization of magnetization self-oscillations with external radio frequency excitations, ferromagnetic resonance controlled by constant microwave fields and currents, the spatially non-uniform behavior of magnetization dynamics during magnetization reversal processes, the instability of states far from equilibrium due to spin wave perturbations, and the role of thermal fluctuations on states far from equilibrium.

This research project is carried out in collaboration with researchers and professors from the National Institute of Metrological Research (INRiM) in Turin, the University of Naples Federico II and Parthenope, and the University of Maryland (USA).

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Contacts

Administrative office

Opening hours: from Monday to Thursday, from 9:00 am to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.. 

Phone: +39 011 0908411 
E-mail: segreteria@verres.polito.it 
Personal: Monica Chiavino 

The office is located in the Verrés technology hub, at Via Luigi Barone 8, on the 5th floor. See the map.
Always available by phone during opening hours, on days when staff are not present.

Technical office

Phone: +39 011 0908412
Personal: Claudio Turcotti