Building Tomorrow Society: Nanoelectronics & Photonics Summer School

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Nano-electronics, Photonics, and More than Moore technologies such as MEMS are three of nowadays “Key Enabling Technologies”.
The Summer School aims at providing an introduction to micro&nano devices and photonics, with a hands-on approach that alternates lectures and experimental activities. The applicative focus will be mainly on the uses of these technologies in pervasive sensing, one of the pillars to enable “smart” applications, such as structural health monitoring, condition based maintenance, home automation...
During the week, students will be involved in the characterization of micro&nano devices and in the design and realization of an all-optical fiber sensor.

Participants will receive 4 ECTS credits upon successful completion of a final exam.

 

LOCATION

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

 

PERIOD

July 10th - 14th, 2017

 

LANGUAGE

All the activities will be held in English

 

REQUIREMENTS

The program is designed for undergraduate students who have completed at least two years of a Bachelor program in ICT (Electronics, Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, Physics).

 

FEES

The total fee of 500 euros covers:

  • 1-week intensive Summer School with lectures and labs experiences (40 hours);
  • PoliTo tutoring for the whole academic activity;
  • Visit to a research lab/company;
  • Welcome cocktail and “arrivederci” dinner;
  • Insurance coverage for accidents occurring on the university premises;
  • Wi-Fi connection.

Flight tickets, visa fees, accommodation, meals and travel/medical insurance are not included.

A limited number of places in a university dorm next to the campus is available and will be assigned on a "first-come, first-served" basis.

 

APPLICATION AND DEADLINES

To apply, fill in the online application form by first registering and providing your biographical information.

After the registration, you will receive within 24 hours a confirmation message on your e-mail with a username and a password, with which you can log in and access the application form.

Please provide information on your previous educational career, select the Summer School program in “NanoElectronics & Photonics”, and attach the following documentation:

  • Passport or ID Card
  • Transcript of records of the latest/relevant university career
  • Curriculum Vitae

The application must be submitted by

May 31st (Postponed to)

June 4th, 2017.

Selection outcomes will be available by June 8th, 2017.

 

PROGRAM

Day 1

Lecture: application domains of nano-electronics and photonics. Introduction to the applications of Photonics: from the "obvious" application in optical communications - this has been and still currently is the main driver that pushes the development of photonic devices - to the probably less known, but nevertheless rapidly growing, applications in industry and in medicine. For example, it will be presented how the currently hot topic of "Industry 4.0" strongly relies on pillars in which Photonics plays a relevant role;

Lab: use of basic instruments (e.g. oscilloscopes and acquisition boards) and fundamentals of signal processing (filtering of data, FFT). The lab is aimed at providing the students with a common background on the typical instruments and data processing tools they will use during the week to test and characterize some sensors taken as the reference application case.

Day 2

Lecture: design and fabrication of micro/nano-electronic components, example of MEMS devices;
Lab: CAD tools for micro&nano devices, and measurements using commercial MEMS devices.

Day 3

Lecture: photonics for sensing. Following the introduction of Day 1 morning, a more in depth analysis of the working principles of photonic sensors will be presented, with particular attention to fiber-based devices. First, an introduction to optical fibers will be provided, then examples of intensity-based, interferometric, polarimetric and Bragg grating sensors in fiber technology will be given;
Lab: design of the optical sensor. Students will be divided in groups and, with the help of tutors, they will work on the design of a fiber optic sensor, chosen as a representative example of one of the technological approaches presented during the morning lecture.

Day 4

Lecture: photonics for communications;
Lab: assembly and testing of the selected optical sensor. Students will be again divided into groups, and they will participate in the fabrication of the sensor designed and analyzed during the previous day lab. They will then conduct characterization tests using the lab facilities.

Day 5

Visit to a research labor a HighTech company.

Exam, grading, and final ceremony.

 

NOTES

A minimum of 5 participants is required in order to activate the program.

Danilo Demarchi

Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, with the tenures of “Bio-Micro&Nano Systems”, “CAD for Microsystems”, “NanoElectronics”, and “Electronics for Biomedical Engineers".

Lecturer at EPFL Lausanne for the course "Nanocomputing", Biomolecular Computing module, at the Electrical Engineering PhD School. Associate Faculty at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently working on micro and nano systems for electronics and biomedical applications.

Senior Member of IEEE, Member of the BioCAS Technical Committee, Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), of IEEE Sensors, and of the Springer Journal BioNanoScience.

 

Valter Ferrero

Valter Ferrero received the Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (summa cum laude) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1994.

In 1994, he collaborated with the Politecnico di Torino, working on optical coherent systems. From 1995 to 1996, he was with GEC Marconi, Genova, Italy, where he worked on the design and implementation of Erbium doped fiber optical amplifier. He also worked on the design of optical interfaces for SDH systems STM4 and STM16. In 1997, he was in charge of the Optical Communication Group, Electrical Department, Politecnico di Torino and, in February 2001, he became Assistant Professor. He supervises lab conduction and is involved on several research topics related to optical communications. Currently he is primarily involved in optical coherent communications and free space communications.

 

Roberto Gaudino

Roberto Gaudino, Ph.D., is currently Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His main research interests are in the long haul DWDM systems, fiber non-linearity, modelling of optical communication systems and in the experimental implementation of optical networks, with specific focus on access networks. In particular, in the last five years, he focused his activity on short-reach optical links using plastic optical fibers (POF) and on next-generation passive optical access networks (NG-PON2). Currently, he is working on ultra high capacity systems for medium reach links. Previously, he worked extensively on fiber modelling, optical modulation formats (such as duo-binary, polarization or phase modulation), coherent optical detection, and on the experimental demonstration of packet switched optical networks.

Prof. Gaudino spent one year in 1997 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, as a visiting researcher, where he worked in the realization of the MOSAIC optical network test-bed. From 1998, he was with the team that coordinated the development of the commercial optical system simulation software OptSim (Artis Software Corp., then acquired by RSoft Design and now by Synopsis). He has consulted for several companies and he is author or co-author of more than 200 papers in the field of Optical Fiber Transmission and Optical Networks. From 2009 to 2016 he was the coordinator of three projects in the area of optical access (EU FP6-IST STREP  “POF-ALL” and "POF-PLUS" and EU FP7-ICT STREP project “FABULOUS” http://www.fabulous-project.eu/ ). For further information, please visit www.optcom.polito.it

 

Guido Perrone

Guido Perrone holds a Ph.D. in Electromagnetics/Photonics from Politecnico di Torino, where is currently professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, in charge of courses on Microwaves and on Photonic Devices.
His research activity has always been in the field of Photonics, with a special focus on the development of optical components, first as integrated devices for telecommunications, then as fiber optic devices for industrial and biomedical applications. The outcomes led to the publication of about 200 papers in journals and conferences and 10 patents on fiber sensors and lasers.

Prof. Perrone is member of the Italian Professional Engineers Association, of the Optical Society of America (OSA), of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), of the Photonics Society and of the Microwave Theory and Technique Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), of the Italian Optical Society (SIOF), of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism (SIEM).

 

Alberto Vallan

Alberto Vallan is Associate Professor with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received the M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Instrumentation from the University of Brescia (Italy) in 2000.  From 2000 to present, he has been a lecturer at the Politecnico di Torino in courses concerning Electronic Measurements and Sensors.

His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of fiber sensors and measuring instruments for biomedical and industrial applications. He has published more than 100 international papers and 6 Italian and International patents.

Alberto Vallan is a Senior Member of the IEEE/Instrumentation&Measurement Society.

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