Il 17 Febbraio, 2012, nell’ambito della manifestazione nazionale "M'illumino di Meno", promossa dal programma di RAI2 Caterpillar, Il NiPS Laboratory, in collaborazione con il Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Perugia e l'Assessorato alle politiche energetiche del Comune di Perugia, promuove un Flash Mob: "illumina la fontana".

Inoltre, alle 18:30 presso la Sala della Vaccara in Piazza IV Novembre a Perugia,

il Direttore del Perugia Science Festival,

Leonardo Alfonsi, mette a confronto l’assessore alle Politiche energetiche e ambientali del Comune di Perugia

Lorena Pesaresi

con,

Massimiliano

Rinaldo Barchi,

Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e

Fausto Elisei

Preside della Facoltà di Scienze, Università di Perugia

sul tema:

Verso il 2019: Perugia capitale delle energie sostenibili.

Gli orizzonti della città e della scienza.

Introduce l’incontro il Direttore del NiPS Laboratory,

Luca Gammaitoni.

 

Delft, Feb. 8, 2012

Luca Gammaitoni and Helios Vocca from NiPS met with Herre Van der Zant and Warner Venstra from MED at TU Delft (http://home.tudelft.nl). The MED group studies the electronic properties of molecular and mechanical systems at the  nanoscale.

The meeting was devoted to explore further coorperation betwwen the two groups that are already partners in the LANDAUER proposal.

 

Feb. 7, 2012

Helios Vocca and Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS visited the Holst Centre/Imec in Eindhoven, Nederlands.

During the visit, Rudd Vullers presented the activity of the energy harvesting group at IMEC. Helios Vocca presented a seminar on Nonlinear Energy Harvesting.

Future collaborations between the two laboratories have been discussed.

 

 

 

 

Febrary 2, 2012

Program of the day

9.30  Introduzione (L. Gammaitoni)
10.00  MEMS piezo harvesters (H. Vocca)
10.30  Energy budget for aut. sensors (F. Orfei)
11.00  Autonomous sensor networks (I. Neri)
11.30  coffe break
11.50  Numerics for thermal rectification (L. Bosi)
12.20  Monolitic suspensions (F. Travasso)
12.40  Stochastic Resonance EH (R. Mincigrucci)
13.00  Pranzo
14.30  I progetti europei in corso:
- NANOPOWER, (S. Lombardi)
- ZEROPOWER (S. Lombardi)
14.45 ! I progetti sottomessi:
- Millicube (Wisepower, H. Vocca)
- LANDAUER (L. Gammaitoni)
15:15  Il nuovo microscopio SEM (A. Di Michele)
15:30  Un anno di outreach al NiPS (L. Alfonsi)
16.00  coffe break

16:30! FAME LAB al NiPS*

18:00! conclusioni**

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Cristina Castellano interviews Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Director, during the TV Show "Speciale Università" on Jan 12 2012.

Video interview (in italian).

 

 

Prof. Francesco Profumo (middle), Italian Minister for Research and Education, listen to NiPS Director, Prof. Luca Gammaitoni (right), during the presentation of the NANOPOWER exhibit at the EC Innovation Convention in Brussels, on Dec 6th, 2011. Right in the picture, Dr. Leonardo Alfonsi, NiPS Media advisor.

Pictures available here

 

The NiPS laboratory team set up an interactive exhibit at the IC2011 Innovation Convention held in Brussels on Dec. 5-6 2011.

The exhibit is entitled "Toward Zero-power: recycling energies in the nano world.

Most of the innovative technological solutions on display at the Innovation Convention 2011 organised by the European Commission in Bruxelles on the 5^th and the 6^th of December are based on micro sensors that monitor physical parameters useful for human and animal health control that can be implanted or worn for health care, on powerful computer as small as shirt buttons used for ambient intelligence or sensors distributed in the natural environment to monitor its condition. At the moment all these ICT devices are powered with batteries but the research carried out by the Nanopower project on display at the Bruxelles  convention (booth 22) and directed by the NiPS Laboratory at the Physics Department of the University of Perugia – Italy,   shows a step forward. 

For more information please download our press release and visit our nanopower web site.

 

On Nov. 17, 2011, L. Gammaitoni (right) visited Prof Tim Lenton (in the back) at the Earth Systems Science Center and Prof. Tim Jupp at the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences of the University of Exeter, together with Dr. Valerie Livina (left) of the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

During the visit Prof. L. Gammaitoni presented a lecture entitled "Fluctuations Energy Harvesting: from Nano to Macro".

 

 

NiPS Laboratory will be present at the Innovation Convention in Brussels on Dec 5-6 2011.

The Innovation Convention is an essential part of the Innovation Union flagship initiative. 2011 edition is the first edition and will be led by the President of the European Commission, Mr. José Manuel Barroso and Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation, and Science. It will be Europe's premier innovation event, with 1,200 or more selected participants.

The Innovation Convention exhibition will showcase exciting research and innovation results being developed under European funding programmes. Following a call for exhibitors open to projects supported by the EU's Framework Programme for Research and the EU's Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 45 projects have been selected over more than 450 proposals.

We are glad to anounce that NiPS proposal entitled "NANOPOWER, Toward ZEROPOWER - Recycling energy in the nanoworld" is one of the 45 selected projects.

See you in Brussels!

For info please check: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/ic2011/index_en.cfm

The NANOPOWER project holds the first year review meeting in Cork (IR) on Oct 25th 2011.

The NANOPOWER project was conceived with the idea that a new generation of micro-to-nanoscale devices aimed at sensing, processing, actuating and communication will not be possible without solving the powering issue. Powering is relevant at least in two aspects: 1) too much power is currently dissipated into heat in the present generation of microelectronic devices. 2) Micro to nanoscale low-power autonomous devices of the next future will be powered by transforming energy available in the ambient. The scientific objective of this project is thus to study energy efficiency with the specific aim of identifying new directions for energy-harvesting technologies at the nanometre and molecular scale. Together with the scientific objective the project focuses also on an highly ambitious technological objective: to integrate such technologies into autonomous nanoscale systems to allow new, low-power ICT architectures to find their way into devices.

The NANOPOWER consortium has been very active in this first year devoting 103,6 person months  (103,6 over 301 in total) to project activities organized in 23 Tasks (23 active over 30 total) distributed in 7 work packages.

This work has generated a vast scientific activity that has involved universities, research centers, stockholders and the general public in more than one way with potential impact that will be evaluated in the years to come. The products of research generated in this year can be summarized in: 12 Deliverables (10 reports, 1 numerical code, 1 web site); 9 scientific articles on international ISI journals; 23 communications to international conferences; 2 Newsletter issues; 5 Board meetings; 4 Consortium meetings; 1 Summer School.