Sept. 9 2011, Paris

Helios Vocca from NiPS visited  ESIEE Paris Est to foster collaboration between our laboratory and Philippe Basset laboratory at ESIEE.

September 15-16, 2011, Helsinki, Finland

During ESSDERC/ESSCIRC 2011 conference, Francis Balestra, Sinano Institute-Grenoble INP/CNRS, Adrian Ionescu, EPFL, organized the GUARDIAN ANGELS Workshop:“Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life: Science and Technology Beyond Fiction”-

The Workshop is supported by the Guardian Angels project funded by the European Commission for the 7th Framework Programme (www.ga-project.eu).

Luca Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab, presented a talk entitled: "Toward Zero-Power ICT: a European initiative for efficient powering of micro and nanoscale autonomous devices".

Slides available here: http://www.nipslab.org/files/Gammaitoni-Helsinki-GA-2011.pdf

August 1st, 2011

The second issue of NANOENERGY LETTERS has been published.

This is a newsletter created within the research project NANOPOWER (funded by European Commission, under the FET proactive initiative "Toward Zero-Power ICT" (2zeroP)) and within the coordination action project ZEROPOWER in order to help the circulation of news and thoughts about micro and nano energies.
The ambition is to make it a useful instrument to discuss about these energies, about their role and potential applications together with the physical foundations of this discipline.
Most importantly, NANOENERGY LETTERS is open to the contribution of all the interested readers and is specially aimed at reaching those readers involved in industry and innovative SMEs as an humble attempt to bridge the gap between Academia and Industry.

Please download the new issue here.

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Some of the topics in this issue

- Call 9.8 FET Proactive: "Minimising Energy Consumption of Computing to the Limit".

- ZEROPOWER Workshop: Join the community in Cork Oct. 25-27 2011.

- Hot quantum dots: The search for quantum energy harvesters. A new idea from University of Geneva.

- Automotive application: HAT (Hybrid Autonomous Transceiver) are now available for test by Wisepower srl.

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Previous issues available here.

The NiPS Summer School is currently in progress at the Colle della Trinità resort in Perugia, Italy.

More than 30 students coming from 9 different countries are attending a dense program of lectures (program) on Micro and nanoscale energy harvesting.

Please find pictures of the participants and  PDFs of the slides presented at the lectures here: www.nipslab.org/summerschool

The school is supported by EC Funded project NANOPOWER and Coordinated Action ZEROPOWER and by the Office of Naval research Europe.

NiPS Lab is fully represented at the next Euromech Colloquium at the University of Bristol (UK) devoted to Structural Control and Energy Harvesting.

Igor Neri from NiPS Lab presents a talk entitled "A real vibration database for kinetic energy harvesting applications" while Luca Gammaitoni is a keynote speaker with a talk on "Vibration energy harvesting with nonlinear oscillators".

Program of the conference available here: http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~cesan/Programme.html

L. Gammaitoni from NiPS Lab has been invited as a speaker at the Workshop on Energy Efficient Electronic Technologies and Systems (E3TS), held on July 18-19th, 2011 in Barcelona, Spain.

This international workshop is co-organized and funded by the Guardian Angels for a Smarter Life Pilot FET Flagship and by the Swiss Nano-tera EASY project. The workshop targets the dissemination of main scientific concepts related to the zero power technology platform and the smart autonomous system applications in Guardian Angels Flagship as well as exchanging new ideas in corresponding field at European level.

L. Gammaitoni presented the activity under development in the ZEROPOWER Coordinated Action.

The  Italian Ministry of University and Research has issued the list of approved project for the PRIN (Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale).

The project presented by University of Catania (S. Baglio coordinator), University of Perugia (NiPS Lab) and University of Brescia entitled Soluzioni innovative in microsistemi per il recupero di energia da vibrazioni ad ampio spettro ed in bassa frequenza (Innovative solutions in micro system for wide-band/low-frequency vibration energy harvesting) has been approved with the maximum score 60/60.

The project will run for two years and is funded with 172.855 €.

11-15 July 2011

Luca Gammaitoni invited speaker at the International Conference on Statistical Physics in Larnaka (Cyprus). 

July 7, 2011

Luca Gammaitoni speaks at the University of Bologna, Seconda Facoltà di Ingegneria — Sede di Cesena on Fluctuations Energy Harvesting with nonlinear oscillators.

Slides available here: Fluctuations-Energy-Harvesting.pdf

Luca Gammaitoni, form NiPS, is invited speaker at the Third NaNoNetworking Summit, in Barcelona on June 22-23 2011.

The N3Summit aims to become the main discussion forum for researchers of the different scientific areas related to nanoscale communication networks. With this objectives in mind, the N3Summit 2011 will bring together international researchers to exchange ideas and results related to the theoretical and practical aspects of nanodevices, communications among nanodevices, nano-computing and applications of nanonetworks.