Read the recently published Contemporary Physics introductory review: There’s plenty of energy at the bottom (Micro and nano scale nonlinear noise harvesting)Luca GammaitoniContemporary Physics Vol 53 (2) Pages 119-135 Abstract:The future of mobile Information and Communication Technology will be strongly affected
New paper from NiPS
Energy dissipation in small-scale shape-change dynamics L.Gammaitoni Phys. Rev. E, Volume 85, p.020104 (2012) Abstract: Shape is an important feature of physical systems, although very seldom it is addressed in the framework of a quantitative description approach. In this paper
M’Illumino di meno 2012 – Flash Mob in Perugia
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,
NiPS meets the Molecular Electronics & Devices group at TU Delft (The Nederlands)
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
Helios Vocca seminar at Holst Centre/Imec, Eindhoven.
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
NiPS Annual meeting 2012
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 break11.50 Numerics for thermal rectification (L. Bosi)12.20 Monolitic suspensions
L. Gammaitoni interview at TEF channel
Cristina Castellano interviews Luca Gammaitoni, NiPS Director, during the TV Show "Speciale Università" on Jan 12 2012. Video interview (in italian).
Italian Minister of Research and University, Francesco Profumo, meets with NiPS Lab in Brussels
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
NiPS set up the NANOPOWER stand at IC2011 in Brussels
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
L. Gammaitoni visited the University of Exeter (UK)
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