Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24
10129 Torino, ITALY web site: http://www.det.polito.it/
Head: prof. Giovanni Ghione giovanni.ghione@polito.it

 Oldest Technical University in
Italy
– established in 1859
 Architecture and Engineering school
– Staff+admin: 2,000
– Students: 26,000 (17.000 engineering)
– Courses: 1,000
– Teaching hours: 70,000 h/year
– http://www.polito.it
 Torino
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Shroud
The Egyptian Museum
2006
Winter Olympic
Games
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 Bachelor & Master
– Electronics
– Telecommunications
– Telematics (MS only)
– Mechatronics (with DAUIN)
– Physical engineering and nanotechnologies for ICT (with DISET)
– Director: Gianluca Piccinini
 PhD
– Electronics and Telecommunications
– Electronic Devices
– Bioengineering (in cooperation with other Departments)
– Measurement
– School Director: Flavio Canavero
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 Telecommunications
 Signal Processing
 Networking
 Optics
 Microwave, RF and computational electronics
 Applied electromagnetics
 Sensors and instrumentation
 Time and frequency measurements
 EM compatibility
 Microelectronics and VLSI
 Power electronics
 Neural networks
 Bioengineering
 Mechatronics
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 Giovanni Ghione
– Dept. Head
 Andrea Bianco
– Vice Dept. Head
– Research commission coordinator
– andrea.bianco@polito.it
 Research Commission
– One reference person per research “area”
– Andrea Carena (Telecommunication)
– Vittorio Camarchia (Microwave Electronics)
– Guido Masera (Microelectronics)
– Filippo Molinari (Bioengineering)
– Guido Perrone (Applied electromagnetics)
– Igor Stievano (Fields and circuits)
– Alberto Vallan (Instrumentation and measurements)
– firstname.lastname@polito.it
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Telecommunications
18
Microelectronics
87
Microwave Electronics
47
Fields and Circuits
24
25
56
Applied
Electromagnetics
Instrumentation and measurement
Bioengineering
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114 PhD
Faculty
Research Assistant
Staff
Others
Post Doc
7

National
9%
Regional
8%
International
Other
2%
1%
Eu projects
46%
Consulting
34%
Total Income 5457608 €
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Regional
10%
International Other
3%
National
4%
1%
Eu projects
28%
Consulting
54%
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Total Income 4521486 €
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 10 Faculty, 9 PhD students, 3 Research assistants
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 Sensors and instrumentation
– Intelligent sensors and instruments
– Distributed measurement systems
– Automatic calibration
– Fiber Optic Sensors
 Time/Frequency Measurements
– Spectral purity and phase stability of oscillators
– Space and terrestrial navigation
– Synchronization methods
– Atomic time standards
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 Characterization
– On-wafer characterization of RF & microwave devices and circuits
– Automatic DC and small-signal characterization up to 40 GHz (two port) and up to 110 GHz (one port)
– Power and load-pull measurements up to 20 GHz, harmonic load-pull
 Design
– Design of RF & microwave hybrid/monolithic LNA
– Design of GaN-based power amplifiers
– Design of mixers and oscillators
– Design of RF circuits on organic substrates
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Gabriella Olmo
Monica Visintin
Marina Mondin
Letizia Lo Presti
Michela Meo
Carla Chiasserini
Gabriella Bosco
Fabio Dovis
Andrea Bianco
Andrea Carena
Marco Ajmoe Marsan
Michele Elia
Lorenzo Galleani
Claudio Casetti
Giorgio Taricco
Vittorio Curri
Guido Albertengo
Paolo Giaccone
Emilio Leonardi
Roberto Garello
Marco Mellia
Valter Ferrero
Enrico Magli
Pierluigi Poggiolini
Maurizio Munafò
Guido Montorsi
Roberto Gaudino
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 Topical Areas
– Transmission
– Signal Processing
– Networking
 Tools and Facilities
– Theory, modeling, simulations, prototyping and experimental testbeds
– Several experimental laboratories are active in different areas
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 Transmission
– Development of new generation cellular networks (4G –LTE)
– Satellite and space systems
– Cognitive Radio
– Long-Haul Optical Fiber Transmission
– Frre Space Optical Communication
– Optical Access Networks
 Signal Processing
– Distributed multimedia communications
– Compression and compressed sensing
– Satellite Navigation and Positioning
Receivers/Applications
– Non-stationary Signals and Systems
– Signal Processing for Quantum
Communication and Cryptography
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 Networking
– Video distribution over the Internet
– Switching and interconnection networks
– Wireless networks
– Home networking
– Optical networks
– Traffic measurements
– Energy efficiency and sustainability
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 12 Faculty, 6 PhD students, 7 Research assistants
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 Mission
– Characterization, modeling and simulation of
ElectroMagnetic Fields, Circuits, and their Interaction.
 Three fundamental aspects
– EM Fields: analytical and numerical tools for analysis and design of complex 2D and 3D electromagnetic structures
– Circuits (and Systems): principles and applications of nonlinear dynamics for understanding complex systems
– Interaction (Electromagnetic Compatibility, EMC): characterization and modeling for prediction of electrical and electromagnetic interactions within and between systems, CAD for EMC and compliance
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Marco Knaflitz Filippo
Molinari
Gabriella
Balestra
Roberto Merletti
Luca Mesin
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 Mission
– Development of engineering systems, techniques, and methodologies in the fields of medicine and biology
 Principal applications
– Biomedical image and signal processing and classification: strategies for clinical diagnosis and basic research
– Physiological system modeling: principles and applications for understanding complex physiological systems
– Medical informatics: requirements identification and analysis, testing, and validation of medical software; development of innovative applications
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 Characterization
– On-wafer characterization of RF & microwave devices and circuits
– Automatic DC and small-signal characterization up to 40 GHz (two port) and up to 110 GHz (one port)
– Power and load-pull measurements up to 20 GHz, harmonic load-pull
 Design
– Design of RF & microwave hybrid/monolithic LNA
– Design of GaN-based Power Amplifiers
– Design of mixers and oscillators
– Design of RF circuits on organic substrates
– Large signal stability
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 EM and physics-based modelling of RF and microwave devices & materials:
– Physics-based modelling and optimization of RF & microwave transistors
– Physics-based modeling of devices for power switching (Si, SiC, GaN)
– Ab-initio and Monte Carlo modeling of wide-gap and narrow-gap semiconductors
– Noise / stability / variability modelling of RF and microwave transistors
– Thermal modelling and optimization of RF/microwave devices and circuits
– EM modeling of passive microwave components
 Modeling of optoelectronic devices
– GaN based LEDs, MERCATEL photodetectors
– Solar cells (DSSC + quantum dot)
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Marco Gabella
(on leave)
Riccardo Maggiora
Laci Matekovits
Gianluca Dassano Riccardo
Notarpietro
Mario Orefice Guido Perrone
Massimo Olivero
Renato Orta
Giuseppe Vecchi
Francesca Vipiana
Paola Pirinoli
Patrizia Savi
Daniele Trinchero
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 Antennas
– Innovative antennas for mobile and fixed communications
– Reflectarrays
– EM Modeling of complex structures
 Microwave/millimeter-wave components
 Wireless sensor networks and body area networks in harsh environments
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 Remote sensing
– Radar meteorology
– Remote sensing of atmosphere and soil exploiting GNSS signals
 Optoelectronics: modeling of semiconductor lasers
 Fiber and optical components
– High power fiber lasers
– Fiber sensors for physical and chemical quantities
– Device characterization
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 Analytical and numerical techniques for:
– Antenna siting (space, automotive, …) and EMC
– Automated design of compact and reconfigurable antennas
– Antenna and EMI diagnostics and advanced fast measurements
– Automated design of standard and sparse arrays
– RF tomography for lesion detection (breast cancer, brain and bone anomalies) and high-performance RF “coils” for MRI
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 VLSI architectures, Multicore SoCs:
Digital circuits for telecommunications and multimedia,
 Micro for Nano (M4N):
DVB
H-T
WiFi
 use of micro structures and devices to connect to nano-materials and composites
Nanoscale device, circuits and architectures:
WiMAX
3GPP, LTE
Molecular electronics, NanowireFET based circuits
Design tools for nano-architectures
 Bio-sensors:
Nanogaps, Single Molecule
Sensing, DNA detection, cell counting
 Health:
Embedded platforms for bioapplications, UWB for biomedical imaging
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 Analog and power microelectronics
 EMC: Integrated Circuit and PCB levels
 Signal integrity and EMC measurement
 Nano-satellites, Low Cost Avionics
 Wireless Sensor Networks and their design methods and tools
 Advanced hardware design methods and tools
 Embedded systems and control algorithms for mechatronics
 Artificial Neural Networks and
Smart Sensors
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 Thanks for your attention!
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