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4D Printing of Plasmon‐Encoded Tunable Polydimethylsiloxane Lenses for On‐Field Microscopy of Microbes

Here the 4D printing of a magnifying polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) lens encoded with a tunable plasmonic rejection filter is reported. The lens is formed by moldless printing of PDMS pre-polymer on a nanostructured porous silicon (PSi) templating layer....

Bioresorbable and Biodegradable Electronics and Photonics

Over the last decade, bioresorbable and biodegradable materials that fully dissolve with benign and biocompatible byproducts have been engineered into electrical, optical, and sensing transient components with applications, though not limited to, in...

Bresciani, M.; Ruscio, F.; Tani, S.; Peralta, G.; Timperi, A.; Guerrero-Font, E.; Bonin-Font, F.; Caiti, A.; Costanzi, R. Path Planning for Underwater Information Gathering Based on Genetic Algorithms and Data Stochastic Models. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 202

Recent technological developments have paved the way to the employment of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) for monitoring and exploration activities of marine environments. Traditionally, in information gathering scenarios for monitoring purposes,...

M. Bertolucci, L. Fanucci, "Highly Parallel Sample Rate Converter for Space Telemetry Transmitters", 2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), 2021

In recent years, following the rapid innovation guidelines of most space agencies, there have been major advances in satellite transmitter technologies. Very high performance standards (e.g., DVB-S2, DVB-S2X and CCSDS 131.2-B-1) have been introduced to...

M. Bertolucci, R. Cassettari, L. Fanucci: “On the Frequency Carrier Offset and Symbol Timing Estimation for CCSDS 131.2-B-1 High Data-Rate Telemetry Receivers”, Sensors 2021

In recent years there have been significant developments in satellite transmitter technology to follow the rapid innovation of sensors on-board new satellites. The CCSDS 131.2-B-1 standard for telemetry downlink, released in 2012, is part of the next...

L. Zulberti, P. Nannipieri and L. Fanucci, "A Script-Based Cycle-True Verification Framework to Speed-Up Hardware and Software Co-Design of System-on-Chip exploiting RISC-V Architecture," International Conference on DTIS, 2021, pp. 1-6

The complexity of heterogenous Systems-on-Chip has overgrown in the last decades, and the effort necessary to set up a verification workflow has increased as well. The time spent on the verification phase of a design takes on average 57% of the project...

Gastasini, E., Capecci, N., Lupi, F., Gagliardi, A., Saponara, S., & Lanzetta, M. (2021). An Instrument for the Characterization and Calibration of Optical Sensors. Sensors, 21(15), 5141.

Saponara, S., Elhanashi, A., & Gagliardi, A. (2021). Implementing a real-time, AI-based, people detection and social distancing measuring system for Covid-19. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-021-01070-6.

Gagliardi, A., & Saponara, S. (2020). AdViSED: Advanced Video SmokE Detection for Real-Time Measurements in Antifire Indoor and Outdoor Systems. Energies, 13(8), 2098.

Saponara, S., Elhanashi, A., & Gagliardi, A. (2021). Real-time video fire/smoke detection based on CNN in antifire surveillance systems. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 18(3), 889-900.

Gagliardi, A., de Gioia, F., & Saponara, S. (2021). A real-time video smoke detection algorithm based on Kalman filter and CNN. Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11554-021-01094-y

Bresciani, M.; Ruscio, F.; Tani, S.; Peralta, G.; Timperi, A.; Guerrero-Font, E.; Bonin-Font, F.; Caiti, A.; Costanzi, R. Path Planning for Underwater Information Gathering Based on Genetic Algorithms and Data Stochastic Models. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 202

Baldanzi, L., Crocetti, L., Di Matteo, S., Fanucci, L., Saponara, S., and Hameau, P. (2019, November). "Crypto Accelerators for Power-Efficient and Real-Time on-Chip Implementation of Secure Algorithms". 2019 26th IEEE ICECS. (pp. 775-778). IEEE

The demand for data exchange is ever growing. Internet of Things (IoT), industry 4.0, smart city and next-generation interconnected vehicles are some examples of scenarios in which a high volume of nodes share data across networks. Hence, the data...

Di Matteo, S., Baldanzi, L., Crocetti, L., Nannipieri, P., Fanucci, L., and Saponara, S. (2021, August). "Secure Elliptic Curve Crypto-Processor for Real-Time IoT Applications". Energies. (Vol. 14(15), art. 4676). MDPI

Cybersecurity is a critical issue for Real-Time IoT applications since high performance and low latencies are required, along with security requirements to protect the large number of attack surfaces to which IoT devices are exposed. Elliptic Curve...

Nannipieri, P., Di Matteo, S., Baldanzi, L., Crocetti, L., Belli, J., Fanucci, L., and Saponara, S. (2021, April). "True Random Number Generator Based on Fibonacci Galois Ring Oscillators for FPGA". Applied Sciences. (Vol. 11(8), art. 3330). MDPI

Random numbers are widely employed in cryptography and security applications. If the generation process is weak, the whole chain of security can be compromised: these weaknesses could be exploited by an attacker to retrieve the information, breaking...