The Project “Design and Test of Micro-fabricated microwave probes for magneticmaterials characterization”, is a joint research project co-funded by Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs General Directorate for Country Cultural Promotion in the context of the "Executive Protocol of Cooperation between Italy and USA for the years 2016-2017"

Objective

Nanomicrowave is a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) aiming to train a new generation of multidisciplinary researchers in the field of nanoscale microwave technologies and related emerging applications.

Our aim is to develop a new tool for subsurface analysis that will push the measurement of subsurface structures at the nanoscale to a limit never reached before. The consortium will develop and commercialise a 3D hybrid Scanning Probe Microscope platform (referred to as Volumetric Scanning Microwave Microscope – VSMM) able to probe the local reflection and transmission of microwaves from samples, and to reconstruct from these signals the subsurface three dimensional structure of the materials with nano-scale spatial resolution in the three spatial dimensions.

CrystEL is a project founded by the joint call of the Fondazione CARIPLO and Regione Lombarda for an incremented  attractivity and competitiveness of the regional research system in the ERC framework.The project consists in the synsthesis and characterization extended single two-dimensional (2D) crystals suitable for hosting a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) state.

Space Advance Project Excellence in Research and Enterprise: SAFE (Space Asset For Emergency): Space Systems for Observation for Emergency Management STRONG (Sistemi Tecnologie e Ricerche per l'Operatività Nazionale Globale): space exploration and access, development of technologies for electric propulsion module.

The objective of this activity was to demonstrate the applicability of European MEMS technology to high reliability RF redundancy switches for space applications. A breadboard of a MEMS Single Pole Double Thru (SPDT) redundancy switch shall has been designed, manufactured and tested while its long-term reliability has been assessed.