IUNET – Italian University Nanoelectronics Team

Contact persons:

Luca Selmi, Enrico Sangiorgi, Danilo Demarchi

Via Toffano, 2 –
40125 Bologna
Italy

Beyond CMOS More Moore More than Moore System integration

Main expertises

Novel computing architectures (Neuromorphic, Quantum...)

Design of neuromorphic circuits with RRAM devices
cryo CMOS device operation and noise
Fabrication and characterization of neuromorphic devices
Design and simulation of neuromorphic circuits
MOEMS-based devices for optical neural networks
Design and implementation of neuromorphic digital architectures and SNN
Design and implementation of digital near memory architectures
Modeling of semiconductor spin qubits (in-house developed k.p based framework)
Modeling and design of superconducting quantum circuits and qubits
Design of neuromorphic circuits with resistive NVM devices

Phonon Engineering

Electrothermal modeling and simulation of advanced devices

Small slope switches-TFET/Fe Transistors/Dirac-Source FET/NEMS/etc.

SS Switches, TFETs, Dirac Sources
Ferroelectric device simulation
Characterization and modeling of ferroelectric non-volatile memories
Ab-initio-based multiscale numerical simulation of TFETs and CS-FETs
TMD based transistors

Alternative materials-2D layers

Fabrication and characterization of MoS2 devices
Ab-initio-based multiscale numerical simulations of 2D-based FETs
Fabrication and testing of devices based on 2D semiconductors
Electron and optoelectronics devices based on 2D materials, 2D semiconductors for neuromorphic computing

1D Devices/NW/CNT

Single and supra molecular devices for computation and sensing
fabrication and testing of photodetectors with 2D + 1D materials

Very low temperature electronics

cryo CMOS device operation and noise
Characterization and modeling of 3D NAND memory performance under cryogenic conditions

Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor FETs

IGZO device modeling and simulation
IGZO device fabrication and characterization
IGZO integrated-circuit design

Others

Neuromorphic Computing: Neuromorphic devices: fabrication and characterization
Silicon Spin Qubit simulation, fabrication, characterization and control
Superconductor Qbit simulation, fabrication, characterization, digital control

Research interests

Novel computing architectures (Neuromorphic, Quantum...)

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi (quantum)
IUNET-Modena: Francesco Maria Puglisi (In Memory Computing)
IUNET-Modena: Paolo Pavan (In Memory Computing)
IUNET-Milano: Daniele Ielmini (In-memory computing, neuromorphic devices and circuits)
IUNET-UniBz: Luisa Petti, Giuseppe Ciccone (dendritic architectures)
IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-UNIVE
IUNET-Polito: Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera
IUNET-Bologna: Antonio Gnudi (modeling of spin qubits, modeling of superconducting quits and circuits)
IUNET-UniBO: Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini (neuromorphic circuits)

Phonon Engineering

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi, Pierpaolo Palestri
IUNET-Bologna: Elena Gnani (advanced devices)

Small slope switches-TFET/Fe Transistors/Dirac-Source FET/NEMS/etc.

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi, Pierpaolo Palestri
IUNET-Modena: Nicolò Zagni (FeFETs)
IUNET-Bologna: Elena Gnani (small-slope swithes &TMD)
IUNET-Bologna: Antonio Gnudi, Elena Gnani (FeFETs)
IUNET-Milano: Alessandro Spinelli, Christian Monzio Compagnoni (non-volatile FeNAND) IUNET-UNIRM

Alternative materials-2D layers

IUNET-Milano: Daniele Ielmini, Matteo Farronato (2D semiconductor transistor and memory)
IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-UNIVE

1D Devices/NW/CNT

IUNET-Polito: Gianluca Piccinini, Mariagrazia Graziano
IUNET-UNIVE

Very low temperature electronics

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi, Pierpaolo Palestri
IUNET-Milano: Alessandro Spinelli, Christian Monzio Compagnoni (non-volatile memories)

Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor FETs

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi
IUNET-Milano: Daniele Ielmini (IGZO-based transistor and memory)
IUNET-Catania (Analog and digital IGZO IC design)

Others

IUNET-UNIVE
IUNET-Polito: Gianluca Piccinini, Fabrizio Riente, Mariagrazia Graziano

Main expertises

Logic Nanodevices & circuits/FDSOI, Nanosheet, Stacked channels, etc.

Electrothermal modeling and simulation of advanced devices
Investigation of the potential of Phase-Change Memories (PCM) for non-conventional computational tasks: study of architectures and analog circuits for PCM-based analog-in-memory-computing.

Memories/Charge-based, Resistive/Capacitive

RRAM modeling and simulation up to compact circuit level
Characterization and modeling of 3D NAND and FeNAND memory performance
PCM characterization and modeling
Fabrication and characterization of ECRAM and RRAM
Modelling and characterization of RRAM and floating-gate devices
Modeling of SONOS Flash memories
Modeling and simulation of advanced non-volatile memory concepts (NVM) for new applications

Very low power devices

Design of Very low power of analog and digital circuits
Low-power CMOS devices

Research interests

Logic Nanodevices & circuits/FDSOI, Nanosheet, Stacked channels, etc.

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi, Pierpaolo Palestri
IUNET-Bologna: Elena Gnani (advanced devices)
IUNET-UNiBO: Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini (PCM)

Memories/Charge-based, Resistive/Capacitive

IUNET-Modena: Francesco Maria Puglisi, Paolo Pavan
IUNET-Milano: Alessandro Spinelli, Christian Monzio Compagnoni (non-volatile memories)
IUNET-Milano: Daniele Ielmini (RRAM, ECRAM and PCM)
IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-Bologna: Elena Gnani (SONOS)
IUNET-UNiBO: Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini (NVM)

Very low power devices

IUNET-Catania (analog and digital very low power design)
IUNET-Bologna: Elena Gnani, Susanna Reggiani

Main expertises

Micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems

High-frequency Impedance and capacitance spectroscopy with nanoelectrode array sensors. Micro-Nanoplastics characterization for health and environment. Purely electrical nanoscale bioanalyte detection and imaging (phages, RBC, etc.)
Electrochemical (bio)sensors also for OECT/EG-FET devices for environment (e.g., nano-plastics), sports/health (e.g., proteins, hormones), agriculture (e.g., ions)
Micro-bio sensors based on enzymatic reactions.
Design and fabrication of lab-on-chips for environmental monitoring and human health
MEMS-based micro- and nano-architectures for biomedical applications
Smart sensors and biosensors, IoT sensing systems, Ultra-low-power sensor interfaces
High-frequency Impedance and capacitance spectroscopy with nanoelectrode array sensors. Micro-Nanoplastics characterization for health and environment. Purely electrical nanoscale bioanalyte detection and imaging (phages, RBC, etc.)

Energy Harvesting

Solar cells
Thermoelectric cells
Microbial fuels cells
Design of system and circuits for energy-harvesting
Stochastic modeling of nonlinear harvesters (efficiency improvement strategies)
Design of micropower management circuits, including ASIC design
Multi-source energy harvestig
system integration of energy harvesting applications
RF energy harvesting and RFID-based systems

RF devices & electronics

TCAD modeling of the high-frequency behavior in advanced semiconductor devices
IC circuit design for RF applications
Design of RF circuit and system
TCAD modeling and design of devices for RF and microwave applications
Compact modeling (including variability) of devices for RF and microwave applications
TCAD modeling of trap effects in GaN devices
Noise and variability modeling (TCAD)
Design and characterization of microwave power amplifiers and LNA
Linearity enhancement techniques
Digital PA
Neural modelling of active device
Neural device of hybrid and monolithic components
Advanced hybrid and MMIC design through pixelation
RF energy harvesting and backscatter modulators

Photonics devices

Photonic chips and MOEMS-based devices for sensing and telecommunications
Multiphysics simulation of waveguide photodetectors for telecom wavelengths, and of pixels and focal plane arrays for the infrared spectrum
Development of NEGF approaches for nanostructured optoelectronic devices
Multiscale, multiphysics simulation of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Power devices

Electrothermal and hot carrier effects simulation of GaN devices and circuits
Characterization and modeling/simulation of trapping effects in GaN and SiC
Characterization and modeling/simulation of galvanic isolation devices
Load-pull experimental characterization of power devices
TCAD simulation and characterization of trapping effects in WBG materials
Reliability characterization and modeling of WBG power devices

Flexible electronics

IGZO and dissolvable compostable materials for electronics
Unconventional and sustainable materials for flexible inorganic (mostly IGZO) and organic (opto)electronics, also using printing methods.
CVD fabrication and characterization of amorphous-silicon-based FETs and sensors

Others

Edible and safe-to-ingest materials and circuits for ingestible electronics and food-contact applications.
CMOS Ultra low-voltage Ultra low-current analog IC design
Analog circuit with standard digital cells
Ink-jet printed electronics
Hybrid integration of flexible circuits and systems
Polymeric piezoelectric sensors
Flexible energy harvesters
Soft robotics
Flexible photodetectors
Biodegradable RFID tags and sensors

Research interests

Micro-nano-bio Sensors & Systems

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi (nanocapacitor array biosensors)
IUNET-UniBz: Luisa Petti (electrochemical biosensor arrays and systems); Valerio Annese (enzymatic biosensors)
IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-Bologna: Aldo Romani, Marco Tartagni, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli
IUNET-Bologna: Marco Crescentini (ultra-low-noise and high-accuracy readout circuits for sensors. Analog front-ends).

Energy Harvesting

IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-Catania (Design of system and circuits for energy-harvesting)
IUNET-PoliTO: Fabrizio Bonani
IUNET-Bologna: Aldo Romani, Marco Tartagni, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli
IUNET-Bologna: Marco Crescentini (ultra-low-noise and high-accuracy readout circuits for sensors. Analog front-ends).

RF devices & electronics

IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-Catania (Design of RF circuit and system)
IUNET-PoliTO: Simona Donati Guerrieri, Fabrizio Bonani (TCAD and modeling), Vittorio Camarchia, Marco Pirola, Chiara Ramella, Anna Piacibello (Design and Characterization), Anna Piacibello, Vittorio Camarchia (Linearity enhancement and Digital PA)
IUNET-PoliTO: Francesco Bertazzi (NEGF), Alberto Tibaldi (VCSELs), Michele Goano (photodetectors and FPAs
IUNET-Bologna: Aldo Romani, Marco Tartagni, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini

Photonics devices

IUNET-UNIRM

Power devices

IUNET-Modena: Pierpaolo Palestri (HCE), Luca Selmi (ET)
IUNET-Modena: Alessandro Chini (trapping)
IUNET-Milano: Gerardo Malavena (GaN and SiC, galvanic isolation devices)
IUNET-Bologna: Susanna Reggiani, Luigi Balestra (trapping in WBG)
IUNET-Bologna: Andrea Tallarico (reliability characterization), Susanna Reggiani (reliability TCAD modeling)
UNET-PoliTO: Simona Donati Guerrieri, Fabrizio Bonani (electro-thermal and trap modeling), Vittorio Camarchia, Anna Piacibello (Load-pull)

Flexible electronics

IUNET-Modena: G. Cantarella (fabrication), Luca Selmi (modeling and simulation)
IUNET-UniBz: Luisa Petti (printed flexible electronics); Niko Munzenrieder (inorganic electronics); Franco Cacialli (organic and sustainable (opto)electronics;
IUNET-UNIRM
IUNET-Catania (Analog and digital IGZO IC design)

Others

IUNET-UniBz: Valerio Annese (edible electronics)
IUNET-Catania (Analog Body-driven techniques, analog circuits with digital cells)
IUNET-UNIVE

Main expertises

Smart systems

Ultra-low-power embedded systems, AI-enabled edge devices, Wireless sensor networks, IoT and biomedical systems, Analog in-memory computing
Smart sensors and biosensors, IoT sensing systems, Ultra-low-power sensor interfaces

System design

Development of PCB system merging traditional electronic with degradable materials.
IoT systems based on energy harvesting, including battery-less
Low computation machine learning and TinyML RISC-V processors and SoCs, Multicore and manycore architectures, AI hardware accelerators, Hardware/software co-design
Accelerators based on in-memory-computing for embedded machine learning applications
Monolithic GaN power IC design, with a focus on gate drivers
DC-DC Switched regulators
RISC-V based platforms for AI acceleration
RISC-V based platforms for cryptosystems

Heterogeneous Integration, & Advanced Packaging

Electrothermal modeling and simulation at board level
Heterogeneous SoC integration, 3D integrated architectures, Complex VLSI systems

Research interests

Smart systems

IUNET-Bologna: Luca Benini, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti, Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini
IUNET-Bologna: Marco Crescentini (smart sensor system design, circuit, architecture, firmware, characterization)

System design

IUNET-UniBz: Valerio Annese (hybrid organic/inorganic PCBs)
IUNET-Catania (GaN monolithic analog/mixed-signal design and DC-DC switched regulator)
IUNET-Polito: Maurizio Martina, Guido Masera
IUNET-Bologna: Aldo Romani, Marco Tartagni (energy harvesting)
IUNET-Bologna: Luca Benini, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti (RISC-V)
IUNET-UNiBO: Eleonora Franchi Scarselli, Alessio Antolini (in-memory computing)

Heterogeneous Integration, & Advanced Packaging

IUNET-Modena: Luca Selmi
IUNET-Bologna: Luca Benini, Davide Rossi, Francesco Conti

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