Wishes 2022

PULSE-COM partners whishes you Happy New Year celebrations May the New Year bring to you a light to guide your path towards a positive destination

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Reconfigurable Optical Networks

Reconfigurable Optical Networks will be developed based on reconfigurable optical devices implementation into networks with new tunable and switchable functionalities by means of optical control. Between several optics devices with more specific functionalities we are working to perform the photonic devices with the specific functions like wavelength selector, multiplexer/de-multiplexer as well as even the spectrometer.…

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PULSE-COM has produced its first collaborative patent

We are proud to announce that collaborative work of the PULSE-COM team resulted in a European Patent submission. The patent EP21461595.7 entitled: “Photo-Piezoelectric Energy Generator of Electrical Energy from Light Energy” was filed in September 2021. The patent protects the topology of harvester (Figure 1), which uses PMP/PZL bilayer’s cyclic bending to convert light into…

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Optimization of the PMP through surface treatment

By repeating the experiments made on first PMP with ZA4 PMP, we saw that some important PMP characteristics were changed, thus the embossing was no longer possible. So, another approach was tried. First, we tried to form a thick, ordered film of sub-micron spheres onto the membrane and we successfully performed this for a colloidal…

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New vacuum-free and low cost method to deposit ZnO seed layers for the development of flexible piezoelectric transducers in PULSE-COM project

Piezo-semiconducting zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires (NWs) are excellent candidates for the fabrication of energy harvesters, mechanical sensors, piezotronic and piezophototronic devices [1]. They are grown typically from thin seed layers. Low temperature fabrication methods are required for their integration on flexible substrates. Vacuum-free methods of deposition will eventually reduce their fabrication cost. In PULSE-COM, within…

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Synthesis of self-oscillating photo mobile polymer films

CNR successfully prepared a Photo-Mobile Polymer (PMP) film self-vibrating while exposed to polarized light. The protocol of preparation can be observed in Fig.1 and in brief it involves the preparation of polymer coated glass slides that will be used as minireactors for the polymerization. The mix used (Figure 2A) is introduced in the cells by…

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