First Announcement We are delighted to announce you the upcoming 2nd International School on Smart Materials for Opto-Electronic Applications that will be held at the Grand Hotel San Michele in Cetraro (Italy), September 12-13, 2022. Main scope The main scope of this International School is to provide in a short time of only two-days…
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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.…
PVDF based Piezoelectric (PZL) devices were fabricated to realize a very thin and simple bendable device to be integrated with the PMP layers. In this way the PMP / PZL structure, with the use of the copper foil, will be able to integrate easily and will be able to dissipate the heat more simply if…
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…
In PULSE-COM project are investigated several piezoelectric elements to be integrated on the photomobile-polymer (PMP). The two main functions of the piezoelectric layer are: Sensing, Energy harvesting, Indeed, when the PMP bends due to light excitation, it is expected the mechanical deformation is converted into electricity by the mean of the direct piezoelectric effect. To…
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…
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…
