• Italian

Spintronics and Renewable Energy

Contact person

Mario Carpentieri - Full Professor

Competencies and research activities

People:
Prof. Mario Carpentieri
Dott. Francesco Cutugno
Dott. Jamel Riavi
Prof. Silvano Vergura

The scientific activity concerns the following two main topics of the Electrical Engineering:
•    Micromagnetism and Spintronics
•    Modelling, diagnostics and reliability of renewable energy sources

The first research topic studies:
•    Magnetic materials modeling.
•    Design of Spin-Transfer Torque (STT) MRAM and nano-oscillators.
•    Design of nanodevices spin-orbit torque based.
•    Linear and nonlinear dynamics of magnetic excitations in magnetic films, multilayers, and finite-size samples: spin waves, solitons, skyrmions.
•    Applications of linear and nonlinear spin waves in microwave signal processing.
•    Design of hybrid CMOS-STT-MRAM circuits.
•    CUDA Applications.
 
The second research topic studies:
•    Modelling of grid-connected and stand-alone renewable energy sources
•    Smart-grids and micro-grids
•    Penetration of RES in power systems
•    Statistics for monitoring the performance of RES
•    Nondestructive techniques for diagnostics of RES
•    ICT for energy

Collaborations with companies and institutions

Collaborations:

•    since 2001, with the theoretical group of prof. Giovanni Finocchio, University of Messina, Italy.
•    since 2002, with the experimental group of prof. Ermanno Cardelli and Prof. Pietro Burrascano, University of Perugia, Italy.
•    since 2003, with the theoretical group of prof. Luis Torres and Luis Lopez-Diaz, University of Salamanca, Spain.
•    since April 2005, with the experimental group of prof. Dan Ralph, University of Cornell, Ithaca, NY, USA.
•    since 2008, with the experimental group of prof. Giovanni Carlotti and dr. Gianluca Gubbiotti, University of Perugia, Italy.
•    since November 2010, with the theoretical group of prof. Andrei Slavin, Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA.
•    since 2013, with the theoretical group of prof. Adel Mellit, Renewable Energy Laboratory, Jijel University, Algeria.
•    since 2013, with the theoretical group of prof. Loredana Cristaldi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.since 2013, with the theoretical group of Dr. Alessandro Massi Pavan, University of Manchester, UK.
•    since 2013, APIS Ltd, Spinoff, Bari, Italy.
•    since 2015, with the experimental group of prof. Johan Åkerman, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.