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Mentor- Alexandru Müller

Alexandru Müller (M’95) received his Ph.D degree in Semiconductor Physics from the University of Bucharest, in 1990.

He is the Head of the Microwave  laboratory, in IMT-Bucharest, Romania. His early activity was focused on design and manufacturing of microwave diodes (pin, varactor step recovery, Schotttky). After 1995 he was involved in developing of novel membrane supported microwave and millimeter wave circuits based on micromachining technologies of silicon and GaAs.

In the recent years his research activity was focused on acoustic devices developed on III Nitrides, analysis of Rayleigh and Sezawa propagation modes in GaN/Si layers. He has developed GHz operating SAW devices based on micromachinig and nanoprocesing of GaN/Si, targeting temperature and pressure sensor applications. He is the author/coauthor of more than 150 papers in high ranked journals and conferences. In 2003 he was invited “Directeur de recherché“ at LAAS CNRS Toulouse, France. He was involved in many European projects (in the frame of the research EU programs FP4, FP6, FP7, H2020) as coordinator or as resposible of the IMT team.

Dr. Müller has coordinated one of the first European projects in RF MEMS “MEMSWAVE” (1998-2001), nominated in 2002 between the 10 finalists for the Descartes Prize. He was awarded with the Tudor Tanasescu prize of the Romanian Academy.

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Project manager- Dr. Martino Aldrigo

Dr. Martino Aldrigo was born in Italy in 1978. He attended a scientific high school („liceo scientifico”) with a specialization in foreign languages (German and English). He obtained the baccalaureate diploma with the final mark 60 (out of 60). On 20 October 2009, he became „Dottore Magistrale” (M.S. Degree) in Telecommunications Engineering with the final mark 110 (out of 110) cum laude. The thesis subject was „Design of Radiofrequency Circuits LS” and the thesis title was „Circuit Simulation in the Time-Domain of an entire Radiofrequency MIMO Link”. The thesis was an experimental one and was written within 7 months under the supervision of Prof. Diego Masotti ([email protected]). On 15 May 2010, as a distinction for his research, he won a „Premio di Laurea” (thesis award of 1000 €) from the association Lions Club „Minerva-Minerbio” during the „Radio Days” 2010, at Villa Griffone (Pontecchio di Sasso Marconi, Bologna, Italy). On 14 December 2009, he sustained the professional practice examination for the engineering license, passed with the final mark 203 (out of 240). On 16 May 2014, he obtained his PhD in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications and Information Technology at University of Bologna, Italy, with the thesis „Design and experimental characterization of antennas and wireless systems for innovative wearable and implantable ultra low-power applications”, under the supervision of Prof. Vittorio Rizzoli ([email protected]). The PhD thesis can be found at the following web page address: http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6377/

In the period October 2009 - May 2010, he worked as a graduate collaborator at DEIS (Department of Electronic, Computer Science and Systems Engineering), Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy, where he cooperated actively in the drafting of a scientific paper concerning the research he accomplished for his thesis degree, in the field of electromagnetic-circuit simulation of Multi-Input Multi-Output telecommunication devices and systems, focusing on the design of integrated antennas. In July 2010, he won a competitive examination for an engineering project at DEIS, concerning the design of an integrated antenna working in the ISM 2.4 GHz frequency band, on behalf of the electronic company „Elettronica Santerno S.p.A.”, Imola, Bologna, Italy. InApril 2012, he won a competitive examination for an engineering project at ARCES-DEIS - University of Bologna, concerning the „Experimental characterization of a mobile device for localization and identification of RFID tags in high interoperability pervasive systems”. In 2013, during the last year of his PhD program, he spent a research period at IMT - National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies, Bucharest, Romania - under the supervision of Prof. Mircea Dragoman, focusing on the design of antennas and nonlinear devices for radiofrequency and terahertz applications by exploiting nanotechnologies (graphene). In the period 2010 - 2013, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electronics, Computer Science, Telecommunications and Biomedicine Engineering, University of Bologna, Cesena, Italy. His main tasks comprised class exercises, didactical support and exams preparation for the subject „Analytical design of electric and electronic circuits”.

In the period January 2014 - August 2015, he worked as Assistant Researcher (AC) at Lab4 - IMT, Bucharest, Romania. In the period September 2015 - December 2016, he worked as Scientific Researcher (CS) at Lab4 - IMT, Bucharest, Romania. Since December 2016, he works as Scientific Researcher III (CSIII) at Lab4 - IMT, Bucharest, Romania.

Dr. Aldrigo’s main expertise comprises the electromagnetic simulations and measurements of radiofrequency/microwave systems for energy-harvesting/wireless applications. In the field of his research activity at IMT, he is also involved in the design of graphene- and 2D materials-based components at microwave and terahertz frequencies for innovative micro- and nano-devices.
At IMT, he contributed/contributes to the following projects:

• FP7 NANORF „Carbon Based Smart System for Wireless Applications” coordinated by THALES TRT, France, for which he designed, simulated and characterised microwave graphene antennas and microwave band-pass filters realized with carbon nanotubes;
• ENIAC NANOCOM „Micro and Nano Technologies Based on Wide Band Gap Materials for Future Transmitting Receiving and Sensing Systems” coordinated by THALES TRT, France, for which he designed, simulated and characterised RF MEMS switches and SPDTs based on carbon nanotubes integrated in a thin-film of silicon nitride (Si3N4);
• in the frame of the subprogram „Proiecte de cercetare pentru stimularea constituirii de tinere echipe de cercetare independente”, he collaborates to the project „Utilizarea structurilor de tip ghid integrat in substrat pentru masurarea permitivitatii materialelor dielectrice in domeniul microundelor (2015 - 2017)” coordinated by Dr. Alexandra Srefanescu (Lab4 - IMT).
• PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0033 (GRAPHENEFERRO) „Dispozitive nanoelectronice avansate bazate pe heterostructuri grafena/feroelectric”, as team member of a consortium of 4 Romanian partners. Project manager Prof. Mircea Dragoman;
• H2020 ICT-07-2018 NANOSMART „NANO components for electronic SMART wireless systems” (accepted for funding in 2018), as team member of a consortium of 10 partners from 7 countries (Romania, France, Greece, Sweden, Italy, Ireland, Spain). Team leader for Romania: Prof. Mircea Dragoman;
• FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020 NANOPOLY „Artificial permittivity and permeability engineering for future generation sub wavelength analogue integrated circuits and systems” (accepted for funding in 2018), as team member of a consortium of 8 partners from 6 countries (Romania, France, Greece, Germany, Italy, Spain). Team leader for Romania: Prof. Mircea Dragoman;
• FETOPEN-01-2016-2017 CHIRON „Spin Wave Computing for Ultimately-Scaled Hybrid Low-Power Electronics” (funded in 2018), as team member of a consortium of 9 partners from 6 countries (Romania, France, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands). Team leader for Romania: Dr. Alexandru Müller;
• FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020 IQubits „Integrated Qubits Towards Future High-Temperature Silicon Quantum Computing Hardware Technologies” (accepted for funding in 2018), as team member of a consortium of 6 partners from 5 countries (Romania, Denmark, Italy, Canada, Greece). Team leader for Romania: Dr. Alexandru Müller.

A complete and updated list of Dr. Aldrigo’s publications can be found at the following web page address:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l0QbHDcAAAAJ&hl=en

¤ Project coordinated by: National Institute for Reseatch and Development in Microtechnologies- IMT Bucharest http://www.imt.ro/

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