Contractor of “Micro-biosensors for pesticide detection in environment and food samples”, project (2007-2010) in the National Research Programme “PARTNERSHIP” (PN2). A micro transducer was obtained, based on metallic multilayer deposition by vacuum evaporation on a silicon substrate [5]. The achieved micro biosensors ensure efficient, rapid and cheap bio detection, allowing to monitoring the concentration of the organophosphate insecticides in samples of environment and food, at the levels required by the international legislation in the field. The developed method allows determining by a single analysis the presence of any organophosphate insecticide; it is simple to be used and could be applied in laboratories with medium level infrastructure. This allows monitoring the environment, to locate the pollution sources and to take the necessary protection methods.

References:

[5] L. Galateanu, M. Bazu, V. Ilian, C. Tibeica, N. Cimpoca, Cecilia Podaru, I. Ardelean, Lucia Dumitru, M. Grigoras, Maria Ivanoiu, M. Totolin, D. Conduruta, Electrochemical micro-cell for (cyano)bacteria-based biosensors, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology, v.9, nr.2, 2006.

Contractor of “Infrastructure development for reliability research in integrated micro-nano systems”, project (2007-2009) in the National Research Programme “CAPACITIES” (PN2), and of “Development of a laboratory for assessing the quality of the products of micro technologies according to EU requirements - LIMIT”, project (2006-2008) in the National Research Programme “National research Programme „Excellence in Research – CEEX. These two projects allow to purchase modern equipment for reliability testing, mainly at combined stresses [6-7]. Details about the equipment are given in the section FACILITIES.

References:

[6] M. Bazu, L. Galateanu, V. E. Ilian, Reliability Accelerated Tests for Microsystems, 34th International Spring Seminar on Electronic Technology - ISSE 2011, High Tatras, Slovakia, May 11-15, 2011.
[7] M. Bazu, L., V.E. Ilian, Typical Failure Mechanisms of Microsystem Technology, 12th International Conference on Quality and Dependability, organised by the Romanian Society on Quality Assurance and IEEE, 21-24 Sept. 2010.

Contractor of “Technologies at nanometer scale: time degradation phenomena”, CNCSIS grant (2006-2008). Systems for evaluating the reliability of nanostructured materials, nanoelectronic structures and NEMS were elaborated [8-9]. The annual project workshops, common with the CEEX project NANOCRYSTALNET (Oct 10, 2007 and Oct.17, 2008), held at the University Politehnica Bucharest, gathered Romanian specialists in nanotechnologies and invited specialists, professors at universities from Valencia (Spain) and Gauhati (India). 

References:

[8] M. Bazu, L.Galateanu, V.Ilian, About Nano-Reliability, Quality Assurance, No.55, July-October 2008
[9] M. Bazu, L., V.E. Ilian, L. Galateanu, A New Challenge - the Nanoreliability, Bulletin of Micro and Nanoelectrotechnologies, Vol. 2, no.1, March 2011, pp. 7-11.