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ELECTRON SPIN RELAXATION PROCESS IN SILICON CRYSTALS

2014

Recently, electrical injection of spin polarization in n-type and p-type silicon has been experimentally carried out up to room-temperature. Despite of these preliminary but promising experimental results, a comprehensive theoretical framework concerning the influence of transport conditions on the phonon-induced spin depolarization process in silicon structures, in a wide range of values of temperature, doping concentration and amplitude of external fields, is still in a developing stage. In order to elucidate the electron transport and spin dynamics of conduction electrons in lightly doped n-type Si crystals we have performed semiclassical multiparticle Monte Carlo simulations and numeric…

Monte Carlo Simulation of Spin Relaxation of Conduction Electrons in Silicon

2014

Recently, electrical injection of spin polarization in n-type and p-type silicon up to room-temperature has been experimental- ly carried out. Despite of these promising experimental results, a comprehensive theoretical framework concerning the influence of transport conditions on the spin depolarization process in silicon structures, in a wide range of values of temperature, doping concentration and amplitude of external fields, is still in a developing stage. In this contribution we use a semiclassical multiparti- cle Monte Carlo approach to simulate the electron transport and spin dynamics in lightly doped n-type Si crystals and numerically calculate the spin lifetimes of drifting electr…

Design and development of a continuous wave functional near infrared spectroscopy system

2014

Functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy uses light sources and optical detectors for human brain monitoring. In this paper, a portable, low cost, battery-operated, multi-channel, continuous wave fNIRS embedded system, hosting up to 64 LED sources and 128 Silicon PhotoMultiplier optical detectors, is reported on. The designed system is based on a scalable architecture, in which each probe consists of 8 modular and flexible stands, able to host 4 bi-color LEDs as light sources, 16 silicon photomultipliers as photodetectors and a temperature sensor. The hardware structure allows to easily set up several relevant parameters: the timing of the LEDs, the optical power emitted by the LEDs; the acqui…

Design of a Multichannel Continuous Wave fNIRS System implemented with SiPM

2013

Development of a CW-fNIRS System for brain monitoring

2014

Blood Pressure Monitoring with a PPG Embedded System

2014

Progettazione e realizzazione di un sistema Continuous Wave fNIRS basato su tecnologia SiPM

2014

Progettazione e realizzazione di un sistema Continuous Wave fNIRS basato su tecnologia SiPM

Optical techniques represent a suitable tool for in vivo and non-invasive diagnosis of human brain and tissues. Functional Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS) is revealing as an emerging neuroimaging technology, since it is safe, relatively inexpensive and little cumbersome. fNIRS relies on the measurement of the oxygen concentration in the blood by means of light beams impinging on the tissues under test. Haemoglobin concentration variations (oxygenated/deoxygenated) can provide very important information on brain activity and allow to discriminate the main brain area involved during tests. Herein, we present the design and development of an innovative solution for a portable continuous wav…

Emoticonos y emojis: análisis de su historia, difusión y uso en la comunicación digital actual

2016

Los emoticonos son unas populares representaciones esquemáticas de expresiones faciales o pequeñas imágenes que se añaden a los mensajes electrónicos. Tras una revisión la investigación sobre la comunicación mediada por ordenador (CMO) y los emoticonos, el trabajo recorre la historia de los emoticonos, las diferentes tipologías y discute su actual percepción y difusión. Desde el punto de vista empírico, el trabajo se basa en una encuesta exploratoria y en el análisis de un corpus. La encuesta fue respondida por una muestra de conveniencia de 226 personas. La encuesta abordó algunos aspectos poco estudiados en la investigación sobre emoticonos, como por ejemplo las herramientas en las que se…

Thermoelectrics: From history, a window to the future

2019

Thermoelectricity offers a sustainable path to recover and convert waste heat into readily available electric energy, and has been studied for more than two centuries. From the controversy between Galvani and Volta on the Animal Electricity, dating back to the end of the XVIII century and anticipating Seebeck’s observations, the understanding of the physical mechanisms evolved along with the development of the technology. In the XIX century Ørsted clarified some of the earliest observations of the thermoelectric phenomenon and proposed the first thermoelectric pile, while it was only after the studies on thermodynamics by Thomson, and Rayleigh’s suggestion to exploit the Seebeck effect for …