Measurement and certification services
The DEIB Labs host a wide range of equipment for the measurement and the certification of industrial products.
The services offered to companies include, among others:
“Radiation Detectors and Low-Noise Electronics” Lab:
“Single-Photon Detectors and Applications” Lab:
“Electronic systems” Lab:
“Analog integrated circuit design” Lab:
“Electron Devices” Lab:
Electric drives, power electronics and energy storage systems Lab:
"Measurements" Lab:
"High precision electrical measurements" Lab:
Photonic Devices Lab
Automatic control Laboratory:
The services offered to companies include, among others:
“Radiation Detectors and Low-Noise Electronics” Lab:
- analysis of chemical composition of materials with XRF techniques
- design, test and measurement of radiation detectors
“Single-Photon Detectors and Applications” Lab:
- design, test and characterization of single-photon detectors for the visible and near-infrared wavelength range
- design and development of optoelectronics instrumentation based on single-photon and imaging detectors for applications in the field of biology, medicine, physics, information and communication technology, etc.
- non-invasive optical test of integrated circuits
“Electronic systems” Lab:
- bonding of electronic devices on silicon and organic materials
- chip gluing in nitrogen atmosphere
- verification and integrity control of devices and wafers
- development of printed circuits on multilayer FR4 epoxy glass laminated sheets and Teflon coated sheets
“Analog integrated circuit design” Lab:
- design, simulation, manufacturing (through external foundries) and experimental characterization of CMOS and BiCMOS mixed signal Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC’s)
- design and use of instrumentation in order to access to the electronic properties of devices at the nanoscale
- design and test of integrated circuits for interaction with biological systems
“Electron Devices” Lab:
- analytical and experimental studies of elemental and compound semiconductor devices (Si, SiC, GaN, GaAs, CdTe, CdZnTe) and organic devices
- on chip and on wafer electron device characterization
Electric drives, power electronics and energy storage systems Lab:
- electrical tests on materials
- torque-speed characterization of electric motors
- functional and efficiency tests on electronic power converters
- characterization tests of storage systems (charge-discharge cycles, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, thermal stress)
"Measurements" Lab:
- characterization of optical instrumentation
- study and development of measurement sensors for custom applications
- design and development of electro-optical prototypes and instruments
- development of data acquisition systems
- design and characterization of low-noise laser sources
"High precision electrical measurements" Lab:
- metrological verification of digital and analog multimeters
- metrological verification of standard generators (calibrators, standard resistors)
- thermo-hygrographs and thermo-hygrometers calibration
- measurements of electrical materials properties
- power and Energy measurements
Photonic Devices Lab
- characterization of integrated optical waveguides in any technology: attenuation, group index, dispersion, coupling efficiency, birefringence, PDL, PMD, etc
- spectral, temporal and coherent characterization of integrated optical passive devices, modulators and active optical devices
- characterization and testing of high-complexity telecom, datacom and biophotonic devices with locking and control circuits
- wavelengths from 1200 to 1700 nm; Signals up to 10 Gbit/s and 100 GBaud/s
Automatic control Laboratory:
- experimental verification of control techniques for discrete event systems
- measurement of capacity, state-of-charge and ageing of Lithium batteries
- experimental verification of motion control algorithms