Advanced Electronics and Photonics Research at EPICS Laboratory, Italy

1. Electronics and Photonics Integrated Circuit and Systems Laboratory (EPICS Laboratory) Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics University of L’Aquila (Italy) Andrea De Marcellis, Marco Faccio, Elia Palange

2. Optical Systems Analogue Electronic Systems Digital Electronic Systems Optoelectronics Systems Nanophotonics Components Si Photodiodes Arrays of Si Photodiodes Signal/Data Processing 2D Integrable Photonics Components Design of Optical Configurations Signal Conditioning Circuits Integrated Electronics and Photonics Circuits and Systems Full-Custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and System-on-Chip (SoC) Devices Discrete Components Prototyping

3. Analogue Electronic Systems Wide Bandwidth Sensors Conditioning Circuits for Different Kinds of Sensors Wide Bandwidth Circuits for Driving Pulsed Semiconductor Lasers Lock-in Amplifiers for Custom Applications Circuit Design at the Discrete Component Level Circuit Design using the Si CMOS VLSI Technology Cadence Design System Software (180nm)

4. Digital Electronic Systems Architectures for Data Processing and Data Communications Architectures for Event Driven Data Acquisition and Communication Protocols Nonlinear and Adaptive ADC and DAC Converters System Design and Implementation on Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Boards Thru VHDL Programming System Design using the Si CMOS VLSI Technology Cadence Design System Software

5. Optoelectronics Systems Wide Bandwidth High Sensitivity High Resolution Sensor Conditioning Circuits High Sensitivity High Resolution Circuits for Differential Measurements Full-Custom On-Chip Electronics Circuits for Pixel-to-Pixel Conditioning Design of Single and Arrays of Si Photodiodes at the Si CMOS VLSI Technology Cadence Design System Integrated with Lumerical Software for Designing Mixed Signal Systems Using the Si CMOS VLSI Technology

6. Nanophotonics Components 2D Bandpass Filters from Visible to Terahertz Region of the e.m. spectrum Perfect Absorbers and 2D Planar Large Aperture Lenses 2D Polarizers an Dichroic Filters Design of 2D Components Compatible with the Si CMOS VLSI Technology CST 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software Comsol Multiphysics and Lumerical 3D Electromagnetic Simulation Software’s

7. Outputs and Scientific Collaborations of the EPICS Lab Research Activities • Robotics: • Intra-Automata Communication Systems Via Optical Link - (Wireless/Fibre) (IIT and Politecnico of Turin); • Tactile Sensor Systems - (University of Genoa – Electronic Engineering Electronics); • Vision Devices and Systems with On-Chip Hardware Controls and Machine Learning Capabilities (University of Genoa and Politecnico of Turin) • Biomedicine: • Implanted Optical Wireless Biotelemetry Systems. (Imperial College of London) • Fundamental Science: • Wideband Lock-in Amplifier for High-Sensitivity High Resolution Measurement Systems for Linear and Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy – (University of Rome – Physics Department)

8. 2018 Publications and Proceedings at International Conferences with Referee 1. A. De Marcellis, S. Leone, E. Palange, “High-Sensitivity Differential Interface for the Detection of Energy Variations of Nanosecond Laser Pulses for Spectroscopic Applications”, IEEE Sensors Journal, 18, 8410 – 8415 (2018) 2. C. Rizza, X. Li, A. Di Falco, E. Palange, A. Marini, A. Ciattoni“Enhanced asymmetric transmission in hyperbolic epsilon-near-zero slabs”,Journal of Optics, 20, 085001 (6pp) (2018) 3. M. Janneh, A. De Marcellis, E. Palange, A. T. Tenggara, D. Byun,“Design of a metasurface-based dual-band Terahertz perfect absorber with very high Q-factors for sensing applications“,Optics Communications, 416, 152-159 (2018) 4. A. De Marcellis, M. Faccio, E. Palange, “A 0.35μm CMOS 200kHz-2GHz Fully-Analogue Closed-Loop Circuit for Continuous-Time Clock Duty-Cycle Correction in Integrated Digital Systems“, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2018) 5. G. Di Patrizio Stanchieri, A. De Marcellis, M. Faccio, E. Palange, “An FPGA-Based Architecture of True Random Number Generator for Network Security Applications”, Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2018) 6. A. De Marcellis, E. Palange, M. Faccio, G. Di Patrizio Stanchieri, T.G. Constandinou, “A 250Mbps 24pJ/bit UWB-inspired optical communication system for bioimplants”, 2017 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2017 - Proceedings (2018) 7. M.G. Antonelli, P. Beomonte Zobel, A. De Marcellis, E. Palange, “Battery-powered autonomous robot for cleaning of dusty photovoltaic panels in desert zones”, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 644, 653-661 (2018) 8. P. Colucci, A. D’Amico, A. De Marcellis, C., Falconi, G. Ferri, F. Giovannelli, F.R. Parente, V. Stornelli, “CCII-Based Voltage Amplifier Optimization for Reduced Relative Gain Error”, Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing, 37, 1315-1326 (2018) 9. V. Sulli, F. Santucci, M. Faccio, D. Giancristofaro, “Performance of Satellite Digital Transparent Processors Through Equivalent Noise”, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 54, 2643-2661 (2018) 10. V. Sulli, G. Marini, F. Santucci, D. Giancristofaro, M. Faccio, ”Performance modeling, design and FPGA-based validation of digital transparent satellite processors”, IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, 1-11 (2018) 11. V. Sulli, D. Giancristofaro, F. Santucci, M. Faccio, G. Marini, ”Design of Digital Satellite Processors: From Communications Link Performance to Hardware Complexity ”, IEEE Journal on SelectedAreas in Communications 36, 338-350 (2018)