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In CAMOUFLAGE we will use organic spintronic non volatilememories (NVMs) to provide the proof of conceptof an anti-tampering, concealable PUF that will provide unmatched security in authentication. Organic spintronic NVMs have the following key enabling features: (i) their conductivity can be tuned by the application of a voltage pulse; (ii) their conductivity depends on the applied magnetic field; (iii) the dependence of the conductivity on the applied magnetic field can be turned on and off by the voltage pulse in (i); (iv) the baseline conductivity varies randomly between different devices. These characteristics will be combined to fabricate an inexpensive, concealable, anti-tampering PUF.
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The project POLYPHON challenges how modifications in the lattice dynamics of organic semiconductors (OSC) reflect in a change of their electronic properties. In fact, different crystal structures (polymorphs) are available for the same molecular compound. Different polymorphs have different vibrational patterns, which return different electron-phonon coupling (EPC). POLYPHON goals include: i) to achieve fundamental, predictive, and transferrable knowledge on how the polymorphism impacts the electronic properties and how a change in the lattice dynamics will reflect on the mobility; ii) disentangle molecular structure, solid-state packing, nature and quantity of polymorphs, nature of the boundary between polymorphs, in respect of the electronic properties.
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INTERFAST lays the foundations for a fully innovative adaptable magnetic-based computing&sensing technology, aiming at the construction of a new and competitive pillar in the race for beyond CMOS era. The technology is applied to most relevant spintronic device cases and is based on the voltage gating modulation of chemical bonding at hybridised interfaces between metallic and molecular layers. The modification of the bonding induces sizeable modification of the electronic properties at the surface of the metallic spintronic element. This unavoidably alters the most relevant solid-state parameters, among which the spin-orbit coupling. The modulation of the hybridisation is an electronic process and is accounted by ps-fs characteristic time scales, thus opening yet unexplored routes towards ultrafast information processing.
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SINFONIA is an interdisciplinary research project that envisions a technology allowing to store and transport information on the nanometer length scale and at operational frequencies in the THz regime. Such a technology will be realized through an optical manipulation of hybrid molecular/antiferromagnetic interfaces, which will enable a selective activation of information emitters and detectors. Such a selectivity will be ensured by the local nature of the hybridized electronic states that develops at the interface between an antiferromagnet and a molecular system.
Project homepageMADIA aims at realizing a versatile and cheap diagnostic device based on magnetoresistive sensors, microfluidic device, ultra–small Magnetic Nanoparticles (MNPs) and advanced bio-chemical functionalization methods for the early and ultrasensitive. in vitro detection of biomarkers trustfully associated with 2 incurable neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and Parkinson Disease (PD). We plan to achieve sensitivities at least three orders of magnitude higher than best state-of-the-art values flexibility to operate for a wide range of concentrations
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