Technologies

In this section it is possible to view, also through targeted research, the technologies inserted in the PROMO-TT Database. For further information on the technologies and to contact the CNR Research Teams who developed them, it is necessary to contact the Project Manager (see the references at the bottom of each record card).

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# Record card
176
Description

The proposed technology consists of a portable device for monitoring the freshness of fish, based on its smell. The device is based on a gas sensor and pattern recognition software to correlate the sensor signal to the freshness of the food. The technology is designed for its integration into domestic or industrial refrigerators.

Thematic areas
Measurement tools and Standards
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Agrifood
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
# Record card
89
Description

Nowadays, to properly design and develop advanced materials capable to preserve for long times their performance under aggressive environments such as power generation plants, renewables, nuclear reactors and electronics of new generation, transport on ground and on space, aeronautics, catalysis, biomedical implants, the optimization of metallurgical processes involved is crucial.

Thematic areas
Aerospace and Earth Science / Space sciences
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
Aerospace and Earth Science / Satellite technologies
Automotive transport and logistics / Vehicles
Automotive transport and logistics / Shipbuilding
Automotive transport and logistics / Propulsion
Automotive transport and logistics / Transport infrastructures
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Vacuum/High vacuum technologies
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Man made fibres
Chemicals & Physics / Special chemicals
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Materials / Building materials
Materials / Ceramic materials
Materials / Composite and hybrid materials
Materials / Metals & alloys
Materials / Properties of materials, corrosion, degradation
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Renewable sources
Energy and environmental sustainability / Rational use of energy
Energy and environmental sustainability / Nuclear fission/nuclear fusion
Energy and environmental sustainability / Cleaner use of fossil fuels
Energy and environmental sustainability / Nuclear engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Energy and environmental sustainability / Building materials
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
# Record card
254
Description

Digital Eye is an innovative, rapid and high-precision intelligent computer vision system for the non-destructive and contactless evaluation of quality and shelf-life of whole or fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. It integrates advanced vision and artificial intelligence technologies to estimate parameters useful to evaluate the quality of fruit and vegetables, during both the harvesting phase and the cold chain.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Agrifood
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
Automotive transport and logistics
ICT & Electronics / Artificial Intelligence
Automotive transport and logistics / Logistics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Process control and logistic
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Measurement tools and Standards
# Record card
19
Description

We propose an optical technique for the fast check of the presence, on the exposed surfaces of persons and objects, of explosives and their precursors, or drugs, or in general materials which are not allowed in restricted environments: airports, courts, places of worship, etc. The technique yields bi-dimensional pictures, with exposure time of < 1 sec, reporting the target substances, and their locations and quantities. The technique already provided laboratory preliminary results, to be completed, and fully validated for sensitivity and selectivity.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
# Record card
62
Description

We propose a portable chemical analysis system capable of identifying chemical substances at trace concentrations (sub-ppm), even in case of a complex matrix of interfering species.

Thematic areas
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
ICT & Electronics / Smart cities and Communities
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Process control and logistic
Chemicals & Physics / Separation technologies
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Energy and environmental sustainability / Natural disasters
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Measurement tools and Standards
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
# Record card
53
Description

VisLab laboratory of IMM possesses a latest generation Raman micro-spectroscope equipped for vibrational measurements with high spatial and spectral resolution, at controlled temperature and in fast-imaging. The apparatus can be used to collect information and chemico-physical maps without the need for sample preparation and alteration, therefore for non-destructive studies and in operating conditions.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Chemicals & Physics / Inorganic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Man made fibres
Chemicals & Physics / Plastics & rubber
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Materials / Plastics, polymers
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Materials / Properties of materials, corrosion, degradation
Materials / Processes of production & treatment of materials
Materials / Photo-active & graphene-based materials
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Nanomedicine
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Health & Biotech / Micro and nanotechnology related to biological sciences
Health & Biotech / Medical imaging & equipment
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
# Record card
160
Description

At IFN-CNR, in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano-Department of Physics, we have developed Raman microscopy approaches compatible with the study and characterization of biological and industrial samples. In detail, our facility houses a self-built spontaneous confocal Raman microscope with the following characteristics: two excitation lasers (660nm and 785nm), inverted microscope (Olympus IX-73) and Princeton spectrometer / CCD.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
# Record card
14
Description

The invention is about the development of a device and its methodology for measuring the active and reactive sound intensity from the impedance computation. The active intensity is calculated directly in the frequency domain multiplying the complex impedance and power spectrum of the air particle velocity. A second line of post-processing is applied to obtain the overall complex sound intensity.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
Energy and environmental sustainability / Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulics, Vibration and Acoustic Engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Measurement tools and Standards
# Record card
243
Description

This invention comprises an interrogation and readout differential method for chemical sensors based on Surface Plasmon Resonances (SPR). The integration of the SPR sensing unit (chip or other), as intermediate reflecting element of a Fabry-Perot (FP) optical resonator, is the starting point for the application of this method.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Laser technologies
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Archeometry
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Safety and security
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
Agrifood
Energy and environmental sustainability
Health & Biotech
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Measurement tools and Standards
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage
ICT & Electronics / Microwaves and RF
# Record card
17
Description

The NanoMicroFab infrastructure, support companies operating in the field of micro and nanoelectronics through the supply of materials, development of processes, design, fabrication and characterization of materials and devices. NanoMicroFab makes use of existing CNR facilities of the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems, the Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnologies and the Institute for the Structure of Matter and provides: • a complete line of development of devices based on wide band gap semiconductors.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics / Laser technologies
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
ICT & Electronics / Smart cities and Communities
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
ICT & Electronics / Internet of Things
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
ICT & Electronics / Nanotechnologies related to electronics and microelectronics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Packaging
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Robotics
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Additive manufacturing processes and materials
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Factory of the Future
Additive and advanced industrial manufacturing / Vacuum/High vacuum technologies
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Health & Biotech / Smart Devices for Health and Wellness
Health & Biotech / Medical Device
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Health & Biotech / Micro and nanotechnology related to biological sciences
Health & Biotech / Bio-medicals
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Tourism, social sciences and cultural heritage / Technologies for preservation of cultural heritage
Aerospace and Earth Science / Aeronautical technologies and avionics
Aerospace and Earth Science / Satellite technologies
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Automotive transport and logistics
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
Chemicals & Physics / Electron microscopy
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Energy and environmental sustainability / Safety and security
Energy and environmental sustainability / Pollution treatment (air, soil, water)
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Energy and environmental sustainability / Ecology & Biodiversity
Energy and environmental sustainability / Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulics, Vibration and Acoustic Engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Energy and environmental sustainability / Simulation
Energy and environmental sustainability / Wearable technologies
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
ICT & Electronics / Information processing, information system, workflow management
ICT & Electronics / Microwaves and RF
# Record card
94
Description

The metasurface optomechanical modulator is a device designed to modulate the amplitude, phase and polarization of a beam of electromagnetic radiation, independently, or simultaneously, according to prescribed paths in the parameter space (for example, as regards polarization, paths on the Poincaré sphere). The concept of our device can be applied to the entire spectrum of electromagnetic waves: from radio frequency, to microwaves (GHz), to millimeter waves (THz), to far and near infrared radiation, and to visible light.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Imaging & image processing
ICT & Electronics / Laser technologies
ICT & Electronics / Optics & Acoustic
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
ICT & Electronics / Optoacustic sensors, Optoelectronic devices
Chemicals & Physics / Quantum optics
Materials / Optical materials
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
ICT & Electronics / Telecommunications
# Record card
37
Description

Quartz tuning forks are employed in scanning atomic force microscopy (AFM), as well as in some derived techniques, as high sensitivity detectors of interactions, of both conservative and dissipative kind, between the AFM nanometric probe and the investigated surface. However, the contributions of the two kinds of interaction result as convoluted in the sensor response, preventing fully quantitative measurements of the quantities of interest.

Thematic areas
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Measurement tools and Standards
# Record card
157
Description

The technology concerns planar optical antennas composed of thin metal films and dielectric materials for the efficient direction of the light emitted by light sources, such as fluorescent molecules and bio-markers. They consist of a reflector layer, adjacent to the substrate, and a director, semi-reflective, between which the emitter is positioned, integrated into a homogeneous dielectric layer.

Thematic areas
ICT & Electronics
ICT & Electronics / Sensor/multi-sensor technology, instrumentation
Chemicals & Physics
Chemicals & Physics / Micro and nanotechnology related to physical, chemical and exact sciences
Chemicals & Physics / Quantum optics
Chemicals & Physics / Radiometry, photometry and vision
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
Agrifood
Agrifood / Nutrition & health
Agrifood / Food quality & safety
Automotive transport and logistics
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Biosensors
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic kits
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
# Record card
47
Description

AIS aim is a robotized inclinometer measurement in standard inclinometer boreholes. The deep measurements have multiple applications, including: evaluating the rate of deep-seated ground deformation in landslide areas, evaluating the volume of deep-seated landslides and assessing landslide hazards. The AIS is composed by an electronic control manager, an inclinometer probe and an electric motor equipped with a high precision encoder for handling and continuous control of the probe in the borehole.

Thematic areas
Energy and environmental sustainability / Environmental engineering/technologies
Aerospace and Earth Science / Geological engineering
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Measurement tools and Standards
ICT & Electronics / Robotics and control systems
Energy and environmental sustainability / Natural disasters
# Record card
241
Description

Electrochromism is an optoelectronic characteristic of particular interest because it can be exploited in the creation of technologies such as smart windows (Smart Windows) to promote energy efficiency, automotive, sensor or visualization devices. Electrochromic materials change their optoelectronic characteristics, showing different colors depending on the applied electric field.

Thematic areas
Materials
Materials / Semiconductors and Superconductors
Energy and environmental sustainability
Energy and environmental sustainability / Rational use of energy
Health & Biotech
Health & Biotech / Diagnostic, Medical imaging & advanced bioimaging
Automotive transport and logistics
Automotive transport and logistics / Vehicles
Chemicals & Physics
Energy and environmental sustainability / Sensory
Chemicals & Physics / Organic substances
Chemicals & Physics / Colours & dyes
ICT & Electronics / Electronics and microelectronics
Chemicals & Physics / Subtainable substances and green chemistry
Materials / Optical materials
Chemicals & Physics / Atomic and molecular spectroscopy
ICT & Electronics