August 14, 2012 Francesco Orfei, from NiPS Laboratory participates at the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences (IDETC) and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (CIE) that is presently ongoing in Chicago (August 12-15, 2012).
L. Gammaitoni and H. Vocca visit K. Lindemberg at UCSD
Aug. 13, 2012 L. Gammaitoni and H. Vocca from NiPS Lab visited Prof. Katja Lindemberg at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD, in La Jolla (CA). In the picture (from left to right): H. Vocca, K.
NiPS collaborates with Dr. A. Bulsara at US Navy lab SPAWAR
NiPS lab has an ongoing scientific collaborates with Dr. A. Bulsara at US Navy lab SPAWAR in San Diego. This is part of the ONRG funded project: Novel techniques and methods for the realization of energy harvesting systems
Visit to Jeff Moehlis group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB
Santa Barbara (CA), Aug 10 2012 NiPS Lab members visited Jeff Moehlis group at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCSB to discuss activities in the field of nonlinear vibration energy harvesting. Picture by Francesco Orfei.
L. Gammaitoni visits MIT group for discussing future collaboration
Boston, 7 Aug. 2012 Luca Gammaitoni, director of NiPS, visited MIT in Cambridge (MA) to discuss future scientific collaboration in the field of nanoenergies with Masoud Mohseni (right) and Yasser Omar (left).
NiPS Summer School 2012 completed
Summer School "Energy harvesting at micro and nanoscales" Erice (IT), July 23-27, 2012 The third edition of NiPS Summer School and Workshop devoted to "Energy harvesting at micro and nanoscales" has been completed in Erice, Sicily. PICTURES OF THE SCHOOL available here! The
Celebrated the ZEROPOWER Workshop in Glasgow, 3-4 July 2012
NiPS lab members Helios Vocca, Francesco Orfei and Luca Gammaitoni spoke at the ZEROPOWER WORKSHOP held in Glasgow on July 3,4. More information available at: http://www.zero-power.eu/node/68 Pictures of the event available here: photos
NiPS Summer School 2012 is approaching!
Summer School "Energy harvesting at micro and nanoscales" Workshop "Energy harvesting: models and applications" Erice (IT), July 23-27, 2012 The Noise in Physical System Laboratory is glad to announce the third edition of NiPS Summer School and Workshop devoted
New paper from NiPS: Kinetic energy harvesting with bistable oscillators
Kinetic energy harvesting with bistable oscillators Helios Vocca; Igor Neri; Flavio Travasso; Luca Gammaitoni Abstract: The goal of powering small-scale electronic mobile devices with energy harvested from the ambient has been in recent years the subject of a great research
Micro-Energy Day 2012
The Micro-Energy day has come! On June 21st NiPS will celebrated the third Micro-Energy Day as part of our activities in the ZEROPOWER Coordination Action! The initiative is presented in www.microenergyday.eu and is part of the initiatives organized during