Luca Selmi

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Ph.D in ElectricalEngineering

Professor of Electronics

IEEE Fellow (2015)

Email: luca.selmi@unimore.it

Phones

Office: (+39) 059 2056165

Mobile: (+39) 320 4365969

The Electronics Laboratories

MY ORCID CODE

0000-0001-8688-4326

Research Interests and Activities

• Modeling and simulation of nanoelectronic ion- and bio-sensors
• Nanometer size MOSFETs in augmented silicon and III-V compound semiconductor channel materials
• Modeling and simulation of nanoelectronic switches for energy efficient ultra-low power electronics
• Carrier transport in Ultra thin body SOI devices
• Hot carrier effects characterization and modeling
• Flash EEPROM operation and reliability
• Hot carrier induced luminescence in Silicon devices
• Impact ionization in Silicon Bipolar transistors
• Design of high frequency circuits for telecom applications in bulk and FinFET technologies

Research Projects

I am currently participating to the following research projects (last updated December 2019):

• European Flag-ERA HESN project CONVERGENCE - Frictionless Energy Efficient Convergent Wearables For Healthcare And Lifestyle Applications (2017-2020), italian participation coordinated by the Udine unit of the IUNET consortium.
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2015 - Rivelatori di raggi X in semiconduttori ad alto numero atomico per sorgenti di nuova generazione e imaging medicale (2016-2019) coordinated by the Udine unit.

Over the years I held technical and coordination roles and responsibilities in the following research projects (last updated December 2019):

• Research contract with Infineon Technologies Villach on High Speed Serial Interfaces (HSSI)
• European FP7 Strep project E2SWITCH - Energy Efficient Tunnel FET Switches and Circuits www.e2switch.org/ (2013-2017).
• European FP7 Strep project III-V-MOS - Technology CAD for III-V Semiconductor-based MOSFETs www.iii-v-mos-project.eu (2013-2017) coordinated by the Udine unit of the IUNET consortium.
• European Working Group ULIS - Ultimate Integration on Silicon (5FP, 1999-2000)
• European Strep Project NESTOR - New Double Gate Transistors (5FP, 2002-2004)
• European Coordination action EUROSOI - Silicon on Insulator Technology Devices and Circuits www.eurosoi.org (6FP, 2004-2006)
• European Network of Excellence SINANO - Silicon Based Nanoelectronics www.sinano.eu (6FP, 2004-2007, IST-506844). Watch the presentation movie.
• European Integrated Project PULL-NANO - PULLing the limits of NANO-CMOS electronics (6FP, 2006-2008)
• European Network of Excellence NANOSIL - SIlicon-based NAnostructures and naNOdevices www.nanosil-noe.eu (7FP, 2008-2011).
• European Coordination Action GUARDIAN ANGELS - Guardian Angels for a Smarter Planet www.ga-project.eu (2011-2012).
• European ENIAC-JTI project MODERN - Modeling and Design of Reliable process-variation-aware Nanoelectronic devices, circuits and systems www.eniac-modern.org (2009-2012).
• European Network of Excellent NANOFUNCTION - Beyond CMOS Nanodevices for Adding Functionalities to CMOS www.nanofunction.eu (7FP, 2010-2013).
• European Strep project STEEPER - Steep Subthreshold Slope Switches for Energy Efficient Electronics www.steeper-project.eu (7FP, 2010-2013).
• European Strep Project GRAND - Graphene-based Nanoelectronic Devices www.grand-project.eu (7FP, 2008-2010).
• European Integrated Project GOSSAMER - Gigascale Oriented Solid State flAsh Memory for EuRope www.fp7-gossamer.eu (7FP, 2008-2010).
• European FP7 Strep project GRADE - Graphene-based Devices and Circuits for RF Applications www.grade-project.eu (2012-2016).

• Italian MIUR project FIRB 2001 - RBNE012N3X - Sistemi miniaturizzati per l'elettronica e la fotonica
• Italian MIUR project FIRB 2006 - RBIP06YSJJ - Tecnologie innovative per lo sviluppo di memorie non volatili ad alta densità
• Italian MIUR project FIRB Futuro in Ricerca - RBFR10XQZ8 - Novel device and circuit concepts for energy-efficient electronics
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2000 - Permeable gate CMOS circuits: are they feasible ?
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2002 - Sub 0.1 micron Bulk and SOI CMOS Technologies for High Performance and Low Power Applications
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2004 - Innovative Architectures and Models for nanoMOSFETs
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2006 - Conventional (bulk) versus emerging nanoscale CMOS technologies: a comparative evaluation from the device to the system level
• Italian MIUR project PRIN 2008 - Modeling and simulation of graphene nanoribbon FETs for high-performance and low-power logic applications (GRANFET)

• Research contract with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company - TSMC
• Research contract with Philips research Eindohoven
• Research contract with Philips research Leuven
• Research contract with NXP Leuven
• Research contract with Infineon Technologies Munich
• Research contract with Infineon Technologies Villach

Italian University Nano-Electronics Team (IU.net Consortium)

IU.net is a consortium of eleven research groups located in eleven Italian Universities and devoted to advanced research in the field of nano-electronics. More information can be found on the IUNET Consortium webpage

Publications

Publications (link to the IRIS database)

Current teaching duties

Publications (link to the IRIS database)

Past teaching duties at University of Udine

Digital Electronics (until 2002 - 2003) Analog Electronics - basics Analog Electronics - advanced (until 2006 - 2007) Electron Devices / Electronic Nanotechnology Electronics for telecommunications (until 2003 - 2004) Instrumentation and Electronics Measurements (at University of Bologna until 2008 - 2009)

Miscellanea

• Ai nati prima del 1970 (e per conoscenza a quelli nati dopo)
• Chi non capisce si vendica (Editoriale di Enrico Bellone, Le Scienze, n.484, dic.2008)
• Come se Dio ci fosse (M.Viroli, Einaudi)
• Perché ho il diritto di scegliere la mia morte (U.Eco, Repubblica)
• Discorso sull'educazione (B.Obama, Wakefield High School, Arlington, Virginia, September 8, 2009)
• A difesa della scuola nazionale (P.Calamandrei, III Congresso ADSN, Roma, 11 febbraio 1950)
• Apologo sull’onestà nel paese dei corrotti (I.Calvino, La Repubblica, 15 marzo 1980)
• L'Italia non esiste (F.Rondolino, Mondadori)
• Solidao (P.Mercier, Mondadori)