Pierpaolo Palestri

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Pierpaolo Palestri

Ph.D. in Industrial and Information Engineering

Professor of Electronics

Dipartimento di ingegneria Enzo Ferrari

Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Email: pierpaolo.palestri@unimore.it

Research Interests and Activities

• Development of advanced modeling tools for electron devices and sensors

• Modeling of GaN power devices

• Design of Analog/Mixed-signals circuits

• Modeling and design of high-speed I/O interfaces

• Avalanche photo-diodes for X- and Gamma-ray detection

• Electro-chemical models for biosensors and ion-tronic devices

Topics for Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. Thesis

• Development of a Full-band Monte Carlo simulator for GaN power HEMT (MSc, PhD)

• Calculation of the band structure of wurzite GaN (BSc,MSc)

• Inclusion of Dynamic Ron effects in verilog-A models for power GaN devices (MSc)

• Simulation of power GaN HEMTs using analytical Monte Carlo and commercial TCAD tools (BSc, MSc)

• Behavioral modeling of high-speed I/O interfaces: porting the code from MATLAB/Python scripts into C/C++ (BSc)

• Monte Carlo modeling of GaN power devices: porting key functions from Python to C/C++ (BSc)