Developing new technologies based on light and new generation circuits is the goal of the European project Persephone which sees Italy at the helm, with the Italian Institute of Technology (Iit) and the participation of Politecnico di Milano and Federico II University of Naples. , and funded with 3.75 million over four years.
Funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 research framework program, through the Marie Sklodowska Curie training networks, the project aims to develop a new technological platform based on the use of light, photonics. The latter discipline is increasingly present in many sectors: from everyday life to the most advanced science, from medical diagnostics to environmental monitoring, up to telecommunications and robotics. The Persephone (PERovskite SEmiconductors for PHOtoNics) project will involve 14 young researchers in an innovative training program dedicated to developing a new technology platform for photonics based on an emerging class of semiconductors with exceptional optical and electrical properties, hybrid perovskites.
International coordinator of the project is Annamaria Petrozza, Principal Investigator at the Italian Institute of Technology and head of the "Advanced Materials for Optoelectronics" research group at the IIT Center for Nano Science and Technology (CNST) in Milan. Petrozza is an expert in semiconductors and optical spectroscopy. In 2014 he received the "Innovators Under 35 Italy" award from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Technology Review magazine for his pioneering work on perovskites; in 2017 and 2020 he won two grants from the European Research Council (ERC).
Thanks to the Persephone training network, young researchers will be exposed to a broad spectrum of skills, from material design to their integration into complex devices and circuits.
Everyone will have to face complex problems, acquiring broad skills and becoming highly adaptable in business and academic contexts, under the banner of multidisciplinary research.
