Ansvarsområder
Design electronic interfaces for sensors
Kompetanse
Electronic Engineer specialized in Power Electronics
Projects during my student career:
0) Design and Fabrication of a Light follower (Project of Bachelor Course)
1) Design of Windows Paint in Java (Project of Bachelor Course)
2) Design and Simulation of a thermoelectric energy harvester (Project of Master Course)
3) Design and simulation of a digital system to perform FFT by using VHDL.
4) Design and Simulation of an array of antennas with CST for medical applications (bachelor thesis)
5) Design and Fabrication of a MEMS switch for high temperature applications (Master Thesis)
6) Design of a compact and low power bidirectional front-end for resonating transducers (PhD Thesis)
Projects after Phd:
1) Design of a VHDL firmware to drive a phase array of ultrasound transducers. (finsihed on 01/05/2019)
2) Responsable to install Cadence Virtuoso at USN (01/10/2019)
2) Design of an ASIC for resonating sensor front-end in AMS-350nm by using Cadence Virtuoso (finished on 12/02/2019)
3) Design of a customized PADRING for a ASIC realized in AMS350nm by using Cadence Virtuoso (finished on 19/10/2019)
4) Design and Fabrication of a PCB for Shield CNC and driver DRV8825 for Arduino microcontroller. (finsihed on 15/01/2020)
5) Fabrication of a Junctionless Transistor in USN facilities (WORK IN PROGRESS)
6) Design and Fabrication of a haptic ultrasound system to improve virtual reality experience (WORK IN PROGRESS)
7) Design and Fabrication of a PCB for reading neural signals from human Nerves (ARMIN PROJECT, Design finished, Fabrication in progress)
CV
- Bachelor degree in Electronic engineering at "Universita ' Politecnica delle Marche" Graduated with 110/110 cum laude (october 2012)
- ERASMUS project at HIVE (now USN) in 2014
- Master thesis at HBV (now USN) in 2015 , title: "design and fabrication of a mems switch for high temperature applications"
- Master degree in Electronic engineering specialized in Power electronics at "Politecnico di Torino" graduated with 110/110 Cum laude ( 2015)
- Phd research started on September 2015 - ended on 12 October 2017 at University of South Eastern Norway (USN)
- Responsable of Electronic Lab at USN 2017-2018
- Laboratory Assistant in bachelor courses 2017-2018: Digitalteknikk (EL-DIS), Elektriske kretser (EL-ELK), Programmering (EL-POM), Mikrosensors (EL-MIS), Mikroelectroktronikk (MIE2001)
-Laboratory Assistant in master courses 2017-2018: Electronic System Design
- Laboratory Assistant in bachelor courses 2018-2019: Mikrosensors (EL-MIS)
-Laboratory Assistant in master courses 2018-2019: Electronic System Design
- POSTDOC started on 1 August 2018 - terminated on 1 April 2021
- Førsteamanensis II from 1 April 2021 til 30 March 2022
- Lecturer of Mikroelektronik course MIE2001 2018-2019, 2019-2020
- Responsable for maintainance of server for Electronic software at USN (Cadence Virtuoso/Mentor)
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- Supervising experience:
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(a) Co-Supervisor for a SSI master student (2017-2018) with Professor Einar Halvorsen in a project titled: "Design and Fabrication of a MEMS Gas Sensor with SnO2 thin layer for CO2".
(b) Supervisor of 4 Bachelor USN students (2018-2019) in collaboration with professor Kaying Wang in a project titled : "Analysis of Design and Fabrication Challenges in CO2 MEMS resonating Gas sensors".
The project won an award at USN EXPO 2019 as the most voted project.
(c) Supervisor of 2 Bachelor USN students (2018-2019) in collaboration with professor Mehdi Azadmehr in a project titled : "Design and Fabrication of an Ultrasound haptic system".
(d) Supervisor of Exchange student from Politecnico di Torino- Italy (2018-2019) in collaboration with professor Per Alfred Ølkers in a project titled : "Design, Modelling and Fabrication of a Planar Junctionless transistor" .
(e) Supervisor of SSI student (2018-2019) in collaboration with professor Per Alfred Ølkers in a project titled : "Analysis of the challenges to realize an FDSOI wafer for junctionless transistors" .
(f) Supervisor of SSI student (2019-2020) in a project titled : "Generation of 1D virtual object by using haptic ultrasound system " .
(g) Supervisor of SSI student (2019-2020) in a project titled : "Design and Fabrication of a memristor emulator for neuromorphic applications" .
(h) Supervisor of USN bachelor student (2019-2020) in a project titled : "Design and fabrication of a modern CNC machine" .
(i) Supervisor of exchange student (2019-2020) in a project titled : "Design and Fabrication of SnO2 thin film transistor" .
(l) Supervisor of USN master student (2020-2021) in a project titled : "Fabrication of SnO2 thin film transistor" .
(m) Supervisor of USN master student (2020-2021) in a project titled : "design and fabrication of phantom skin for testing medical devices"
(n) Supervisor of USN master student (2020-2021) in a project titled : "design and fabrication of phantom skin for testing medical devices"
(o) Supervisor of USN master student (2020-2021) in a project titled : "Design of a Wireless energy transfer system for an implantable monitoring system"
(p) Supervisor of USN bachelor student (2020-2021) in a project titled : "Analysis and challenges to design a self-powered pacemaker"
the students in this project won the Dieter Bergman Memorial scholarship of 10000NOK provided by Elmatica for contributing to this R&D project
- Awards:
- Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ECTI-NCON 2018 conference
- Best Project Award at Nano Network Conference 2017
Publikasjoner
Publications During Ph.D. 2016-2017:
L. Marchetti, A. Romi, Y. Berg, O. Mirmotahari and M. Azadmehr, "A discrete implementation of a bidirectional circuit for actuation and read-out of resonating sensors," 2016 International Conference on Design and Technology of Integrated Systems in Nanoscale Era (DTIS), Istanbul, 2016, pp. 1-5.
doi: 10.1109/DTIS.2016.7483896
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg, O. Mirmotahari and M. Azadmehr, "Bidirectional front-end for piezoelectric resonator," 2016 IEEE 13th International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control (ICNSC), Mexico City, 2016, pp. 1-4.
doi: 10.1109/ICNSC.2016.7479028
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "An autozeroing inverter based front-end for resonating sensors," 2017 12th International Conference on Design & Technology of Integrated Systems In Nanoscale Era (DTIS), Palma de Mallorca, 2017, pp. 1-5.
doi: 10.1109/DTIS.2017.7930154
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A bidirectional front-end with bandwidth control for actuation and read-out of MEMS resonating sensors," 2017 MIXDES - 24th International Conference "Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Bydgoszcz, 2017, pp. 185-188.
doi: 10.23919/MIXDES.2017.8005180
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg, O. Mirmotahari and M. Azadmehr, "A control system for a low power bidirectional front-end for resonating sensors," 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Calabria, 2017, pp. 322-326.
doi: 10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000112
M. Azadmehr, L. Marchetti, M. S. Elkharashi and Y. Berg, "A virtual Wheatstone bridge front-end for resistive sensors," 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Calabria, 2017, pp. 368-371.
doi: 10.1109/ICNSC.2017.8000120
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg, and M. Azadmehr, "Design and Modelling of a Bidirectional Front-End for Resonating Sensors Based on Pseudo Floating Gate Amplifier," MDPI Electronics, vol. 6, 2017. doi:10.3390/electronics6030068
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg, and M. Azadmehr, "Analysis of the Effect of Channel Leakage on Design, Characterization and Modelling of a High Voltage Pseudo-Floating Gate Sensor-Front-End," MDPI Electronics, vol. 6, 2017. doi:10.3390/electronics6040079
M. Azadmehr, L. Marchetti and Y. Berg, "A low power analog voltage similarity circuit," 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Baltimore, MD, 2017, pp. 1-4.
doi: 10.1109/ISCAS.2017.8050950
keywords: {analogue circuits;integrated circuit design;low-power electronics;power consumption;analog voltage similarity circuit;low-power bump circuit;voltage correlator;power consumption;Transistors;Correlators;Legged locomotion;Power demand;Simulation;Solids;Integrated circuit modeling},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8050950&isnumber=8049747
Publications in 2018:
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A self-cascode pseudo floating gate front-end for resonating sensors," 2018 International ECTI Northern Section Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering (ECTI-NCON), Chiang Rai, 2018, pp. 89-94.
doi: 10.1109/ECTI-NCON.2018.8378288
keywords: {amplifiers;CMOS integrated circuits;invertors;leakage currents;self-cascode transistors;minimum area occupation;SC-PFGA;CS-PFGA;resonating sensors;self-cascode pseudo floating gate amplifier;current-starved pseudo floating gate amplifier;self-cascode pseudo floating gate front-end;AMS-350nm CMOS process;reference voltages;Butterworth Van Dike model;size 350.0 nm;voltage 5.0 V;Inverters;Logic gates;Transistors;Resistance;Power demand;Cutoff frequency},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8378288&isnumber=8378269
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A bidirectional front-end for ultrasonic pulse-echo measurements," 2018 IEEE 15th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC), Zhuhai, 2018, pp. 1-6.
doi: 10.1109/ICNSC.2018.8361284
keywords: {amplifiers;biomedical ultrasonics;piezoelectric transducers;printed circuits;ultrasonic devices;ultrasonic materials testing;ultrasonic transducers;ultrasonic pulse-echo measurements;compact bidirectional front-end;pulse-echo ultrasound applications;electronic system;pseudofloating gate amplifier;power supply rails;electronic circuit;low power consumption;portable ultrasonic device;discrete components;integrated circuit CD4007UB;wide-bandwidth piezoelectric transducer;printed circuit board;ultrasonic transducer;underwater applications;voltage 10.0 V;frequency 3.5 MHz;Transducers;Ultrasonic transducers;Ultrasonic variables measurement;Logic gates;Inverters;Impedance;Power supplies},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8361284&isnumber=8361215
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A Low Power, High Gain Semi-Floating Gate Amplifier for Resonating Sensors Front-End," 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Hong Kong, 2018, pp. 458-463.
doi: 10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00089
keywords: {Inverters;Manganese;Logic gates;MOSFET;Capacitors;Sensors;Bandwidth;Resonating Sensor;Front End;Semi floating Gate;Amplifier;High Gain},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8429410&isnumber=8429321
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A Discrete Implementation of a Semi-Floating Gate Amplifier for Resonating Sensor Front-End," 2018 25th International Conference "Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and System" (MIXDES), Gdynia, 2018, pp. 97-102.
doi: 10.23919/MIXDES.2018.8443591
keywords: {Inverters;Logic gates;MOS devices;Manganese;Power demand;Prototypes;CD4007UBE;Semi-Floating Gate;Resonating Sensor;Front-End;Amplifier},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8443591&isnumber=8436585
L. Marchetti, Y. Berg and M. Azadmehr, "A Compact Bidirectional Pseudo Floating Gate Front-End for Resonating Sensors based on NAND and NOR logic Gates," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Semiconductor Electronics (ICSE), Kuala Lumpur, 2018, pp. 221-224.
doi: 10.1109/SMELEC.2018.8481284
keywords: {amplifiers;CMOS integrated circuits;logic gates;piezoelectric transducers;compact bidirectional pseudofloating gate Front-End;resonating sensors;pseudofloating gate amplifier;PFGA;voltage buffer;analog front-end;AMS-350nm CMOS technology;integrated circuits;resonant frequency;ring down method;piezoelectric transducer;NAND logic gates;NOR logic gates;size 350.0 nm;voltage 3.3 V;frequency 40.0 kHz;Sensors;Transistors;Inverters;Power demand;Logic gates;Semiconductor device measurement;Bidirectional;Front-End;Resonating Sensor;Pseudo Floating Gate Amplifier},
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8481284&isnumber=8481236
Publications in 2019:
Nowbahari, A.; Roy, A.; Nadeem Akram, M.; Marchetti, L. Analysis of an Approximated Model for the Depletion Region Width of Planar Junctionless Transistors. Electronics 2019, 8, 1436.
Publications in 2020:
Nowbahari, A.; Roy, A.; Marchetti, L. Junctionless Transistors: State-of-the-Art. Electronics 2020, 9, 1174.