Welcome to the Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits Laboratory website, belonging to the Department of Electronics, Information Technology and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano, located in Como, Italy.
Please have a look at the Research and Education areas of this website to learn more about our scientific expertise, publications, and the education that we provide.
Breaking news!
Today, March 15, 2025 (7:39 CET), the HERMES Pathfinder mission was successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, as part of the Transporter-13 mission!
The HERMES constellation, composed of six 3U CubeSat nanosatellites, was delivered into a Sun-synchronous orbit at approximately 510 km altitude, as planned in the mission profile. Over the coming days, the satellites will be gradually released into orbit from D-Orbit’s ION Satellite Carrier platform, with one satellite deployed per day.
Into the beating heart of each nanosatellite there are 120 LYRA Front-End and 4 LYRA Back-End ASICs designed by our lab at Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Università di Pavia performing the crucial low-noise/low-power analog processing of charge signals generated by the silicon sensors, for a total of 700+ channels working in space!
If you are interested in theses in the development of Application Specific Integrated Circuits for space and astrophysics instrumentation check out our theses section or send an email to giuseppe.bertuccio@polimi.it for additional information!
The Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits Laboratory (SDIC Lab) hosts an active research group of Electronics Engineers, working at the Department of Electronics, Information Technology and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano. SDIC-Lab is dedicated to scientific-technological research in the field of Semiconductor Radiation Detectors and Integrated Electronics in CMOS technology for the analog-digital processing of related signals. In SDIC-Lab, innovative devices and integrated circuits are designed and studied for the detection of ionizing radiation and particles in order to overcome the current state of the art. In SDIC-Lab, research activities have been carried out or are in progress on detectors in Gallium Arsenide (GaAs), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) and Silicon Carbide (SiC) and on CMOS / BiCMOS integrated circuits with minimum noise and low consumption of power. SDIC-Lab has advanced instrumentation for the design and characterization of semiconductor electronic devices and integrated circuits. In SDIC-Lab the research activity is combined with the didactic one with the training of students in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ph.D. students and young researchers.
SDIC-Lab works in collaboration with other universities, research institutes and companies:
Where are we:
Politecnico di Milano – Polo Territoriale di Como, 42, Via Francesco Anzani, Caserme, Como, Lombardia, 22100, Italia
SDIC Laboratory – Politecnico di Milano
Polo Territoriale di Como
Via Francesco Anzani, 42
22100 Como