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Microelectromechanical device (MEMS) integrated on a crystalline oxide substrate (1) comprising: at least one suspended structure (6) able to deform by the application of an electric or magnetic field and a thin film structure (10) comprising at least one transition metal oxide (10) deposited on the suspended structure (6). The device is characterized by the fact that the suspended structure (6) comprises a bearing layer (4) of crystalline oxides.
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The device (1) allows the detection of small quantities of electrical charge (Qs) utilised for recognition of the gybridisation process of a single strand of DNA. It comprises a chip (2) in which is integrated an MOS device having a floating gate (7) a first portion (7a) of which extends in facing relation to a recess (8) formed in a surface of the chip (2) and accessible from outside the chip (2) and operable to retain an electrical charge (Qs) to be measured bound to it. A second portion (7b) of the gate (7) of the MOS device is coupled to a control electrode. (10) of the chip (2) by means of a capacitor (12) of predetermined value within the chip (2).
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A method is described for the characterization of atmospheric particles by means of a lidar device (10). The method provides to send a laser pulse in the atmosphere, a part of which (Dir) is directly backscattered by the particles (Sz) in the atmosphere. A reflecting optical device is provided, that is positioned at a predetermined distance d from the lidar device, whereby a part (Cp) of the laser pulse that directly reaches the reflecting device is backreflected and is later backscattered by the particles in the atmosphere thus generating a counterpropagating backscattering signal directed towards the reflecting device, which signal reaches the reflecting device and is backreflected towards the lidar device. The lidar device detects the direct backscattering and counterpropagating signals. The optical characteristics of the particles are determined on the basis of the direct backscattering signal and the counterpropagating backscattering signal.
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A mutant of the GFP fluorescent protein, designated as D3GFP, is described, the fluorescence of which is sensitive to both the pH and anion concentration. A chimeric protein comprising a first protein, P1, and a second protein, P2, is further described, wherein the P1 protein is a fluorescent protein sensitive to the pH and anion concentration - such as the D3GFP mutant - and the P2 protein is a fluorescent protein, the fluorescence of which is independent from both the pH and anion concentration. In addition, P2 is selected so that there is no substantial overlapping of the P1 and P2 emission and excitation fluorescence spectra. A method is also described for the combined measurement of the pH and anion concentration (for instance the intracellular chlorine ions) by using the said chimeric protein.
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A semiconductor laser comprises an active region (12) which, in response to a pumping energy applied thereto, can produce a stimulated emission of radiation with a central wavelength (A) in the far infrared region, and a confinement region (16, 18, 22) suitable for confining the radiation in the active region (12) , and comprising at least one interface (16a, 16b, 22a) between adjacent layers that is capable of supporting surface plasmon modes generated by an interaction of the interface with the radiation. The confinement region (16, 18, 22) comprises a wave-guide layer (16) which is delimited on opposite sides by a first interface and by, a second interface (16a, 16b) .The guide layer (16) is doped in a manner such that the first and second interfaces (16a, 16b) are capable of supporting the plasmon modes, respectively, and is of a thickness (d) such as to bring about the accumulation of the plasmon modes in proximity to J the first and second interfaces (16a, 16b) , outside the layer (16) , and substantially a suppression of the plasmon modes, inside the layer.
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A method for the production of elementary boron, in the amorphous state and/or optionally doped, is described by a method that involves the dissolution of an oxidized boron precursor, the cryogenic freezing of said solution and the subsequent lyophilisation, which follows a (chemical) reduction state. The described method allows the production of nanopowders of amorphous boron and provides the possibility of inserting homogeneously a doping element on the boron lattice sites and/or of the homogeneously dispersion of doping nanocompounds in the boron matrix.
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A radiometer for measuring the total effective UV radiance of the type comprising, in an optical pathway sequence, a diffuser, an interference filter and a detector. Said interference filter comprises a plurality of alternating layers of magnesium fluoride and zirconium oxide, where the dif- fuser/interference filter/detector system has a spectral response equivalent to the erythema action curve CIE.
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A method and device, based on a film of a luminescent substance, such as colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals dispersed in a polymer matrix, for conducting quantitative and real-time analyses of PCR processes or of biomolecular interactions in genomics and/or proteomics. The optical detection system is based on FRET processes between the luminescent substance (which acts as the donor in the FRET process) and a suitable fluorophore (which acts as the acceptor species) with which the DNA or other biomolecule is marked. The device is essentially composed of a reaction microchamber with a wall formed by a thin film made of polymer material, in which the nanocrystals are uniformly dispersed, or made of a photoluminescent or electroluminescent polymer. Molecular probes are chemically immobilized on the surface of the polymer film for the specific recognition of the analyte which is to be determined in real time. The film of nanocrystals is excited by radiation at low wavelength (for example, UV/blue), and the radiation in the spectral emission window characteristic of the fluorescent marker of the biomolecule is detected. The specific photophysical characteristics of FRET processes make it possible to monitor in a selective way, in real time and in quantitative mode, the biomolecular interactions, which take place in the close proximity of the surface of the film (typically at distances of
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A description is given of geometrical phase optical elements comprising, as a birefringent means, a liquid crystal material with a spatially inhomogeneous orientation of the molecular director in a plane orthogonal to the direction of propagation of an input radiation beam, ordered according to a predetermined geometrical pattern. Also described is an optical system for generating helical modes of propagation of an optical radiation beam, including a geometrical phase optical element orientated transversely to the direction of propagation of the beam, whose optical axis is orientated according to a predetermined geometrical relation adapted to transform a circular polarized input radiation beam into a helical mode with a wavefront having a helical surface whose handedness is a function of the handedness of the input polarization, in which the switching between different orders of helicity of the radiation beam emerging from the geometrical phase optical element is carried out by switching the circular polarization state of the input radiation.
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A method is described for the identification of a party authorised to have the benefit of a service delivered by a provider party via a telematics network, in which the provider party and each user party are connected to the network by means of a respective electronic communications and processing system (S, C), and the provider party requests a temporary password (PWD) identifying the user party to allow access to the services delivered. The method is characterised in that it involves autonomous execution of a procedure for calculating the password (PWD) in the processing systems (S, C) of both parties on the basis or predetermined algorithms, the above-mentioned calcultaing procedure comprising the operations of: generating a first string of characters (N30) by means of a first pre-established algorithm (ALGN30), on the basis of a random number (RND) and a hidden dynamic variable (n; p) not transmitted over the network, but obtained by the processing systems (S, C) independently; extracting a second string of characters (N3), a subset of the first string (N30), by means of a second preestablished algorithm (ALGN3), as a function of the hidden dynamic variable (n; p) and of said random number (RND); and generating the temporary password (PWD) by means of a third pre-established algorithm (ALGPWD), on the basis of the above-mentioned second string of characters (N3). The authorsed party is identified as a result of the comparison between the password (PWD) calculated by the processing system (S) of the provider party and that calculated by the processing system (C) of the user party, whereby access to the service is permitted if this comparison gives a positive result and otherwise is denied. The password thus obtained may also be used as a single-use key in a system for encrypting all the information exchanged between the authorised user party and the service provider party.