Giacomo Mauri

Giacomo Mauri is a PhD student in Physics at the University of Perugia, focusing primarily on experimental physics.

For the Bachelor's thesis, he studied vibrational Energy Harvesting process through the characterization of non-linear nano membranes that convert mechanical vibration energy into electrical energy based on the use of piezoelectric materials. His analysis provided information on the non-linearity and non-Gaussian properties of membranes.

In his Master's thesis, he improved and tested a thermal neutron solid state detector. A typical device is made-up of two components: a neutron converter, coupled to a sensor. In this case, the converter was a Gadolinium foil and the sensor was a silicon micro-strip. His work focused both on improving the assembly of the detector components and on developing the pulse-shape analysis method required for data analysis. The measurements were performed at ILL (Insitut Laue-Langevin).

In 2015, he started his PhD continuing his work on thermal neutron detectors. He has built a simulation data system to check and improve the data analysis, which also provides useful data for developing a FPGA read-out system. He is also studying and testing deposition techniques for Gadolinium.

As part of his PhD, Giacomo is in a 6-months secondment within the ESS Detector Group in Lund. He is working on B-10-based detectors.

• Experimental physics
• Thermal neutron detectors
• Solid state physics