In the last decades we have assisted to a growing need for security in many public environments. According to a study recently conducted by the European Security Observatory, one half of the entire population is worried ...

The power grid is an electric system capable of performing electricity generation, transmission, distribution and control. Nowadays it has been subjected to a deep transformation, which will reshape it completely. In ...

The understanding and the modeling of mechanisms involved in organic semiconductors are the aims of this Ph.D. thesis. In particular, the document focuses the attention on the role played by organic semiconductor defectson ...

Remote sensing consists in measuring some characteristics of an object from a distance. A key example of remote sensing is the Earth observation from sensors mounted on satellites that is a crucial aspect of space programs. ...