AUREL

AUREL SpA, based  in Modigliana  (FC), was  founded  in 1970 and has estab­lished a rel­e­vant mar­ket posi­tion  in  the advanced elec­tronic sec­tor. Main activ­ity is to develop and man­u­fac­ture elec­tronic cir­cuits and equip­ment  suit­able  for Thick Film  tech­nol­ogy pro­duc­tion process. Aurel  is also able  to design and man­u­fac­ture  test and  qual­i­fi­ca­tion set ups to be used  in  line with pro­duc­tion equip­ments to assure  full test­ing  in real time of great  num­bers of cir­cuits, with auto­matic flow and han­dling, opti­mized to mark out via laser even every sin­gle fail­ing  unit.  A  group  of  spe­cial­ists  is  ded­i­cated  to  each  area  of  devel­op­ment  and  can  offer  sup­port  to  already  estab­lished  hybrid  circuits/SMD Cus­tomers  and  to  new  users of  tech­nolo­gies, with  assur­ance of  a  com­plete  cus­tomized design service.

MAIN TASKS IN THE PROJECT

Main activ­ity related to the project refers to the improve­ment of the ther­mal behav­ior of the receiver, in order  to lower the cell’s work­ing tem­per­a­ture, which both increases the con­ver­sion effi­ciency and the reli­a­bil­ity, the  improve­ment of the seal­ing process, the improve­ment of the SOEattach method.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND PUBLICATIONS/PATENTS

Close col­lab­o­ra­tion with main research and devel­op­ment cen­ters active  in sci­en­tific activ­i­ties was essen­tial to  AUREL.  Exam­ples are the joint col­lab­o­ra­tion with Cern in Gen­eve, with real­iza­tion of sup­ports suit­able to work  in  liq­uid  helium  envi­ron­ment  as  par­ti­cle  sen­sors.  Today  INFN  (Isti­tuto Nazionale  di  Fisica Nucleare)  is  using  Aurel  tech­nol­ogy  ser­vices  to  real­ize  com­plex  sup­ports  to  be  used  in  research  areas.  In  2005  a  joint  Col­lab­o­ra­tion with  ENEA  in Por­tici  (Na)  to  real­ize  con­cen­tra­tion  solar  cells.  Sup­ports  are made of  alu­minum  nitride to have high heat dis­si­pa­tion in small spaces and new screen printing/ glu­ing   tech­nolo­gies are stud­ied  to han­dle the con­cen­tra­tion cell with dimen­sions even smaller than a square cen­time­ter.  In 2008 Devel­op­ment  and  pro­duc­tion  of  low  cost  en-lamed  steel  sup­ports,  avail­able  also  in  great  num­bers  to  be  used  in  heat­ing  ele­ments for civil appli­ca­tions. Also in 2008 Depo­si­tion of insu­la­tion ele­ments on LED heat dis­si­pa­tion, with no  need  to  inter­pose  fur­ther  insu­la­tion ele­ments.  Joint ven­tures to make avail­able  light­ing units with  inno­v­a­tive  char­ac­ter­is­tics and with evi­dent light­ing effi­ciency in respect to rel­e­vant energy savings.

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