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Based in L’Aquila

Consorzio CREO has been established in 1990 as a not-for-profit research organism

Legal status: Consortium

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Funded in 1990, the center was initially focused on the growth of Cadmium Mercury Telluride materials for InfraRed detectors. In 1996, CREO started the development of bolometers based on Vanadium Oxide, and, in particular, on large area bolometers for special applications requiring high signal-to-noise ratio and simplified electronics. From the early 2000s, activities were oriented to the development of IR smart sensors and systems.

CREO is currently hosted within Technolabs facilities and covers a total area of about 1000 m2 consisting of: Offices; Clean room for the deposition and definition of micronic patterns; Labs for Micro-structural characterizations; Electronic tests and assembly; Optical and radiometric tests.

CREO has currently a permanent staff of ten people (physicists and engineers for the most part), plus a variable number of contract researchers and students.

CREO has tight historical and institutional links with the Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences of the University of L’Aquila, and with the Divisions and Lines of Business of Leonardo SpA.

Furthermore, CREO cooperates through regional, national, and European projects with a wealth of research and industrial organizations such as: CNR-IMM (Bologna), CNR IFN (Roma), ENEA UTAPRAD (Frascati), ENEA Progetto Solare Termico e Termodinamico (Portici), the University of Southampton, ODL Srl., NIL Technologies ApS, Thales Alenia Space, AIRBUS, SITAEL SpA.

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C.R.E.O. 'Interferential CERMET' Thermal coating flying to Mercury...

The CREO 'Interferential CERMET' Thermal Coating is on board as the passive Thermo-Optical (T.O) coating of several parts of the European module (ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter - MPO): HGAMA antenna's feed, DTCs and HDRM.

That coating - fruit of a long R&D study in collaboration with TAS-I AQ - has been furtherly developed and its field of application has been widened during the last years. See our dedicated section: https://www.consorziocreo.it/products/thin-films-osr/
Metamaterial solar reflectors remove heat from spacecraft and satellites

A team that includes researchers from the Consorzio CREO and the University of Southampton (Southampton, England) has developed new technology that could significantly improve spacecraft or satellite exploration. Metamaterial Optical Solar Reflectors (meta-OSRs) are the first-surface coatings on the outside of a spacecraft, designed to effectively radiate infrared heat away from the surface while reflecting most of the optical solar spectrum.
Online the Physical Review X (PRX) journal - free of charge

On-line the new full-access (free of charge) journal of the American Physical Society. Citing from the website of the APS: "It is a highly selective peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish, as timely as possible, exceptional original research papers from all areas of pure, applied, and interdisciplinary physics..."
NATO Conference 2013 on THz and Security Applications

NATO Conference on THz and Security Applications in Kiev, May 26-29 2013.
Review Papers on THz most advanced Sensors and Sources Technologies will be presented and discussed especially for Security Systems applications .

Particular attention to future developments in room temperature, unattended devices and systems will be paid in the presentations and discussions.

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