SenSiC
SenSiC GmbH
SenSiC GmbH develops tailor made Silicon Carbide-based sensors and electronics for novel monitoring applications and schema. The main target is to support scientists in synchrotron beamlines, allowing photon beam monitoring from the insertion devices (ID) down to the beamstoppers near the samples locations.
SenSiC GmbH is the result of the research and development on Silicon Carbide (SiC) -based sensors pursued at the world-renown Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Its vision is to improve Synchrotron and X-FEL experiments by monitoring and controlling/stabilizing X-ray beams. SenSiC's mission is to develop and fabricate full turn-key solutions for all possible beamline locations, from frontends (whitebeams) to near the samples (I0 and beamstopper-integrated sensors), optimally coupling the active sensors, based on Silicon Carbide, together with customized electronics for readout and active beam control.
Our team
Camarda Massimo
DR. MASSIMO CAMARDA received his Master’s degree (cum laude) and his Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Catania in 2002 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2014, he worked at CNR-IMM, first as postdoc, later as a senior postdoc. From 2015 to 2019, he continued his scientific work as Senior Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. During these years, he has developed several novel characterization and fabrication processes for the realization of novel electronic devices, e.g. the first, transparent-mode, silicon carbide x-ray sensor. In the meantime, this technology has been commercialized by PSI and is already extensively applied for the stabilization of synchrotron light-sources in Europe, Japan and Australia. During his stay in Switzerland, he has been establishing and coordinating several international research projects (including Horizon2020, with more than 1.5 M€ approved funds) and pursued a number of successful collaborations with industry. Since 2020, Dr. Camarda has been external consultant for CNR-IMM (IT) and for PSI (CH). He has co-authored over 100 publications in international journals, and is inventor of eight patent applications.