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Self-Adaptive, Energy Efficient High Performance Embedded Computing, UAV case study – HPeC
The main objective is the design of a self-adaptive system on chip (hardware/software) efficient and reliable for critical embedded systems. Challenges: 1) HPC under Power, Area and Reliability Strong constraints (MIPS / Watt / mm2) 2) Reliable Dynamic Hardware Reconfiguration (High-rate ad
Impact of SizE and StrAin on crystallization of chalcogenides for the ultimate scaling of phase change MEmories – SESAME
Phase Change Random Access Memories (PCRAM), which are based on the reversible amorphous-crystalline transition in phase change materials (PCMs), constitute a very promising alternative to Flash technology, which is reaching fundamental limits. One of their key advantages is their scalability but, f
AN INTEGRATED ELECTRICAL PLASMON NANOSOURCE – INTELPLAN
Plasmonics, or the use of surface plasmon polaritons instead of electrons or photons to convey information in miniaturized circuits, combines the advantages of photonics—its high speed and large bandwidth—with those of electronics—its extreme miniaturization and integration. But in order for plasmon
Clip-on Optical Biosensor Platform – CLIPO
High-throughput screening is an essential tool for early disease detection (e.g., cancer or infectious diseases). There are strong economic interests and societal issues to develop low-cost diagnosis systems, both in developing countries where preventing epidemics at the early stage is crucial, and
Alternative Perovskite Materials for ReRAM Memories: Understanding and tailoring resistive switching – Alps_Memories
Among the various emerging devices expected to replace conventional Flash memories, Resistive Random Access Memories (ReRAM) are currently attracting a strong scientific and industrial interest. Their operations are based on the switching between a low resistive and a high resistive state, which rep
Atomically sharp junctions based on stacked 2D materials : new building blocks for the electronics – J2D
Since graphene isolation in 2004, new materials joined the 2D family ( h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides) and opened a way towards new devices for high performance electronics. These 2D materials are one or a few atomic layers thick (3 layers here). They present various physical properties ( me
Hybrid two-dimensional heterostructures for optoelectronics – H2DH
The rise of a vast family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, with unique electronic and optical properties, has opened exciting perspectives for “van der Waals heterostructures”. The latter are only a few atoms thick and exhibit new properties and functionalities that cannot be achieved using bulk cr
Antiferromagnets spintronics – ASTRONICS
In spintronics, the spin dependent transport properties of ferromagnetic (F) materials lie at the heart of devices working principles. Conversely, antiferromagnetic (AF) materials are so far used for their magnetic properties only. However, spin dependent transport with AF materials is of high inter
COntrolling the ProPagation Of LAmb waves – COPPOLA
Controlling the propagation of acoustic or electromagnetic waves is of fundamental interest for many applications ranging from imaging the living and detecting hazardous components, to information processing and structural health monitoring. In the past decades, there has been many proposals in this
Bent-Shape Thermotropic Nematics with Negative Elasticity and Spontaneous Short-Pitch Modulation – BESTNEMATICS
With the constant progress of the information and communication technologies, enormous volumes of data are collected, treated, and finally delivered to the end-user as visual information. This last step requires high-quality display devices, with high resolution, contrast and luminosity. This multi-
Fast Univeral Tunable Optical Filter – FASTUNE
Design and realization of the tunable filter: - Choice of materials (glass, mirrors, glues, connectors) - Definition of the reflection rate of the mirrors, realization of a set of substrates covered with the 99% dielectric mirrors - Study and optimization of the shape of adhesive joints - Realiz
Innovative concepts for a compact Cs clock based on a metrological dual-frequency laser – CHoCoLa
Information and communication technology (ICT) has revolutionized major industries, from media and entertainment to financial services, from software to pharmaceuticals. In this context, future ICTs challenges will include massive data processing, high performance computing and security. All these
Understanding the mechanism of ultrafast all optical switching – UMAMI
The scientific goal of this project is to understand the mechanism underlying the recently discovered all optical magnetic switching phenomenon. The proposed approach presents a series of novelties, which are expected to yield unprecedented insight into this process of tremendous potential for futur
Control of superconducting currents via spin and field effects: fundamentals for an offbeat electronics – SUPERTRONICS
This proposal aims at understanding and tailoring interface interactions between high-temperature superconductors, ferromagnets and ferroelectrics. Despite the fundamental character of the issues investigated, the ultimate goal is to obtain new functionalities based on those interactions. In particu
Terahertz quantum electronics – QTERA
Nanoelectronics is undoubtedly one of the important driving forces of today’s consumer electronics and is at the heart of the semiconductor industry roadmap for downscaling and introducing new technologies. As a general trend, nanoelectronics experiments are shifting towards frequencies in the GHz r
PHOTONICS TERAHERTZ EMITTER BASED ON A HIGLY DISTRIBUTED PHOTOMIXER PUMPED BY A DUAL FREQUENCY LASER – PHENIX
A large number of chemical species have absorption lines lying in the Terahertz frequency range, which is thus a very interesting spectral range for molecular spectroscopy applied to earth, planetary, environmental and space science. In spite of this great scientific interest, the THz range still re
Highly tuneable, high power, efficient terahertz source based on dual-frequency-synchronous Tm-doped fibre-laser source – TERATUNE
The terahertz frequency domain (0.1 – 10 THz) is enjoying great interest justified by the unique properties of these electromagnetic waves, enabling many new applications in the security sector, biology, medicine, and communication. Indeed, THz fields interact with many molecules, which results in r
miniature and tunable antenna using nanocomposite magnetoelectric substrate – MISTRAL
The MISTRAL project has for objective the achievement of miniature and frequency agile antennas exploiting the magneto-electric properties of innovative nanocomposites for electromagnetism. It is based on the sharing of competences at several levels of the synthesis of nanomaterials, scale which are
Engineering Spins and Photons from Anisotropic DOts in Nanowires – ESPADON
Semiconductor quantum dots are promising building blocks for the development of future spintronics and photonics devices. The spin of a confined carrier can be used as a quantum bit, the recombination of electron-hole pairs provides triggered sources of single photons, confined carriers induce a fer
Optical metrology for through silicon vias – OLOVIA
3D integration is a major and durable integration technology developed since the beginning of 21st century by all major semiconductor companies and several large research institutes for electronic, imaging and sensing miniaturized systems. It is based on the stacking and bonding of thinned silicon w
Quantum and classical light emitters in silicon: Impurities and complex defects for nanophotonics – ULYSSES
The ULYSSES project aims at exploring a novel approach based on complex point defects in silicon-based devices for the fabrication of bright light sources. More specifically, in analogy to the phenomenal development of Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds, we intend to study G-centers in silico
Photonic Integrated CMOS compatible Surface-and-Edge emitting Laser – PICSEL
As the communication bandwidth and the bandwidth density scale with Moore’s law, the reach-capability of copper links shrinks, while the optical solutions at very high data rates (enhanced by Wavelength Division Multiplexing -WDM-) are costly and power greedy. 850nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting
Advanced thermoplasmonic tools for the study of thermal biology at the single cell level – PlasmoTherm
Thermodynamics on the nanoscale (hereinafter nanothermics) is a branch of nanotechnology that currently demonstrates a gain of interest favored by the development of novel thermal microscopy techniques. As any field of science features thermal-induced processes, the applications of nanothermics are
Alternative Technology for Infrared Photodetectors – TAPIR
The objectives of the project are to design new organic semiconductors (polymers and small molecules) for the production of photodetectors in the near infrared domain. The constraints are 1 / the synthesis of polymers and small molecules absorbing in the near infrared 2 / obtain homogeneous layers
GaN THz optoelectronics – OptoTeraGaN
The terahertz (THz) frequency domain, between infrared and microwave spectral range, is referred as the « THz gap » because of the lack of compact and efficient semiconductor devices. Exploration of this spectral region is considerably developing due to the wide range of applications: medical diagno
Ferroelectric control of Mott insulators at nanometer/nanosecond scales – FERROMON
Controlling strongly-correlated electronic states and inducing metal/insulator transitions by electric-field effect is the key objective of Mott-tronics (named after Nobel Prize laureate Sir Neville Mott). Conceptualized by IBM in the late 1990's, Mott transistors could surpass conventional MOSFETs
new MULti functional and multi color HYbrid Nano-emitters (MULHYN) – ACTIVE-NANOPHOT
The fast development of Nanophotonics requires development and integration of efficient optical nano sources that are able to address and activate specific parts of the photonic circuit. In this context, hybrid Plasmonic nanosources turn out to constitute a recent promising solution. The MULHYN pr
Manipulation of single electrons and single excitons with surface acoustic waves – SingleEIX
On-demand single particle transfer between distant quantum dots combined with quantum gates based on particle-particle interactions provides a pathway for the realization of scalable quantum systems. It has recently been shown that moving quantum dots created by surface acoustic waves (SAWs) can tra
Investigation of quantum dots within electrically excited vertical and external cavity surface emitting lasers for the realization of a coherent and compact dual wavelength laser – IDYLIC
In IDYLIC project, we propose to combine a semiconductor based active layer behaving as an inhomogeneous medium like solid state material by using quantum dot (QD), and a vertical external cavity surface emitting laser (VECSEL) cavity design ensuring a high output power, class-A laser regime, and a
MRAM BASED DESIGN, TEST AND RELIABILITY FOR ULTRA LOW POWER SoC – MASTA
The microelectronics industry will face major challenges related to power dissipation and energy consumption in the next years. Both static and dynamic consumption (already dominated by the leakage power) will soon start to limit microprocessor performance growth. A promising way to stop this trend
Probing phonon-matter interactions at the nano-scale – PPMI-NANO
THz acoustic phonons in solids are characterized by a wavelength of only a few nanometers. Such length scales are unprecedented in comparison to optical access and motivate an opportunity to probe novel quantum phenomena at the nanoscale. Coherent THz acoustic phonons can be generated in simple expe
Silicon photonics for quantum optics & communication – SITQOM
SITQOM is devoted to the emerging field of quantum information on scalable and flexible photonics chips. It aims at exploiting the peculiar capabilities of dense functionality integration achievable using silicon photonics platforms to push quantum-enabled technologies one step further. By merging q
Bismuth for antimonide based semiconductors – BIOMAN
The antimonide based semiconductors are the material system comprising GaSb, AlSb, InAs and all their related alloys, such as GaInAsSb or AlGaAsSb for example. They have unique properties in terms of band-gap, band-offsets and carrier effective masses, making them the materials of choice for realizi
UV light emission with nanowires – EMOUVAN
Based on the unique complementarity of the consortium partners, the aim of the EMOUVAN project is to gather the basic knowledge necessary to control the growth, electrical doping and physical properties of AlGaN nanowires (NWs) and of AlGaN-based NW heterostructures, with the ultimate goal of reali
NEMS based adiabatic logic – ADIANEMS2
The ambition of the project is to obtain a radical (100-fold) reduction of the energy dissipation in a computing system. To this end, we propose a disruptive innovative approach, through association of adiabatic logic principles and NEMS (Nano-Electrical -Mechanical System) technology. Demonstration
Memristive High Speed Neuromorphic Visual Processing – MIRA
This project plans to develop a path towards a novel neuromorphic computation paradigm using memristors to process visual information in a highly efficient way and at unprecedented speed. It will make use of a cutting-edge neuromorphic retina sensor that, rather than frames outputs scene-driven, tim