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EXPloring Antiferroelectric oxides as a new technological brick for futur Nanoelectronic Devices – EXPAND
Ferroelectric (FE) materials that are characterized by a switchable polarization under application of an electric field have already attracted considerable interest for future electronic devices like memories because of their potential for fast switching capabilities, long retention time and high in
In Operando electron microscopy for Device Analysis – IODA
The collaborative research project with enterprise (PRCE) IODA proposes to contribute to fundamental prospects in physics and microelectronics by developing a methodology for performing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies on working nanodevices. The consortium is composed of two partners:
Gold-semiconductor hYbrid nanoparticles as Novel light sources – GYN
The first objective is to model and synthesize fluorescent emitters with fast emission (the radiative lifetime will be less than one nanosecond) presenting a perfectly stable emission and a great resistance to photobleaching. Firstly, individual colloidal nanocrystals with a CdSe / CdS core / shell
GaN Schottky diodes for THz generation – SchoGaN
SchoGaN is a four-year proposal for an ambitious research project focused on the use of III-V Nitride materials to achieve GaN Schottky diode and associated frequency multiplier enabling the future development of high power terahertz (THz) frequency sources. The partners of SchoGaN project are three
Coherent multiwavelength sources based on silicon microresonators for optical communications at 2µm – CoMuSim
In order to be useful in optical telecommunications, a laser source should be emitting several equally space coherent wavelengths. This spacing should also be in the order of a few tens of GHz to benefit from the full modulation bandwidth. The actual realization of such a laser source constitutes a
Component for Guided Optics in the Midinfrared – COMI
The Mid-InfraRed (MIR) domain is concerned by most of the frequencies of molecular vibration and the optical spectroscopy in this range allows the identification and the quantification of chemical compounds corresponding to explosives, pollutants or disease markers. Also, the technological appropria
Engineering of excitonic and spin-valley properties in van der Waals heterostructures – VallEx
The choice of two-dimensional (2D) materials to engineer devices with atomically flat active regions is currently extending far beyond graphene to a wide range of new semiconductors, insulators, metals and superconductors. Taking advantage of each material’s properties, the stacking of diverse 2D la
CONnected TEXTiles for on body-centric communications – CONTEXT
The project aims to develop smart textiles with integrated radiofrequency technologies (RF) and electronic components for on-body communications in Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). Based on existing technologies in smartphones, two issues will be treated in the project: 1 - The first one is an
Readout of quantum information encoded at microwave frequencies – REQUIEM
This ReQuIEM ANR project aims at developing new superconducting devices to improve significantly the community ability to Readout Quantum Information Encoded at Microwave frequency. It fits the research areas of quantum information processing (QIP) and quantum technologies (QT), which are upstream
Charge manipulation of single nanoparticles on insulating surfaces – CHAMAN
Electron or hole transfer processes in semiconductor or insulating interfaces, which are sandwiched between metallic electrodes, are important elementary processes in any kind of micro- or nano-electronic component. In particular, they can be responsible for the limitation of device performance due
Chaos-based Information Processing with Magnetic Nano-oscillators – CHIPMuNCS
CHIPMuNCS is a frontier research project at the interface between nanomagnetism, spintronics, and nonlinear dynamics. It is motivated by the premise that the rich behaviour of nonlinear systems, in particular chaos, can be leveraged for alternative paradigms for computing and information processing.
Emerging Technology for RF and Millimeter-wave Circuits based on Carbone Nanotubes – TRiCOT
TRICOT is a fundamental research project that proposes an "Emerging technology for the development of RF and millimeter circuits based on carbon nanotubes". This is an ambitious project in the context of Challenge 7, Axis 8, addressing in particular the future technological bottlenecks to be solved
Trap mediated electromechanical properties of silicon nanostructures – TRAMP
TRAMP addresses the scientific and technical details of the origin and potential use of the giant piezoresponse observed in silicon nano-objects. After a 10 year debate about the veracity of the giant piezoresistance (PZR) in silicon nanowires, the TRAMP partners (all of whom have been visible parti
Spintronics with functional molecules – SPINFUN
This project aims at tailoring spintronics devices by molecular engineering using self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of functional molecules. Our aim is to go beyond the state-of-the-art of fundamental knowledge to develop and evaluate the potential of multifunctional molecular spintronics devices.
Ordered ZnO Nanowire-Based Type II Heterostructures for Self-Powered UV Photodetectors – DOSETTE
Detecting the ultra-violet (UV) radiation is of primary importance for a wide variety of applications, including flame detection (i.e., fire alarms, combustion monitoring, missile warning, …), biological and chemical analysis (i.e., ozone, organic compounds, …), and optical communications (i.e., int
Second order optical phenomena in gallium phosphide microdisks on silicon – ORPHEUS
Increase of data flows and energy sustainability push further the limits of information technologies. Integration of photonic circuits (PICs) within microprocessors is a promising option to face these challenges, due to their large bandwidth and low energy cost, but also because light is an appealin
Notifying Memories for Dynamic Data-Flow Application – Nooman
In systems on a chip, memory has long taken on a role which it was not designed for: to ensure synchronization between different tasks, whether in a single-processor context in the past, or multi-processor today, by storing the variables needed to implement the synchronization primitives. There are
Magnetic textures manipulation with current- 3D finite element modeling – MATEMAC-3D
The objective of our project is to combine all key ingredients for modern Spintronics and SpinOrbitronics modeling within novel and original non-commercial multi-physics software. These key ingredients are the appropriate easy implementable in a numerical solver spin transport equations, the simulta
InfraRed Emitters with Nano-Antennas – IRENA
Near infrared (NIR) sources are used for short range communication applications such as remote control or free-space optical links. Current infrared technology uses diodes operating in the near infrared because of the quality of the available detectors and sources. However, optical links operating a
ELEctrically pumped GermANium Tin lasEr on silicon – ELEGANTE
The objective of the ELEGANTE project is to demonstrate a laser source with germanium tin alloys, operating under electrical injection up to room temperature. Such a laser source made from group IV elements with a direct band gap would be a game-changer for silicon photonics and the development of p
Electrical Diagnosis for IoT SoCs in Automotive – EDITSoC
Internet of Things (IoT) will play a major role in futuristic vehicle applications, such as vehicle-to-vehicle communications that reduce the chance of collision, advanced navigation systems that adjust the engine to features of the ground, predictive maintenance, partially autonomous vehicles, self
System for monitoring sub-surface pollution risks in oil industry infrastructures using passive sensors. – UNDERGROUND
Our answer to address this problem is to develop a measurement system in which passive (no local energy source next to the sensing element) wireless sensors are deployed and probed from the surface. The sensors, a cooperative target whose signature is acquired from the surface using a classical geop
Validation of near-future quantum technologies – VanQuTe
In the last few years we have seen unprecedented advances in quantum information technologies. Already quantum key distribution systems are available commercially. In the near future we will see waves of new quantum devices, offering unparalleled benefits for security, communication, computation and
High-Resolution Self-Organized OLED Materials for Printable Electronic Devices – Resolve
The Resolve project brings together three complementary teams from France and Taiwan to tackle the future of large-area printable OLED devices. The project relies on the expertise in OLED materials and organic synthesis of K.T. Wong from NTU, one of the most successful teams worldwide in this field
Carrier Dynamics and Electrical Properties of LargE Bandgap Semiconductors investigated by TerAHertz Spectroscopy – CELESTA
Large bandgap semiconductors, like ITO or TiO2, exhibit nice optoelectronics properties that make them widely used, for example as transparent electrodes in optoelectronics display devices. They are also involved in other applications, such as photo-catalyzer in treatment of polluted water or air. R
Topological properties of magnetic skyrmions and opportunities for novel spintronic devices – TOPSKY
In the ANR TOPSKY, we focus our efforts on the identification and in-depth characterization of new systems optimized from different types of magnetic multilayer, allowing the observation and use of skyrmions of sizes in the order of 10 nm, moving at speeds above 100 m/s with, if possible, lower curr
Atomic scale control and mechanical spin driving of a magnetic atom – MechaSpin
Thanks to their long coherence time, individual localized spins in semiconductors are promising qubits for the implementation in the solid state of emerging quantum technologies including quantum computing and quantum enhanced sensing. However, achieving long-range interaction between remote solid s
Electroluminescence with polarized spin in black phosphorus thin layers – EPOS-BP
EPOSBP project deals with black phosphorus (BP) which has joined the 2D materials family only very recently in 2014. The first representative of this new class of materials is Graphene, isolated ten years ago, which discovery sparkled an intense research activity. However, the lack of band gap in gr
Secure and Trusted Analog Hardware Technology – STEALTH
Owing to various financial factors, the contemporary semiconductor industry relies on a complex business model, wherein the vast majority of circuit intellectual property (IP) design and integrated circuit (IC) fabrication activities are outsourced to third-party design houses and foundries. The glo
Manipulation of magnetic skyrmions for logic-in-memory applications – SKYLOGIC
Fast , high density and energy efficient microelectronic devices are crucial enablers of today’s IT technology pushed by the advent of cloud computing, big data and the internet of thing. To face this challenge, the conventional Moore’s approach of CMOS technology is currently out of breadth: T
TERAhertz links using SOlid state devices and photoNICs – TERASONIC
The primary goal of TERASONIC project is the realization of a common French-German 100 Gbit/s 300 GHz wireless system over 1 km range. The proposed architecture gathers the cutting edge of photonics technologies to achieve optical-to-THz conversion of optical modulated signals, using Unitravelling
Zinc magnesium OxyNitridEs – ZONE
Flat panel displays constitute the basis of many mass-production optoelectronic devices, including smart phones, notebooks, laptops and flat screens in general. Most of these devices are based in liquid crystal displays or in organic light-emitting diodes, and employ active-matrix control based on t
Electronic localization effects in nitride heterostructures and devices – ELENID
Accounting for carrier localization induced by disorder in semiconductors is a daunting task. Classically, it requires solving the Schrödinger equation (both for electrons and holes) for random realizations of the disordered potential and determining the energies and spatial structure of the localiz
Controlling valley polarization in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides with chiral plasmonic nanostructures – 2D-CHIRAL
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are emerging materials exhibiting a range of intriguing properties. In particular, materials like MoS2 or WSe2, which are indirect gap semiconductors when bulk, start to exhibit a direct gap and hence become luminescent when they are reduced to a single layer.
Self-Organizing Machine Architecture – SOMA
The tremendous increase of transistors integration during the last few years has reached the limits of classic Von Neuman architectures. This has enabled a wide adoption of parallel processors by the industry, enabling many-core processing architectures as a natural trend for the next generation o
Triplets for quantum information: Generation, detection, study and manipulation – TriQuI
Twin photons have deeply influenced the history of nonlinear and quantum optics by their wide range of applications and the paradigmatic place they stand in generating new quantum states of light. From these seminal works on second-order optical parametric conversion to the nowadays mature sources f
Active non linear optical device based on novel non centrosymmetric dielectric core – plasmonic shell nanoscale sources – RACINE
The RACINE project aims at developing active all-optical nonlinear optical devices based on novel non centrosymmetric dielectric core – plasmonic shell nanoscale sources for Information and Communication Technology. To this purpose, a threefold project has been assembled with the nanoparticle synthe
Spin-based quantum computation in Si CMOS technology – CMOSQSPIN
Quantum technologies are now widely regarded by many in academia, governments and industry to represent a major new frontier in information technology and high precision sensing with the potential for a disruptive impact. Quantum computation is among the most far-reaching and challenging of quantum
Planar THz GaN Gunn nanodiodes based Emitter/Receiver for ultra high speed communications – GANGUN
GaNGUN The project aims to achieve a THz oscillator based on Self-Switching Diodes (SSD) in gallium nitride. SSD devices (GaN based) have been shown to have to capability to produce current oscillations at 300 GHz, under specific conditions and topologies (strong polarization). Based on technologica
Structure–property relations for manganite memristive devices – MangaSwitch
Manganite heterostructures show very promising resistive switching characteristics and multilevel resistance states. This makes them ideal candidates for alternative non-volatile memories, but also as building blocks for neuromorphic computation. In contrast to the more common filamentary switching,
Electronic properties of thin layers of rhombohedral graphite – RhomboG
This project aims at the elaboration and fabrication of thin layers of graphite (nanometer thickness, 10-30 layers) with a rhombohedral stacking. This carbon polytype is not the most stable in ambient conditions and is hence much less abundant than the well-known Bernal stacked polytype. Electronic
nonlinear integrated Mid-IR SiGe-based frequency COMB – MIRSiCOMB
MIRSICOMB for « nonlinear integrated Mid-IR SiGe-based frequency COMB » is aiming at creating novel CMOS compatible integrated nonlinear sources for applications in the mid infrared (mid-IR, wavelength range between 3 and 15 um). The mid-IR wavelength domain is of great interest for a huge range of
Folding photonic crystals : Semiconductors ORIGAMI – PHOLDING
Selective etching of pre-stressed multi-layered structures enables to release intrinsic stresses creating flexible macroscopic shapes (rolls, spirals, tubes…). By combining stress-engineering and photonic concepts, PHOLDING project propose to develop a numerical and experimental methodology to obtai
OXIDE-BASED SPINORBITRONICS – OISO
The project OISO (OxIde-based SpinOrbitronics) explores the potential of transition metal oxide (TMO) perovskites for SpinOrbitronics. SpinOrbitronics exploits the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) to obtain spin currents without ferromagnets (FM), more efficient torques to switch magnetization and reduced
Polaritonic devices based on hybrid perovskite in novel photonic crystal design – POPEYE
Cavity polaritons have recently emerged as a potential platform for all-optical logical devices. These exotic information carriers arise from the strong coupling of photons emitted in optical cavities and excitons generated in quantum wells. Thanks to their hybrid light/matter nature, polaritons can
Bio-inspired computation based on artificial spin Ice architectures – Bio-Ice
Recently, there has been impressive progress in the field of artificial intelligence. A striking example is Alphago, an algorithm developed by Google, that defeated the world champion Lee Sedol at the game of Go. However, in terms of power consumption, the brain remains the absolute winner, by four