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Functional Oxides Integrated in Silicon Technology for photonic – FOIST
Since light is already the backbone of telecommunications worldwide, one of the most urgent breakthroughs that need to be achieved involves the accomplishment of higher speed and data rates using devices of low energy consumption and fabrication cost. For such a task, complementary metal-oxide-semic
Electron-Pumped UV Laser – UVLASE
There is a huge demand for lasers in the deep UV field for applications such as Lidar remote sensing, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) communications, biochemistry, 3D printing, etc. This spectral range is currently covered by gas lasers or frequency conversion based lasers, which are bulky, inefficient and
Spin-polarized cathodoluminescence in 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures – SpinCat
The proposed approach is based on the development of a state of the art spin-polarized cathodoluminescence spectroscopy setup complemented by scanning tunneling luminescence. This project will benefit from very recent developments in sample fabrication and a rich scientific environment which favours
3D monolithically integrated SPAD pixels in advanced CMOS FDSOI technology – SPAD-FDSOI
The main objective of the ANR SPAD-FDSOI project is to study the feasibility of integrating photodiodes operating in Geiger mode, that is to say at a reverse bias beyond the breakdown voltage (called SPAD Single Photon Avalanche Diode) in a very advanced commercial microelectronics technology 28 nm
MagnetoelectrIc oxideS for SpIn-OrbitroNics – MISSION
Inserting an electric field-driven magnetoelectric material (ME) in spin Hall effect (SHE)-based spin-orbit torque (SOT) architectures will yield a possibility to tune the SOT spin injection in the ME material via the application of a voltage and will allow lowering the charge current necessary for
MAGnetism InduCed VALLEY polarization in large scale 2D materials – MAGICVALLEY
The solution to reach a sizeable and robust valley polarization in TMD monolayers that we propose in this MAGICVALLEY project is to use 2D layered ferromagnetic materials allowing for a van der Waals (vdW) stacking with the MX2 (M=Mo,W and X=S,Se) monolayer and an exchange coupling through the vdW g
Low-Energy On-chip Pre-processing for Activity Recognition – LEOPAR
The LEOPAR project aims at exploring innovative circuit structures in fine-pitch CMOS technologies, that leverage the benefits of both analog and digital signal processing for addressing the issues of combined configurability and silicon area occupation of the pre-processing unit while staying compe
Logic Elementary Gate Overstacked – LEGO
Data size and functionality requirements for computing are increasing, according to the expectation that hardware performance will continue to improve, irrespective of the actual implementation. This is particularly true for emerging distributed computing paradigms for the Internet of Things, such a
Josephson Junctions by Electrostatic tuning of Dichalcogenides – JJEDi
Among their various applications, Josephson junctions are among the most promising candidates for the devellopment of q-bits, which includes the quest topologically protected junctions (leading to more stable q-bits). These are generally obtained by combining different materials whose properties are
Coherent High Q Micro-resonator Blue Light Sources – COMBO
The project is divided in three main objectives. The first objective will draw up a panorama of the linear and nonlinear properties of WGMR in the blue range. A particular focus will be done on fluoride crystalline resonators identified as best candidates for the realization of either linear or nonl
Light-Bullets in Semiconductor Lasers – BLASON
Information technology requires more and more high-performing devices for information encoding and processing. To this aim, the use of optical solitons as information bits appears promising, especially if implemented in fast, compact and cheap devices as semiconductor lasers. In particular, «light-b
Bidimensional RF optoelectronic devices based on PtSe2 – BIRDS
The scientific goal of BIRDS is to extend the spectral performances of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC)-based optical detectors beyond the natural limit of 1µm fixed by the usual bandgaps in these materials (MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, WSe2, etc..). Reaching longer wavelengths in the infrared (1.55 µm
Reconfigurable Wireless Components Using Field Programmable Microwave substrate – RWC_FPMS
The ANR PRCI RWC-FPMS project which brings together 2 French academic institutes (XLIM and IETR), 2 Canadian academic institutes (Ontario Tech and Carleton University) as well as a Canadian company (Orbcomm) has the following main objectives: - The design and optimization of elementary cells and
NIR Laser direct writing at micro-nano-scale of Electronic materials from Metal-Oxo Clusters (MOC) – NIRTRONIC
The aim of NIRTRONIC project is developing new fabrication processes for advanced miniaturized (bio)sensors that will be useful for human being monitoring. We propose a technology that is based on solution process and laser curing for micro and nanopatterning. Such process will be used to fabricate
on-chip OPTIcal interconnect for ALL to ALL communications – OpticALL2
The aim of OpticALL² is to design broadcast-enabled optical communication links in manycore architectures. We aim to fabricate an optical broadcast link for which the optical power is equally shared by all the destinations using design techniques (different diode absorption lengths, trade-off depend
THz Optomechanical CMOS-Compatible Detector with Integrated Germanium Nanolasers – TIGER
The main technological issue of detecting THz waves is that neither of the existing technologies provide altogether compact, fast, sensitive and room temperature devices. In our French-Singapore consortium we explore a completely new device concept that has the potential to answer all of the above
Brillouin silicon laser based on subwavelength optomechanic waveguides – BRIGHT
This project will address a new route to overcome the trade-off between long phonon lifetimes and large photon-phonon overlap in conventional Si optomechanical waveguides. The original idea is to exploit the unique degrees of freedom released by subwavelength nanostructuration to independently tailo
MAgnon Excitation in the STRong Out-of-equilibrium regime – MAESTRO
The consortium has previously established the relevance of hybrid insulating ferromagnetic (YIG) / normal metal (Pt) systems in this context. It also uncovered issues related to the non-linear effects that limit the amplitude of the spin waves on which the operation of these devices is based. To ove
High Operating Temperature Ga-free superlattice photodetector and focal plane array for the full MidWave Infrared spectral domain (HOT-MWIR) – HOT-MWIR
The objective of the HOT-MWIR project is to fabricate, study and evaluate the first Ga-free InAs/InAsSb type-II superlattice (SL) photodetector 320x256 FPA, addressing the full MWIR domain with temperature operation T ³150K. To reach this challenging objective, many fundamental and applied researche
Ferroelectric control of organic/ferromagnetic spinterface – FEOrgSpin
The main objectives of the project are as following: Objective 1: Explore different kinds of ferroelectric organic materials to understand the observed FE modulation of spin-polarization; Objective 2: Engineer interface with different FM metals to study the spin polarization and magnetic anisotro
Electrically pumped hybrid perovskites based light-emitting devices – EMIPERO
The aim of the consortium is to realize electrically pumped hybrid perovskites based light-emitting devices, such as electroluminescent diodes (LED) and laser diodes (LD). The project proposes a complete study since the fundamental properties of the material in a view of its optimization for the las
Nanoporous III-N semiconductors made by selective sublimation for optoelectronic – NAPOLI
In this project, we propose to explore a new route to make high quality GaN-based devices on Si substrates by fabricating nanoporous GaN. By controlling the pore dimensions and density we aim to improve the material quality while keeping the planar geometry. A two-step fabrication is proposed: polar
Ferroelectric control of spin-orbit coupling in transition metal dichalcogenides – CORNFLAKE
With charge-based electronics getting to their limits in storage density, speed and energy consumption, spin-based electronics (spintronics) is now a central research topic and promises significant improvements in device performances. Controlling spins with an electric field is a major goal in spint
Active functional devices using PARity-TIme SYMmetry Optics – PARTISYMO
The progress of nanotechnologies has triggered the emergence of many photonic artificial structures: photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonic resonators. Recently the intriguing class of PT-symmetric devices– referring to Parity-Time symmetry – has attracted much attention. Their distinctive feat
Microwave Spintronics for Wireless Sensor Networks – SPINNET
CONTEXT The objective of SpinNet is to bring low cost and low power solutions to key components used in wireless sensor networks (WSN) by exploiting recent results on spintronics microwave components. WSNs (as part of IoT) can nowadays be found everywhere, in vehicles, in habitat, in smart phones,
Biomimetic multi-stimuli responsive flexible sensors – DEFORM
Nature uses various activation mechanisms to create shape transformations (actuation) and translate functional information (sensing) of living organisms. Inspired by such natural organisms, we aimed to develop biomimetic sensors and actuators that respond simultaneously to multiple stimuli of differ
Spintronics with Antiferromagnets for Novel THz Applications – SANTA
The project ‘SANTA' aims at opening the fields of spintronics and magnonics to antiferromagnetic (AF) insulators. So far, antiferromagnets have not been considered as active elements in spintronic devices because of their relative insensitivity to external stimuli. The realization that spin currents
Nonlinear Meta-Optics – NOMOS
Optical metasurfaces are arrays of coupled optical antennas, with sub-wavelength size and separation. In the past two decades, their optical properties have been mostly demonstrated with either metallic or amorphous dielectric nanostructures. Since the former suffer by strong dissipation near the pl
Frequency-tunable vertical external cavity terahertz quantum cascade laser – TERASEL
Context – THz waves (1-10 THz) are non-ionizing radiation that can potentially find applications in a variety of domains. The most promising at this time are THz imaging and spectroscopy. Quantum cascade lasers (QCL) have emerged as one of the rare compact and powerful THz sources that potentially s
BiNary NEURal NetwOrks based oN CMOS/RRAM Hybrid archItecture and in Memory Computing Concept for Sensor Fusion Application – NEURONIC
NEURONIC aims at the fabrication of a binarized neural network hardware accelerator associating CMOS circuitry and fully embedded Resistive Memory (RRAM), based on the logic in memory concept. This digital accelerator will perform inference using a revolutionary “XNOR-NET” concept, and function with