Patents Assigned to Commissariat à I'Energie Atomique
  • Publication number: 20240186286
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a device for acquiring a 2D image and a depth image, the method comprising the following steps: a) forming, on a first face of a first support semiconductor substrate, a first sensor comprising a plurality of depth pixels; b) forming, in the first support substrate, on the side of a second face of the first substrate opposite the first face, at least one optical concentrator; c) forming, in and on a second semiconductor substrate, a second sensor comprising a plurality of 2D image pixels; and d) placing the second sensor right next the first support substrate on the side of the second face of the first support substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Jérôme Vaillant, Jacques Baylet
  • Publication number: 20240186361
    Abstract: A visible and infrared image sensor, including: a first active layer for detecting visible radiation, in which a plurality of visible detection pixels are defined; and superimposed on the first active layer, a second active layer for detecting infrared radiation, in which a plurality of infrared detection pixels are defined, the sensor further including, on the side of the face of the second active layer opposite the first active layer, a control integrated circuit superimposed on the first and second active layers, wherein the sensor includes isolation trenches extending vertically through at least part of the thickness of the second active layer, and laterally delimiting in the second active layer islands or mesas forming the infrared detection pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Sébastien Becker
  • Publication number: 20240178161
    Abstract: An interposer including capacitors having a density greater than 700 nF/mm{circumflex over (?)}2. advantageously greater than 1 ?F/mm{circumflex over (?)}2. the interposer being adapted to being bonded to a chip by hybrid bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Emilie Bourjot, Cyrille Laviron, Jean Charbonnier, Yann Lamy
  • Publication number: 20240145614
    Abstract: The present description relates to a light emitting and receiving device including:-a light-emitting diode including a first active layer, a first electrode in contact with the lower face of the first active layer, and a second electrode in contact with the upper face of the first active layer; and opposite the light-emitting diode, on an emission face of the light-emitting diode, a light conversion and detection element comprising a second active layer, a third electrode in contact with the lower face of the second active layer, and a fourth electrode in contact with the upper face of the second active layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Florian Dupont
  • Publication number: 20240136446
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a power electronic device including the following successive steps: a) providing a silicon semiconductor substrate, the substrate having a front face and a rear face, opposite the front face; b) forming, by epitaxial growth from the front face of the substrate, a first continuous layer of at least one nitrided transition metal coating the front face of the substrate; and c) forming, on the first layer, by epitaxial growth from the front face of the substrate, at least one second layer of a III-V material, preferably III-N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat á I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventor: Florian Dupont
  • Publication number: 20240128303
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device including a light-emitting diode covered with a photoluminescent conversion layer based on a perovskite material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Florian Dupont, Francois Templier
  • Publication number: 20240128297
    Abstract: A device for acquiring a 2D image and a depth image, including: a first sensor formed in and on a first semiconductor substrate and including regions of a material distinct from that of the substrate located in an interconnect stack in line with 2D image pixels of the first r sensor; and adjoining the first sensor, a second sensor formed in and on a second semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of depth pixels located opposite the regions of the first sensor, wherein each region includes a first portion having, in top view, a smaller surface area than that of a second portion, the material of the regions having an optical index greater than or equal to that of the material of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: François Deneuville, Clémence Jamin
  • Publication number: 20240099164
    Abstract: A phase change memory cell including: a first layer in a phase change material; a heating element located under the first layer; a second insulating layer coating a side of the heating element; and a third insulating layer interposed between the first and second layers, in a material having a density higher than that of the material of the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Gabriele Navarro, Guillaume Bourgeois, Marie-Claire Cyrille
  • Publication number: 20240099168
    Abstract: A phase change memory cell including: a first layer in a phase change material; a heating element located under the first layer; a second insulating layer coating a side of the heating element; and first stack comprising a third encapsulation layer coating the side faces of the second layer and a fourth encapsulation layer coating the third layer and being in a material having a lower density than that of the material of the third layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Commissariat á I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Gabriele Navarro, Guillaume Bourgeois, Marie-Claire Cyrille
  • Publication number: 20240026544
    Abstract: A method of forming nanowires, including the forming on a metal region of a layer having through openings, and the forming in the through openings of portions deposited in a chemical bath, forming all or part of the nanowires and extending from the metal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicants: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Clément Lausecker, Xavier Baillin, Vincent Consonni, Bassem Salem
  • Publication number: 20230340672
    Abstract: A nanowire forming method, including the forming of a DNA origami having through openings, and the forming in the through openings of portions forming all or part of the nanowires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicants: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
    Inventors: Xavier Baillin, Vincent Consonni, Stéphane Fanget, Bassem Salem, Raluca Tiron
  • Publication number: 20230325659
    Abstract: A method of training an artificial neural network, the method comprising: initially training a first artificial neural network with first input data and first pseudo data, wherein the first pseudo data is or was generated by a second artificial neural network in a virgin state, or by the first artificial neural network while in a virgin state; generating second pseudo data using the first artificial neural network, or using the second artificial neural network following at least partially transferring knowledge from the first artificial neural network to the second artificial neural network; and training the first artificial neural network, or another artificial neural network, with the second pseudo data and second input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicants: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Chambéry - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
    Inventors: Miguel-Angel Solinas, Martial Mermillod, Marina REyboz, Stephane Rousset
  • Publication number: 20230275116
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode manufacturing method, including the successive steps of: a) forming an active layer including a stack of multiple quantum wells, each quantum well including a layer made of a semiconductor alloy; b) forming a trench for singularizing the diode, the trench crossing the active layer; and c) applying to the sides of the active layer, at the level of the lateral walls of the trench, a chemical treatment capable of etching a first component of the semiconductor alloy selectively over at least another component of the semiconductor alloy, wherein the bandgap width of the semiconductor alloy is a function of the concentration of the first component in the alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Corentin Le Maoult, David Vaufrey
  • Publication number: 20230231032
    Abstract: A transistor including a gate region penetrating into a first gallium nitride layer, wherein a second electrically-conductive layer coats at least one of the sides of said gate region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Commissariat á I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: René Escoffier, Blend Mohamad
  • Publication number: 20230153632
    Abstract: A method of generating training data for transferring knowledge from a trained artificial neural network to a further artificial neural network, the method including: a) injecting a first sample into the trained artificial neural network; b) reinjecting a pseudo sample, generated based on a replicated sample present at the one or more outputs of the trained artificial neural network, into the trained artificial neural network in order to generate a new replicated sample; and c) repeating b) one or more times, wherein the training data for training the further artificial neural network includes at least two of the reinjected pseudo samples originating from the same first sample and corresponding output values generated by the trained artificial neural network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicants: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpe, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Chambéry - Université Savoie Mont Blanc
    Inventors: Miquel Angel Solinas, Marina Reyboz, Stephane Rousset, Martial Mermillod, Clovis Galiez
  • Publication number: 20230024726
    Abstract: A method of communication between a first electronic circuit and second electronic circuits via a bidirectional bus allowing the full duplex communication. Each second electronic circuit has a single identifier corresponding thereto. The method includes the transmission by the first electronic circuit of first frames over the bus to the second electronic circuits, the bits of each first frame being distributed in successive groups of bits, a first group of bits corresponding to a first identifier among the identifiers, a second group of bits corresponding to orders to be executed by the second electronic circuit corresponding to the first identifier, and a third group of bits corresponding to a second identifier among the identifiers, only the second electronic circuit corresponding to the second identifier being authorized to transmit a second frame to the first electronic circuit over the bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Eric Fernandez, Sylvain Bacquet, Ghislain Despesse, Yan Lopez, Remy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220393026
    Abstract: An electronic device including semiconductor region located on a gallium nitride layer, two electrodes, located on either side of and insulated from the semiconductor region, the electrodes partially penetrating into the gallium nitride layer, and two lateral MOS transistors formed inside and on top of the semiconductor region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: René Escoffier, Blend Mohamad
  • Publication number: 20220359782
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device including-light-emitting diodes comprising the forming of three-dimensional semiconductor elements made of a III-V compound, each comprising a lower portion and an upper portion and, for each semiconductor element, the forming of an active area covering the top of the upper portion and the forming of at least one semiconductor area of the III-V compound covering the active area. The upper portions are formed by vapor deposition at a pressure lower than 1.33 mPa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicants: Aledia, Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpes
    Inventors: Bruno-Jules Daudin, Walf Chikhaoui, Marion Gruart, Philippe Gilet
  • Publication number: 20220329242
    Abstract: A circuit, intended to be associated in series with a load to be powered including a first field-effect transistor; at least one second field-effect transistor, associated in parallel with the first transistor; and at least one sensor of information representative of a current transmitted to said load, the gate of the second transistor being coupled to an output of the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: René Escoffier, Julien Buckley
  • Publication number: 20220313910
    Abstract: A blood glucose regulation system including a processing and control unit configured to implement an automated blood glucose regulation method, wherein the regulation method takes into account at least one hyperparameter having a default value, the value of said at least one hyperparameter being adjustable on the fly by the processing and control unit by means of an adjustment function, and wherein the processing and control circuit is configured to, after a regulation period: estimate the performance of the regulation method by means of at least one performance indicator; and adjust on the fly the value of said at least one hyperparameter according to said at least one performance indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Eléonore Maeva Doron, Gaelle Ardito, Emma Villeneuve