Patents by Inventor COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20130157105
    Abstract: It comprises at least one active electrode material and at least one water-soluble or water-dispersible conductive polymer, advantageously PEDOT/PSS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130155060
    Abstract: A method for displaying an image onto a relief projection surface using a projection system includes the automatic measurement, using a fixed camera, of the distance separating virtual reference frame points projected onto the projection surface, from real reference frame points produced on a three-dimensional screen to set the projection system, acquisition, by the same fixed camera as that used during the setting of the projection system, of an image of a rear face of the three-dimensional screen, identification of the position of a finger in contact with a front face of the three-dimensional screen in the acquired image, and control of an appliance according to the identified position of the finger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130156989
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flexible structure including implanting ionic species in first and second source substrates so as to form first and second embrittlement regions respectively, delimiting first and second thin films, providing a flexible substrate, the stiffness R of which is less than or equal to 107 GPa·?m3, securing the first and second thin films to the first and second faces of the flexible substrate respectively so as to form a stack including the flexible structure delimited by the first and second embrittlement regions, the flexible structure having a stiffening effect suitable for allowing transfers of the first and second thin films, and applying a thermal budget so as to transfer the first and second thin films onto the flexible substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
  • Publication number: 20130146772
    Abstract: A bolometric detector of a terahertz electromagnetic radiation, including at least one bolometric microbridge suspended above a support. The microbridge includes: radiation collection means for collecting the electromagnetic radiation, including at least one pair of antennas; resistive means resistively coupled with the collection means, including an individual resistive load resistively coupled with each antenna; thermometric means, thermally coupled with the resistive means, electrically insulated from the collection means and the resistive means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130147648
    Abstract: A device for sampling or digitising a detection signal from an X- or gamma-ray detector wherein, during a sampling time, estimations of a feedback signal are made at times when the signal injected to the inverting input of a comparator is equal to the detection signal at the non-inverting input of said comparator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130148302
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a heat source, a heat-absorbing cold point, a thermally insulating material for insulating the heat source from the cold point with a conductivity at a use-temperature of electronic device, that is below a thermal-conductivity threshold, and a thermal bridge having first and second ends connected by pads to the heat source and the cold point, and a thermal switch. The thermal bridge extends between the two ends and switches reversibly between conductive and non-conductive states. It includes material of variable thermal conductivity capable of switching over, in response to an addition of energy, between a conductive phase and a resistive phase, and a control module for causing the thermal switch to switch between the conductive state and the resistive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130139550
    Abstract: A thermal plasma, advantageously inductive, is used to purify silicon from sawing slurries. For this purpose, a thermal plasma is generated; sawing slurries containing silicon are submitted to the thermal plasma, to form the silicon deposit on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130137245
    Abstract: A method for making a structure comprising an active part comprising at least two layers from a first single crystal silicon substrate, said method comprising the steps of: a) making at least one porous silicon zone in the first substrate, b) making an epitaxial growth deposition of a single crystal silicon layer on the entire surface of the first substrate and the surface of the porous silicon zone, c) machining the epitaxially grown single crystal layer at the porous silicon zone to make a first suspended zone, d) removing or oxidizing the porous silicon, e) depositing a sacrificial layer being selective towards silicon, f) machining the first substrate, g) releasing the suspended zones by withdrawing the sacrificial layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a L'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat a L'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130127945
    Abstract: In the inkjet printing method according to the invention, ink is ejected at a temperature lower than or equal to 20° C., advantageously ranging between ?20° C. and 20° C. The corresponding device comprises a temperature regulation system selected from among: a system for cooling the ink reservoir; a system for cooling the nozzles, advantageously with an in situ Peltier effect; a climatic chamber, advantageously at controlled temperature and humidity, intended to receive the printing device or the nozzles only.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130125074
    Abstract: A system for designing digital circuitry comprising: a digital circuit simulator based on a file containing a functional description of this digital circuit; means for estimating an output variable from the digital circuit when executing a test bench supplied to the simulator; event counters, the events being detected using control signals provided by the simulator when executing the test bench. Said system further comprises means for selecting a portion of the event counters by iteratively optimizing a model for calculating the output variable of the digital circuit using output data from the event counters and means for registering the selected portion of event counters and the optimized calculation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130122650
    Abstract: Method for preparing p-type zinc oxide ZnO or p-type ZnMgO, comprising at least the sequence of the following two steps a) and b): a) depositing silica, optionally doped with at least one doping element from column V of the periodic table of the elements, on a surface of an n-type ZnO or n-type ZnMgO substrate; b) annealing the substrate and the deposited silica at a sufficient temperature and for a sufficient time to induce exodiffusion of zinc from the ZnO or ZnMgO substrate to the silica, and the formation of zinc vacancies in at least one portion of the substrate adjacent to the silica; and a step for doping said portion of the substrate adjacent to the silica and comprising the zinc vacancies with at least one doping element from column V of the periodic table of the elements during step b) or at the conclusion of step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130112945
    Abstract: An optoelectronic device includes: an active semiconductor area (84) for the radiative recombination of electron-hole pairs made in the form of at least one nanowire made of an unintentionally doped semiconductor material; a semiconductor area (88) for the radial injection of holes into the or each nanowire, made of a doped semiconductor material having a first conductivity type and a bandgap smaller than the bandgap of the material forming the nanowire; and a semiconductor area (82) for the axial injection of electrons into the or each nanowire, made of a doped semiconductor material having a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130112559
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microfluidic device and a method for handling at least one drop. The device comprises first and second microfluidic surfaces (3a, 3b) parallel and separated from each other by a separation distance (H), at least one first electrical displacement path (5a) arranged on said first surface (3a), and at least one second electrical displacement path (5b) arranged on said second surface (3b). The at least one of the first and second paths is configured in order to form a respective fluidic finger along said path, said fluidic finger rupturing via capillarity, by generating at least one respective drop. The first and second paths are configured so that said separation distance between said first and second surfaces is on the one hand, greater than the fluidic thickness formed by each fluidic finger and, on the other hand, less than the fluidic thickness formed by each drop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130113004
    Abstract: A light-emitting microelectronic device including a first N-type transistor (T1) and a second P-type transistor (T2), the respective gates of which are formed opposite one another, either side of an intrinsic semiconductor material region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Commissariat A L 'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130113066
    Abstract: An image sensor device comprising at least one transistor lying on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, the substrate comprising a thin semi-conducting layer wherein a channel area of said transistor is made, an insulating layer separating the thin semi-conducting layer with a semi-conducting support layer, the device being characterized in that the semi-conducting support layer comprises at least one photosensitive area including at least one P-doped region and at least one N-doped region forming a junction provided facing the channel area of said transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat a L'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130109191
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device by wet-process chemical etching, the device comprising at least one layer of silicon (Si) and at least one layer of silicon-germanium (SiGe) and at least one layer of photosensitive resin forming a mask partly covering the layer of silicon-germanium (SiGe) and leaving the layer of silicon-germanium uncovered in certain zones, characterized in that it comprises a step of preparation of an etching solution, having a pH between 3 and 6, from hydrofluoric acid (HF), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), acetic acid (CH3COOH) and ammonia (NH4OH), and a step of stripping of the layer of silicon-germanium (SiGe) at least at the said zones by exposure to the said etching solution. The invention will be applicable for the manufacture of integrated circuits and more precisely of transistors. In particular, for optimization of CMOS transistors of the latest generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130106531
    Abstract: A power device comprises an output port and at least one first acoustic pathway and one second acoustic pathway, each acoustic pathway comprising at least one first input acoustic wave transducer connected to an input port, and an output acoustic wave transducer connected to the output port. Each acoustic pathway further comprises a floating acoustic wave transducer connected to a floating port; the input transducer and the output transducer being separated by a distance equal to (2m+1)?/4 with m an integer and ? the propagation wavelength; the input transducer and the floating transducer being separated by a distance equal to (2n+1) ?/2 with n an integer; each output transducer being connected to the output port, said power device being a combiner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130099661
    Abstract: A light-emitting diode component includes a primary source, a conversion layer forming a secondary source configured for absorbing the primary radiation at least in part and emitting a secondary radiation, an encapsulation layer, situated between the primary and secondary sources. The light-emitting diode component also includes a reflection layer (i) situated between the encapsulation layer and the conversion layer and having a face in contact with the encapsulation layer so as to form an interface with the encapsulation layer, the reflection layer (i) and the encapsulation layer being configured so that the interface allows the primary radiation originating from the primary source to pass and reflects the secondary radiation toward the outside of the light emitting diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
  • Publication number: 20130092921
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an organic semiconductor layer formed of a mixture of a first and of a second organic semiconductor materials includes the steps of: forming a porous solid volume formed of the first semiconductor material, of intercommunicating porosity and capable of receiving a second semiconductor material; depositing, at least on an external surface of the porous solid volume, a liquid including the second semiconductor material dissolved or dispersed in a solvent, the solvent being inert with respect to the first semiconductor material and having an evaporation temperature lower than the evaporation temperature of the second semiconductor material; and once the porous solid volume has been at least partially impregnated with the liquid, evaporating the solvent by heating up to a temperature higher than the evaporation temperature of said solvent and lower than the evaporation temperature of the first and of the second semiconductor materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2012
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
  • Publication number: 20130089955
    Abstract: Process for encapsulating a micro-device in a cavity formed between one first and one second substrate, comprising at least the steps of: producing the micro-device in and/or on the first substrate, attaching and securing the second substrate to the first substrate, forming the cavity in which the micro-device is placed, producing at least one hole through one of the two substrates, called the drilled substrate, and leading into the cavity opposite a portion of the other of the two substrates, called the receiving substrate, depositing at least one getter material portion on said portion of the receiving substrate through the hole, hermetically sealing the cavity by closing the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Commissariat A L'Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives