Abstract: An electronic device including a stack of a support substrate made of single-crystal SiC having a first surface and of a layer made of single-crystal SiC including a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface corresponds to a plane of the SiC single crystal of the support substrate and the second surface corresponds to a plane inclined by at least 1° with respect to a plane in the direction of the SiC single crystal of the layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a set of carbon atoms in the sp2 hybridization state functionalized with an antibacterial antibody or a lectin, and to an antibacterial peptide, a method for preparing it, and its uses, in particular for rendering a surface antibacterial. The present invention is also directed to a material covered with such a functionalized set, as well as to a method for preparing it.

Abstract: A microfluidic system is intended for the analysis of a biological sample containing biological species. The system includes an optical detection device having a source configured to emit an optical signal and at least one sensor having a capture surface defining an optical signal reading zone. The system also includes a microfluidic device having a support in which an amplification chamber, in which an amplification reaction can be carried out, is made, and having an input channel opening into the amplification chamber. The amplification chamber includes at least one first zone located in the sensor reading zone and at least one protuberance forming a recess intended to receive a compound for internal control of the amplification reaction and arranged to be located outside the sensor reading zone or configured to be opaque to said optical signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting an analyte present in a liquid specimen, characterized in that it comprises steps of: injecting said liquid specimen into a detection chamber (23), said detection chamber (23) having a non-zero volume enclosing polymeric beads (25) covered with a reagent suitable for said analyte to be detected, capturing at least one image of at least one region of the detection chamber using a sensor (30), processing said image acquired by the sensor, this comprising determining a texture level of said acquired image, and determining a concentration of said analyte depending on the texture level determined for said image.

Abstract: A passivation process includes the successive steps of a) providing a stack having, in succession, a substrate based on crystalline silicon, a layer of silicon oxide, and at least one layer of transparent conductive oxide; and b) applying a hydrogen-containing plasma to the stack, step b) being executed at a suitable temperature so that hydrogen atoms of the hydrogen-containing plasma diffuse to the interface between the substrate and the layer of silicon oxide.

Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first passive component of capacitive, resistive, or inductive type, including: a plurality of second and third passive components of said type, each having a same first theoretical value Compu_t, the second components being connected together so that their values add, and each third component being associated with a first switch having its state determining whether the value of the third component adds to the values of the second components; and a plurality of fourth passive components of said type, each associated with a second switch having its state determining whether the value of the fourth component adds to the values of the second components, at least one of the fourth passive components having a second theoretical value equal to (1?P).Compu_t or to (1+P).Compu_t, P being positive and smaller than ½.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic device comprising a semiconductor layer 10 formed from a central segment 20 and at least two lateral segments forming tensioning arms 30 that extend along a longitudinal axis A1. The semiconductor layer 10 furthermore comprises at least two lateral segments forming electrical biasing arms 40 that extend along a transverse axis A2 orthogonal to the axis A1.

Abstract: A method for managing a cache memory, including executing first and second processes, when the second process modifies the state of the cache memory, updating the value of an indicator associated with this second process, and comparing the value of this indicator to a predefined threshold and, when this predefined threshold is exceeded, detecting an abnormal use of the cache memory by the second process, in response to this detection, modifying pre-recorded relationships in order to associate with the identifier of the second process a value of a parameter q different from the value of the parameter q associated with the first process so that, after this modification, when the received address of a word to be read is the same for the first and second processes, then the set addresses used to read this word from the cache memory are different.

Abstract: This method for manufacturing a device for locating an impact comprising an interactive surface having a front face for receiving an impact and at least three transducers that need to be distributed and attached against the front face or a rear face of the interactive surface, comprises the following steps: determining a central positioning point for each transducer on the front face or rear face of the interactive surface; attaching each transducer, via the lower conductive layer thereof forming a first electrode, around the central positioning point thereof. It further comprises, following the attachment of each transducer, a step of machining the free upper conductive layer of at least one of the transducers, using a machine tool, at least as far as a piezoelectric intermediate layer of this transducer, in order to form a second electrode of this transducer, centering it around the central positioning point thereof.

Abstract: A device for measuring radiation backscattered by a sample including: at least one light source that is configured to emit a light beam, along an axis of incidence, towards a surface of the sample so as to form, on said surface, an elementary illumination zone; an image sensor for forming an image of the radiation backscattered by the sample when the latter is illuminated by the light source, the image sensor lying in a detection plane; a bundle of optical fibres, extending, along an extension axis, between a proximal surface and a distal surface, the proximal surface being applied against the image sensor, the distal surface being configured to be applied against the surface of the sample; wherein the light source is arranged around the bundle of optical fibres, and wherein the distance between the light source and the bundle of optical fibres is less than 1 mm.

Abstract: Displaying device comprising an image medium formed from a matrix array of pixels that extend in rows, parallel to a first longitudinal axis, and in columns, parallel to a first lateral axis, the image medium being placed facing an optical array,wherein: the image medium is segmented into elementary zones, each elementary zone being configured to display an elementary image; the optical array comprises optical separating elements; each elementary zone forms a matrix array, and comprises pixels, each pixel being associated with a rank; the optical array is configured to form views in the image plane, each view being formed by a projection of pixels of the same rank, said pixels being located in various elementary zones; the elementary zones are arranged in unit cells, each unit cell comprising a central elementary zone and four elementary zones that are adjacent thereto, each unit cell being such that the centers of the adjacent elementary zones are staggered.

Abstract: A method for acquiring signals via ultrasound probing including: controlling L emission transducers and N reception transducers in order to simultaneously receive, for each of M successive emissions, N measurement signals; obtaining a matrix of ultrasound time signals having a size of N×M. An initial matrix ([MC?]), having a size of L×M', for encoding the successive emissions is previously defined for a number M? of successive initial emissions strictly greater than M. A calculation of acoustic field is carried out for each of the M? initial emissions. A reduced encoding matrix ([MC]), having a size of L×M, is obtained by removal of M??M columns of the initial encoding matrix ([MC?]) on the basis of a selection criterion applied to the M? calculations of acoustic fields. Finally, the control of the L emission transducers for the M successive emissions is encoded using the reduced encoding matrix ([MC]).

Abstract: An electronic circuit including a semiconductor substrate having first and second opposite surfaces and electrically-insulating trenches. Each trench includes at least first and second insulating portions made of a first insulating material, extending from the first surface to the second surface, first and second intermediate portions, extending from the first surface to the second surface, made of a first filling material, and a third insulating portion extending from the first surface to the second surface, the first insulating portion being in contact with the first intermediate portion, the second insulating portion being in contact with the second intermediate portion, and the third insulating portion being interposed between the intermediate portions.

Abstract: An assembly of electrochemical cells for an electrochemical reactor, including a first electrochemical cell, including a first membrane/electrode assembly including a first anode and a first cathode on either side of a proton exchange membrane; first and second flow guides positioned on either side of the first assembly; a second electrochemical cell, including a second membrane/electrode assembly including a second anode and a second cathode on either side of a proton exchange membrane; third and fourth flow guides on either side of the second membrane/electrode assembly; the first and third flow guides have one and the same geometry; the first anode and the second anode have different distributions of surface densities of electrocatalytic material on respective faces of the first and second proton exchange membranes.

Abstract: A device for measuring radiation backscattered by a sample including: at least one light source that is configured to emit a light beam, along an axis of incidence, towards a surface of the sample so as to form, on said surface, an elementary illumination zone; an image sensor for forming an image of the radiation backscattered by the sample when the latter is illuminated by the light source, the image sensor lying in a detection plane; a bundle of optical fibres, extending, along an extension axis, between a proximal surface and a distal surface, the proximal surface being applied against the image sensor, the distal surface being configured to be applied against the surface of the sample; wherein the light source is arranged around the bundle of optical fibres, and wherein the distance between the light source and the bundle of optical fibres is less than 1 mm.

Abstract: A SPAD-type photodiode including: a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type having a front side and a back side; and a first semiconductor region of the second conductivity type extending in the substrate from the front side thereof and towards the back side thereof, the lateral surfaces of the first region being in contact with the substrate and the junction between the lateral surfaces of the first region and the substrate defining an avalanche area of the photodiode.

Abstract: A functionalized infrastructure including a bottom layer including a zone to be covered, the infrastructure including: n covering slabs arranged juxtaposed in order to pave the surface to be covered, each covering slab having a rank i, with i ranging from 1 to n and n being greater than or equal to 2 and including a coverage surface positioned to cover a part of the zone and at least one electrical functionalization assembly, the n covering slabs including at least one covering slab of a first type having a coverage surface of a first form and a covering slab of a second type having a coverage surface of a second form, each covering slab including an electrical connection block arranged on the slab so as to separate each slab of rank i from a slab of rank i+1 by a pitch (P) that is constant.

Abstract: A method for fabricating an OxRAM type memory location, including the steps of providing a stack including a superposition of a first layer that includes a first material made of Ti at more than 30% by mole fraction; a second layer made of HfO2 positioned under the first layer; via an ion implantation of a second material chosen from Xe, Kr or Ar in the first layer, carrying out an implantation of the first material in the second layer by collision with recoil effect in the first layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a heterojunction electronic component provided with an embedded barrier layer, the process comprising: depositing by epitaxy, in a vapour phase epitaxial growth chamber with an atmosphere exhibiting a first nonzero ammonia concentration, of a GaN precursor layer of the embedded barrier layer, comprising a first layer doped with a Mg or Fe dopant; placing, while maintaining the substrate in the chamber, the atmosphere at a second ammonia concentration at most equal to a third of the first concentration,order to remove an upper part of the precursor layer; and then after the removal of the said upper part, while maintaining the substrate in the chamber, depositing by epitaxy of a layer of semiconductor material of the heterojunction electronic component to be manufactured, the said precursor layer then forming the embedded barrier layer under the said layer of semiconductor material.

Abstract: A direct memory access controller intended to be placed in a computing node of a system on chip, comprising: an input buffer for receiving packets of data to be processed coming from an input/output interface of the computing node; a write control module for controlling the writing of the data extracted from each packet to a local address space of the computing node shared by at least one processor for processing said data other than the direct memory access controller; an arithmetic logic unit for executing microprograms. The write control module is designed to control the execution by the arithmetic logic unit of at least one microprogram consisting of instruction lines for arithmetic and/or logical calculation concerning only storage addresses for storing the data received by the input buffer for a reorganization of same in the shared local address space.