Abstract: A method for preparing a monolithic nanoporous silicate sol-gel material for modulating the pore size distribution for one single starting composition without the addition of a structuring agent. The method includes the following steps: a) synthesising a gel from at least one organosilylated precursor, the synthesis being carried out in an aqueous medium, optionally including an organic solvent and without a structuring agent, and b) drying the gel obtained in step a) at a temperature between 10° C. and 70° C., preferably between 15° C. and 55° C. and more preferably between 20° C. and 40° C., in a gas flow in a drying chamber to obtain a monolithic nanoporous silicate sol-gel material and a residual relative humidity in the drying chamber of between 0.1 and 20%, preferably between 0.5 and 10% and more preferably about 5%.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a gas diffusion device includes providing a superposition of a composite layer and of an electrically conductive element, the composite layer including electrically conductive fibers and a polymerizable resin impregnating the conductive fibers, and the electrically conductive element having an open porosity between a first face and a second face. The process also includes compressing the superposition of the composite layer and of the conductive element so as to bring said conductive fibers into contact with the first face of the element, so as to make said resin flow into said element without the resin impregnating all the volume of said conductive element; and polymerizing the resin.

Abstract: Multimeric polypeptides and pharmaceutical uses thereof; multimers of alpha3 peptides of an HLA-G antigen and methods of producing such multimers, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, as well as their uses for treating various diseases including organ/tissue rejection. The multimers include at least two monomers, each of said monomers being selected in the group consisting of a peptide P1 of formula X1-X2, wherein X1 represents a peptidic linker including a cysteine amino acid and X2 represents an alpha3 domain of HLA-G.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a structured optical fibre sensor, comprising a light source (1), a detection system (2) and a Bragg grating optical fibre (3) connected to said source and said system. The light source is a wavelength-tunable laser emission device (1) comprising a cavity (CA) delimited by a first and a second Sagnac mirror (M1, M2). The cavity comprises an amplifying medium (AM) and a tunable spectral filter using the Vernier effect (F), said filter (F) comprising at least three resonant rings (R1, R2, RN?1, RN) arranged in cascade, each resonant ring integrating a wavelength-tunable reflectivity loop mirror (MBR).

Abstract: Hybrid material for plastic scintillation measurement comprising: a polymeric matrix; and a fluorescent mixture incorporated in the polymeric matrix and comprising, with respect to the total number of moles of primary fluorophore in the incorporated fluorescent mixture, i) from 95.6 molar % to 99.6 molar % of a main primary fluorophore consisting of naphthalene and ii) from 0.4 molar % to 20 molar % of an additional primary fluorophore. The decay constant of the fluorescence of the hybrid material is intermediate between that of a fast plastic scintillator material and of a slow plastic scintillator material. Further, they can be chosen over a wide range. The invention also relates to an associated part, device and item of equipment, to their processes of manufacture or their methods of measurement.

Abstract: A photonic integrated circuit for an interferometric sensor includes a first waveguide called sensitive arm wherein a first portion of the light radiation is propagated, the sensitive arm being exposed to a first ambient medium and to at least one compound to be detected inducing a modification of the local refractive index perceived by the evanescent part of the electromagnetic field of the first portion of the light radiation, and a second waveguide called reference arm wherein a second portion of the light radiation is propagated, an encapsulation layer encapsulating the reference arm, the encapsulation layer being impermeable to the compound or compounds to be detected, so that the reference arm is exposed only to a second ambient medium, substantially of the same nature as the first ambient medium and without the compound to be detected and interferometric sensor comprising a photonic integrated circuit according to the invention.

Abstract: A process for transferring a useful layer to a carrier substrate including a first surface is provided, the process including the steps of: providing a donor substrate including a first surface, a weakened zone including implanted species, the useful layer, which is bounded by the weakened zone and by the first surface of the donor substrate, and an amorphous zone disposed, in the useful layer, parallel to the weakened zone; assembling, on a side of the first surface of the donor substrate and on a side of the first surface of the carrier substrate, the donor substrate with the carrier substrate by bonding, such that the amorphous zone is at least partially facing at least one cavity that is partially bounded by the first surface of the donor substrate; and splitting the donor substrate along the weakened zone so as to reveal the useful layer.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for confidentially processing the kinematic data of a vehicle (210), in particular a method for classifying this data in order to determine the driving style of the vehicle while respecting the confidentiality of the data in question. The data is encrypted (254) by the vehicle by means of a symmetric encryption algorithm using a secret key generated (251) by the vehicle. This secret key is encrypted (252) by the vehicle by means of a homomorphic asymmetric encryption algorithm by using the public key of a vehicle service provider (240). The data encrypted by means of the secret key, and the homomorphically encrypted secret key, are transmitted (253, 255) by the vehicle to an access point that transcrypts (261) them and transmits (262) the homomorphically encrypted data to a calculation platform (230).

Abstract: A method for forming SiGe-based regions with different Ge concentrations is provided. After defining the regions 1, 2 on a SOI substrate, a grating of masking patterns is formed on at least one region 2. After the epitaxial growth of a Ge-based layer in each of the regions, a first vertical diffusion is carried out. A second horizontal diffusion is then carried out such that the Ge diffuses beneath the masking patterns of the region 2. Thus, the region 2 has a Ge concentration that is lower than the Ge concentration of the region 1.

Abstract: A device for protecting an electronic system, such as an integrated circuit, the device incorporating a pulse transformer including a ferrite sheet or layer with low magnetic losses that covers a surface of the electronic system and that is encircled by two coils that are located a distance away from each other, one of these coils, the transmission coil, being connected to a transmission stage for transmitting electrical pulses, and the other of these coils, the reception coil, being connected to a reception stage, the whole thing being connected to and controlled by a microcontroller.

Abstract: A Resistive random access memory (ReRAM) comprising: an array (M1) of cells (Cij) each connected to a first supply line (SL) set at a first supply potential, each cell being provided with a resistive element (1, 2) and a selection transistor (Ms1, Ms2), a read circuit (400) associated with a given row of cells and comprising a sense amplifier (440) of the latch type connected to a second supply line (45) set at a second supply potential, the device further comprising: a circuit for controlling read operations configured to during a reading: apply to said first bit line (BL0) a potential equal to said first supply potential (GND, VDD) while isolating the first bit line (BL0) from said sense amplifier (440), then, couple the first bit line (BL0) to said sense amplifier (440).

Abstract: An electrical-accumulator-isolating device configured to isolate an electrical accumulator of an electrical circuit while ensuring the continuity of the electrical circuit includes first-third terminals and a bypass chamber in which is placed a bypass device that has two bypass conductors separated by a gap. One of the bypass conductors is connected to the second terminal and the other bypass conductor is connected to the third terminal. A fuse having a conductor made of meltable material is connected between the first terminal and the third terminal. The conductor is made of meltable material placed in the bypass chamber and is configured to transfer in the liquid state to the bypass device.

Abstract: The invention consists of a continuous sorting method and device which highlights the trajectory differences to which fibers of different form factors and particles charged under the joint influence of electrical forces and a centrifugal force could be subjected. Thus, according to the sorting method, the conditions exploit this difference in order to recover/collect the fibers separated from the non-fibrous particles present in the same initial aerosol or to sort fibers exhibiting different form factors.

Abstract: A JBS diode includes a substrate; a first semiconductor layer arranged on a first face of the substrate and having a first type of conductivity, the first semiconductor layer including a projecting portion delimited by a trench; a second semiconductor layer arranged on the projecting portion and having a second type of conductivity opposite to the first type of conductivity; an electrically insulating layer arranged at the bottom of the trench; a first electrode including a first portion in Schottky contact with the first semiconductor layer, the first portion being arranged on the electrically insulating layer and against a side wall of the projecting portion of the first semiconductor layer; a second portion in ohmic contact with the second semiconductor layer; a second electrode in ohmic contact with the substrate.

Abstract: A process for fabricating an electronic component incorporating double quantum dots and split gates includes providing a substrate surmounted with a stack of a semiconductor layer and of a dielectric layer that is formed above the semiconductor layer. The process also includes forming a mask on the dielectric layer and etching the dielectric layer and the semiconductor layer with the pattern of the mask, so as to form a stack of a semiconductor nanowire and of a dielectric hard mask. Finally, the process includes depositing a gate material on all of the wafer and carrying out a planarization, until the dielectric hard mask is reached, so as to form first and second gates that are electrically insulated from each other on either side of said nanowire.

Abstract: A method for perceiving physical bodies comprises the following steps: a) acquisition of a plurality of distance measurements of the physical bodies, arising from one or more sensor; b) application of an inverse sensor model on an occupancy grid to determine a probability of occupancy of a set of cells of the grid; and c) construction of a consolidated occupancy grid by fusion of the occupancy probabilities estimated during step b); wherein the inverse sensor model is a discrete model, associating with each cell of the corresponding occupancy grid, and for each distance measurement, a probability class chosen inside one and the same set of finite cardinality and identified by an integer index; and wherein step c) is implemented by means of integer computations performed on the indices of the probability classes determined during said step b). A system for perceiving physical bodies is also provided.

Abstract: The invention essentially consists of proposing a novel reactor or fuel cell architecture having an active section of the catalytic material for methanation or reforming reaction integrated into the electrode which varies with the composition of the gases, as they are distributed in accordance with the electrochemistry on said electrode.

Abstract: A device for taking and optionally processing a sample, includes (i) a housing containing a porous matrix that can receive the sample, (ii) a stopper that can be connected to the housing in a tight manner and including a piston that ensures the tight closing of the housing, compressing the porous matrix or the sample, and (iii) a storage receptacle that can be connected to the housing, can receive the sample that has passed through the porous matrix, and includes at least one conduit connecting the inside of the receptacle to the outside, once the porous matrix or the sample is compressed. The device also includes a seal between the stopper and the storage receptacle. The stopper closes the storage receptacle in a tight manner when the stopper and the storage receptacle are connected to the housing.

Abstract: A system for analyzing faults in a transmission line includes a test signal generator, a coupler for injecting the test signal into the transmission line and sampling the signal back-propagated in the transmission line, a control unit for generating a calibration signal equal to the opposite of the test signal and controlling its phase and its amplitude, at least one combiner for combining the calibration signal and the signal sampled by the coupler into a corrected signal, an amplifier for amplifying the corrected signal and a correlator for correlating the corrected signal and the test signal to produce a reflectogram, the control unit being further configured to make the amplitude and the phase of the calibration signal vary so as to eliminate, in the signal sampled by the coupler, at least one echo of the test signal on at least one point of impedance mismatch of the transmission line.

Abstract: A module for thermal storage by a phase-change material includes a vat, at least one heat-exchanger having first and second connecting ends configured to be connected to a heat-transfer fluid network, the first and second connecting ends penetrating and opening into the vat, and a structure received in the vat and configured to contain a phase-change material. The structure includes a porous matrix made of a metallic material with communicating cells crossed by the heat-exchanger and in contact with the external surface of the heat-exchanger. The matrix is obtained by moulding around the heat-exchanger. The vat includes at least one wall made of a metallic material formed directly during moulding and integral with the matrix.