Abstract: A method for the production of a battery includes at least production, against a substrate made of a material able to form an electrode, of at least one solid electrolyte layer, production of a first electrode in contact with the electrolyte, and thinning the substrate such that at least a remaining proportion of the substrate, in contact with the solid electrolyte layer, forms a second electrode.

Abstract: An electrochemical system including a stack of a longitudinal axis with alternating ceramic cells and interconnectors and including a thermal management mechanism incorporated in the stack, the thermal management mechanism including plates having a structured lateral surface through which a thermal transfer by radiation towards outside of the stack takes place.

Abstract: Fabrication of a microelectronic device on a semiconductor on insulator type substrate, the device being provided with a transistor of a given type, the channel structure of which is formed from semiconducting bar(s), a dielectric area different from the insulating layer of the substrate being provided to replace the insulating layer, facing the transistor channel structure, specifically for this given type of transistor.

Abstract: A radiation imager including: a reading block; a first substrate; a plurality of portions made from a first material with a first optical index between the first substrate and the reading block; a second material at a periphery of at least one of the portions, the second material having a second optical index lower than the first optical index; and areas made from a third material surrounding at least ends of the portions oriented on a same side as the reading block, the areas made from a third material obtained by applying a layer made from a third material to the reading block and penetration of the end of the at least one portion made from a first material in the layer made from a third material.

Abstract: A method for reconstructing geometry of an object surface via echographic probing, using an ultrasound probe including plural transducers, the method including: controlling the transducers to transmit towards the surface ultrasound waves having initial transmission delays between them; executing at least once a cycle of operations including receiving from the transducers intermediate measurement signals, correcting transmission delays of the transducers using intermediate measurement signals, and controlling the transducers to transmit towards the surface ultrasound waves having the corrected transmission delays; receiving from the transducers final measurement signals resulting from reflection of a wavefront received simultaneously on the surface; determining specular travel times between each transducer and the surface based on the final measurement signals and the corrected transmission delays; and perform geometric reconstitution of the surface based on the determined specular travel times.

Abstract: A frequency synthesis device including: a first generator configured to generate a periodic signal of frequency f1; a second and third generator, coupled with the first generator and configured to receive as an input the periodic signal of frequency f1 and to generate a signal SG corresponding to a train of oscillations of frequency substantially equal to N·f1, of a time less than T1=1/f1 and repeated periodically at the frequency f1, where N is a whole number greater than 1; and a fourth generator configured to generate, from the signal SG, a periodic signal wherein a frequency spectrum includes a primary line of frequency f2=(N+i)·f1, where i is a whole number.

Abstract: A device including at least one heterostructure p/n diode, including a substrate based on HgCdTe including for each diode: a first part having a first cadmium concentration; a concentrated part, having a second cadmium concentration, greater than the first concentration, forming a heterostructure with the first part; a p+ doped zone situated in the concentrated part and extending into the first part, forming a p/n junction with an n-doped position of the first part, or a base plate; and the concentrated part is only located in the p+ doped zone and forms a substantially constant cadmium concentration well.

Abstract: An infrared detection device including an infrared heat detector and a connection pad each spaced apart from an etching stop layer by a non-zero distance substantially equal relatively to each other, wherein first and second electrically conducting vias are respectively electrically connected to first and second portions of a metal line of a penultimate level of electrical interconnections, and wherein an empty space formed in a first inter-metal dielectric layer surrounds the first electrically conducting via and extends under the infrared heat detector.

Abstract: Inertial sensor comprising a fixed part and at least one mass suspended from the fixed part and means of damping the displacement of the part suspended from the fixed part, said damping means being electromechanical damping means comprising at least one DC power supply source, one electrical resistor and one variable capacitor in series, said variable capacitor being formed partly by the suspended part and partly by the fixed part such that displacement of the suspended part causes a variation of the capacitance of the variable capacitor.

Abstract: A semiconducting structure configured to receive electromagnetic radiation and transform the received electromagnetic radiation into an electric signal, the semiconductor structure including a semiconducting support within a first surface defining a longitudinal plane, a first zone with a first type of conductivity formed in the support with a second zone with a second type of conductivity that is opposite of the first type of conductivity to form a semiconducting junction. A mechanism limiting lateral current includes a third zone formed in the support in lateral contact with the second zone, the third zone having the second type of conductivity for which majority carriers are electrons. The third zone has a sufficient concentration of majority carriers to have an increase in an apparent gap due to a Moss-Burstein effect.

Abstract: A reactor for grinding and roasting biomass, including: a chamber interiorly delimited with internal walls; a grinder laid out inside the chamber, including a central rotary shaft rotatably mounted in the chamber and grinding elements present on the central rotary shaft for grinding against internal walls and of biomass, or lingo-cellulosic biomass, present inside the chamber; a heater for heating and maintaining by thermal conduction via the grinder the biomass present inside the chamber, at a predetermined called roasting temperature between 200° C. and 350° C., to simultaneously achieve grinding and roasting of the biomass in the chamber.

Abstract: This method for generating modeling files (60) of a design flow of an integrated circuit with a plurality of layers interconnected together comprises the following steps: providing (100, 102) reference files (54) modeling a reference design flow including a predefined set (50, 52) of three-dimensional connection devices and reference design rules; providing (104) a design rule manual (58) relating to a sought integrated circuit design flow; generating (106) modeling files (60) of the sought design flow based on the reference files (54) and the design rule manual (58) provided. The sought three-dimensional connection devices (56) all being chosen from the reference three-dimensional connection devices, the step (106) for generating the modeling files (60) of the sought design flow comprises filtering of the reference files (54) by deleting any data relating to non-selected three-dimensional connection devices and by specifying the reference design rules (50) using the design rule manual (58) provided.

Abstract: A device converts a random stream of voltage pulses into a regulated stream of digital data. The device includes a stream regulation device and an analog-digital converter at the output of the stream regulation device. The converter undertakes an analog-digital conversion at a conversion frequency. The stream regulation device includes a buffer memory of capacity K, where K is an integer and K?1, in which the voltage signal for each received pulse is stored. Reading of the buffer memory is regulated at the conversion frequency.

Abstract: A method for producing a device including plural cavities defined between a substrate in at least one given semiconductor material and a membrane resting on a top of insulating posts projecting from the substrate, the method allowing a height of the cavity or cavities to be adapted independently of a height of the insulating posts and allowing cavities of different heights to be formed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for functionalizing an electrically conductive substrate, which is not a substrate made of gold, via a layer of chemical compounds, said method comprising the following steps: a step in which the electrically conductive substrate is placed in contact with chemical compounds comprising at least a disulfide terminal group; a step in which the disulfide terminal group of said chemical compounds is electro-oxidized, causing said chemical compounds to form a layer at the surface of the electrically conductive substrate.

Abstract: A method for characterizing a material, comprising: arranging a piece of the material near a source of ionizing photons and a detector; irradiating the piece with photons and acquiring, via the detector, two energy spectra of a photon flux that has been diffused into the material at various depths, the ratio of the photon paths in the material before and after diffusion remaining constant; determining a combined attenuation function with the spectra and the paths; selecting a plurality of energy ranges from said function; calculating, in each range, a quantity that is representative of the function; and estimating, from at least two of said quantities, a physical characteristic of the material by comparison with the same quantities obtained from known materials.

Abstract: The invention proposes a method for the transmission of data in a cooperative network comprising a source terminal (S), a destination terminal (D) and a relay terminal (R), comprising: in a first transmission (T1), the transmission of the data of a packet by the source terminal (S) to both the relay terminal (R) and the destination terminal (D); in the event of failure (N1) of the destination terminal (D) to successfully decode the data in the packet of the first transmission, and in the case of the data of the first transmission being successfully (O2) decoded by the relay terminal (R), the relay terminal transmits the data of the packet to the destination terminal in a second transmission (T2); in the event of failure (N3) of the destination terminal to successfully decode the data in the packet of the second transmission (T2), selection of the source terminal and/or relay terminal to retransmit the data of the packet to the destination terminal in a third transmission (T3), where the selection may be ba

Abstract: Support comprising a reception zone in which the external envelope matches the shape of a plate (P2) designed to be placed on a droplet deposited at least in the reception zone in order to achieve capillary self-assembly of the plate and the support, and at least one pair of tracks (T11, T12) that extend on the support from the reception zone and that have a lyophilic type affinity with the droplet such that an overflow of the droplet beyond the reception zone is guided in the tracks, characterised in that the at least one pair of tracks comprises a first track (T11) and a second track (T12) that do not have the same lyophilic type degree of affinity with the droplet.

Abstract: The invention relates to an encapsulation process for an electronic component (2). The component (2) is connected to an electrical contact track composed of a metal layer (101). The process according to the invention comprises the following steps: deposition of a titanium nitride layer (102) directly on at least part of the electrical contact track (101); and deposition of an aluminium oxide layer (4) by atomic layer deposition, such that the encapsulation layer (4) directly covers the titanium nitride layer (102). The process according to the invention enables electrical contact through the encapsulation layer (4). The invention also relates to an electronic device obtained using such a process.

Abstract: A method producing a refractive or diffractive optical device, including: production, in a first layer, of at least one inclined general profile approximated by a staircase profile including plural stairsteps; production of the profile including: forming buffer patterns on the first layer and at least one sequence including: forming masking patterns, so each masking pattern includes at least one edge situated above a buffer pattern and covers at least one area of the first layer not masked by the buffer patterns, the forming the masking patterns also defining, for the first layer, plural free areas not masked by the masking patterns or by the buffer patterns; etching the free areas to form trenches in the first layer. The production of the profile also includes: removing the masking patterns, removing the buffer patterns revealing walls previously covered by the buffer patterns, and then an isotropic etching to remove the walls.