Abstract: A device for modulating the phase of a light beam includes a matrix of elementary cells, called pixels, coupled to a circuit for addressing the pixels, the device further comprising a set of so-called lateral electrodes extending in a so-called vertical direction (Y) at right angles to the alignment direction (Xa) and configured to apply, for each pixel and via at least two lateral electrodes, a so-called acceleration voltage generating a lateral electrical field (Era) substantially parallel to the alignment direction, in a vector allowing an accelerated return of the liquid crystal molecules to their orientation of rest, the acceleration voltage being configured to be applied in a phase called acceleration relaxation phase, when the activation voltage is no longer applied.

Abstract: A power converter for converting a DC input voltage into an AC output voltage, the power converter having a structure of Phi-2 type, and includes an input terminal for the DC input voltage, an output terminal for the AC output voltage, a power switch equipped with a control electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode linked to a reference potential, the power switch being configured to receive a drive signal at the control electrode, the converter further comprising a self-oscillating circuit, connected between the output terminal and the control electrode, and configured to supply and maintain a sinusoidal drive signal to the power switch from the output voltage.

Abstract: A method for controlling access of a user equipped with a terminal to a physical or logical resource, the method involving a secure cryptographic device forming a token corresponding to an access criterion, the access token being intended to generate a keystream masking a biometric reference of the user obtained by a biometric reader of the terminal. The biometric reference thus masked is encrypted by fully homomorphic encryption and stored in a database hosted by a remote server. An access control operator obtains a biometric characteristic of the user, homomorphically encrypts it and transmits it to the remote server. This server compares the first and second biometric models in the homomorphic domain and supplies the homomorphically-encrypted result of the comparison to the access control operator. The latter grants or denies access to the user according to the result of the comparison, after having decrypted it.

Abstract: The present description concerns an image sensor formed inside and on top of a semiconductor substrate, the sensor comprising a plurality of pixels, each comprising a photodetector formed in the substrate, the sensor comprising at least first and second bidimensional metasurfaces stacked, in this order, in front of said plurality of pixels, each metasurface being formed of a bidimensional array of pads, the first metasurface having a first optical function and the second metasurface having a second optical function different from the first optical function.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a continuous process for the manufacture of an electrode, to the electrode obtained therefrom and to an electrochemical device comprising said electrode.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing cement may include: supplying at least one etching effluent of a substrate based on silicon including a silicate of an alkali metal, M, having formula SiO2:M2O, and having a molar ratio SiO2/M2O greater than or equal to 0.8; supplying an aluminosilicate raw material, and mixing the aluminosilicate raw material with the etching effluent having a molar ratio SiO2/M2O greater than or equal to 0.8. The silicate solution of alkali metal may be recovered with an existing silicon industrial process, implementing a silicon etching. The environmental impact of the method of manufacturing cement may therefore be reduced.

Abstract: A haptic interface of the ‘mid-air’ type, including a control circuit, a plurality of ultrasonic transducers connected to the circuit, which includes a first set of transducers emitting at a first ultrasound carrier frequency and at least a second set of transducers emitting at a second ultrasound carrier frequency different from the first; the control circuit being configured for modulating the signals sent to the transducers in order to generate, with the ultrasound waves emitted by at least a part of the transducers of the first set, an acoustic pressure detectable by touch within at least a first focal region, and generate, with the ultrasound waves emitted by at least a part of the transducers of the second set, an acoustic pressure detectable by touch within at least a second focal region.

Abstract: Defining magnetic locks with permanent magnet and inductive coil that can be controlled instantaneously on demand within a battery pack by injection of a low electrical current from one or more BMSs. Whatever the positioning of the magnetic locks within the battery pack, one or more controlling BMSs can be positioned either on each accumulator or busbar, or on a branch to control on demand the set of accumulators in electrical series or in parallel, in the branch, either singly or at overall pack level.

Abstract: Fuel cell batteries are provided, and in particular hydrogen fuel cell batteries composed of at least one stack of cells. The battery is divided into at least two groups of cells able to be supplied with hydrogen separately. In a first phase, only the first group of cells and not the second is supplied; unconsumed hydrogen may however flow between the two groups via at least one evacuation manifold connected to the cells of the two groups. In a second phase, the supply to the two groups is reversed, unconsumed hydrogen still being able to flow between the two groups via the evacuation manifold. In a third phase, after a series of alternations of the two first phases, the two groups are first simultaneously supplied, then a purge valve of the evacuation manifold is opened then closed.

Abstract: A selective non-volatile memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and at least one layer made of an active material. The device has at least two programmable memory states associated with two voltage thresholds and also provides a selective role when it is in a highly resistive state.

Abstract: A method for interconnecting components of an electronic system includes depositing a sintering solution onto a first component to form an interconnection layer, the sintering solution having metal nanoparticles dispersed in a solvent, and a stabilizing agent adsorbed onto the nanoparticles. The nanoparticles have for more than 95.0% of their mass a metal selected from silver, gold, copper and alloys thereof and have a polyhedral shape with an aspect ratio of more than 0.8. The method also includes eliminating, at least partially, solvent from the layer to form an agglomerate in which the stabilizing agent binds nanoparticles together and maintains at least a portion of the nanoparticles at a distance from each other; debinding and sintering the layer by bringing the agglomerate into contact with a destabilizing agent to aggregate and coalesce the nanoparticles and depositing a second component in contact with the layer before or during debinding or sintering.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing at least one photovoltaic cell includes the following steps: (a) providing at least one plate, the plate having a first face and a second face opposite the first face; (b) providing a support device; (c) positioning the plate placing the first face of the plate in contact with the support device; (d1) forming a first conductive material on the first face of the plate; (d2) forming a second conductive material on the second face of the plate. At least one of the first and second conductive materials is transparent, the support device includes at least one wire, and, during all or part of step (d1), the first face of the plate bears on the wire.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for synchronising a node in a deterministic mesh network, in particular a network of sensors using a channel hopping (TSCH) transmission medium access mode. Each node measures the successive synchronisation offsets of its local clock in relation to those of neighbour nodes with which it enters into communication, the measurement being carried out by detecting a reception event of a packet transmitted by the neighbour node or an acknowledgement of a packet transmitted by said node to the neighbour node. The node estimates from these synchronisation offsets, a synchronisation offset for the timeslot and corrects its local clock by a fraction of the synchronisation offset thus estimated. Said fraction may be determined by means of multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), each agent being associated with a node of the network.

Abstract: A capacitive device including a metallic layer; a network of nanotube or nanowire bundles that extend from a face of the metallic layer; a capacitive stack covering the metallic layer and the nanotube bundles in a conforming manner, the stack including an upper conducting layer and an insulating layer, the device including a capacitive zone and a lower contact zone, the capacitive zone being a zone wherein the upper conducting layer encapsulates the nanotube bundles and the insulating layer, while the lower contact zone is a zone wherein the capacitive stack leaves the free ends exposed, and the insulating layer encapsulates the upper conducting layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for preparing organic compounds of formula (I) by reaction between a silylated formiate of formula (II) and an organic compound in the presence of a catalyst and optionally of an additive. The invention also relates to use of the method for preparing organic compounds of formula (I) for the preparation of reagents for fine chemistry and for heavy chemistry, as well as in the production of vitamins, pharmaceutical products, adhesives, acrylic fibres, synthetic leathers, and pesticides.

Abstract: An automatic liquid density measurement device includes a receptacle configured to contain the liquid, a float configured to be submerged in the liquid when it is contained in the receptacle, and an electronic system. The electronic system includes a first electromagnetic sensor configured to make a reference measurement relative to the electrical properties of the liquid, a second electromagnetic sensor configured to make a measurement of the volume of the liquid displaced when the float is submerged in the liquid, and an electronic circuit coupled with said first and second electromagnetic sensors to determine the density of the liquid based on the measurement of the physical properties of the liquid and the measurement of the volume of the liquid displaced.

Abstract: A reflector device reflects luminous radiation of wavelength ?. The device is provided with a supporting base whereon are assembled a partially transparent mirror having a partially reflective front face and luminous radiation scattering and/or absorption structure to scatter and/or absorb luminous radiation liable to be transmitted by a rear face, opposite the front face.

Abstract: An image sensor provided with a pixel including a photosensitive region formed in a semiconductor substrate and surrounded by a peripheral isolation trench; a sense node formed on a charge collecting region; a charge transfer gate around the sense node; a well; the pixel being provided with a so-called “detection acceleration” transistor configured to, during a so-called “charge overflow detection” operation, be switched on so as to weaken a potential barrier generated by the transfer gate and thus to favour an overflow of photogenerated charges to the sense node of the photosensitive region and to accelerate detection of this overflow.

Abstract: A method may form an electroconductive and hydrophobic microporous layer (MPL) at an active layer surface configured for an electrochemical converter, including: (a) providing a non-aqueous dispersion, called “ink”, including a carbon-based particulate material and an organic solvent; (b) forming an ink deposit at the active layer surface; and (c) evaporating the solvent(s) to form a microporous layer, simultaneously and/or subsequently to the forming (b). The ink may include poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropene), dissolved in the organic solvent. Ink may prepare such a microporous layer, and a multilayer structure including an active layer supported by a solid electrolyte membrane and contacting, at its face on the opposite side the solid membrane, with a microporous layer obtained by the such a method. A membrane-electrode assembly may include such a multilayer structure. Such an MEA may be used in an individual cell of an electrochemical converter, in particular in a PEMFC.

Abstract: A transduction detection device includes a substrate, at least one movable ground relative to the substrate and a suspended stress gauge provided with a piezoresistive element which includes a first anchoring and a second anchoring, different from the first anchoring, relative to the movable ground, wherein it includes at least one thermal dissipator element thermally conductively connected: to a connection portion of the piezoresistive element located outside of the anchorings, and to a thermal discharge part.