Abstract: A device for receiving and demodulating an amplitude-modulated RF signal, comprising: a first antenna; a first amplifier coupled to the first antenna; a receiving module including: a) a second antenna; b) a second amplifier coupled to the second antenna; c) a phase-shifter coupled to the second amplifier and applying a phase-shift ?; d) a mixer comprising inputs coupled to the phase-shifter and to the first amplifier, and outputting a product of signals received at the input, and wherein the value of the phase-shift ? is such that the device performs a demodulation of the RF signal when a wavefront of the RF signal forms, with an axis of alignment of the antennas, an angle ? having a particular value a which depends on the phase-shift ? and on a distance between the antennas.

Abstract: A phase modulator for a light beam comprising a waveguide having a longitudinal axis, and a piezoelectric actuator to apply a mechanical stress within said waveguide in response to an electrical bias, said actuator comprising a first part covering a first side of the waveguide and having a first axis of symmetry essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis. The actuator comprises a second part covering a second side of the waveguide, said second part having a second axis of symmetry essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A method for assembling components includes assembling a first component including solder bumps with a second component including connectors. The assembly of the components is preceded by pre-treating the first and second components wherein the solder bumps are contacted with a pre-treatment liquid configured to at least partially remove an oxide layer initially present on the solder. The pre-treatment liquid is an aqueous solution containing carboxylic acids or polycarboxylic acids. The assembly of the components is carried out after the pre-treatment in the absence of liquid or gas flux.

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 structure for an RF device provided with a semiconductor region coated with a heterogeneous dielectric region, the heterogeneous dielectric region including, in at least one first direction parallel to a main plane of the substrate, an alternation of first areas made of a first dielectric material with positive fixed charges and of second dielectric areas made of a second dielectric material with negative fixed charge in order to create an alternation of polarity allowing preventing the formation of a parasitic conduction layer in the semiconductor region.

Abstract: An FDSOI transistor control device includes a plurality of first wells having a first type of conductivity, each first well being associated with a group of transistors, and at least one second well having a second type of conductivity, formed under and around the first wells (21). A bias circuit is configured to apply at least one first bias voltage to the first wells and at least one second bias voltage to at least one second well. All of the transistors may have the second type of conductivity.

Abstract: Producing a semiconductor or piezoelectric on-insulator type substrate for RF applications which is provided with a porous layer under the BOX layer and under a layer of polycrystalline semiconductor material.

Abstract: The invention relates to an inertial sensor (1) comprising a substrate extending along a drive excitation direction (x) and a detection direction (y) normal to each other, the device plane being perpendicular to a rotation direction (z), a first drive frame (110) and a second drive frame (120), a first sense frame (210), a second sense frame (220), a sense lever (1000) pivotably mounted around a rotation axis (1001), a sensing system comprising a strain gauge (1600) mechanically stressed by the sense lever it is rotating around the rotation axis. The sense lever includes a central portion (1500), a first arm (1100) and a second arm (1200), the central portion having a dimension along the detection direction called central width, the arms having a dimension along the detection direction called arm width, the central width being at least twice greater than the arm width.

Abstract: A system includes a high temperature electrolyser, a first supply line of the electrolyser configured to supply the electrolyser with steam, a first discharge line of the electrolyser configured to discharge dihydrogen from the electrolyser, a second discharge line of the electrolyser configured to discharge dioxygen from the electrolyser, a first heat exchange module configured to ensure a heat exchange between the first supply line and the first dihydrogen discharge line, and a steam generator arranged on the first supply line, upstream from the first heat exchange module, and configured to produce steam from liquid water. The system also includes a module for depressing a section of the first supply line and having an expansion device and a compressor. The expansion device is arranged on the first supply line upstream from the steam generator, and the compressor is arranged on the first supply line downstream from the steam generator.

Abstract: A photoluminescence measurement device may include: a sample holder; a detector configured to collect a photoluminescence signal; a processing unit configured to process a signal collected by the detector; and a support disposed facing a rear face of the sample holder, opposite to the front face, and on one face, called the main face, of which rests at least one radiation source for emitting light radiation illuminating the rear face and likely to be collected, by transparency of the sample holder with respect to the light radiation, by the detector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for assisted ascent or descent, comprising: —a staircase comprising at least one instrumented mobile step, equipped with at least one sensor for measuring the centre of pressure of a user and at least one lifting actuator designed to raise or lower the step according to a degree of vertical freedom; —a calculation unit connected to the sensor for measuring the centre of pressure and to the lifting actuator, the calculation unit being configured to calculate at least the position, the speed of movement and the acceleration of the user from the centre of pressure measured by the sensor and, depending on the values calculated, control the lifting actuator.

Abstract: A gas-diffusing device, including a superposition of a layer of composite material including electrically conductive fibres and a polymerized resin coating said conductive fibres; a first electrically conductive layer having an open porosity between first and second faces and including a first void in the second face, the first face making electrical contact with the conductive fibres of the layer of composite material, the polymerized resin coating one portion of the first conductive layer on the first face.

Abstract: A system includes a high temperature electrolyser, a first supply line of the electrolyser configured to supply steam, a first discharge line of the electrolyser configured to discharge dihydrogen, a second discharge line of the electrolyser configured to discharge dioxygen, a first heat exchange module configured to provide heat exchange between the first supply line and the first discharge line, and a steam generator arranged on the first supply line and configured to produce steam from liquid water. The system also includes a module for recovering thermal energy from the dihydrogen at the output of the module for the benefit of the first steam supply line, the module having a compressor arranged in the first discharge line and configured to compress the dihydrogen, and a first heat exchanger arranged between the first supply line and the first discharge line to transmit thermal energy of the compressed dihydrogen to liquid water.

Abstract: An active light-emitting layer composition including a thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) molecule with TADF properties as a host material and a luminescent molecule with circularly polarized (CP) properties as a dopant. Also, a light-emitting device, such as an organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), including the active light-emitting layer made of this composition.

Abstract: This method comprises: before bonding a substrate to a layer of encapsulated semiconductor material in which a first part of an optical component is produced, producing indented pads inside a buried layer of silicon oxide, with each of these pads comprising an embedded face that extends parallel to an interface between the buried layer and the layer of encapsulated semiconductor material to a predetermined depth inside the buried layer, with each of the embedded faces being made of a material different from silicon oxide; then thinning the buried layer in order to leave a residual silicon oxide layer on the layer of encapsulated semiconductor material, with this thinning comprising an operation involving thinning the buried layer, with this thinning stopping as soon as the embedded face of the pads is exposed.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a set of calibration pellets each associated with a respective absorbed dose includes, for each absorbed dose, choosing a paramagnetic material having an electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum that is stable over time, and making a first charge of the chosen paramagnetic material, the first charge having a physical parameter of which the value is equal to a target value such that a first amplitude of a first electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of the first charge is equal to a second amplitude of a second electron paramagnetic resonance spectrum of a second charge of a predetermined dosimetric material, the second charge presenting the absorbed dose. The method also includes depositing the first charge in a cavity of a respective container formed from a material inert to electron paramagnetic resonance and sealing the cavity in a fluid-tight manner.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a scanner provided with a vibratory beam on or in which is formed a phased array intended to extract according to either one of two parallel faces of the beam a light radiation that could be emitted by a light source.

Abstract: A die or piston of a spark plasma sintering apparatus, wherein the die or piston is made from graphite and the outer surfaces of the die or piston are coated with a silicon carbide layer with a thickness of 1 to 10 micrometres, the silicon carbide layer being further optionally coated with one or more other layer(s) made from a carbide other than silicon carbide chosen from hafnium carbide, tantalum carbide and titanium carbide, the other layer(s) each having a thickness of 1 to 10 micrometres. A spark plasma sintering (SPS) apparatus comprising the die and two of the pistons, defining a sintering, densification or assembly chamber capable of receiving a powder to be sintered, a part to be densified, or parts to be assembled. A method of sintering a powder, densifying a part, or assembling two parts by means of a method of spark plasma sintering (SPS) in an oxidising atmosphere, using the spark plasma sintering (SPS) apparatus.

Abstract: Phase-change memory cells and methods of manufacturing and operating phase-change memory cells are provided. In at least one embodiment, a phase-change memory cell includes a heater and a stack. The stack includes at least one germanium layer or a nitrogen doped germanium layer, and at least one layer of a first alloy including germanium, antimony, and tellurium. A resistive layer is located between the heater and the stack.

Abstract: An antagonist antibody, or an antigen binding fragment thereof, binds both to human and macaque LILRB1 and/or LILRB2, and has diagnostic and therapeutic uses.