Abstract: A process for selectively extracting cobalt from a composition comprising cobalt and one or more other metal elements, wherein the process comprises the following steps: a) a step of forming a precipitate consisting of a coordination complex comprising cobalt, by bringing the solution into contact with at least one aromatic compound comprising at least two nitrogen atoms in its ring; b) a step of recovering the precipitate.

Abstract: A fluidic system including a fluidic component in which is produced a fluidic circuit that includes at least a first aperture and a second aperture opening onto two separate regions of the component, and an instrumented device fitted on the fluidic component, the instrumented device including a first element fastened to the fluidic component to close the first aperture and a second element fastened to the fluidic component to close the second aperture, a deformable portion joining the first element to the second element, the first element and/or the second element being instrumented with at least one actuator and/or an effector arranged to interact with an internal volume of the fluidic circuit.

Abstract: A device including first and second light-emitting cells respectively emitting in first and second wavelength ranges, wherein: each cell includes a stack of a first layer of a first semiconductor material and of a second layer of a second semiconductor material having a different mesh parameter; in the first cell, the first layer is in contact with the second layer across the entire surface of the cell; and in the second cell, a mask provided with a plurality of through nano-openings forms an interface between the first layer and the second layer, the second layer comprising a plurality of nanopillars of the second material arranged in the nano-openings of the mask, and a coalesced layer extending across substantially the entire surface of the cell on the side of the mask opposite to the first layer.

Abstract: Method for manufacturing micro-LEDs comprising the following steps: i) providing a stack comprising at least one strongly n-doped GaN layer (104), an n-doped GaN layer (105), quantum wells (106) and a p-doped GaN layer (107), ii) porosifying the GaN layer (104), to obtain a porosified GaN layer (104?), iii) forming mesas in the stack, iv) covering the porosified GaN layer (104?) with a second electrode (301) or with an encapsulation layer (302), the second electrode (301) or the encapsulation layer (302) being in direct contact with the porosified GaN layer (104?). step ii) being carried out so that the optical index of the porosified GaN layer (104?) does not vary by more than 10% with respect to the optical index of the second electrode (301) and/or with respect to the optical index of the encapsulation layer (302).

Abstract: A control circuit of a controller of a photovoltaic system is provided, the control circuit including an input, an output, a start unit consisting of a power dissipation circuit, a voltage regulation circuit and a comparator, a first switch having a position wherein the start unit is connected to the input and an inverse position, and a second switch having a position wherein the input and the output are not connected and an inverse position. The comparator compares the voltages of the dissipation circuit and of the regulation circuit, the comparator outputting a command voltage of the two switches on the basis of the comparison.

Abstract: A method for obtaining an image of a sample includes illuminating the sample using a light source; acquiring, using an image sensor, a first image of the sample, the image being formed in the detection plane, the first image being representative of an exposure light wave propagating, from the sample, to the image sensor, along a first optical path; modifying an optical refractive index, between the image sensor and the sample; acquiring a second image of the sample, the image being representative of the exposure light wave along a second optical path; and implementing an iterative algorithm that combines the first and second images so as to obtain an image of the sample.

Abstract: These liquid-liquid extractors are adapted to very low fluid flow rates passing through them. In order to reduce the influence of capillarity and air phenomena that may make the flow irregular, the outlet ducts comprise, downstream of the settling cell where the heavy and light phases separate, overflows of the phases the edge of which is irregular in height, for example serrated. The circulation channels of the phases are advantageously open to also reduce the risks of blocking by air bubbles.

Abstract: A device including first and second chips, the first chip including an electronic circuit and the second chip including a capacitor having a density greater than 700 nF/mm{circumflex over (?)}2, the first and second chips being bonded to each other by molecular bonding.

Abstract: A multilayer structure for photovoltaic applications includes a n-type high-work function transition metal oxide (TMO) layer deposited on a support structure, a thin n-type low-work function transition metal oxide (TMO) layer covering the n-type high-work function TMO layer, and a first absorber cell based on a perovskite material on the n-type low-work function TMO layer, the n-type high-work function TMO layer and the thin n-type low-work function TMO layer forming a hole-selective contact structure.

Abstract: An optoelectronic device having a stack including an alternation of at least one semiconductor layer of a first material and of semiconductor layers of a second material, each layer of the first material being sandwiched between two layers of the second material and defining a quantum well, wherein the first material is an inorganic perovskite material, and the second material is an inorganic semiconductor material.

Abstract: An OFDM modulator including a predistortion module configured to receive the Nc consecutive data carriers and configured to compensate for distortion subsequently introduced by a polyphase filter bank connectable to the output of the OFDM modulator, a transformation module configured to apply a discrete inverse Fourier transform of constant size NIDFT independently of the numbering and transmission band used by the OFDM transmitter including the OFDM modulator, a filling module, the input of which is connected to the output of the predistortion module, and the output of which is connected to the input of the transformation module, and configured to insert (NIDFT?Nc) null carriers in succession to the Nc consecutive data carriers independently of the parity of the index i associated with the OFDM modulator.

Abstract: A method for producing a multilayer structure includes the following steps: a) providing a first substrate, b) depositing a thick layer of a precursor formulation including a preceramic polymer filled with inorganic particles on the first substrate, c) providing a second substrate, d) adhesively bonding the thick layer and the second substrate, e) thinning the first substrate or the second substrate so as to obtain an active layer, f) applying a pyrolysis heat treatment so as to ceramize the preceramic polymer of the thick layer and to obtain a ceramic matrix composite material, the filler content and the nature of the inorganic particles being chosen so that the thick layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion which differs, at most, by 15% from that of the first substrate and from that of the second substrate.

Abstract: A selection element including, in a first portion, a stack of amorphous layers, the thickness of each layer in the stack being smaller than or equal to 20 nm.

Abstract: An automated system for controlling a patient's blood glucose, including a blood glucose sensor and a processing and control unit, wherein the processing and control unit is configured to calculate, from a first mathematical model fCR specific to the patient and taking into account a single blood glucose value Gr measured by the sensor, a factor CR representative of the patient's insulin sensitivity.

Abstract: An automated system for controlling a patient's blood glucose, including a blood glucose sensor, a device for measuring a physical activity of the patient, and a processing and control unit, wherein: the processing and control unit is configured to generate, by convolution of a signal PA supplied by the device for measuring a physical activity of the patient with a decreasing mathematical function H, a signal IPA representative of the influence of the patient's physical activity on his/her insulin sensitivity; and the processing and control unit is configured to calculate, from a first patient-specific mathematical model fCR and taking into account signal IPA and from a single blood glucose value Gr measured by the sensor, a factor CR representative of the patient's insulin sensitivity.

Abstract: The present description concerns a system comprising a processor and an SDMA circuit of direct transfer of a data sequence between a source memory circuit and a destination memory circuit, a sub-region of the source circuit comprising the elements of a data array, the SDMA decoding computing kernel information called BIT_PATTERN of an elementary data pattern to be transferred defined from an elementary array having a predefined size smaller than the size of said data array and intended to identify an elementary array window of said array, each element of the elementary array comprising a bit capable of taking a state “1” or “0” according to whether the element belongs or not to said pattern, the SDMA recovering the data of said array associated with elements of the BIT_PATTERN having their bit at “1”.

Abstract: The present description concerns a method of generation of a sequence of pseudo-random digital codes enabling to perform a permutation (3) of a first set of values (V) into a second set of values (Vp) based on said digital codes (CPos) representative of positions (j) of values (Vi) of the first set in the second set, including the steps of: generating, by successive iterations, a chain of numbers, called seed numbers, from an initial pseudo-random seed number (W0) by application of a first function (24,26) from a seed number to the next seed number; applying a second function to each seed number of the chain to obtain each position code (CPos(j)), the second function including at least one permutation (PERM) followed by a bijection (BIJ).

Abstract: A method includes establishing, for a given time, measurement biases allowing an error affecting raw measurements of pseudoranges separating a navigation unit from at least three beacons to be decreased, and estimating an external position of the navigation unit at the given time based on: beacon positions, corrected pseudorange measurements computed for the given time using established measurement biases, and a preceding external position of the navigation unit estimated for a time preceding the given time. The measurement biases are established without taking into account the external position of the navigation unit.

Abstract: An image sensor including a plurality of pixels divided into elementary groups, each elementary group including a plurality of adjacent pixels arranged in a matrix, in rows and columns, each elementary group including first pixels, second and third visible image pixels sensitive in different wavelength ranges and fourth depth image pixels, wherein each row of each elementary group includes at least a fourth pixel.

Abstract: A directional antenna network adapted to operate in at least one predetermined frequency band, which includes at least one pair of metal antennas formed by a first metal antenna and a second metal antenna, the second metal antenna being sequentially rotated by a predetermined angle of rotation relative to the first metal antenna, a load circuit, with each metal antenna connected to the load circuit, and a monopole antenna, having a central position in the antenna network, connected to the load circuit. The metal antennas and the monopole antenna are arranged on a ground plane and coupled, with the load circuit being parameterized to provide radiation, the monopole antenna having a destructive contribution of a magnetic transverse radiation mode to obtain radiation by the at least one pair of metal antennas of selected circular polarization.