Patents Assigned to UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES
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Publication number: 20230061391Abstract: A method for producing a superconducting vanadium silicide on a silicon layer includes treating a face of the silicon layer in order to prepare it for a deposition of vanadium silicide, then depositing a vanadium silicide layer on the prepared face of the silicon layer in order to obtain a stack of a vanadium silicide layer directly deposited on the silicon layer, then an annealing the stack which increases the critical temperature of the vanadium silicide deposited. The treating includes an operation of incorporation of argon atoms in the silicon layer through the face of the silicon layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicants: Commissariat á l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Fabrice NEMOUCHI, Thierry FARJOT, Frédéric GUSTAVO, François LEFLOCH, Tom Doekle VETHAAK
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Patent number: 11577960Abstract: The invention concerns a method of forming a graphene device, the method comprising: forming a graphene film (100) over a substrate; depositing, by gas phase deposition, a polymer material covering a surface of the graphene film (100); and removing the substrate from the graphene film (100), wherein the polymer material forms a support (102) for the graphene film (100).Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignees: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Dipankar Kalita, Vincent Bouchiat, Laetitia Marty, Nedjma Bendiab
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Publication number: 20230037289Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for detecting an acoustic wave propagating toward a membrane, the membrane carrying a waveguide comprising an optical cavity defining a resonant frequency. Under the effect of a vibration of the membrane, the resonance frequency of the optical cavity varies. The device includes a light source for directing a light wave into the optical cavity, and a servo circuit for servo-controlling the wavelength of the light wave to the resonant wavelength of the optical cavity. Monitoring the variation in the wavelength of the light wave allows an amplitude of the acoustic wave to be estimated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, C.N.R.S., INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLEInventors: Thomas LAUWERS, Skandar BASROUR, Jean-Guillaume COUTARD, Alain GLIERE, Guillaume LAFFONT
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Patent number: 11569381Abstract: The invention relates to a deep depletion MIS transistor (100), comprising: a source region (S) and a drain region (D) made of doped semiconductor diamond of a first conductivity type; a channel region (C) made of doped semiconductor diamond of the first conductivity type, arranged between the source region and the drain region; a drift region (DR) made of doped semiconductor diamond of the first conductivity type, arranged between the channel region and the drain region; and a conductive gate (111) arranged on the channel region and separated from the channel region by a dielectric layer (113).Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2018Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Julien Pernot, Nicolas Rouger, David Eon, Etienne Gheeraert, Gauthier Chicot, Toan Thanh Pham, Florin Udrea
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Patent number: 11559825Abstract: A method for assembling particles on a microstructured surface of a sample. The method includes a step of covering the surface of the sample with a colloidal suspension with a so-called covering temperature range. The method includes a step of sedimentation of particles contained in the colloidal suspension such that particles settle towards the surface of the sample, the sedimentation step being carried out within a so-called sedimentation temperature range.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, SMART FORCE TECHNOLOGIESInventors: David Peyrade, Anthony Leonard, Julien Cordeiro, Olivier Lecarme
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Patent number: 11554959Abstract: A process for exfoliating graphene, includes a step of irradiating a first substrate comprising graphene on its surface, with a helium or hydrogen plasma containing ions of energy comprised between 10 and 60 eV. A process for fabricating graphene on the surface of a second substrate, comprising the exfoliating process.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLES ALPESInventors: Gilles Cunge, Alexandra Davydova, Emilie Despiau-Pujo, Djawhar Ferrah, Olivier Renault
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Patent number: 11529316Abstract: The invention relates to a novel use of ultrafine nanoparticles, of use as a diagnostic, therapeutic or theranostic agent, characterized by their mode of administration via the airways. The invention is also directed toward the applications which follow from this novel mode of administration, in particular for imaging the lungs, and the diagnosis or prognosis of pathological pulmonary conditions. In the therapeutic field, the applications envisioned are those of radiosensitizing or radioactive agents for radiotherapy (and optionally curietherapy), or for neutron therapy, or of agents for PDT (photodynamic therapy), in particular for the treatment of lung tumors.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignees: Universite Claude Bernard Lyon I, Nano-H, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—CNRS, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Universite de BordeauxInventors: Yannick Cremillieux, Andrea Bianchi, Sandrine Dufort, Jean-Luc Coll, Francois Lux, Olivier Tillement
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Patent number: 11511638Abstract: An electrical power converter unit (2) includes: a first connection interface (10) comprising two leads (12, 14) forming a DC input/output interface for connecting a first electrical device to the power converter unit, a three-phase rectifier power converter circuit (16) and a second connection interface (30) for connecting a second electrical device to the power converter unit. The second connection interface includes a switching unit (46) adapted to switch between:—a DC input/output mode, in which first, second and third arms of the power converter circuit (16) are electrically connected together, forming one DC input/output; and—an AC input/output mode, in which the arms are disconnected from each other, forming separate input/outputs for a three-phase AC voltage.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignees: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Michael Millet, Christophe Magnet, David Frey, Julien Richer, Philippe Le Brusq
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Publication number: 20220376131Abstract: A light-emitting diode manufacturing method including the forming of three-dimensional semiconductor elements, extending along parallel axes, made of a III-V compound, each having a lower portion and a flared upper portion inscribed within a frustum of half apical angle ?. The method further comprises, for each semiconductor element, the forming of an active area covering the top of the upper portion and the forming of at least one semiconductor layer of the III-V compound covering the active area by vapor deposition at a pressure lower than 10 mPa, by using a flux of the group-III element along a direction inclined by an angle ?III and a flux of the group-V element along a direction inclined by an angle ?V with respect to the vertical axis, angles ?III and ?V being smaller than angle ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Applicants: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Aledia, Universite Grenoble AlpesInventors: Bruno-Jules Daudin, Walf Chikhaoui, Marion Gruart
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Publication number: 20220364981Abstract: The invention is a device and method for detecting an analyte in a medium. An exciting light source produces an exciting light wave, which propagates to the medium and heats the latter. The device comprises a transducer for detecting the heating of the medium. According to one embodiment, the transducer is a thermal transducer, configured to detect a variation in the temperature of the medium. According to another embodiment, the transducer is an acoustic transducer, configured to detect a photoacoustic wave propagating from the medium. Whatever the embodiment, the transducer employs a membrane, on which a waveguide is placed. The waveguide comprises a resonant optical cavity. Transduction is achieved by analyzing a variation in a resonant wavelength of the optical cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLEInventors: Thomas LAUWERS, Skandar BASROUR, Jean-Guillaume COUTARD, Alain GLIERE, Guillaume LAFFONT
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Publication number: 20220359782Abstract: A method of manufacturing an optoelectronic device including-light-emitting diodes comprising the forming of three-dimensional semiconductor elements made of a III-V compound, each comprising a lower portion and an upper portion and, for each semiconductor element, the forming of an active area covering the top of the upper portion and the forming of at least one semiconductor area of the III-V compound covering the active area. The upper portions are formed by vapor deposition at a pressure lower than 1.33 mPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2020Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicants: Aledia, Commissariat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble AlpesInventors: Bruno-Jules Daudin, Walf Chikhaoui, Marion Gruart, Philippe Gilet
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Patent number: 11465198Abstract: An injection device and method for producing at least one metallic glass part, in which a vertical piston is able to move in a vertical direction, a top end portion of the piston being suitable for being engaged in an injection chamber of a mould linked to a cavity of this mould and open at the bottom; the piston having a top end face on which an element made from metallic glass to be introduced into said chamber can be positioned, the top face of the piston having a concave shape suitable for receiving a bottom portion of the element made from metallic glass. A heating means situated under the mould comprises induction coils, such that, when the piston is in an intermediate position, the majority of the metallic element is situated in the space surrounded by the induction coils.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLEInventors: Sébastien Gravier, Georges Kapelski
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Patent number: 11464670Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cooling an organ locally, that includes an elongate stem including a far end intended to make contact with an organ to be cooled and comprising including a cooling element having a cold finger, a crystal that has a capacity to cool via excitation at a set excitation wavelength, said crystal being positioned adjacent to said cooling element, an optical guide that is able to convey a light signal at said excitation wavelength and that opens onto said crystal, and an illuminating system including at least one light source, which light source is arranged to emit said light signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2017Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Nicolas Aubert, Claude Chabrol, Stephan Chabardes, Laurent Duraffourg
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Patent number: 11469433Abstract: Thermo-electric generator which is intended to be immersed in a fluid which contains at least one chemical species, comprising two electrodes each having a first end and a second end, the first ends being connected to each other, the generator being configured to generate an electrical voltage between the two ends when a temperature difference is imposed between each first end and the corresponding second end, the temperature difference being such that one end, referred to as the “hot end”, of each electrode has a temperature which is strictly greater than the temperature of the other end. The hot end of at least one electrode comprises a micro-organism or an enzyme which is capable of causing at least one exothermic reaction involving the chemical species.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignees: UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM), CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL DE GRENOBLEInventors: Abdelkader Zebda, Philippe Cinquin, Jean-Pierre Alcaraz, Donald Martin, Aziz Bakri, Nawel Khalef
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Publication number: 20220304135Abstract: According to one aspect, the present description concerns a target (20) for the production of nuclear particles. The target comprises a shell (24) formed by a surface of revolution and mounted in rotation about an axis of rotation (21) that coincides with an axis of revolution of the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicants: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE DE GRENOBLE, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Véronique Ghetta, Julien Giraud, Daniel Santos
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Patent number: 11440932Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I): (I) as defined in the description. The present invention also relates to a method for extracting biological membrane-associated membrane proteins, comprising a step of bringing an aqueous solution of biological membrane-associated membrane proteins into contact with at least one compound of the invention. The present invention also relates to a method for stabilizing membrane proteins in solution in an aqueous solution, comprising a step (i) consisting in bringing an aqueous solution of a membrane protein in solution into contact with at least one compound of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignees: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1, UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPESInventors: Pierre Falson, Julien Dauvergne, Ahcène Boumendjel, Marine Peuchmaur, Kim Anh Nguyen, Sandrine Magnard
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Publication number: 20220275420Abstract: A biomass-based enzymatic biocathode based on glucose, monosaccharide, ketone or aldehyde includes a collector conductor support, conductive particles disposed on and bound to said collector conductor support, and an aldose reductase disposed on said conductive particles, being bound thereto by adsorption and accessible at the surface of the monosaccharide, ketone or aldehyde reagent that is to be reduced when the biocathode is operational.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicants: UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTÉ ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE - INSERM, GRENOBLE INP (INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE), CNRS - CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUEInventors: Abdelkader ZEBDA, Philippe CINQUIN, Donald MARTIN, Thomas SORANZO
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Publication number: 20220267289Abstract: A compound of formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable enantiomer, salt or solvate thereof, or a mixture thereof, the ring A, and the substituents Z, Y and R1 being as defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicants: UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, CNRS - CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITE CLAUDE BERNARD LYON 1Inventors: Ahcène BOUMENDJEL, Pierre FALSON, Alexis MORENO, Basile PERES, Emile ROUSSEL
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Publication number: 20220263109Abstract: Disclosed is a cell comprising an anode, a cathode and a membrane located between the anode and the cathode, wherein the membrane comprises an aqueous medium and a film comprising amyloid fibers. The invention further relates to said film, stacks of said cells, an electrolyte membrane, and the use of these various devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE, UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES, COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Alan LE GOFF, Yannig NEDELLEC, Patrice RANNOU, Vincent FORGE, Michael HOLZINGER
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Patent number: 11418019Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for detecting an electric arc in an electrical system (100), comprising the following steps: a) acquiring a signal (104) coming from at least one sensor (102) detecting acoustic waves in the system (100); b) calculating, using an electronic processing device (106), a first value representative of the error between the signal and a first projection of the signal in a first representation space defined by a first dictionary matrix; b) calculating, using the electronic processing device (106), a second value representative of the error between the signal and a second projection of the signal in a second representation space defined by a second dictionary matrix; and d) determining, from the first and second values, whether an electric arc has been produced in the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignees: Commissariat À L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Universite Grenoble Alpes, Institut Polytechnique De Grenoble, Centre National De La Recherche ScientifiqueInventors: Ibrahima Djigo, Vincent Heiries, Olivier Michel