Patents by Inventor Benoit Racine
Benoit Racine has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20260140057Abstract: Device (1) for illuminating an object (3), the device being configured to be lit by a light source (2), and comprising: a photodetector (10), comprising detection pixels (10i); a modulator (20), formed from a matrix of modulation pixels (20i), interposed between the light source and the pixellated photodetector, each modulation pixel comprising a material an optical property of which varies depending on an electrical command; a control unit (30), configured to activate each modulation pixel depending on a light intensity detected by the detection pixels; the device being characterized in that: the surface of the photodetector transmits part of the light, so that the light transmitted by the pixellated photodetector illuminates the object; so that the device is configured to be placed between the light source and the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2025Publication date: May 21, 2026Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Xavier MERMET, Jérôme VAILLANT, Benoit RACINE
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Publication number: 20260108187Abstract: A diffuse reflectance spectroscopic measurement system for a medium to be analysed, including a substrate; an electroluminescent device, arranged on a first zone of a surface of the substrate, and configured to emit light radiation, the electroluminescent device having an output surface, through which the light radiation is transmitted towards the medium to be analysed; a first photodetector, arranged on a portion of the output surface of the electroluminescent device so as to receive a portion of the light radiation and so that the output surface retains a free zone; a second photodetector, arranged on a second zone of the surface of the substrate so as to receive the light radiation transmitted by the free zone and diffusely reflected by the medium to be analysed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2025Publication date: April 23, 2026Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit RACINE, Aurélien SUHM, Christelle LAUGIER, Angélique RASCLE, Luc ANDRE
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Publication number: 20260090181Abstract: A photodetector device including: an optical guide element; an electronic component for converting light into an electrical signal, configured to detect light on the side of a first surface of the electronic component arranged in front of the optical guide element and on the side of a second surface of the electronic component opposite to the first surface; a reflective layer arranged on the side of the second surface of the electronic component; an optical component arranged between the reflective layer and the optical guide element and at least partially transparent to the light to be detected by the electronic component; and wherein the reflective layer forms a reflective surface conformal to a non-planar surface of the optical component having the reflective layer arranged thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2025Publication date: March 26, 2026Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Benoit Racine, Guillaume Blanquer, Anne Planat-Chretien, Christelle Laugier
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Patent number: 12490640Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first electrode reflecting in a spectral range, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer extending between the first and second electrodes and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in the spectral range, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the light-emitting layer being circularly polarized in a first polarization direction, the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the first electrode being circularly polarized in a second polarization direction, opposite to the first polarization direction. The second electrode is structured so as to define opaque patterns in the spectral range, arranged to block transmission of the circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation in the first polarization direction, and a spacing zone spacing apart the opaque patterns from one another and transparent in the spectral range so as to allow transmission of the circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation in the second polarization direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: December 2, 2025Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit Racine, Gilles Le Blevennec, Etienne Quesnel
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Patent number: 12461017Abstract: An imaging element for analysis of a sample includes an electrode adapted to receive the sample, a light-emitting element, disposed opposite the electrode, and separated from the electrode by an insulating protective layer, a voltage-controlled current source configured to supply current to the light-emitting element and comprising a control electrode electrically connected to the electrode, so that said light-emitting element generates a light wave in response to a voltage coming from the sample.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2024Date of Patent: November 4, 2025Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit Racine, Olivier Haon, Christelle Laugier
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Patent number: 12449688Abstract: A device for imaging electrical activity of a sample, includes a polymer film in which liquid crystal droplets are dispersed, referred to as the PDLC film, a transparent fluidic component in which at least one cavity adapted to contain the sample is arranged, a transparent reference electrode, the PDLC film being arranged between the at least one cavity and the reference electrode and configured to convert an electric field created in a region of the PDLC film in response to an electric potential generated by the sample into a variation in transparency of the region of the PDLC film.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2024Date of Patent: October 21, 2025Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Olivier Haon, Benoit Racine
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Patent number: 12405217Abstract: Device (1) for characterizing a substance (2) capable of emitting a photoluminescence radiation (Rp) in a first spectral range, the device (1) comprising: an electroluminescent component (3), at least semi-transparent in the first spectral range, and comprising first and second opposite surfaces (30, 31), the electroluminescent component (3) being suitable for emitting an excitation radiation (Re1) outgoing from the first surface (30), emitted in a first spectral range according to a circular polarization state; the excitation radiation (Re1) outgoing from the first surface (30) being able to pass through the electroluminescent component (3), after being reflected, and exit from the second surface (31); a polarization filter (4), arranged to filter the excitation radiation (Re2) outgoing from the second surface (31), and suitable for modifying the circular polarization state so as to obtain an extinguishing of the excitation radiation (Re2) outgoing from the second surface (31) of the electroluminescent coType: GrantFiled: December 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 2, 2025Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit Racine, Pierre Blandin, Etienne Quesnel
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Publication number: 20250013094Abstract: A device for imaging electrical activity of a sample, includes a polymer film in which liquid crystal droplets are dispersed, referred to as the PDLC film, a transparent fluidic component in which at least one cavity adapted to contain the sample is arranged, a transparent reference electrode, the PDLC film being arranged between the at least one cavity and the reference electrode and configured to convert an electric field created in a region of the PDLC film in response to an electric potential generated by the sample into a variation in transparency of the region of the PDLC film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Olivier HAON, Benoit RACINE
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IMAGING ELEMENT, IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING SYSTEM, ASSOCIATED ANALYSIS METHOD AND MANUFACTURING METHOD
Publication number: 20240426742Abstract: An imaging element for analysis of a sample includes an electrode adapted to receive the sample, a light-emitting element, disposed opposite the electrode, and separated from the electrode by an insulating protective layer, a voltage-controlled current source configured to supply current to the light-emitting element and comprising a control electrode electrically connected to the electrode, so that said light-emitting element generates a light wave in response to a voltage coming from the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Benoit RACINE, Christelle LAUGIER, Olivier HAON -
Publication number: 20240306424Abstract: A light-emitting device includes a first electrode reflecting in a spectral range, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer extending between the first and second electrodes and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation in the spectral range, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the light-emitting layer being circularly polarized in a first polarization direction, the electromagnetic radiation reflected by the first electrode being circularly polarized in a second polarization direction, opposite to the first polarization direction. The second electrode is structured so as to define opaque patterns in the spectral range, arranged to block transmission of the circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation in the first polarization direction, and a spacing zone spacing apart the opaque patterns from one another and transparent in the spectral range so as to allow transmission of the circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation in the second polarization direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit RACINE, Gilles LE BLEVENNEC, Etienne QUESNEL
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Publication number: 20240069006Abstract: An interconnection structure includes a substrate formed by a first electrically insulating and optically transparent material, the substrate including a first face and an opposite second face, the first face defining a plane of the substrate, and a plurality of transparent electrodes, wherein the transparent electrodes pass through the substrate from the first face to the second face of the substrate in parallel to each other, and are electrically insulated from each other by the first electrically insulating and optically transparent material.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Benoit RACINE, Olivier HAON
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Patent number: 11506608Abstract: A device for exciting objects with an excitation radiation and for detecting a photoluminescence radiation emitted by the objects after the absorption of the excitation radiation. The device includes a wall in contact with the objects, an organic light-emitting diode for emitting the excitation radiation and transparent to the photoluminescence radiation, an optical resonator tuned to the wavelength of the photoluminescence radiation and located on the side of the organic light-emitting diode opposite to the wall, and at least one sensor of the photoluminescence radiation arranged on the side of the optical resonator opposite to the organic light-emitting diode.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Benoit Racine, Pierre Blandin, Etienne Quesnel
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Publication number: 20220187206Abstract: Device (1) for characterizing a substance (2) capable of emitting a photoluminescence radiation (Rp) in a first spectral range, the device (1) comprising: an electroluminescent component (3), at least semi-transparent in the first spectral range, and comprising first and second opposite surfaces (30, 31), the electroluminescent component (3) being suitable for emitting an excitation radiation (Re1) outgoing from the first surface (30), emitted in a first spectral range according to a circular polarization state; the excitation radiation (Re1) outgoing from the first surface (30) being able to pass through the electroluminescent component (3), after being reflected, and exit from the second surface (31); a polarization filter (4), arranged to filter the excitation radiation (Re2) outgoing from the second surface (31), and suitable for modifying the circular polarization state so as to obtain an extinguishing of the excitation radiation (Re2) outgoing from the second surface (31) of the electroluminescent coType: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVESInventors: Benoit RACINE, Pierre BLANDIN, Etienne QUESNEL
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Patent number: 11362296Abstract: A device includes first and second electrodes that are at least partially transparent in a spectral domain; an electroluminescent layer that lies between the first and second electrodes suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in the spectral domain, the electromagnetic radiation being circularly polarized in a first polarization direction; a structured substrate, the first electrode lying between the structured substrate and the electroluminescent layer, the structured substrate including features that are reflective in the spectral domain, and that possess a hollow geometric shape configured so that electromagnetic radiation that passes through the first electrode is reflected from the reflective features while preserving the first polarization direction, a filler material that is transparent in the spectral domain and that is arranged to fill the reflective features so that the structured substrate has a planar surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Etienne Quesnel, Marianne Consonni, Sylvia Meunier, Benoit Racine
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Publication number: 20210131969Abstract: A device for exciting objects with an excitation radiation and for detecting a photoluminescence radiation emitted by the objects after the absorption of the excitation radiation. The device includes a wall in contact with the objects, an organic light-emitting diode for emitting the excitation radiation and transparent to the photoluminescence radiation, an optical resonator tuned to the wavelength of the photoluminescence radiation and located on the side of the organic light-emitting diode opposite to the wall, and at least one sensor of the photoluminescence radiation arranged on the side of the optical resonator opposite to the organic light-emitting diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Applicant: Commissarat à I'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Benoit Racine, Pierre Blandin, Etienne Quesnel
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Publication number: 20210050544Abstract: A device includes first and second electrodes that are at least partially transparent in a spectral domain; an electroluminescent layer that lies between the first and second electrodes suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation in the spectral domain, the electromagnetic radiation being circularly polarized in a first polarization direction; a structured substrate, the first electrode lying between the structured substrate and the electroluminescent layer, the structured substrate including features that are reflective in the spectral domain, and that possess a hollow geometric shape configured so that electromagnetic radiation that passes through the first electrode is reflected from the reflective features while preserving the first polarization direction, a filler material that is transparent in the spectral domain and that is arranged to fill the reflective features so that the structured substrate has a planar surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies AlternativesInventors: Etienne QUESNEL, Marianne CONSONNI, Sylvia MEUNIER, Benoit RACINE
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Patent number: 10804326Abstract: A monolithic display device including a plurality of first pixels capable of emitting light in a first wavelength range, and a plurality of second pixels capable of emitting light in a second wavelength range, the first pixels each including a gallium nitride light-emitting diode, and the second pixels each including an organic light-emitting diode.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Tony Maindron, Benoit Racine, François Templier
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Publication number: 20200013983Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode includes a first electrode, a stack of semiconductor organic layers comprising at least one electroluminescent organic layer, the stack being deposited above the first electrode, and a second electrode deposited on a surface of the stack, the surface being opposite the first electrode, wherein the first electrode comprises at least one region, making electrical contact with the stack of semiconductor organic layers, having a geometry suitable for allowing the excitation of a localized plasmon mode at the emission wavelength of the electroluminescent organic layer. Display device comprising a plurality of such diodes sharing a stack of semiconductor organic layers. Process for manufacturing such a diode and such a display device is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Salim BOUTAMI, Stéphane GETIN, Tony MAINDRON, Benoit RACINE
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Publication number: 20190280048Abstract: A monolithic display device including a plurality of first pixels capable of emitting light in a first wavelength range, and a plurality of second pixels capable of emitting light in a second wavelength range, the first pixels each including a gallium nitride light-emitting diode, and the second pixels each including an organic light-emitting diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesInventors: Tony Maindron, Benoit Racine, Francois Templier
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Patent number: 10367049Abstract: In this element, one of the current flow electrodes of the transistor and the lower electrode of the diode form a common layer. According to the invention, the transistor includes what is called a “contact” zone made of semiconductor material which is placed between at least one of its current flow electrodes and its active zone made of semiconductor material and which is doped with one or more dopants, which are electron donors or electron acceptors.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGSInventor: Benoit Racine