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Newsletter IEMN #4 / July 2021 View online

   
The electronics industry at the heart of energy and digital transitions.

In a context of health crisis and increased international competitiveness, the electronics industry is mobilized across the entire chain of skills, from the manufacture of components, test and measurement equipment and electronic production to companies developing embedded systems and software.
The entire sector is powered upstream by a dense network of laboratories such as the IEMN, schools and universities in fields of expertise including the growth of materials for nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, the manufacture of components and their integration into complex circuits and systems. The electronics industry has been federated around a strategic committee that has set six priorities in order to enhance the excellence and development of its industries:

  • Mastering key technologies
  • Accelerate the electronics industry of the future
  • Disseminate electronics as part of the digital transformation of companies
  • Adapting skills and jobs to the needs of the industry
  • Acting on a European scale and projecting internationally
  • Develop Artificial Intelligence, a structuring project for the industry

Recently, in March 2021, it set itself three new major ambitions :

  • Contributing to the ecological transition
  • Acting for national sovereignty
  • Strengthen cooperation between the electronics industry and downstream sectors

The electronics industry is at the heart of the French industrial dynamic, and represents an important vector for industrial competitiveness. It is one of the keystones of national strategic and economic sovereignty, ensuring our technological independence.
In the Hauts-de-France region, the issues discussed in a steering committee lead to the identification of the following application sectors : The Internet of Things - Embedded Intelligence - The Factory of the Future - Health - Transport and Mobility - Cyber Security.
Within this committee, current issues have led regional players to mobilize on
:

  • Study of the electronics sector in Hauts-de-France (value chain and attractivity) - support for universities, engineering schools and laboratories. Nearly 350 companies and 10,000 jobs have been identified in the region.
  • the response to the Call for Expressions of Interest launched by the French General Administration for Companies (program to strengthen France and the European Union)
  • the "European Digital Innovation Hub" - GreenpowerIT proposal on the digital and ecological transition of administrations and companies
  • the Cybercampus Lille Hauts-de-France project (digital security issues)
  • the Lyderic group (center of excellence in "extreme high frequency" communications security)
  • Embedded Artificial Intelligence, electromobility, power electronics, etc.

In this stimulating context, academic laboratories such as the IEMN play a key role because they are at the heart of technological innovation and provide training through research for future engineers and doctors.


RESEARCHER'S PORTRAIT
Profile of two young rising stars in the laboratory
Profile of two young rising stars in the laboratory
The C'Nano prize was awarded in 2020 for their thesis work to Maxime Hallot in the field of micro-storage and to Nathali Franchina Vergel on artificial graphene.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to Christophe LETHIEN
Congratulations to Christophe LETHIEN
Congratulations to Christophe LETHIEN for his nomination as a Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France - IUF for innovation
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KEY FACTS
Carbon quantum dots as a dual platform for the inhibition and light-based destruction of collagen fibers: implications for the treatment of eye floaters
Carbon quantum dots as a dual platform for the inhibition and light-based destruction of collagen fibers: implications for the treatment of eye floaters
Common in myopia and aging, vitreous opacities arise from clumped collagen fibers within the vitreous body that cast shadows on the retina. One therapeutic approach could be the use of versatile light-responsive nanostructures which interfere with the formation of collagen fibers and/or destroy aggregates of vitreous collagen upon pulsedlaser irradiation at low fluences.
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Thermal conductivity of benzothieno-benzothiophene derivatives at the nanoscale
Thermal conductivity of benzothieno-benzothiophene derivatives at the nanoscale
Quantitative measurement and observation of thermal phenomena on nano-objects at the nanoscale is possible thanks to the Scanning Thermal Microscope. With this local probe microscope, we differentiate the thermal conductivity of nanometer thick films made of two types of molecules of the same family. This experimental and theoretical study allows to correlate the thermal conductivity with the atomic structure of the molecules and their organization in a thin film.
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Atypical electron confinement in semiconductor nano-platelets
Atypical electron confinement in semiconductor nano-platelets
The reduction in size of semiconductor materials to the nanometer scale allows to restrict the degree of freedom of electron motion (or dimensionality) along 1, 2 or 3 directions in space. To date, due to growth constraints, the study of electron behavior has been limited to materials with strict dimensionalities (1D, 2D or 3D). An original study shows that materials obtained by colloidal chemistry processes can have a hybrid dimensionality, intermediate between 2D and 1D.
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How to power all your connected objects with a smartphone in your pocket
How to power all your connected objects with a smartphone in your pocket
Nowadays, individuals carry a smartphone with them everywhere. Other objects may need to be carried with them such as physiological sensors, cameras, access cards, ... Our research exploits the potential energy stored in the battery of a smartphone located in a pocket by establishing a textile bridge between it and these other small objects.
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Passive Resonant Sensors: Trends and Future Prospects
Passive Resonant Sensors: Trends and Future Prospects
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the IEEE Sensors journal (2021), and following the success of the annual 2020 "Internet of Things make sense" workshop of the IEEE Sensors chapter organized by IEMN at Centrale Lille, the French Sensors Community has written an invited review article in a special issue on the subject of sensors.
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A REVIEW OF VERY SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
SiGe HBTs and BiCMOS Technology for Present and Future Millimeter-Wave Systems
SiGe HBTs and BiCMOS Technology for Present and Future Millimeter-Wave Systems
In the framework of the TARANTO project, IEMN has contributed to the demonstration of the performance of STMicroelectronics' 55nm BiCMOS technology reaching cut-off frequencies of 480GHz and 600 GHz respectively, as well as to the design and characterization of circuits in the 30-300 GHz band
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Development of a platform for modeling and characterization for nanomaterials
Development of a platform for modeling and characterization for nanomaterials
Researchers have developed a microwave modeling and characterization platform for nanomaterials. A very positive outcome of the MMAMA project funded by the European Union.
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