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Zero-dimensional transistor harvests bubble energy wasted during water electrolysis

A zero-dimensional transistor is placed in contact with a water droplet containing NaCl ions. A current between the anode and cathode generates hydrogen and chlorine bubbles, which the transistor can detect and transform into electric pulses. N. Clément et al © American Chemical Society When hydrogen is produced from water during electrolysis, some energy is [...]

Ferry Kienberger seminar

Scanning microwave microscopy: dopant profiling, spectroscopy, and modeling' Ferry KIENBERGER Agilent Research Lab (Linz, Austria) 24/10/2013 at 14:00 - IEMN Amphitheatre Scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) is a recent development in nanoscale imaging technique that combines the lateral resolution of atomic force microscopy (AFM) with the high measurement precision of microwave analysis at GHz frequencies. [...]

Ferry Kienberger seminar

Scanning microwave microscopy: dopant profiling, spectroscopy, and modeling' Ferry KIENBERGER Agilent Research Lab (Linz, Austria) 24/10/2013 at 14:00 - IEMN Amphitheatre Scanning microwave microscopy (SMM) is a recent development in nanoscale imaging technique that combines the lateral resolution of atomic force microscopy (AFM) with the high measurement precision of microwave analysis at GHz frequencies. [...]

Journée d’information Horizon 2020

  An information day on the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) calls under the European Union's H2020 programme is being organised by Nord France Innovation Développement for players in the ICT sector in Nord, Pas-de-Calais. Date: 3 October 2013 at the IEMN Central Laboratory All the information on the "J'innove [...]" website.

Postdoc – Electromagnetic characterization of interconnections used with flexible substrates

Object: 12 months Position of post-doc for electromagnetic characterization of interconnections used with flexible substrates. Job description: The successful candidate will participate to studies for electromagnetic characterization of substrates dedicated to flexible electronics and to interconnects high frequency characterization. The work will focus on the development and implementation of protocols for extraction of electromagnetic parameters [...].

Des puces tout en souplesse

Article published in issue 13 of the magazine J'innove en Nord-Pas de Calais With Equipex accreditation, the LEAF project brings together the IEMN in Villeneuve d'Ascq and the LAAS in Toulouse to make electronic chips both flexible and high-performance, with a vast potential range of applications. To ensure that tomorrow's mobile phone [...]

The gold mine of the pencil

Article published in issue 13 of the magazine J'innove en Nord-Pas de Calais With a budget of €1 billion over ten years, the European Graphene project has the potential to revolutionise innovation in a wide range of fields, by exploiting the potential of the nanomaterial whose name it bears. 1 billion over ten years: the figure is [...]

The 2013 Bloch Prize recipient is Professor Bahram Djafari-Rouhani

2nd International Conference on Phononic Crystals/Metamaterials, Phonon Transport & Optomechanics June 2-7, 2013 - Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt The Bloch Prize honours the eminent Swiss physicist wtho among many contributions to wave mechanics and theoretical physics formulated the underlying theory for electron wave propagation in periodic media. His theory, known as Bloch theory, laid the [...]

Une ERC Starting Grant décrochée par un chercheur de l’IEMN !

The project, named UPTEG "Unconventional Principles of ThermoElectric Generation", proposes to test two radical ideas capable of transforming silicon into a thermoelectric material! The conversion of thermal energy into electrical current by the Seebeck effect is not a very efficient process, especially when the available temperature gradient is moderate. What's more, the materials [...]

An IEMN researcher is awarded an ERC Starting Grant !

The project, named UPTEG "Unconventional Principles of ThermoElectric Generation", proposes to test two unorthodox ideas to turn silicon into a thermoelectric material! Indeed, thermal to electric energy conversion via Seebeck effect remains an inefficient process especially for low temperature gradients. In addition, conventional thermoelectric materials are polluting, rare and hardly compatible with microelectronics mainstream technologies... [...]