Bilan des projets ANR labellisés en 2021

The National Research Agency's 2021 Call for Projects campaign has just ended with the announcement of the projects funded.
This is an opportunity for the laboratory to make a quantitative assessment and provide a partial overview of its scientific activity.
The IEMN is involved in 18 generic ANR projects (6 of which it leads), excluding international projects.
This year's projects cover the following areas and subjects:

Sensors and circuits

  • Design of bio-inspired acoustic sensors (cochlea) for in-situ monitoring of the marine environment
  • Development of miniaturised multi-parameter surface acoustic wave sensor technologies for implementing the digital twin of electrical machines.
  • Reconfigurable antenna arrays based on metasurfaces for the future generation of Extremely High Frequency systems.
  • Design of a neuromorphic circuit capable of waking up a node in an Internet of Things network.

Advanced materials for electronics

  • Planar core-shell nanowires with strong spin-orbit coupling for integrated mesoscopic components.
  • Dynamic phase transition observed in Mott insulators for the development of neuromorphic components.
  • Modular molecular wires with quantum interference for thermoelectric applications.
  • Plasmonic molecular reactors to convert light into electricity.
  • Electrochemically controlled charge and spin transport in 2D materials.

Biomaterials and their applications

  • Biological depolymerisation of lignin and applications in sensors.
  • Dynamics of DNA repair proteins in the nucleosome.
  •  New methodology based on molecular programmes for very high throughput screening and self-selection of biomass degradation enzymes

(Opto-)electronic components

  • Miniaturisable tunnel diodes based on 2D materials.
  • Broadband infrared semiconductor modulators.

Wave engineering

  • Original technique for monitoring microstructures based on the correlation of diffuse acoustic waves.
  • Development of new generations of spin-based THz emitters for ultra-broadband THz nanospectroscopy.
  • Polymer membrane for thermal comfort management in textiles.

Micro-fluidics

  • Study of the impact of submillimetre liquid micro-jets striking a surface.