Smart skinsSmart sensors

Info processing systemsMicro mechatronics

From an information-based society to an ACTION-oriented society

Compact thermo-optic filter based on lithium niobate photonic crystal

Distributed acoustic impedance control for active noise control

Simulation of modular and self-reconfigurable surface for fast conveying of fragile items

With the last century's revolution of electronics, more and more automatic systems are found in everyday life (for home automation, telecoms, energy saving, health or industrial plants monitoring etc.). These systems are generally made up of a limited number of interconnected building blocks attached to a physical structure and providing a "smart function".

By directly engineering matter, it is possible to integrate and distribute smart functions inside physical structures, giving rise to more sophisticated and cost-effective features, anticipating growing needs for security, reliability, functionality and environmental compliance.

For this purpose the Laboratory of Excellence ACTION has built a unique consortium, in which System Engineering is complemented by strong expertise in Physics, Photonics, Acoustics, Micro & Nanotechnologies, Mechanics & Materials and computing sciences, that will provide the fundamental and technological multidisciplinary basis for successful integration of smart systems inside materials.

Micro mechatronics

Smart skins

Informationprocessing

systems

Integrated smart sensors

Multifunctional transducers to detect molecules at low concentration

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About the Labex ACTION

High quality research

To promote the emergence of ambitious and visible scientific

projects at an international scale

High educationproject

To guarantee the excellence of the program in close collaboration

with universities,doctoral and engineering schools

Valorization

To broadcast the scientific and technological results and

knowledge towards the socio-economic world

The Laboratory of Excellence (Labex) ACTION was launched by the French government in April 2012 after being selected by an international jury as part of the “Investments for the Future” programme (PIA). It has received from the French National Research Agency a €8 million grant for 8 years (ANR-11-LABX-0001-01).

The ”Laboratory of Excellence” programme aims to:• improve the international visibility of French research,• guarantee the excellence of the university training by, among other actions, a strong

implication in postgraduate programmes,• integrate and reinforce the local and international strategies of their host institutions.

Context

Vocation and mission of ACTION

A 8-year programme of excellence (2012-2019) dedicated to the developpement ofsmart matter and highly integrated smart structures

ACTION is willing to become a pole of excellence dedicated to the integration of smart capabilities (perception, processing, decision, predictive or adaptive action) within structures (cars, medical microdevices, manufacturing equipments, communication networks, etc.) in order to provide them with more sophisticated and cost-effective features.

19THESIS5,6M

Budget devoted to calls for projects since 2012

260 PEER-REVIEW PAPERS of which 14% have an impact factor >5

30POST-DOCS

29 INTERNSHIPSMaster's students

5DEMONSTRATORS

25MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS

4 main scientific topics10 working groups

5CHAIRS OF EXCELLENCE

2 technical days per year

4 summer schools

Dozens of academic and industrial collaborations

FEMTO-ST (Besançon)UMR CNRS/UFC/UTBM/ENSMM

Besançon

LICB (Dijon)UMR CNRS/UB

LNIO (Troyes)UMR CNRS/UTT

ANRInvestments for the future

Local authoritiesRegional councils of

Franche-Comté-Burgundy,Local communities (PMA, CAGB)

Fondation de coopération scientifique FCS BFC

Technological facilities (RENATECH clean room, Arcen, Nano’Mat, Picasso...)

Doctoral schools

SATT Grand EstTechnology transfert

Universities: UBFC, ENSMM, UTBM, UTT, ISIFC

Competitiveness clustersMicrotechniques, Véhicule du futur, Vitagora, Plastipolis, Nucléaire de Bourgogne

Staff about 50 FTEs

24 nationalitiesamong PhDs,

Postdocs, internships

Collaboration withother PIA: IDEFI Figure, Equipex Robotex, Labex First-TF...

2012 2013

2014 2015

2016

Labex ACTION

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A consortium of 3 labs with scientific excellence in ”Mechanics, Energy, Processes” and ”Information and Communication Technologies”

Coordinator of the Labex ACTION: Michel de Labachelerie (CNRS research director)

ARCEN Nanocharacterization

PICASSO Photonics characterization

NANO’MATNanophotonics

MIMENTO* Clean room Quartz-Tech pilot lineSAW devices

Besançon

Troyes

DijonMontbéliard

I-SITE UBFC (2016)Labex FIRST-TFEquipex RobotexEquipex REFIMEVE+Equipex OSC IMP

Franche-Comté Electronics, Mechanics, Thermics and OpticsSiences and TechnologyUMR CNRS 6174 - UFC, ENSMM, UTBMOptics, acoustics, micro- & nanosystems, time-frequency, mechatronics, advanced control, computing, materials & structures, energy

Interdisciplinary Carnot Laboratory UMR CNRS 6303 - UBMaterials, nanosciences, photonics

Institut Charles Delaunay (LNIO) UMR CNRS 6281 - UTT Nano-micro-optics, photonics, spectroscopy, instrumentation and nano sensors

Platforms

Legend:

Other PIA projects

Lab sites

Belfort

60

750

280Staff

* belongs to the French Renatech Network of the 6 major national micro-nano-technology platforms

Expert members: • Sylvain Allano, PSA • Jean Chazelas, THALES

• Georges Akhras, CMRC • Adrian Ionescu, EPFL

Public institutions:

• UFC, UB, ENSMM, UTT UTBM, CNRS, FCS BFC

• Local public authorities• National Research Agency

President: Hugo Thienpont, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Strategic board committee

Scientific programme of the Labex ACTION

The ambition of the Labex ACTION is to develop new architectures ensuring integrated and distributed functions of:• Structural health monitoring (SHM) and Pronostic Health Management (PHM),• Self-adaptability and active control of shape/airflow/noise/vibrations,• Self-reconfigurability (for a better energy management),• Smart optical components and networks,• High complexity calculations,• Data processing and decision making.

In order to achieve its goals, ACTION has been implementing 4 topics fed by 5 scientific workpackages (WPs) and 5 demonstrators (DEMOs):• The WPs correspond to the major scientific fields of ACTION.• The DEMOs correspond to ambitious still not existing systems for translating the Labex objectives into

real systems. They can also bring during their development new ideas for new products and applications corresponding to economic and societal expectations.

ACTION addresses the needs of many sectors:Transports, health, civil engineering, telecoms, defence, energy, environment, industry...

• Improved performance and reliability,• Increased availability of systems, and reduction of maintenance costs,• Security and safety,• Optimization of the energy consumption (structure ligthening...)• Environmental impact reduction (noise, electromagnetic perturbation, pollution...).

Steering committee Invited members:• Valorization (SATT Grand Est) • Universities of Franche-Comté and Burgundy• Technology and engineering schools: ENSMM, ISIFC, UTBM, UTT• Doctoral schools: ED SPIM (UFC), Carnot-Pasteur (UB), Sciences et technol. (UTT)

Directors of founding labs:• N. Chaillet, FEMTO-ST• R. Bachelot, LNIO• A. Dereux, ICB

Added value for users?

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Smart skinsSelf-tunable and integrated systems for vibroacoustics and health monitoring

This program aims mainly at developing new distributeddevices for structural control. The concept is basedon a network of passive and/or active cells distributedon a surface that constitutes a “smart skin”, which isable to measure control the mechanical properties of thestructure.

The objective is to demonstrate the integrationof adaptive and energetically autonomous cells that can produce internal coupling mechanisms to program functionalities of interest, namely the structure’sreliability (Structural Health Monitoring of composite structures) and/or environmental perturbations control (control of acoustic radiation, vibration damping, wave trapping…).

Among others, this program will find applications in structural weight reduction for aeronautics, aerospace orautomotive, by integrating reconfigurable functionalities in non-planar composite structures, using either integrated transducers/electronics or light/flexible nonintrusive skin.

A particular focus on energy management is also studied: low power or autonomous systems are indeed required to have a chance to be deployed at large scale.

Semi-active distributed and tunable system for vibroacoustic controlThe distributed active system is reconfigurable through the tuning of a single resistance in the shunt circuit and provides 2 configurations:• A vibration barrier which confines the energy on a specific part of the

structure,• A damping configuration inducing huge reduction of the vibration levels on

the whole structure (5 to 15dB on 250Hz-4000Hz range).

Metamaterials and metasurfaces for vibroacoustics

Smart skin for acoustic control in nacelles

Real-time health monitoring of composite structures using acoustic emissions

Development of Surface acoustic wave (SAW)-based technology for the health monitoring of composite containers (transportation of granulated or pulverized goods and materials).Partners: Eurovrac Spitzer, Freq|n|Sys, SENSeOr, UHA

Conformable CMUTS for acoustic waves control

First prototype of a flexible skin with a network of CMUTs made of PMMA in the MIMENTO clean room

Our long-term objective is to create a flexible skin which could be bonded to a structure at the boundary of an acoustic domain to be controlled.

As energy converters from electrical to mechanical domain and vice versa, the CMUTs (Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducer) will play the role of loudspeakers realizing an impedance synthesis by a semi-distributed control strategy preventing the propagation of acoustic waves in a specific direction.

The concept consists in creating reflector or absorber acoustic screens by integrating several miniaturised cells.Experimental results achieved with a metamaterial-based panel have shown an attenuation exceeding 40dB !

Degrees of freedom:• Adaptability in terms of choice of solid material wood, glass,

metal, polymers…(no need to use a inherently absorbing or dense material)

• Possibility of air circulation or heat exchange • ” scalability ” in terms of frequency• Decrease space requirements

Acoustic comfort and sound insulation using acoustic metamaterialsAll-angle sonic insulator using subwavelength inclusions

Integrated structural health monitoring and residual life prediction of composites

The aim of this project is to demonstrate the feasability of integrating transducers in lightened complex structures in order to provide them with new functionalities (SHM) without compromising their robutness.Promising results were achieved with the fabrication of a glass fiber based composite prototype (an automotive spoiler) which integrates a network of 50 piezoelectric patches. Each transducer is electrically independent and can be separately actuated. The useful frequency range of these elements is compatible with the use in aeronautics and car industry.

The next challenges are the full integration of the microcontroller-based devices and electronic circuits into the structure.

Partners: MyOCCS, Freq|n|Sys, IRTES-M3M (UTBM), Espera SBARRO design school (UTBM)

Smart composite skins with integrated transducers networks

• Coupling of local and distributed strategies for acoustic control

• Use of dedicated loudspeakers provided• Prototype design & manufacturing (structure,

electronics, control) @FEMTO-ST• Fully reconfigurable control thanks to dedicated

electronicsPartners: Safran/Aircelle, EPFL

2 patents for acoustic panels

6x thinner than the

conventional onesDiagnostics & prognostics: • matrix cracking• delamination• fiber breakage

Plate host structure equipped with a distributed semi-active interface of shunted piezoelectric patches

3D printed unit cellsTowards mass production of panels

Prognostics and health managementThe NASA’s Prognostics Center of Excellence and the Labex ACTION has published together a review paper about the start-of-the-art research methods used in the prognostics and health management of turbofan engines. A focus is particularly made on data-driven methods which rely on multidimensional time-series and include advanced statistical analysis and machine learning techniques as well as the representation, quantification and propagation of uncertainty for reliable and robust in-service monitoring.

Performance Benchmarking and Analysis of Prognostic Methods for CMAPSS Datasets,Int. Journal of Prognostics and Health Management (jan. 2015).

Energy harvesting and integration< Simulation of acoustic waves generation and propagation induced by damage in composite structures

Collaboration with the NASA’s

PrognosticsCenter ofexcellence

Source: https://www.grc.nasa.gov

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Information processing systemsReconfigurable, self-tunable and miniaturised photonic solutions

This program aims at optimizing, on the physics and technology levels, every step of an informationprocessing system for groundbreaking performances and, foremost, at making it smarter while integrated.

Our approach is based on a globally unique combination of scientific and technological competencies and know-how within ACTION and relies mainly on the following inputs: photonics, optoelectronics, acoustics, phononics, plasmonics, nonlinear science, quantum science, computer science, micronanotechnologies…

The key challenge is to master (multiphysical) waves in micro-nanostructured materials with unusual (e.g. metamaterials) and nonlinear (extreme, complex) functionalities.

Some examples of applications:• EO modulators and tunable spectral filters,• Temperature, bio, electric & magnetic field

micro-nano-sensors,• Spectrometers,• NL frequency converters,• µwave and optical resonators and oscillators,• Neuromorphic computers,• Fiber information processing systems...

Phononics & opto-acoustics

Lithium niobate micro-nanotechnologies & components

FEMTO-ST has been developping an easy-to-implement technology to produce miniaturized (<2mm) and low power electro-photonic devices, based on confined optical waveguides with propagation losses lower than 1dB/cm. Partner: Kapteos

Micromodulators and compact electric field sensors for embedded systems (phones, drones, watches...)

Electro-optic modulator with an integrated Fabry-Perot cavity, inscribed in a 4µm-thick LiNbO3 membrane (SEM picture)

Modulator with photonic crystal

Nonlinear optics in structured lithium niobateThe advanced process techniques developped within the RACE3 project paves the way to innova-tive and diversified devices, such as:• Wavelength converters,• On-chip photo-induced waveguides for, e.g.

optofluidic applications,• High sensitivity sensors or tunable filters based on

photorefractive waveguides.

New production processes of electro-optic, piezoelectric, ferroelectric single-crystal thin films

The fabrication of single-crystal ferroelectric, piezoelectric, photorefractive, electro-optic, and nonlinear thin layers and components for radio-frequency, electro-acoustic and photonic integrated applications is an important technological challenge at FEMTO-ST since several years.

In this frame, home-made room-temperature bonding and wafer thinning techniques have been developed at MIMENTO in order to bond a large variety of different materials and to obtain micron-size, thickness-controlled, homogeneous thin layers while preserving the crystalline properties of the bulk materials.

Partners: Frec’n’sys, Femto Engineering

The future of EEG technology using integrated metal-free optrodes

With two industrial partners, FEMTO-ST is developing a compact electric field sensor based on a lithium niobate photonic crystal (LiNbO3 PhC), which has a mV sensitivity (1000 times higher than currently commercialized optical devices).

This innovative metal-free micro sensor could be implemented as an easy-to-use and powerful electroencephalogram (EEG) technology, compatible with MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Another application could be found in the field of the defense for the detection of wideband frequency signals.

Partners: CHRU Besançon, LMB, iXBlue, KapteosSEM view of the membrane (surface: 400µm²). Hole diameter: 200 nm

SEM view of a multiple monocrystalline layers stack with different materials

Photography of a Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (PPLN) wafer

First demonstration of the optical generation of surface acoustic waves in photonic microwires

FEMTO-ST and the Institut d’Optique (Paris) have discovered a new type of Brillouin light scattering driven by surface acoustic waves in a subwavelength optical fibre.

These hair-like slivers of silica glass, fabricated by tapering optical fibres, enable enhanced nonlinear optical effects and applications not currently possible with comparatively bulky optical fibres.

Exploring this novel effect, researchers at FEMTO-ST have observed that light can shake and distort the optical microwire through electrostriction, leading to mechanical surface undulations of a few nanometers.

As these acoustic resonances are highly sensitive to surface defects or features, surface acoustic wave Brillouin scattering opens new opportunities for various sensing applications, but also in other domains such as microwave photonics and nonlinear plasmonics.

Partners: EPFL, PhLAM Lille, CUDOS, Univ. McGill

Photonic devices

50 times thinner

than a human hair

Applications: RF information processing, acoustic sensing, and acousto-electronic microfluidics

A phonon board is based on a solid membrane perforated with a periodic array of holes. The diameter of the holes is chosen so that a complete band gap is obtained: no waves can propagate along the membrane. When a single hole is filled with water, a number of localized modes are formed. Each mode has a unique pattern of pressure in water. In the surrounding solid, the amplitude of the vibration decays exponentially, thanks to the complete band gap.

More generally, by filling several holes, one can form channels within which the propagation of waves remains confined. A totally reconfigurable phononic system can hence be formed simply by selecting the correct holes to be filled.

A reconfigurable phononic circuit

2 patents relative to

electro-optical nanocomponents

On-chip high-efficiency frequency converter

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Smart control of light polarization to secure data

With the exponential growth of generating and sharing information, securing the transmitted data has become of a paramount importance. ACTION has developed an all-optical technique that is able to temporally cloak a signal when attempted spying is taking place along a fiber transmission link.

The key ingredient relies on a device called Omnipolarizer for which the incident light self-organizes its state-of-polarization upon a nonlinear FWM interaction between the input signal and its counter-propagating replica.

The transmission line set up at ICB Lab involves a data source, an end user, as well as an Omnipolarizer on either side of an indiscreet eye, which aims to use a continuous wave probe to copy the transmitted information. As the signal comes down in the fiber link, the first Omnipolarizer forces the

light to dynamically adopt a unique state-of-polarization, orthogonally to the probe’s state, thus making the indiscreet eye completely blind to the transmitted data. During experiments, the method was able to cloak 100% of a 10-Gbit/s transmission from spying eyes.

Single-molecule nanosensors for biology and quantum information

ACTION has demonstrated theoretically and experimentally the focusing of electromagnetic radiation far beyond the diffraction limit. The nanofocusing effect is based on the generation, propagation, and confinement of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) supported by a tapered plasmonic nanostructure placed on top of a silicon photonic waveguide. The photonic mode efficiently excites the SPPs of the plasmonic structure. Because the structure gradually decreases its width, the SPPs progressively increase its sub-wavelength confinement and enhancement, up to a typically 50-nm spot diameter.

Demonstration of a two-way tunability (red and blue shifts) of the resonance of an optical nano-cavity with a single perturbation element.The proposed configuration is based on the coupling between a photonic crystal cavity and a metallo-dielectric bow-tie nanoantenna at the end of a fiber tip (FBNA), that exhibits polarization-selective electric field resonance.The result of this coupling shows a competition between an induced electric dipole (FBNA at resonance) that allows redshift, and an induced magnetic dipole (the fiber metal coating) leading to a blueshift of the resonance wavelength of the nano-cavity.

We have demonstrated that the sign of the spectral shift can be simply controlled through the FBNA-to-cavity distance.

Tunable post-production control of optical nano-cavities

Design and experimental study of plasmonic integrated transducer based on a gold nanotaper

Nonlinear dynamics in photonics and optoelectronics

Nonlinear & quantum plasmonics and optical nano-antennas

Digital electronics and standard computers have reached their limits in dealing with complex tasks, such as dynamical data classification, or processing information at ultra-high speed with energy efficiency. Optics provides promising opportunities to implement unconventional computational. To address these challenges, ACTION has been designing and implementing a photonic processing system based on the principle of Reservoir computing and which is able to provide a high speed/efficient computational power by using standard optical telecom components.

Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer One of the world’s fastest photonic processor for real-time diagnostic and pronostic of complex systems

Targeted applications:• Energy: diagnostic of Fuel Cell stacks (partner: FC Lab)• Economy: forecasting of real stock exchange time series data

(partner: the Mathematics Laboratory of Besançon),• Health: analysis of high complexity electro-encephalogram (EEG) signals

(partner: INSERM),• Nano-manufacturing: real-time control of a femtosecond laser chain in ultrafast

micro-nano complex machining

Optoelectronic implementation using a delay system

Reservoir Computing (RC) refers to a new discipline -at the interface of physics, computer science and engineering- which studies and develops calculation units based on a new kind of artificial neural networks, which is schematically inspired by biological neurons.

speech recognition speed

of 1.2 Million spoken digitper second

Breakthrough solutions for broadband fiber optic and microwave-photonic communicationsReplacing complex WDM sources by a single coherently controlled multifrequency emitter will drastically increase WDM performances.

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The first tunable and compact device for the real-time and ultrasensitive detection of gas (frequency-agile dual-comb spectroscopy)

Spectroscopic gas sensing has many applications such as trace detection or chemical kinetics and requires ever more demanding measurement times, acquisition rates, sensitivities, precisions and broad tuning ranges. In collaboration with MPQ Garching (Germany), ICB has demonstrated a new approach to near-infrared molecular spectroscopy, utilizing advanced concepts of optical telecommunications and supercontinuum photonics.

With a dual-comb spectrometer, the teams recorded Doppler-limited spectra spanning 60GHz within 13μs and an 80kHz refresh rate, at a tuning speed of 10nm s−1.

A spectrum of carbon dioxide with a mixture 12CO2-

13CO2 of 90% - 10 % in the near-infrared spectral region

(left) Visualization of the cavity mode (right) FBNA Fibered Bowtie Nano-aperture Antenna

Optical frequency combs are characterized by their exceptional spectral purity and their high coherence in the lightwave and microwave frequency ranges. They are therefore ideal candidates for coherent optical telecom systems, or for the generation of ultra-stable microwaves.

ACTION aims at creating a fully integrated chip, based on a nonlinear high Q (>106) whispering gallery mode resonator, which would considerably increase the information processing (>320Gbits/s) of a metropolitan optical fiber network using the WDM technology.

This project is linked to the ERC starting grant Nextphase and the Proof of concept Versyt.

Chip-scale component:• Low-cost and scalable • Low power consumption

(~ mW)• Potentially Tb/s bandwidth• Ideal for components used

in Fiber To The Home

Potential applications of these combs:• WDM telecoms (generating Tb/s

coherent carriers compatible with modern modulation formats, e.g. for FTTH),

• Microwave photonics and derived applications,

• Spectroscopy (mid-IR n-comb are highly needed for atmospheric species sensing),

• Health (n-comb Fourier transfom spectroscopy for e.g. bacteria screening),

• Integrated quantum information.

3x72Gb/s 16-QAM error-free repeaterless optical transmission on 80kms (320Gb/s back-to-back)

This is the world-class coherent optical transmission result based on n-combs carriers generated by optical Kerr effect in a WGMR, which was obtained by FEMTO-ST and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

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Integrated smart sensorsOptical/mechanical/plasmonic integrated sensors and networks

The global market for sensors is expected toincrease up to nearly $91.5 billion in 2016 withannual growth rate of 7.8%.

The goal of ACTION is to take advantage of recent scientific progress in nanofabrication,photonics, acoustics and decision-makingscience to foster breakthrough solutions forminiaturizing sensors, integrating them intomatter and/or making them communicatetogether.

The programme has been built around 3 scientific and technological directions: • miniaturization/integration of smart sensors with

already established concepts, • proof of new concepts for integration of sensors

into matter,• smart networking of sensors.

Ultracompact optical biosensors

In collaboration with NTU taiwan (Biomedical Eng.), the LNIO has been developping a smart and low cost integrated interferometer based on Generalized Lock-in Amplifier (GLIA) and consumer electronic device.

Perspectives by 2019: to take advantage of smartphones to develop a smart network of sensors.

Optical lab-on-a-chip for biomarkers detection Smart GaAs sensors network

Wireless sensors networks

Design of a highly sensitive network of transducers with specific bio-interfaces to detect molecules of interest such as bacteria at low concentration in biological liquid.

New structures of resonant transducers were made in piezoelectric Gallium Arsenide crystal, which presents the ability to be directly biofunctionalized and micromachined. These ultra sensitive and accurate acoustic wave sensors also offer the opportunity to deliver several signals depending on the resonance mode.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) control for autonomous wireless passive sensor measurement

This multi-disciplinary project (automation, microwave electronics, UAV control, computer science, signal processing) aims at combining the sensor measurement for UAV control in a feedback loop and the ability of the system to perfom a real time transmission of passive sensor measurement from UAV.

Partners: CM-Drones (UAV design), SENSeOR (wireless sensor reader & sensor chips), LM2S/UTT

Towards a novel generation of strain sensors integrated into matterSome nano deformations visible to the naked eye thanks to innovative integrated optical nanosensors

This challenge has been taken-up in the frame of the joint laboratory “PhASE*” between FEMTO-ST and SENSeOR company. A single-material (LiNbO3) wafer level packaging procedure using polymer adhesive bonding and a hard capping material has been developed and is now under characterization. The goal is to demonstrate an innovative packaging solution suitable for wireless SAW sensing of either temperature or stress, embedded into mechanical or composite structures.

*PhASE: Physical Acoustics, Sensors and Embedded Systems

Metal NanoParticles (MNPs) are known to support Localized Surface Plasmons (LSP) that are highly sensitive, not only to the MNPs chemical composition or size, but also to interparticle resonant coupling when the gap between MNPs is less than the nanoparticle diameter.

This open the way to new smart sensors integrated into matter: some color-changing plasmonic strain sensors based on the spectral variation of plasmonic coupling versus interparticle distances when stretching a composite film that incorporates MNPs.

A fruitful collaboration between the LNIO and Laval University (Québec) has beenstarted to self-organize dense Au NPs rings onto elastomeric film in order to increase sensitivity.

The first prototype, made in collaboration with Univ. Geneva and Univ. Calabria, consisted of 23 nm Au NPs immobilized onto a PDMS substrate with an average distance of 39 nm between neighbouring NPs.

In this way plasmonic coupling effects become visible and the resulting gold-coated flexible tape can be utilized as a color-changing strain sensor.

As nanoparticules act as nanosensors able to predict deformations (SHM), some potential applications could be found in packaging, nanoimprint or industrial paint.

1 patentrelative to

plasmomechanics

Perfectly reversible!

1 patentrelative to

CoBISS spectrometer for

2D sampling

Integrated SPR Biosensor system for smart wireless sensor networks

The project aims at developing an integrated solution of nano-bio-sensor network for environmental applications (continuous monitoring of air or water systems).

Work in progress include:• improvement of the optical sensor

sensitivity for the detection of selected analytes,

• optimization and integration of an ultra compact spectrometer called CoBiss (patent n° WO2009127794),

• implementation of an efficient data processing system which would ensure the robustness of the global decision-making.

State-of-the-art:• Selectivity, sensibility, versatility,

robustness (no mechanical part),• Temperature insensitive (metallic

nanocrystals LSPR substrate),• Fast time processing,• Liquid phase, gas phase.

In the mid-term, a portable system would be developed for other applications (gas, pollution and pathogens detection).

Partner: Resolution Spectra Systems

Optimizing the packaging of SAW sensors

....with the joint labPhASE

Key issue: Optimization of

MNPs self-organization for

spectrally agile plasmo-

mechanical strain sensing

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Claytronics is an abstract future concept that combines modular robotics, systems nano technology and computer science to create individual nanometer-scale computers called Claytronics atoms, or catoms, which can interact with each other to form tangible 3D objects (sca-lable to life size or larger) that a user can interact with.

Claytronics has the potential to greatly affect many areas of daily life, such as telecommunication, human-computer interfaces, and entertainment.The main simulator for Claytronics, called VisibleSim has been developed by the Labex ACTION. It is the first online simulator for modular robots and multicore systems.

Partners: Carnegie Mellon University, PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, University of Tokyo/LIMMS

Micro mechatronicsMicromechatronics - a combination of mechatronics and microtechnologies -is part of the key skills of excellence at FEMTO-ST, which hosts one of the largest groups in EU in this field.

A unique specificity of ACTION is the combination of micromechatronics with vision and robotics on one hand and microphotonics on the other hand.

Multifunctional mechatronic systems include a combination of mechanics, electronics, controlengineering, computer engineering as well as photonics and vision.

The Labex ACTION offers skills in microsystem design (sensors, MEMS, MOEMS, microactuators, microfluidics, microrobots) and technologies (micromachining & microoptics, heterogeneous integration, multi-wafer bonding). the study of functional materials, multiscale modelling a control and computer engineering.

Through its project of microendoscope for in vivo applications, ACTION wishes to develop to demonstrate several functions of complex embedded smart systems that provide reconfigurability and adaptability.

Micro-robotics, MEMS & MOEMS components, DiMEMS

The world’s smallest microrobotic hand performing dexterous manipulation

The dexterous system is composed of 3 fingers (7-μm-diameter fibers actuated using stick-slip piezo-electric actuators) having 2 degrees of freedom each (either 6 degrees of freedom in total) to perform in-hand manipulation (translations and rotations) of micro-parts (polygonal micro-objects down to 120µm) in the micrometer scale.

These performances contribute significantly to the state-of-the art and will enable the versatile assembly of complex 3D smart systems.

Project leader: Equipex Robotex Industrial partner: Percipio Robotics

(above left) 3 cylindrical fingers are mounted on a support and trans-lated by an actuation system (right) SEM image of a 7µm diameter

carbon fiber glued on a silicon tip

Precise micro manipulation in confined environments

The use of bistable modules opens very interesting perspectives for designing integrated smart devices compared to the advent of the digital electronics. Based on modules which have two robust stable positions with “blocking force”, the micro digital robot can perform binary actions in displacement and in force.

This bottom-up approach called “digital microrobotics” takes advantage of MEMS technology and open-loop digital control to offer a flexible way to experiment various kinematics adapted to the microworld.

A 4 monolithic bistable module fabricated on SOI wafer in the MIMENTO clean room

Advantages of the digital robotics:• Open loop control (no sensor)• No noises sensibility• Low energy consumption• Adapted to confined environment (SEM, TEM)• Robust and easy to fabricate (monolithic microfabrication)

Claytronics: programmable matter with mm-scale computers

Catoms are electrostatically actuated and self contained. With the permission of Emre Karagozler

Workspace (size: 25 x 15 mm2):• 169 positions• 2 multistable modules • (13 positions each)• Resolution: 4,2µm

Smart OCT active endoscope for the mini invasive and early detection of cancer

Mirau micro-interferometerA miniature imaging systems based on a MOEMS integrated probe

Embedded actuation on deformable tubesDesign of an Electro Active Polymer actuated concentric tube robot for dextereous intracorporeal micromanipulation

EAP electrodes

End-effector (laser)Outer tube

Inner tube

OCT-based visual servoingUsing the OCT signal to guide the robotic armPerspectives: to develop a 6-degrees of freedom control on volumetric OCT images

Micro robotics and control technologies

2-axis MEMS micro-scannerA dual-reflective electrothermal micromirror with torsion beam allows to acquire real-time OCT 3D images

OCT allows non-contact and non-invasive in vivo diagnosis with high resolution and reasonable penetration depth

Concept of optical biopsy and illustration of a cancer of gastrointestinal track (source: National institute of cancer)

World record achieved by the device in terms of angles of scan (40°) fabricated in collab. with the Univ. of Florida (Prof. Huikai Xie, lab ”Biophotonics & Microsystems”).

starting point

endingpoint

With Claytronics, things come to life as real 3D interactive objects participating at the Internet of Things (IoT)

Partners: CHU Besançon, Equipec Robotex, CHU, Centre d’Investigation Clinique de Besançon (INSERM CIC 1431), UTINAM (UMR UFC CNRS), Univ Florida, Univ Joseph Fourier...

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18 19Labex ACTION

The IYL 2015 is a global initiative adopted by the United Nations to raise awareness of how optical technologies promote sustainable development and provide solutions to worldwide challenges in energy, education, agriculture, communications and health.

In the Burgundy Franche-Comté region (France), more than one thousands of people celebrated the IYL with LUX! and LED.

What’s behind?Labex ACTION as sponsor of the International Year of Light

T. Chikhaoui (PhD within ACTION) during the Lux! event (Besançon, 2015)

2 technical days per year

Micro Nano Photonics (2015, see the above picture) with Thales R&T, Oclaro, Heptagon, Lionix, CNES, ICFO, ORC Southampton, INL, Blumorpho..

Structural dynamics & Laser vibrometer (2015)(PSA, Airbus, EDF, Vibratec, IRT JV)

Piezoelectric energy harvesters (2014)From advanced lead-free materials to smart devices and self-powered systems

InfoGap: Model-based design, validation and monitoring of structures under severe uncertainty (2014)

Integrated health monitoring (2013)Damage assessment of composite materials by acoustic emission

Reservoir computing workshop and conference (2013)

2014 2016

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AIM2014

IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics330 att., 36 nations

Let’s share our knowledge!

Conference on PhononicsForum on MicroscopyInternational seminar ”Nonlinear phenomena in optics”

Experimental reservoir computingFrom concepts to first demonstrations,towards market applications

An international challenge on the Prediction of the remaining useful life of a Fuel Cell Participation to the workshop

SMYLE (collegium EPFL switzerland/FEMTO-ST)

Scientific events

Lots of opportunities to meet the Labex’s teams wherever you come from industry, university or as individual

1st technical day

kick off meeting

Prof. M. Gauthier at the EPoSS annual Forum (Belgium, 2015)

Since 2012, ACTION is member of EPoSS (European Platform of Smart Systems) which is an industry-driven policy initiative, defining R&D and innovation needs as well as policy requirements related to Smart Systems Integration and integrated Micro- and Nanosystems.

”From Diagnostics to Fault Tolerant Control of Fuel Cell Systems”(Chair N. Steiner)

Summer school

PHM Data challenge

First meeting for the communauty involved in the Labex ACTION programme

International Conference on Energy, Materials and Photonics (Troyes, LNIO)Wth the participation of the UNESCO Chair in Renewable Energies MATECSS

EMP16

Workshop Smyle

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Top 10 of our peer-review papers (2015)

Some awards2015-2016

Pauline Butaud (FEMTO-ST) was awarded in 2015 a Bourse l’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les femmes et la Science (20 awardees among 821 applicants) for her works on “Shape memory polymers are invited in vehicles“.

Best poster award for Charles Altuzarra (PhD co-supervised by C. Couteau, LNIO and UTN Singapore) at Nanophotonics in Japan (Dec. 2015) for his works on “Quantum Coherent Absorption of Plasmons With Entangled Photons“, Nature commun. and Light (Guanghui Yuan et al.).

Excellent Oral Presentation Award at PTIM2015 (International Caparica Conference on Polluant Toxic Ions and Molecules) for Ionescu Elena (LNIO): “Optical detection of water polluants/nanoparticles and their toxicity to living microorganisms”.

Best student poster at the European Frequency and Time Forum (EFTF) 2016 for Souleymane Diallo (PhD at FEMTO) for his works entitled “Brillouin scattering in a Lithium fluoride crystalline resonator for microwave generation“.

1 - Nature PhotonicsDual-Comb spectroscopy with frequency-agile lasersMillot et al. [LICB]

2 - Optics expressDense arrays of mm-sized glass lensesAlbero et al. [FEMTO-ST]

3 - Nano lettersOn-Chip hybrid photonic-plasmonic light concentratorBlaize et al. [LNIO]

4 - Nature CommunicationsLaser chimerasLarger et al. [FEMTO-ST]

5 - NL DynamicsCollective dynamics of periodic NL oscillatorsBitar et al [FEMTO-ST]

6 - Physical Review LettersOptimally coherent Kerr combs generated with crystalline WGM resonators, Chembo et al. [FEMTO-ST & ICB]

7 - IEEE Sensors Journal Swept Source OCT endomicroscopeStruk et al. [FEMTO-ST]

8 - ACS PhotonicsIn-line concentration sensitivity in single molecule dynamic-SERSFinot et al. [LICB]

9 - Physical Review BWave propagation intwo-dimensional viscoelastic metamaterialsLaude et al. [FEMTO-ST]

10 - Scientific reportsPlasmonic mode interference & fano resonancesNicolas, Maurer et al [LNIO]

ICRA* AutomationBest Paper Award 2015

Design, modeling and control of a modular contactless wafer

handling systemLaurent G., Dahroug B., Guelpa V.,

Le Fort-Piat, N.

IEEE International Conference onRobotics and Automation

Vincent Placet was awarded with the “Prix Daniel Valentin“ during the National days of composite materials, a national scientific conference organised by the French association of composite materials.

Innovate Europe Design Contest 2015 (London)Winner category ”FPGA design”

Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) simulation provides an effective platform to validate an embedded controller

before testing it on a real system. A real-time emulator of a DC machine and its control

have been developed for educational activities (students advisor: M. Hilairet, FEMTO-ST)

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25 Merit scholarshipsEach year, the Labex ACTION provides scholarships to highly ranked students wishing to pursue studies at Phd level after their studies in one of the masters of the universities of Burgungy-Franche-Comté and Troyes.

Applicants are selected by the Masters’ managers on the following criteria:• Excellence in academic results,• Interest in the Labex topics,• Willingness to pursue a PhD within one of the

founding labs.

The Labex ACTION offers internship opportunities to French and foreign students (from Bachelor to Master’s degrees) which take place within one of its research labs from 4 to 6 months.

A hovercraft demonstrator designed by our students!

Eleven students (4 from the second year of the ”CMI SCUBE” and 7 in the first year of the Master ”Mechanics and engineering”) took up the national challenge launched by a french TV program called ”On n’est pas que des cobayes” (may 2015, France 5) by designing and developping within 1 month an air-cushioned structure able to carry several people.

(c) L. Godard/UFC

Labex ACTION and EDUCATION

This award aims at rewarding players from the engineering sector for the quality of the design and conduct of an exceptional project - in France or abroad, whether it deals with infrastructure and industrial products (transport, energy, networks), public facilities, buildings, industrial buildings, complex systems (services and methods) or industrial processes.

The french company ASSYSTEM in collaboration with FEMTO-ST have been working on the development of a versatile and innovative engine. Inspired by the Ericsson cycle, the Energine engine can produce mechanical or electrical energy from any source whose temperature

exceeds 150°C. Thus, this kind of equipment can be integrated into an industrial process that generates heat and converts this into electricity, or recycles the heat from vehicle exhausts to reduce its consumption.

Pierre Ranc, who is a previous merit-based scholarships award student of the Labex ACTION, has contributed to this project and now holds a Cifre thesis at ASSYSTEM.

4 Masters of Engineering (CMI)An innovative educational program that fosters cross-pollination between research and engineering fields

Founded in 2011, FIGURE is a national network that gathers more than 22 French Universities which has been implementing an innovative five-year Master called ”CMI” (Cursus Master en Ingénierie) in conformity with international educational standards.

The mission of FIGURE is to advance knowledge and educate the students in a selective, highly demanding and stronger excellence engineering studies, within a major scientific research environment and along with the best training in Social Sciences and Humanities.

The international openness is also part of the major strategic priorities of the CMI (quality of partnerships, ambitious program of student mobility, scientific exchanges).

ACTION gave its strong support to the University of Franche-Comté for the launch of 4 CMIs and through the financial support of educational projects.

CMI SCUBESmart Structures & Systems

CMI PICSPhotonics, micro & nanotechnologies,time-frequency

CMI Energy H3E Energy, Hydrogen & Energy Efficiencay

CMI ComputingSoftware engineering, distributed systems

The CMIs include 4 components, 3 projects and 3 internships in the area of:- Engineering discovery,- Research lab experience,- Industrial internships.

Specialization (theory, concept, technology)

Pre-requisites (mathematics, informatics, physics...)

Socio-economic and cultural openness

Openness towards other disciplines

A new approach to acquire both technical and scientific skills from the bachelor’s to the master’s degree:

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A national French Engineering Award 2015

Contact: maxime.jacquot@univ-fcomte.fr - http://figure-network.org

A national challenge taken up!

Development of a miniaturised explosive detector based on Dynamic Raman Nanospectroscopy (internship made by Aurélien Griffart and supervised by E. Finot / ICB)

In close collaboration with universities, doctoral and engineering schools, ACTION is willing to implement a higher education project which aims to guarantee the excellence of its program.

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François Courvoisier

ERC ”PULSAR”

Pushing Ultrafast LaSer mAterial processing into a new Regime of plasma-controlled ablation

PULSAR’s unconventional concept is to control plasma generation, confinement, excitation and stability. An ambitious experimental and numerical research program will push the frontiers of laser processing to unprecedented precision, speed and predictability.

Alexandre Bouhelier Julien Fatome Yanne Chembo

ERC Advanced Grant (2015-2020)

Prix Aimé coton (2016)

ERC Starting grant(2012-2017)SWIFT project:Optical wireless communication at nanoscale assisted by surface plasmons

ERC Starting grant (2012-2017)PETAL project: Polarization condEnsation for Telecom AppLications

ERC Starting grant (2011-2016)NextPhase: NEXT generation of microwave PHotonic systems for AeroSpace Engineering ERC PoC ”VERSYT” (2013-2018)

Thibaut Sylvestre Guy Millot Christophe Gorecki

Fabry de Gramont prize from the Société Française d’Optique (2012)Nonlinear photonics

Fellow OSA member (2013) for numerous pioneering contributions in nonlinear optical physics

Elected in the Board of Directors of SPIE (2013)Annual prize of the European Society of Optics (2012)

Alain Dereux Bertrand Kibler Sarah Benchabane Michael Gauthier

CNRS Silver (2015)Nanophotonics and plasmonics

CNRS INP Bronze (2012)Optics linked to hydrodynamics

CNRS INSIS Bronze (2012)Acousto-optics andphoXonics

CNRS INSIS Bronze (2011)Micro robotics

5 chairs of excellence

In order to increase its research quality level and its attractiveness, the Labex ACTION has recruited top academic staff at international level whose mission is:• To undertake an ambitious research project with a visible impact,• To contribute to the ”Master of Engineering” curricula related to the Labex ACTION through

specialized courses, • To develop international partnerships.

Key distinctions (CNRS medalists, ERC horlders, fellow members)

PhD in Electrical Engineering 2009Project Manager @EIFER Germany

2 patents14 papers in PR Journals

PhD Grenoble INPG 2007 (best thesis)Postdoc at Oxford Univ. & LMGPSabbatical leave @Harvard Univ.

1 ANR JC grant 2013, 1 project TDK-EPCOS

43 papers in intl. journals, 8 invited presentations

Aurélien COILLETICB and UB (2015-2018)

Smart Lasers: hybrid fiber-nanophotonics lasers for metrology, coherent data transmission, and spectroscopy

PhD Nancy 1978Various positions (DT, CEO) in French

& Swiss industries up to 2012 - Consultant since 2012

50+ articles in journals & conf. proceedings

Jean-Pierre AUBRYFEMTO-ST and ENSMM(2015-2017)

High performance WGM optical resonators optimisation for low noise single/multiple wavelength devices

Ausrine BARTASYTEFEMTO-ST and UFR ST/UFC(2014-2017)

Chemical and strain engineering of single crystals and thin films of LiNbO3/LiTaO3

PhD in Optics 2011Postdoc positions @

FEMTO-ST & NIST24 articles in PR journals

3 invited talks1 book chapter

Nadia STEINER FEMTO-ST and IUT BM (2014-2017)

Diagnostic & Pronostic of fuel cell Systems: towards Fault Tolerant Control

Julien PROUSTLNIO and UTT (2015-2018)

Pesticide DNA-damages probe by optical nano-sensor

Research Engineer 2009 - 2011PhD Troyes, 2014

Postdoc @Institut Fresnel, 20152 patents

10 PR papers, 10 proceed.

He is involved in a H2020 ICT Project (Jan. 2016)

PLASMOfab is a 3-year collaborative project which aims to develop CMOS compatible plasmonics in a generic planar integration process as the means to consolidate photonic and electronic integration.

The projects brings together 10 leading academic and research institutes and companies.

CNRS INSIS Silver (2013)ERC Advanced grant (2011-2016) MULTIWAVE project: Studies of Extreme Nonlinear and Rogue Wave PhenomenaERC Proof of Concept Grant President of the European Physical Society until 2015

John Dudley

Robert E. Hopkins Leadership Award (2016, OSA)

John received this award for his tireless support over many years of international collaboration in science, in particular his remarkable leadership in creating the 2015 UNESCO International Year of Light.

Example of project: CIFRE fellowship with TDK EPCOS (2012-2015)Advanced materials and cost-effective industrial process for efficient acoustic devicesPartners: TDK EPCOS (the world market leader in RF devices), Frec’n’sys, Femto engineering

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SMART SKINS• PELTIER Fabienne (2014-2015) Laser nano-

microstructuration laser for SHM• SEMALTIANOS Nikolaos (Greece, 2014-2015) Laser

nano-microstructuration laser for SHM• KHARRAT Mohamed (Tunisia, 2013-2014) PHM of

composite structures• ORANDROU Stevens (Togo, 2014-2015) SHM using

CMUTs• GALISULTANOV Ayrat (Russia, 2015-2016) SHM using

CMUTs• FERCHICHI Abdelkerim (Tunisia, 2015-2016) Fabrication

of CMUTS• FAUX Damien (2014) Virtual prototyping tool for robust

design of structures

MICRO MECHATRONICS• MALAPERT Julien (2012-2013) Smart micro-convoyor• COT Amélie (2015-2016) Electrosynthesis and

characterization of polymer films on silicon substrates for applications in micromanipulation

• BELKHIR Walid (2015) A Multiscale Model Derivation and Simulation Tool for MEMS Arrays

• TUCCI Knychala (Brazil, 2014-2015) Simulator of micro robots,VisibleSim

• ZEGGARI Rabah (2012-2014) Plasmonic-Actoustic Device for Diagnosis

• STRUK Przemyslaw (Poland, 2014-2015) Endoscopic system for early cancer detection based on MOEMS Mirau micro interferometer and Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography method

SMART SENSORS• ARAPAN Lilia (Moldavia 2014-2015) Optimized Packaging

of SAW Stress Sensors• CAPUTO Roberto (Italy, 2015-2016) Development of

colour-changing stretchable materials.• APUZZO Aniello (Italy, 2013-2014) Integrated

nanoplasmonics for biosensing applications• RENAULT Mickael (2013-2013) Compact interferometer

transducer based on surface plasmon phase resonance• HMIMA Abdelhamid (Morocco, 2014-2015) Compact

interferometer transducer based on surface plasmon phase resonance

• MALAPERT Julien (2015-2016) Development of electric vias

• LE BERRE Matthieu (2014) Distributed estimation of physical fields by autonomous sensors

INFO PROCESSING SYSTEMS• NGUYEN Kim (Vietnam, 2014-2015) Surface Phonon-

plasmon interaction based on locally resonant metamaterials

• WANG Yan-Feng (China, 2015-2016) Longitudinal near-field coupling between resonant elements in acoustic metamaterials

• MARCHAL Rémi (2015-2016) Integrated resonators• MORIN Philippe (2013-2014) Mid-infrared dual-comb

spectroscopy in hollow core glass waveguides for human breath analysis

• DEMICHEL Olivier (2012-2013) Dynamic control of opto-electronic properties of plasmonic nano-antenna

• BAYLON Antonio (Mexico, 2015-2016) Smart nonlinear control unit based on a photonic reservoir computing experImental setup

• AMRANI Foued (2013-2014) Nonlinear propagation in optical fibers from UV to mid-IR spectral range: supercontinuum generation and optical rogue waves

• BABILLOTTE Philippe (2015-2016) Development of an ultra-short terahertz source and application to molecular processes

• SADANI Benattou (2013) Photonic crystals for EEG analysis

• PETRONE Raffaele (Italy, 2014-2015) Accelerated aging of PEM fuel cells

19 thesis (2012-2015)

Associated Doctoral schools:

• ED SPIM (ED 37)• ED CARNOT - PASTEUR (ED 553)• ED UTT (ED 361)

A CREATHES award for Joël Cabrel TCHAHAME NOUGNIHI

During the regional congress dedicated to ”PhD students & Industry” (Belfort, 2014), the French company CREATHES awarded Jöel in the category ”Industrial perspectives ” for his capacity to project his works towards a concrete industrial application.

Joël is a PhD supported by the Labex ACTION and works within the Optics department of FEMTO-ST in the field of Brillouin effects and is author of several high quality papers (Optics Letters, 2015 Frontiers in Optics 2015).

30 post-doctoral missions (2012-2016)

Financial partners:

SMART SKINS • DOAN Dinh Dong (2012-2015) PHM of composite

structures based on acoustic emissions• DO Quan Huu (2012-2015) Semi-decentralized

approximation of optimal control of distributed systems• BITAR Diala (2013-2016) Collective dynamics and soliton-

based waveguides in periodic nonlinear lattices for vibration energy harvesting applications

• TRENCHANT Vincent (2014-2017) A port-Hamiltonian formulation of a 2D boundary controlled acoustic system

MICRO MECHATRONICS• CHIKHAOUI Mohamed Taha (2013-2016) Embedded

actuation on deformable tubesApplication to an active micro-endoscope

• TANGUY Quentin (2014-2017) MOEMS mirror design, model, layout

• HUSSEIN Hussein (2012-2015) Digital Microrobotics: Modeling, Design and Fabrication of Curved Beams, U-shaped Actuators and Multistable Microrobots

• BOILLOT Nicolas (2012-2015) Nano-wireless network simulator for MEMS microrobots

• BILLOT Margot (2013-2016) Development of new devices for multi-asperity micro-nanofriction and adhesion characterization, and for analysis of controlled triboactive surfaces

• MALOUM Fatah (2014-2017) dynamic mechanical characterization of isotropic materials by Scanning Microdeformation Microscope

SMART SENSORS• PRASAD Rohit (2012-2015) Optimization of an ultra-

compact spectrometer for the realization of SPR sensor networks: Device Integration

• OUELLET Samuel (2014-2017) Multifunction nanoparticles: Synthesis and proprieties

INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS• MEZZI Rania (2015-2019) Fault Tolerant Fuel Cell Systems• OLIVERI Stefania (2014-2017) Thin films & heterostructures

of LiNbO3 for acoustical/optical integrated devices• PENKOVSKYI Bogdan (2013-2016) Theory and Modeling

of Photonic Neuromorphic Computing with Nonlinear Delay Dynamics

• TCHAHAME NOUGNIHI Joel (2013-2016) Opto-Acoustic Interactions in Optical Microfibers

• MEISTERHANS Maiwen (2014-2017) Near-field dynamics in nanostructured components

• OUADGHIRI IDRISSI Ismail (2014-2017) PlasmA Shaping by bessel pulseS: novel optical Sources and ablation mechanisms

• XIE Zhihua (2012-2015) New antenna-fiber systems research and development for nanoemission detection

Olivier DEMICHELDynamic Control of Opto-Electronic Properties of Plasmonic Nano-Antenna

Olivier managed light-matter interactions at the nanoscale with an ultrafast dynamics. Metallic nano-structures are adequte for this purpose due to their ability to confine light at the nanoscale by plasmonic resonances. Olivier showed that the spatial or temporal shaping of an optical excitation provides a control on both nonlinear optical properties and electronic dynamics of such nano-antenna.

This work provided publications in Optics Express, Physical Review Letters and ACS Photonics.

60% of PhDs and

post-PhDs are foreigners

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Main facilities

MIMENTO A national level clean room microfabrication facility of 1200 m2 belonging to the RENATECH national network.

Certified ISO 9001, this center includes:• a “nanotechnology” module (nano-engraving, nano-lithography, etc.), • a “micromanufacturing” module (3D structures, piezoelectric materials, hybrid

micromechanics)• Quartz-tech, a pooled “R&D - Industrial innovation” module (industrial production line for

piezoelectric micro-nano components)

PICASSO Optical telecommunications platform for design, analysis and simulation of optical systems

NANO’MAT Nanoscale material characterization and fabrication ARCENEquipments for nano-characterization and other analysis techniques (certified ISO 9001)

Collaborations with other projects of Excellence:Labex FIRST-TF (Facilities for Innovation, Research, Services, Training in Time & Frequency)Equipex REFIMEVE+ (European metrological fiber network)Equipex OSC IMP (Oscillator instability measurement platform)Equipex ROBOTEX (micronano-robotics platform)

Other platforms:

• Mechanical characterization & microfabrication platforms (ISO 9001)• High power Fuel Cells experimental Platform

French National Network of Large Technological Facilities for Basic Technological Researchhttp://www.rtb.cnrs.fr

National and international partners

Industrial partnersAirbone, Adamant Composites, AIXTRON, Kapteos, AxynTeC, Cedrat Technologies, CHRU Besançon, Crystal device, Dixi microtechniques, Freq|n|Sys, GVR Trade, iXBlue, Lovalite, Mahytec, MT Aerospace, MyOCCS, Nanolane, Nanovation, NASA, Percipio Robotics, PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Resolution spectra SS, Safran, Aircelles, SENSeOr, SNECMA, Spitzer Eurovrac, ST-Microelectronics, TDK-EPCOS...

Technology development: FEMTO Engineering

Technology transferSATT Grand Est (Society for acceleration of technology transfer)

Competitiveness clusters and european platform

More than 100 international R&T partners among which 80 are co-authors of our peer-review papers (non-exhaustive list):

ARCEN Nanocharacterization

PICASSO Photonics characterization

NANO’MATNanophotonics

MIMENTO* Clean room Quartz-Tech pilot lineSAW devices

Besançon

Troyes

DijonMontbéliard

Labex FIRST-TFEquipex RobotexEquipex REFIMEVE+Equipex OSC IMP

Platforms Legend: Lab sites

Belfort

• Algeria: Univ Tizi Ouzou

• Australia: Australian Natl Univ, Swinburne Univ Technol

• Austria: Vienna Univ Technol

• Belgium: Univ Libre Bruxelles

• Cameroon: Polytech Sch Yaounde, Univ Yaounde I

• Canada: Univ McGill, Univ Alberta, Univ Montreal, Univ Sherbrooke, Univ Laval

• China: Univ Jinan, Univ Nanjing, Univ Tsinghua, Beijing Jiaotong Univ

• Colombia: Inst Tecnol Metropolitano

• England: Univ Aston, Univ Warwick, Univ Southampton

• Germany: Fraunhofer IEN, Karlsruhe Inst Technol, Univ Stuttgart, EIFER, Max Planck, Univ Munich

• Hungary: Hungarian Acad Sci

• Iran: IUST

• Iraq: Univ Babylon

• Israel: Weizmann Inst Sci

• Italy: Univ Brescia, Univ Calabria, Univ Ferrara, CNR

• Japan: Toyota Technol Inst, Univ Tokyo

• Lebanon: Amer Univ Beirut, Univ Lebanese, Univ Balamand

• Lithuania: Univ Vilnius

• Poland: Warsaw Institute of Aviation, Marie Curie Sklodowska Univ, Wroclaw Univ Technol, Nicholas Copernicus Univ, Polish Acad Sci

• Russia: ITMO Univ, Moscow State Univ, Russian Acad Sci, Russian Quantum Ctr, Novosibirsk State Univ

• Saudi Arabia: Prince S. B. A. Univ

• Scotland: Heriot Watt Univ, Univ Strathclyde

• Singapore: CNRS Thales NTU

• South Korea: Univ Sungkyunkwan

• Spain: Donostia Int Phys Ctr, Inst Photon Sci, Univ Autonoma Madrid, Univ Politecn Valencia

• Sweden: Univ Uppsala

• Switzerland: Univ Geneva

• Thailand: King Mongkuts Univ Technol Thonburi

• Tunisia: Tunis El Manar Univ UTM, IPEIN

• Ukraine: NAS Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National Univ Kyiv

• USA: Argonne Natl Lab, CALTECH, Carnegie Mellon Univ, Georgia Inst Technol, IBM Almaden Res Ctr, Rensselaer Polytech Inst, Univ Arizona, Univ Cent Florida, Univ Florida, Univ Maryland, NIST, Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Texas A&M Univ...

R&T partners

from 32 countries

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May 2016Writing and editing: claudia.laou-huen@femto-st.fr

©Ludovic Godard/UFC, Eric Chatelain, sxc.hu, freepik, FEMTO-ST, UB, UTTAny reproduction forbidden without approval of the author.

Coordinator of the Labex ACTIONMichel de Labachelerie

labachel@femto-st.fr - Tel: +33 (0)3 63 08 24 10

AssistantSandrine Chatrenet

sandrine.chatrenet@femto-st.fr Tel: +33 (0)3 63 08 24 04

Partnerships & CommunicationsClaudia Laou-Huen

claudia.laou-huen@femto-st.frTel: +33 (0)3 63 08 24 03

WP 1R. Oltra

J.-C. Gelin

WP 2V. LaudeS. Blaize

WP 3H. Maillotte

G. Millot

WP 4C. GoreckiL. Markey

WP 5O. Kouchnarenko

S. Cogan

DEMO 1M. Ouisse

Y. Le Gorrec

DEMO 2Y. Chembo

C. Finot

DEMO 3L. LargerJ. Plain

DEMO 5T. MaurerE. Finot

DEMO 4N. Andreff

E. Lesniewska

Labex ACTIONc/o Institut FEMTO-ST15 B avenue des Montboucons25030 Besançon Cedex - FR

www.labex-action.fr

Laboratory of excellence ACTION (contract N°: ANR-11-LABX-0001-01)