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Capillary process of mixed oxide coating (perovskites, titanates,…) for the realization of 3D condensers of very strong specific capacity interesting wandering electronics.

In order to miniaturize always more the condensers on the microchips, the project aims to develop an innovating process combining the benefit of a three-dimensional architecture (3D) and oxides perovskites materials with very high permittivity, titanates without lead. Thus, a realistic objective is to reach a capacitance of 1000 nF/mm2, that is to say 10 to 20 times more than the integrated condensers resulting from the last current developments of the R&D.

Project leader : LEMA (Laboratoire d’électrodynamique des matériaux avancés – FRANCE, Tours, 37)

3D integration of microchips in organic or silicon substrates, for mobile telephony and smart card applications (ultrathin systems, eventually flexible and miniaturized, providing better energy efficiency).
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Behavioral study on a regional panel of occupants into residence, in order to determine relevant technical data, and then the right display to prefer, to induce modifications in the energy consumptions habits while quantifying the energy saved.
Project leader: Pôle CAPTEURS (University of Orleans - Bourges, 18)

Development and test of innovative membranes and AMEs (Assemblies Membrane-Electrode), in order to open markets downstream from renewable energy sources to electrolysers PEM. The objectives are at the level of the densities of current, more raised, of the output, the pressure of operation, and the lifespan.
Project leader: HELION (Aix-en-Provence, 13)

The project concerns the development of a new SOFC operating at 700-750°C directly under a gaz rich in methane without adding water vapour and with sulphur products. The originality of the project is in the use of inkjet printing technique for the achievement of anode structure with repetitive pattern, in order to obtain a maximum of performance of catalytic functions.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

AUXIOXY is a pre-industrialisation project aiming 3 auxiliary functions of a micro-cogeneration SOFC system: desulphurisation, thermal insulation of the pile's heart, and inverter connected to the grid. It aims to maximize the integration of each of these functions by improving their performance and cost. A prototype will be realised.
Project leader: DE DIETRICH THERMIQUE (Mertzwiller, 67)

Distribution of the energy in buildings; grid connected converters (3 to 36 KVA) for residential and service buildings.
Project leader: AINELEC (Amboise, 37)

Design and set up intelligent and communicative PV modules, allowing the functions of regulation, conversion, measurement, management of monitoring and maintenance, and also flexible; each module will have its own interchangeable electronics.
Project leader: FORCLUM (Joué-lès-Tours, 37)

Integration of a SOFC in an individual natural gas fired boiler. It aims to define and carry out new materials and architectures of systems of micro-cogeneration including a SOFC for the residential market
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Today, the equipment in an operating room is autonomous in its functioning and its power.
The CORTECS project has to provide energy management as well as communication between equipment. CORTECS will reduce the energy consumption, improve ergonomics and information flows and finally, optimize the efficiency of the medical team during surgical acts.
Project leader: MAQUET

The objective of this project is:
- to define technical solutions to remove the screeching noise that appears during the windmill nacelles gyration movements currently in use: search for solutions, design and manufacture of prototypes, test development and validation,
- to understand physical phenomena and treat the design upstream to remove this problem through modeling, measure and interpretation.
Project leader: STROMAG France (La Guerche-sur-l'Aubois, 18)

Development of data microsystems with autonomous communicative sensors, supplied by new types of 3D micro-batteries.
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Study of the behaviour of the materials, the interfaces between materials, and also the total “solid micro-battery” system during the assembly and the use of these batteries in nomadic applications (mobile phone, PC,…).
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Study of a new process, using plasma pulverization techniques and laser ablation, which aims to obtain electrolytes of ultra thin SOFC piles allowing an operating temperature lowered to 700 °C.
Project leader: GREMI (University of Orleans - Orleans, 45)

Development of an lithium inorganic electrolyte with high performances by compatible 3D deposit in order to increase the surface capacity of the micro-batteries for energy integrated modules.
Project leader: CEA Liten (Grenoble, 38)

Innovative application of a new lighting solution in an urban context by using LED diodes, powerful or not.
Project leader: ALPHATEST (Larçay, 37)

Study of the damages mechanisms and process of the various components of the composite tanks for gas storage under high pressure (700 bars).
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Study of the effect cumulated of the hydrogen/air cloud with the density and the nature of the obstacles on the mode of propagation of an explosion during an accident damaging a hydrogen tank.
Project leader: LEES (Energy Explosions & Structures laboratory - Orleans, 45)

Wide gap semiconductor components (Gallium Nitride and Silicon Carbide) to improve the energy efficiency of energy conversion.
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Work on 5 technological levers of improvement of building’s energy efficiency:
1 - Measure consumption precisely.
2 - Improve the loads efficiency.
3 - Enhance and develop the loads control.
4 - Control the integration of new energy sources.
5 - Contribute to the global efficiency in building.
Technological work on R & D will be accompanied by an applicative R & D.
Enhance the awareness and the education of the market.
Carry out experiments on pilot sites.
Create new markets, by pilot projects.
Project leader: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (Grenoble, 38)

Development of innovative materials for polymeric liners and composite hulls for the type IV tanks:
- Study of new fibers and composites associated, in term of implementation, thermo mechanical performances, technical and economical relevance,
- Formulation and implementation of more powerful epoxy resins for the hull,
- Manufacture and test of small demonstrators’ tanks including the innovations developed in the project.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Hyperbare storage of hydrogen
Project leader: PEUGEOT CITROEN (Carrières-sous-Poissy, 78)

This project aims to fulfil the increasing clinical need of a rapid diagnosis cardiovascular disease by providing the association of new innovative technologies. The objective is to develop, validate and market:
- a revolutionary platform for echo-cardiography based on a software architecture with a matrix probe using a technological break, in order to acquire 3D densities pictures of the heart at extremely high rates (> at 1000Hz)
- new ultrasonic imaging modalities based on the performances of image rates which allow to characterize the local viscoelastic properties of myocardium.
Project leader: SuperSonic Imagine (Aix-en-Provence, 13)

Innovating materials and components design for membrane-electrodes assembly manufacturing in fuel cell (PEMFC type). The materials and components developed within the project framework are different from those existent to answer the technical and PEMC economical requests.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Precise and of good output, induction is usable either to heat metals directly, either to heat fluids in a tank. The objective of this project is to support the penetration of induction in the various sectors where it can prove particularly powerful, in particular food industry and metallurgy, by improving the performances of this process and by adapting it to the specificities industrialists concerned.

Project leader : EDF R&D (Moret-sur-Loing - 77)

Platform based on a concept of intelligent habitat which improves the safety of its occupants.
It is a structure of about 100 m² including usual rooms of a house, a unit which will be equipped with house automations equipment and networks of various sensors (data collected allowing on one hand, the detection of type of failure and the situation of the patient and, on the other hand, the fast release of suitable alarm), and of a technical room sheltering the function of electronic gate between the flat and the TV-center. The platform is based on the site of the establishment for old dependent people “the Residences on Bellevue” in Bourges.
A G.I.S. (Scientific Grouping of Interest) will be created between the project partners to follow-up the technological and social activities developed on the platform, as well as the exploitation and the diffusion of its results.
Project leader: Pole Capteurs (Bourges, 18)

New concept of composite materials applied to the realisation of bipolar plates for PEMFC fuel cells.
Projetc leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

R&D integrated energy modules realised from a technology of thin layers micro-batteries.
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Exploration of the possible use of two types of protonic conductors sulfonic & phosphonic, as the protogenic group in polymer electrolyte membranes for fuel cells operating at intermediate temperature (T > 100 °C) (80°C currently for the Nafion membrane) and based on the use of an hydrophilic inorganic phase having good properties of water retention at these temperatures.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Validation of new materials and a new concept of solid hydrogen cell heart for low power applications, allowing an extreme miniaturisation and having a density of energy 5 to 10 times higher than the density of the lithium batteries used in nomadic applications.
Project leader: CEA LITEN (Grenoble, 38)

Validation of new concepts of micro-nano energy storage, using emergent technological bricks of carbon nanotubes (NTC) or silicon nanofils (NF). The use of technologies of micro-electronics technologies combined with new architectures 3D of the NTC or NF allows to consider many technological ruptures and to increase the performances of the current micro-batteries, in particular in terms of integrability.
Project leader: CEA LITEN (Grenoble, 38)

Combinative oxide deposits on a sub-nanometric scale by multi-target laser ablation for the realisation of condensers integrated into very high density or adjustable.
Project leader: LEMA (Laboratoire d’Electrodynamique des Matériaux Avancés - Tours, 37)

Development of the material and related techniques for the realisation of electronic devices or MEMS in Sic (more powerful than silicon at high temperature) at low cost.
Project leader: CEMES (Elaboration Centre of Materials and Struturales Studies - Toulouse, 31)

The heat of active zones of components is a factor which limits the performances of electronic systems and which increases the energy consumption. This project aims to evaluate new materials such as carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers and porous silicon like thermal drains in order to design and realise more efficient micro-electronic components.
Project leader: GREMI (University of Orleans - Orleans, 45)

The deployment of the panels with variable messages (PMV), equipment increasingly used in the industrialized countries in order to contribute to the safety of the road network and to optimize the traffic management, can be limited by the lack of an energy network in the vicinity and/or costs generated by the extension of this network. It is a question of taking up the challenge which consists in developing a PMV range of big size, adapted to the motorway networks, and completely autonomous in energy, thus contributing to the sustainable developpment policy of the customers.

Project leader : SES Signalisation (FRANCE, Tours, 37)

The project aims to qualify calculation codes and models to size hydrogen high-pressure storage tanks. The qualified optimisation tools will allow designers to better size the composite structure and manufacturers to reduce development costs by minimizing the mass of carbon fibre while maintaining a robust security level.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Design, starting from modeling or report of the lesions, of the nature of the objects likely to strike or crush the human body without irreversible effects on its health. Part of the project is devoted to instrumented tests of systems integrating sensors and smart systems of very low power consumption, these embarked elements having to be recovered after impact (like a “black box" after a crash landing).

Project leader : Pôle CAPTEURS (SENSORS cluster), Orléans' University, Bourges, FRANCE.

Study of systems of renewable electrical multi-sources energy and applications in housing and electrical vehicles.
Project leader: CERER (Research and Studies Center on Renewable Energies - Tours, 37)

The project provides a technological break in implementation of proton conductive material for heart pile based on the development of new functional hybrid materials obtained through the use of extrusion process, which does not require solvent and has a very interesting possibility of cost reduction for many applications.
Project leader: LMPB (Laboratory of polymers materials  and biomaterials - Villeurbanne, 69)

Realisation of a high temperature fuel cell demonstrator (SOFC) for sedentary applications with a new architecture which will allow to increase the powers and to optimise the size of the cell.
Project leader: CEA Le Ripault (Tours, 37)

Development of a prototype of teleoperated and interactive robotic platform for scan remote practices under control of a medical expert in ultrasonography.
Project leader: PRISME - LVR (Vision & Robotic Laboratory - Bourges, 18)

The project aims to develop intelligent and communicative electronic autonomous valves, in order to deploy regulation concepts in a hot water traffic heating installation and by the way, to save 15 to 35 % of energy on these installation.
Project leader : WIRECOM TECHNOLOGIES (Olivet, 45)

The project Remote Wake Up aims to drastically decrease (ratio 1000), or even eliminate, the consumption of electric components when they are off, while allowing the concerned equipment back to on with a suitable remote control.
Project leader: LEGRAND (Limoges, 87)

Develop active and passive components and their integration on glass wafers in order to optimise and miniaturise the filter and protection functions.
Project leader: STMicroelectronics (Tours, 37)

Smart sensors development for human presence detection dedicated to the management of electricity consumption.
Project leader: SOREC (Pruniers, 41)

Delocalised energy management system in a building via power-line communications (P.L.C.). Intelligent and equipped with a means of communication between the electrical equipment of a building, this system has as finality the reduction of the energy consumption.
Project leader: WIRECOM TECHNOLOGIES (Orleans, 45)

To develop a communicating switch with functions of protection for the 230 V grid (replacement of an electromechanical switch).
Project leader: LEGRAND (Limoges, 87)

This project consists in carrying out and characterizing microplasmas developed from silicon microreactors. These systems will be integrated thereafter into micro-systems (ex µ-TAS, microsensors, lighting…). It is also foreseen to test these devices for the conversion of volatile organic compounds with a view of possible industrial repercussions in the field of the gas treatment or materials by putting in parallel micro-reactors to treat macroscopic volumes or surfaces, in order to replace low pressure processes.
Project leader: GREMI (University of Orleans - Orleans, 45)

Development of a new architecture for supervision by communicative interfaces adapted to the specific constraints of management, exploitation and maintenance of wind farms or parks; these installations being remotely controlled with data-processing connections.
Project leader: WIRECOM Technologies (Olivet, 45)

As the industrial potential and the marketing and technological roadmap of microbatteries is confirmed, it becomes necessary to have a powerful model and simulation tool allowing a virtual experimentation. The STRESSBAT project aims to develop a such expert tool multi physics and multi materials in order to:
- improve the final reliability of devices,
- predict electrical answers and the devices' life according their use,
- to develop and optimize new microbatteries architectures.
Project leader: CEA Liten (Grenoble, 38)