Optical wireless communications (OWC) are high-speed and highly secure communication technologies that are developed to support radio frequency solutions, which face today the rapid growth of wireless data exchanges. OWC usually employ PIN or avalanche photodiodes for optical reception.

POINTCOM will tackle the integration of light emitters in silicon, aiming towards the implementation of photonic devices at telecom-frequencies. The project seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of point defect-based light sources that overcome silicon’s intrinsically poor optical yields.  POINTCOM will exploit collective emission from large ensembles of emitters to demonstrate lasers in free-space emitting configurations.

The standardization of 5G by 3GPP is now well underway, with the release of releases 15 (2018) and 16 (2020). Release 17 is almost complete but has been delayed due to the pandemic and release 18 is in its very first phase. In this context, French R&D must remain involved and even become a major player for the continuation of 5G and the networks of the future (beyond 5G, 6G). The alliance of the Institut Mines-Télécom, CEA and CNRS within a research program will allow the acceleration of this strategy and will guarantee the national sovereignty in the digital domain.

Access to the Internet is regarded by many as a fundamental right as stated by the ‘Joint declaration on freedom of expression and the Internet’ published by the UN in 2011. Besides, communication networks and ICT in general are often presented as required means to reduce the environmental impact of various industry sectors (e.g. energy, transport, agriculture, etc.). On the other hand, the deployment of new generations of mobile broadband networks (e.g., 4G in 2010 and 5G in 2020) has been so far the common practice of increasing the communication resources of wireless access networks.

Le projet a pour objectif de réaliser et d’étudier des mémoires embarquées basse consommation à base de films minces ferroélectriques d’oxyde de hafnium. Les dispositifs réalisés pourront être exploités comme mémoires embarquées basse consommation / faible coût ainsi que pour la réalisation d’architectures matérielles bio-inspirées à grande efficacité énergétique pour l’intelligence artificielle embarquée.

Ce projet a été financé par l’État dans le cadre de France 2030.

The project is motivated by two observations: (i) there is currently a shift from relational to Graph Databases (GDBs) that still suffer from a lack of a formal semantics; (ii) GDBs not only have to be queried, but also transformed in a meaningful and reliable way.

Improving animal welfare (AW) is recognized as a key element for the sustainability of livestock production systems. The agroecological (AE) transition will have major impacts on AW with expected positive effects (increased space allowance for animals, more freedoms) but also specific vulnerabilities (less optimized and more diverse feeding regimens, fluctuating environments, emergence of pathogens).

The COCHISE project consists in designing, modeling and characterizing new connectors for very high speed Ethernet applications (> 10 Gbits/s). This work is part of the problematic of the transfer and processing of ever larger computer data, known as "big-data". It requires infrastructures and equipments always more powerful. The end equipment (computers, servers, routers) have been the subject of extraordinary improvements in recent decades (speed, memory, etc.).