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Proactive design and formalization of related spatiotemporal knowledge : application to assembly process and additive manufacturing with smart materi…
2019
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Intégration proactive des métiers en conception et formalisation des connaissances spatio-temporelles associées : application à l'assemblage et à la …
2019
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Investigation of sodium ions in cheeses by 23Na NMR spectroscopy
2008
International audience; The reduction in the salt content of foods without affecting their production methods and sensorial properties is a current challenge for the food industry. In foods, sodium ions can adopt various motional states through interactions with macromolecules such as hydrocolloids or exchange between two phases in heterogeneous systems. A correlation between sodium ion mobility and the saltiness perception has been suggested, the role of sodium ions with restricted motion or "bound" sodium being of particular consideration. There is therefore a need to investigate the mobility states of the different pools of sodium ions and to quantify these fractions to develop a better …
Clustering-Based Algorithm for Connectivity Maintenance in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks
2014
International audience; Among recent advances in wireless communication technologies' field, Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) have drawn the attention of both academic and industry researchers due to their potential applications including driving safety, entertainment, emergency applications, and content sharing. VANET networks are characterized by their high mobile topology changes. Clustering is one of the control schemes used to make this global topology less dynamic. It allows the formation of dynamic virtual backbone used to organize the medium access, to support quality of service and to simplify routing. Mainly, nodes are organized into clusters with at least one cluster head (CH) …
Mechanism of nanocapsules formation by the emulsion-diffusion process.
2007
International audience; A detailed investigation into the mechanisms of nanocapsule formation by means of the two stages “emulsion–diffusion” process is reported. Such widely used process is still poorly understood. An emulsion of oil, polymer and ethyl acetate is fabricated as a first step; dilution with pure water allows ethyl acetate to diffuse out from the droplets, leaving a suspension of nanocapsules at the end. It has been shown that the size of nanocapsules was related to the chemical composition of the organic phase and the size of primary emulsion through a simple geometrical relationship. As a consequence, most of the properties of the nanocapsules were decided at the emulsificat…
Optofluidic taming of a colloidal dimer with a silicon nanocavity
2014
International audience; We report here the optical trapping of a heterogeneous colloidal dimer above a photonic crystal nanocavity used as an on-chip optical tweezer. The trapped dimer consists of a cluster of two dielectric microbeads of different sizes linked by van der Waals forces. The smallest bead, 1 μm in diameter, is observed to be preferentially trapped by the nanotweezer, leaving the second bead untrapped. The rotational nature of the trapped dimer Brownian motion is first evidenced. Then, in the presence of a fluid flow, control of its orientation and rotation is achieved. The whole system is found to show high rotational degrees of freedom, thereby acting as an effective flow-se…
Imaging the Local Density of States of Optical Corrals
2002
International audience; This paper reports the experimental observation, at optical frequencies, of the electromagnetic local density of states established by nanostructures corresponding to the recently introduced concept of optical corral [G. Colas des Francs et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 4950 (2001)]. The images obtained by a scanning near-field optical microscope under specific operational conditions are found in agreement with the theoretical maps of the optical local density of states. A clear functionality of detection by the scanning near-field optical microscope is thereby identified since the theoretical maps are computed without including any specific tip model.
Photon antibunching in the optical near field
2010
International audience; We show that a combination of the field-susceptibility technique with the optical Bloch equations gives access to the temporal evolution of the populations and coherences of any quantum system placed in the optical near field of a nanostructure. In particular, we show that the near-field evanescent states, confined around dielectric or plasmonic particles, can be used to modify and control the photon statistics of the quantum system. This theoretical scheme leads to second-order autocorrelation functions in good agreement with recent experimental measurements performed with nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond nanocrystals placed in interaction with gold nanoparticles.
ETUDE ET RÉALISATION D'UN DETECTEUR (FILTRE) MULTISPECTRAL PAR DISPERSION NON DESTRUCTIVE SPECTRALE A TRAVERS DES FILMES A NONSTRUCTURE
2020
The development of multispectral imaging, holography and lithography techniques exploits the properties of diffracting arrays in a wide variety of photonic components. They are incorporated in laser diodes as distributed Bragg reflectors, in various integrated optical functions for wavelength division multiplexing or optical interconnections, or inscribed within the fibers themselves, leading to a wide variety of sensors for detection of chemical elements, measurement of temperatures, pressures, accelerations of acquisition and or restitution of multispectral images, etc. [Lee et al. 2007] [Pagnoux et al. 2005].Among these devices, the resonant networks arouse a great interest because they …
Launching propagating surface plasmon polaritons by a single carbon nanotube dipolar emitter.
2011
International audience; We report on the excitation of propagating surface plasmon polaritons in thin metal films by a single emitter. Upon excitation in the visible regime, individual semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes are shown to act as directional near-infrared point dipole sources launching propagating surface plasmons mainly along the direction of the nanotube axis. Plasmon excitation and propagation is monitored in Fourier and real space by leakage radiation microscopy and is modeled by rigorous theoretical calculations. Coupling to plasmons almost completely reshapes the emission of nanotubes both spatially and with respect to polarization as compared to photoluminescence…