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Narrow Band Solid-Liquid Composite Arrangements: Alternative Solutions for Phononic Crystal-Based Liquid Sensors
2019
Periodic elastic composite structures attract great attention. They offer the ability to design artificial properties to advance the control over the propagation of elastic/acoustic waves. In previous work, we drew attention to composite periodic structures comprising liquids. It was shown that the transmission spectrum of the structure, specifically a well-isolated peak, follows the material properties of liquid constituent in a distinct manner. This idea was realized in several liquid sensor concepts that launched the field of phononic crystal liquid sensors. In this work we introduce a novel concept&mdash
Hardware Computation of Moment Functions in a Silicon Retina Using Binary Patterns
2006
International audience; We present in this paper a method for implementing moment functions in a CMOS retina for shape recognition applications. The method is based on the use of binary patterns and it allows the computation of different moment functions such geometric and Zernike moments of any orders by an adequate choice of the binary patterns. The advantages of the method over other methods described in the literature is that it is particularly suitable for the design of a programmable retina circuit where moment functions of different orders are obtained by simply loading the correct binary patterns into the memory devices implemented on the circuit. The moment values computed by the m…
Filtering and emission area identification in the Time Resolved Imaging data
2012
Abstract Time Resolved Imaging (TRI) acquisitions allow precise timing analysis of emission spots. Up to date technologies deeply challenge their isolation by hiding the weak ones, under sizing or over sizing visually detectable emission spots and finally by jeopardizing timing resolution. We report on an algorithm based on 1 and 2D signal processing tools which automates the identification of emission sites and optimizes separation between noise and useful signal, even for weak spots surrounding strong emission areas. The application of the algorithm on several sets of data from different types of devices and their results are also discussed.
Spatial correction in dynamic photon emission by affine transformation matrix estimation
2014
International audience; Photon emission microscopy and Time Resolved Imaging have proved their efficiency for defect localization on VLSI. A common process to find defect candidate locations is to draw a comparison between acquisitions on a normally working device and a faulty one. In order to be accurate and meaningful, this method requires that the acquisition scene remains the same between the two parts. In practice, it can be difficult to set. In this paper, a method to correct position by affine matrix transformation is suggested. It is based on image features detection, description and matching and affine transformation estimation.
Cluster matching in time resolved imaging for VLSI analysis
2014
International audience; If scaling has the benefit of enabling manufacturers to design tomorrow's integrated circuits, from the failure analyst point of view it also has the drawback of making devices more complex. The test sequence for modern VLSI can be quite long, with thousands of vector. Dynamic photon emission databases can contain millions of photons representing thousands of state changes in the region of interest. Finding a candidate location where to perform physical analysis is quite challenging, especially if the fault occurs on a single vector. In this paper, we suggest a new methodology to find single vector fault in dynamic photon emission database. The process is applied at …
Etude électrochimique de molécules aminées aliphatiques et hétéroaromatiques. Application aux microcapteurs de pH.
2009
The first part describes the state of the art (electrochemical synthesis, developed applications and electrochemical reaction mechanisms) of the molecules used in his work: pyrrole and ethylenediamine. A second part is dedicated to the evolution of pH measurement processes. Thus, after an explanation of the pH concept, a presentation of both conventional pH measurement technique and of recent pH measurements methods is given.Then, thin polymer films are deposited on platinum surfaces by anodic electropolymerization of pyrrole and ethylenediamine. Then, we tested different electrolyte composition to determine the influence of solvent, salt and monomer concentrations on the electro-oxidation …
Reconnaissance de la Forme 3D et Estimation de la Profondeur Implémentation sur FPGA Spartan 3A d'un SoC pour la Vision 3D (Shape From Focus) Problém…
2007
Le terme de « vision 3D » ou « de numérisation 3D », est apparu à la fin des années 1990, pour désigner des techniques d'acquisition de mesures tridimensionnelle sur des surfaces, techniques ayant la caractéristique de donner des nuages de points denses et importants dont l'ordre de grandeur est de quelques dizaines à plusieurs millions de points. Le nuage de points représente en fait l'information de l'image de profondeur et selon des différents traitements à l'image on peut aboutir à un ordre de précision de la reconstitution de l'objet ou scène en 3D. La vision 3D demeure une méthodologie de base pour réassurer le mécanisme de reconstitution des images tridimensionnelles. Outre les besoi…
Terpyridine-based metallopolymer thin films as active layer in ammonia sensor device
2016
International audience; A metal-containing polymer has been prepared by electropolymerization of an homoleptic Ru(II)-terpyridine complex bearing pyrrole heterocycles. The polymer is obtained as a thinfilm at the surface ofelectrodes, and has been characterized by electrochemical measurements, XPS and microscopy. It hasbeen shown that this polymer acts as an active gas sensitive layer since it enables the detection of anammonia gasflow through layer’s resistivity measurements.
SNOM signal near plasmonic nanostructures: an analogy with fluorescence decays channels
2008
International audience; Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope (SNOM) is based on local excitations of nanostructures deposited on a substrate (illumination mode). Ideally, the local source behaves like a dipolar emitter so that the SNOM signal is strongly similar to the fluorescence decay rates of an excited molecule that would be located at the SNOM tip position. We present here how the SNOM signal near plasmonic nanostructures can be used to analyze radiative and non-radiative contribution to the fluorescence decay rate.
Surface plasmon routing in dielectric-loaded surface plasmon polariton waveguides - art. no. 70330S
2008
International audience; Waveguiding by dielectric-loaded surface plasmon-polaritons (DLSPP) structures are numerically and experimentally investigated. We used the effective index model to understand the influence of basic waveguide parameters such as width and thickness on the properties of the surface plasmon guided modes. A waveguide was fabricated and experimentally studied. The effective indices of the modes supported by the waveguide and their propagation length are evaluated by leakage radiation microscopy in both the Fourier and imaging planes. Several excitation schemes were tested including surface plasmon coupling by diascopic or episcopic illumination as well as defect-mediated …