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Laboratory for the Integration from Material to System

The IMS (Integration from Material to System) laboratory was established in 2007 through the merger of three research units: IXL, PIOM, and LAPS. The laboratory combines fundamental research, engineering, and technology, with a focus on an integrative system approach in the field of Information Technologies. IMS is a joint research unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the University of Bordeaux, and Bordeaux INP. Within CNRS, IMS is affiliated with CNRS Ingénierie (Engineering) and CNRS Sciences Informatiques (Informatics).

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A renowned and recognized research laboratory

IMS Bordeaux is a renowned research laboratory that has gained recognition both nationally and internationally. The laboratory focuses on nine research themes including bioelectronics, cognitics, productics, signal and image, automatic, conception, reliability, waves, and organic. The laboratory emphasizes research where all the themes are interconnected.
The laboratory is at the forefront of technology, and its strong industrial partnerships enable IMS Bordeaux to be a major player in research in France.

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Highlights of 2025 and Best Wishes for 2026

“The past year was marked by many accomplishments that contributed to the continued increasing of scientific visibility and influence of the IMS Laboratory. International collaborations were particularly dynamic, with excellent outcomes for several European projects that reached completion, such as HERMES and FVLLMONTI, to name just a few. IMS also played a major role in […]

05 Jan 2026
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Research Spotlight: energy-efficient, learning-capable edge AI systems and highly frugal biomimetic neural networks

A ferroelectric–memristor memory for both training and inference  An innovative study published in Nature Electronics, September 2025, introduces a unified memory stack that functions as a memristor and a ferroelectric capacitor. This on-chip learning solution performs competitively with floating-point-precision software models across several benchmarks, without batching. A huge step forward in energy-efficient and non-destructive edge […]

18 Dec 2025
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IMS Researchers Honored at ANDOR2025 for Outstanding Open Science Contributions

Early December, the Assises Nationales des Données de la Recherche (ANDOR2025 – National Conference on Research Data) brought together, over two days, stakeholders from academia and industry to discuss the production, management, processing, dissemination, and reuse of scientific research data.This second edition, organized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Space together with Université […]

05 Dec 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Zeeshan ALI - December 18, 2025

This thesis is a small part of a large-scale project called ACT. The ACT project aims to transform the University of Bordeaux (UB) into a living laboratory and incubator for experimental projects to achieve socio-environmental transitions by engaging the community, multidisciplinary expertise, and external stakeholders. For this purpose, there is a need for a scientific tool in the urban […]

02 Dec 2025
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The laboratory' research themes

The laboratory's interdisciplinary approach and interconnected research themes ensure that it remains at the forefront of technological innovation.

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IMS consists of 9 research groups, with each group coordinating research in its respective field and overseeing 2 or 3 thematic teams. In addition to its research groups, IMS also provides access to technological platforms and equipment that are available to both its own researchers and external research services.

DIGITAL
Data is now being generated at the edge rather than in the large-scale data centers that form the cloud.
Digital sovereignty
With the deployment of large numbers of sensors and smart devices to form the edge of the Internet of Things to the scale of 50 billions and rising, data is now being generated at the edge rather than in the large-scale data centers that form the cloud. In this context, digital sovereignty refers to the ability to have control over our own digital destiny – the data, hardware and software that you rely on and create.
ENERGY
Resources are constrained, most importantly in terms of energy.
Energy sobriety
Resources are constrained, most importantly in terms of energy. Hardware is critical at this level and there is a clear need to explore the suitability of breakthrough emerging technologies to meet the energy-efficiency. From material and up to system level, this could also be achieved by adopting an holistic approach taking also into account the performance and compactness requirements.
ECOLOGY
The goal of environmental sustainability is to conserve natural resources and to develop alternate sources of power.
Ecological sustainability
The goal of environmental sustainability is to conserve natural resources and to develop alternate sources of power while reducing pollution and harm to the environment. In that way, research’s, from material up to system can be achieved to measure and track sustainability progress, optimize the use of resources, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and make possible a more circular economy. Also, digital technologies also enable innovation and collaboration.

ACTES

Action Transverse Emergente d’Enjeu Sociétal

The ACTES, "Action Transverse Emergente d’Enjeu Sociétal", i.e. an emerging transverse action of societal challenge in english represent innovative research’s featuring collaborative works involving at least two IMS research groups. The ACTES are targeting societal issues among which the digital sovereignty, the energy sobriety and the ecological sustainability. The "ACTES" are meant to be driven at the cutting edge of the research groups knowledge leveraging their complementarity within the unique IMS lab value chain, from material to system.

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The IMS (Intégration du Matériau au Système) laboratory is a CNRS Joint Research Unit developing its activities in the field of systems science and engineering, at the convergence between information and communication sciences and technologies on the one hand and engineering sciences on the other.

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The laboratory's technical resources

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The IMS laboratory maintains its technological resources include both materials and human resources in fields such as analysis, assembly techniques, mechanical engineering, and accelerated aging.

Thematic equipment Teacher-researchers and researchers from the laboratory rely on shared infrastructures in experimental platforms to carry out their research.

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international partners
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cooperation with schools
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An important and solid industrial and institutional collaboration

The IMS Bordeaux research laboratory relies on a multitude of national and international collaborations to successfully carry out its research projects. Here are three key aspects of these partnerships :

  • Collaboration with national and international partners
  • Collaborations with academic institutions
  • Collaborations with industry partners
  • Collaborations with government agencies
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An important and solid industrial and institutional collaboration

The IMS Bordeaux research laboratory relies on a multitude of national and international collaborations to successfully carry out its research projects. Here are three key aspects of these partnerships :

  • Collaboration with national and international partners
  • Collaborations with academic institutions
  • Collaborations with industry partners
  • Collaborations with government agencies
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11,800
Publications
186
patents filed
8
industrial partners
15
international partners
2
cooperation with schools
20
institutional partners

Mote than 11,800 scientific publications

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StreamPU: A DSEL for high throughput and low latency software‐defined radio on multicore CPUs Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04156404v4 Design collaboratif d’un dispositif de médiation du patrimoine : expérimentation en contexte d’éducation artistique et culturelle Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935679v1 L’humain et la technologie comme fondement de l’appropriation des livres numériques des bibliothèques universitaires : le cas d’étudiants français en documentation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935712v1 La guerre cognitive : le nouveau champ de bataille qui exploite nos cerveaux Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04944957v1 Source Separation Using Sensor’s Frequency Response: Theory and Practice on Carbon Nanotubes Sensors Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-02453566v1 Practical identification approach for the actuation dynamics of autonomous surface vehicles with minimal instrumentation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04942217v1 A 71% Relative Bandwidth Differential Integrated Power Amplifier With Optimized PAEmax for 5G-NR FR1 Carrier Aggregation Applications Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05081616v1 Exploring interface tension as a tool to control the morphology of binary organic semiconductor nanoparticles prepared by nanoprecipitation Lien HAL : https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-05287135v1 La présence à distance dans les pratiques enseignantes : le cas des robots de téléprésence Lien HAL : https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02933757v1 Développer sa professionnalité grâce à la vidéo 360° : exemple d'un dispositif pour la formation des professeurs documentalistes Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05215308v1 Variance component analysis to assess protein quantification in biomarker validation: application to selected reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-02531646v1 Celebrating 75 Years of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Across Europe [CASS Conference Highlights] Lien HAL : https://univoak.hal.science/hal-05342860v1 Impact of in vitro exposure to 5G-modulated 3.5 GHz fields on oxidative stress and DNA repair in skin cells Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05290924v1 Autophagy promotes growth of tumors with high mutational burden by inhibiting a T-cell immune response Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05252139v1 The Neuroprotective Effect of the X Protein of Orthobornavirus Bornaense Type 1 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Lien HAL : https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-04867924v1 Examining the effects of extremely low-frequency magnetic fields on cognitive functions and functional brain markers in aged mice Lien HAL : https://ephe.hal.science/hal-05043745v1 Study of Genetic Variability and Path Analysis for Yield in Greengram (Vigna radiata L. Wilczek) Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05136082v1 Assessment of Genetic Diversity for Yield Component Traits and Grain Yield of Blackgram [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05136207v1 Neurologic signs of ciguatera disease: evidence of their persistence Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05102870v1 Critical-time metric for risk analysis against sharp input anomalies: Computation and application case study Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04929762v1 Alligat0R: Pre-Training Through Co-Visibility Segmentation for Relative Camera Pose Regression Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05419687v1 Generation of broadband THz radiation by polariton parametric scattering in a LiNbO3 waveguide Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05057341v1 Terahertz Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave Inspection of an Ancient Enamel Plate Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05068422v1 Integration of PZT thick films on additively manufactured substrates for vibrational energy harvesting applications Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05038741v1 Tolerance allocation by means of the polyhedral based tolerance analysis method Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05415599v1 Merging bioelectrochemical transducer and antenna functions for continuous monitoring in biological tissues: an innovative volume-saving strategy Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05248693v1 Correlation tests and sample spectral coherence matrix in the high-dimensional regime Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04856829v2 Guidelines for accurate evaluation of photodetectors based on emerging semiconductor technologies Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05371621v1

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Functional and Non-Functional BPMN M&S at Design Time Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-01907261v1 Implementation of low temperature processing of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics for energy harvesting: strategies and challenges Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04884701v1 Development and Deployment of Innovative Case Study: From Industrial Research Collaboration to Learning Transformation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941744v1 Supply Chain Reactivity Assessment Regarding Two Negotiated Commitments: Frozen Horizon and Flexibility Rate Lien HAL : https://inria.hal.science/hal-04943888v1 Grafted interlayers and water-based processes: improving stability and sustainability of organic photovoltaics Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04910019v1 Design of a radiofrequency receiver for IoT communications using satellites in lowearth orbit Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05230471v1 Love wave acoustic sensor as a multisensing device in liquids Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05022277v1 A compact Fabry-Perot interferometer based on end-of-fiber polymer tip for physical sensing Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04283751v1 Interplay between chemistry and unconventional sintering processes to design electroceramics at low temperature Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04884742v1 Exploring the synergy between chemistry and non-conventional sintering processes: a first step towards the eco-design of functional ceramics and devices Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05382253v1 An improved 3D skeletons UP-Fall dataset: enhancing data quality for efficient impact fall detection Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04973784v1 Methodology for Optimizing Ethernet Links at 10 and 25 Gbps for Critical Systems in the Aerospace Environment Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05010038v1 LE POISSON-ZÈBRE : UNE AIDE RAPIDE À L’INTERPRÉTATION DES VARIANTS RARES DANS LA SLA Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04916241v1 Developing safe work activities in the industries 4.0 by analysing work activity and occupational exposure: Methodological development and Industrial application Lien HAL : https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-05060944v1 The impact of Back-Gate biasing and layout on temperature sensitivity of transistors in FD-SOI CMOS technology Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05298730v1 Ultra-Low Phase Noise BAW-Based Cross-Coupled Oscillator in 28 nm CMOS Technology Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05375295v1 Comparison of Hardware-friendly, Audio-to-spikes Cochlear Encoding for Neuromorphic Processing Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05344616v1 Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Based Airborne Pitch-Catch Measurement Modeling Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05330547v1 Optimizing low temperature Spark Plasma Sintering of KNN ceramics: microstructure and properties relationships Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05094071v1 A Probabilistic Model for Image Processing with Positivity Constraint and Spectral Density Control Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05049694v1 Qualitative Analysis of Mars Entry and Descent Options for Manned Missions Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05282883v1 Integration of Lateral Si/SiGe HBTs on Advanced FD-SOI Technology: Process Development and Challenges Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05407122v1
Résumé en français

Le laboratoire de l’Intégration du Matériau au Système a été créé le 1er janvier 2007, par la fusion de trois unités de recherche bordelaises, avec une stratégie scientifique commune de développement principalement centrée dans le domaine des Sciences et de l’Ingénierie des Systèmes, à la convergence des Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication , et des Sciences pour l’Ingénieur .

Le laboratoire est rattaché à trois tutelles, le CNRS, l’Université de Bordeaux et Bordeaux Aquitaine INP.

Au CNRS, l’UMR5218 est rattachée en principal à CNRS Ingénierie et en secondaire à CNRS Sciences Informatiques.

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