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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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IMS in Action: Sharing Science with Everyone, from Schools to the General Public

Nuit de la Recherche 2025 Every year, La Nuit de la Recherche (Night of Research) invites the public to meet scientists for an evening of engaging and original activities that make research accessible to everyone. On September 26, 2025, IMS teams offered visitors a hands-on glimpse into their daily work through a series of interactive […]

13 Nov 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Harmony RONDELUK - November 21, 2025

This thesis focuses on the synthesis of new bio-based π-conjugated polymers derived from furan for applications in organic electronics, particularly in photovoltaics. Two approaches were explored: electropolymerization, enabling the direct deposition of polymer films onto conductive substrates, and microwave-assisted synthesis of poly(azomethine)s, promoting a more sustainable chemistry. The resulting materials exhibited suitable electronic band gaps […]

07 Nov 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Rémi QUÉHEILLE - November 12, 2025

The 5th Generation (5G) of communications offers very high data rates by using multiple carrier frequencies simultaneously in the 617 MHz to 5 GHz band. The main challenge is to achieve intelligent carrier aggregation without increasing power consumption, while considering the constraints of multi-standard operation, resolution, speed, and integration. This work presents research results related […]

31 Oct 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Pedro COUTINHO - November 6, 2025

Generative models are powerful methods that allow the synthesis of new data by approximating the probability distribution that describes a dataset. During the past decade, several works have demonstrated their utility to a wide range of applications, including in materials science for the design of new structures. In this thesis, we are interested in applying […]

27 Oct 2025
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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

Cross platform
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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11800
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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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Articles (23)

Accelerating recursive least squares adaptation/learning algorithms using a dynamic adaptation gain Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04885000v1 Fundamentals of Measurement: The IEEE Std. 1658-2023 for Terminology and Test Methods of Digital-to-Analog Converters Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05124352v1 Recent Challenges in the Fabrication of Vertical Silicon Nanowire Transistors Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05226474v1 Conformal prediction for regression models with asymmetrically distributed errors: application to aircraft navigation during landing maneuver Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05067937v1 Grey-Box Modelling of District Heating Networks Using Modified LPV Models Lien HAL : https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-05069780v1 New Wideband Large Aperture Open-Ended Coaxial Microwave Probe for Soil Dielectric Characterization Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05299251v1 Écosystème des start-up bordelaises : rhizomes et trampolines Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05100547v1 Low-cost carbazole and phenothiazine based trimer molecules as hole transporting materials for inverted perovskite solar cells Lien HAL : https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-05082202v1 Real-time energy-efficient software and hardware implementations of a QCSP communication system Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04406481v1 Terahertz biophotonics as a tool for studies of dielectric and spectral properties of biological tissues and liquids Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-01923488v1 Assessment of Ten Standardization-Based Calibration Transfer Techniques for Gas Sensors in a Small Data Context Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941431v1 Specialized Scalar and SIMD Instructions for Error Correction Codes Decoding on RISC-V Processors Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04891163v1 Design and control of a new electrostrictive polymer based continuum actuator for endoscopic robot Lien HAL : https://cnam.hal.science/hal-04069368v1 Relationship of Force–Velocity Profile between Field Sprints and Lab Ballistic or Cycling Ergometer for Wheelchair Basketball Players Lien HAL : https://amu.hal.science/hal-05017476v1 Assessment of Temperature of Ramgarh District, Jharkhand, India: A Case Study of Coalfield’s Temperature Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05178206v1 Developing safe and sustainable work activities in the industries of the future in metal additive manufacturing. A literature review of methods and proposals Lien HAL : https://hal.parisnanterre.fr/hal-05170347v1 Method of contact resistivity measurements at typical operating conditions for silicon heterojunction solar cells Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05029206v1 Fractional derivative truncation approximation for real-time applications Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04317777v1 Associations between individual and geospatial characteristics and power of 4G signals received by mobile phones Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05317361v1 Construire l’interopérabilité culturelle autour de la documentation et de l’information dans une communauté de pratique : le cas du domaine de l’éco construction Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935694v1 DistillH-Mamba: A Hypergraph-Mamba-Based Knowledge Distillation Model for Efficient Impact Fall Detection Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05322344v1 Pratiques informationnelles et sociétés en crise : le cas de la formation des enseignants en période de confinement Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05321402v1 Pratiques informationnelles et sociétés en crise : le cas de la formation des enseignants en période de confinement Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05002051v1

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FVLLMONTI: The 3D Neural Network Compute Cube $(N^{2}C^{2})$ Concept for Efficient Transformer Architectures Towards Speech-to-Speech Translation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05280340v1 Low temperature sintering strategies based on chemical reactivity and control of interfaces Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04884807v1 CLEO ® /Europe-EQEC 2025 Photo-mixing of chirped ultra-short optical pulses at 1 µm for the generation of broadband long THz pulses Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05068514v1 The Sequency Domain: a new Approach for Radio Frequency Front End Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05298922v1 High-Efficiency Walsh LMS-Based Digital Predistortion for RF Power Amplifiers Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05298894v1 Femtosecond laser-assisted free-form 3D printing on fiber tip for micro fluidic sensing applications Lien HAL : https://u-bordeaux.hal.science/hal-05296375v1 Reconstruction and mapping of the road profile from on-board sensors Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05320135v1 Electromagnetic Susceptibility of a Connected System Against Intentional Electromagnetic Interferences Assessment Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04976062v1 Contributions of digital twins services to the implementation of the circular economy Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04791820v1 Toward Hardware Spiking Neural Networks with Mixed-Signal Event-Based Learning Rules Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04886275v1 Robust control of 2-axis tracking antennas using the CRONE approach Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05153200v1 Digitally Enhancing Kanban Lean Practice to Support Just-in-Time Reconfigurable Supply: A Case Study Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941714v1 Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Supply Chain and Lean: Framework and Main Insights Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941721v1 Multiscale cross entropy rate as a way to compare signals: application to Gaussian ARMA processes Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05253965v1 A Switching Prescribed Performance Control Approach for Attitude Control of RLVs with Finite-Time Convergence Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05175391v1 Nonlinear Optimization Algorithm for Terahertz Phase Retrieval Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05163732v1 Rigid Body Modeling and Dynamic Flight Control of a Tethered Kite Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04930312v1 Selective THz mode generation in a PPLN waveguide via chirped and delayed laser pulses Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05163779v1 Designing light mars ascent vehicles Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04868698v1 Terahertz Spatiotemporal Imaging by Multiangle Beam Projection Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05068494v1 Handling Multiple Hypothese in Coarse-to-Fine Dense Image Matching Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05279684v1 Ancient enamel plate characterized by Time domain spectro imaging Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05039450v1 Reachability under Bounded Variations for Safety in Control Loops with Reinforcement Learning enhancing Fault Accommodation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05176192v1 Intégrer l'usage de ChatGPT dans des projets de traitement du signal Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05081531v1 Study of Stability through Lyapunov Theory and Passivity following a FDI on a Velocity Control System Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05320100v1 Design and measurement of voltage reference circuit by an equivalent MOSFET having different temperature coefficient of threshold voltage Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05298615v1 PTAT voltage generater-based voltage reference circuit without external bias voltage Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05298631v1
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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