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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 the Institute for Engineering and Systems Sciences (INSIS) and the Institute for Information Sciences and Technologies (INS2I).

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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 ten research themes including bioelectronics, cognitics, productics, signal and image, automatic, conception, reliability, nanoelectronics, 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 Seminar 2025: Building Bridges Between Scientific Research and Education

Research and education lie at the heart of the IMS Laboratory’s mission.
Over the course of three days, the 2025 seminar brought together the IMS research groups’ leaders and coordinators of educational programs linked to the lab. The goal was to build stronger connections by encouraging meaningful discussions and shared moments of conviviality. “By its very […]

17 Apr 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Bruno NECKEL WESLING - April 23, 2025

Scaling has been used as the way to achieve the goals of improving field-effect transistors (FETs) technology in the past several decades, making it more powerful and efficient. The scaling tends to end due to physical limits and it drives the new approaches to increase transistor and circuit functionalities. Juctionless vertical nanowire field effect transistors […]

16 Apr 2025
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THESIS DEFENSE of Antoine SIEBERT - April 2, 2025

Increasing demands on military radio communications are making wireless transmissions more complex, requiring robust signal equalization via accurate channel estimation. AI goes beyond the limits of conventional methods, but its integration in an embedded environment is constrained by power consumption and computational cost. This thesis aims to improve an AI-based signal processing algorithm and optimize […]

28 Mar 2025
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OVERPRINT

The objectives of OVERPRINT are focused on the drastic reduction of the electronic wastes. We focusses our effort on photovoltaics and photodetectors. Our approach is based on the use of biomaterials for the construction of the devices. 1.New substrates, encapsulants and glues will be synthesized from biomaterials 2.New device architecture will be implemented for photodetectors 3.Life […]

27 Mar 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 10 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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Administrative department

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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

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Articles (24)

Variance component analysis to assess protein quantification in biomarker validation: application to selected reaction monitoring-mass spectrometry Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-02531646v1 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 Critical-time metric for risk analysis against sharp input anomalies: Computation and application case study Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04929762v1 StreamPU: A DSEL for high throughput and low latency software‐defined radio on multicore CPUs Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04156404v4 Source Separation Using Sensor’s Frequency Response: Theory and Practice on Carbon Nanotubes Sensors Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-02453566v1 Design collaboratif d’un dispositif de médiation du patrimoine : expérimentation en contexte d’éducation artistique et culturelle Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935679v1 La présence à distance dans les pratiques enseignantes : le cas des robots de téléprésence Lien HAL : https://shs.hal.science/halshs-02933757v1 Practical identification approach for the actuation dynamics of autonomous surface vehicles with minimal instrumentation Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04942217v1 Pratiques informationnelles et sociétés en crise : le cas de la formation des enseignants en période de confinement Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05002051v1 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 On-the-Fly Learning With Mixed-Mode Spiking Neural Network and Passive Memristive Array: Application to Neuromorphic Cameras Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04886290v1 Multilayer spintronic neural networks with radiofrequency connections Lien HAL : https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04270425v1 Artificial Intelligence non-invasive methods for neonatal jaundice detection: A review Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04973774v1 From Struggle to Strength: Coping with Abusive Supervision in Project Teams through Proactive Behavior and Team Building Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941274v1 Multi-user centered design: acceptance, user experience, user research and user testing Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-02524022v1 An Information-Content Based Measure of Proliferation As a Proxi for Structural Complexity Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941615v1 Task Partitioning and Orchestration on Heterogeneous Edge Platforms: The Case of Vision Applications Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04901292v1 Prendre en compte la dimension communicationnelle dans l’étude des pratiques informationnelles : éléments de réflexion et exemples dans le secteur éducatif français Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935664v1 A Method To Support Joint Integration of Lean Manufacturing and Industry 4.0 Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941231v1 Enseignements sur les enjeux environnementaux et les impacts du numérique dans une école d'ingénieurs Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05022255v1 Les enjeux de la médiation des savoirs dans les fablabs ou comment requalifier l’espace par l’activité en SIC Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04935642v1 Toward Distributed and Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G Networks Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04987589v1 Fractional Dynamical Behaviour Modelling Using Convolution Models with Non-Singular Rational Kernels: Some Extensions in the Complex Domain Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05030024v1

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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 LE POISSON-ZÈBRE : UNE AIDE RAPIDE À L’INTERPRÉTATION DES VARIANTS RARES DANS LA SLA Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04916241v1 Methodology for Optimizing Ethernet Links at 10 and 25 Gbps for Critical Systems in the Aerospace Environment Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05010038v1 Love wave acoustic sensor as a multisensing device in liquids Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05022277v1 Implementation of low temperature processing of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics for energy harvesting: strategies and challenges Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04884701v1 Interplay between chemistry and unconventional sintering processes to design electroceramics at low temperature Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04884742v1 An improved 3D skeletons UP-Fall dataset: enhancing data quality for efficient impact fall detection Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04973784v1 Grafted interlayers and water-based processes: improving stability and sustainability of organic photovoltaics Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04910019v1 Method to study risk perception in aircraft maintenance Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04962764v1 Robust Crone design for a variable-ratio planetary gearing in a variable speed wind turbine Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04649346v1 Neuromorphic Event-based Line Detection on SpiNNaker Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04886230v1 De 1% à 19%, histoire des principales avancées du photovoltaïque organique et futures direction Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04899600v1 Approche pragmatique des espaces vécus Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04886480v1 Towards measurements of global coefficient of thermal expansion of QFN Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04965121v1 Improving Learning In Scientific Higher Education: Towards Outcomes Benchmark to Enhance Creativity Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04941751v1 Impact of Spark Plasma Sintering conditions on microstructural and Electrical Properties of (K 0.5 ,Na 0.5 )NbO 3 (KNN) Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04886163v1 Influence of transient flux and heating rate on low-temperature sintering KNN ceramics by SPS Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04891757v1 Assessment of the shielding efficiency of FDM-produced continuous carbon fiber composites Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-05008868v1 Fine tuning of organic semiconductor nanoparticles size and morphology for efficient water-processed organic solar cells Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04902260v1 Electromechanical Coupling Coefficient: New Approach to Study Auxetic Piezoelectric Harvesters Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04867028v1 A 860mV and 73.5Ppm/°C Voltage Reference that Relies on Back-Gate Biasing Techniques in 28nm FD-SOI Technology Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04945900v1 Green process for organic solar cells: water-based organic semiconductor nanoparticle dispersions Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04902231v1 Water-based organic semiconductor nanoparticles dispersions: an environmentally friendly route for organic photovoltaics Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04899983v1 Life Cycle Assessment of piezoelectric materials used for energy harvesting systems PZT versus KNN Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04891831v1 Toward High Efficiency Water-based OPV: Controlling Nanoparticles Morphology Lien HAL : https://hal.science/hal-04899077v1
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 l’Institut des Sciences de l’Ingénierie et des Systèmes et en secondaire à l’Institut des Sciences de l’Information et de leurs Interactions .

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