Experimental platforms and resources for research

IMS platform

The technological IMS platform gathers the technological resources of the laboratory whose field of expertise lies at the border of the scientific departments of Engineering and Digital Sciences (SIN), Matter and Radiation Sciences (SMR) and Evaluation, Behavior, Organizations (ECOr). The platform includes 4 departments

Access conditions for projects external to the IMS Laboratory

Obviously, access to the IMS Platform is open to socio-economic actors. They must contact the technical/scientific manager of the platform to express their needs. The project will be treated either as a collaboration (with IP sharing) or as a service (without IP sharing). The legal details of IP sharing are handled by SATT AST (Aquitaine Science Transfert).

For external project demands, the users are directed to the technical managers who are in charge of establishing the quotation, the reports of studies and the customer follow-up. For invoicing, the technical managers rely on the financial department of ADERA or the IMS laboratory, depending on the payment.

The equipment reservation schedule is online on the IMS Laboratory intranet.

Interaction department

Whose activities revolve around studies in biology at the interface of physics (bioelectromagnetism) and electronics (bioelectronics) as well as research on the human factor and the use of technologies (physiological evaluation, virtual and augmented reality, cobotics, disability, etc.)

Complex systems department

whose activities are linked to Signal for digital communications (5G and beyond, but also low-speed, long-range systems such as LPWAN IoT systems), Images for onboard imaging in agriculture, which is based on research in computer vision, and Vehicles of the Future for the development of autonomous vehicles.

Integration department

whose activities are centered around three axes: electrical characterization and extraction of parameters of components and circuits in silicon or III-V technologies up to 500GHz, energy storage systems (Supercaps, Lithium batteries) in order to model aging from accelerated tests to identify failure modes and mm-THz Spectro-Imaging, tomography, multilayer thickness measurements. Radiation testing and fault finding on components and circuits using several laser lines.

Component department

whose activities allow the manufacturing of electronic, optoelectronic, optomechanical and electromechanical devices based on organic semiconductors and functional polymers (piezo-active, biomimetic, thermo-active, etc). This equipment is also equipped to study the physical mechanisms that govern the operation of organic devices. A second axis is dedicated to the evaluation of the reliability of optoelectronic and photonic devices subjected to severe environments.

Cross disciplinary resources

Shared ressources are divided in 4 units

Mechanical Workshop for prototyping
Microelectronics Assembly Technology to realize electric connection between the components and its support
Accelerated Ageing for reliability investigation of devices and systems
Microscopy and physico-chemical analyses

All these resources contribute to development of micro and nano technologies

Resources and Platforms