General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-25-0647
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Technological challenges
Thesis topics
RF Circuit Designfor Zero Energy Communication
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Our ambition for 6G communication is to drastically reduce the Energy in IoT. For that purpose we aim at developing an integrated circuit enabling zero Energy communication.
The objective of this PhD is to design this circuit in FD-SOI and operating in the 2.4 GHz. In this PhD, we propose to use a new design technique which is currently revolutionizing the radio-frequency design. We expect that many innovations can be carried out during this PhD by combining those two innovations.
The candidate will integrate a large design team and he will participate in collaborative project at european level. As a first step, he will analyze the system constraints to choose the best architecture and derive the specifications. Then, he will formalize mathematically the performances of the backscattering technique in order to setup a design methodology. Then he will be working full time on circuit design, sending to fabrication two circuits in 22 um technology. He will be also involve in the test of the circuit as well as in the preparation of a demonstrator of the backscattering techniques. We expect to publish several papers in high level conferences.
University / doctoral school
Electronique, Electrotechnique, Automatique, Traitement du Signal (EEATS)
Université Grenoble Alpes
Thesis topic location
Site
Grenoble
Requester
Position start date
01/10/2025
Person to be contacted by the applicant
MORCHE Dominique
dominique.morche@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DSYS/STSF/LAIR
CEA-Grenoble
LETI/DSYS/STSF/LAIR
MINATEC Campus 17, rue des Martyrs
F-38054 Grenoble Cedex 9
33 4 38785403
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
BOURDEL Sylvain
sylvain.bourdel@minatec.inpg.fr
Grenoble INP
IMEP-LAHC
04.56.52.95.70
En savoir plus
https://www.leti-cea.fr/cea-tech/leti/Pages/recherche-appliquee/plateformes/plateforme-telecommunications.aspx
https://youtu.be/B6yqesaVMm4?si=vV9F2kimm7ebLUDk