Joint Laboratories
SMART FACET
Joint laboratory between Institut FOTON and 3SP.
Keywords: mirror layers; laser diodes; emissive facet; optical power; passivation treatment
The combination of the Institut FOTON laboratory in Rennes, an international expert in research into materials and technologies for advanced semiconductor laser sources, and 3SP Technologies, a world leader in the development and production of pump laser diodes at 980 nm, will make it possible to address the various operational objectives of the ‘Smart Facets’ project. The work envisaged is organised into tasks covering the various processes for treating the emissive facets of these wafer-emitting components, as well as the characterisation of materials and components at the various stages of the manufacturing process, through to qualification and reliability analysis.
CHEMINTAG
The research programme of the joint ChemInTag (Chemical Inorganic Taggants) laboratory between the INSA Rennes component of the CSM team of the UMR ISCR (CNRS/Université de Rennes 1/INSA Rennes/ENSC Rennes) and the company Olnica, has 2 objectives:
- understanding the mechanisms governing the luminescence of rare-earth-based coordination polymers and the search for new high-performance systems;
- technology transfer and the development of the most promising systems with a view to bringing them to market.
‘INSA Rennes is strongly committed to the production of these shared facilities for creation, innovation and sustainable collaboration with local companies. In particular, this new joint laboratory will enable us to develop quality and traceability markers to combat counterfeiting,’ says M'Hamed Drissi, former Director of INSA Rennes.
‘Our group has played a pioneering role in the field of luminescent coordination polymers that can be used to mark materials. With this joint laboratory, we want to strengthen our collaboration with Olnica and create a centre of excellence in this field in Rennes,’ says Olivier Guillou, University Professor at INSA Rennes and member of the Rennes Institute of Chemical Sciences.
‘The creation of this joint laboratory is the logical next step in pooling the experience we have gained over the past 10 years in the field of traceability of raw materials and industrial products. We need to anticipate tomorrow's requirements for greater transparency and consumer protection’,Nicolas Kerbellec, Chairman of Olnica.
Research Chairs
FREEINBTP Chair: Research and Innovation Training for the Building and Public Works Sector
Like society as a whole, the construction industry is on the cusp of a major transformation in its practices, with the aim of integrating environmental and ecological issues into the design process. The building sector, which is highly traditional, is not yet sufficiently prepared for this change, despite the fact that work on standards has been underway for a long time, and has been taken as far as application guides by the CSTB.
Faced with the sector's lack of appetite for innovation, as highlighted in the conclusions of the report by the National Assembly's information mission on the thermal renovation of buildings, published on 10 February 2021, the dynamism of academic research in civil engineering offers solutions and ways of accelerating change.
In the Rennes region, the work of the LGCGM research unit, supported by a number of pioneering industrial partners in the Greater West of France, is beginning to bear fruit. The results obtained by this research unit on the characteristics of bio-sourced materials for use in insulation, raw earth, green cements, mixed wood-concrete structural elements, thermal break systems, etc. call for continued characterisation work and intensified technology transfer to industry.
This transfer currently exists :
- by opening up the unit's infrastructure to services, through the PFT GCM Technology Platform;
- through the Campus des Métiers et Qualifications CMQ BdB, to higher and secondary education;
- through research partnerships, including CIFRE theses.
In the latter case, the benefits of creating this expertise are limited by the lack of mastery of certification processes, which require specific knowledge that is not available in SMEs and ETIs. The FREEINBTP project therefore aims to boost the local transfer dynamic by:
- to take scientific work on various structural systems aimed at reducing environmental impact through to industrialisation, drawing on LGCGM's scientific expertise and the certification skills developed within the ANR B-HYBRID LabCom and the REEXPERIENCE project. The FREEINBTP industrial chair is a logical development of these two projects. The LabCom, which has united LGCGM and the LEGENDRE group, represented here by its current innovation subsidiary INGENOVA, since 2015, has taken two innovations through to certification and industrialisation. The tripartite REEXPERIENCE project is an extension of the LabCom since 2019, with the additional contribution of COHB industries;
- offer training, open to all doctoral students in the future SPI doctoral schools in Brittany and Pays de Loire:
> certification procedures
> techniques for presenting scientific evidence in these procedures;
> to develop skills in taking account of carbon impact, with a scientific approach that goes beyond the current normative framework, in order to train experts in this aspect centrally.