Publications

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ProNGF promotes brain metastasis through TrkA/EphA2 induced Src activation in triple negative breast cancer cells

Julien Cicero, Sarah Trouvilliez, Martine Palma, Gaetan Ternier, Laurine Decoster, Eloise Happernegg, Nicolas Barois, Alexandre van Outryve, Lucie Dehouck, Roland P Bourette, Eric Adriaenssens, Chann Lagadec, Cagatay Mehmet Tarhan, Dominique Collard, Zied Souguir, Elodie Vandenhaute, Grégory Maubon, François Sipieter, Nicolas Borghi, Fumitaka Shimizu, Takashi Kanda, Paolo Giacobini, Fabien Gosselet, Nathalie Maubon, Xuefen Le Bourhis, Isabelle van Seuningen, Caroline Mysiorek, Robert-Alain Toillon

Background Triple-Negative Breast Cancer is particularly aggressive, and its metastasis to the brain has a significant psychological impact on patients' quality of life, in addition to reducing survival. The development of brain metastases is particularly harmful in triple-negative breast…

Experimental Hematology & Oncology, 2023, 12 (1), pp.104. ⟨10.1186/s40164-023-00463-6⟩. ⟨hal-04334490v2⟩

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Driver's Facial Expression Recognition Using Global Context Vision Transformer

Ibtissam Saadi, Douglas Cunningham, Abdelmalik Taleb-Ahmed, Abdenour Hadid, Yassin El Hillali

Driver's facial expression recognition plays a critical role in enhancing driver safety, comfort, and overall driving experience by proactively mitigating potential road risks. While most existing works in this domain rely on CNN - based approaches, this paper proposes a novel method for…

2023 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence (CVMI), Dec 2023, Gwalior, India. pp.1-8, ⟨10.1109/CVMI59935.2023.10464794⟩. ⟨hal-04673682⟩

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Ruthenium Oxide Nanoparticles Immobilized on Ti3C2 MXene Nanosheets for Boosting Seawater Electrolysis

Yi Zhang, Zhaohui Zhang, Zhiran Yu, Ahmed Addad, Qi Wang, Pascal Roussel, Sabine Szunerits, Rabah Boukherroub

Seawater electrolysis represents a viable alternative for large-scale synthesis of hydrogen (H2), which is recognized as the most promising clean energy source, without relying on scarce fresh water. However, high energy cost and harmful chlorine chemistry in seawater limited its development.…

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15 (50), pp.58345-58355. ⟨10.1021/acsami.3c12254⟩. ⟨hal-04369028⟩

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Structural plasticity for neuromorphic networks with electropolymerized dendritic PEDOT connections

Kamila Janzakova, Ismael Balafrej, Ankush Kumar, Nikhil Garg, Corentin Scholaert, Jean Rouat, Dominique Drouin, Yannick Coffinier, Sébastien Pecqueur, Fabien Alibart

Neural networks are powerful tools for solving complex problems, but finding the right network topology for a given task remains an open question. Biology uses neurogenesis and structural plasticity to solve this problem. Advanced neural network algorithms are mostly relying on synaptic plasticity…

Nature Communications, 2023, 14 (1), pp.040202. ⟨10.1038/s41467-023-43887-8⟩. ⟨hal-04348649⟩

• THESE

Novel Hybrid Approach to 2 step SAR Assisted ADC with Bidirectional Digital Slope for Low Power Applications, Nouvelle approche du SAR hybride à 2 étages, assisté d'une pente digitale bidirectionnelle pour des applications à faible consommation d'énergie

Jean-Baptiste Casanova

In a context of increasingly connected objects, the creation of low-power radio reception chains is becoming a challenge. As an industrial partnership Ph.D between STMicroelectronics and IEMN lab, this thesis studies the ADC performance challenge in order to alleviate the constraints of the…, Dans un contexte d'objets toujours plus connectés, la réalisation de chaînes de réception radio faible consommation devient un défi. Dans le cadre d'un financement Cifre ST-IEMN, cette thèse aborde l'enjeu des performances de l'ADC afin d'alléger les contraintes de la…

Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics. Université de Lille, 2023. English. ⟨NNT : 2023ULILN044⟩. ⟨tel-04539403⟩

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Fabrication et optimisation des caractéristiques thermiques de diodes Schottky de la filière GaAs et reportées sur SiHR pour des applications de multiplication de fréquences, Fabrication and optimization of thermal characteristics of GaAs schottky diodes transferred on SiHR for frequency multipliers applications

Hugo Bouillaud

Les besoins exponentiels liés aux applications exploitant le domaine THz nécessitent d'accroitre l'éventail des sources disponibles et d'optimiser leur fabrication. Dans ce travail de thèse, nous nous sommes intéressés aux diodes schottky en vue de la réalisation de multiplicateurs…, The exponential needs associated with applications exploiting the THz domain require to expand the range of available sources and optimize their fabrication processes. In this thesis, we focused on schottky diodes for its use as frequency multipliers. Our experimental research involved optimizing…

Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique. Université de Lille, 2023. Français. ⟨NNT : 2023ULILN043⟩. ⟨tel-04538269⟩

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A multiscale mechanical study of flax stems and fibres for the development of an in-the-field tool capable of predicting optimum retting, Une étude mécanique multi-échelle des tiges et des fibres de lin pour le développement d'un outil de terrain capable de prédire le rouissage optimal

Ali Reda

Agriculture 4.0, also known under several aliases such as ‘digital agriculture', ‘smart farming', and ‘e-farming' is currently developing rapidly in terms of research, development, and commercial applications. As with Agriculture 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, the objective of Agriculture 4.0 is…, L'agriculture 4.0 se développe actuellement rapidement en termes de recherche, de développement et d'applications commerciales. L'objectif de l'agriculture 4.0 est d'utiliser la technologie pour améliorer tous les domaines de l'agriculture. L'agriculture 4.0 est…

Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics. Université de Lille, 2023. English. ⟨NNT : 2023ULILN055⟩. ⟨tel-04951592⟩

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Electromagnetic Field Exposure Reconstruction by Artificial Intelligence, Reconstruction de l’exposition aux champs électromagnétiques à l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle

Mohammed Tariqul Hassan Mallik

The topic of exposure to electromagnetic fields has received muchattention in light of the current deployment of the fifth generation(5G) cellular network. Despite this, accurately reconstructing theelectromagnetic field across a region remains difficult due to a lack ofsufficient data. In situ…, Le sujet de l'exposition aux champs électromagnétiques a fait l'objetd'une grande attention à la lumière du déploiement actuel du réseaucellulaire de cinquième génération (5G). Malgré cela, il reste difficilede reconstituer avec précision le champ électromagnétique dans unerégion…

Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics. Université de Lille, 2023. English. ⟨NNT : 2023ULILN052⟩. ⟨tel-04835103⟩

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Development of a Nano-robotics and Automated Microwave On-Wafer Probe Station, Développement d’une station de mesure hyperfréquence sous pointes nano-robotisée et automatisée

Cerine Mokhtari

In the general context of the European nanoelectronics industry, it is necessary to develop new on-wafer characterisation techniques and instruments for precise and fine validation of circuits designed for high-frequency (HF) applications. To advance the miniaturisation of HF devices, new…, Dans le contexte général de l'industrie européenne de la nanoélectronique, il est nécessaire de développer de nouvelles techniques et de nouveaux instruments de caractérisation sous pointes pour la validation précise et fine de circuits destinés à des applications haute fréquence (HF). Pour…

Micro and nanotechnologies/Microelectronics. Université de Lille, 2023. English. ⟨NNT : 2023ULILN053⟩. ⟨tel-04573897⟩

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Investigation of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotube Arrays as Building Blocks for mm-Wave Waveguide Devices

Xinghai Zhao, Rongtao Jiang, Chong Wei Tan, Lucas Lum Yuxiang, Philippe Coquet, Dominique Baillargeat, Beng Kang Tay

2023 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Dec 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. pp.754-756, ⟨10.1109/APMC57107.2023.10439748⟩. ⟨hal-04506633⟩