Established 2004 Website FEMTO-ST.fr/en Phone +33 3 81 66 64 00 | President Nicolas Chaillet Date founded 2004 Number of members 700 | |
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Address Besançon Astronomical Observatory, 16 Route de Gray, 25000 Besançon, France Similar FEMTO ‑ST, UFR Sciences et Techniqu, Ufr Smp Université De Franc, Laboratoire d'Informat, Besançon Astronom Observat | ||
The FEMTO-ST Institute (Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies) is a mixed research unit associated with CNRS (UMR 6174) and attached simultaneously with:
Contents
- History
- Departments
- Energy department
- Micro Nano Sciences and Systems Department MN2S
- Complex Systems Computer Science Department DISC
- Time and Frequency Department
- Automatic Control and Micro Mechatronic Systems Department
- Applied Mechanics Department
- Optics Department
- Research quality evaluation
- References
History
This institut is created on 1 January 2004 for the five laboratories merging of Franche-Comté on the domains of mechanics, optics and telecommunications, electronics, time and frequency, energy and fluids. In [2011] the Computer Science from the UFC is incorporated, which became the 7th department in the institute, whose total number of members is now over 600. Two years later, as a part of the TEMIS Science project, the extension works in the cleanroom fishines, by increasing its area on 865 m² more to its initial extension. In 2014, the second part of the project is completed by the inauguration of the new building which hosts the headquarters and the departments of Optics and MN2S.
FEMTO-ST has become also one of the biggest research institute in the field of science of engineering in France. It has presence over Franche-Comté on the three geographical sites Besançon, Belfort and Montbéliard.
Departments
FEMTO-ST Institute is formed by 7 departments.
Energy department
It studies the production systems of conversion and storing of thermal and electric energy.
- Static converters
- Fuel cell systems
- PHIL – Power Hardware in the Loop
- Control and Management of Energy
- Electric actuators
- Metrology and Instrumentation in Fluidics and Thermal Science
- Thermal Science in energy systems
- Heat engines
- Complex flows
Micro Nano Sciences and Systems Department (MN2S)
The MN2S is a department of FEMTO-ST specialized in the research on micro and nano instrumentation, nanoscience, micro and nano acoustics, microsystems and multiphysics and the micro and nanomaterials and surface. The department is located in Besançon, Montbéliard and Belfort.
Research teams :
Complex Systems Computer Science Department (DISC)
The research performed at the department are focused on E-health, micro and nanosystems dedicated to health, information safety on the complex systems, MiDi Micro and distributed intelligent nanosystems, and the transport and mobility services. The department is located in Besançon, Montéliard and Belfort.
Research teams :
Time and Frequency Department
This department is specialized on high stalibity oscillators, acoustical-electronicals and piezoelectrics, and time-frequency metrology. It is composed by three teams:
Automatic Control and Micro-Mechatronic Systems Department
This department is specialized in robotics, mechatronics, automatic control and artificial intelligence.
It is composed of four teams :
Applied Mechanics Department
The Applied Mechanics Department is focus on two main areas, which are :
It then counts 11 teams, working on these 2 research areas.
Optics Department
The Optics Department works on nanometrology, near-field microscopy, integrated optics in lithium niobate, ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics and opto-electronic dynamics.
Research groups :
Research quality evaluation
The institut has got an A+ score from an evaluation performed by AERES in 2010, placing the institut in the list of the 30% heading research laboratories for engineering science in France.