Commissariat &#xc0; L'&#xc9;nergie Atomique Et Aux &#xc9;nergies Alternatives

Commissariat a L'energie Atomique

Centre National Detudes Spatiales

Andre Rouzaud

Xavier Baillin

Bernard Diem

Stephane Fanget

Gwenael Le Rhun

Jean-Philippe Polizzi

Joel Danroc

Jean-Jacques Favier

Pierre Juliet

Jean Comera

Pyroelectric detection device, including at least:

Pyroelectric detection device with rigid membrane

A microdevice encapsulation structure arranged in at least one cavity formed between a substrate and a cap rigidly attached to the substrate is provided, the cap including one layer of a first material, one face of which forms an inner wall of the cavity, and mechanical reinforcement portions rigidly attached at least to and partly covering said face, having gas absorption and/or adsorption properties, in which the Young's modulus of a second material of the mechanical reinforcement portions is higher than that of the first material, wherein each of said portions includes at least one first layer of the second material, and at least one second layer of a third metallic getter material such that the first layer of the second material is arranged between the layer of the first material and the second layer of the third material and/or is covered by the second layer of the third material.

Encapsulation structure including a mechanically reinforced cap and with a getter effect

This invention relates to a multi-layer material that comprises a substrate made of aluminum, magnesium or their alloys, having possibly been subjected to a surface treatment, this substrate being provided with a coating comprising a tungsten based deposit and an under-layer--inserted between said substrate and said deposit--of a material having mechanical and thermo-mechanical properties intermediate to those of said substrate and said deposit. This under-layer is made up of at least one layer of a material chosen from among chromium, molybdenum, niobium, titanium, zirconium, their nitrides and carbides, solid solutions of carbon and of nitrogen in said metals, and steels and greatly improves the adherence of said coating to said substrate. The invention also relates to the anti-erosion, anti-abrasion, anti-wear coating comprising said tungsten based deposit and said under-layer.

Multi-layer material with an anti-erosion, anti-abrasion, and anti-wear

An apparatus for use in solidification of a doped electrically conducting material and for use in monitoring said solidification is provided. The apparatus includes a first forming means for forming a liquid of undoped material in thermodynamic equilibrium with a solid of the undoped material, and a second forming means for forming a liquid of doped material in thermodynamic equilibrium with a solid of the doped material. Solidification of the conducting material occurs at a solidification interface between the doped liquid and the doped solid in the second forming means. In one preferred embodiment, the apparatus comprises a conductive bridge for short-circuiting the liquids.

Apparatus for the solidification of a doped electricity conducting

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Andre Rouzaud