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 Prof. Olivier Bonnaud University Rennes 1 and Supelec-Rennes, France |
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| Title: Skills in physics and semiconductor devices: a global challenge for digital society | |
| Abstract: The number of connected objects and therefore IoT devices that invade our daily lives is growing exponentially. These objects are based on electronics in the form of elementary components, circuits and hybrid and complex integrated systems. Electronics must therefore respond to an exponential growth in the number of circuits, components per circuit, data transmitted, stored and processed in data centers. As a corollary, the energy consumed by operators, servers and users follows the same law of growth. In the coming years, the main challenges will be to slow down these exponential growths by improving the design and architecture of components, circuits and systems for processing and transmitting information. These challenges require the acquisition of skills based on knowledge and know-how, and an increase in the pool of future competent and innovative players. This approach is part of the strategy led by the national academic training network which, by pooling the skills of trainers and technological platforms at the French level, aims to meet the needs of companies within the framework of a Recovery Plan for the Electronic Sector. After a presentation of the context and the consequences on the technical challenges, and after several approaches proposed, the actions carried out by the national network of microelectronics are detailed and illustrated with several examples of realizations and results. | |
| Biography: Olivier Bonnaud, born in 1950 in France, student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay and doctor in microelectronics, he became in 1984 full professor in this field at the University of Rennes 1 and Supelec ("Grande Ecole”), where he created a research laboratory in Microelectronics which he runs until 2013, and several masters and doctoral courses. In this context, he has supervised 43 PhDs, published or presented more than 580 papers and 7 books. Founder in 1985 of a regional interuniversity microelectronics common center (CCMO), he was its director until 2010, when he was appointed by the French Minister of Higher Education as executive director of the "National Coordination for Education in Microelectronics and Nanotechnologies", a network of 12 French interuniversity training centers which host about 17,000 students per year for practical training on technological platforms. President of scientific associations and of the National University Council, evaluator for several research and higher education agencies, since 2013, he has been an emeritus professor and as part of his many international cooperations, selected for the “1000 talents” program by the Chinese government. Since then, he is visiting professor at the Southeast University in Nanjing. | |
