Stéphane BURIGNAT

2009-- :
Post-doctorat
(Research Grant)

Electronics and Information Systems department - Gent University (Belgium)

Administrative responsibilities     
- Writing of projects ("FWO - Krediet aan navorser") and participation to the writing of a collaborative FP7 project,
- Organisation of the conférence RC2011 (3^rd International Workshop on Reversible Computation of july 2011),
- Thesis manager of two ERASMUS students.

Scientific manager for the design of reversible circuit in the framework of the "Micropower" project     
- Prototype realization of reversible circuits in 350 nm CMOS technology
     Synthesis, design and test of reversible digital (quantum) circuits to be used in adiabatic computation: "Cuccaro" Adder, H264/AVC encoder,
- Synthesis, design and test of new reversibleelementary gates and building of a standard library for reversible ASICs design, (in progress)
- Installation des outils de conception CADENCE pour les futurs circuits prévus en 130 nm (in progress).

Research on interfacing reversible circuits with other technologies     
- Design of electronic boards for interfacing reversible circuit with a conventional CMOS ASIC circuit (XILINX Spartan-3E),
- Search for new partnerships in the domain of biomedical and optical applications (sensors, antena etc.).

Research page on
"Reversible computation"

2007-2009 :
Post-doctorat
Research Assistant

Université Catholique de Louvain - Electromagnetics MIcrowave Communication Laboratory (EMIC) (Belgium)

Picoseconds laser integration
- Study and writing of a tender for a picoseconds laser micromachine,
- Search for futur applicaions to be integrated in the contexte of the technological plateform WINFAB and the electrical characterization plateform WELCOME,
- Identification of missing electrical characterization needs for futur laser-related applications (i.e. low frequency electrical measurement bench to study very thin layers and very low impédences),
- Search for partnerships and collaboration,

Study of advanced SOI Transistors
- Study of sub-45 nm fully-depleted Transistor with very thin buried oxide (Ultra-Thin Body and BOX: UTBB or UTB²),
- Study of the impact of the space charge conditions in the substrate of UTB² SOI transistors: ATLAS simulations, developpement of parameter extraction routines, electrical characterization,

Technical and scientific co-teachning and training of a Ph.D Student
- Technical and scientific trainning of M. Mohd Kairuddin Md ARSHAD, Ph.D student at the EMIC Lab, under the supervision of Pr. Jean-Pierre RASKIN, for the electrical characterization, ATLAS modeling, parameters extractions and the study of SOI UTB² transistors,

Study of polymer membranes in the microwave range for full cells applications
- Study and test of an hyperfrequency range electrical characterization bench with a climate chamber,
- Electrical characterization of Nafion based polymer membranes.

Research Page on
"Comparative Study
of
UTB and UTB²
Transistors"

2006-2007 :
Post-doctorat with CNRS

Lyon's Institute of Nanotechnologies (INL-France)

S. Burignat, Design of elementary circuits using emerging nanodevices. CNRS Postdoctoral Report, CNRS UMR 5511 - Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL), (2007), Ecully, France, 62 pages.

2004-2006 :
Post-doctorat at INSA de Lyon

2000-2004 :
Ph.D at INSA de Lyon

S. Burignat, Transport mechanisms, ultra-low leakage current and retention in non-volatile floating gate memories, Ph.D Thesis,, INSA de Lyon, Decembre 10^th 2004, Villeurbanne - France, French..

1999-2000 :
M.Sc. at INSA de Lyon

1998-1999:
M.Sc. at INSA de Lyon

1997-1998:
Master of Physics
Université Claude Bernard
Lyon 1