ETIENNE PERRET

Professor in Electrical Engineering

Keywords: Antenna, wave and propagation, Numerical methods for EM solvers

In charge of the following Esisar's courses:

• Advanced RF System Simulation (5AMEP513)
• RF System Design (5AMPEP50)

Bibliography

Etienne Perret received the Eng. Dipl. degree in electrical engineering from the ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, in 2002, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Toulouse Institute of Technology, Toulouse, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. He was appointed Associate Professor in 2006 and Full Professor in 2022 in electrical engineering at Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP, France. He has authored or co-authored over 250 technical conference papers, letters, journal papers, books, and book chapters. His works have generated more than 6000 citations. His current research interests include wireless communication systems based on the principle of backscatter modulation or backscattering of EM waves, especially in the field of RFID and chipless RFID for identification and sensors. His research also includes electromagnetic modeling of passive devices for millimeter and submillimeter-wave applications, along with advanced computer-aided design techniques based on the development of an automated co-design synthesis computational approach. 

Research topics

• Keywords : 

  Microwave circuits - Antennas - RF modelling - Wireless RF characterisation - Radar approach - Backscattering wireless-powered communications - RFID - RFID chipless – CBRAM - PCM

• Projects :

I'm interested in wireless RF technologies and signals for communication, signal processing, and measurement, characterization, and measurement by back-modulation and/or back-scattering (identification, sensor).

Current themes: 1) Micro Doppler backscatter techniques for identifying and characterizing physical quantities. 2) RFID Chipless: secure applications, identification, sensors, write/rewrite functions, gesture recognition. 3) PCM and Memristor technology for RF and mmW applications.

The ORSYS Group is one of the world's leading players in chipless RFID, focusing on the technology as a whole, i.e. the tag and the reader. I've gained international recognition in this field. To differentiate itself from the barcode, this chipless RFID technology must be able to offer more functionalities in the future, while retaining a certain reading flexibility that is inherent in the use of electromagnetic waves to interrogate the tag. Through the ERC scattererID and ERC POC projects RFmatCarac, the aim is to develop a wireless RF characterization concept, halfway between the use of the principle of resonant cavities and that of a quasi-optical approach in free space. The idea is to develop a reflectometry technique based on the use of resonant scatterers. From an application point of view, the printed tag, which is not only identifiable but also rewritable, has a sensor function enabling a user to interact with an electronic system.

• Distinctions and awards :

  • Fellow IEEE 2026.

  • ERC Proof of Concept holder (2024) project RFmatCarac.

  • Grand Prix de l’Electronique Général Ferrié 2021

  • Prix Espoir IMT – Académie des sciences 2020. 

  • IEEE MTT-S 2019 Outstanding Young Engineer Award for outstanding early career contributions to chipless RF identification of objects in an unknown environment. 

  • ERC Consolidate Grant holder (2017) project ScattererID 

  • SEE/IEEE Leon Brillouin Award (2016) “for his outstanding achievement in the identification of an object in an unknown environment using a chipless label or tag”. 

  • “Institut Universitaire de France” Junior and Senior Member (IUF). 

  • MIT Technology Review’s French innovator under 35 (2013). 

  • Prix des Techniques Innovantes pour l'Environnement (Pollutec Innovation Awards) (2013).

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