The students from the first EMIMEP acaedmic year visited the PLATNOM Platform (Plateforme de technologies et d’instrumentation pour l’Optique et les Microonde) at Xlim Research Institute (EMIMEP associated partner) in Limoges on Tuesday 16 January 2024. The students had the opportunity to meet with the researchers working on a specific scientific domain and also the PhD, some of them, former EMIMEO/EMIMEP students.

« PLATINOM », « la PLATe forme de technologie et d’Instrumentation pour l’Optique et les Microondes » is the technological resource centre of Xlim, open to the academic and industrial partners of the laboratory. PLATINOM regroups an experimental means unit for characterisation and manufacturing, and the people who ensure their functioning and development. The students were enable to discover the characterisation means for antennae, Hyper frequencies and millimetrics circuits, and the fabrication of optical fibers, RF MEMS and electro-optical organics components available to the laboratory. Engineers, researchers and technicians have developed the instruments and technology, which are amongst the best in the world in their discipline, and are involved in numerous national and European research programmes.