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April 01 2016
Partnership: MINATEC goes to Argentina
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MINATEC and Argentina’s Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Industrial (INTI) signed a partnership agreement on February 26 in Buenos Aires. INTI, which has several technical centers across the country, offers R&D and technological support services to businesses. It also provides both educational programs and certification services. The partnership will help INTI acquire the know-how it needs […] >>
April 01 2016
Professor Pierre Gentil dies at 70
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- Life @ MINATEC
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Although some of MINATEC’s younger researchers may not know who he was, Professor Pierre Gentil, who died in early March at age 70, played a major role in the development of microelectronics in Grenoble, elsewhere in France, and further afield. A graduate of ENSERG, he conducted research in the area of transistor reliability and electronic […] >>
April 01 2016
Startup: Motion Recall targets consumer virtual reality
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- Innovation & Society
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Motion Recall, established at the beginning of 2016 by four partners from Leti and Delta Drone, is developing a GoPro-type action cam with novel virtual reality features. Users can film activities like hang-gliding and mountain climbing and later interact with the video footage, choosing an alternative viewing angle, adding real or fictitious characters to the […] >>
April 01 2016
Smart Force Technologies makes using nanoparticles easier
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Since 2006 LTM has been working on technologies to control the placement of nanoparticles on a surface. The lab’s reputation has grown so much that it receives numerous outside requests—so many in fact that a startup, Smart Force Technologies, was set up by seven partners, including two of the lab’s former Ph.D. students, in late […] >>
April 01 2016
Phelma Polygone moves to new quarters
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- Life @ MINATEC
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Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma permanently vacated its Polygone site on Avenue des Martyrs in February and has moved into its new quarters: the Phelma 2 MINATEC buildings, which were delivered in late 2015. The move took two weeks and was no mean feat; certain exam sittings and classes had to be moved to other locations […] >>