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February 06 2017

Slashing LED costs fourfold now possible

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LEDs developed under a joint research project between Leti and INAC could cost four times less to produce than competing products while generating three times more light. Ikea and Valeo are banking on it! The LEDs have not yet hit the market, but the two companies have purchased stakes in Aledia, the Grenoble-based startup that […] >>

February 06 2017

When transistors become very sensitive to light

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What do you get when you place a photodiode under the buried oxide of a FDSOI transistor? A transistor that is very sensitive to visible light! The transistor, developed and tested in laboratory conditions, was presented by Leti at the IEDM 2016 conference, where it garnered substantial interest. Because energy is transferred by capacitive coupling, […] >>

February 06 2017

International Space Station: Germs be gone!

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Long space missions present such a high risk of bacterial infection that astronauts spend 10% of their time cleaning! One of the objectives of the ISS Proxima mission (in which ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is participating) is to study five advanced antibacterial materials on board. Because the bacteria cannot adhere to the materials, they simply […] >>

December 06 2016

Leti working with GlobalFoundries on 22 nm FD-SOI

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FinFET and FD-SOI are currently neck-and-neck in the race to further miniaturize CMOS circuits beyond the 28 nm node. And major market players will play a key role in determining which technology wins. Leti, which has been betting on FD-SOI for years now, recently joined the 22FDXAccelerator ecosystem created by GlobalFoundries, the world’s second-largest foundry. […] >>

December 06 2016

Startup UroMems raises €14 million

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UroMems, a startup founded in 2011 and housed at the BHT, has just completed a very impressive round of fundraising, bringing in €14 million in fresh capital. The company’s product—an artificial urinary sphincter implant that can be placed near the urethra—is a breakthrough innovation that could potentially help the 50 million people worldwide currently suffering […] >>
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