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Researchers from Leti, Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, and Gemalto recently produced a smartcard pushbutton on a flexible material (PET) using inkjet printing. The technique differs from screen printing in that it does not require the use of masks. The researchers presented their results at the 2013 IEEE Holm Conference, where Daniele Sette, Ph.D. […] >>

Researchers from INAC and the Warsaw University of Technology have synthesized a polymer that spins when immersed in a solution. The material, made from a polyaniline-derived polymer, is stable at ambient temperature. The spin remains moderate (S=2), but marks a first for a linear polymer. And, given the polymer’s current tangled-chain structure, there’s ample room […] >>

Docea Power’s decision to set up a joint lab with Leti turned out to be a smart one! Three years into the collaboration, the company has validated modelling capabilities for the heat performance of 2D and 3D multicore circuits and applied them to two real-life cases. The margin of error is less than 5%, a […] >>

A five-person film crew spent a day in Leti’s clean rooms in October making a video on how block copolymers—compounds developed by Arkema—are used in a new nanolithography process. The video was commissioned by Arkema, which also runs a joint laboratory with Leti. It is part of a series of eight-minute videos (available on YouTube) […] >>

Fluoptics raised €2 million from business angels in September, which it will use to market its Fluobeam® system for several clinical applications in the United States, Asia, and Europe. The Fluobeam® fluorescence imaging system already has the CE marking for medical devices and should get FDA approval in early 2014; approval is pending in several […] >>