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CEA-Leti will soon finish fabricating its record-breaking bolometric detectors for the SPICA space mission. Designed by CEA-IRFU, the detectors are 100 times more sensitive than those on the Herschel satellite launched in 2009. These new detectors simultaneously measure the total intensity of cosmic rays and the intensity of each polarization component. Characterization of the first […] >>

Startup Avalun, which calls the MINATEC High-Tech Building its home, released its Covid-19 antigen test a few days ago. This powerful growth driver will also help speed up the rollout of Avalun’s portable lab, LabPad® Evolution. At the start of 2020, Avalun had plans to roll out its LabPad® INR in six regions across France […] >>

On October 1, 2020 Grenoble INP won the “Most Committed School Award” for its Genre INP’lication project at the CDEFI* 10th annual Ingénieuses women in engineering competition. The award-winning project to improve gender representation is led by Céline Ternon, who heads gender equity programs at Grenoble INP. Genre INP’lication encompassed awareness-raising activities at several Grenoble […] >>

Two Grenoble-Alpes University faculty members, also scientists at Irig, became members of the learned society Institut universitaire de France on October 1, 2020 for a five-year term. They were selected for their excellence in research and for the international recognition they have earned. Junior Member Hélène Malet works at the IBS Electron Microscopy and Methods […] >>

Imagine earplugs that filter out noises, not voices! Startup SafeHear, founded in early 2020 by Grenoble INP-Phelma student Antoine Kuhnast and Grenoble IAE graduate Héléna Jérôme, is developing just such a product. The founders have some heavyweights behind them: They are already working on several R&D projects with STMicroelectronics and Inria. The human voice is […] >>