News : Innovation & Society

With sixteen patent applications filed in two and a half years, plus eight additional filings this year, the Ceasar Lab (a joint Safran-CEA Tech R&D lab) is more active than ever. The lab unites researchers from all three CEA Tech institutes (Leti, List, and Liten) to investigate breakthrough low-TRL* technologies, factoring in future market applications […] >>

EU project Mirphab, which kicked off in early 2016, has secured €17 million to design, prototype, and manufacture small runs of infrared sensors. The project’s seventeen partners include Leti, the Fraunhofer Institute, IMEC, and CSEM, and the research comes in direct response to needs expressed by manufacturers from all of the countries within the scope […] >>

A group of third-year students at Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma (Carole Le Goc, Christopher Filosa, and Valentin Ramez) produced one of two short films that won awards in the first ever “Stereotype Busters” contest organized by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles, a French higher-education consortium. Students were invited to submit an original poster or film […] >>

In a project for the Nano@school program, seven Grenoble high-schoolers made solar cells from fruits and vegetables. CEA-INAC Ph.D. candidate Cyril Aumaître supervised the project, in which students extracted colorants from fruit and vegetable juices (spinach, blueberries, etc.) to make Grätzel cells, then characterize and model the cells before comparing their performance. And the outcomes […] >>

The 5th French edition of the international FIRST Tech Challenge robotics competition, organized by Grenoble Institute of Technology, will be held on May 11–12 in Fontaine. Around twenty high-school-student teams are expected to enter their robots—built and programmed according to specifications provided before the event using supplies provided by the organizer. As in previous years, […] >>