News : Innovation & Society

The microdisplay Leti presented earlier this year at CES Las Vegas was remarkable in two ways. First, its luminance, which is 1,000 times greater than that of current microdisplays, meaning the display remains visible even in bright sunlight. Second, the microdisplay’s 10-micron pixel pitch, which makes it possible to play high-resolution video. The prototype will […] >>

Part of an archaeologist’s work involves identifying 30,000-year-old animal droppings. And they need to know what species—hyena, wolf, or fox?—they are dealing with as soon as possible. Now they can thanks to a Leti prototype called Microprep that rapidly prepares samples for PCR DNA analysis. The prototype was successfully tested at the Maldidier cave site […] >>

With five weeks of nanotech classes, introductory French lessons, tours of scientific facilities like ESRF, the CEA Tech showroom, and Institut Néel, cultural excursions, and just plain fun, the 14th annual Summer School should be a memorable one. The Summer School is organized by Grenoble Institute of Technology at Phelma’s MINATEC campus from June 6 […] >>

" Student entrepreneurs innovate at Phelma " Pierre Benech, Director, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma Engineering School   How does Phelma help student entrepreneurs? Our first two students to have obtained “student entrepreneur” status—a French government program—are Pierre Schefler and Nicolas Schoemaker. During the 2014–2015 academic year they set up their company on top of […] >>

Researchers at Leti have developed a reader and ASIC for RFID data reception at speeds up to 27.12 Mb/s required by the ISO 14443-amd5 standard. The new technology could be used for electronic passports, which will store more and more information, from biometric data to secure protocols. Tomorrow’s fourth-generation electronic passports could even be used […] >>