News : Innovation & Society

Grenoble Institute of Technology won first place for innovation and research for the fourth time in five years in a ranking published by Industrie & Technologies magazine. The school came in ahead of big names Polytechnique and INSA Lyon, most notably due to its high number of Ph.D. and post-doc students (911) and impressive annual […] >>

Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid, who founded Clinatec (the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center) along with Jean Therme, has won the 2014 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. Dr. Benabid and Mahlon DeLong, MD, received the award at a ceremony held in New York City on September 19 in recognition of the deep brain stimulation (DBS) technique […] >>

Leti’s helium magnetometers—which are installed on the three Swarm mission satellites—made it through their in-flight commissioning with flying colors. The instruments provide an absolute point of reference for scalar field measurements and delivered the highest levels of performance ever achieved for observing the Earth. A vector mode provides a directional measurement of the field (via […] >>

Leti has developed an infrared detector with avalanche photodiodes cooled to 180 K that successfully received data at 80 Mbps during NASA/ESA laser communications testing. This initial result is encouraging given that radio—which has been used for decades—can only handle to 100 Mbps. ESA, which has identified laser communication as a key technology, now plans […] >>

In just a few years, oceanographic sensors located 2,000 meters under the ocean’s surface could be powered by biobatteries feeding off of electroactive bacteria. Researchers at Leti are teaming up with a chemical engineering lab in Toulouse that is pioneering biobatteries that harvest their energy from deep ocean sediments. The next step will be to […] >>