News : Innovation & Society

A new indoor-air-quality regulation will come into force in France on January 1, 2016. All buildings open to the public will have to prove that their indoor air contains less than 1 ppb of benzene. However, current portable testing systems are neither sensitive enough nor suitable for on-site testing. A research project backed by the […] >>

The geometry of gallium nitride (GaN) wires makes it tough to characterize a single wire’s electrical properties and n and p doping. Researchers from Leti and Institut Néel have found a solution. Using electronic lithography, the researchers connected a wire attached to an insulating substrate to four metal blocks and created a source of heat […] >>

Toxicology studies often look at the effects of exposure to high doses of pollutants. However, are the effects underestimated for smaller doses? INAC recently examined how polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—present in emissions from motor vehicles and heating systems—damage DNA. The researchers observed the formation of covalent adducts, which modify gene sequences and participate in the […] >>

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) […] >>