News : Innovation & Society

How do households manage their electricity use when all their energy comes from solar power? To find out, a Grenoble research team sponsored by MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory and IRT Nanoelec asked ten families to live in solar-powered homes for three winter months. The families were asked to compare their actual energy use with the amount […] >>

Of the thirteen projects submitted in June for this year’s Challenge First Step (to support promising business ideas), seven were selected: three from Leti and four from Liten. The winners were announced at a kick-off meeting on September 11. The budding entrepreneurs will now begin the business incubator program with a one-week residential training course […] >>

The Zero PoVa project (for zero power, zero variability) is a 5-year project launched on June 1, 2013 to develop CMOS components for the post-2026 era. Some 20–25 researchers from INAC, IRAMIS, and the CEA’s Technological Research Division are working on the project, which boasts a €1.3 million budget for the first year alone (excluding […] >>

Leti is planning to develop an optical CO2 sensor using all-MEMS technology, including an emitter, detector, and infrared optical system. It will be no bigger than 1 cm3 and require no more than 6 mW of power. This will be the first step towards an even smaller sensor that could be used in cell phones, […] >>

Fabien Ndagijimana, IMEP-LAHC, Pheline lab*: “We want to calm the debate on electromagnetic waves” In the book you wrote with Pheline colleague François Gaudaire [called Au Cœur des Ondes]—were you out to attack electromagnetic waves or defend them? Neither. What we wanted to do is calm the debate on electromagnetic waves, which is being fuelled […] >>