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Fabien Boulanger, a former lab supervisor, took up a new position as Carnot Label coordinator at Leti in early 2016. His first task was to complete Leti’s new application file and send it to the French National Research Agency. The French government recently changed the rules for applying for the Carnot Label, which used to […] >>

Dr. Anne Vilcot has been appointed Interim Administrator of Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma by the French Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research. Dr. Vilcot holds an undergraduate degree from ENSERG as well as a Ph.D. in Physics. She conducts research in optoelectronics and optics at IMEP-LaHC and teaches at Phelma. She served as Academic […] >>

Maxime Legallais, a Ph.D. candidate at LMGP-IMEP/LTM, won the Fondation Nanosciences NanoArt 2015 Award for his photo of a silicon nanowire symbolizing the red ribbon of AIDS awareness. More than 3,000 online visitors voted Maxime’s image the best of 2015. Maxime’s research focuses on the electrical properties of nanonets made from randomly-oriented silicon nanowires. His […] >>

The French government’s higher education and research evaluator HCERES* has only good things to say about Leti in its recent report, rating the institute “excellent” for science, communication, technology transfer, organization, and strategy and “very good” for education for the 2010–2015 evaluation period. The evaluator also commended Leti’s progress and capacity to adapt to the […] >>

Each year, the Leti staffers in charge of the institute’s 200 mm and 300 mm equipment request thousands of metal contamination tests for wafers. And up until last year, they had to manually enter these requests one by one. A couple of research scientists tasked a Ph.D. candidate with looking into a possible upgrade to […] >>