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The MINATEC campus will soon get 11,500 sq. m of additional space with the completion of two new buildings: the Competency Center Building (BCC), which will house 550 staffers, and the 700-capacity Phelma Auditorium and Conference Center. The Competency Center Building (BCC) will offer 10,000 sq. m of floor space on eight levels and will […] >>

Maryline Bawedin, an expert in characterizing and modelling advanced CMOS components, has joined IMEP-LAHC as lecturer. She had previously completed her Ph.D. dissertation there, following degrees from Liege and Louvain Universities in Belgium. She later completed post doctorate studies at Cambridge before moving on to a position at the University of Montpellier, where she stayed […] >>

Minalogic invites its members to twice-yearly project brainstorming sessions where twenty or so ideas for potential projects are presented. The first session of 2015, scheduled for January 22, will be larger in scope. Representatives of other clusters in the Rhône-Alpes region will also be invited to attend and present either an existing business or R&D […] >>

Student organization Phelma Junior Consultants runs a full slate of events designed to help students and businesses get to know each other better. And the initiative has been met with overwhelming success. On October 16, Partners Day attracted 44 companies whose lines of business align with the majors on offer at Phelma. And the series […] >>

Sorin Cristoloveanu, IMEP-LAHC: « SHG gives us a new SOI wafer characterization technique » US-based equipment manufacturer FemtoMetrix has just installed its first-ever Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) instrument at IMEP-LAHC. Read on to learn more about this innovative prototype. SHG is a surface and interface characterization technique for thin layer materials. Here is how it […] >>