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Marie-Noëlle Semeria has been appointed Director of Leti, effective October 1, 2014. She succeeds Laurent Malier. Ms. Semeria holds a Ph.D. in physics and has considerable industry experience, working first for Sagem and then for start-up Pixtech. She came to Leti in 1996, where she has held a number of positions including that of Deputy […] >>

Leti and bioMérieux recently teamed up to conduct quantitative protein measurements using MRM mass spectrometry with automated data processing and sensitivity levels of around 10-8. The research was part of the BHI-PRO* project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The partners’ Bayesian inversion software performs just as well as—and, in some cases, better […] >>

A team of researchers from INAC and Institut Néel have created a hybrid system that consists of a nano-sized quantum dot embedded in a gallium arsenide nanowire. When the wire vibrates, the quantum dot repeatedly stretches and compresses, changing its energy levels and consequently the color of the photons emitted. The coupling was achieved by […] >>

Researchers from INAC and ESRF have teamed up with peers in Madrid to study the correlation between the chemical composition of a gallium nitride (GaN) nanowire and the temporal resolution of the wire’s optical response. To do so, they used new synchrotron instrumentation for fluorescence, diffraction, and photoluminescence. The new equipment offers spatial resolution of […] >>

Researchers from INAC, Institut Néel, and SIMAP recently figured out a way to observe the proximity effect in graphene—a phenomenon that occurs when a normally non-superconducting material is placed in contact with a superconducting material—under optimal conditions. To do so, they created a system in which the graphene remains totally free from atomic defects. Their […] >>