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The €1-million Hybrid-En platform for developing advanced energy generation and storage systems started up in early February. Located in the 10.05 Building, this 300 m2 facility brings together physicists and chemists to conduct experiments at the crossroads of semiconductor and polymer research. The scientists come from INAC, CNRS, and UJF, and will conduct early-stage and […] >>

The Embedded Systems Design Platform—created by Saclay-based List and Grenoble-based Leti—ended 2013 with a remarkable achievement. Its engineers developed a revolutionary new system design approach that enabled high-tech firm M3Systems to double the performance of one of its systems, while optimizing its size and power consumption. The new approach uses a high-level virtual prototyping environment […] >>

For the past several years, the Franco-Peruvian organization Puya de Raimondi (headed by a CEA scientist) and the NanoAndes network have been fostering research ties between France and Latin America. This transatlantic collaboration recently marked a new milestone with the publication in Mexico of Física de semiconductores y componentes electrónicos—the Spanish translation of a book […] >>

Leti—working on a project for Montpellier-based start-up Oridao—has developed a miniature RFID tag for all kinds of metal objects, from those no bigger than a centimeter to those the size of a filing cabinet. Metal objects drastically diminish the effectiveness and bandwidth of the tiny antennas in RFID tags. Leti engineers came up with a […] >>

Feriel Mélaine – Ph.D. candidate, Nanobioscience, INAC-SPrAM Editor of student newspaper Chercheurs d’horizons for the 2012–2013 school year Ph.D. students produce their own newspaper   Your student newspaper Chercheurs d’horizons is written entirely by Grenoble University Ph.D. students. Can you tell us more about it? The newspaper was launched in 2010–2011 following a workshop given […] >>