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You have been at the CEA for 37 years and plan to retire in September. What is your main takeaway? I am really pleased to see that our younger scientists are just as passionate about their work as we were about ours back in the 80s.You can just see it, especially at events like PhD […] >>

Émile Rivoire of Phelma’s Class of 2016 is ready for Sun Trip Alpes 2022, a 2,500-km solar-powered cycling adventure. He recently picked up his two CEA-built solar modules which, he hopes, will get him all the way to the finish line without plugging in to the grid.A team at CEA was tasked with building the […] >>

CEA-Leti and Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Belgium signed a three-year partnership agreement in early 2022 that has already sparked two workshops.A kickoff workshop was held at UCLouvain in March, and a second workshop, which included CEA-Leti lab tours, took place in Grenoble in late May.UCLouvain (not to be confused with nearby IMEC) is […] >>

Researchers at Irig achieved a world first when they grew Fe5GeTe2 thin films on sapphire using molecular-beam epitaxy.They were able to obtain a single-crystal two-dimensional material with controlled composition. Here, the simple bilayer boasts ferromagnetic ordering at temperatures up to 229 K, compared to under 100 K for most 2D magnets made using mechanical exfoliation.France’s […] >>

Researchers from Irig and CEA-Leti successfully maintained pancreatic cells called islets of Langerhans in culture on a microfluidic chip for a month and were able to measure individual islets’ insulin production. This breakthrough could improve the efficacy of islet transplants, a treatment given to some diabetes patients.Islets of Langherans are sphere-shaped pancreatic cells between 200 […] >>