News : MINATEC

The second winter session of the GIANT International Internship Programme will welcome a cohort of eleven students from Argentina (under the Arfi tec project uniting Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma and Instituto Balseiro) and Japan (Tsukuba and Keio Universities). A majority of the participants arrived in Grenoble in September for their internships at GIANT labs (LPSC, […] >>

The United States National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3.8 million grant to the REACT (Research and Education in Active Coatings Technologies for the Human Habitat) project, a collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania (UPENN), GIANT, and Solvay USA. The grant will be disbursed over fi ve years to fund basic research to develop […] >>

Startup Enerbee, which has its offi ces at MINATEC, is investing €4 million to scale up its fi rst miniature electric generators for industrial manufacturing. The generators are used to harvest energy from objects in motion, i.e. connected consumer electronics. Enerbee plans to brings its manufactured products to market by the end of 2016. Enerbee’s […] >>

The DC-to-DC converters that power electronic circuits can take up nearly a third of a circuit board’s surface area and account for up to half of a circuit’s power consumption. One way to solve the problem is to integrate the converters closer to the circuits they power—in other words, right on the silicon! This ingenious […] >>

In R&D conducted under the EU ML2 (MultiLayer MicroLab) project, Leti recently transferred a process to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute that functionalizes long spools (over 100 meters) of PMMA plastic sheets by grafting biological molecules onto the material. Oxygen plasma treatment is used to modify the plastic’s surface, and then contactless printing is used to graft […] >>