News : MINATEC

Spintec is shaping the future of spintronics research, with Scientific Director Bernard Diény (first author) and four other Spintec researchers among the sixteen authors of the international spintronics roadmap published in Nature Electronics in 2020. The roadmap highlights a major trend: Spintronics, once only for data storage, is now making inroads into microelectronics. MRAM memory […] >>

After a hiatus during the first Covid-19 lockdown, the beloved Midi MINATEC lunches had returned to normal by October, convening every Friday. In December, however, the weekly rendezvous had to go virtual. Every week, the online auditorium can accommodate up to 200 live attendees with full access to the chat feature for speaker Q&A. For […] >>

Global 5G rollout may still only be in its early stages, but researchers are already investigating the next generation in communications technology. The EU Rise-6G project, coordinated by CEA-Leti, kicked off at the end of January. The project’s consortium of twelve partners, which includes global telecommunications operator Orange, the French national center for scientific research […] >>

Three FMNT (Foundation for Micro and Nano Technology) partner labs had four equipment purchase requests, endorsed by FMNT, approved for funding by Grenoble INP. The equipment will be installed in the labs in 2021 and will be made available to other users through the OPE)N(RA characterization platform. IMEP-LaHC will get a latest-generation semiconductor parameter analyzer […] >>

CEA-Leti has added even more new 300 mm equipment this year. The institute’s clean rooms can now fabricate their own low-resistance ohmic contacts—a BEOL process where the electrical junctions that link the active components of a circuit to the circuit’s connectors are made. The contacts fabricated at CEA-Leti offer resistances close to those made in […] >>