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The Challenge First Step selection committee made their choice at the end of November. A total of eight startups will receive support and €734K has already been earmarked for the projects. Depending on the progress the founders make toward their stated goals, they could be eligible for additional support in six months. Liten spawned two […] >>

A new white paper on atomic layer deposition is available free of charge on the website of French publisher Techniques de l’ingénieur. The 225-page white paper, in French, is titled Principes et applications de la technique ALD and provides an overview of the basics of the process. It was authored by around 20 scientists in […] >>

INAC and Leti recently achieved a world-first, successfully demonstrating that a quantum bit, or qubit, made using 300 mm CMOS FDSOI, works! The qubit—the basic building block for quantum computing—was measured at 10 mK. This groundbreaking lab experiment proved that, despite the fact that the lab qubit’s geometry is not compatible with the scales required […] >>

The human brain’s synapses—which send signals between neurons—can strengthen or weaken due to increases or decreases in activity. In the future, it may be possible to reproduce synaptic plasticity with RRAM memory run by specific coding schemes. A team of researchers from Leti, List, Clinatec, and INSERM investigated the topic, presenting a paper at IEDM […] >>

Mn-Ni lithium batteries lose around 40% of the high capacities for which they are known on the first charge-discharge cycle. Scientists have been trying to find out why for years. A team of researchers from INAC and Leti, in conjunction with a researcher from Russia, have made two major contributions to elucidating the mystery. They […] >>