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February 06 2017
When transistors become very sensitive to light
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What do you get when you place a photodiode under the buried oxide of a FDSOI transistor? A transistor that is very sensitive to visible light! The transistor, developed and tested in laboratory conditions, was presented by Leti at the IEDM 2016 conference, where it garnered substantial interest. Because energy is transferred by capacitive coupling, […] >>
February 06 2017
International Space Station: Germs be gone!
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Long space missions present such a high risk of bacterial infection that astronauts spend 10% of their time cleaning! One of the objectives of the ISS Proxima mission (in which ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is participating) is to study five advanced antibacterial materials on board. Because the bacteria cannot adhere to the materials, they simply […] >>
December 06 2016
Leti working with GlobalFoundries on 22 nm FD-SOI
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FinFET and FD-SOI are currently neck-and-neck in the race to further miniaturize CMOS circuits beyond the 28 nm node. And major market players will play a key role in determining which technology wins. Leti, which has been betting on FD-SOI for years now, recently joined the 22FDXAccelerator ecosystem created by GlobalFoundries, the world’s second-largest foundry. […] >>
December 06 2016
Testing antibiotic efficacy in just one hour
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MIT used Leti’s suspended micro-resonators to develop a new microchip for fast drug testing. The chip measures cell culture growth by weighing the culture with accuracy to within a femtogram. The measurement provides an indication of the culture’s response to a drug such as an antibiotic. The results of the research were published in Nature […] >>
December 06 2016
DNA could bring new innovations to microelectronics
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Recent advances in research being conducted by Leti and INAC scientists under CEA project A3DN could help overcome one of the major technological hurdles facing microelectronics R&D. So, what does DNA have to do with microelectronics? DNA strings measure around a nanometer—as do the pattern geometries the researchers are working on. And DNA’s base-pairing capacities […] >>