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The French government’s higher education and research evaluator HCERES* has only good things to say about Leti in its recent report, rating the institute “excellent” for science, communication, technology transfer, organization, and strategy and “very good” for education for the 2010–2015 evaluation period. The evaluator also commended Leti’s progress and capacity to adapt to the […] >>

Each year, the Leti staffers in charge of the institute’s 200 mm and 300 mm equipment request thousands of metal contamination tests for wafers. And up until last year, they had to manually enter these requests one by one. A couple of research scientists tasked a Ph.D. candidate with looking into a possible upgrade to […] >>

On May 30, international learned society IEE EDS will hold a free, open-access colloquium at the Phelma auditorium. The organization will have its biannual board meeting on May 28 and 29, also in Grenoble. The mini-colloquium, which runs from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., will feature academic research scientists and industrial R&D professionals working in […] >>

The Grenoble-Alpes University Medical Center and regulatory authorities have granted Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid approval to begin the clinical research protocol “Brain-Computer Interface and Tetraplegia” at Clinatec. The research aims to demonstrate the feasibility of a patient suffering from tetraplegia due to spinal cord injury to control an exoskeleton’s movements over several degrees via an implant […] >>

The microdisplay Leti presented earlier this year at CES Las Vegas was remarkable in two ways. First, its luminance, which is 1,000 times greater than that of current microdisplays, meaning the display remains visible even in bright sunlight. Second, the microdisplay’s 10-micron pixel pitch, which makes it possible to play high-resolution video. The prototype will […] >>