News : Research

On March 11, 2016—just three days after International Women’s Day—the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma library will cut the ribbon on a new “women in science” collection to be followed by a series of lectures and a Midi MINATEC brown bag lunch on the same topic. The project, initiated and financed by France’s APMST (association for […] >>

Startup EnWireS, founded this year by an INAC researcher (who also happens to be a former INAC post-doc), is developing a breakthrough chemical process for making silicon nanowires. The startup plans to release its first products—innovative composite materials to boost the capacity and lifespan of lithium-ion batteries—in 2017. The materials will be more competitively-priced than […] >>

Part of an archaeologist’s work involves identifying 30,000-year-old animal droppings. And they need to know what species—hyena, wolf, or fox?—they are dealing with as soon as possible. Now they can thanks to a Leti prototype called Microprep that rapidly prepares samples for PCR DNA analysis. The prototype was successfully tested at the Maldidier cave site […] >>

Startup Aselta’s Inscale photolithography software has come through the validation phase with flying colors, positioning it to become the go-to software for MDP (mask data preparation, sometimes called “fracture”) at Leti. Improvements made to the software under a joint lab between Aselta and Leti have placed Inscale on a par with the current market leader. […] >>

The judges in the Challenge First Step competition selected four of the six projects presented at the end of 2015 to receive financial support. The projects are: Wimagine (Leti/Clinatec), a long-term brain activity monitoring system for patients suffering from epilepsy and head injuries; Sensing the World (Leti/DSIS), a structural deformation monitoring service for bridges, dams, […] >>