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Leti delivered its first suspended microresonators to MIT in 2014, following suit with a new generation of the component in 2015. The microresonators still deliver femtogram precision—but they now also boast a network of sensors for even faster analysis and redundant measurements. The microresonators are being used in the US where they help medical professionals […] >>

The future of low-power design just got a little brighter. The H.264 video encoder developed by researchers from Leti and Vietnam National University (VNU) uses just 19.1 mW total power; products currently on the market use between 30 mW and 600 mW. The research was conducted as part of a jointly-supervised Ph.D. thesis. The team […] >>

The R&D partnership on advanced CMOS transistors between STMicroelectronics, IBM, and Leti has produced some impressive results. Two silicon-germanium (SiGe) quantum wells separated by a thin layer of silicon have been produced on a PMOS transistor with a grid unit length of 15 nm. The combination of SiGe and silicon results in a 1.5% deformation […] >>

INAC, KTH (Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology), and Dutch startup Single Quantum have teamed up to produce superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPD) that set a new state of the art with 85% collection yields. Current SSPDs offer yields of 35%. The key to the ultra-high yields? The superconducting nanowire that detects the photons is placed in […] >>

BigDFT, an open-source code used to simulate solids and molecules, has made front-page news in two chemistry journals in the space of a few weeks. INAC_Sim team, which has been developing the code for years, should be proud: in 2015 the team demonstrated the robustness of a system simulation at 30,000 atoms and plans to […] >>