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FEI, a US-based manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) has decided to extend its joint lab with the Nanocharacterization Platform (PFNC). The joint lab was set up in 2010 to conduct research in two fields: fine tuning precession electron nanodiffraction to measure deformation at the nanometric scale with applications for […] >>

For the first time ever this year, a duo of students from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school has entered the Freescale Cup, an international student competition in which teams must build and program a smart miniature vehicle capable of navigating a 300-meter circuit, unseen before the actual competition, in the shortest possible amount […] >>

Not many organizations can say they work for CERN! Well, Leti can! On November 10, 2014, the beam at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was equipped with silicon microcoolers made in Leti cleanrooms. The microcoolers disperse heat from detectors bombarded by particles. The project was not without some serious technical challenges, like carving out 200-micron-deep pools […] >>

The international micro and nanotechnology program Nanotech is ushering in a particularly cosmopolitan class this year. Of the 38 students accepted into the program, 20 are from Italy and 9 are from France. The rest come from Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Egypt, Vietnam, and elsewhere. In terms of gender representation, however, there is still room for […] >>

Organic materials are damaged by ToF-SIMS spectrometry, due to the high impact energy they are subjected to during exposure to the pulsed beam of ions. The Nanocharacterization Platform has a new piece of equipment that will eliminate this concern. The lab’s new ToF-SIMS spectrometer with argon gas cluster ion beams creates impact energy of just […] >>