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Marie-Noëlle Semeria has been appointed Director of Leti, effective October 1, 2014. She succeeds Laurent Malier. Ms. Semeria holds a Ph.D. in physics and has considerable industry experience, working first for Sagem and then for start-up Pixtech. She came to Leti in 1996, where she has held a number of positions including that of Deputy […] >>

Leti and bioMérieux recently teamed up to conduct quantitative protein measurements using MRM mass spectrometry with automated data processing and sensitivity levels of around 10-8. The research was part of the BHI-PRO* project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The partners’ Bayesian inversion software performs just as well as—and, in some cases, better […] >>

Leti has developed an infrared detector with avalanche photodiodes cooled to 180 K that successfully received data at 80 Mbps during NASA/ESA laser communications testing. This initial result is encouraging given that radio—which has been used for decades—can only handle to 100 Mbps. ESA, which has identified laser communication as a key technology, now plans […] >>

In just a few years, oceanographic sensors located 2,000 meters under the ocean’s surface could be powered by biobatteries feeding off of electroactive bacteria. Researchers at Leti are teaming up with a chemical engineering lab in Toulouse that is pioneering biobatteries that harvest their energy from deep ocean sediments. The next step will be to […] >>

Ternary oxides (In-X-Zn-O) are visibly-transparent semiconductors, making them promising candidates for optoelectronic applications. Researchers at Liten synthesized fourteen such oxides using a sol-gel method in order to study their electrical properties. The researchers worked with IMEP-LAHC to look at carrier mobility, which turned out to degrade exponentially as the number of defects at the oxide-insulator […] >>