News : Research

In the future, the performance of energy generation and storage systems will depend on an unprecedented alliance between semiconductors and organic materials. At least that’s the goal of research to be conducted at Hybrid-En, a new 200 m2 research facility being built in MINATEC’s 10.05 building. Hybrid-En will bring together around 20 physicists and chemists […] >>

Dr. Yves Bréchet, a Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma professor and researcher at the French Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (SIMaP), has been appointed France’s High Commissioner for Atomic and Alternative Energy by the country’s Cabinet of Ministers. This appointment follows a recommendation by the French Minister of Research and Higher Education, Geneviève Fioraso. With this […] >>

Researchers from the French Nanoscience and Cryogenics Institute (INAC) and Spintec have developed a new logic circuit that combines CMOS and MRAM technology. This patented invention uses MRAM from Crocus Technology and marks Europe’s first working demonstrator of its kind. MRAM offers two key benefits: it’s non-volatile and it doesn’t need a power supply when […] >>

Until now, electronic tongues—devices used to identify dissolved substances in liquids—have been hard to make because each of the tongues’ chemical receptors (between 10 and 30) had to be synthesized independently. But scientists at the French Nanoscience and Cryogenics Institute (INAC) have found a way to sidestep this lengthy process by using the combined response […] >>

Until now patients wondering whether they have tuberculosis had to wait a full 72 hours before finding out the results of a skin test. A new optical read system developed by Leti under a Lyon-Biopôle project funded by the French government has reduced the waiting time to 18 hours—and waiting time could even be slashed […] >>