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Growing indium arsenide (InAs) and gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterostructures is theoretically impossible due to a lattice constant deviation of 6%. However, a team of researchers from INAC and Institut Néel has overcome this hurdle by using the vapor-liquid-solid method to grow nanowires. The vaporized indium and arsenic atoms migrate in a liquid gold nanodroplet located […] >>

It is not very well known exactly why uranium is toxic to or how it interacts with living organisms. A team of researchers at INAC used a biomimetic approach to tackle the issue. The researchers created small peptide sequences that model the protein-metal bonds, and then placed them in contact with uranyl, the uranium ion […] >>

Skyrmions—magnetic bubbles that can be nanometer-sized and that are insensitive to faults—are garnering attention in the spintronics community. They could one day be used as bits in memory or in logic operations. To dig deeper into the issue, researchers from Spintec and Institut Néel recently created the first-ever “skyrmion switch.” The device is made up […] >>

An H-bridge is a type of electronic circuit—commonly used to control motors in home appliances—in which each of the four branches of the “H” is home to a power transistor. A team of researchers and engineers from Leti, AMS, and Infineon successfully packaged an H-bridge on silicon. Compared to a conventional H-bridge, which is on […] >>

The FMNT (Federation for Micro and Nanotechnology) has brought its functional characterization equipment together at the OPE)N(RA platform. The open-access, multidisciplinary facility is home to a comprehensive set of measurement equipment that can be used to study the functional properties of materials, components, sensors, circuits, and systems for applications ranging from electronics, spintronics, photovoltaics, integrated […] >>