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CIME* Nanotech now offers multi-project circuit prototyping, which significantly lowers fabrication costs. This new service rounds out the organization’s circuit design and validation activities. In multi-project circuit prototyping, a single silicon wafer is used to prototype circuits for up to thirty clients,...

• Multi-project circuit prototyping at CIME Nanotech
• Micron-level accuracy in die-to-wafer bonding
• Cybersecurity: Schneider Electric signs on for three more years
• On-chip photonic tweezers for bacteria capture and characterization
• Advanced computing: Irig researcher honored for second time
• Low-cost, global IoT connectivity now a reality
• A first step towards controlling skyrmion movement
• Electric vehicles: Valeo and CEA-Leti to bring power electronics to market
• Optoelectronics: goodbye cadmium, hello zinc oxide?
• Vibration: new hope in the fight against cancer
• Fame Master’s program to include AI
• Semiconductors: CEA ranks 4th among European patent filers
• Engineering student athlete races to an exciting ski season
• Hydrogen education gets a major boost
• GIANT Orientation Day 2023: supporting new PhD and post-doc students
• Full house for Maison MINATEC!
• Work starts on BHT3, Place Nelson-Mandela
• European University alliance: onward and upward for Unite!
• CEA-Leti to put digital health in the spotlight at CES 2023 in Las Vegas
• ByCommute: from shipping containers to bike shelters
• Clinatec Endowment Fund raises awareness of biomedical research
• Wormsensing raises €3.5 M to fund pilot line

The Deep Red industrial chair was created by Grenoble INP Foundation and IR detector manufacturer LYNRED to bring the power of infrared to everyday use cases.Three Gipsa-Lab research faculty are involved in the initiative, which will create opportunities for a number...

• New industrial chair to democratize infrared technology
• Nanomaterials: LMGP ramps up combinatorial deposition activity
• Heart attacks could soon be diagnosed in under an hour
• Frozen pellets reach speeds of 3,600 kph on test bench for the ITER fusion reactor
• Microstructure of halogenated hybrid perovskites revealed
• ILL investigates little-understood high-temperature superconductivity
• Project to help patients with spinal cord injuries walk again
• Room-temperature laser emission achieved in germanium-tin alloy
• MEMS micromirrors could help automotive LiDAR systems “see” further
• Electronic nose could soon sniff out diseases
• Longer-range, more accurate RFID tag reading
• 3D integration: chip-to-wafer bonding alignment 10x more accurate
• More reliable urban CO2 mapping
• Biomimetic adhesive expert joins LMGP
• Fundraising: CEA-Leti startups bring in €25 million
• Back to school at Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA
• CEA-Irig welcomes new director Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud
• Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA wins award for innovation in teaching
• MINATEC startups win big at i-Lab 2022
• Experimenta 2022, ten days of the arts and sciences
• Consumers to test “Jules Verne” augmented reality glasses
• Altrans Énergies goes to Washington
• Érasmia Dupenloup appointed CEO of Minalogic cluster
• QuantAlps: orchestrating quantum research in Grenoble
• Gaelle Del Rey wins women in technology research award
• Engineering students assess their school’s carbon impact

Researchers from Irig and CEA-Leti successfully maintained pancreatic cells called islets of Langerhans in culture on a microfluidic chip for a month and were able to measure individual islets’ insulin production. This breakthrough could improve the efficacy of islet transplants, a...

• Organs-on-chip could give diabetes patients new hope
• Smaller reversible fuel cells could be more powerful
• Electric vehicles fill up with GaN
• PreCoM project: powerful sensors for predictive maintenance
• Nickel almost as good as platinum for fuel cells
• Memristors find new use in neural networks
• World’s first 2D ferromagnetic materials at 229 K
• New material for faster microlasers: the Crumble project
• Medical radiology expands into point-of-care imaging
• Photovoltaics: yield-boosting solar inverter
• The magnetic superconducting mysteries of heavy-fermion metal UTe2
• Microtechnology could aid in the study of tau protein’s role in Alzheimer’s
• The Grenoble branch of nonprofit Cheer up! gets back to work
• Antennas can be printed on 3D objects with plastronics
• CEA-Leti partnership with UCLouvain off to a great start
• Y.SPOT Partners welcomes two artists-in-residence
• Émile Rivoire ready for 2,500 km of solar-powered cycling
• Leti Innovation Days to put a spotlight on eight semiconductor leaders
• MINATEC to host European IndTech 2022 conference
• FD-SOI leaders form next-generation alliance
• Grenoble engineering students volunteer in Togo
• Getinge of Sweden acquires Fluoptics
• Grenoble to host 2022 EuCNC & 6G summit

In February, the European Commission confirmed its massive €43 billion semiconductor industry plan. €11 billion has been earmarked for research on the most advanced chips and new pilot manufacturing lines. CEA-Leti is expected to play a major role in the plan. The...

• A €43 billion European plan for semiconductors
• A new generation of earphones just over the horizon
• Inspired by the locust nervous system, Élisa Vianello’s research wins ERC grant
• Gingko biloba protein used in multilayer nanomaterial
• Piezoelectric effects investigated at the nanometric scale
• Pushing back the limits of quantum error correction codes
• ESRF X-ray imaging looks inside the platinum in catalytic converters
• Could hole qubits be the future of quantum?
• Keeping bacteria at bay in the fishing and fish farming industries
• Magnetic microparticles could fight cancerous tumors
• Soitec now a major Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA partner
• Celebrating two decades of spintronics at Spintec
• LMGP Hires MXenes specialist
• A 2,500 km solar bike tour through the Alps
• Embedded systems and IoT devices: What’s new
• Leti Innovation Days 2022: high-caliber, jam-packed content and networking
• Grenoble Green Capital seal for Midis MINATEC
• GIANT to move to Y.SPOT Partners by summer
• BHT3, a distinctively urban building
• Thingsat space internship for second-year engineering students
• Silicon carbide: Soitec and CEA-Leti shift into high gear
• New Energy@School program for high school students
• Three Phelma students to sail to the Caribbean

Deep brain stimulation and infrared illumination appear to be effective at treating Parkinson’s disease. But why? The Clinatec Endowment Fund, through a new research project called Astropark, is looking for insights the cellular mechanisms at play in neurons and astrocytes.Deep brain...

• Clinatec Endowment Fund investigating new treatments for Parkinson’s
• IMEP-LaHC fine-tunes nanocircuit noise simulation
• Turbulence in superfluid helium-4
• Tenfold reduction in ReRAM cell variability
• Rose to develop artificial nose for patients suffering from loss of smell
• Wireless technology unleashes avalanche detonators
• Silver nanowire arrays not as unstable as previously thought
• LEDs in the race against mercury for UV-C emission
• The physics of stacked graphene layers is both rich and unpredictable
• Greenhouse gases could soon be monitored using LiDAR
• Grenoble INP, UGA engineering students for the energy transition
• Augmented reality through almost-normal glasses could soon be here
• CEA-Leti ready to dive into even more European projects
• Spintec unveils high-potential memristor for neuromorphic computing
• Primo1D presents E-Thread at RFID Journal Live 2014 in Orlando
• Y.Spot Partners full to capacity on opening day
• Alten the latest Phelma partner
• Grenoble INP - UGA on the race to zero emissions