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April 2015
Adipose stem cells for human skin rejuvenation and regeneration
It has now been proven that injecting fatty tissue is effective at human skin rejuvenation. The discovery, first made by a...
Veloce2 emulator flexes its muscles at Leti
Leti recently executed hundreds of billions of clock cycles to verify a 3D 96-processor multicore circuit using the institute’s Mentor Graphics...
Gaia compute node could help keep servers cool
Leti joined forces with STMicroelectronics to develop the Gaia compute node, which could help reduce the energy consumption of powerful calculation...
New magnetic tunnel junctions get encouraging results
Flip-flops are data storage elements used in integrated circuits. And while flip-flops are good, non-volatile flip-flops are even better! The latest...
Clinatec aims to make diagnosing cardiac arrhythmia and epilepsy easier
Could magnetocardiography (MCG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) one day be available to the masses? Clinatec is currently running a clinical trial to...
Photonics-on-silicon for telecoms switching systems
Photonics-on-silicon components could dramatically reduce the form factor of the data switches used in telecommunications switching centers. Leti and the other...
MIT chooses Leti to supply suspended microresonators
The news dates back to early 2014 and has been kept under wraps for almost a year. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology biology lab is turning to Leti to develop some highly complex suspended microresonators. After receiving the initial components, which delivered satisfactory performance, the lab decided to switch foundries, and has now placed an order for 1,500 of the resonators with Leti for June.
The resonators boast a beam that...
Dominique Noguet, Head of Communication and Security Technology, Leti, an institute of the CEA
“Standards will help us position our technologies”
Leti has been working on a standard for cognitive radio since 2011. Why?
We developed a cognitive radio technology that leverages TV white space. In other words, it takes advantage of UHF bands allocated to TV broadcasting, but that are not being used locally. If we want to get...
When sol-gel films present inhomogeneities
Thin films formed by sol-gel synthesis are not, in fact, homogeneous! Researchers at Liten’s INAC made the discovery observing an InGaZnO...
Gas sensors benefit from union between III–V materials and silicon
Researchers at Leti recently created a photonic coupler with one waveguide made from III–V materials and another from silicon. The achievement...
Identifying pathogenic bacteria in just seconds
Field testing of a portable pathogenic bacteria alert and identification system began a few days ago in the South of France....
The sun and cancer: is melanin friend or foe?
When exposed to the sun, the human skin makes a pigment called melanin to protect itself—or so we thought! A team...
Medical imaging for safer flap reconstruction surgery
Tissue flap surgery is a technique used in breast and maxillofacial reconstruction. A flap of tissue, which can contain bone, muscle,...
TEM characterizesresistive RAM in action
Researchers at Leti have characterized RRAM (resistive random-access memory) in operation, at the nanometric scale, using a transmission electron microscope. And...
Electrical current circulates in silicon nanonets
Many scientists said it wasn’t possible, but PhD research supervised by LTM and LMGP recently proved the naysayers wrong, demonstrating that...
Go easy on the ToF-SIMS for organic materials
Organic materials are damaged by ToF-SIMS spectrometry, due to the high impact energy they are subjected to during exposure to the...
Nanotech program enrollments 75% international
The international micro and nanotechnology program Nanotech is ushering in a particularly cosmopolitan class this year. Of the 38 students accepted...
Leti components used in LHC experiment at CERN
Not many organizations can say they work for CERN! Well, Leti can! On November 10, 2014, the beam at CERN’s Large...
Phelma’s driverless car in Freescale Cup European finals
For the first time ever this year, a duo of students from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school has entered...
CEA Europe’s top patent filer among public research organizations
The CEA, with 558 patent applications published, has held on to the position of number one among public research organizations in...
FEI extends joint lab for three more years
FEI, a US-based manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) has decided to extend its joint lab...
Inno’Cup Junior showcases teen inventors’ bright ideas
The final round of the Inno’Cup Junior challenge will be held at MINATEC on July 8 and 9. This national competition*...
B41 gets new-generation roof
Building 41’s 5,000 sq. m of roofing was totally replaced over the course of last year. The rainy summer didn’t delay...
Interview: “Standards will help us position our technologies”
Dominique Noguet, Head of Communication and Security Technology, Leti, an institute of the CEA
“Standards will help us position our...
PhD career placement one of IRT Nanoelec’s new priorities
IRT Nanoelec is rolling out a new strategy for 2015–2017 with three main pillars. One of the pillars is career placement...
CEA helps Rosetta space mission analyze comets
Here’s something you might not have known: Leti provided an irreplaceable component to help the Rosetta space mission analyze the gases...
Grenoble Institute of Technology adventure Race turns 20 this year
The 20th annual Grenoble Institute of Technology Adventure Race will take place from May 8–10, offering up three days of outdoor...
Grenoble experiments with salt-free deicing this winter
The City of Grenoble tested a more environmentally-friendly deicing method this winter, using a sodium-chloride-free product, DéneigeVert , manufactured by Selvert,...
Phelma student reports on stay in Japan
Phelma student Florian Castellane is crazy about robotics. Last year, he decided to take a gap year in Japan, where he...
Enerbee brings in €2.5 million in capital
Enerbee, the company that developed a microgenerator to enable self-powered connected objects, raised €2.5 million in capital in March.
Enerbee’s unique technology,...
Tronics announces successful IPO
Tronics announced the success of its IPO on the Alternext Paris market on February 9. IPO investors netted a 25% gain...