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December 2013
Telephony: an antenna that follows you from network to network
Cell phone antennas are now so tiny that they can no longer adapt to different networks’ frequency bands, seriously impairing data...
The world’s smallest memory is Made in Grenoble
Leti researchers have built a 16-nm charge-storage memory—the smallest ever cited in the literature. Until now, the most advanced memory systems...
Seeing nanocomponents in a new light
Upstream Technology Platform makes suspended graphene components
Despite its two-dimensional structure, graphene does not readily lend itself to the fabrication of MEMS and NEMS components using conventional microelectronics...
MRI contrast agents now twelve times more effective
A team of INAC-Liten researchers has developed MRI contrast agents that are twelve times more effective than those currently on the...
Water pockets in a 5-nm-thick film
The performance of PEFMC-type fuel cells often boils down to details like the physical and chemical characteristics of the 5-nm polymer...
Telephony: an antenna that follows you from network to network
Cell phone antennas are now so tiny that they can no longer adapt to different networks’ frequency bands, seriously impairing data transmission and call quality. Leti is working on a smart miniature antenna capable of adapting its impedance all on its own. The antenna already covers GSM, DCS, UMTS, Wi-Fi, and LTE; low 4G frequencies could soon be added to the mix.
Leti researchers combined an antenna with a...
You raised $346,000, nearly ten times your original goal. Did that surprise you?
It did! We set out to raise $35,000, hoping to maybe reach $100,000. But interest in the project was clear virtually from the beginning. We reached our goal of $35,000 in the first fourteen hours of the month-long campaign!
Looking back, I feel that we could have raised even more, like $500,000, if we had opened...
Kwant: powerful, open source quantum transport simulation solutions
The Kwant quantum transport package was developed by researchers from France (INAC) and the Netherlands over a period of three years....
Sofradir-Leti joint lab turns ten
Sofradir and Leti recently celebrated ten years of joint research. And their decade of partnership has been fruitful, with nearly a...
LMGP gets a robot for high-throughput thin-film deposition
LMGP recently acquired a robot capable of high-throughput thin-film deposition. The robot marks a significant improvement over the lab’s previous equipment—and...
IRT Nanoelec striving for even greater connectivity
IRT Nanoelec, a Technology Research Institute, was founded 18 months ago and continues to forge ahead, especially in the area of...
Phelma Junior Consultants gets students ready for the job market
Student club Phelma Junior Consultants will hold a job and internship day in January. The goal is to help Grenoble Institute...
Grenoble hosts 220 engineering school deans
The CIT, or Commission des titres de l’ingénieur, which oversees France’s state-sanctioned engineering degree programs, has chosen Grenoble for its next...
New OMNT study on nanoparticles for healthcare
The OMNT (Micro and Nanotechnology Observatory) is diversifying its activities. The Observatory’s current science and technology intelligence lineup, which covers fifteen...
Countdown to the CEA’s 2nd Nanosafety Conference
Some 150 nanosafety professionals, including manufacturers from a range of industries, will come to the CEA on December 11 for its...
UroMems moves into the High-Tech Building
Healthcare industry start-up UroMems moved from CIME Nanotech to the High-Tech Building on October 1, to further its product R&D.
Three don’t-miss Midi MINATECs lined up
MINATEC Director Jean-Charles Guibert will speak at the Midi MINATEC brown-bag lunch on December 13, as a special guest to mark...
IP heavyweights Avenium Consulting and Questel to merge
Avenium Consulting is a CEA Investissement subsidiary that provides intellectual property (IP) consulting services. Questel is a global leader in online...
How to get Horizon 2020 funding for ICT research
On December 10, Minalogic and Grenoble Institute of Technology will give a training session on how to apply for funding for...
MINATEC TV goes interactive
MINATEC TV’s Channel 2, “Live from Our Labs,” already boasts 12 videos—and more are on the way next year. The big...
EMI testing in B2I’s anechoic chamber
The anechoic chamber in MINATEC’s Integrative Industries Building (B2I) wasn’t designed for electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing—but it turns out to be...
LXRepair off to a roaring start
LXRepair, an expert in enzyme activity testing and DNA repair, was created on September 26 from a research project at INAC....
iGEM team wins Best Mathematical Model award
The iGEM 2013 team from Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma—which competed in the synthetic biology category of MIT’s iGEM competition—didn’t make it...
Digital SQUIDs hit the road
Pascal Febvre, a researcher at IMEP-LAHC and the University of Savoie, has outlined a superconductivity roadmap for digital SQUIDs, or superconducting...
Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma brings Altran on board
Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma signed up a new corporate partner this fall: Altran France. Altran is a leading global innovation consulting...
Fluoptics raises €2 million for global business development
Fluoptics raised €2 million from business angels in September, which it will use to market its Fluobeam® system for several clinical...
Scientists to play show and tell
On January 23, CEA-Grenoble will hold the third annual “You Too Can Be a Scientist!” day to introduce high school juniors...
Chemistry takes the spotlight in Leti clean rooms
A five-person film crew spent a day in Leti’s clean rooms in October making a video on how block copolymers—compounds developed...