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December 2015
LMGP a step closer to automated bioactive film production
Catherine Picart’s team at LMGP plans to use the €150,000 it received from the ERC BioactiveCoating project to optimize the automated...
Nanoimprint lithography: Grenoble kicks off industrial evaluation
Since this summer, Leti has been in charge of Inspire, an industrial evaluation program for nanoimprint lithography. The program’s launch was...
Spintec’s new STT-MRAM gives a sub-nanosecond performance
Spintec is developing spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory, or STT-MRAM, with write speeds under one nanosecond. That’s ten times faster than...
Gallium focused ion beam enables non-destructive ToF-SIMS
A gallium focused ion beam (FIB) was integrated into Leti’s ToF-SIMS spectrometer at its Nanocharacterization platform. The combined system makes it...
Beads help map the optical near-field
A team of researchers from INAC, LTM, and Institut de Bourgogne showed that it is possible to map optical near-fi eld...
Highly-porous thin layers for chemical sensors
The porosity—and detection capabilities—of chemical and biochemical sensors’ sensitive layers can be improved using a newly developed technique called foaming, where...
World’s first microsystem fabricated on 300 mm wafers
This summer, researchers at Leti fabricated the world’s first M&NEMS micro-accelerometers on 300 mm wafers, sending three crucial messages to the academic and industrial research and development communities.
First, the research proved that MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems, can be fabricated on 300 mm wafers, the largest format used in microelectronics. This advance will give MEMS access to the benefi ts associated with being among the most advanced technologies, from lower costs...
Interview: Christophe Durand, Research Scientist, INAC
« Nanowirebased flexible LEDs a first step toward flexible displays»
INAC and three other institutes* have developed the world’s First two-color, nanowire-based Flexible LEDs.
What does this advance mean?
Flexible LEDs are a prerequisite to flexible, bendable displays. They are currently being made from organic compounds at the cost of less-brilliant blues and shorter lifespans.
Our nitride nanowire-based LEDs are much longerlasting and can emit...
Crystalline super-networks for super thermal insulation
It is generally accepted that the thermal conductivity of a crystalline material is lowest when the material is in its amorphous...
A pressure sensor that knows what fl oor you’re on
Leti’s M&NEMS technology just keeps on giving, this time in the form of a pressure sensor that is as accurate as...
Biological functionalization of PMMA changes scale
In R&D conducted under the EU ML2 (MultiLayer MicroLab) project, Leti recently transferred a process to Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute that functionalizes...
Transistors: GaN enters the spotlight
Gallium nitride (GaN) is fi nally giving silicon a run for its money for use in power transistors capable of switching...
DC-to-DC converters now found on silicon
The DC-to-DC converters that power electronic circuits can take up nearly a third of a circuit board’s surface area and account...
Phelma Junior Consultants admitted to national Junior Enterprise network
France’s National Junior Enterprise Foundation (CNJE) recently admitted studentrun non-profi t business Phelma Junior Consultants (Junior Conseil Phelma, or JCP) to...
Sylvain Lodiot shoots for the stars (and comets!)
What engineer hasn’t dreamed of breaking the career mold with an exceptional job? ENSPG (a founding school of Phelma) alumnus Sylvain...
Droves of CheerUp! Phelma volunteers help young cancer patients
CheerUp! Phelma (a local branch of a nationwide nonprofi t providing outreach to young cancer patients) has been busier than ever...
INAC and Institut Néel get new X-ray diffractometer
INAC and Institut Néel recently acquired a new X-ray diffractometer as part of a joint research project. The equipment, designed for...
ClouT project successfully rolls out sensiNact middleware in four smart cities
In 2015, the CEA successfully implemented sensiNact middleware in four test cities. The middleware brings together data from a host of...
Leti expands IT security evaluation services with new accreditations
Leti is home to an IT security evaluation center (CESTI) approved by France’s national IT security administration. The center continues to...
Phelma lobby decked out in art and science
The three mezzanine levels visible from the Phelma lobby have been transformed by an art installation titled Les Balcons de Turing...
Enerbee invests 4 million in its new production plant
Startup Enerbee, which has its offi ces at MINATEC, is investing €4 million to scale up its fi rst miniature electric...
NSF grants $3.8 million to UPENN-GIANT project
GIANT welcomes eleven Argentinean and Japanese student interns
The second winter session of the GIANT International Internship Programme will welcome a cohort of eleven students from Argentina (under the...
Seven UGA PhDs earn awards for their dissertations
On November 26, 2015 seven Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) PhDs received 2015 Dissertation Awards at a ceremony held at the Musée de...
Interview: Nanowirebased flexible LEDs a first step toward flexible displays
Interview: Christophe Durand, Research Scientist, INAC
« Nanowirebased flexible LEDs a first step toward flexible displays»
INAC and three other institutes* have...
EcoMarch center slated to open in 2018
The EcoMarch center for the design of architectured materials will open its doors in 2018 on the Saint-Martin d’Hères campus. The...
National Technological Research Institute conference held at MINATEC
The third conference of the National Technological Research Institute (IRT) network was held on October 13, 2015 at MINATEC. Hosted by...
Large instruments knock on manufacturers’ doors
Grenoble’s large scientific instruments can help both SMBs and larger companies reach their R&D goals. But how? And how much does...
Avalun’s pocket lab to be tested at four nursing homes in 2016
CEA spinoff Avalun, founded in 2013, will test its LabPad® for one year at four nursing homes across the region. The...
Rossignol and the CEA team up to design tomorrow’s skis
I sère-based ski manufacturer Rossignol will be teaming up with CEA Tech over the next fi ve years on R&D to...
Nanonet-based sensors could work for medical applications
FMNT will be coordinating an EU Horizon 2020 project on 3D CMOS integration of nanonet-based sensors for medical applications. The project...
CEA-Technip project wins global innovation award
Morphopipe, the fl agship R&D project that came out of a Technip-CEA Tech joint lab set up in 2011, won Technip’s...
Europe blazes its own trail in nanoelectronics
Neireid, a Horizon 2020 project, kicked off on November 16, 2015, under the watchful eye of Francis Balestra (IMEP-LAHC). The project...
Silicon photonics on course for reaching speeds of 10 Gbps and up
Leti is setting a new state of the art in silicon photonics link speeds. According to a dissertation on the topic...