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Can nanovectors be used to diagnose and treat atheromas—the fatty deposits on artery walls that can eventually lead to a heart...

Two INAC labs have chalked up a major breakthrough that will make it easier for chip manufacturers to use supercapacitors in...

Actin, a protein in plant and animal cells, has the special property of being able to form microfilaments on its own....

Leti engineers had a surprise in store for CERN researchers when they recently presented microcoolers they had made for a CERN...

It may soon be possible to view cells, bacteria, and viruses without a lens by using a simple webcam CMOS image...

Grenoble-based engineers from CEA-List have more than doubled the speed of a matrix multiplication program using a new dynamic compilation method....

Locating an object to within just a few centimeters sounds easy—except when you are over 3.6 km away. But that’s what...

The 2013 Phelminaire, a day-long seminar for Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma faculty and staff, will be held at the school’s campus...

Leti’s Open3D® integration platform has another prestigious contract under its belt. The platform was used to develop through-silicon vias (TSVs) for...

In a ceremony at MINATEC on March 26, 2013, Jean Therme, head of France’s Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission (CEA), awarded...

This fall Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma will kick-off France’s first work-study program for micro and nanoelectronic systems design. This program was...

Grenoble Institute of Technology came in second place in the latest ranking of France’s 100 top engineering schools, just behind rival...

Aledia, a start-up spun off from Leti, has just crossed two important milestones. First, it has finished making its first series...

Leti’s annual gathering will be held at MINATEC on June 25–28—with one big novelty: this will be the first year of...

The first 14 nm microelectronic circuits won’t be produced on a large scale until 2015 or 2016—but now is when engineers...

The CEA’s market research department will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a special conference on July 5, 2013. The event will...

After a promising first year in 2012, the CEA’s First Step Challenge is being renewed this year with high expectations. The...

Imaginez le Future (“Imagine the Future”), an interactive conference held by the Minalogic competitive cluster, will take place in Grenoble on...

Fabien Ndagijimana, IMEP-LAHC, Pheline lab*:
“We want to calm the debate on electromagnetic waves”

In the book you wrote with...

You’ve probably heard of people being equipped with sensors, like athletes who want to study their body movements or the elderly...

Rohde & Schwarz, a German manufacturer of radiofrequency (RF) test equipment, has teamed up with Leti to develop technology to improve...

For the third year in a row, Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma students will take part in iGEM, the global synthetic biology...

The N+1 theater company, currently in residency at Atelier Arts-Sciences, will set up its third and last camp on June 10–14,...

In a new book called Des Hommes et des Ions (“Of Ions and Men”), French journalist Isabelle Doucet tells the story...

Crocus Technology’s R&D partnership with Spintec is changing tempo. After years of working through renewable one-year agreements, the duo have committed...

Ezra, a beatboxer (a performing artist who produces vocal percussion sounds), is working with Organic Orchestra 2.0 to develop an interactive...

The 17 Grenoble-based members of IRT Nanoelec will meet at MINATEC on June 24, 2013 to celebrate the research institute’s first...

France’s National Intellectual Property Institute (INPI) issued a list in April of France’s busiest patent fi lers in 2012. The CEA...

MEIS, or medium-energy ion scattering, off ers very-high-resolution chemical and structural surface analysis capabilities. The technique works by analyzing the energy...