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Prostate biopsies, which are performed if a cancerous tumor is suspected, could become more accurate and reliable thanks to a new...

Researchers from INAC, Institut Néel, and SIMAP recently figured out a way to observe the proximity effect in graphene—a phenomenon that...

Leti has developed an electromagnetic-wave propagation model to help improve the performance of BANs (Body Area Networks). The human body blocks...

Researchers from INAC and ESRF have teamed up with peers in Madrid to study the correlation between the chemical composition of...

Visible CMOS imagers can now be subjected to a complete battery of tests—for sensitivity, dynamics, dark current, noise, conversion factor, quantum...

A team of researchers from INAC and Institut Néel have created a hybrid system that consists of a nano-sized quantum dot...

Leti recently helped create a demonstrator for a local, on-the-fly speech processing system using a multicore platform similar to those used...

Ternary oxides (In-X-Zn-O) are visibly-transparent semiconductors, making them promising candidates for optoelectronic applications. Researchers at Liten synthesized fourteen such oxides using...

In just a few years, oceanographic sensors located 2,000 meters under the ocean’s surface could be powered by biobatteries feeding off...

Leti has developed an infrared detector with avalanche photodiodes cooled to 180 K that successfully received data at 80 Mbps during...

Leti and bioMérieux recently teamed up to conduct quantitative protein measurements using MRM mass spectrometry with automated data processing and sensitivity...

Marie-Noëlle Semeria has been appointed Director of Leti, effective October 1, 2014. She succeeds Laurent Malier. Ms. Semeria holds a Ph.D....

Leti’s helium magnetometers—which are installed on the three Swarm mission satellites—made it through their in-flight commissioning with flying colors. The instruments...

Just seven years after it was founded, Movea was acquired by US-based InvenSense this summer. Movea’s CEO Sam Guilaumé had been...

Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid, who founded Clinatec (the Edmond J. Safra Biomedical Research Center) along with Jean Therme, has won the 2014...

This summer was a record one for two Grenoble start-ups. Isorg, which specializes in printed electronics, raised €6.4 million, while Primo1D,...

On November 14, four of the five candidates selected to participate in the First Step Challenge will submit their funding requests...

Jean-Marc Dedulle was appointed director of Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Division of Continuing and Executive Education. Dedulle, who formerly served as...

The 2014–2015 academic year is underway, and Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma engineering school is right on target in terms of admissions....

Grenoble Institute of Technology won first place for innovation and research for the fourth time in five years in a ranking...

Construction of a new photonics lab will start this month, with delivery scheduled in Q4 2016. The new facility will be...

For the first time ever, the MINATEC Science Fair, held during France’s national Science Week, will welcome elementary-school students. On Thursday,...

Marjolaine Allain was the first MINA-NEWS reader to spot the two “April fool’s” articles hidden in the newsletter’s April issue. Her...

What do fabless semiconductors, gallium-nitride-on-silicon power transistors, electrostimulation patches to treat pain, and a motion-powered energy generator have in common? All...

MINATEC Director Jean-Charles Guibert was part of a delegation that travelled from Grenoble to Ho Chi Minh City to celebrate the...

This year, Nano@school, which gives high-school students an introduction to nanoscience research, is offering seven workshops—including two that are totally new....

Florian Pebay-Peyroula, head of Leti’s Communicating Objects and Systems Security Lab:

« “We have to do more to fight against...