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Startup Avalun, which calls the MINATEC High-Tech Building its home, released its Covid-19 antigen test a few days ago. This powerful growth driver will also help speed up the rollout of Avalun’s portable lab, LabPad® Evolution. At the start of 2020, Avalun...

• Avalun Covid-19 antigen test now on market
• Spintronics and optronics, better together
• No virus can escape the optomechanical resonator
• A new wrinkle sure to foil counterfeiters’ plans
• LiteBIRD deep-freezes telescopes to probe the genesis of our universe
• CEA-Leti expands 300 mm line with new contact fabrication capabilities
• Innovative thermometer helps keeps power components from overheating
• An innovative lithium-ion battery anode
• ERC Proof of Concept grant for SOT-MRAM fabrication process
• Two Irig scientists now members of prestigious French learned society
• Bioresources enable antimicrobial bandages
• Advance gives new hope for lasers without III-V materials
• Hardware security expert Brice Colombier joins Grenoble INP-Phelma faculty
• What’s new in the AMIS Masters program
• Alain Sylvestre to head the Foundation for Micro and Nanotechnology effective January 1, 2021
• Anne Kaminski-Cachopo appointed director of IMEP-LaHC
• UNITE! Grenoble INP-Phelma is crossing borders even during the Covid lockdown
• FMNT backs four new equipment purchases
• Minalogic helps its members pivot to online communications
• Women in engineering 2020: Grenoble INP earns kudos for its commitment to gender representation
• SafeHear could make conversations in noisy environments safer and more comfortable
• Alternative mobility gains ground at CEA
• 100% online CSR day on December 4
• Y.SPOT Partners building to be delivered in a year

Phelma was able to physically welcome first-year students to school on campus on September 11. With social distancing and other Covid-19 measures in effect, the first day of school was unlike any other. Three auditoriums were prepared (with every other seat left...

• Unprecedented start to 2020-2021 school year at Phelma
• Microneedles could improve treatment of skin cancer
• Tomorrow’s window glass could be photochromic and photovoltaic
• Stabilizing skyrmions without a magnetic field now possible
• A drone could speed up avalanche search and rescue
• Clinatec improves cerebral motor activity location technique
• Reconstructing a SiC surface is all about order and disorder
• Postage-stamp-sized printed holograms
• Nanowires: overcoming very large differences in lattice constant
• Remote-control for micro-objects
• Startups continue to raise capital during the pandemic
• Phelma Partners Day to be 100% online
• Antaios raises $11 million and partners with Applied Materials
• Irig to assist with commissioning Japan’s Tokamak reactor
• DAMP probe available to industrial users
• International Roadmap for Devices and Systems to include More than Moore technologies
• Street art comes to CEA Grenoble campus
• Grenoble-based project wins i-Lab competition
• New energy technologies gain traction at INSTN, France’s national institute for nuclear science and technology
• Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma grad invents travel guitar
• High Level Forum introduces calendar of online events
• Science Impulse innovates in researcher recruitment
• Midi MINATEC brown bag lunch talks back after a seven-month hiatus
• Point-of-care testing: Horiba Medical and CEA-Leti extend partnership
• IEDM 2020 online conference now has its own online workshop
• Cystic fibrosis in the crosshairs at iGEM
• CEA-led QLSI project rallies Europe’s quantum CMOS community
• Bernard Diény and Spintec make it into the Computer History Museum

What if IoT antennas could be made even smaller without compromising efficiency simply by tuning their frequency? A PhD candidate at Leti did just that! She also developed an analytical model that is as reliable as today’s simulators. Leti fabricated an antenna...

• Miniaturized reconfigurable antennas for IoT devices
• Life is gradually returning to normal on campus
• Covid-19 vaccine: Leti and its Lipidots® drug delivery system out in front
• Tomorrow’s spintronics could use 1,000 times less energy
• Haptic interfaces: Wafer-level manufacturing just around the corner
• Irig’s electronic nose is now even more discerning
• Photovoltaics: Looking at the instabilities that affect hybrid perovskites
• Power electronics: GaN module sets new records
• Detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the air in just 30 minutes
• LEDs could soon promise mercury-free UV
• A new and sustainable photoelectrode for hydrogen production
• Leti engaged in EU project to develop neuromorphic processor
• Tiny FlexAmes for flexible energy storage and harvesting
• FMNT: Catherine Lo Cicero wins CNRS Crystal Medal
• Master’s in nanotechnology students go deep inside ESRF and ILL online
• Leti Innovation Days 2020: the fall’s top innovation event
• CEA drives development of OCOV mask
• From PhD student to entrepreneur with Enhanced IoT

The finding is a major one for theoretical physics: Researchers from Irig, Institut Néel, and the Flatiron Institute (US) designed an algorithm that solves the quantum many-body problem to order 15. The quantum many-body problem describes phenomena at the atomic scale that...

• Quantum many-body problem solved to order 15
• Until further notice…
• An original technique for functionalizing microscopes
• Invisible piezo transducers clean transparent surfaces
• AFM uplevels from cantilever to ring probe
• Leti 310 nm photonics platform gets a Process Design Kit
• A state-of-the-art vibration-energy harvesting circuit
• Vibration energy harvesting: Leti files three patents
• Energy harvesting: Resonance tuning boosts efficiency
• CMOS electronics and quantum devices get ready to move in together
• Active interposer supercharges high-performance circuits
• Neuromorphic memory: LMGP joins forces with MIT
• Magnetic tunnel junction sets new speed record
• First steps toward a spin valve with electrical insulators
• A step toward controlled Al/Ge quantum disks?
• June 4: A day to make the solo commute a thing of the past
• BHT1 gets new lounge for work and play
• Y.Spot, where open innovation takes shape
• FD-SOI: Leti’s transistor model recognized as a standard semiconductor device
• Hard-hitting campaign raises student awareness of the dangers of party culture
• eLichens monitors air quality in San Francisco
• Leti’s Emmanuel Sabonnadière to head nonprofit Jessica France
• Adentis consulting becomes Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma partner
• ISKN, now AMI, embarks on ambitious new strategy
• Medytec to showcase the Grenoble-Alpes medtech industry

Avalun is coordinating the Di@pason project, which will test a connected patient care pathway on a cohort of 10,000 patients on blood thinners in six regions across France. Caregivers will test Avalun’s LabPad INR portable lab, which utilizes consumables manufactured at...

• The Di@pason project: Avalun scales up
• Germanium makes a foray into spin orbitronics
• Plastic brings surprising benefits to high-speed communications
• Astrophysics: IRIG technologies used to cool DESI sensors
• Skyrmions ten times faster than Usain Bolt
• Heliaus project will help bring infrared to autonomous vehicles
• Germanium laser operates at record low temperature of 273 K
• Thyroid surgery: FLUOPTICS© reduces the risk of complications
• Silicon wafers: Don’t grind, recycle!
• Fundraising: Diabeloop gets a €31 million boost
• NuVISION, a high-potential gamma camera
• Former LMGP PhD candidate back as guest lecturer
• Leti microcoolers earn kudos from CERN
• Wormsensing makes any surface a touch surface
• LMGP hires two new researchers
• Leti to send major delegation to Photonics West 2020
• Biomedical research: Eveon and LMGP set up joint lab
• Next Minalogic Business Meetings on June 2 in Lyon
• Unique pulsed laser deposition machine coming to BHT
• HCERES evaluations, a real nail-biter
• EU DigiFed project and IRT Nanoelec are bringing digital technology to SMBs
• IMEP-LAHC acquires new noise characterization equipment for advanced components
• Congresses: 2019 a big year for Maison MINATEC
• ESRF EBS synchrotron to reopen in six months
• A cohort of 150 young researchers from GIANT to attend JSIAM 2020
• Bamboo mugs and organic produce: Grenoble Institute of Technology goes green
• Who is ready to develop a scientific video game…in 48 hours?
• The Biennale Arts Sciences will take a critical look at AI and climate change