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Clinatec’s Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) project was recently featured in The Lancet Neurology* and has appeared in the media worldwide. This groundbreaking project shows just how powerful the Clinatec model—medical doctors and technology experts working side-by-side under one roof—is at driving innovation.   The...

• Clinatec’s innovative neuroprosthesis and exoskeleton protected by eighteen patents
• Spin-charge conversion: What could be simpler?
• NeoLED heralds new era of transformerless LEDs
• Accessing a material’s topological electronic properties could get easier
• Wine, cheese, and raspberries on the olfactory biosensor menu
• The winning duo for surface functionalization
• Measuring stress in children using an exoskeleton
• SOT-MRAM memory now denser
• Proteomics and the p-value trap
• DFT methods boost the design of new enzymes
• Orphée Cugat wins CNRS innovation medal
• Morphosense heads offshore
• Scintil Photonics levels up with new round of fundraising
• French Academy of Science recognizes Catherine Picart
• Jean-Eric Michallet appointed new CEO of Minalogic
• Remedee raises €11 million to develop pain management solution
• Diabeloop’s artificial pancreas for children earns kudos from EIT
• Lancey Energy Storage raises €8 million
• Hughes Metras takes over as director of IRT Nanoelec
• A chair at the crossroads of materials and artificial intelligence
• Cryostats moved to new building: So far, so good
• No more plastic water bottles at Midi MINATEC lunch talks
• Scooter experiment to keep rolling through March
• Graphene 2020 conference to feature three Nobel Laureates
• New CEA Tech showroom to open on January 20
• A year of flipped classrooms at Phelma
• Leti to showcase four innovative technologies at CES 2020
• SiC pilot line coming soon to the Substrate Innovation Center
• Changes to Grenoble Institute of Technology SICOM major

Construction on the BHT2 building was completed last spring, and startup Prophesee moved its R&D department into a 154 sq. m space at the end of September. Prophesee’s R&D team will be working on the integration of its neuromorphic vision technology into...

• BHT2: MINATEC Entreprises exceeds targets
• Graphene oxide caves give supercapacitors a boost
• How to read and modify a quantum bit, step by step
• Antennas: Radiall and Leti lay the groundwork for 5G telecoms
• Biomarkers: Portable microfluidics lab breaks records
• IRIG and Tsukuba collaborate on another PhD dissertation
• Spirit, the world’s first neural-network-on-chip
• Unbroken layers of MoSe2 over large surfaces now possible
• Introducing Tiny, an ultra-thin, high-capacity battery
• Nobel laureate Gérard Mourou to visit MINATEC
• Grenoble Institute of Technology programs bring in even more IoT
• Phelma student launches career in space
• Phelma students experience DIY labs
• Grenoble’s iGEM 2019 competitors to enter teardrop test for Parkinson’s
• Grenoble Institute of Technology does well in two international rankings
• Catherine Picart moves from LMGP to IRIG
• ISKN enters video gaming market
• Turn any bike into an electric bike in just fifteen minutes
• Théano Karatsori leads the way for young women in science
• Leti active in Grenoble artificial intelligence institute
• Startup Rosi wins two awards in one month
• Assystem joins Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma Partners Circle
• Leti establishes leadership in Li-Fi communications technology
• Student club Ingénieurs Citoyens gains popularity
• Substrates: Soitec-Leti innovation center off to a good start
• Grenoble deep tech ecosystem wins big in i-Lab national innovation competition
• Leti’s 300 mm cleanroom to get 13 new machines in 2019
• What’s new at the Parvis des Sciences science fair this year?
• Nano@school goes low-tech

Aledia has been housed at MINATEC Entreprises for seven years. Today, the company is investing €20 million in a 4,000 sq. m facility in Echirolles, near Grenoble. The new facility, which will be equipped with Aledia’s own machines, will be dedicated...

• Aledia invests in own R&D facility
• Error-correcting codes: Is the quantum computer possible?
• Micro-LEDs: Low-cost mass production within reach
• Progress toward 3D-printed electronic circuits
• Deep learning a threat to hardware encryption
• A new step forward toward very-high-density magnetic storage
• Miniaturized chemical sensor integrated on silicon
• MRAM memory gets new recipe
• OLEDs undergo biocompatibility testing
• Patents: CEA remains very active
• LMGP: Daniel Bellet named Scientific Director of Carnot energy institute
• Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma increasingly international
• Deposition techniques: ALD gains traction
• IRIG researchers awarded three ERC Advanced grants
• French Chemistry Society recognizes young researcher from Phelma
• The Startup Café is back!
• Ginsen summer school to welcome 30 international participants
• ESONN 2019 garners 200 applications for 50 slots
• Puya Internationale moves headquarters to Grenoble
• E-health: Ludocare to deliver 500 companion robots in September
• Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid to speak at 400th Midi MINATEC brown-bag lunch series
• Ideas Days 2019 to delve into technology and resilience

Researchers from Leti, CEA Sciences, and INSERM injected Lipidots® (lipid-based nanoparticles) containing the p24 protein of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) into an animal model and obtained a robust and complete immune response. Lipidots® were created by Leti and CNRS in...

• AIDS vaccine: Lipidots® open the door to a novel approach
• Changing the magnetic chirality of skyrmions
• Getting closer to denser, more energy-efficient RRAM memory
• Progress toward high-performance UV LEDs
• Three potential new pathways to augmented reality glasses
• Neural networks: Keeping catastrophic forgetting at bay
• Retina: 3D-integrated image processing
• It’s amazing what a little spin pumping can do
• 3D-Onochip project reports first findings
• EuroSOI-Ulis conference reaches out to broader audience
• Bernard Dieny earns IEEE recognition
• Clinatec endowment fund to support four projects
• Phelma rises 31 slots in the L’Usine Nouvelle rankings
• Student entrepreneurs: Phelma engineering school home to four projects
• Challenge First Step 2019 kicks off
• Leti Innovation Days gets new format
• Leti and the Instituts Carnot: A synergistic relationship
• BHT2 to open its doors this fall
• GIANT Orientation Day for young researchers
• MINATEC startups raised more than €125 million in 2018
• MINATEC Labs make room for 100 more researchers
• Could light and heat soon power the Internet of Things?
• Avalun’s pocket lab a success in retirement home test
• Michelin acquires stake in Primo1D
• Morphosense raises €2 million in fresh capital

Thanks to Nano 2022 initiative funding, Leti will complete installation of its first wave of 30 pieces of 300 mm microelectronics equipment in 2019. The equipment will expand Leti’s technological capabilities, positioning the institute to address tomorrow’s innovations. The Nano 2022 initiative,...

• 300 mm: Leti brings state-of-the-art technology to industry
• Design: Leti and Silvaco set up joint lab
• Weighing viruses is not as easy as it looks
• Germanium-tin could be a winning combination for silicon photonics
• Noisy cracks, rough material
• Leti focuses on embedded artificial intelligence
• Life-sized IoT experiments underway at Maison MINATEC
• Aryballe Technologies and INAC, a winning partnership
• My Cube experiments with in-memory computing
• Phelma climbs five slots in the 2019 L’Étudiant college rankings
• MagIA raises €1 million to complete its analysis system
• Hydrogen: Phelma to take part in EU TeacHy2020 program
• Interactive fitness specialist Moovlab raises €253,000
• MagIA cofounder Sarah Delshadi earns kudos from C’Nano
• Scintil Photonics develops faster, more affordable optical interconnects
• Synchrotron to shut down for 20 months
• DAMP project to develop deep characterization solution
• European microelectronics roadmap ready to roll
• April 3 to April 5: two conferences to broaden your horizons
• IMEC and Leti form new partnership
• Diabeloop obtains CE marking
• Leti kicks off four strategic programs
• SOI Academy Shanghai launch a success
• Nano 2022: €35 million earmarked for nanotechnology R&D
• Arts et Métiers ParisTech students assigned to CEA Tech
• Technology transfer: Sylvain Colomb succeeds Alain Briand