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Grenoble-based research project QuCube won an ERC Synergy Grant of €14 million over six years to develop a quantum processor. The grant is evidence that Grenoble’s research and innovation ecosystem is gaining traction internationally. Leti, INAC, and Institut Néel will receive €14...

• Quantum technology: Europe is banking on Grenoble
• Bringing chronic heart failure patients home for good
• Automotive switches: resource-efficient MPC
• Thin layer materials: Sprint project aims high
• Redfinch revitalizes mid-infrared detection technology
• Epilepsy: What if cold could prevent seizures?
• Spintronics gets new materials
• Germanium reveals hidden talents
• Photosynthesis is better two by two
• Phelma tenth anniversary celebrations to draw to a close
• RFIC-Lab focuses on RF design
• Avalun ramps up production at MINATEC
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional digital innovation hub opens
• IFCEN and Phelma to sign two dual-degree agreements
• Air Liquide signs five-year contract with the CEA
• Grenoble team takes home two wins in iGEM competition
• HOPE mobilizes talents to counter energy poverty
• Sneak preview of Leti innovations at CES 2019
• Biomedical research: Eveon and LMGP set up joint lab
• Rosi recycles photovoltaic manufacturing waste
• Activage puts digital technology to work for the elderly
• IMEP-LaHC gets an AFM unlike any other
• INAC PhD candidate wins For Women in Science award

This summer, the CEA set up its first international joint lab with a university in Singapore. The SCARCE* lab has a total budget of €12.5 million over three years and will focus on the recycling and transformation of electronic waste. INAC,...

• CEA forms joint lab with Singapore’s NTU
• Strain-free InGaN lights up in blue, green, and red
• Choosing the best LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
• Internet of Things: a technology to improve communications
• New insights into spin-orbit torque
• Cybersecurity: Leti automates testing
• Magnetic heating boosts water electrolysis
• Spin waves detected in CMOS-compatible materials
• Quantum bits: SOI nanowires open up new possibility
• Research brings much-needed order to nanoplate suspensions
• The artistic side of new printed materials
• Working to make refugee camps better places to live
• More than 1,500 schoolchildren expected at Parvis des sciences science fair
• CEA Open Innovation Center: innovation in residence
• Challenge First Step 2018 cohort selected
• CIME Nanotech gets four-port 145 GHz network analyzer
• ISKN raises capital, announces new hires, and launches three new products
• Quantum bits: the future is down under!
• Kalray raises €47.7 million through IPO
• Microfluidics: Leti spearheading standardization
• MEMS-Al and NanoAndes to be held at the same time in Mexico
• NanoSAFE 2018 to zoom in on nanosafety and responsible use of nanomaterials
• Phelma: key figures from the start of the 2018–2019 academic year
• Connected skis: Rossignol gives a sneak peek
• IRT Nanoelec education and training program gets new strategy
• FMNT wins two PhD dissertation awards
• Exagan’s first products leverage GaN technology
• International conference on nanomaterials-based biodetection in November

Nano@school, a CIME Nanotech program for high school juniors enrolled in the science track, has been held at MINATEC since 2010. This year nearly 800 students from 25 high schools (including three international high schools) enrolled, setting a record for Nano@school! Back...

• Nano@school sets new record in 2018
• Progress toward less toxic, more affordable hydrogen photosynthesis
• Inverse opals boost solar cell yields
• Special 50th issue of Mina-News
• 2D materials: Moiré engineering and dislocation theory converge
• MRAM: Microelectronics industry adopts spintronics
• Silicon photonics aiming for terabit-per-second speeds
• Compressed signal acquisition: Measure smart, use less energy!
• Bioactive surfaces and bone regeneration: LMGP’s winning track record
• Connected knee implant contains miniature sensors made in Grenoble
• Arianespace CEO to speak at Leti Innovation Days
• Construction: Nearly 45,000 sq. m built in ten years
• Three engineering students aiming for the top of the charts
• Phelma celebrates tenth anniversary
• Ground breaks on new OIC building
• Chrome5 conference room goes casual
• Mass fabrication of FD-SOI circuits to begin
• Twist straintronics could give graphene new properties
• Cycling: Detecting hidden electric motors
• A lifetime guarantee for superhydrophobic coatings?
• Avalanche photodiodes: Mynaric signs R&D contract with Leti
• Go Concept joins the Phelma Partners’ Circle
• LAMA removed from list of nuclear sites
• 7th French-American Workshop coming soon
• PTA (Upstream Technology Platform) turns ten on July 2
• Four engineering students off to Nepal
• Ideas Days 2018: Innovating for the Climate
• Recent Phelma grad founds agroecology startup
• Two Phelma students invited to IEEE conference
• Startup MagIA tackles hepatitis B
• Leti’s M&NEMS one major step closer to the market

In February Leti presented a functional prototype of an 11 mm x 7 mm CMOS image sensor whose unique feature is that it is curved. The innovation could lead to a spectacular reduction in the size and complexity of lenses. It...

• Pixcurve image sensor: microelectronics free from planar sensors
• Exploring the surface of CuInS2 nanocrystals
• Could UVB rays cause our DNA to oxidize?
• Chips individually encrypted during fabrication
• Lensless microscopy detects meningitis
• TMD monolayers offer unrivalled superconductivity
• Giant magnetoresistance present in new structures
• Quantum computing: progress toward silicon-28
• Winter Olympics: innovation medal for Grenoble’s 5G technology
• Regenerbone bone reconstruction project could lead to startup
• Grenoble Institute of Technology gets new Communications Director
• FAME Master’s program strengthens ties with industry
• Innovation: CEA still in the top-100 global innovators
• Leti to organize HTA’s tenth anniversary event in Brussels
• MINATEC a center for the arts and culture
• iGEM 2018 team tackles phagotherapy
• Exagan gets a warm welcome in China
• Phelma students reach out to young cancer patients
• Aledia raises €30 million and welcomes Intel
• New arrivals at the CEA now have their own welcome packet
• BHT: Weebit Nano, a new company with great memory
• 2018 CEA Tech showroom guide now available
• Ground breaks on BHT2

Etienne Perret, a faculty member at Grenoble Institute of Technology and a research scientist at LCIS, an FMNT lab based in Valence, has just won a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his chipless RFID tags. The grant will allow...

• Chipless RFID tag wins €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• EXPERIMENTA 2018: panel talks not to be missed
• Drones get 360-degree collision protection
• Breakthrough in magnetoencephalography from outer space
• Better Wi-Fi service on board Falcon jets
• MRAM on stage at MINATEC this summer
• CMOS 300 mm qubits can take the heat
• Tomorrow’s microdisplays will be curved
• Tungsten pumps up STT-RAM
• Could tin oxide replace indium tin oxide (ITO) in transparent electrodes?
• Telecommunications: BF-OFDM rolled out in the Orkney Islands
• Wristband diagnoses sleep apnea at home
• UV and IR photodetectors offer unrivalled performance
• Why nanowire beats thin film for piezoelectric potential
• Graphene ultracapacitor achieves record performance
• Stevie Wonder a fan of the Enhancia connected ring
• €676 K awarded to five projects in First Step Challenge 2017
• Leti researcher wins Helmholtz International Fellow Award
• The secret to great skin? Put down your mobile phone!
• Biomimetic thin films enter maturation phase
• APIX Analytics ready to take on US and Asian markets
• 3D-Oncochip: LMGP helps create microtumors
• A gap year in the Amazon rainforest
• The art and science of innovation marketing
• 92 teens expected for Scientifique, toi aussi ! science career day
• GreEn-Er students try their hand at beekeeping 2.0
• Pierre Benech appointed Grenoble Institute of Technology President through 2020