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In early February, Ideas Laboratory© will supply Air Liquide, Bouygues Construction, and Suez with fifteen connected armband prototypes for factory and construction workers.  With a display that lets workers pinpoint their location on a map, look at task lists and technical drawings,...

• A connected armband for construction workers
• More compact H-bridges for home appliances
• Researchers invent a skyrmion switch
• Stimulating the visual cortex to restore sight
• Peptide targets could help determine uranium toxicity
• Nanowires could compensate for 6% lattice constant deviation
• Fingerprint recognition: Leti exceeds FBI requirements
• Leti launches hardware emulation services using Veloce
• Skin DNA: Sunscreens do provide protection
• Secure circuits inspected down to the transistor
• Bruno Paing succeeds Hughes Metras as head of CEA Tech US
• NeOse Pro artificial nose can detect 500 different scents
• Leti PhD candidate wins L’Oréal Foundation grant
• FRM medical research foundation awards funding to LMGP lab
• Smart Force Technologies boosts micron-scale rapid prototyping
• CEA Tech Village at CES 2018
• Moovlab, still in its incubation phase, wins first customer
• FED4SAE explores cyber-physical systems
• Grenoble and Vienna join forces on ALD
• New phase in Building 10.05 rehabilitation project begins
• Emmanuel Sabonnadière brings industrial and international experience to Leti
• MIT to send five teaching assistants to GIANT
• First-ever Phelma open house to be held in March
• Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud appointed Deputy Director of INAC
• Innov@School gets high-schoolers working on low-tech solutions
• Experimenta, now held every two years, to take place in February
• Giant International Internship Programme fall session

The tenth annual Parvis des sciences science fair will be held on October 19–21, 2017 at MINATEC. And, with ample opportunities to look, touch, experiment, and ask questions, there is sure to be something for each of the 3,000 visitors expected this...

• Parvis des sciences fair turns ten!
• More reliable, compact LED lamps
• The quest for the qubit continues
• Unidirectional spin waves
• SigmaFusion™ meets automotive-industry reliability standards
• Very-high-density optically reconfigurable gate arrays
• Graphene and spintronics come together
• Remote-controlled nanotweezer arrays
• INAC develops first-ever quantum-dot nanotubes
• Iprasense introduces high-throughput cell culture monitoring
• Growing numbers of Phelma students opt for work-study programs
• Women in Science competition: Now is the time to enter
• Three up-and-coming CNRS researchers hired by FMNT
• Nano@school 2016–2017 served 610 high-school students
• OPE)N(RA, the FMNT’s new characterization platform
• BHT-2: Construction to begin in November
• Industrial partners host CEA Tech travelling showroom
• Grenoble Institute of Technology Foundation new programs
• Ribbon cut on Predictive Simulation Center
• NanoMada: MINATEC exports its know-how to Madagascar
• Rotary Club finances 3D bioprinter
• Convergence banking on autonomous portable testing devices
• New introductory-level book on electronic measurement systems
• Sciencetips science newsletter backed by the CEA
• CIME to celebrate Science Week in Voiron!
• Fraunhofer and Leti sign novel microelectronics partnership
• Grenoble strengthens ties with Latin America
• Nexio boosts Pheline testing lab’s capacities
• WTC and Maison MINATEC join forces to boost event capacity
• The sixth Challenge First Step in six projects
• LXRepair brings in €1.1 million
• Morphosense earns kudos at i-LAB 2017 competition
• Diabeloop raises €13.5 million to develop artificial pancreas
• 5,200 runners expected at 2017 Grenoble Ekiden marathon
• MagIA Diagnostics revolutionizes ELISA immunological test

INAC recently made a significant advance toward using spin-orbit coupling in transistors as the result of research conducted in conjunction with CNRS Palaiseau and Jülich Research Center of Germany. As its name indicates, spin-orbit coupling “couples” an electron’s momentum and spin....

• Germanium: spin transistors just over the horizon
• P-SCAN pinpoints industrial systems’ vulnerabilities
• 5G network prototype at Pyeongchang Olympics
• Mechanical constraint helps locate quantum light sources
• Large-scale two-dimensional MoSe2 production with no tape!
• First-ever 600 V/100 A GaN demonstrator transistor for power electronics
• SensiNact released as open source
• Nanosafety Workshop: a uniquely interactive opportunity
• Photonics platform open for business after a six-month delay
• Building an emergency shelter prototype in three days
• Leti stands out at EuCAP conference
• Nanocharacterization platform upgrades TEM equipment
• Neutron detector helps predict the impacts of snow melt
• DREAM project results published in six languages!
• NXP and Phelma form a new kind of partnership
• New on the Micro- and Nanotech Observatory website
• Inno’Cup Junior 2017: teen innovators imagine the future
• GIANT runs tours for Presqu’île residents
• Nuclear: Phelma signs partnership with the University of Bristol
• MT 180: Grenoble’s Sabrina Fadloun in the running at nationals
• Open labs: Atelier Arts-Sciences and Ideas Lab expand circle of partners
• Grenoble Institute of Technology moves up in 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject
• Sylfen wins international innovation award from French newspaper Le Monde
• IRT Nanoelec: More than 300 SMBs have received services through the Easytech program
• PUS improves energy yields at MINATEC
• Exploring artificial intelligence at Ideas Days
• Cholera test kit designed in Grenoble in iGEM competition

Leti convinced France’s telecommunications regulator ARCEP to issue a license for the institute to run a six-month trial (H1 2017) at 3.5 GHz with a bandwidth of 40 MHz. The frequency could be the first to be released for 5G network rollout,...

• Leti experiments with 5G networks at MINATEC
• New bacterial identification tool
• Nanometric electrical wires will soon be here
• Mapping magnetic fields: INAC innovates!
• Deeper insights into electrolytes’ ionic conductivity
• Atomic moirés’ crystallographic structure under the microscope
• A micro-display with incredible resolution
• Obstacle detection for all with INSPEX
• Nanobiose strengthens ties with MINATEC
• Phelma strong in French Physics Society tournament
• ISKN: Results worth writing about!
• Startups: Two Phelma grads earn kudos
• Leti unveils new website
• Phelma Junior Consultants moving up
• Atos joins Phelma Partners Circle
• Five weeks of nanotechnology!
• Even more CEA technologies in the spotlight at this year’s Forum 5i!
• A Chair of Excellence for MAX phases
• EEA Club: A Grenoble congress with a European flavor
• Lancey Energy Storage introduces the smart radiator
• Avalun begins scaling up its LabPad® for manufacturing
• Activage puts digital technology to work for the elderly
• Power electronics: Exagan speeds up production
• LPSC nuclear instrumentation platform transformed
• Find the latest MINATEC news on your favorite social network
• CEA one of the world’s most innovative publicly-funded research organizations

Long space missions present such a high risk of bacterial infection that astronauts spend 10% of their time cleaning! One of the objectives of the ISS Proxima mission (in which ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is participating) is to study five advanced...

• International Space Station: Germs be gone!
• World-first: 300 mm CMOS qubits
• RRAM memory emulates synaptic plasticity
• STT-MRAM memory gets higher write speeds
• When transistors become very sensitive to light
• Slashing LED costs fourfold now possible
• Perpendicular anisotropy: graphene and cobalt go hand in hand
• Thin-layer nanocomposites deliver unrivalled properties
• Bike pedal power sensor costs slashed tenfold
• Why are lithium battery losses so high on the first cycle?
• Phelma and Ensimag join forces on embedded systems and connected objects
• Phelma does well in L’Étudiant magazine engineering school ranking
• Challenge First Step 2016 gives more than €700K to startups
• Nanosafety Platform website now online
• White paper on atomic layer deposition
• NanoArt photo contest really zooms in!
• Micro- and Nanotech Observatory 2016 year in review
• 72 local high-school students to attend Inn.Otech 2017
• Phelma introduces international materials-focused Master’s
• Bag-Era makes the IoT more reliable
• Apios sets out to repair large bone defects
• Phelma: 2017 admissions open to graduates of additional science prep programs
• Startup EnWires sets up shop at LMGP
• Grenoble Institute of Technology 2017 adventure race to take place in Vercors
• 1967–2017: Leti celebrates 50 years
• Innov@School gets high-schoolers thinking about the homes of the future
• Jean-Claude Royer joins Clinatec’s management team
• ESRF Colloquia a success
• eVaderis gets influx of fresh capital