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Recent advances in research being conducted by Leti and INAC scientists under CEA project A3DN could help overcome one of the major technological hurdles facing microelectronics R&D. So, what does DNA have to do with microelectronics? DNA strings measure around a nanometer—as...

• DNA could bring new innovations to microelectronics
• Diamonds are a 3-D micro-supercapacitor’s best friend
• Satellite operators hungry for 5G communications
• Intensity- and sign-tunable spin-charge conversion
• High-performance computing gets more energy-efficient data transfer
• Quantum dots perform well under mechanical constraints
• MEMS RF switches made in Grenoble ready for space
• Could sugar make treating liver disease easier?
• Wireless pacemaker could be just over the horizon
• Power conversion: GaN components show promise
• Nanoelectronic Devices, an open-source scientific journal
• RF and millimeter wave integrated circuits and systems meeting on March 10
• Testing antibiotic efficacy in just one hour
• PX’Therapeutics focuses on new drug candidate
• GreEn-ER open for business, ribbon-cutting in December
• Fluoptics in the spotlight
• Enerbee takes to the air
• Leti working with GlobalFoundries on 22 nm FD-SOI
• Micro-nano observatory reports now online
• Grenoble reaches out to Taiwan and South Korea
• Emmanuelle Gourieux, active in student life
• Planet Makers gets kids into robotics
• Photonics platform delivery date pushed back
• Morphosense precision structural-health monitoring
• Alps Design Lab, where technology meets design
• Israeli teachers at CIME
• Communication: High Level Forum innovates
• Startup UroMems raises €14 million

Researchers from Leti and G2Elab are working to develop a new kind of medical imaging technology, “fast field-cycling MRI” (FFC-MRI). The research is being conducted under the four-year EU IDentIFY project, which kicked off in 2016. The new MRI is expected...

• MRIs could become more accurate and affordable
• MRIs could become more accurate and affordable
• Driverless vehicles: it’s all about the algorithms
• Josephson junctions: four terminals make the difference
• Rethinking resistive memory
• Nanocomputers: skyrmions now within reach
• LMGP takes atomic layer deposition to the next level
• Lensless imaging: Iprasense releases a new product
• CoolCube® attains more than 10 million 3D contacts/mm2
• A power converter that can withstand 200 °C
• Inac website features four researcher profile videos
• 4,800 runners expected at 8th Grenoble Ekiden marathon
• Recommended reading: Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Nanowires
• BigClouT is inventing smart cities
• CIME Nanotech gets ion milling equipment
• Challenge First Step 2016 cohort the best to date
• Semicon Europa returns to Grenoble
• Tomorrow’s engineers already entrepreneurs!
• Cross-disciplinary program for Grenoble-Alpes University
• 2016–2017 academic year off to a strong start for Phelma
• National i-Lab competition recognizes four CEA Tech projects
• Grenoble Institute of Technology and STMicroelectronics partner on analog electronics certificate course
• Phelma auditorium and extension now an integral part of MINATEC
• Parvis des Sciences science fair growing
• eLichens raises €3 million
• Phelma: new management, same objectives
• MINATEC’s new website on line
• New student dormitory opens in Presqu’île neighborhood
• EXPERIMENTA fair to feature 20 installations
• Maison MINATEC expands capacity

A team of researchers from Leti along with three of Leti’s international partners* have finally shed new light on the discrepancy of up to two orders of magnitude between the theoretical detection limits of nanoresonators and the resonators’ actual performance. Until...

• Nanoresonators: the plot thickens amid new insights
• Characterizing 2D materials could soon get easier
• Leti and Liten join forces on additive technologies
• Lithography: non-chemically-amplified resin validated
• New ideas for more effective spin current sources
• Advances toward CMOS-transistor quantum computers
• A 275 nm microlaser active at ambient temperature
• A film that turns gender stereotypes on their heads
• Nanosystems design: Samson growing in popularity
• Nanocharacterization Platform turns ten
• Catherine Picart wins CNRS silver medal
• Patents: CEA maintains activity in 2015
• Phelma Thursday Updates
• EU project Mirphab gets €17 million for optical IR sensors
• Ceasar Lab an active patent filer
• GIANT Review steps into spring with a new look
• MINATEC strengthens ties with Shanghai’s Sitri institute
• SOI Industry Consortium to set up shop at MINATEC
• Midis MINATEC brown-bag lunch talks tally up more than 80,000 attendees
• CEA to organize two-day sustainable mobility event
• Aryballe Technologies sees fast development and raises €2.6 million
• MOOC on habitable exoplanets
• Phelma student Jordan Broisin is France’s adaptive skiing champion
• New academic chair for electronic systems on plastic
• Leti joins global Stanford University SystemX Alliance
• 2016 MIGAS summer school to be held near Bologna
• GIANT to host High Level Forum 2016
• Grenoble INP Entreprise moves to MINATEC

The FMNT (Federation for Micro and Nanotechnologies) saw its mandate renewed for an additional five years on January 1, 2016. The organization took advantage of the occasion to bring in three new labs, bringing its total headcount to nearly 500—a 30%...

• 2016–2020: FMNT expands
• 3D integration: INTACT circuit at the global state of the art
• A biobattery with built-in energy recovery
• UV LEDs: could nanowires be the key to efficiency?
• Ultra-low-power systems for IoT
• Nanocrystals could bring photocatalysis to the masses
• New advances in phase-change memory
• Microresonators: the quality factor
• Superdirective antenna arrays undergo field testing
• A microdisplay 1,000 times brighter for augmented reality
• Patient recruitment has begun for BCI study to help tetraplegics
• IEE EDS colloquium presents twelve distinguished lecturers
• Managing metal contamination just got easier
• Leti earns kudos from French government evaluator HCERES
• MINATEC Ph.D. candidate wins NanoArt 2015
• Dr. Anne Vilcot appointed Administrator of Phelma
• Leti gets new Carnot Label coordinator
• Diabeloop: “Pancreas 2.0” undergoes patient testing
• CEA is the world’s most innovative research organization
• Clinatec innovates in fundraising
• First Grenoble young physicist meeting coming soon
• Phelma Polygone moves to new quarters
• Smart Force Technologies makes using nanoparticles easier
• Startup: Motion Recall targets consumer virtual reality
• Professor Pierre Gentil dies at 70
• Partnership: MINATEC goes to Argentina
• Interview: Marie-Noëlle Semeria, Director, Leti
• Exagan to set up manufacturing base in Grenoble
• Leti and GlobalFoundries pave the way for 22 nm FD-SOI
• Pint of Science brews up something for everyone
• FIRST Tech Challenge robotics competition reaches new heights
• Blueberries could soon juice up smartphones

Any visitor touring the cleanrooms in building 41.01 would have a hard time believing that the building was ravaged by fire less than a year ago. The fire-damaged area of the building reopened in December after four and a half months...

• Fire-damaged area of building 41.01 back to business as usual
• Shape affects magnetization reversal
• Coupled characterization provides insights into phase transitions
• Tomorrow’s 5G antennas will be thinner
• Very-high-speed RFID for electronic passports
• Liquid crystals could make lithium-ion batteries safer
• Silicon photonics: new speed record set
• Telecommunications: III–V/silicon tunable laser
• BigDFT code makes front-page news
• Superconducting single-photon detectors at the state of the art
• Double quantum wells on a PMOS nanowire transistor
• A video encoder that uses just 19.1 mW of power
• CCL building completed ten weeks ahead of schedule
• Heterogeneous reactors and reactions class to be held on March 13–18
• MIT and Leti partnership continues to produce results
• CEA: Stéphane Siebert appointed Director of Technological Research
• Challenge First Step supports four innovative projects
• Aselta’s photolithography software just got better
• INAC is restructured
• Third Innovation Marketing Day to be held on April 5
• Thespians to bring drama to JSIAM 2016
• Interview: Pierre Benech, Director, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma Engineering School
• Phelma to host 32 international students at 2016 Summer School
• PCR DNA analysis gets prehistoric samples talking
• Grenoble Institute of Technology Open house on March 5
• Startup news: EnWireS targets the Li-ion battery market
• Phelma library now has “women in science” collection
• Second Minalogic Business Meetings to be distinctly international
• Leti ramps up international programs with the Instituts Carnot