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This summer, researchers at Leti fabricated the world’s first M&NEMS micro-accelerometers on 300 mm wafers, sending three crucial messages to the academic and industrial research and development communities. First, the research proved that MEMS, or microelectromechanical systems, can be fabricated on...

• World’s first microsystem fabricated on 300 mm wafers
• LMGP a step closer to automated bioactive film production
• Nanoimprint lithography: Grenoble kicks off industrial evaluation
• Spintec’s new STT-MRAM gives a sub-nanosecond performance
• Gallium focused ion beam enables non-destructive ToF-SIMS
• Beads help map the optical near-field
• Highly-porous thin layers for chemical sensors
• Crystalline super-networks for super thermal insulation
• A pressure sensor that knows what fl oor you’re on
• Biological functionalization of PMMA changes scale
• Transistors: GaN enters the spotlight
• DC-to-DC converters now found on silicon
• Phelma Junior Consultants admitted to national Junior Enterprise network
• Sylvain Lodiot shoots for the stars (and comets!)
• Droves of CheerUp! Phelma volunteers help young cancer patients
• INAC and Institut Néel get new X-ray diffractometer
• ClouT project successfully rolls out sensiNact middleware in four smart cities
• Leti expands IT security evaluation services with new accreditations
• Phelma lobby decked out in art and science
• Enerbee invests 4 million in its new production plant
• NSF grants $3.8 million to UPENN-GIANT project
• GIANT welcomes eleven Argentinean and Japanese student interns
• Seven UGA PhDs earn awards for their dissertations
• Interview: Nanowirebased flexible LEDs a first step toward flexible displays
• EcoMarch center slated to open in 2018
• National Technological Research Institute conference held at MINATEC
• Large instruments knock on manufacturers’ doors
• Avalun’s pocket lab to be tested at four nursing homes in 2016
• Rossignol and the CEA team up to design tomorrow’s skis
• Nanonet-based sensors could work for medical applications
• CEA-Technip project wins global innovation award
• Europe blazes its own trail in nanoelectronics
• Silicon photonics on course for reaching speeds of 10 Gbps and up

  MINATEC celebrates science The 2015 MINATEC “Parvis des Sciences” Science Fair and fifth annual EXPERIMENTA Art, Science, and Technology Fair will be held on the MINATEC campus from October 8–10, with plenty of science-related activities for everyone, from hardcore science enthusiasts to...

• Science Fair and EXPERIMENTA
• 60 GHz with good spectral quality? Check!
• “Valleytronics” make spintronics even better
• Biologically-inspired copper chelates prove effective
• Gentle metallization for porous silicon
• Magnetic tunnel junctions no longer a mystery
• Self-monitoring goniometer antennas
• Deforming germanium to emit more light
• Auger nanoprobe for nanometric elementary quantitative analysis
• Miniaturization record for single-electron CMOS transistor
• IMEP-LAHC gets the Rolls-Royce of network analyzers
• Connected home heating, French style!
• Clinatec expands imaging capabilities with SPECT/CT
• The Internet of Things heads to the beach
• CIME Nanotech gets new CVD equipment
• Phelma’s freshman cohort better than ever
• Five CEA Tech startups win national awards
• National Inno’Cup Jr Championship: Grenoble hosts the high-caliber finals
• GEPHY 2015: Success for INAC’s energy storage tour!
• Next stop for CEA Tech’s traveling showroom: Tokyo
• 7th annual Grenoble Ekiden marathon sold out
• Interview: Alain Briand, head of business creation support
• FDSOI design: Promising start for Silicon Impulse
• Atomic layer deposition (ALD) seminar to come to Grenoble
• Close to 60% of Phelma graduates work in energy and ICTs
• With HAP2U, touch screens get touchable texture
• With Fahrenheit2451, Arnano targets the consumer market
• CEA-INAC PhD candidate wins two international awards in “My 180-second Dissertation” competition

Researchers from INAC, Leti, and IRTSV recently completed the first-ever successful analysis of neutral particles by mass spectrometry. The scientific achievement, which took place right here in Grenoble, was praised by an article in Nature Communications. The researchers chose to bypass...

• First-ever analysis of neutral particles by mass spectrometry
• LINC, the Esperanto of smart buildings
• Lensless imaging: Cytonote off to a good start
• Supercapicitor power unsheathed
• Non-destructive testing gains strength thanks to TMR
• Photovoltaics: the sensitized p-type cell takes off
• Datacom-dedicated optical multiplexer achieves record stability
• Field gradient NMR to examine vegetable oils
• LEDs shed their converters
• A close-up look at how materials behave between –80°C and 600°C
• 3D grain imaging now even more precise
• INAC PhD candidates learn about public speaking
• American students say “Yes!” to GIANT’s summer program
• Phelma revises curriculum for first-year students
• Ense3 moves to 1:1 demo building
• Grenoble off to Korea for Nano-KISS
• Local science website now has jobs section
• MultiX raises €3 million in fresh capital
• The Airboard, for faster proof-of-concept
• Local nurses test Avalun’s mobile point-of-care device
• Serma Technologies invests €1 million in a TEM
• Grenoble Institute of Technology Youth Ambassadors
• Phelma students reach out to young cancer patients
• Tech transfer center to open at Grenoble Institute of Technology
• CEA Tech Research Directorship applicants unplug in the Vercors
• MINALOGIC expands scope
• Phelma students’ crystallography game a hit

The news dates back to early 2014 and has been kept under wraps for almost a year. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology biology lab is turning to Leti to develop some highly complex suspended microresonators. After receiving the initial components, which...

• MIT chooses Leti to supply suspended microresonators
• Adipose stem cells for human skin rejuvenation and regeneration
• Veloce2 emulator flexes its muscles at Leti
• Gaia compute node could help keep servers cool
• New magnetic tunnel junctions get encouraging results
• Clinatec aims to make diagnosing cardiac arrhythmia and epilepsy easier
• Photonics-on-silicon for telecoms switching systems
• When sol-gel films present inhomogeneities
• Gas sensors benefit from union between III–V materials and silicon
• Identifying pathogenic bacteria in just seconds
• The sun and cancer: is melanin friend or foe?
• Medical imaging for safer flap reconstruction surgery
• TEM characterizesresistive RAM in action
• Electrical current circulates in silicon nanonets
• Go easy on the ToF-SIMS for organic materials
• Nanotech program enrollments 75% international
• Leti components used in LHC experiment at CERN
• Phelma’s driverless car in Freescale Cup European finals
• CEA Europe’s top patent filer among public research organizations
• FEI extends joint lab for three more years
• Inno’Cup Junior showcases teen inventors’ bright ideas
• B41 gets new-generation roof
• Interview: “Standards will help us position our technologies”
• PhD career placement one of IRT Nanoelec’s new priorities
• CEA helps Rosetta space mission analyze comets
• Grenoble Institute of Technology adventure Race turns 20 this year
• Grenoble experiments with salt-free deicing this winter
• Phelma student reports on stay in Japan
• Enerbee brings in €2.5 million in capital
• Tronics announces successful IPO

The MINATEC campus will soon get 11,500 sq. m of additional space with the completion of two new buildings: the Competency Center Building (BCC), which will house 550 staffers, and the 700-capacity Phelma Auditorium and Conference Center. The Competency Center Building...

• MINATEC soon to get the keys to two brand-new buildings
• Scientists use Synchrotron to look deep inside fuel cells
• Getting closer to 60 GHz antennas for 5G networks
• Galileo satellites could help drones fly solo
• Lanthanide-potassium complex as CO2 reducer
• M&NEMS gets first design kit
• Spintronics: Antiferromagnetic materials show their hidden talents
• Gamma-ray imaging makes giant leap with semiconductor-based detectors
• Artificial pancreas tested on 15 patients
• Compact-antenna directivity gets a boost
• Two-photon microscopy generates 3D images of living tissue
• PCR could soon be used in hospital emergency rooms
• Joint R&D lab to work on parallel-wired battery pack
• Phelma makes the cover of l’Étudiant magazine
• Marie-Paule Schuhl takes the helm of Grenoble Institute of Technology communications department
• Aryballe releases world odor map
• FEG-TEM ribbon-cutting held at CMTC
• CEA Tech launches Communications and Innovation Services Division
• Leti’s Building 41 ready to take on next heat wave
• CEA promotes careers for women in science
• Maison MINATEC on the move
• Atelier Arts Sciences polarizes light at first-ever Rêve Party
• FIRST Tech Challenge to come to Lyon and Paris
• High Tech U to run two sessions in 2015
• Interview: Saïd Obbade, Materials physicist, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma School of Engineering
• Phelma student duo develops innovative 3D display
• Challenge First Step 2014: Where are they now?
• Iskn raises $2 million in fresh capital
• CEA Tech “startup cafés” for a jolt of entrepreneurial energy
• CEA Tech travelling showroom at Maison MINATEC
• Charitable giving: Clinatec to raise €30 million