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The EU FP7 d-LIVER project aims to develop a bio-artificial liver (BAL) support system for patients suffering from liver failure or awaiting a transplant. The project, launched in 2011, brings together a dozen partners, including CEA-Leti, which is supplying sensors for...

• Leti sensors used in future bio-artificial liver
• A close-up look at 20,000 individual cells
• Zero-energy elevators just over the horizon
• Nanowire-based transistors closing the gap with CMOS
• Bacterial spores exhibit unusual resistance to UV rays
• Isotopic tracers provide insight into brain tumors
• Smart car windshields in full color
• CO2 sensors could become more energy-efficient
• Microdisplays beat luminance records
• How sound travels through disordered materials
• Watch nanostructured oxides grow before your eyes
• Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud appointed Deputy Director of INAC
• INAC brings home third Bull-Fourier Award for work on intensive calculation
• Recommended reading: Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Nanowires
• Figure of the month: €150,000
• Layer-by-Layer Films for Biomedical Applications from A to Z
• Julien Claudon receives CNRS Bronze Medal for his nanophotonics research
• 300 mm cleanroom to get new equipment in 2015
• Hyperlight, the latest artist-in-residence project at Atelier Arts-Sciences
• Nanocharacterization Platform gets micro Raman equipment
• CEA puts the lid on .zip files
• Carnot supported 43 new energy technology projects in 2014
• Microoled ships its 100,000th display
• Interview: Sorin Cristoloveanu, IMEP-LAHC
• Phelma Junior Consultants events a hit
• Phelma graduate embarks on unusual civil volunteer service mission
• Minalogic project brainstorming sessions expanded
• ESRF opens long-term R&D projects to industrial partners
• New in biomaterials: observing bone regeneration in 3D
• Maryline Bawedin joins IMEP-LAHC
• More than 400 companies participated in SEMICON Europa

Grenoble-based EnerBee, founded in early 2014, has won three awards over the past few months: a national prize for innovative start-ups, a global innovation award, and a connected objects award. The prize money supplements funds from investors and private-sector backers, giving...

• Start-up EnerBee: awards help finance growth strategy
• Fluorescence imaging guides prostate biopsies
• Graphene gets superconducting capabilities
• A human-body model for electromagnetic wave propagation
• Gallium nitride nanowires could have bright future in LEDs
• A universal test bench for visible CMOS imagers
• Quantum dot meets nanowire in a promising encounter
• Speech-recognition on your tablet now possible
• Ternary oxide synthesis used to study electrical properties
• Harvesting energy in the depths of the ocean
• Getting closer to Earth-to-moon laser communications
• BHI-PRO project reaches milestone in automated protein quantitation
• Marie-Noëlle Semeria appointed director of Leti
• Leti magnetometers perform for Swarm
• Movea acquired by US-based InvenSense
• Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid takes home Lasker Award
• Isorg and Primo1D raise nearly €10 million
• First Step Challenge 2014: five projects selected
• Jean-Marc Dedulle to head continuing and executive ed at Grenoble Institute of Technology
• Phelma 2014–2015 admissions right on target
• Grenoble Institute of Technology ranks high for innovation
• Construction to start on new photonics lab
• Science Fair now open to elementary schoolers
• MINA-NEWS contest winner test drives Toyota Coms for a week
• MINATEC projects win big in 2014 start-up contest
• MINATEC celebrates LNT’s tenth anniversary in Ho Chi Minh City
• Nano@school offers high-schoolers two new workshops
• Interview Florian Pebay-Peyroula: We have to do more to fight against counterfeit circuits
• Second innovation marketing conference to be held on November 13
• The town of St. Martin d’Uriage jumps on Mobility Village bandwagon
• eVaderis microcontrollers could use ten times less energy in standby mode
• Semicon Europa (finally) comes to Grenoble
• IRT Nanoelec video teaches and entertains

The micropump, a type of drug delivery system, is well-known to diabetics, many of whom use the devices for their daily insulin injections. Although micropumps are both practical and reliable, they do have their drawbacks: First, with a price tag in...

• Revolutionary micropump performance just over the horizon
• International researchers shed new light on DNA repair
• Micro-Raman spectroscopy used to characterize graphene-silicon transistor
• Drones to get new miniature magnetometer
• Carbon-13 NMR at natural abundance now possible
• New insights into how graphite gets charged with lithium
• Smart obstacle detection gets boost from multicore circuit
• Quantum transport: Kwant goes dynamic
• Piezoelectric stack integration time slashed by 70%
• Spin-orbit interaction breathes new life into MRAMs
• The Internet of Things gets a new architecture model
• Nanometric deformation measurement just got even more accurate
• Six motion sensors on just 4 mm2 of silicon
• Books: Beyond CMOS Nanodevices 2
• Samsung chooses FD-SOI
• Aryballe unveils plans to raise €4 million in fresh capital
• CEA holds onto position as one of France’s top three patent filers
• Grenoble Institute of Technology email addresses updated
• Tram service disruptions to continue through August
• Primo1D presents E-Thread at RFID Journal Live 2014 in Orlando
• Phelma lab classes to use large instruments starting in September
• Phelma student body elects new representatives
• Ten start-up projects in the running for the Challenge First Step 2014
• Shaping tomorrow’s cities at MINATEC IDEAs® Laboratory
• SiC community to meet in Grenoble on September 21–25
• Interview: Isabelle Guillaume, General Manager, Minalogic
• CEA Tech strengthens ties with France’s Institutes of Technology
• France-Japan working group encourages transnational cooperation
• Twizy electric vehicle demonstrator highlights smart battery management
• The Internet of Things in the spotlight at LetiDays 2014
• New Grenoble Institute of Technology websites go live
• CEA Grenoble publications to be signed “Grenoble Alps University”

A group of researchers at INAC studying Josephson junctions back in 2004 may have unwittingly stumbled upon axions—the hypothetical elementary particles thought to make up dark matter. When applying a low voltage, the researchers noted a detectable electrical signal, but they...

• Dark matter found at MINATEC?
• “Pseudo-supercondenser” balances power and energy requirements
• Wavelength multiplexing optimizes gas sensors
• Magnetic nanoparticles help destroy cancer cells
• Fluoptics combines color and fluorescence imaging
• Nanocharacterization Platform combines four surface-microscopy techniques
• Bimetallic nanoparticle synthesis just got simpler
• X-ray diffraction confirms benefits of constrained silicon
• New gamma sensor opens door to PET-MRI compatibility
• Spintronics without ferromagnetic materials
• Unlocking the secrets of piezoelectric-thin-film deformation
• LMGP finds inspiration in international sabbaticals
• Platinum in nanotube form boosts reactions in fuel cells
• Master’s in Nanotech both popular and diverse
• Clinatec tests lower-extremity exoskeleton
• From Facebook to LinkedIn with the Phelma student club
• MRAM on stage at MINATEC this summer
• An instrumented tester to regulate industrial conveyors
• MINATEC welcomes US Ph.D. students in nanocharacterization
• MINATEC spins off six start-ups in Q1 2014
• Construction starts on Phelma 2
• Midi-MINATEC brown-bag lunch seriesnow recruiting sandwich team
• Introducing the new, improved Maison MINATEC
• Jean-Michel Fournier, head of the integrated systems design apprenticeship program at Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma
• Green chemistry specialist BT3 Technologies moves to BHT
• Leti signs new sporting-goods partnership
• Four medical imaging techniques now available via online simulator
• Phelma teaches prep program faculty electrochemistry basics
• Algeria’s Constantine University creates nanotech center with help from MINATEC
• GIANT will now organize MINATEC Summer Program

Researchers at INAC and Leti recently developed a quantum simulation code that is providing groundbreaking insights into the physics of advanced FD-SOI and Tri-gate transistors. What makes the researchers’ work so significant is that semi-traditional simulation models do not factor in the...

• Quantum simulation sheds new light on physics of advanced transistors
• Miniature-antenna quality gets a boost
• Multi-core-circuit heat performance modelled to within 5% accuracy
• A high-spin polymer gets synthesized
• Air pollution: small doses most harmful to DNA
• Make your own pushbutton controls with an inkjet printer
• MEMS and NEMS: releasing moving parts faster
• Spintronics: diffusion barriers make cooperation easier
• GaN wires for LEDs offer brilliant electrical properties
• Testing system picks up 3 ppb of benzene in indoor air in just 15 minutes
• Lithium-ion batteries undergo graphene doping
• LMGP explores ALD at ambient pressure
• LMGP gets new management team
• CEA: Tony Prézeau new strategic marketing head
• CEA researcher appointed head of French Optics Society (SFO)
• Chile’s APEX telescope gets new bolometers
• INAC: Yves Samson succeeds Engin Molva
• CIME Nanotech gets new lithography machine
• Phelma Dean Pierre Benech enters second term
• Phelma once again makes it into l’Etudiant magazine rankings
• Start-ups Cellipse and Avalun set up shop at the BHT
• Nanocharacterization platform beefs up 3D microscopy capabilities
• Test wireless systems from the comfort of your own lab
• MINATEC construction projects right on track
• Renovation: 300 mm clean room to get 500 m2 of new space
• Interview: Feriel Mélaine - Ph.D. candidate, Nanobioscience, INAC-SPrAM
• A breakthrough RFID tag compatible with metal objects
• Book translation strengthens ties with Latin America
• List and Leti revolutionize embedded system design
• Hybrid-En platform gets off to a running start
• New continuing education program gives technicians management skills
• FIRST Tech Challenge a growing success
• Grenoble Institute of Technology holds an information day