News : innovation

At the end of January, you ran a day-long workshop on sustainable electronics for the 40 students in the Nanotech Master’s program. What were you aiming to achieve? Increasingly, our students want to know what the environmental impacts of their future careers are. Sometimes, the answer is hard for them to hear. We wanted to […] >>

The Y.Spot building, which opened its doors in late January, is all about open, agile innovation. End users and uses are fully integrated into design processes and scientists and professionals from a wide range of disciplines and industries can bring a concept to the prototype stage in just eighteen months. The 300 sq. m building […] >>

Leti presented an integrated vibration-energy harvesting circuit at ISSCC in San Francisco in February. The circuit, which is connected to the energy-harvester output, boasts never-before-seen levels of performance. It regulates the impedance at the input to the interface that optimizes the extraction yield (in excess of 95%). The circuit’s architecture boosts conversion yields (also in […] >>

Leti and SYMME* developed a standout piezoelectric energy harvester. The researchers increased bandwidth by an impressive 446% and achieved near-state-of-the-art total efficiency of 94%. The device’s excellent performance can be attributed to a smart interface that dynamically tunes the resonance frequency to the environment’s vibration frequency. This allows the device to harvest energy beyond what […] >>

Startup Diabeloop, which just moved into the BHT2 building, completed an impressive €31 million fundraising round at the end of November. The influx of funds will support three of the company’s flagship activities: R&D to improve the DBLG1 automatic type 1 diabetes management system; clinical trials on teens and patients with very unstable forms of […] >>