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December 2016

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Diamonds are a 3-D micro-supercapacitor’s best friend

Silicon nanowires covered with a diamond film deposited by microwave CVD and an electroactive (PEDOT) polymer layer were used to create...

Satellite operators hungry for 5G communications

Satellite operators are actively seeking to determine which type of waves they should focus on to secure a slice of the...

Intensity- and sign-tunable spin-charge conversion

A joint INAC-CNRS-Thales research team achieved record intensity- and sign-tunable spin-charge conversion in the two-dimensional electron gas at the interface between...

High-performance computing gets more energy-efficient data transfer

The 3D-NoC network-on-chip developed by Leti, STMicroelectronics, and Mentor Graphics under a project coordinated by IRT Nanoelec offers 20% to 40%...

Quantum dots perform well under mechanical constraints

Over the past several years, the application of mechanical constraints to semiconducting quantum dots has been broadly used to fine-tune the...

MEMS RF switches made in Grenoble ready for space

MEMS radio-frequency micro-switches developed by Leti could be chosen by the European Space Agency for tomorrow’s space applications. While it is...

DNA could bring new innovations to microelectronics

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 do the pattern geometries the researchers are working on. And DNA’s base-pairing capacities can ensure more accurate pattern alignment than the most powerful microelectronics technologies currently available.
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Interview

Interview: Anna Choulier Renström, Leti,
Interview: Anna Choulier Renström, Leti

We are going to CES 2017 to raise our profile

What is Leti’s strategy for CES 2017?

Our booth will be twice as big as last year’s. We will showcase three interactive demonstrator systems that will let visitors experience and test our technologies and understand the technologies’ features.

Three startups will be coming with us: e-Lichens, with us in 2016; Moovlab, which was just created; and Sublimed, a Liten startup that illustrates Grenoble’s innovation model very well.

Leti is exhibiting for the second time....

Could sugar make treating liver disease easier?

Wilson’s disease, a genetic disorder that causes copper to build up in the liver, is treated using chelating agents to remove...

Wireless pacemaker could be just over the horizon

Grenoble’s TIMA lab and a consortium of partners are working on a project backed by the ANR, France’s national research agency,...

Power conversion: GaN components show promise

The aeronautics and automotive industries are looking for more compact, efficient power converters. Leti’s latest research on a converter built on...

Nanoelectronic Devices, an open-source scientific journal

Publisher ISTE recently released Nanoelectronic Devices, a scientific journal available in English and French free of charge for both authors and...

RF and millimeter wave integrated circuits and systems meeting on March 10

IMEP-LaHC and Leti will host a meeting on March 10, 2017 on RF and millimeter wave integrated circuits and systems, which...

Testing antibiotic efficacy in just one hour

MIT used Leti’s suspended micro-resonators to develop a new microchip for fast drug testing. The chip measures cell culture growth by...

PX’Therapeutics focuses on new drug candidate

In the future, diabetics suffering from neuropathy (in their hands and feet, for example) could benefit from a new drug called...

GreEn-ER open for business, ribbon-cutting in December

The GreEn-ER center for innovation in renewable resources and energy has been up and running for a year now. The ribbon-cutting...

Fluoptics in the spotlight

Fluoptics has carved out the top slot on Europe’s real-time fluorescence imaging solutions market. The company has implemented more than 100...

Enerbee takes to the air

Enerbee, a two-year-old startup specializing in micro-generators that harvest energy from movement, has turned a corner in its development. The company...

Leti working with GlobalFoundries on 22 nm FD-SOI

FinFET and FD-SOI are currently neck-and-neck in the race to further miniaturize CMOS circuits beyond the 28 nm node. And major...

Micro-nano observatory reports now online

The Micro and Nanotechnology Observatory (OMNT) now publishes its reports and comments from the observatory’s network of experts online. The content...

Grenoble reaches out to Taiwan and South Korea

Leti recently signed two new partnership agreements with research institutes in Asia, following the partnership with Shanghai Industrial Technology Research Institute (SITRI)...

Emmanuelle Gourieux, active in student life

Emmanuelle Gourieux, a third-year student at Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school, has been elected Student Vice President. She will...

Planet Makers gets kids into robotics

Planet Makers, a non-profit organization created this fall, has set up shop at Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school, thanks...

Photonics platform delivery date pushed back

Delivery of the six-level, 12,800 sq. m photonics platform was originally scheduled for early November, but has been pushed back to...

Morphosense precision structural-health monitoring

In the future, major structures like bridges, dams, tunnels, railroad tracks, oceangoing vessels, cooling towers, and wind-turbine blades could be instrumented...

Alps Design Lab, where technology meets design

Alps Design Lab, a CEA Tech Open Lab, has tackled the challenge of how to use a shipping-container-sized electrolyzer to create...

Israeli teachers at CIME

As part of the EU EduNano project, eight Israeli high-school teachers will come to CIME Nanotech in mid-December to expand their...

Communication: High Level Forum innovates

The 5^th High Level Forum (HLF) was held in Grenoble this fall. The event was attended by representatives of the world’s...

Startup UroMems raises €14 million

UroMems, a startup founded in 2011 and housed at the BHT, has just completed a very impressive round of fundraising, bringing...