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February 2016
Shape affects magnetization reversal
Magnetic objects of the same composition but with different geometries demonstrate different magnetization reversal behavior. Researchers at INAC have discovered that...
Coupled characterization provides insights into phase transitions
Researchers at the nano characterization platform (PFNC) have coupled X-ray diffraction and X-ray diffusion to observe a chalcogenide thin layer during...
Tomorrow’s 5G antennas will be thinner
Researchers at Leti have reduced the thickness of antennas for satellite communications and tomorrow’s 5G network access points by half. Their...
Very-high-speed RFID for electronic passports
Researchers at Leti have developed a reader and ASIC for RFID data reception at speeds up to 27.12 Mb/s required by...
Liquid crystals could make lithium-ion batteries safer
Researchers from INAC and Liten have developed a new-generation solid electrolyte based on thermotropic ionic liquid crystals. The purpose of the...
Silicon photonics: new speed record set
Just one year ago, researchers at Leti built an 80 Gb/s data switch demonstrator; today, they have set a new speed...
Fire-damaged area of building 41.01 back to business as usual
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 of repairs and the installation of new equipment to replace equipment damaged in the fire.
Leti’s first priority was, of course, safety. Filtration units in the clean room ceilings...
" Student entrepreneurs innovate at Phelma "
Pierre Benech, Director, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma Engineering School
How does Phelma help student entrepreneurs?
Our first two students to have obtained “student entrepreneur” status—a French government program—are Pierre Schefler and Nicolas Schoemaker. During the 2014–2015 academic year they set up their company on top of their third-year course load. Support came in the form of a flexible class schedule, assistance starting their business, and...
Telecommunications: III–V/silicon tunable laser
Solid indium phosphide (INP) tunable lasers for telecommunications networks are costly to manufacture and ill-suited to integration with other photonic and...
BigDFT code makes front-page news
BigDFT, an open-source code used to simulate solids and molecules, has made front-page news in two chemistry journals in the space...
Superconducting single-photon detectors at the state of the art
INAC, KTH (Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology), and Dutch startup Single Quantum have teamed up to produce superconducting single-photon detectors (SSPD)...
Double quantum wells on a PMOS nanowire transistor
The R&D partnership on advanced CMOS transistors between STMicroelectronics, IBM, and Leti has produced some impressive results. Two silicon-germanium (SiGe) quantum...
A video encoder that uses just 19.1 mW of power
The future of low-power design just got a little brighter. The H.264 video encoder developed by researchers from Leti and Vietnam...
CCL building completed ten weeks ahead of schedule
Construction on MINATEC’s new CCL (software design center) building was completed in January 2016—less than a year after breaking ground and...
Heterogeneous reactors and reactions class to be held on March 13–18
A special winter session on heterogeneous reactors and reactions will be held on March 13–18 at Alpine ski resort Les Houches....
MIT and Leti partnership continues to produce results
Leti delivered its first suspended microresonators to MIT in 2014, following suit with a new generation of the component in 2015....
CEA: Stéphane Siebert appointed Director of Technological Research
On January 1, 2016, Stéphane Siebert succeeded Jean Therme as Director of Technological Research of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic...
Challenge First Step supports four innovative projects
The judges in the Challenge First Step competition selected four of the six projects presented at the end of 2015 to...
Aselta’s photolithography software just got better
Startup Aselta’s Inscale photolithography software has come through the validation phase with flying colors, positioning it to become the go-to software...
INAC is restructured
Since January 1, 2016, the Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics (INAC) has counted five laboratories rather than six. The new labs’...
Third Innovation Marketing Day to be held on April 5
Come and discover the latest trends in high-tech/innovation marketing and the best practices behind the success stories at the third Innovation...
Thespians to bring drama to JSIAM 2016
The Junior Scientist and Industry Annual Meeting (JSIAM) gives GIANT campus’ young scientists a valuable opportunity to learn about careers in...
Interview: Pierre Benech, Director, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma Engineering School
" Student entrepreneurs innovate at Phelma "
Pierre Benech, Director, Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma Engineering School
How does Phelma help student entrepreneurs?
Phelma to host 32 international students at 2016 Summer School
With five weeks of nanotech classes, introductory French lessons, tours of scientific facilities like ESRF, the CEA Tech showroom, and Institut...
PCR DNA analysis gets prehistoric samples talking
Part of an archaeologist’s work involves identifying 30,000-year-old animal droppings. And they need to know what species—hyena, wolf, or fox?—they are...
Grenoble Institute of Technology Open house on March 5
Grenoble Institute of Technology will hold an open house for high school, preparatory school, and college (undergrad) students on March 5,...
Startup news: EnWireS targets the Li-ion battery market
Phelma library now has “women in science” collection
On March 11, 2016—just three days after International Women’s Day—the Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma library will cut the ribbon on a...
Second Minalogic Business Meetings to be distinctly international
The second Minalogic Business Meetings will be organized by Minalogic and its partners at Grenoble’s World Trade Center on April 14,...
Leti ramps up international programs with the Instituts Carnot
Leti plans to use some of its Instituts Carnot matching funds to pay for exchange programs with foreign labs and market...