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April 2013 Mina-News #24

Leti and Michelin invent the electronic tire

In a departure from the lab’s typical developments for the high-tech industry, Leti recently collaborated with tire maker Michelin on an original product: RFID chips for the company’s heavy tires. The chips will provide information like the plant and date of manufacture, purchase date, repairs, and retreading. Always cautious about confidentiality, Michelin has kept the 2000 creation of its joint lab with Leti, Tellab, a secret. The partners worked for six years and covered six billion kilometers to...

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February 2013 Mina-News #23

Micro and nanoelectronics design: Grenoble Institute of Technology to propose new apprenticeship program

In March, Grenoble Institute of Technology will present its pioneering new three-year initial training program to the Rhône-Alpes regional government. The new program would give micro and nanoelectronics design students hands-on learning opportunities through apprenticeships with companies in the industry. And Grenoble is home to a substantial number of high-tech companies—STMicroelectronics, Dolphin Integration, Asygn, Tiempo, and many others—likely...

December 2012 Mina-News #22

See all Grenoble-area research events at a glance at “38 de Sciences”

Launched just before the summer holidays, a new website called “38 de Sciences” (sfp.grenoble.cnrs.fr)—set up jointly by the French Physics Society, Fondation Nanosciences, and Institut Néel’s IT department—gives Grenoble-area researchers a one-stop shop for information about upcoming seminars, conferences, thesis defenses, and other research-related events. For now the information is given in French only and consists mainly of physics, biology,...

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