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Following the French Government reinforcement of measures (03/16) most of MINATEC campus entities acces are closed. On this website you can find information and guidance from the French Government regarding the current outbreak of coronavirus disease COVID-19 in France : https://www.gouvernement.fr/en/coronavirus-covid-19 More information

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 diabetes; and sales in France and international markets. Diabeloop will soon apply for US FDA* approval for the DBLG1. The approval processes are also moving… More information

Can a unidirectional magnetoresistance effect* be obtained with a semiconductor material like germanium? Researchers at Spintec found the answer, and, according to an article they recently published, it is yes! The effect had already been observed with two rarely-used non-magnetic materials. With germanium, however, the effect is 100 times more intense. The researchers demonstrated that the effect originates in the electron gas at the surface of the material. The electrons’ spin aligns perpendicular to their trajectory. A satisfactory model of… More information

What if an ordinary plastic tube could perform better than copper or fiber optic cable for high-speed communications? Leti has started to prove that it can with P-Link, a system that is shockingly simple. The system was able to transmit a signal from a STMicroelectronics circuit over at distance of two meters at 7 Gbit/s. This small revolution was made possible by the use of millimeter waves (30 GHz to 300 GHz), rather than the nanometer waves used in optical… More information