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Spintec has just completed the first prototype of its patented integrated 3D compass. This innovation stands to overturn the existing technology, which uses costly and difficult-to-assemble discrete components. Spintec’s prototype uses a pyramid-shaped chip containing four magnetoresistive sensors, one on each side of the pyramid, to obtain the three components required for the local magnetic […] >>

The 5th Junior Scientist and Industry Annual Meeting (JSIAM) for GIANT PhD and post-doc students will be held at Maison MINATEC on April 5, 2013. The purpose of the event, which is expected to bring in around 40 industry representatives, is to maximize students’ contact with the business world. The morning will be devoted to […] >>

Leti recently cut the energy requirement of a femtocell base station’s radiofrequency transmission head by 20% to 40%, for a power output of more than 30 dBm. The EU project behind this development was carried out in association with Telecom Italia, Alcatel-Lucent, and Ericsson. The use of a dual-input antenna with excellent isolation properties plus […] >>

The team that represented the Rhône-Alpes region in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2012 competition will soon present its Canopea® solar home prototype at MINATEC. The prototype won the international energy-independent solar home competition for the Rhône-Alpes team last year. The prototype will be set up in April in front of MINATEC and will remain there […] >>

After years of research on monomolecular magnets (also called magnetic molecules), scientists have renewed hope that such molecules could one day be used to develop molecular-scale memories. Researchers at INAC recently built a wheel-shaped molecular (uranium-manganese) structure whose hysteresis cycle and energy barrier could be compatible with the applications being targeted. However, these properties were […] >>