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A special winter session on heterogeneous reactors and reactions will be held on March 13–18 at Alpine ski resort Les Houches. The program, offered by Codegepra (the region’s process engineering development committee), will feature a review of basic concepts as well as numerous business cases on fuel cells, lithium-ion batteries, biomass gasification, CO2 capture, water […] >>

Leti is setting a new state of the art in silicon photonics link speeds. According to a dissertation on the topic defended in October by a Leti PhD candidate, the link speeds could reach up to 10 or even 15 Gbps in the coming years with subpicojoule- per-bit power. Specifically, the research focused on rapid […] >>

Neireid, a Horizon 2020 project, kicked off on November 16, 2015, under the watchful eye of Francis Balestra (IMEP-LAHC). The project will establish Europe’s nanoelectronics roadmap to 2025 and beyond. Europe no longer wants to simply follow the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), which is global in scope and whose focus is limited to […] >>

The EcoMarch center for the design of architectured materials will open its doors in 2018 on the Saint-Martin d’Hères campus. The center is destined to become one of Europe’s leading hubs for eco-effi cient materials design. And, like MINATEC, it will build strong synergies between education, research, and industry, most notably via technology transfer. The […] >>

On November 26, 2015 seven Grenoble-Alpes University (UGA) PhDs received 2015 Dissertation Awards at a ceremony held at the Musée de Grenoble and attended by a number of local offi cials, including the President of the Greater Grenoble Intermunicipal Authority (la Métro). The award-winning PhDs included Antoine Coutrot (Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma) whose dissertation on […] >>