News : MINATEC

The Rotary Club and the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles consortium will hold the 9th annual “Promoting Professional Ethics” competition this year under the patronage of UNESCO. The competition is open to students from three years post high-school to PhD level. The competition participants—tomorrow’s decision makers—must write a five-page essay (individual or as a group) defending […] >>

Leti researchers Olivier Faynot and Claire Fenouillet-Béranger, along with two engineers from STMicroelectronics, won the 2012 Général Ferrié research in electronics award for their 15 years of work on FD-SOI. Their work has led to the development of a smartphone “super chip” at ST-Ericsson that slashes processing times by up to 35% while lengthening battery […] >>

The good news just keeps coming for Prestodiag, a start-up founded in 2012 to develop advanced INAC-ISB bacteria-detection technology. In the space of just a few months, Prestodiag won three awards for innovative start-ups, including one from the Génopôle Evry biotech cluster and one in the French Senate’s entrepreneurship competition. Prestodiag’s fast-detection method is truly […] >>

The MIGAS international summer school on microelectronics will be held on June 22–28, 2013 in Autrans (on the Vercors plateau). Around 50 PhD students, professors, researchers, and engineers from France and abroad are expected to attend. Speakers will include professors Ke Wu and Philippe Fauchet. 2013 marks the 16th year of the summer school. The […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma has the honor of hosting the 16th National PhD in Micro and Nanotechnologies Network Day (JNRDM), an annual event sponsored by the European Micro and Nanoelectronics PhD Network (RDEMN). This year’s event will be held on the MINATEC campus on June 10–12, 2013. Some 150 up-and-coming researchers from industry and academia […] >>