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A team of researchers from INAC, LTM, and Institut de Bourgogne showed that it is possible to map optical near-fi eld phenomena in silicon nanocavities without using combined optical-AFM techniques like near-fi eld scanning optical microscopy (SNOM). They did it using a camera, a regular microscope and 0.5 micron fl uorescent beads, achieving resolutions comparable […] >>

A gallium focused ion beam (FIB) was integrated into Leti’s ToF-SIMS spectrometer at its Nanocharacterization platform. The combined system makes it possible to analyze air-sensitive and very heterogeneous materials to depths of up to 100 microns. Research was conducted on air-sensitive lithium-ion battery electrodes and TSVs (through-silicon vias), whose composition is very heterogeneous. In the […] >>

Spintec is developing spin-transfer torque magnetic random-access memory, or STT-MRAM, with write speeds under one nanosecond. That’s ten times faster than what Samsung and Intel are announcing for their 2016 product releases. Habitually, write speeds are around fi ve to ten nanoseconds. But Spintec’s memory uses a diff erent—and faster—process to trigger the write pulse. […] >>

Since this summer, Leti has been in charge of Inspire, an industrial evaluation program for nanoimprint lithography. The program’s launch was attended by over ten manufacturers, including Toshiba, Arkema, and STMicroelectronics. In addition, Austria’s EVG, who already hosts demo campaigns, plans to provide the program with one of its most recent nanoimprint machines by the […] >>

Catherine Picart’s team at LMGP plans to use the €150,000 it received from the ERC BioactiveCoating project to optimize the automated production of layer-by-layer polyelectrolyte films that trap the proteins that induce bone regeneration during reconstructive surgery. The films, which count between 2 and 50 layers, are produced through a time-consuming manual process. The researchers […] >>