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The final round of the Inno’Cup Junior challenge will be held at MINATEC on July 8 and 9. This national competition* is the latest incarnation of the Franco-American Young Innovators Award. It targets a broad audience—anyone between the ages of 15 and 18 with a new idea can take part. Plus, participants don’t need any […] >>

FEI, a US-based manufacturer of scanning electron microscopes (SEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) has decided to extend its joint lab with the Nanocharacterization Platform (PFNC). The joint lab was set up in 2010 to conduct research in two fields: fine tuning precession electron nanodiffraction to measure deformation at the nanometric scale with applications for […] >>

The CEA, with 558 patent applications published, has held on to the position of number one among public research organizations in the European Patent Office’s 2014 rankings. The CEA also did well in the overall rankings, moving up a slot from the previous year to 32nd. The CEA is France’s third-leading patent filer, just behind […] >>

For the first time ever this year, a duo of students from Grenoble Institute of Technology’s Phelma engineering school has entered the Freescale Cup, an international student competition in which teams must build and program a smart miniature vehicle capable of navigating a 300-meter circuit, unseen before the actual competition, in the shortest possible amount […] >>

Not many organizations can say they work for CERN! Well, Leti can! On November 10, 2014, the beam at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider was equipped with silicon microcoolers made in Leti cleanrooms. The microcoolers disperse heat from detectors bombarded by particles. The project was not without some serious technical challenges, like carving out 200-micron-deep pools […] >>