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How do households manage their electricity use when all their energy comes from solar power? To find out, a Grenoble research team sponsored by MINATEC IDEAs Laboratory and IRT Nanoelec asked ten families to live in solar-powered homes for three winter months. The families were asked to compare their actual energy use with the amount […] >>

Of the thirteen projects submitted in June for this year’s Challenge First Step (to support promising business ideas), seven were selected: three from Leti and four from Liten. The winners were announced at a kick-off meeting on September 11. The budding entrepreneurs will now begin the business incubator program with a one-week residential training course […] >>

The Zero PoVa project (for zero power, zero variability) is a 5-year project launched on June 1, 2013 to develop CMOS components for the post-2026 era. Some 20–25 researchers from INAC, IRAMIS, and the CEA’s Technological Research Division are working on the project, which boasts a €1.3 million budget for the first year alone (excluding […] >>

The Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma program in Systems and Microsystems for Physics and Biotechnology is now ten years old and ready for an overhaul. Starting this year the program will focus primarily on biomedical engineering, and the 48 students starting the program this fall will all follow the same curriculum—instead of being divided into two […] >>

Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma welcomed 382 freshmen to its campus this September, along with ten students in the new micro and nanoelectronics integrated system design work-study program. This year’s total intake is more than 10% bigger than last year’s. Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma is continuing to gain recognition as a world-caliber engineering school. The school’s […] >>