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Some 200 presidents from France’s top-tier universities will come to Grenoble on October 10–11, 2013 for a meeting of the prestigious Conférence des grandes écoles (CGE). The meeting will be hosted by Grenoble Institute of Technology and Grenoble Ecole de Management, and will take place on the Phelma campus. This year’s theme, “Innovation and value […] >>

Could enzymes like hydrogenases be used instead of costly platinum as hydrogen catalysts? The answer could be yes, according to research published in the July issue of Nature magazine. A team of scientists* has developed a reacting agent that completely activates a previously inactive hydrogenase. This hydrogenase is used by micro-organisms that rely on hydrogen […] >>

Leti is planning to develop an optical CO2 sensor using all-MEMS technology, including an emitter, detector, and infrared optical system. It will be no bigger than 1 cm3 and require no more than 6 mW of power. This will be the first step towards an even smaller sensor that could be used in cell phones, […] >>

Researchers from INAC and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a trumpet-shaped microscopic antenna that can extract 75% of the unique photons from a quantum dot and emit them in a Gaussian optical beam. The beam can then be effectively injected into an optical fiber for applications in cryptography, metrology, and quantum computing, for […] >>

Engineers from Soitec, Leti, and Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have developed a four-junction concentrated solar cell with an energy conversion yield of 43.6%—with the potential to reach yields as high as 50% in the coming years. Currently the world record is a 44.4% yield, but the technology involved will soon reach its […] >>