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Researchers from Irig and CEA-Leti successfully maintained pancreatic cells called islets of Langerhans in culture on a microfluidic chip for a month and were able to measure individual islets’ insulin production. This breakthrough could improve the efficacy of islet transplants, a...

• Organs-on-chip could give diabetes patients new hope
• Smaller reversible fuel cells could be more powerful
• Electric vehicles fill up with GaN
• PreCoM project: powerful sensors for predictive maintenance
• Nickel almost as good as platinum for fuel cells
• Memristors find new use in neural networks
• World’s first 2D ferromagnetic materials at 229 K
• New material for faster microlasers: the Crumble project
• Medical radiology expands into point-of-care imaging
• Photovoltaics: yield-boosting solar inverter
• The magnetic superconducting mysteries of heavy-fermion metal UTe2
• Microtechnology could aid in the study of tau protein’s role in Alzheimer’s
• The Grenoble branch of nonprofit Cheer up! gets back to work
• Antennas can be printed on 3D objects with plastronics
• CEA-Leti partnership with UCLouvain off to a great start
• Y.SPOT Partners welcomes two artists-in-residence
• Émile Rivoire ready for 2,500 km of solar-powered cycling
• Leti Innovation Days to put a spotlight on eight semiconductor leaders
• MINATEC to host European IndTech 2022 conference
• FD-SOI leaders form next-generation alliance
• Grenoble engineering students volunteer in Togo
• Getinge of Sweden acquires Fluoptics
• Grenoble to host 2022 EuCNC & 6G summit

In February, the European Commission confirmed its massive €43 billion semiconductor industry plan. €11 billion has been earmarked for research on the most advanced chips and new pilot manufacturing lines. CEA-Leti is expected to play a major role in the plan. The...

• A €43 billion European plan for semiconductors
• A new generation of earphones just over the horizon
• Inspired by the locust nervous system, Élisa Vianello’s research wins ERC grant
• Gingko biloba protein used in multilayer nanomaterial
• Piezoelectric effects investigated at the nanometric scale
• Pushing back the limits of quantum error correction codes
• ESRF X-ray imaging looks inside the platinum in catalytic converters
• Could hole qubits be the future of quantum?
• Keeping bacteria at bay in the fishing and fish farming industries
• Magnetic microparticles could fight cancerous tumors
• Soitec now a major Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA partner
• Celebrating two decades of spintronics at Spintec
• LMGP Hires MXenes specialist
• A 2,500 km solar bike tour through the Alps
• Embedded systems and IoT devices: What’s new
• Leti Innovation Days 2022: high-caliber, jam-packed content and networking
• Grenoble Green Capital seal for Midis MINATEC
• GIANT to move to Y.SPOT Partners by summer
• BHT3, a distinctively urban building
• Thingsat space internship for second-year engineering students
• Silicon carbide: Soitec and CEA-Leti shift into high gear
• New Energy@School program for high school students
• Three Phelma students to sail to the Caribbean

Deep brain stimulation and infrared illumination appear to be effective at treating Parkinson’s disease. But why? The Clinatec Endowment Fund, through a new research project called Astropark, is looking for insights the cellular mechanisms at play in neurons and astrocytes.Deep brain...

• Clinatec Endowment Fund investigating new treatments for Parkinson’s
• IMEP-LaHC fine-tunes nanocircuit noise simulation
• Turbulence in superfluid helium-4
• Tenfold reduction in ReRAM cell variability
• Rose to develop artificial nose for patients suffering from loss of smell
• Wireless technology unleashes avalanche detonators
• Silver nanowire arrays not as unstable as previously thought
• LEDs in the race against mercury for UV-C emission
• The physics of stacked graphene layers is both rich and unpredictable
• Greenhouse gases could soon be monitored using LiDAR
• Grenoble INP, UGA engineering students for the energy transition
• Augmented reality through almost-normal glasses could soon be here
• CEA-Leti ready to dive into even more European projects
• Spintec unveils high-potential memristor for neuromorphic computing
• Primo1D presents E-Thread at RFID Journal Live 2014 in Orlando
• Y.Spot Partners full to capacity on opening day
• Alten the latest Phelma partner
• Grenoble INP - UGA on the race to zero emissions

For the past three years, four Grenoble laboratories have been working together, using methods from materials science and economics to find alternatives to the critical materials in white LEDs.Their work, funded by the UGA Idex grant, marks a departure from conventional...

• Material criticality comes into its own as a research topic
• MRAM memories stand up to heavy ion abuse
• Smart window glazing for more energy-efficient buildings
• Peptides could inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication
• Microfluidic patch can detect when cows are in heat
• Advance in biomaterials marks a step toward personalized medical implants
• Banking on SiC for neural interfaces
• Shedding new light on acute stress
• Monoclonal antibodies the subject of PhD research at Sanofi and LMGP
• Copper oxide could be a candidate for tomorrow’s solar cells
• Larger defect-free graphene layers produced
• Neutrons supercharge fuel cell research
• Orientation for new GIANT PhD students to take place on February 8
• MINATEC Entreprises broadens support for innovation
• CEA-Leti heads to CES® to showcase its latest medical technologies
• CEA-Leti IT security testing lab affirms biometric ID expertise
• LMGP makes progress on liquid phase atomic layer deposition
• New book looks back on the start of the 21st century at CEA Grenoble
• Grenoble engineering students cycle across Europe
• Diabeloop shifts into high gear in France and around the globe
• Everything you ever wanted to know about FDSOI in 380 pages
• SET, from the French Alps to the world
• Clinatec endowment fund hires new neuroillumination researchers
• Injectpower, for implantable monitoring devices that last
• The Class of 2019 will finally get its commencement ceremony

Direct Analysis, the 70th startup from CEA-Leti, has stayed under the radar since it was founded at the beginning of the year.The company has won an i-Lab award, completed twelve demos of its food testing solution, and secured preliminary regulatory approvals....

• Startup Direct Analysis racking up the milestones
• New accelerator at Ganil gets high-precision control system
• Photonic chips: toward high-throughput alignment of optical fibers
• OxRAM memory almost ready to scale up for manufacturing
• Creating and manipulating skyrmions with helium ions
• Beamforming improves the angular resolution of PMUTs
• Mystery of disappearing photons solved
• The perfect fuel-cell membrane remains elusive
• Making IoT devices more resilient to attacks
• Marion Gruart wins award and PhD grant for red LED research
• Reversing magnetization with an electric field
• Survey: Midis MINATEC phygital format a hit
• Science outreach program Parvis des Sciences to be held in person this year
• Leti Innovation Days get a new four-session format
• Irig turns to YouTube to spread the word about its research
• Nonprofit La Puya Internationale on the ground in Madagascar
• Tech transfer: Magellan stays the course
• Anne Vilcot reappointed director of Phelma, focuses on 2030 strategy
• INSTN offers online courses on eco-innovation for the circular economy
• Class of 2020 career placement numbers are good
• CEA-Leti builds a demonstrator like no other
• Back to school, (almost) business as usual
• Minalogic cluster introduces WAM*, a new online community
• LYNRED and IMEP-LaHC set up joint lab
• MINATEC sweeps the i-Lab competition
• The GIANT Junior Ambassadors need you!