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Avalun is coordinating the Di@pason project, which will test a connected patient care pathway on a cohort of 10,000 patients on blood thinners in six regions across France. Caregivers will test Avalun’s LabPad INR portable lab, which utilizes consumables manufactured at...

• The Di@pason project: Avalun scales up
• Germanium makes a foray into spin orbitronics
• Plastic brings surprising benefits to high-speed communications
• Astrophysics: IRIG technologies used to cool DESI sensors
• Skyrmions ten times faster than Usain Bolt
• Heliaus project will help bring infrared to autonomous vehicles
• Germanium laser operates at record low temperature of 273 K
• Thyroid surgery: FLUOPTICS© reduces the risk of complications
• Silicon wafers: Don’t grind, recycle!
• Fundraising: Diabeloop gets a €31 million boost
• NuVISION, a high-potential gamma camera
• Former LMGP PhD candidate back as guest lecturer
• Leti microcoolers earn kudos from CERN
• Wormsensing makes any surface a touch surface
• LMGP hires two new researchers
• Leti to send major delegation to Photonics West 2020
• Biomedical research: Eveon and LMGP set up joint lab
• Next Minalogic Business Meetings on June 2 in Lyon
• Unique pulsed laser deposition machine coming to BHT
• HCERES evaluations, a real nail-biter
• EU DigiFed project and IRT Nanoelec are bringing digital technology to SMBs
• IMEP-LAHC acquires new noise characterization equipment for advanced components
• Congresses: 2019 a big year for Maison MINATEC
• ESRF EBS synchrotron to reopen in six months
• A cohort of 150 young researchers from GIANT to attend JSIAM 2020
• Bamboo mugs and organic produce: Grenoble Institute of Technology goes green
• Who is ready to develop a scientific video game…in 48 hours?
• The Biennale Arts Sciences will take a critical look at AI and climate change

Clinatec’s Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) project was recently featured in The Lancet Neurology* and has appeared in the media worldwide. This groundbreaking project shows just how powerful the Clinatec model—medical doctors and technology experts working side-by-side under one roof—is at driving innovation.   The...

• Clinatec’s innovative neuroprosthesis and exoskeleton protected by eighteen patents
• Spin-charge conversion: What could be simpler?
• NeoLED heralds new era of transformerless LEDs
• Accessing a material’s topological electronic properties could get easier
• Wine, cheese, and raspberries on the olfactory biosensor menu
• The winning duo for surface functionalization
• Measuring stress in children using an exoskeleton
• SOT-MRAM memory now denser
• Proteomics and the p-value trap
• DFT methods boost the design of new enzymes
• Orphée Cugat wins CNRS innovation medal
• Morphosense heads offshore
• Scintil Photonics levels up with new round of fundraising
• French Academy of Science recognizes Catherine Picart
• Jean-Eric Michallet appointed new CEO of Minalogic
• Remedee raises €11 million to develop pain management solution
• Diabeloop’s artificial pancreas for children earns kudos from EIT
• Lancey Energy Storage raises €8 million
• Hughes Metras takes over as director of IRT Nanoelec
• A chair at the crossroads of materials and artificial intelligence
• Cryostats moved to new building: So far, so good
• No more plastic water bottles at Midi MINATEC lunch talks
• Scooter experiment to keep rolling through March
• Graphene 2020 conference to feature three Nobel Laureates
• New CEA Tech showroom to open on January 20
• A year of flipped classrooms at Phelma
• Leti to showcase four innovative technologies at CES 2020
• SiC pilot line coming soon to the Substrate Innovation Center
• Changes to Grenoble Institute of Technology SICOM major

Construction on the BHT2 building was completed last spring, and startup Prophesee moved its R&D department into a 154 sq. m space at the end of September. Prophesee’s R&D team will be working on the integration of its neuromorphic vision technology into...

• BHT2: MINATEC Entreprises exceeds targets
• Graphene oxide caves give supercapacitors a boost
• How to read and modify a quantum bit, step by step
• Antennas: Radiall and Leti lay the groundwork for 5G telecoms
• Biomarkers: Portable microfluidics lab breaks records
• IRIG and Tsukuba collaborate on another PhD dissertation
• Spirit, the world’s first neural-network-on-chip
• Unbroken layers of MoSe2 over large surfaces now possible
• Introducing Tiny, an ultra-thin, high-capacity battery
• Nobel laureate Gérard Mourou to visit MINATEC
• Grenoble Institute of Technology programs bring in even more IoT
• Phelma student launches career in space
• Phelma students experience DIY labs
• Grenoble’s iGEM 2019 competitors to enter teardrop test for Parkinson’s
• Grenoble Institute of Technology does well in two international rankings
• Catherine Picart moves from LMGP to IRIG
• ISKN enters video gaming market
• Turn any bike into an electric bike in just fifteen minutes
• Théano Karatsori leads the way for young women in science
• Leti active in Grenoble artificial intelligence institute
• Startup Rosi wins two awards in one month
• Assystem joins Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma Partners Circle
• Leti establishes leadership in Li-Fi communications technology
• Student club Ingénieurs Citoyens gains popularity
• Substrates: Soitec-Leti innovation center off to a good start
• Grenoble deep tech ecosystem wins big in i-Lab national innovation competition
• Leti’s 300 mm cleanroom to get 13 new machines in 2019
• What’s new at the Parvis des Sciences science fair this year?
• Nano@school goes low-tech

Aledia has been housed at MINATEC Entreprises for seven years. Today, the company is investing €20 million in a 4,000 sq. m facility in Echirolles, near Grenoble. The new facility, which will be equipped with Aledia’s own machines, will be dedicated...

• Aledia invests in own R&D facility
• Error-correcting codes: Is the quantum computer possible?
• Micro-LEDs: Low-cost mass production within reach
• Progress toward 3D-printed electronic circuits
• Deep learning a threat to hardware encryption
• A new step forward toward very-high-density magnetic storage
• Miniaturized chemical sensor integrated on silicon
• MRAM memory gets new recipe
• OLEDs undergo biocompatibility testing
• Patents: CEA remains very active
• LMGP: Daniel Bellet named Scientific Director of Carnot energy institute
• Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma increasingly international
• Deposition techniques: ALD gains traction
• IRIG researchers awarded three ERC Advanced grants
• French Chemistry Society recognizes young researcher from Phelma
• The Startup Café is back!
• Ginsen summer school to welcome 30 international participants
• ESONN 2019 garners 200 applications for 50 slots
• Puya Internationale moves headquarters to Grenoble
• E-health: Ludocare to deliver 500 companion robots in September
• Dr. Alim-Louis Benabid to speak at 400th Midi MINATEC brown-bag lunch series
• Ideas Days 2019 to delve into technology and resilience

Researchers from Leti, CEA Sciences, and INSERM injected Lipidots® (lipid-based nanoparticles) containing the p24 protein of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) into an animal model and obtained a robust and complete immune response. Lipidots® were created by Leti and CNRS in...

• AIDS vaccine: Lipidots® open the door to a novel approach
• Changing the magnetic chirality of skyrmions
• Getting closer to denser, more energy-efficient RRAM memory
• Progress toward high-performance UV LEDs
• Three potential new pathways to augmented reality glasses
• Neural networks: Keeping catastrophic forgetting at bay
• Retina: 3D-integrated image processing
• It’s amazing what a little spin pumping can do
• 3D-Onochip project reports first findings
• EuroSOI-Ulis conference reaches out to broader audience
• Bernard Dieny earns IEEE recognition
• Clinatec endowment fund to support four projects
• Phelma rises 31 slots in the L’Usine Nouvelle rankings
• Student entrepreneurs: Phelma engineering school home to four projects
• Challenge First Step 2019 kicks off
• Leti Innovation Days gets new format
• Leti and the Instituts Carnot: A synergistic relationship
• BHT2 to open its doors this fall
• GIANT Orientation Day for young researchers
• MINATEC startups raised more than €125 million in 2018
• MINATEC Labs make room for 100 more researchers
• Could light and heat soon power the Internet of Things?
• Avalun’s pocket lab a success in retirement home test
• Michelin acquires stake in Primo1D
• Morphosense raises €2 million in fresh capital