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What if IoT antennas could be made even smaller without compromising efficiency simply by tuning their frequency? A PhD candidate at Leti did just that! She also developed an analytical model that is as reliable as today’s simulators. Leti fabricated an antenna...

• Miniaturized reconfigurable antennas for IoT devices
• Life is gradually returning to normal on campus
• Covid-19 vaccine: Leti and its Lipidots® drug delivery system out in front
• Tomorrow’s spintronics could use 1,000 times less energy
• Haptic interfaces: Wafer-level manufacturing just around the corner
• Irig’s electronic nose is now even more discerning
• Photovoltaics: Looking at the instabilities that affect hybrid perovskites
• Power electronics: GaN module sets new records
• Detecting SARS-CoV-2 in the air in just 30 minutes
• LEDs could soon promise mercury-free UV
• A new and sustainable photoelectrode for hydrogen production
• Leti engaged in EU project to develop neuromorphic processor
• Tiny FlexAmes for flexible energy storage and harvesting
• FMNT: Catherine Lo Cicero wins CNRS Crystal Medal
• Master’s in nanotechnology students go deep inside ESRF and ILL online
• Leti Innovation Days 2020: the fall’s top innovation event
• CEA drives development of OCOV mask
• From PhD student to entrepreneur with Enhanced IoT

The finding is a major one for theoretical physics: Researchers from Irig, Institut Néel, and the Flatiron Institute (US) designed an algorithm that solves the quantum many-body problem to order 15. The quantum many-body problem describes phenomena at the atomic scale that...

• Quantum many-body problem solved to order 15
• Until further notice…
• An original technique for functionalizing microscopes
• Invisible piezo transducers clean transparent surfaces
• AFM uplevels from cantilever to ring probe
• Leti 310 nm photonics platform gets a Process Design Kit
• A state-of-the-art vibration-energy harvesting circuit
• Vibration energy harvesting: Leti files three patents
• Energy harvesting: Resonance tuning boosts efficiency
• CMOS electronics and quantum devices get ready to move in together
• Active interposer supercharges high-performance circuits
• Neuromorphic memory: LMGP joins forces with MIT
• Magnetic tunnel junction sets new speed record
• First steps toward a spin valve with electrical insulators
• A step toward controlled Al/Ge quantum disks?
• June 4: A day to make the solo commute a thing of the past
• BHT1 gets new lounge for work and play
• Y.Spot, where open innovation takes shape
• FD-SOI: Leti’s transistor model recognized as a standard semiconductor device
• Hard-hitting campaign raises student awareness of the dangers of party culture
• eLichens monitors air quality in San Francisco
• Leti’s Emmanuel Sabonnadière to head nonprofit Jessica France
• Adentis consulting becomes Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma partner
• ISKN, now AMI, embarks on ambitious new strategy
• Medytec to showcase the Grenoble-Alpes medtech industry

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