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CEA-Leti and Intel, the world’s largest foundry, signed a contract expanding their partnership into 3D-integrated processors for high-performance computing via a multi-year R&D program in Grenoble. Intel and CEA-Leti began working together on IoT and very-high-speed wireless communications in 2016. The company...

• For Intel and CEA-Leti the future is 3D
• Quantum supremacy still not a given
• New SALD pen could improve deposition
• Quantum photonics a lethal weapon in the fight against cybercrime
• New electric motor components for fixed-gear bicycles
• 6G the focus of new European projects
• Melanoma: IBS investigates vaccine potential
• Industrial companies look to unfalsifiable, shareable blockchain
• Epistore project aims for super-compact fuel cells
• Fewer post-op complications for colorectal cancer patients
• Bolometer-based detectors: SPICA 100 times better than Herschel
• ESRF revolutionizes imaging of human organs
• Magnetic 2D materials, the new path to skyrmions?
• DNP for cooler, more sensitive, and less expensive NMR
• Fuel cells: Neural networks provide new insights into Nafion
• Grenoble INP-Phelma introduces new website for future students
• Chipless RFID: Innovative tags win yet another award
• NMR and biology: Paul Schanda brings home two awards
• Startup team doubles in size to create even more new ventures
• CEA Magellan accelerator to get a dozen new ventures a year off the ground
• JSIam 2021 to bring PhDs and business pros together online
• Midi MINATEC lunch talks go remote, recordings available
• Spintec spearheading the international spintronics roadmap
• Grenoble INP-UGA online Open House
• Kalray reaches €97 million raised since it was founded in 2008
• A giant leap for Diabeloop

Startup Avalun, which calls the MINATEC High-Tech Building its home, released its Covid-19 antigen test a few days ago. This powerful growth driver will also help speed up the rollout of Avalun’s portable lab, LabPad® Evolution. At the start of 2020, Avalun...

• Avalun Covid-19 antigen test now on market
• Spintronics and optronics, better together
• No virus can escape the optomechanical resonator
• A new wrinkle sure to foil counterfeiters’ plans
• LiteBIRD deep-freezes telescopes to probe the genesis of our universe
• CEA-Leti expands 300 mm line with new contact fabrication capabilities
• Innovative thermometer helps keeps power components from overheating
• An innovative lithium-ion battery anode
• ERC Proof of Concept grant for SOT-MRAM fabrication process
• Two Irig scientists now members of prestigious French learned society
• Bioresources enable antimicrobial bandages
• Advance gives new hope for lasers without III-V materials
• Hardware security expert Brice Colombier joins Grenoble INP-Phelma faculty
• What’s new in the AMIS Masters program
• Alain Sylvestre to head the Foundation for Micro and Nanotechnology effective January 1, 2021
• Anne Kaminski-Cachopo appointed director of IMEP-LaHC
• UNITE! Grenoble INP-Phelma is crossing borders even during the Covid lockdown
• FMNT backs four new equipment purchases
• Minalogic helps its members pivot to online communications
• Women in engineering 2020: Grenoble INP earns kudos for its commitment to gender representation
• SafeHear could make conversations in noisy environments safer and more comfortable
• Alternative mobility gains ground at CEA
• 100% online CSR day on December 4
• Y.SPOT Partners building to be delivered in a year

Phelma was able to physically welcome first-year students to school on campus on September 11. With social distancing and other Covid-19 measures in effect, the first day of school was unlike any other. Three auditoriums were prepared (with every other seat left...

• Unprecedented start to 2020-2021 school year at Phelma
• Microneedles could improve treatment of skin cancer
• Tomorrow’s window glass could be photochromic and photovoltaic
• Stabilizing skyrmions without a magnetic field now possible
• A drone could speed up avalanche search and rescue
• Clinatec improves cerebral motor activity location technique
• Reconstructing a SiC surface is all about order and disorder
• Postage-stamp-sized printed holograms
• Nanowires: overcoming very large differences in lattice constant
• Remote-control for micro-objects
• Startups continue to raise capital during the pandemic
• Phelma Partners Day to be 100% online
• Antaios raises $11 million and partners with Applied Materials
• Irig to assist with commissioning Japan’s Tokamak reactor
• DAMP probe available to industrial users
• International Roadmap for Devices and Systems to include More than Moore technologies
• Street art comes to CEA Grenoble campus
• Grenoble-based project wins i-Lab competition
• New energy technologies gain traction at INSTN, France’s national institute for nuclear science and technology
• Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma grad invents travel guitar
• High Level Forum introduces calendar of online events
• Science Impulse innovates in researcher recruitment
• Midi MINATEC brown bag lunch talks back after a seven-month hiatus
• Point-of-care testing: Horiba Medical and CEA-Leti extend partnership
• IEDM 2020 online conference now has its own online workshop
• Cystic fibrosis in the crosshairs at iGEM
• CEA-led QLSI project rallies Europe’s quantum CMOS community
• Bernard Diény and Spintec make it into the Computer History Museum

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