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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

Thanks to Nano 2022 initiative funding, Leti will complete installation of its first wave of 30 pieces of 300 mm microelectronics equipment in 2019. The equipment will expand Leti’s technological capabilities, positioning the institute to address tomorrow’s innovations. The Nano 2022 initiative,...

• 300 mm: Leti brings state-of-the-art technology to industry
• Design: Leti and Silvaco set up joint lab
• Weighing viruses is not as easy as it looks
• Germanium-tin could be a winning combination for silicon photonics
• Noisy cracks, rough material
• Leti focuses on embedded artificial intelligence
• Life-sized IoT experiments underway at Maison MINATEC
• Aryballe Technologies and INAC, a winning partnership
• My Cube experiments with in-memory computing
• Phelma climbs five slots in the 2019 L’Étudiant college rankings
• MagIA raises €1 million to complete its analysis system
• Hydrogen: Phelma to take part in EU TeacHy2020 program
• Interactive fitness specialist Moovlab raises €253,000
• MagIA cofounder Sarah Delshadi earns kudos from C’Nano
• Scintil Photonics develops faster, more affordable optical interconnects
• Synchrotron to shut down for 20 months
• DAMP project to develop deep characterization solution
• European microelectronics roadmap ready to roll
• April 3 to April 5: two conferences to broaden your horizons
• IMEC and Leti form new partnership
• Diabeloop obtains CE marking
• Leti kicks off four strategic programs
• SOI Academy Shanghai launch a success
• Nano 2022: €35 million earmarked for nanotechnology R&D
• Arts et Métiers ParisTech students assigned to CEA Tech
• Technology transfer: Sylvain Colomb succeeds Alain Briand

Grenoble-based research project QuCube won an ERC Synergy Grant of €14 million over six years to develop a quantum processor. The grant is evidence that Grenoble’s research and innovation ecosystem is gaining traction internationally. Leti, INAC, and Institut Néel will receive €14...

• Quantum technology: Europe is banking on Grenoble
• Bringing chronic heart failure patients home for good
• Automotive switches: resource-efficient MPC
• Thin layer materials: Sprint project aims high
• Redfinch revitalizes mid-infrared detection technology
• Epilepsy: What if cold could prevent seizures?
• Spintronics gets new materials
• Germanium reveals hidden talents
• Photosynthesis is better two by two
• Phelma tenth anniversary celebrations to draw to a close
• RFIC-Lab focuses on RF design
• Avalun ramps up production at MINATEC
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional digital innovation hub opens
• IFCEN and Phelma to sign two dual-degree agreements
• Air Liquide signs five-year contract with the CEA
• Grenoble team takes home two wins in iGEM competition
• HOPE mobilizes talents to counter energy poverty
• Sneak preview of Leti innovations at CES 2019
• Biomedical research: Eveon and LMGP set up joint lab
• Rosi recycles photovoltaic manufacturing waste
• Activage puts digital technology to work for the elderly
• IMEP-LaHC gets an AFM unlike any other
• INAC PhD candidate wins For Women in Science award

This summer, the CEA set up its first international joint lab with a university in Singapore. The SCARCE* lab has a total budget of €12.5 million over three years and will focus on the recycling and transformation of electronic waste. INAC,...

• CEA forms joint lab with Singapore’s NTU
• Strain-free InGaN lights up in blue, green, and red
• Choosing the best LiDAR for autonomous vehicles
• Internet of Things: a technology to improve communications
• New insights into spin-orbit torque
• Cybersecurity: Leti automates testing
• Magnetic heating boosts water electrolysis
• Spin waves detected in CMOS-compatible materials
• Quantum bits: SOI nanowires open up new possibility
• Research brings much-needed order to nanoplate suspensions
• The artistic side of new printed materials
• Working to make refugee camps better places to live
• More than 1,500 schoolchildren expected at Parvis des sciences science fair
• CEA Open Innovation Center: innovation in residence
• Challenge First Step 2018 cohort selected
• CIME Nanotech gets four-port 145 GHz network analyzer
• ISKN raises capital, announces new hires, and launches three new products
• Quantum bits: the future is down under!
• Kalray raises €47.7 million through IPO
• Microfluidics: Leti spearheading standardization
• MEMS-Al and NanoAndes to be held at the same time in Mexico
• NanoSAFE 2018 to zoom in on nanosafety and responsible use of nanomaterials
• Phelma: key figures from the start of the 2018–2019 academic year
• Connected skis: Rossignol gives a sneak peek
• IRT Nanoelec education and training program gets new strategy
• FMNT wins two PhD dissertation awards
• Exagan’s first products leverage GaN technology
• International conference on nanomaterials-based biodetection in November