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Nano@school, a CIME Nanotech program for high school juniors enrolled in the science track, has been held at MINATEC since 2010. This year nearly 800 students from 25 high schools (including three international high schools) enrolled, setting a record for Nano@school! Back...

• Nano@school sets new record in 2018
• Progress toward less toxic, more affordable hydrogen photosynthesis
• Inverse opals boost solar cell yields
• Special 50th issue of Mina-News
• 2D materials: Moiré engineering and dislocation theory converge
• MRAM: Microelectronics industry adopts spintronics
• Silicon photonics aiming for terabit-per-second speeds
• Compressed signal acquisition: Measure smart, use less energy!
• Bioactive surfaces and bone regeneration: LMGP’s winning track record
• Connected knee implant contains miniature sensors made in Grenoble
• Arianespace CEO to speak at Leti Innovation Days
• Construction: Nearly 45,000 sq. m built in ten years
• Three engineering students aiming for the top of the charts
• Phelma celebrates tenth anniversary
• Ground breaks on new OIC building
• Chrome5 conference room goes casual
• Mass fabrication of FD-SOI circuits to begin
• Twist straintronics could give graphene new properties
• Cycling: Detecting hidden electric motors
• A lifetime guarantee for superhydrophobic coatings?
• Avalanche photodiodes: Mynaric Lasercom signs R&D contract with Leti
• Go Concept joins the Phelma Partners’ Circle
• LAMA removed from list of nuclear sites
• 7th French-American Workshop coming soon
• PTA (Upstream Technology Platform) turns ten on July 2
• Four engineering students off to Nepal
• Ideas Days 2018: Innovating for the Climate
• Recent Phelma grad founds agroecology startup
• Two Phelma students invited to IEEE conference
• Startup MagIA tackles hepatitis B
• Leti’s M&NEMS one major step closer to the market

In February Leti presented a functional prototype of an 11 mm x 7 mm CMOS image sensor whose unique feature is that it is curved. The innovation could lead to a spectacular reduction in the size and complexity of lenses. It...

• Pixcurve image sensor: microelectronics free from planar sensors
• Exploring the surface of CuInS2 nanocrystals
• Could UVB rays cause our DNA to oxidize?
• Chips individually encrypted during fabrication
• Lensless microscopy detects meningitis
• TMD monolayers offer unrivalled superconductivity
• Giant magnetoresistance present in new structures
• Quantum computing: progress toward silicon-28
• Winter Olympics: innovation medal for Grenoble’s 5G technology
• Regenerbone bone reconstruction project could lead to startup
• Grenoble Institute of Technology gets new Communications Director
• FAME Master’s program strengthens ties with industry
• Innovation: CEA still in the top-100 global innovators
• Leti to organize HTA’s tenth anniversary event in Brussels
• MINATEC a center for the arts and culture
• iGEM 2018 team tackles phagotherapy
• Exagan gets a warm welcome in China
• Phelma students reach out to young cancer patients
• Aledia raises €30 million and welcomes Intel
• New arrivals at the CEA now have their own welcome packet
• BHT: Weebit Nano, a new company with great memory
• 2018 CEA Tech showroom guide now available
• Ground breaks on BHT2

Etienne Perret, a faculty member at Grenoble Institute of Technology and a research scientist at LCIS, an FMNT lab based in Valence, has just won a €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant for his chipless RFID tags. The grant will allow...

• Chipless RFID tag wins €2 million European Research Council Consolidator Grant
• EXPERIMENTA 2018: panel talks not to be missed
• Drones get 360-degree collision protection
• Breakthrough in magnetoencephalography from outer space
• Better Wi-Fi service on board Falcon jets
• MRAM on stage at MINATEC this summer
• CMOS 300 mm qubits can take the heat
• Tomorrow’s microdisplays will be curved
• Tungsten pumps up STT-RAM
• Could tin oxide replace indium tin oxide (ITO) in transparent electrodes?
• Telecommunications: BF-OFDM rolled out in the Orkney Islands
• Wristband diagnoses sleep apnea at home
• UV and IR photodetectors offer unrivalled performance
• Why nanowire beats thin film for piezoelectric potential
• Graphene ultracapacitor achieves record performance
• Stevie Wonder a fan of the Enhancia connected ring
• €676 K awarded to five projects in First Step Challenge 2017
• Leti researcher wins Helmholtz International Fellow Award
• The secret to great skin? Put down your mobile phone!
• Biomimetic thin films enter maturation phase
• APIX Analytics ready to take on US and Asian markets
• 3D-Oncochip: LMGP helps create microtumors
• A gap year in the Amazon rainforest
• The art and science of innovation marketing
• 92 teens expected for Scientifique, toi aussi ! science career day
• GreEn-Er students try their hand at beekeeping 2.0
• Pierre Benech appointed Grenoble Institute of Technology President through 2020

In early February, Ideas Laboratory© will supply Air Liquide, Bouygues Construction, and Suez with fifteen connected armband prototypes for factory and construction workers.  With a display that lets workers pinpoint their location on a map, look at task lists and technical drawings,...

• A connected armband for construction workers
• More compact H-bridges for home appliances
• Researchers invent a skyrmion switch
• Stimulating the visual cortex to restore sight
• Peptide targets could help determine uranium toxicity
• Nanowires could compensate for 6% lattice constant deviation
• Fingerprint recognition: Leti exceeds FBI requirements
• Leti launches hardware emulation services using Veloce
• Skin DNA: Sunscreens do provide protection
• Secure circuits inspected down to the transistor
• Bruno Paing succeeds Hughes Metras as head of CEA Tech US
• NeOse Pro artificial nose can detect 500 different scents
• Leti PhD candidate wins L’Oréal Foundation grant
• FRM medical research foundation awards funding to LMGP lab
• Smart Force Technologies boosts micron-scale rapid prototyping
• CEA Tech Village at CES 2018
• Moovlab, still in its incubation phase, wins first customer
• FED4SAE explores cyber-physical systems
• Grenoble and Vienna join forces on ALD
• New phase in Building 10.05 rehabilitation project begins
• Emmanuel Sabonnadière brings industrial and international experience to Leti
• MIT to send five teaching assistants to GIANT
• First-ever Phelma open house to be held in March
• Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud appointed Deputy Director of INAC
• Innov@School gets high-schoolers working on low-tech solutions
• Experimenta, now held every two years, to take place in February
• Giant International Internship Programme fall session

The tenth annual Parvis des sciences science fair will be held on October 19–21, 2017 at MINATEC. And, with ample opportunities to look, touch, experiment, and ask questions, there is sure to be something for each of the 3,000 visitors expected this...

• Parvis des sciences fair turns ten!
• More reliable, compact LED lamps
• The quest for the qubit continues
• Unidirectional spin waves
• SigmaFusion™ meets automotive-industry reliability standards
• Very-high-density optically reconfigurable gate arrays
• Graphene and spintronics come together
• Remote-controlled nanotweezer arrays
• INAC develops first-ever quantum-dot nanotubes
• Iprasense introduces high-throughput cell culture monitoring
• Growing numbers of Phelma students opt for work-study programs
• Women in Science competition: Now is the time to enter
• Three up-and-coming CNRS researchers hired by FMNT
• Nano@school 2016–2017 served 610 high-school students
• OPE)N(RA, the FMNT’s new characterization platform
• BHT-2: Construction to begin in November
• Industrial partners host CEA Tech travelling showroom
• Grenoble Institute of Technology Foundation new programs
• Ribbon cut on Predictive Simulation Center
• NanoMada: MINATEC exports its know-how to Madagascar
• Rotary Club finances 3D bioprinter
• Convergence banking on autonomous portable testing devices
• New introductory-level book on electronic measurement systems
• Sciencetips science newsletter backed by the CEA
• CIME to celebrate Science Week in Voiron!
• Fraunhofer and Leti sign novel microelectronics partnership
• Grenoble strengthens ties with Latin America
• Nexio boosts Pheline testing lab’s capacities
• WTC and Maison MINATEC join forces to boost event capacity
• The sixth Challenge First Step in six projects
• LXRepair brings in €1.1 million
• Morphosense earns kudos at i-LAB 2017 competition
• Diabeloop raises €13.5 million to develop artificial pancreas
• 5,200 runners expected at 2017 Grenoble Ekiden marathon
• MagIA Diagnostics revolutionizes ELISA immunological test