MINA-NEWS

INAC recently made a significant advance toward using spin-orbit coupling in transistors as the result of research conducted in conjunction with CNRS Palaiseau and Jülich Research Center of Germany. As its name indicates, spin-orbit coupling “couples” an electron’s momentum and spin....

• Germanium: spin transistors just over the horizon
• P-SCAN pinpoints industrial systems’ vulnerabilities
• 5G network prototype at Pyeongchang Olympics
• Mechanical constraint helps locate quantum light sources
• Large-scale two-dimensional MoSe2 production with no tape!
• First-ever 600 V/100 A GaN demonstrator transistor for power electronics
• SensiNact released as open source
• Nanosafety Workshop: a uniquely interactive opportunity
• Photonics platform open for business after a six-month delay
• Building an emergency shelter prototype in three days
• Leti stands out at EuCAP conference
• Nanocharacterization platform upgrades TEM equipment
• Neutron detector helps predict the impacts of snow melt
• DREAM project results published in six languages!
• NXP and Phelma form a new kind of partnership
• New on the Micro- and Nanotech Observatory website
• Inno’Cup Junior 2017: teen innovators imagine the future
• GIANT runs tours for Presqu’île residents
• Nuclear: Phelma signs partnership with the University of Bristol
• MT 180: Grenoble’s Sabrina Fadloun in the running at nationals
• Open labs: Atelier Arts-Sciences and Ideas Lab expand circle of partners
• Grenoble Institute of Technology moves up in 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject
• Sylfen wins international innovation award from French newspaper Le Monde
• IRT Nanoelec: More than 300 SMBs have received services through the Easytech program
• PUS improves energy yields at MINATEC
• Exploring artificial intelligence at Ideas Days
• Cholera test kit designed in Grenoble in iGEM competition

Leti convinced France’s telecommunications regulator ARCEP to issue a license for the institute to run a six-month trial (H1 2017) at 3.5 GHz with a bandwidth of 40 MHz. The frequency could be the first to be released for 5G network rollout,...

• Leti experiments with 5G networks at MINATEC
• New bacterial identification tool
• Nanometric electrical wires will soon be here
• Mapping magnetic fields: INAC innovates!
• Deeper insights into electrolytes’ ionic conductivity
• Atomic moirés’ crystallographic structure under the microscope
• A micro-display with incredible resolution
• Obstacle detection for all with INSPEX
• Nanobiose strengthens ties with MINATEC
• Phelma strong in French Physics Society tournament
• ISKN: Results worth writing about!
• Startups: Two Phelma grads earn kudos
• Leti unveils new website
• Phelma Junior Consultants moving up
• Atos joins Phelma Partners Circle
• Five weeks of nanotechnology!
• Even more CEA technologies in the spotlight at this year’s Forum 5i!
• A Chair of Excellence for MAX phases
• EEA Club: A Grenoble congress with a European flavor
• Lancey Energy Storage introduces the smart radiator
• Avalun begins scaling up its LabPad® for manufacturing
• Activage puts digital technology to work for the elderly
• Power electronics: Exagan speeds up production
• LPSC nuclear instrumentation platform transformed
• Find the latest MINATEC news on your favorite social network
• CEA one of the world’s most innovative publicly-funded research organizations

Long space missions present such a high risk of bacterial infection that astronauts spend 10% of their time cleaning! One of the objectives of the ISS Proxima mission (in which ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is participating) is to study five advanced...

• International Space Station: Germs be gone!
• World-first: 300 mm CMOS qubits
• RRAM memory emulates synaptic plasticity
• STT-MRAM memory gets higher write speeds
• When transistors become very sensitive to light
• Slashing LED costs fourfold now possible
• Perpendicular anisotropy: graphene and cobalt go hand in hand
• Thin-layer nanocomposites deliver unrivalled properties
• Bike pedal power sensor costs slashed tenfold
• Why are lithium battery losses so high on the first cycle?
• Phelma and Ensimag join forces on embedded systems and connected objects
• Phelma does well in L’Étudiant magazine engineering school ranking
• Challenge First Step 2016 gives more than €700K to startups
• Nanosafety Platform website now online
• White paper on atomic layer deposition
• NanoArt photo contest really zooms in!
• Micro- and Nanotech Observatory 2016 year in review
• 72 local high-school students to attend Inn.Otech 2017
• Phelma introduces international materials-focused Master’s
• Bag-Era makes the IoT more reliable
• Apios sets out to repair large bone defects
• Phelma: 2017 admissions open to graduates of additional science prep programs
• Startup EnWires sets up shop at LMGP
• Grenoble Institute of Technology 2017 adventure race to take place in Vercors
• 1967–2017: Leti celebrates 50 years
• Innov@School gets high-schoolers thinking about the homes of the future
• Jean-Claude Royer joins Clinatec’s management team
• ESRF Colloquia a success
• eVaderis gets influx of fresh capital

Recent advances in research being conducted by Leti and INAC scientists under CEA project A3DN could help overcome one of the major technological hurdles facing microelectronics R&D. So, what does DNA have to do with microelectronics? DNA strings measure around a nanometer—as...

• DNA could bring new innovations to microelectronics
• Diamonds are a 3-D micro-supercapacitor’s best friend
• Satellite operators hungry for 5G communications
• Intensity- and sign-tunable spin-charge conversion
• High-performance computing gets more energy-efficient data transfer
• Quantum dots perform well under mechanical constraints
• MEMS RF switches made in Grenoble ready for space
• Could sugar make treating liver disease easier?
• Wireless pacemaker could be just over the horizon
• Power conversion: GaN components show promise
• Nanoelectronic Devices, an open-source scientific journal
• RF and millimeter wave integrated circuits and systems meeting on March 10
• Testing antibiotic efficacy in just one hour
• PX’Therapeutics focuses on new drug candidate
• GreEn-ER open for business, ribbon-cutting in December
• Fluoptics in the spotlight
• Enerbee takes to the air
• Leti working with GlobalFoundries on 22 nm FD-SOI
• Micro-nano observatory reports now online
• Grenoble reaches out to Taiwan and South Korea
• Emmanuelle Gourieux, active in student life
• Planet Makers gets kids into robotics
• Photonics platform delivery date pushed back
• Morphosense precision structural-health monitoring
• Alps Design Lab, where technology meets design
• Israeli teachers at CIME
• Communication: High Level Forum innovates
• Startup UroMems raises €14 million

Researchers from Leti and G2Elab are working to develop a new kind of medical imaging technology, “fast field-cycling MRI” (FFC-MRI). The research is being conducted under the four-year EU IDentIFY project, which kicked off in 2016. The new MRI is expected...

• MRIs could become more accurate and affordable
• MRIs could become more accurate and affordable
• Driverless vehicles: it’s all about the algorithms
• Josephson junctions: four terminals make the difference
• Rethinking resistive memory
• Nanocomputers: skyrmions now within reach
• LMGP takes atomic layer deposition to the next level
• Lensless imaging: Iprasense releases a new product
• CoolCube® attains more than 10 million 3D contacts/mm2
• A power converter that can withstand 200 °C
• Inac website features four researcher profile videos
• 4,800 runners expected at 8th Grenoble Ekiden marathon
• Recommended reading: Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Nanowires
• BigClouT is inventing smart cities
• CIME Nanotech gets ion milling equipment
• Challenge First Step 2016 cohort the best to date
• Semicon Europa returns to Grenoble
• Tomorrow’s engineers already entrepreneurs!
• Cross-disciplinary program for Grenoble-Alpes University
• 2016–2017 academic year off to a strong start for Phelma
• National i-Lab competition recognizes four CEA Tech projects
• Grenoble Institute of Technology and STMicroelectronics partner on analog electronics certificate course
• Phelma auditorium and extension now an integral part of MINATEC
• Parvis des Sciences science fair growing
• eLichens raises €3 million
• Phelma: new management, same objectives
• MINATEC’s new website on line
• New student dormitory opens in Presqu’île neighborhood
• EXPERIMENTA fair to feature 20 installations
• Maison MINATEC expands capacity