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The Deep Red industrial chair was created by Grenoble INP Foundation and IR detector manufacturer LYNRED to bring the power of infrared to everyday use cases.Three Gipsa-Lab research faculty are involved in the initiative, which will create opportunities for a number...

• New industrial chair to democratize infrared technology
• Nanomaterials: LMGP ramps up combinatorial deposition activity
• Heart attacks could soon be diagnosed in under an hour
• Frozen pellets reach speeds of 3,600 kph on test bench for the ITER fusion reactor
• Microstructure of halogenated hybrid perovskites revealed
• ILL investigates little-understood high-temperature superconductivity
• Project to help patients with spinal cord injuries walk again
• Room-temperature laser emission achieved in germanium-tin alloy
• MEMS micromirrors could help automotive LiDAR systems “see” further
• Electronic nose could soon sniff out diseases
• Longer-range, more accurate RFID tag reading
• 3D integration: chip-to-wafer bonding alignment 10x more accurate
• More reliable urban CO2 mapping
• Biomimetic adhesive expert joins LMGP
• Fundraising: CEA-Leti startups bring in €25 million
• Back to school at Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA
• CEA-Irig welcomes new director Pascale Bayle-Guillemaud
• Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA wins award for innovation in teaching
• MINATEC startups win big at i-Lab 2022
• Experimenta 2022, ten days of the arts and sciences
• Consumers to test “Jules Verne” augmented reality glasses
• Altrans Énergies goes to Washington
• Érasmia Dupenloup appointed CEO of Minalogic cluster
• QuantAlps: orchestrating quantum research in Grenoble
• Gaelle Del Rey wins women in technology research award
• Engineering students assess their school’s carbon impact

Researchers from Irig and CEA-Leti successfully maintained pancreatic cells called islets of Langerhans in culture on a microfluidic chip for a month and were able to measure individual islets’ insulin production. This breakthrough could improve the efficacy of islet transplants, a...

• Organs-on-chip could give diabetes patients new hope
• Smaller reversible fuel cells could be more powerful
• Electric vehicles fill up with GaN
• PreCoM project: powerful sensors for predictive maintenance
• Nickel almost as good as platinum for fuel cells
• Memristors find new use in neural networks
• World’s first 2D ferromagnetic materials at 229 K
• New material for faster microlasers: the Crumble project
• Medical radiology expands into point-of-care imaging
• Photovoltaics: yield-boosting solar inverter
• The magnetic superconducting mysteries of heavy-fermion metal UTe2
• Microtechnology could aid in the study of tau protein’s role in Alzheimer’s
• The Grenoble branch of nonprofit Cheer up! gets back to work
• Antennas can be printed on 3D objects with plastronics
• CEA-Leti partnership with UCLouvain off to a great start
• Y.SPOT Partners welcomes two artists-in-residence
• Émile Rivoire ready for 2,500 km of solar-powered cycling
• Leti Innovation Days to put a spotlight on eight semiconductor leaders
• MINATEC to host European IndTech 2022 conference
• FD-SOI leaders form next-generation alliance
• Grenoble engineering students volunteer in Togo
• Getinge of Sweden acquires Fluoptics
• Grenoble to host 2022 EuCNC & 6G summit

In February, the European Commission confirmed its massive €43 billion semiconductor industry plan. €11 billion has been earmarked for research on the most advanced chips and new pilot manufacturing lines. CEA-Leti is expected to play a major role in the plan. The...

• A €43 billion European plan for semiconductors
• A new generation of earphones just over the horizon
• Inspired by the locust nervous system, Élisa Vianello’s research wins ERC grant
• Gingko biloba protein used in multilayer nanomaterial
• Piezoelectric effects investigated at the nanometric scale
• Pushing back the limits of quantum error correction codes
• ESRF X-ray imaging looks inside the platinum in catalytic converters
• Could hole qubits be the future of quantum?
• Keeping bacteria at bay in the fishing and fish farming industries
• Magnetic microparticles could fight cancerous tumors
• Soitec now a major Grenoble INP - Phelma, UGA partner
• Celebrating two decades of spintronics at Spintec
• LMGP Hires MXenes specialist
• A 2,500 km solar bike tour through the Alps
• Embedded systems and IoT devices: What’s new
• Leti Innovation Days 2022: high-caliber, jam-packed content and networking
• Grenoble Green Capital seal for Midis MINATEC
• GIANT to move to Y.SPOT Partners by summer
• BHT3, a distinctively urban building
• Thingsat space internship for second-year engineering students
• Silicon carbide: Soitec and CEA-Leti shift into high gear
• New Energy@School program for high school students
• Three Phelma students to sail to the Caribbean

Deep brain stimulation and infrared illumination appear to be effective at treating Parkinson’s disease. But why? The Clinatec Endowment Fund, through a new research project called Astropark, is looking for insights the cellular mechanisms at play in neurons and astrocytes.Deep brain...

• Clinatec Endowment Fund investigating new treatments for Parkinson’s
• IMEP-LaHC fine-tunes nanocircuit noise simulation
• Turbulence in superfluid helium-4
• Tenfold reduction in ReRAM cell variability
• Rose to develop artificial nose for patients suffering from loss of smell
• Wireless technology unleashes avalanche detonators
• Silver nanowire arrays not as unstable as previously thought
• LEDs in the race against mercury for UV-C emission
• The physics of stacked graphene layers is both rich and unpredictable
• Greenhouse gases could soon be monitored using LiDAR
• Grenoble INP, UGA engineering students for the energy transition
• Augmented reality through almost-normal glasses could soon be here
• CEA-Leti ready to dive into even more European projects
• Spintec unveils high-potential memristor for neuromorphic computing
• Primo1D presents E-Thread at RFID Journal Live 2014 in Orlando
• Y.Spot Partners full to capacity on opening day
• Alten the latest Phelma partner
• Grenoble INP - UGA on the race to zero emissions

For the past three years, four Grenoble laboratories have been working together, using methods from materials science and economics to find alternatives to the critical materials in white LEDs.Their work, funded by the UGA Idex grant, marks a departure from conventional...

• Material criticality comes into its own as a research topic
• MRAM memories stand up to heavy ion abuse
• Smart window glazing for more energy-efficient buildings
• Peptides could inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication
• Microfluidic patch can detect when cows are in heat
• Advance in biomaterials marks a step toward personalized medical implants
• Banking on SiC for neural interfaces
• Shedding new light on acute stress
• Monoclonal antibodies the subject of PhD research at Sanofi and LMGP
• Copper oxide could be a candidate for tomorrow’s solar cells
• Larger defect-free graphene layers produced
• Neutrons supercharge fuel cell research
• Orientation for new GIANT PhD students to take place on February 8
• MINATEC Entreprises broadens support for innovation
• CEA-Leti heads to CES® to showcase its latest medical technologies
• CEA-Leti IT security testing lab affirms biometric ID expertise
• LMGP makes progress on liquid phase atomic layer deposition
• New book looks back on the start of the 21st century at CEA Grenoble
• Grenoble engineering students cycle across Europe
• Diabeloop shifts into high gear in France and around the globe
• Everything you ever wanted to know about FDSOI in 380 pages
• SET, from the French Alps to the world
• Clinatec endowment fund hires new neuroillumination researchers
• Injectpower, for implantable monitoring devices that last
• The Class of 2019 will finally get its commencement ceremony