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Exposing degenerating neurons to near infrared light could slow the progression of Parkinson’s disease. A preclinical trial of this approach in 2016 produced excellent results. The first patient in a new clinical trial was implanted with the neuron-illuminating device at Clinatec...

• Could neuroillumination be Clinatec’s new weapon against Parkinson's disease?
• DNP probes cellulose nanofibrils
• Advances towards more “human” magnetoencephalography temperatures
• Nitrogen magneto-ionics for lower power consumption
• A step closer to multi-time-scale neuromorphic chips
• Could the surfaces of semiconducting nanowires be the key to performance?
• Wafer-level testing of photonic circuits speeds up development
• Bioimaging: quantum dots with fluorophore-like performance
• NB-IoT: some adaptations for satellite communications
• Lensless imaging could make phage therapy faster
• Antibody engineering: CEA project wins Sanofi award
• Quantum: CMOS withstands very low temperatures
• Startup Vulkam sets sights on space market
• Aryballe to receive €1.1 million subsidy for new pilot line
• New Masters in Biorefining and Biomaterials
• Vincent Favre-Nicolin wins award for his work in crystallography
• IMEP-LaHC scientist travels to Finland for six-month stay
• Middle-school science competition garners 350 entries
• Osiris robotic irrigation system could help make farming more sustainable
• Graphene2021 Conference: in October, and ideally in person
• Fab lab encourages engineering students to “do it yourself”
• Louis Néel in the spotlight for golden anniversary of his Nobel Prize
• Student radio spreads good vibes
• CEA raises awareness of gender-based violence
• MINATEC Enterprises gets a new office and CEO

Irig was among the partners on a French national research agency (ANR) project that resulted in the on-demand emission of single photons in silicon at 1.28 µm, a wavelength used in telecommunications. They did it by introducing carefully-engineered defects into the...

• Silicon can emit single photons at 1.28 microns
• New ultra-low-power shape recognition
• Pentagons magnetically frustrated, but still fairly well-organized
• Spin Hall effect observed in a ferromagnetic material
• Wireless, batteryless lighting and roller shutter control
• Infrared holography could provide faster, more accurate cancer diagnosis
• Hydrogen could prevent Covid-19-related runaway inflammation
• Microwire and quantum dot could connect two worlds
• Germanium-laser-on-silicon contacts could become more stable
• New mustard-gas assessment can be used up to fourteen days after exposure
• STT-MRAM memory cells under under the microscope
• Smart window films boost indoor cellular service
• Phelma engages students through flipped classrooms
• Eagerly-awaited ferroelectric tester arrives at G2Elab
• Radiobiology: X-ray generator delivered to Irig
• Four renovation projects will improve building energy performance at CEA-Grenoble
• Clinatec Endowment Fund kicks off R&D programs
• Quantum: New silicon qubit tester will save years
• Grapheal raises €1.9 million for its digital biosensors
• CEA Grenoble Director Bruno Feignier rolls out his roadmap
• Becton Dickinson now a Grenoble INP - Phelma partner
• Internet of Things: Making security better, together
• Maxime Leprince’s mouth-watering Three Minute Thesis
• Covid and equal opportunity: Phelma remains vigilant

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