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Leti now offers partner businesses and universities an expansive library of 3D test patterns, built from the laboratory’s years of research...

Phase-change memory is a type of fast, cheap, and non-volatile memory whose only drawback is its high programming current requirement, which...

Wireless technology could soon replace the cumbersome cables in airplanes’ safety systems and in cars’ ABS and anti-skid systems thanks to...

Leti researchers are getting ready to transfer to industry a new wireless communication system that combines ultra-wideband and RFID technology. The...

Detecting electric arcs in the high-power batteries used in electric vehicles (300 V−400 V, 50 kW−80 kW) is a real challenge,...

Until now patients wondering whether they have tuberculosis had to wait a full 72 hours before finding out the results of...

Until now, electronic tongues—devices used to identify dissolved substances in liquids—have been hard to make because each of the tongues’ chemical...

Researchers from the French Nanoscience and Cryogenics Institute (INAC) and Spintec have developed a new logic circuit that combines CMOS and...

The Grenoble Institute of Technology class of 2011 graduation ceremony, held on November 24, 2012, counted numerous high-profile guests among its...

High-tech start-up Movea has won a five-year contract to supply its cutting-edge context detection technology to a manufacturer of smartphone and...

Dr. Yves Bréchet, a Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma professor and researcher at the French Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (SIMaP), has...

London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a global provider of specialist higher education and career information, has issued its 2012 World University Rankings...

In the future, the performance of energy generation and storage systems will depend on an unprecedented alliance between semiconductors and organic...

Isorg’s interactive displays are designed to power up and launch multimedia presentations as soon as someone walks by, thanks to a...

This year’s inaugural First Step Challenge—designed to identify the most promising start-up ideas based on CEA Tech projects (see the October...

MultiX, a developer of X-ray spectrometric detectors for luggage inspection and other security applications, has just raised €4 million from six...

Construction work is on track for the new nanosafety building on the CEA campus in Grenoble. The 6,000 m2, low-energy-consumption-certified building...

Two new videos have just been posted on the MINATEC TV website (www.minatec.tv): “The Titan Ultimate™ Electron Microscope” and...

After a year of highly popular Midi MINATEC brown bag lunches in 2012, the organizers decided to take it up a...

This year’s Expérimenta arts, science, and design fair helped bring nearly 2,000 people to the simultaneously-held Science Fair at MINATEC on...

Grenoble Institute of Technology’s six engineering schools have recently issued revamped brochures with completely new content and a fresh new design....

Jean-Luc Doumont, Co-founder of Principiæ*
“Scientists and engineers should strive for simplicity when presenting their research”

You train scientists and engineers around...

On December 3 and 10, 2012, professionals from Orange Labs and E2V, respectively, will come speak to Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma...

On October 1, 2012, Grenoble Institute of Technology-Phelma finalized the terms of a partnership agreement with DCNS, a global leader in...

The Leti Annual Review—a two-day conference where Leti researchers present their latest findings—will become the four-day Leti Innovation Days starting in...

In early October 2012, 49 project teams—including one from Grenoble—took part in the European round of the International Genetically Engineered Machine...

CEA Tech, the CEA’s Technology Research Division, will open sites in three cities in western France—Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes—in early 2013....