MINATEC INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Design: Leti and Silvaco FEBRUARY 2019 set up joint lab S-based Silvaco, a world-class provider of electronic design automation software, has set up a joint lab with Leti. The Uthree-year lab will focus on the development of electrical TOP NEWS behavior models for nanowire CMOS transistors and gallium nitride power transistors. The models developed will be integrated #53 into Silvaco’s software, used to design and simulate circuits built on these technologies. 300 mm: With the arrival of nanotechnology, simulation has become a crucial step in the design process, enabling advanced verification Leti brings testing at circuit level before engaging in costly fabrication. The joint lab will also position Leti technologies on a competitive market and pave the way for broader dissemination of these technologies. state of-the-art
[email protected] technology Weighing viruses to industry is not as easy as it looks Thanks to Nano 2022 initiative funding, ow do you weigh a bacteria-eating virus that is too light Leti will complete installation of its first wave for precision scales but too heavy for mass spectrometry? of 30 pieces of 300 mm microelectronics equipment Researchers from Leti and BIG developed and patented a in 2019. The equipment will expand Leti’s technological H novel “nanoscale” technique to do just that. The technique uses capabilities, positioning the institute to address an array of around 20 nanomechanical resonators that are made tomorrow’s innovations. to vibrate. The virus is then introduced into a chamber with the The Nano 2022 initiative, financed by the CEA, the array, and the system measures the difference in frequency.