NEWSEER No. 22 Dec 12 Evet See all Greoble-area research evets at a glace at 38 de Scieces auched just before the summer holidays, a ew website called 38 de Scieces (sfp.greoble.crs.fr) set up joitly by the Frech Physics Society, Fodatio Naoscieces, ad Istitut Néel s I departmet gives Greoblearea researchers a oe-stop shop for iformatio about upcomig semiars, cofereces, thesis defeses, ad other research-related evets. auched just before the summer holidays, a ew website called 38 de Scieces (sfp.greoble.crs.fr) set up joitly by the Frech Physics Society, Fodatio Naoscieces, ad Istitut Néel s I departmet gives Greoble-area researchers a oe-stop shop for iformatio about upcomig semiars, cofereces, thesis defeses, ad other research-related evets. For ow the iformatio is give i Frech oly ad cosists maily of physics, biology, ad chemistry evets; the website replaced the otices formerly set out by the Frech Physics Society. However, the pla is to exted the website to all scietific fields, icludig the so-called soft scieces. 38 de Scieces has bee highly popular sice its lauch, with some 250 evets listed for the first six weeks of fall aloe. Of course, for the website to be useful evet orgaizers must provide iformatio i a timely maer; the free service depeds o their active cooperatio. First-time visitors to the website ca immediately see how practical it is. While the graphic desig could stad to be improved, the iformatio is preseted i a easy-to-read maer ad the site offers a slate of helpful features like search by keyword, date, or type of evet; a choice of three RSS feeds to subscribe to (Physics, Biology & Chemistry, or All Evets); automatic trasfer of selected evets to the user s Outlook caledar; ad the ability to share evets by email alert. 38 de Scieces reflects ot oly the Greoble area s vibrat research commuity, but also the large umber of foreig scietists ad egieers draw to the regio. Cotact: stephaie.mofrot@fodatio-aoscieces.fr Iovatio Phase-chage memory ow requires less curret Phase-chage memory is a type of fast, cheap, ad o-volatile memory whose oly drawback is its high programmig curret requiremet, which limits miiaturizatio potetial ad maximum desity. However, eti researchers have obtaied promisig results from a ew cofied structure phase-chage memory architecture that allows for 50 m chips substatially smaller tha the 300 m curretly available with stadard plug architecture. his breakthrough was achieved by combiig e-beam lithography with a atomic thi film depositio process developed by ASM Iteratioal N.V. ad a special chemical-mechaical polishig process. he cofied structure architecture uses the phase-chage material GeSbe, ad will be developed further to be compatible with tomorrow s sub-45 m techology odes. Cotact: carie.jaha@cea.fr Wireless sesors poised to improve trasportatio safety W ireless techology could soo replace the cumbersome cables i airplaes safety systems ad i cars ABS ad ati-skid systems thaks to a eti iovatio: a miiature 2-cm atea for 868 MHz UHF frequecies. eti researchers are ow lookig at how this atea ca be used for sigal propagatio i cars ad airplaes. he researchers developed eergy loss, dispersio, ad echo models usig measuremets take o a Airbus ad several differet types of cars. he ext step to be carried out uder the ikig echologies Program at IR Naoelec will be to acquire a chael propagatio simulator for testig wireless systems i real-world coditios ad improvig the systems protocols, architecture, power requiremets, ad types of liks. Cotact: lioel.rudat@cea.fr Ultra-widebad ad RFID make a wiig combiatio eti researchers are gettig ready to trasfer to idustry a ew wireless commuicatio system that combies ultra-widebad ad RFID techology. he ew system ca trasfer data betwee a mobile phoe ad a RFID tag at a impressive rate of 100 Mb/s, while usig just a few mw of power. Data are stored locally, so users do t eed to coect to a etwork requirig access to servers ofte located thousads of miles away. he system was developed uder a four-year R&D partership with Nokia. It was iitially desiged for mobile phoe applicatios, but applicatios i other fields are expected to be developed through a ew start-up. Dr. Michael Pélissier, the egieer who has bee spearheadig this work sice 2003, was awarded the 2011 Gééral Ferrié Radio Egieerig Award at a ceremoy held i Jue 2012. Cotact: pierre.vicet@cea.fr
NEWSEER Iovatio 3D packagig: eti uveils a test patter library eti ow offers parter busiesses ad uiversities a expasive library of 3D test patters, built from the laboratory s years of research o 3D stackig techology. he library ca be used to test the performace of various itercoectios ad check compliace with specificatios from the very outset. he patters ca be used to test through-silico vias (SVs), or vertical coectios through stacked chips, as well as the itercoectios betwee differet compoets. he first orgaizatios to use the library are the Europea Orgaizatio for Nuclear Research ad EADS subsidiary Cassidia. For other research laboratories, eti plas to offer test patters that ca be easily embedded o customers wafers. Cotact: chatal.chatre@cea.fr uberculosis ski test results available i just 18 hours Util ow patiets woderig whether they have tuberculosis had to wait a full 72 hours before fidig out the results of a ski test. A ew optical read system developed by eti uder a yo-biopôle project fuded by the Frech govermet has reduced the waitig time to 18 hours ad the waitig time could eve be slashed to just six hours. his system ca be especially beeficial i developig coutries, where poor ifrastructure ad limited public trasportatio make it difficult for patiets to make a secod trip to a testig cliic. he system is comprised of a fiber spectrometer probe ad special software that aalyzes certai characteristics of the ijectio area (like light absorptio ad diffusio, ad water ad melai cocetratio) to determie whether the perso is ifected. he method has already udergoe a successful first cliical trial at the Hospices Civils de yo. Cotact: ae.koeig@cea.fr Electroic togues just got simpler U til ow, electroic togues devices used to idetify dissolved substaces i liquids have bee hard to make because each of the togues chemical receptors (betwee 10 ad 30) had to be sythesized idepedetly. But scietists at the Frech Naosciece ad Cryogeics Istitute (INAC) have foud a way to sidestep this legthy process by usig the combied respose of a array of differet receptors, each made from mixtures of two to four molecular buildig blocks. heir method was ispired by the way i which hepara sulfates (aturally-occurrig polysaccharides) recogize differet proteis o cell surfaces. he combiatio of sigals from the chemically-similar receptors is used to geerate a 2D or 3D profile of each substace beig detected; these profiles ca the be easily aalyzed ad icorporated ito a cofiguratio process. he scietists have filed a patet applicatio for their work, which was published i the iteratioal chemicalidustry joural Agewadte Chemie. Cotact: yaxia.hou-brouti@cea.fr Europe gets its first CMOS-MRAM demostrator R esearchers from the Frech Naosciece ad Cryogeics Istitute (INAC) ad Spitec have developed a ew logic circuit that combies CMOS ad MRAM techology. his pateted ivetio uses MRAM from Crocus echology ad marks Europe s first workig demostrator of its kid. MRAM offers two key beefits: it s o-volatile ad it does t eed a power supply whe it s ot active. he CMOS part of the ew logic circuit performs calculatios while the MRAM part detects ad corrects errors. his divisio of tasks makes the circuit radiatio-resistat, opeig the door to applicatios i the aerospace ad defese idustries. he research team ow plas to further develop the techology i associatio with a corporate parter. Electric arcs soo to be detected acoustically Detectig electric arcs i the high-power batteries used i electric vehicles (300 V 400 V, 50 kw 80 kw) is a real challege, sice curret ad voltage fluctuatios ted to iterfere with the fleetig sigals. However, a team of researchers from eti, ite, ad GIPSA-ab may have foud the solutio i a pateted acoustic detectio method that they are curretly testig o ite s electric vehicles. While characterizig the geeric sigature of several kids of arcs, the researchers oted that the arcs acoustic waves propagate through the air i a battery pack ad frequetly reflect off of the pack s compoets. Special acoustic sesors to detect these waves are curretly uder developmet at a eti laboratory as part of a EU-fuded project. Cotact: pierre.pericho@cea.fr Day by day Greoble Istitute of echology graduatio atteded by prestigious guests he Greoble Istitute of echology class of 2011 graduatio ceremoy, held o November 24, 2012, couted umerous high-profile guests amog its raks, icludig Frech Miister of Research ad Higher Educatio Geeviève Fioraso ad Gérard Mathero, Maager of the SMicroelectroics site at Crolles ad class of 2011 sposor. Represetatives from the school s corporate parters were also preset. Some 500 people atteded the ceremoy, which was coordiated by Greoble Istitute of echology Presidet Brigitte Plateau. he evet also icluded talks by represetatives of each of the Istitute s degree programs (icludig cotiuig ad executive educatio) ad six egieerig schools, to highlight the umerous programs o offer ad the vast array of career optios available to graduates. Cotact: guillaume.preat@cea.fr Cotact: acy.eichiger@greoble-ip.fr 2
No 22 Dec 12 Day by day Movea peetrates the cotext detectio market H igh-tech start-up Movea has wo a five-year cotract to supply its cuttig-edge cotext detectio techology to a maufacturer of smartphoe ad tablet microprocessors. Movea has bee tryig to break ito the cotext detectio market for the past 18 moths, ad this ew cotract wi, which is expected to geerate substatial sales, marks a major step forward. Movea s data fusio ad motio sesig systems will be itegrated ito the maufacturer s mobile devices, eablig them to track a mobile phoe user s physical activity, aalyze his surroudigs, ad locate him by GPS. he data ca be processed to provide the user with cotextualized iformatio like where he parked his car i a airport parkig lot whe he gets back from a moth-log vacatio, for example. Mobile phoe applicatios like these are a extremely high-potetial market for Movea. Cotact: sguilaume@movea.com Dr. Yves Bréchet appoited Frace s High Commissioer for Atomic ad Alterative Eergy D r. Yves Bréchet, a Greoble Istitute of echology-phelma professor ad researcher at the Frech Materials ad Process Egieerig aboratory (SIMaP), has bee appoited Frace s High Commissioer for Atomic ad Alterative Eergy by the coutry s Cabiet of Miisters. his appoitmet follows a recommedatio by the Frech Miister of Research ad Higher Educatio, Geeviève Fioraso. With this appoitmet Dr. Bréchet becomes the official Sciece ad echology Advisor to the Presidet of the Frech Atomic ad Alterative Eergy Commissio ad to the Frech govermet for issues covered by the Commissio. Dr. Bréchet also heads the Academic Board of the Frech Natioal Istitute of Nuclear Sciece (INSN), esurig the scietific merit of the Istitute s work. Dr. Bréchet has also bee desigated the 2012 2013 Chair of echological Iovatio at the prestigious Collège de Frace; he will give his first lecture uder this Chair o Jauary 13, 2013. Cotact: acy.eichiger@greoble-ip.fr Greoble Istitute of echology scores high i the QS World Uiversity Rakigs odo-based Quacquarelli Symods (QS), a global provider of specialist higher educatio ad career iformatio, has issued its 2012 World Uiversity Rakigs by Subject. Ad Greoble Istitute of echology is i the top 200 i three out of five subjects. he school is raked 94 th i the world for Egieerig & echology, ad Frace s top school for Materials Sciece ad 35 th worldwide ahead of École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Parisech (Ecole Polytechique), ad INSA yo. Cotact: acy.eichiger@greoble-ip.fr Hybrid-E brigs orgaic materials to semicoductors I the future, the performace of eergy geeratio ad storage systems will deped o a uprecedeted alliace betwee semicoductors ad orgaic materials. At least that s the goal of research to be coducted at Hybrid-E, a ew 200 m 2 research facility beig built i MINAEC s 10.05 buildig. Hybrid-E will brig together aroud 20 physicists ad chemists from the Frech Naosciece ad Cryogeics Istitute (INAC), the Frech Natioal Ceter for Scietific Research (CNRS), ad Joseph Fourier Uiversity to create ew aostructured objects for use i solar paels, batteries, ad supercapacity ad thermoelectric systems. he scietists will use prototypes to demostrate that usig orgaic materials to create aostructured semicoductors ca offer beefits such as icreased flexibility ad lower costs (sice orgaic substaces are relatively cheap). he lab is scheduled to ope i Q1 2013. Cotact: emmauel.hadji@cea.fr Isorg wis fas with its iteractive displays Isorg s iteractive displays are desiged to power up ad lauch multimedia presetatios as soo as someoe walks by, thaks to a system of optical sesors o plastic developed i associatio with ite. You ca see these extgeeratio displays i actio at the Mialogic offices, the CEA commuicatios departmet at Saclay, ad the may demostratios give for retailers. Isorg is curretly workig o a ew post-touch humamachie iterface that ca recogize had movemets, for applicatios i household appliaces, cosumer electroics, ad automobiles. he 14-perso-strog start-up recetly wo the 2012 Rhôe-Alpes Regio Etreprise d Aveir ( Promisig Youg Compay ) Award give joitly by Erst & Youg ad Frech ewspaper Express. Cotact: lauret.jamet@isorg.fr First Step Challege gets a overwhelmig respose his year s iaugural First Step Challege desiged to idetify the most promisig start-up ideas based o CEA ech projects (see the October 2012 issue of MINANEWS) received a overwhelmig 23 applicatios from aspirig youg etrepreeurs. 14 of these applicatios have bee selected for the ext phase of the challege; most of the projects selected were officially lauched so that they could be submitted to the Challege. his cofirms the Challege s role i ecouragig the emergece of ew projects. Challege participats have a average age of 36; the yougest perso is 29. he 14 first-roud wiers will udergo a two-moth traiig program, the ie of them will preset their busiess ideas to a jury i either December 2012 or i 2013. he jury will decide how much fudig to award to idividual projects to help them overcome techical ad commercial hurdles. he other projects will begi CEA s icubatio process i early 2013. Cotact: stephae.fotaell@cea.fr MultiX raises 4 millio of fresh capital M ultix, a developer of X-ray spectrometric detectors for luggage ispectio ad other security applicatios, has just raised 4 millio from six ivestors. his is the start-up s secod roud of fud raisig; the first i Jauary 2011 brought i 3 millio. MultiX s high-performace systems, developed i associatio with eti, offer a fast, reliable, ad lowcost method for detectig suspicious substaces i luggage ad parcels. he market offers strog potetial. Passegers o US ad Europea flights will agai be allowed to take liquids with them o airplaes startig i 2014, ad some 2,400 luggage scaers will eed to be upgraded i the US aloe. he compay has formed major parterships with scaer maufacturers ad should be ready to produce its X-ray detectors i large volumes i 2014. Cotact: jacques.doremus@multixdetectio.com 3
NEWSEER Iterview Jea-uc Doumot, Co-fouder of Pricipiæ*: Scietists ad egieers should strive for simplicity whe presetig their research You trai scietists ad egieers aroud the world to commuicate more effectively. Do they really eed that much help? Yes! People with scietific backgrouds ofte have trouble explaiig thigs simply. hey ted to be stuck i school exam mode, where they feel the eed to describe cocepts i complex terms to prove to their professors who kow more tha they do that they kow their stuff. But if your focus is o provig yourself, the it s ot o iformig your audiece. So, how do you help them? I show them how to clearly explai the problem ad the solutio. I other words, what they are workig o ad above all why. Ad how to commuicate better orally, i writig, ad through visuals. Statig thigs simply does t mea dumbig thigs dow. Former traiees of mie have wo best article ad best presetatio awards at cofereces. How receptive are researchers to your approach? Does it deped o the coutry? ypically, after I give a talk, most of the attedees are o board. But very few go as far as to actually use my approach. For example, scietists ad egieers i Asia do t like to stad out from their peers, ad those i Frace thik they already kow how to commuicate effectively. he Americas are the most pragmatic ad the most ope to chage. You are i Greoble to facilitate a coferece held by the Naophotoics for Eergy Efficiecy cosortium. What exactly is your role? I traied some of the speakers ad I moderated the coferece discussios so that they were both iformative ad productive. I also offered to write a summary of the coferece highlights; ofte the key takeaways of these types of cofereces are forgotte because they are either writte dow or acted o. Cotact: jl@pricipiae.be ear more at: www.pricipiae.be *Brussels-based Pricipiæ gives lectures, workshops, ad traiig programs o effective commuicatio for compaies, research ceters, NGOs, ad govermet orgaizatios. Day by day Naosafety buildig slated to ope i H1 2013 C ostructio work is o track for the ew aosafety buildig o the CEA campus i Greoble. he 6,000 m 2, low-eergy-cosumptio-certified buildig is scheduled to ope i the first half of 2013. Some 150 ao-experts will work i the ew buildig, icludig ite researchers, traiers from the Frech Natioal Istitute of Nuclear Sciece (INSN), medical testig specialists, ad workstatio moitorig staff. his is the first time such a vast array of skills will be grouped at a sigle site devoted to aosafety. he aosafety team will work i cojuctio with the Frech Natioal Istitute of Idustrial Evirometal Risks (INERIS), the Frech Natioal Istitute of Workplace Safety (INRS), ad corporate parters to carry out the workstatio moitorig required for R&D work. he team will also use equipmet at the CEA echology Research Divisio s aocharacterizatio platform. Cotact: philippe.bourguigo@cea.fr Horizos Greoble Istitute of echology brochures get a makeover G reoble Istitute of echology s six egieerig schools have recetly issued revamped brochures with completely ew cotet ad a fresh ew desig. Phelma s ew brochure highlights the people that make the school great through a doze testimoials from studets, alumi, ad research faculty. It also cotais QR codes that poit to specific sectios of the school s website. he Istitute s brochure will be ready i 2013. With 20,000 paper copies i additio to a dowloadable versio olie, the Phelma brochure is a key commuicatios tool, especially for prep school studets. Accordig to a survey carried out this fall amog prep school studets, the brochure was just as ifluetial i their decisio to atted Phelma as the school s website ad cosiderably more tha social etworks. Cotact: alexis.sableaux@phelma.greoble-ip.fr Phelma studets get a isider s view from idustry professioals O December 3 ad 10, 2012, professioals from Orage abs ad E2V, respectively, will come speak to Greoble Istitute of echology-phelma studets as part of a corporate partership iitiative. hese compay lectures were iitially optioal, but for the past three years have bee madatory for secod-year studets majorig i Itegrated Electroic Systems ad Sigals, Images, Commuicatios & Multimedia. e such compay lectures are scheduled for the first semester, to give studets a isider s view of how busiesses develop ad leverage techology i fields related to the two majors. Most of the compaies are based i the Rhôe-Alpes regio ad rage i size from buddig start-ups like Isorg ad Arao to multiatioals like Safra ad SMicroelectroics. Cotact: philippe.morey-chaisemarti@greoble-ip.fr eti Aual Review takes o a ew format he eti Aual Review a two-day coferece where eti researchers preset their latest fidigs will become the four-day eti Iovatio Days startig i 2013. his chage will eable the coferece to address eve more techologyad iovatio-related topics ad delve ito them i greater detail. he first eti Iovatio Days will be held at MINAEC o Jue 25 28, 2013. he first two days will cosist of pleary sessios ad workshops much like the former eti Aual Review. he last two days will cosist of a series of high-level workshops held i parallel to address specific techology subjects; the subjects to be covered i 2013 iclude 3D itegratio, memory, photoics, safety, imagig, ad aopackagig. A start-up sessio is also scheduled to illustrate how eti supports iovatio ad ecoomic developmet. Cotact: adege.cato@cea.fr 4
No 22 Dec 12 Horizos Greoble s igem team wis a gold medal ad safety award I early October 2012, 49 project teams icludig oe from Greoble took part i the Europea roud of the Iteratioal Geetically Egieered Machie (igem) competitio. While the Greoble team did ot make the cut of 18 for the fial roud to be held i Cambridge, MA, USA, the team did wi a gold medal ad the Safety Commedatio for their project (called SEsiColi) to build a ultra-sesitive pathoge detector from egieered bacteria that form part of a advaced detectioamplificatio-commuicatio system. he Safety Commedatio award recogizes the Greoble team s idea to create a database of biobrick safety sheets that ca be used by all competitio participats ad expaded with each comig year. ear more at: http://2012.igem.org/eam:greoble Cotact: adelie.millet.05@gmail.com CEA ech expads westward C EA ech, the CEA s echology Research Divisio, will ope sites i three cities i wester Frace oulouse, Bordeaux, ad Nates i early 2013. Iitially, betwee six ad eight people will staff each site to help local busiesses ehace their existig products ad services through iovatio. CEA ech s support will ivolve joit R&D agreemets whereby the busiesses ca use CEA ech s regioal research ad techology trasfer facilities, with the back-up of the home sites i Greoble ad Saclay. CEA ech is expadig ito wester Frace at the impetus of the Frech Prime Miister, who aouced that quality is oe of the keys to esurig competitiveess ad turig the coutry s maufacturig idustry aroud. hese ew sites will be used to test what could be a broader iitiative to ope CEA ech offices across the coutry. Cotact: stephae.siebert@cea.fr ive from MINAEC MINAEC V keeps o growig wo ew videos have just bee posted o the MINAEC V website (www. miatec.tv): he ita Ultimate Electro Microscope ad Wafer Bodig. he former discusses the aotechology characterizatio platform s ew istrumet, while the latter shows how the performace of electroic compoets ca be ehaced by bodig silico wafers. hese two videos complete the first seaso of applicatio-related videos o MINAEC V. he secod seaso, slated to begi i 2013, will appeal to a broader, o-specialist audiece. New videos will focus o explaiig the complicated techology beig developed at MINAEC i simple terms. o date, MINAEC V offers five thematic chaels with a total of 64 videos available i both Frech ad Eglish. ive from MINAEC 2012 Sciece Fair ad Expérimeta pack a full house his year s Expérimeta arts, sciece, ad desig fair helped brig early 2,000 people to the simultaeously-held Sciece Fair at MINAEC o October 12 13, 2012. O the first day of the evet, devoted to school groups, the orgaizers had to tur dow 700 studets ad 80 teachers because there just simply was ot eough room. he secod day, for the geeral public, was just as popular, as more tha 1,100 people flocked to the Sciece Fair to lear more about how techology iflueces desig ad the arts. he Expérimeta fair, which was coupled with the Sciece Fair for the first time ever, also icluded a paper program published ad distributed by the Greoble Sciece Educatio Ceter (CCSI). he orgaizers would like to thak the MINAEC staff as well as all of the studets ad other staff who helped with the evet. Cotact: colette.lartigue@miatec.ipg.fr Phelma beefs up its corporate parterships O October 1, 2012, Greoble Istitute of echology-phelma fialized the terms of a partership agreemet with DCNS, a global leader i aval defese with operatios i civil uclear eergy ad marie reewable eergy. DCNS ivests heavily i R&D i fields like hydrodyamics, materials, acoustic quietig, ad electromagetics. As part of the partership, egieers workig for DCNS will be ivited to give talks to Phelma studets o subjects related to their majors. his brigs to four the umber of corporate parterships that Phelma has etered ito sice Jue; the other three are with Amesys (a Bull compay), Elsys Desig, ad Safra. alks are also uderway with additioal compaies. Phelma ow boasts a 40-member-strog corporate partership etwork, icludig log-time supporters SMicroelectroics, Areva, ad EDF. Cotact: relatios.etreprises@phelma.greoble-ip.fr Cotact: armelle.domas@cea.fr 2013 Midi MINAEC brow bag luch series program ow available A fter a year of highly popular Midi MINAEC brow bag luches i 2012, the orgaizers decided to take it up a otch i 2013 with o less tha 37 luches already plaed. Corie Berat, a researcher at the Frech Subatomic Physics ad Cosmology aboratory (PSC) will kick off the year with a talk titled Cosmic rays: A cetury of scietific adveture o Friday, Jauary 11, 2013. For a chage of sceery, the February 8, 2013 sessio will take place at the Greoble Ecole de Maagemet campus ad will address the legal issues related to gerotechology. he speaker will be Nathalie Ferraud-Ciadet, a Greoble Ecole de Maagemet law professor. Apart from the locatio, this Midi MINAEC will have the same format as those held at Maiso MINAEC. Cotact: armelle.domas@cea.fr 5
NEWSEER Ageda Util December 7, 2012 at Maiso MINAEC Iteratioal Meetig o Molecular Electroics (Elecmol) www.elecmol.com December 8, 2012 at Greoble Istitute of echology-phelma (MINAEC auditorium M001), from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Presetatio by Dr. Yves Bréchet, Member of the Frech Academy of Scieces, o structural biomimetics http://goo.gl/8bphh December 21, 2012 at the MINAEC Auditorium Christmas Midi MINAEC with Orchestre du Polygoe Scietifique Sig up at: http://www.miatec.org/midis Jauary 17, 2013 at MINAEC at 7:00 pm GIAN scietific coferece with 2010 CNRS Gold Medalist Dr. Gérard Ferey, chemist ad architect of matter Cotact: armelle.domas@cea.fr Jauary 17, 2012 at yo Micro ad Naotechology Observatory (OMN) semiar o the i vivo behavior of aomedicatio www.omt.fr Jauary 17 18, 2013 at Phelma Radiofrequecy, millimetrics, ad itegrated optics coferece http://rfm-photo.sciecescof.org/ Jauary 23 25, 2013 at the Istitut aue-agevi Flipper 2013: Sigle-crystal Diffractio with Polarized Neutros http://www.ill.eu/flipper2013 February 14 15, 2013 at Phelma Materials Sciece ad Physical Egieerig aboratory (MGP) coferece Cotact: colette.lartigue@greoble-ip.fr Cotacts No 22 Dec 12 MINA-NEWS is published by MINAEC, 3 parvis ouis-néel, 38054 Greoble Cedex 9 Head of Publicatio: Jea-Charles Guibert; Editor i Chief: Armelle Domas Correspodets: Philippe aporte, eti, philippe.laporte@cea.fr - Colette artigue, Phelma, colette.lartigue@ipg.fr - Nathalie Mathieu, FMN, athalie.mathieu@ipg.fr - Jérôme Plaes, INAC, jerome.plaes@cea.fr - Armelle Domas, MINAEC, armelle.domas@cea.fr Editig: Beoît Playoust ad Béédicte Mage; ayout: Philippe ur; Pritig: Format Éditios Eglish traslatio: SFM raductio 6