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Technology Transfer New industrial collaboration MaNEP established a new partnership with Secheron SA (Geneva), a leader in the DC circuit breaker market. Sécheron's main end user market is the railway. Piezo-pinch patent Following the invention of a new piezo-resistive technique by Prof. Christoph Renner and his colleagues A. Rowe and S. Ascott (respectively from UniGE, Ecole Polytechnique and CNRS in France), marketing efforts lead to expressions of interest from several companies. A technology opportunity was published by Unitec (UniGE’s Technology Transfer Office) on http://www.switt.ch. An article was also published by Science Business, an online media company which aims at connecting buyers and sellers of emerging technologies. The journalist unfortunately missed two orders of magnitude in the improvement of the gauge factor: actually, the invention provides a device with gauge factors as high as 5000, compared to the less than 100 with the state of the art. This high sensitivity is surprisingly not associated with high noise level, which makes the application ideal for low consumption strain and stress sensors. |
Hello & Goodbye
Dr Yanina Fasano and Dr Pablo Pedrazzini left MaNEP at the end of last year after their post-doc in Prof. Fischer’s group. They have returned to their native country, Argentina and have both joined the Low Temperatures Lab at the Centro Atómico of Bariloche as adjoint researchers, thank to a permanent position offered by the Argentinean Research Council (CONICET). In addition, Yanina will also be a « Maître d'enseignement et de recherche », at the Instituto Balseiro, Argentinean Atomic Energy National Council CNEA in Bariloche. Our best wishes for a bright future !
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We welcome Marie Bagnoud and Sophie Griessen in the Management Team in Geneva. Since December 2008, Marie replaced Isabelle Bretton as our new Administrative Manager. Sophie is the new secretary for MaNEP ; she arrived in September 2008. |
Last September, we held a little party to say goodbye to 
Dr Lode Pollet