The Reference Network in R+D+i Energy for Society (XRE4S) has presented its portfolio with more than 30 technological solutions in the energy sector to companies and investors with the aim of implementing them. The solutions come from 39 research groups of the main universities and research centres in Catalonia that are part of XRE4S include generation of renewable photovoltaic and wind energy, integration of energy technologies, power converters and digitization, new materials and devices, as well as solutions to improve energy efficiency. The industrial sector is also interested in improving battery processes and materials and in implementing energy optimization and digitization tools in systems and buildings.

The European Researchers’ Night (Nit Europea de la Recerca) is a public event dedicated to the dissemination of science throughout Europe. It celebrates European projects and collaboration among its main players. This is a list of some European projects that started this year at IMB-CNM in the areas of nanoscience, energy and engineering.

The institute's large facility is back to full capacity after a month where production is stopped and maintenance tasks are carried out to prepare it for the rest of the year. Normal activity is resumed with new equipment, such as a new FIB, a new furnace battery or a new aligner.

The new subdetector is inserted in the same heart of ATLAS, with smaller sensors and high resistance to radioactivity. Some of the sensors have been developed and manufactured in the Clean Room of the IMB-CNM-CSIC, in Barcelona.

The OneWeb ninth batch of satellites will be launched tonight, 20th August, after the previously arranged date -last night- was postponed due to a non-nominal event during the final automatic sequence. The launch will happen after midnight from Baikonur, an area of southern Kazakhstan.

The logic and physical synthesis behind the DRAC project is explained now through a design flow, including the steps of the processors based on the RISC-V architecture.

Neus Sabaté, ICREA researcher in the SPEED group of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM), participates in the series of interviews "Scientists and Global Change" of the Deputy Vicepresidency of Scientific Culture of the CSIC.

The group of Power Devices and Systems has obtained the patent for a new method of selective deposit by shadow mask, based on a set of self-aligned metal masks, for the implementation of tracks and pads in power electronics.