News : Industry

With sixteen patent applications filed in two and a half years, plus eight additional filings this year, the Ceasar Lab (a joint Safran-CEA Tech R&D lab) is more active than ever. The lab unites researchers from all three CEA Tech institutes (Leti, List, and Liten) to investigate breakthrough low-TRL* technologies, factoring in future market applications […] >>

EU project Mirphab, which kicked off in early 2016, has secured €17 million to design, prototype, and manufacture small runs of infrared sensors. The project’s seventeen partners include Leti, the Fraunhofer Institute, IMEC, and CSEM, and the research comes in direct response to needs expressed by manufacturers from all of the countries within the scope […] >>

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) earned the number-one slot in the 2015 INPI (France’s industrial property institute) ranking in the French research institute category. The INPI published 658 CEA patent applications in 2015, up slightly from 2014 and 2013 (643 and 625 applications published, respectively). On average, the CEA Technological Research […] >>

The agreement signed by Leti and GlobalFoundries, the world’s second-largest foundry, in 2015 is now in the implementation phase. The agreement is for 22 nm FD-SOI, a high-potential technology for IoT applications due to its excellent balance between performance, cost, and miniaturization. GlobalFoundries has started up production at its Dresden, Germany plant for sampling purposes. […] >>

Exagan, which specializes in power components, has just invested in an Extron 200 mm epitaxy machine, currently being installed at a site near Grenoble. The investment comes less than two years after the company was founded. The automated, multi-wafer equipment will produce the company’s innovative material, which combines gallium nitride and silicon using a buffer […] >>