CEA LETI

Strenghts

CEA LETI is a laboratory for technological research, proposing :

• Multidisciplinary skills from a broad technical field in order to :

- combine new concepts and industrial needs based on know-how relating to miniaturised components, systems integration, prototyping and technology transfer

- foster an ongoing process linking academic research and industry

• An industrial partnership based industrial property.
• State-of-the-art facilities

Business

CEA LETI's mission is to generate innovation and to transfer it to industry.

CEA LETI helps companies become more competitive through technological innovation and transfers its technical know-how to industry. More than 85% of its activity is devoted to applied
research, with partners from industry.

CEA LETI is a privileged partner of the industrial world, with 200 partners and 350 contracts signed every year. It is a national champion in creating high-tech start-ups with some
30 new companies to its credit including Soitec, the world’s leader in Silicon-On-Insulator. It files some 180 patents per year and manages a portfolio of 1000 patent-protected inventions…

CEA LETI's activities focus on microcomponents and their integration into electronic systems.
 

CEA LETI's solid technological foundation is complemented by links with the world of uses and services, in order to anticipate the development of new electronic products.

More than 1500 people serving innovation and technology transfer

With an annual budget of 210 million euros, CEA LETI employs 1000 people and more than 500 external collaborators (Ph.D. students, research partners, industry assignees). Its facilities cover micro technology processes in 200 and 300 mm, with around 8000 m2 clean
rooms and a major platform for characterization at nanoscale.
It has access to the other facilities of CEA (Atomic Energy Authority) and other research Institutes in Grenoble, including reactors, accelerators, analysis and characterisation equipments, etc.

The strenght of major networks

CEA LETI is an active member of many networks. Its European partnership HTA, with CSEM in Neuchâtel and the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany, enables it to offer the industrial world the widest possible range of European technologies.
This partnership, the only one of its kind in Europe, creates interdependency between these institutes, and gives a real opportunity to coordinate their investments and provide guarantees of mutual success.

Minatec

CEA LETI faces a bright international future in store in the framework of the Minatec centre for innovation in micro- and nanotechnology, of which it is a key founding partner. Grouping together more than 4000 people (1000 students, 200 lecturer/researchers,
1800 researchers, 1000 direct industrial jobs as well as indirect jobs) and covering a 45 000 m2 floor area, Minatec is the Europe’s leading micro and nanotechnology research centre and one of the very first at international level.

The CEA LETI Carnot institute thematics

• Nanoelectronics & nanotechnologies
• Heterogeneous integration on silicon
• System design and integration
• Optronics
• Biology and health microtechnologies

Core business

• Microelectronics
• Micro & nanotechnologies

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