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CSEM presents itself

Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique

CSEM – some key facts

Private company, incorporated, with about 70Shareholders

2003 :Revenues ~ 52 MCHF, Employees ~ 280

Activities: Applied research, industrialization of technologies and product development

Areas of activity: Micro- and Nanotechnologies, System Engineering

Headquarters in Neuchâtel,Additional sites in Zurich and Alpnach

Harry Heinzelmann :: 17.10.2004 ::


Why CSEM in Neuchâtel ?

CSEM was created on September 3, 1984 (20 years!)

out of two institutes dedicated to R&D in watch making

Centre Electronique Horloger (CEH)

Laboratoire Suisse des Recherches Horlogères (LSRH)

Neuchâtel is geographically placed approximately in the center of

the Swiss watch making region

Neuchâtel has a university (approx. 3000 students)



Revenues

Euro Projects5%

Federal Funds41%

CTI Projects9%

Cantonal Funds

7%

Industrial Projects

38%

Total 2003: 52 MCHF



Areas of Activity

Microelectronics

Systems Engineering

Mechatronics

Microsystems

Nanotechnology

Photonics

Robotics

With a special emphasis

to Microsystems Technology

(MEMS, MOEMS, BioMEMS,

RF, etc.), a very fast

growing new product technology


CSEM – an innovation accelerator

CSEM Technology in Customers’ Products

Hundreds of customers, small, medium and large, in Switzerland an abroad

600 patents at disposal of our customers

CHF 40 MCHF per year of technology transfer



CSEM Technology in its start-ups (1997-2003)

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Revenues (2003): ~ 60 MCHF

VC Capital (1998-2003): More than 100 MCHF

More than 300 newJobs

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CSEM’s network in Switzerland

CSEM Neuchâtel

CSEM Alpnach

CSEM Zürich




CSEM’s network in Europe

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CSEM LETI

NMRC

VTT IMEC

Swissnex SRI

others

Singapore, Japan, Middle East



Prizes recently received

IEEE Solid-State Circuits Technical Field Trophy 2004

Swiss Technology Award 2004

European IST Trophy 2004

IHMA Holography Trophy 2003

German Science Foundation Award 2002


CSEM’s Mission:Accelerate Innovation


The Innovation Chain in Micro- et Nanotechnology

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Mission of CSEM



Roles of CSEM and of the Universities

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Roles of Federal and Local Governments

Federal Government: Long Term Contract

Applied Research Program, annually submitted:

divisional research, horizontal programs, funding IMT

Annual Presentation & Reviews by a group of experts

internal CSEM Research Committee to manage program

Local Government: the Canton (State) is shareholder

no contribution to operating costs

support of extraordinary actions


Application to Life Sciences

Ftw-

DEP

Fn-DEPfluidic networks

particle handling

I. Liquid Handling

nanofluidics

deposition of ultrasmall volumes

writing of microarrays, …

operation of N probes in parallel,

PROBART for life science applications:

microarrays, HTS, NADIS, …


Application to Life Sciences

II. Nanomaterials / Risk Assessment

nanoparticle translocation charact.

with European

partners, e.g.

U Glasgow …

nanoparticles (q-dots, CNT, …)

nanotopographies for cell adhesion


T h a n k y o u f or y o u r a t t e n t i o n.

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