CSEM

CSEM

CSEM is a private, non-profit research and technology organization and a Swiss innovation accelerator - a catalyst for the transfer of technologies and know-how from fundamental research to industry. It delivers unique advanced technologies to the industrial sector, thereby reinforcing the sector’s competitive advantage. Supported by federal and cantonal authorities CSEM bridges the gap between academic findings and industrial requirements. CSEM’s research strategy is built around five strategic programs: 1. Microsystems technology - Design, integration, and packaging of devices that sense and monitor our environment and aspects of our daily lives, exploring new frontiers at the interface of nanotechnologies, materials science, and biotechnologies and delivering enhanced performance, miniaturization, and new properties. 2. Systems engineering - An application-oriented interdisciplinary program with a special emphasis on system integration, systems engineering aggregates different components and subsystems designed to collaborate and deliver targeted functionality, taking into consideration resource limitations (in terms of processing and power consumption), reliability, production cost, maintenance, and environmental conditions. 3. Ultra-low-power integrated systems - A strong focus on analogue and mixed IC design as well as wireless communication and vision technologies, the key technologies required to build very-low-power, wirelessly interconnected, embedded smart systems or remote sensing nodes. 4. Surface engineering - Focuses both on the novel properties of engineered surfaces and interfaces, to deliver breakthrough surface effects, and on their “up compatible” manufacturing processes, to bridge the gap to industrial applications. 5. Photovoltaics & energy management - Development, covering the full chain from prospective PV cell and module technologies through fully integrated energy systems, where energy efficiency and management is delivered by intelligent hardware and algorithms. CSEM has been involved in space business for ESA for more than 30 years. It provides a broad range of high-tech systems and sub-systems for the design, manufacturing, assembly, integration and testing of spaceborne and ground-segment equipment and components. Traditionally CSEM is well known by the space community for its developments of precise mechanisms and scientific instrumentation for space. However, it is also providing outstanding systems in other fields, enumerated below: • Atomic clocks • Flash imaging LiDAR • Robotics, control engineering, firmware • Micro-sensors, MEMS and MOEMS (from design to small volume production and reliability) • Biomedical engineering (integrated sensors, telemedicine) • Life support and habitation systems at the ISS • Telecommunication (intra-satellite wireless communication, antenna miniaturization, etc.) A comprehensive multi-disciplinary space program is performed in cooperation with a network of European companies, universities and research centers. In order to best serve the space sector, close relationships are maintained with ESA, the Swiss Space Office and the European Commission.

Point of Contact
Fabien.droz@csem.ch

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