Leti’s key offers: state-of-the-art infrastructures and world class expertise
CEA-Leti is a research laboratory dedicated to micro and nanotechnologies leveraging its state-of-the-art CMOS compatible facilities and characterization platforms to offer:
A wide range of technical and multidisciplinary expertise to
- Combine new concepts and industrial needs
- know-how in miniaturized components,
- know-how in system design and integration,
- know-how in technological transfer and prototyping. - Link advanced research and industry
A model of collaboration based on building IP and value for its industrial partners
Access to major specialized platforms and facilities
Leti’s missions
- Leti’s mission is to generate innovation and transfer it to industry.
- Leti’s goal is to help its industrial partners increase their competitiveness through innovation and technological transfer. More than 85% of Leti’s activity is dedicated to technological research and development with industrial and academic research partners.
- Leti is a major partner of industry with over 200 different industrial partners and 350 contracts per year. Leti is also the national start-up champion having helped launch 30 start-ups, such as SOITEC, the world leading manufacturer of silicon on insulator. Leti manages a portfolio of 1000 of its strongest patents and generates 180 new patents every year.
- Leti’s activities are centered around micro components and their integration in electronic systems.
- Leti completes its strong technological base by interacting closely with sociologists and service providers to anticipate society’s needs and integrate them in new products.
More than 1800 people working on innovation and technological transfer
Leti’s resources include 1335 permanent staff and 500 external contributors (PhD and Post-doctoral students, visiting researchers and industrial residents), a yearly budget of 225M€, major state-of-the-art facilities (8 000 m² of CMOS compatible clean rooms equipped with 200 and 300mm tools), a world class nanocharacterization platform and access to the big instruments of Grenoble’s Scientific Polygon (like ESRF’s synchrotron and ILL’s reactors).
The power of networking
CEA-Leti is an active member of several research networks such as the Association of Carnot Institutes (AiC), the Heterogeneous Technology Alliance (HTA) and the RTB (Basic Technological Research) network. HTA is a partnership among the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft in Germany, the CSEM in Switzerland, the VTT in Finland and the Leti and Liten institutes in Grenoble and was created to enlarge the technological offer to industry at a European scale. The partners of this unique European alliance have agreed to be interdependent, granting mutual access to each others technologies and coordinating large investments. By participating in the French RTB network of Great Technological Centers, Leti accelerates the transformation of its knowledge and expertise into innovation for industry.
The Minatec campus
Minatec is the major European Innovation cluster in micro and nanotechnologies. CEA-Leti is located at the heart of the Minatec Campus and has greatly contributed to the creation of this pole of excellence. More than 4000 people from all over the world work and study at Minatec, including 1000 students, 200 university professors, 1800 staff researchers and 1000 industrial partners.
Leti’s main research topics are:
- Micro & Nano electronics
- Micro & Nanotechnologies
- Heterogeneous Integration of Silicon
- Design and Integration of Systems
- Photonics and Imaging
- Telecom and portable electronics
- Micro technologies for biology and healthcare
