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L'odyssée des chercheurs de FEMTO-ST à travers l'Europe

Initié en mars 2011, et grâce au soutien financier du FEDER, du Conseil Régional de Franche-Comté et de OSEO, le projet ULISS va entrainer des chercheurs de l'Institut FEMTO-ST de Besançon dans une odyssée à travers toute l'Europe, avec un premier départ le 15 février en direction de Neuchâtel puis de Toulouse (CNES), Göteborg...

L'objectif du projet ULISS est de présenter un prototype d'horloge cryogénique ultra-stable, spécialement conçue pour être transportable par la route, qui va être testée en grandeur nature auprès d'utilisateurs potentiels ciblés (agences spatiales, observatoires...)sur différents sites européens en vue de recenser les opportunités de marché pour ce type d'instrument de très haute stabilité de fréquence. En effet, celle ci ne dérive pas de plus d'un demi milliardième de seconde par jour et présente une autonomie de plusieurs années.

Cet oscillateur a été réalisé en 2010 dans le cadre d'un contrat de recherche entre le département Temps-Fréquence de FEMTO-ST et l'Agence Spatiale Européenne (ESA)et sera d'ailleurs installé dès le mois d'avril prochain en Argentine à Marlargüe dans la station au sol de l'ESA pour la navigation des sondes interplanétaires.

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  • An innovative solution to detect pollutants in the subsoil

    Researchers from FEMTO-STinstitute and the company TOTAL SA have succeeded in detecting organic pollutants with methods that did not require sampling and have been able to monitor the evolution of the pollution of the subsoil over periods ranging up to several years.

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  • FEMTO-ST is closed

    Within the framework of Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic and  following the measures announced by the President of the French Republic,  all the premises of our laboratory in Besançon, Belfort and Montbéliard cities are closed to the public from this Tuesday March 17.

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  • I-PhD Innovation Competition: 2 winners from FEMTO-ST

    Maya Geagea (ANIO-PAC project: micro fuel cells), and Gaël Matten (VIBISCUS project: noise reduction system), special jury prize, are winners of the 2019 innovation awards.

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  • Sarah Benchabane winner of an ERC Consolidator grant 2019

    CNRS Research Fellow at the FEMTO-ST Institute, Sarah is awarded with a prestigious €2M European Research Council (ERC) grant for her  project : Nanophonics for Quantum Information Processing.

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  • Stardust Odyssey : A new world record !

    Discover the smallest volume character ever animated in stop-motion (frame by frame) through a short film made thanks to FEMTO-ST's high-tech robotic equipments and researchers.

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  • Final report of the DATAZERO project

    A national project to design and manage medium power data centers powered exclusively by renewable energy sources

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  • Vladimir GAUTHIER is national winner of the PEPITE competition for young creators of innovative companies

    Entrepreneurial PhD at FEMTO-ST, Vladimir Gauthier is developing a company project on the microrobotic sorting of biological cells, which has received national price !

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  • Two young regional researchers awarded by the CNRS bronze medal

    Aude Bolopion (microrobotics) and Nadia Yousfi-Steiner (electrical engineering), two young researchers from FEMTO-ST Institute, were awarded by the CNRS bronze medal for their contribution to the advancement of French research.

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  • Secure and certify time

    Inauguration on Tuesday, July 9 of a joint laboratory between FEMTO-ST and Gorgy Timing to develop secure and certified time and frequency broadcasting systems for wireless and computer networks.

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  • Micro-soufflage de verre pour la réalisation de composants optiques miniatures

    A team of researchers from FEMTO-ST has developed miniature conical lenses by revisiting glass-blowing techniques practiced since Roman times.

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