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Micronora 2008 : Micron d’or et micro-vache

Pour la voir, il faut un microscope. Ses pièces sont en SU-8, une résine photosensible à haute résistance chimique et mécanique et font 5 µm d’épaisseur, tout comme ses encoches d’assemblage. Elles ont été fabriquées dans la salle blanche MIMENTO de FEMTO-ST sur un wafer en silicium. La plus petite pièce, le museau fait 50x50x5 µm3 et pèse 15 ng ; sa surface est donc comparable au diamètre d’un cheveu.

La performance technologique réside dans l’assemblage minuscule en volume de 5 pièces à l’échelle du micron réalisé grâce à la station de micro assemblage Pronomia. En effet, à cette échelle, les manipulations et les assemblages sont compliqués par les frottements et les forces d’adhésion très importants.

Les applications de cette innovation sont multiples et concernent des domaines variés tels que le médical, l’horlogerie, l’optique, les capteurs ou encore le spatial.

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Micro-vache assemblée par la station de micro-assemblage PRONOMIA, Micron d'or 2008

  • 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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