Eco-innovation for more sustainable electronics
Reducing the impacts of electronics through science
Sustainability and eco-innovation are integral parts of CEA-Leti’s cornerstone research and development programs addressing the digital and energy transitions and health. And, as a worldwide drivers of research and innovation provider, Leti is committed to helping its partners in their journey toward a more sustainable ICT offer.
Today, CEA-Leti has built a team of eco-innovation specialists to lead an organization-wide strategy designed to bring positive change to digital through advanced research and innovation.
CEA-Leti’s lab-to-fab environment is the ideal testing ground for solutions to the broad range of environmental challenges facing the electronics industry today. The institute offers a complete infrastructure and methods covering:
- The development and implementation of lifecycle analyses (LCA), including generating relevant LCA data to measure environmental impacts.
- The validation testing of eco-innovative solutions in a production-like environment with controlled cleanroom, process, and equipment-related impacts.
- The development of technologies and end-to-end systems to meet specific environmental criteria for identified use cases.
What expertise do industrial partners receive?
CEA-Leti's eco-innovation program is research-based, drawing on the institute's demonstrated excellence in science. Our path to real-world solutions to reduce the impacts of electronics is built on solid fundamentals:
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Methods and modelling: Lifecycle Analysis (LCA) to predict the impacts of a new technology from R&D through to manufacturing and beyond.
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Materials:
- Solutions to reduce, replace, and recycle materials and to implement circular economy principles.
- Critical raw materials (CRM) analysis.
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Technologies and systems:
- Eco-innovation to leverage the advantages of ecodesign to mitigate the factors contributing to the climate crisis
- Analysis of value chains and rebound effects to reduce overall environmental impacts.
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How to work with CEA-Leti to make your next product more sustainable?
When you partner with CEA-Leti to help you develop microelectronics, sensors and displays, photonics, data and telecommunications, power electronics, and other devices, you also get a unique opportunity to explore the potential eco-innovation can bring to your product's environmental performance throughout the lifecycle.
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R&D: CEA-Leti’s silicon pilot line is a unique lab-to-fab environment where processes are developed with the aim to combine performance and low environmental impact.
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Technology: CEA-Leti can help you develop innovative technologies and systems with optimized PPAC-e (performance, power, cost, surface area, and environmental impacts).
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