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In the latest Clarivate ranking of the world's top 100 innovators, CEA is ranked 31st and first among public research organizations. This performance rewards CEA-Leti's policy of promoting innovation and its scientific and economic impact, notably through the filing of patent applications.
The need for reliable methods to ensure the safety and security of Edge artificial intelligence systems has never been more pressing. With regulations like the EU’s AI Act sharpening the collective focus on AI trustworthiness, risk, and acceptability, CEA-Leti made a breakthrough on the often-overlooked physical threats to AI systems, demonstrating a robust evaluation method on a common IoT use case.
The fruitful collaboration between NUVIA and CEA-Leti continues with the development of NuVISION-MAX, a compact gamma camera that significantly improves sensitivity.
Quantum transistors are a promising technology for the future of electronics. They could give rise to computers that are more powerful, more energy-efficient and more secure than classical computers. However, their integration remains a major technological challenge. In order to enable the manufacturing of these new architectures a plasma etching method called atomic layer etching is used.
With years of expertise in silicon photonics, CEA-Leti researchers have developed two complementary approaches for high performance photon detectors. This innovative technology meets the needs of disruptive applications in a variety of sectors such as Free Space Optics for telecoms, quantum computing and quantum cryptography. Depending on application requirements, CEA-Leti now offers cutting-edge solutions using either Avalanche Photodetectors (APD) with Mercury Cadmium Telluride (MCT) or Superconducting Single Photon Detectors (SSPD).
Epitaxy has become a key process in the development of devices that rely on substrates. While epitaxy refers to the general ability to grow crystals or deposit a material on a substrate, there are numerous types of epitaxy, which each have their own fields of application. Expertise at CEA-Leti covers a wide range of applications, including recent work on Nitride Epitaxy, particularly adapted to power or radio-frequency transistors as well as micro-LEDs.
This work demonstrates Feasibility of Combining Hybrid Bonding and High-Density Through-Silicon Vias
CEA-Leti's cornerstone research on silicon carbide substrates initially gained traction in 2019 with Soitec on booming demand from the electric vehicle market and a scarcity of monocrystalline silicon. Today, with four presentations at ICSCRM 2023 showcasing pioneering advances in transferred silicon carbide substrates for electronics and photonics, CEA-Leti continues to lead the way in silicon carbide and thin film transfer technologies.
As published in the March April 2024 issue of Chip Scale Review
The European InSecTT project focuses on the security of embedded AI. As a partner in this three-year project, CEA-Leti developed innovative solutions to authenticate intelligent systems and protect them from various cyberattacks. These advances coincide with the promulgation of the European AI Act.
Gaël Pillonnet, a seasoned energy conversion expert at CEA-Leti, has come up with an ingenious solution that significantly reduces the energy consumption of traditional transistors, albeit at a slower computation speed. This opens up a host of possibilities for achieving energy efficiency and computational performance, especially in edge computing.
The IEEE, the largest international professional association devoted to electricity and electronics, has recognized the achievements of Olivier Faynot, the Director of CEA-Leti's Silicon Components Department, for his exceptional achievements with advanced CMOS components.
CEA-Leti combined its hardware and software expertise to investigate the benefits of new signal processing approaches to conventional Time-of-Flight (ToF) histogram acquisition schemes. Among the techniques developed are compressive sensing and expectation-maximization algorithms. Both turned out to be promising avenues for reducing hardware design constraints in active direct ToF 3D imaging based on SPAD pixels.
A specialist in ultra-miniature rechargeable batteries for medical devices, the startup is acquiring an industrial site 15 km from CEA-Leti. It will ultimately employ 50 people. Volume manufacturing is to begin late 2026.
Engaging Multiple EU Partners, the Projects Will Apply Intelligent Sensing and AI-Enabled Learning Technologies.
Developing new methods to extract encrypted data from cell phones and assist with criminality or terrorism matters: such was the purpose of the European ExFiles project, which was under the technical coordination of CEA-Leti from 2020 to 2023. The European Commission described the results as ‘very positive’.
CEA-Leti and the startup Kineis recently developed ultra-miniaturized antennas that significantly improve communication between earth-based objects and satellites. These improvements include lower power consumption and costs, improved reception of messages and an insensitivity to an equipment’s orientation. These advances open the door to low-cost radio links that could be accessible around the globe.
Four years after launch, the CEA-Leti start-up Wormsensing has invested in a production line capable of manufacturing two million vibration sensors per year. Enough to win volume orders from customers in the energy, automotive, healthcare and manufacturing sectors.
After earning a Materials Engineering diploma from INSA Lyon, Jules Tillement did a final internship in a research laboratory specializing in image sensors. He was then recruited to pursue a doctorate at STMicroelectronics, in partnership with CEA-Leti.
When operated at high frequencies, certain piezoelectric materials display exceptional quality factors and power densities. CEA-Leti and an academic research partner have been investigating how to bring these remarkable properties to power conversion in the form of a new inductor-free power converter concept based on mechanical, rather than magnetic, energy storage.
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.