The seminar brought together nearly 80 participants from 15 companies and start-ups and 10 academic research laboratories. It provided an opportunity to address two cross-cutting topics of importance to the programme during round-table discussions: designing systems tailored to users and maintaining the link with these users during technology development, and ensuring national and European sovereignty in high-performance cryogenic systems for quantum applications.
© CNRS/Institut Néel/Florence Fernandez
The afternoon was devoted to visiting the facilities of two companies and two research institutes based in Grenoble and renowned for their expertise in very low temperatures: the Department of Very Low Temperature Systems at the
CEA*’s
IRIG* and the Department of Condensed Matter – Low Temperatures at the CNRS’s Néel Institute, as well as the companies Air Liquide Advanced Technologies and Absolut System.
© CEA-Irig/DSBT/Raphaël Couturier
Led by the CEA* and the
CNRS*,
CRYONEXT is one of the programmes under the Research and Innovation strand of the national strategy for quantum technologies and receives €34 million in state funding via the
ANR*.
The aim of the
CRYONEXT Programme is to secure France’s supply of high-performance cryogenic systems for quantum technologies developed by national industrial and research stakeholders. This must be achieved within a highly competitive international context, where technologies are subject to export controls and R&D resources are critically scarce.
List of 6 R&D projects involving CEA-Irig
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P1 Cryostat farms and new architectures for scaling up
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P2 1.5K–5K cryostats optimised for photonics
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P3 500 mK high-power cryostats for semiconductor quantum technology
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P5 20 K – 80 K cryostats for quantum communication and sensors
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P6 Innovative magnetic refrigeration
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P7 Innovative and sovereign milli-Kelvin thermometry
Principal investigators: Marc Delpech, Deputy Director for Science and Programmes at the CEA’s
DRF*, and Sébastien Tanzilli, Deputy Director for Science at CNRS Physics and Programme Coordinator for the Quantum Programme at the CNRS*.
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ANR – Agence nationale de la recherche
CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives
CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
DRF - Direction de la recherche fondamentale
IRIG - Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire de Grenoble - CEA