Thales joins with Leti on RF MEMS
The new laboratory brings together a CEA Leti team and a team from the Thales research centre at Orsay, France, which will join CEA Leti by the end of this year. The work will be based in Grenoble at CEA Leti's Heterogeneous Silicon Integration department and will have access to its dedicated microsystems development platform.
The laboratory aims to design and develop high-power microwave microswitches and integrated circuits based on these microswitches. Thales will use the microsystems developed in future radar and radio systems for the defence, security and aerospace markets and by other users in other fields.
The laboratory will operate initially for a four-year period with a team of four permanent staff and two doctoral students. Funding support is provided through national and European contracts.
