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MEMS foundry services
We have more than 30 years of experience in a variety of demanding fields including photonics, life sciences, watchmaking, and harsh environments. Our experienced and tenured team supports our partners with a flexible mindset, strengthened by a state-of-the-art 150 mm wafer clean room.
One stop-shop
At CSEM, our expertise covers the entire development cycle, from MEMS design to process industrialization and small to medium volume production. Whether you need a complete development, some design inputs, or just a few thin-film depositions, we are here for you.
From lab to the fab
Thanks to our flexibility and deep understanding of new processes, we specialize in prototyping and industrializing the next generation of MEMS, microfluidics, and photonic devices. We facilitate and accelerate the innovation of our start-ups, SMEs, and multinational partners.
Toolbox highlights
We are constantly developing and maturing new technological building blocks, processes, and materials to anticipate industry needs and trends. You have the vision, we have the tools and expertise to make it happen.
Multi-level, high aspect ratio, silicon DRIE
We have mastered this process for decades to create high performance MEMS and compliant micro-mechanisms for the space and watch industry.
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI)
Our open foundry platform for LNOI is unique in Europe. Discover our capabilities and services for your non-linear optics and sensing applications.
Scandium-doped aluminum nitride
We deposit and pattern this lead-free piezoelectric thin film for high performance ultrasonic transducer applications.
Polyimide-based MEMS
We combine biocompatible polymers and thick gold electroplating to produce complex flexible MEMS. Ideal for implantable electrodes or sensing devices.
Surface functionalization
We are proficient in various coating and printing technologies for functionalization of microfluidic and sensing chips.
Rb-filled vapor cells
Our decades of research in wafer-level atomic clocks comes on handy when we provide you with state-of-the-art cells for quantum applications.
Micro & nano-porous membranes
These membranes are used in ultrafiltration or TEER measurements. We've mastered their fabrication on 150 mm wafers with controlled holes down to 50 nm in diameter.
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Meet our happy customers
Marco Giardina
Project Manager
Thanks to its industrial grade cleanroom infrastructure and passionate team, CSEM timely supported Hamilton to introduce in record time a new disruptive product with stringent quality requirements into the biopharmaceutical market.
Samson Rogers
Co-founder and CEO
Working with CSEM has been excellent. Developing a MEMS device requires not only the right facilities and equipment, but an extremely knowledgeable team with microfabrication processes ready to go.
Christian Ingesson
Fusion for Energy
CSEM overcame the technical challenges of working with unknown materials and unconventional product designs. We established a good collaborative spirit, which allowed us to consider alternatives and agree on the steps to take in order to develop the sensors.
Alexios Tzannis
Business Development Manager Life Sciences
CSEM was really open and flexible, proactively coming up with proposals for addressing the challenge and presenting the results superbly and on time—I can only give compliments about the collaboration.
Serge Grop
R&D Program Manager
CSEM and Orolia Switzerland have had a long and successful partnership. Our ongoing project with CSEM is the development of a Chip Scale Rubidium Oscillator to complete Orolia's mRO-50™ product line. Thanks to CSEM's MEMS expertise and micromachining facilities, Orolia Switzerland will now be able to access new types of markets and provide our clients with affordable and reliable components based on the latest technologies.
Jean-Pierre Musy
Technical Director
For several years, Patek Philippe and CSEM have been collaborating on the development of micromechanical parts for watch mechanisms. CSEM is an important driving force for innovation within our company.
Bruno Zemp
Head Advanced Engineering
CSEM has huge experience of laser cutting and packaging technologies and we knew this would be vital to a good solution. It’s always a pleasure to work with CSEM and share information and interesting discussions—collaborations between CSEM and SCHURTER have been successful for many years.
