MEMS
Components that pack a punch
The potential for micro-electro-mechanical systems is limitless.
Without MEMS, your car, phone, tablet, Wi-Fi, GPS, or virtual reality headset would be defunct. They are at the beating heart of 21st technology yet remain largely unnoticed by the everyday user. We leverage our multidisciplinary micro-fabrication and packaging technology to develop and manufacture MEMS devices for high-added-value applications with demanding specifications. We also offer a one-stop-shop for the entire innovation chain while meeting ISO 9001 standards.
Our work
We facilitate and accelerate the adoption of new processes and materials in microfabrication and packaging. Turbocharge your microsystem innovation with our solutions:
- MEMS powerhouse for industrializing and producing innovative devices made from either silicon, glass, silicon carbide, or lithium niobate (LiNbO3)
- Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform for high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with sensing and non-linear applications (e.g., frequency comb generation)
- Microfluidic chips and nanoporous membranes essential in the development of next-generation diagnostic tools, including organ-on-chips, ultra-filtration, and biosensors
- Leading quantum sensing applications with wafer-level packaged rubidium vapor cells
- Watch component fabrication and the manufacturing of multi-level silicon-based compliant mechanisms
- Characterizing mechanical properties of materials at the mesoscale to better understand and further optimize their design and process parameters
- Creating low-stress sealing on a wafer-scale using a laser-assisted diffusion bond (LADB) with optically transparent materials in the 9-15 mm wavelength range
- Process validation of silver sintering as a high-power dissipation die mounting method in ESA space applications
- Bond layer stacking of quantum cascade lasers (QCL) in the mid-IR range onto a carrier and then into a package
Want to get involved?
Every industry and business can benefit from our expertise in MEMS and packaging. From smartphones to smart watches; from automobiles to medical devices; anywhere that requires miniaturization, sensing, actuating, communication, and processing is our specialty. Get in touch to find out how you can get more out of your MEMS today.
Meet our happy customers
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cornel Marxer
CEO
CSEM offers us a professional service for both manufacturing and development, which keeps us at the top of this high-tech field. We are very happy with this partnership.
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.
Serge Grop
R&D Program Manager
CSEM and Orolia Switzerland have had a long and successful partnership. We are grateful to have such a close relationship with this organization. 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.
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.
Related Articles
23 November 2022
CSEM and ECAL create art using advanced technology
Students from the Lausanne University of Art and Design (ECAL) have teamed up with CSEM’s engineers to create an avant-garde iridescent jewelry collection.
2 May 2022
Plastics get a unique digital watermark
DynamicMold Technology by matriq AG: Watermark is directly embedded in the plastic during the injection molding procedure
2 April 2021
The smallest high-speed cell sorter
Cellular Highways and CSEM collaborate to develop and manufacture high-speed cell sorters.