SOLEIL associates scientific instrumentation companies, mostly French SMEs, with its technological research, both upstream through collaborative projects and downstream through the granting of licenses enabling the industrial and commercial exploitation of innovative devices designed by its teams.
Production of technological services and innovative devices for businesses
To meet the needs of its customers and industrial partners, SOLEIL provides services other than material analysis on light lines, in particular:
• training services, e.g. ultra-high vacuum techniques, radio protection...
• technological services: cleaning of mechanical parts in ultra-high vacuum, testing of instrumental devices in ultra-high vacuum, magnetic measurements, design of magnets and pulsed power supplies, programming of electronic boards, etc.
SOLEIL also supplies innovative technological devices for experimental use (e.g. tungsten microspheres used as alignment tips or electronic motor control systems).
Setting up technological development partnerships with companies
SOLEIL sets up technological development collaborations with companies in the scientific instrumentation sector, as part of innovation projects linked to the production and/or use of synchrotron light.
These projects, involving the design and production of innovative devices, cover a wide range of fields such as optics, detectors, nano-focusing of light beams, nano-displacement, radio-frequency amplification, magnets, etc. They generate new knowledge and can lead to the co-filing of patent applications with third parties.
Between the start of operations in 2008 and the end of 2023, SOLEIL has built up a portfolio of 22 patent families, 13 of which will be active by mid-2024.
Setting up knowledge transfers (know-how, patents, software) to companies seeking industrial and commercial exploitation
In application sectors where a market potential for SOLEIL's innovative devices has been clearly identified (large research facilities such as synchrotrons or other particle gas pedals, specific industrial sectors), SOLEIL transfers knowledge (know-how, patents, software) to licensed companies to industrialize, manufacture and market the technological products resulting from this knowledge.
Since the start of operations in 2008, SOLEIL has made 16 knowledge transfers (know-how, patents and software) to SMEs in the scientific instrumentation sector, most of them French (a German SME and a Quebec SME have also benefited from licenses). The knowledge licensed concerns a wide range of technological fields: light beam diagnostics, ultra-high vacuum, radio-frequency amplification, pulsed magnetic systems, data processing software, liquid sample transfers, cryogenics, nanometric metrology, rapid X-ray cameras, etc.
Contact : Dominique CORRUBLE
tel : +33(0)1 69 35 93 19
mail : industrie@synchrotron-soleil.fr