The same air can warn your sinuses and your crops 🌾 @csem.ch and Swisens AG are using multimodal AI to classify pollen and fungal spores in real time—helping improve allergy forecasts and giving agriculture more precise signals for action. Read: bit.ly/4fbbMV2

🪐 Some planets are found in a wobble of light. For NIRPS at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, @csem.ch has co-created with for UNIGE a laser frequency comb: thousands of stable markers to help astronomers in the future measure tiny shifts in starlight. Read: bit.ly/3QxUZSN

A village does not decarbonize like a city. In Grandvaux, ANERGYCAD co-designed with @csem.ch + partners will use a low-temperature anergy loop under the roads so buildings can tap local heat and upgrade it with heat pumps. Smaller infrastructure. Lower-carbon heating. Read: bit.ly/4ged5ng

🚀 What if a battery frame could do more than hold battery cells? Together with Almatech, CSEM developed a lighter, multifunctional design for space applications using additive manufacturing—validated at TRL 6 and with potential far beyond space. Read more : bit.ly/4vjsdnd

Smart Battery Packs | CSEM × Almatech Design for Additive Manufacturing

CSEM and Almatech develop and validate a smart, additively manufactured battery pack for space, reducing packaging mass and lead time while enabling maintenance and repair operations.

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9,521 m, powered by sun and batteries ☀️ Raphaël Domjan and SolarStratos pushed solar-electric flight higher. @csem.ch helped with the ultra-light solar modules and battery expertise behind the aircraft. Not science fiction. Swiss engineering in thin air. Read: bit.ly/4oVaxfO

Proud to see CCRAFT, a spin-off from @csem.ch, raise USD 7.8m (CHF 6.3m) to scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) photonic chip manufacturing in Switzerland. A strong signal that Swiss deep-tech research can become industrial capacity in a strategic global market. Read more: bit.ly/4vbONy6

The invisible work behind reliable electronics: fewer surprises. With Micro Precision Systems MPS, @CSEM.ch helped test failure risks, qualify materials and suppliers, and shape quality controls before scale-up. Reliability is built early, not inspected in at the end. Read: bit.ly/4vH8Sxc

🌟 We're pleased to announce the appointment of Annick Dubois as Chief People Officer and member of @csem.ch's executive leadership team. Bringing 20+ years of international HR leadership experience, she will lead CSEM's people strategy.🔗 bit.ly/4oZqDoX

CSEM appoints Annick Dubois as Chief People Officer to drive talent strategy

CSEM appoints Annick Dubois as Chief People Officer. With 20+ years of international HR leadership experience, she will lead talent strategy, leadership development, workforce planning, and employee e...

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A kids’ game that doesn’t fight screens with another screen 🕹️ Spin & Play developed by swip SA with @csem.ch + partners turns movement into the interface: jump, dodge, react. No cameras. No wearables. Just smart engineering for active play, now in Decathlon Switzerland. Story: bit.ly/3QGmXvC

🏆 A new award for research that moves innovation forward. @csem.ch’s Claude Nicollier Research Excellence Award celebrates outstanding work shaping Switzerland’s innovation landscape. Congratulations to first winner Kerem Artuk for his contribution to a solar world record: bit.ly/4g6byQ8

CSEM Launches Claude Nicollier Awards for Research Excellence

CSEM launches the Claude Nicollier Awards to honor research excellence and innovation. The inaugural award goes to Kerem Artuk for a world-record solar cell breakthrough.

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25 years in Central Switzerland 🎂 What started as a local bridge between research and industry is now part of a 640+ expert network helping Swiss companies build with robotics, sensors, AI, fluidics and more. Happy birthday, @csem.ch Alpnach. Read: bit.ly/3QCv6B1 #SwissInnovation

CSEM Alpnach Marks 25 Years of Industrial Innovation

For 25 years, CSEM Alpnach has accelerated industrial innovation through robotics, AI, sensors and automation, supporting businesses across Central Switzerland.

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🎬 Movie-trailer energy, real-world tech. @csem.ch's Annual Report is out: faster medicines, trusted chips, solar skies, airborne AI, exoplanet hunting—and more stories of research moving into the world. Watch/read: bit.ly/4uNmOEw #DeepTech #SwissInnovation

Critical minerals are becoming a key pressure point in the energy transition. Proud to see @csem.ch ’s Bertrand Paviet-Salomon recognised by EQT Foundation for work on resource-light PV technologies, helping solar scale with fewer material bottlenecks: bit.ly/3Qano14

@csem.ch spin-off Actival has won the Medtech & Healthcare category at >>venture>>startup competition 2026 🏆A proud moment for Swiss deep-tech and for the startup ecosystem helping lab-born oral health innovation reach patients: bit.ly/43HbJKa

🎉 Big win for @csem.ch ! ORYL F1 won the Impact Expected award at EARTO Conference 2026. Built by Oryl Photonics, CSEM & @fhnw.bsky.social, the tech helps pharma researchers test drug solubility faster while reducing chemical, material & energy use: bit.ly/3QtqXzr

CSEM wins EARTO Award 2026 for Solubility Testing

CSEM and ORYL Photonics win the EARTO Innovation Award 2026 for a breakthrough solubility testing technology that enables pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs up to 100 times faster while red...

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New materials matter when they become reliable space hardware. A €1M @csem.ch-led project will 3D-print new alloys into metal engine parts that run hotter, last longer & carry more load. With @empa-materials.bsky.social, Pave Space SA & @esa.int Phi-Lab Switzerland: bit.ly/4xcNOzE

Hamilton’s GlucoSense RS485 225 enables real-time glucose monitoring directly in bioreactors, helping improve process control in biologics manufacturing. Great collaboration with @csem.ch to turn advanced sensing and engineering into a practical tool for industry. 🧬⚙️: bit.ly/49ClEnD

Real-Time Bioreactor Glucose Monitoring with Hamilton GlucoSense

Discover how Hamilton’s GlucoSense, developed with CSEM support, enables real-time bioreactor glucose monitoring to improve biologics process control and performance.

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Explore the science behind tomorrow’s technologies! @csem.ch’s 2025 Scientific & Technical Report brings together applied research in digitalization, precision manufacturing and sustainable energy — and the partners making it real. Read, explore, connect: bit.ly/4odp2eZ

One industrial problem can be the start of a bigger digital shift. @csem.ch's Digital Journey 2026 helps Swiss SMEs turn a concrete idea into a real project with CSEM experts — with up to CHF 100k in technical support or transfer hours: Apply by Sept 14: bit.ly/4o40Z1N

🧠 Could brain-inspired chips make future electronics smarter and more energy efficient? In this SwissChips Spotlight, @csem.ch/@ethz.ch doctoral student Xi Chen shares how his work on neuromorphic and human brain interface technologies could shape tomorrow’s healthcare and computing. bit.ly/49dNaHX

SwissChips Researcher Spotlight: Xi Chen, CSEM/ETH Zürich

What if a chip could listen to the brain? In this edition of SwissChips Spotlights, we speak with Xi Chen about designing next-generation neural recording systems, the challenges of capturing tiny bra...

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🌍 On World Preeclampsia Day, @csem.ch and MOMM Diagnostics highlight faster maternal diagnostics. The préXclude rapid test aims to assess preeclampsia risk from a fingertip blood sample in minutes — with new clinical results coming this fall: bit.ly/49zXfiL

CSEM and MOMM Diagnostics introduce revolutionary preeclampsia test

The system resembles a pregnancy test with electronic result analysis and allows a rapid diagnostic test carried out in the doctor’s office.

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🔋 We’re proud to open the doors of @csem.ch’s new battery dry room to Canal Alpha — where lithium-metal cells and next-gen pouch prototypes move closer to industrial reality. A rare glimpse inside the infrastructure helping Swiss SMEs and startups compete in the global battery race 🎥 bit.ly/4a1mhXZ

Une nouvelle salle sèche pour créer des batteries du futur - Canal Alpha

37 m² de rareté. C’est la taille de la nouvelle salle sèche mise en service par le Centre suisse d’électronique et de microtechnique.

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@csem.ch spin-off CCRAFT was proud to stand among the finalists of the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark 2026, one of Switzerland’s leading deep-tech entrepreneurship awards. While not taking home the main prize, the team won the Audience Award 🏆: bit.ly/4nlLQsc

AI-driven data growth is pushing silicon to its limits. Advanced photonics, especially #TFLN chips are enabling faster, more energy-efficient AI infrastructure. Proud to see CSEM.ch spin-off CCRAFT shape Europe’s next-gen photonics ecosystem. Interview by StartupValley Magazine 🇩🇪: bit.ly/4diCfhk

Photonische Chips statt Silizium: Wie CCRAFT die Datenwelt neu denkt

CCRAFT entwickelt photonische Chips auf Basis von TFLN und setzt damit neue Maßstäbe für ultraschnelle und energieeffiziente Datenübertragung. Im Interview spricht das Team über die Grenzen von Silizi...

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Battery ideas need the right conditions to scale. 🔋⚡ @csem.ch new dry room in Neuchâtel (CH) is ready for teams working on next-generation battery cells. With BCN & SENE - Etat de Neuchâtel. Industrial-grade infrastructure, closer to Swiss innovators. Read more: bit.ly/4waA7Ro

CSEM opens battery dry room in Neuchâtel to boost Switzerland’s energy innovation

CSEM launches a new dry room at its Battery Innovation Hub in Neuchâtel, giving Swiss industry access to advanced battery development infrastructure for next-generation energy storage technologies.

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We can’t reduce what we can’t measure. ⚠️🌊 @csem.ch ’s #microplastic detector, from the EU-funded H2020 Nautilos project (ec.europa.eu), is now in the EU Mission Ocean & Waters Solutions Library. Tiny particles, better data, smarter action. Will you take the tech forward? info@csem.ch: bit.ly/49mcdZh

What if fetal monitoring in labor needed no gel, repositioning, or added constraints? VidaSense is a wearable system using non-invasive fetal ECG and dry electrodes to capture fetal and maternal signals during labor. Now in clinical study with @inselgruppe.bsky.social ppe.bsky.social: bit.ly/4dRvqW6

VidaSense clinical study advances wearable prenatal monitoring

CSEM spin-off VidaSense has entered a clinical study during labor, advancing wearable prenatal monitoring toward clinical use in obstetric care.

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Bern is building #medtech momentum @csem.ch's applied research agreement with @inselgruppe.bsky.social and the @unibe.ch has been extended for 3 more years—helping turn clinical needs into practical technologies. Read all about it: bit.ly/4cuzdX2 #Medtech #DigitalHealth

Bern medtech partnership extended by three years: Insel Gruppe, UniBE and CSEM

The Insel Gruppe, University of Bern and CSEM extend their Bern medtech partnership for three more years, advancing applied research with 32 selected projects to strengthen innovation and patient care

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@csem.ch is now part of Morphotonics’s Global Lab-to-Fab Partner Network—helping move nanoimprint lithography closer to scalable industrial use in photonics and advanced manufacturing. Discover what we can do: bit.ly/4vuNPht More about the network: bit.ly/4cGz8k9 #Photonics #AdvancedManufacturing

Quantum matters when it meets a real need. In QuardiOPM, @csem.ch contributes its physics package and microfabricated alkali vapor cells to a compact magnetocardiography project supported by Innosuisse (Innovation Project 121.247 IP-LS). Discover more quantum tech: bit.ly/4sBSxHV #WorldQuantumDay