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Collaborative European Technology Platform for innovation

Products

In response to the industrial demand for high-performance crystals that are difficult to supply,
Cristal Innov has specialized in its own range of products and services:

Expertise

By producing and shaping its own crystals, Cristal Innov guarantees the quality and traceability of its products from the raw material.

Quartz

Expertise in piezoelectric crystals
  • Very high-quality crystals and piezoelectric parts for harsh applications (resistance to radiation…) and strategic applications (defense, aerospace…).
  • Production by hydrothermal growth of right-handed quartz.
▶ Blanks - ▶ Wafers - ▶ Substrates

LGT

Components for resonators, sensors, actuators
  • Crystals and piezoelectric parts for harsh applications (high temperature, corrosion…) and strategic applications (defense, aerospace…).
  • Continuous production or custom-made products.
▶ Wafers - ▶ Rings

Fields of application

AEROSPACE – NANOSATELLITES
Time measuring accuracy is a strategic issue for the space industry.
Cristal Innov develops a range of components for ultra-stable, more compact and radiation resistant quartz clocks.
AERONAUTICS
In aeronautics, safety is a challenge and a source of innovation.
Cristal Innov offers materials for sensors and accelerometers that can resist in harsh environments, at more than 500 °C. Wired or wireless sensors, integration of the active component on MEMS: the innovation potential is high.
MEDICAL
More environment and health-friendly materials, such as lead-free crystals for ultrasound probes.
Innovative biosensors for reagentless diagnosis using quartz microbalance.
Hard material precision micro-machining.
DEFENSE
Quartz wafers are mainly used in defense strategic areas of navigation and timing.
The DGA (French defense procurement agency), which supports Cristal Innov, is also interested in the disruptive innovations developed on the platform.