OUR TECHNOLOGY

Cutting services with high technological content (orientation, large size, 3D…) and characterization services.

Procces flow

Our Equipment

Slicing services cristal innov, Technology services on hard and brittle materials (sapphire, SiC, various single crystals, ceramics, glass…)

State-of-the-art equipment in crystal synthesis, substrate preparation and characterization. Cristal Innov makes these pooled resources available to academia and industry in an environment dedicated to innovation and process co-development.

Our team

The expertise of Cristal Innov’s team covers all crystallogenesis technologies, with experience in both R&D and industry. Our engineers and technicians master the different steps of TRL and they know how to lead a technology roadmap with you. In production mode, Cristal Innov is part of ISO 9001 quality certification process.

Cutting and shaping of hard materials

Technology services on hard and brittle materials (sapphire, SiC, various single crystals, ceramics, glass…)

Oriented cutting from 5 mm to 200 mm

Diamond wire
Internal Diameter sawing

Shaping up to 150 mm

Surface and cylindrical grinders
Lapping and polishing machines

Micro-machining

Single wire saw
Ultrasonic drill

Cleaning and inspections

Automatic cleaning machine
Inspections: see characterizations

Characterizations

Technology services

Crystalline quality

Chemical purity (Al, Fe, Na, K, Ca<1ppm)
Crystal defects: microscopic (etch channels, dislocation) or macroscopic (inclusions…)
Crystalline quality factor (IR absorption coefficient)

Geometric and dimensional characterization

On substrates up to 200 mm, minimum thickness 200 µm

Surface: Roughness - Ra 3nm
Flatness - parallelism (0.5 µm accuracy), dimensional ± 5 µm
Crystalline orientation: single-rotated or double-rotated (± 30 arc seconds accuracy)

Functional properties

Elastic, piezoelectric and dielectric constants

Crystals > Substrates & processes

Fondée en 2011 par un partenariat entre industriels et laboratoires d’Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Pilotée par l’Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Dotée d’une gouvernance collégiale. Inscrite dans l’écosystème d’innovation régional. Soutenue par les collectivités territoriales.

Founded in 2011 by a partnership between industrial manufacturers and laboratories from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.