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CCRM

Collective Microwave Resource Centre

CCRM is an association governed by French 1901 Act, which gathers together industrialists and university workers in the PACA region; it benefits from a dead room / screened room dedicated to both fine metrology in hyperfrequency and EMC testings. These tools enable us to meet the needs of the SME/SMIs in the region, which are faced with new European standard constraints concerning electromagnetic protection, as well as the needs of telecommunication and RFID companies.

Located in a part of IUSTI premises (Polytech'Marseille), CCRM belongs to the High-Tech centres network in the PACA region.

http://www.ccrm.fr/

MUTUALISED OPTICS PLATFORMS

As soon as it was created in 2000, POPsud put the emphasis on the "mutualised platforms" linking fundamental research to businesses. To date, our region is home to a dozen platforms that can be used by photonics industrialists.

The mission of the OPTOsud association, which was created in 2009, is to implement and develop the scientific and high-tech equipment shared and labelled by the competitive cluster, and to promote mutualisation of the existing products towards the industry sector.

Developed by the OPTITEC cluster, the OPTOPOLIS project offers another model of development of these platforms, which is not limited to a mere material and equipment mutualisation, but also includes technological and industrial actions related to this equipment, by means of training sessions, international workshops, R&D projects...

High-Power photonics: Interaction and new components

This national and international platform of expertise has 2 missions: to meet industrial needs by taking part in the development of technologies and new components, and to improve the understanding of laser-matter interaction phenomena.

Description : Diagnosis in high standard flow optics over the full spectrum range, UV to IR
Target market or sectors : optics (Megajoule Laser), industrial and biomedical applications of high-power lasers
Leading Organisation : Fresnel Institure
Partners : LP3, SESO and CILAS

Contact : Mireille COMMANDRE - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

MOEMS Platform

Labelled by POPsud, the MOEMS platform (Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical Systems) is made up of three specific MOEMS characterisation test benches forming a component-testing platform which today is almost unique in Europe.

Description : MOEMS Characterisation
Target market or sectors : astronomy, avionics, telecommunication, automobile, biological and medical engineering
Leading Organisation : Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory

Contact : Frédéric ZAMKOTSIAN - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

POLARIS

Aspherical optics platform for the giant telescopes of the future

The POLARIS platform (POLishing Active and Robotic Integrated System), labelled by the OPTITEC cluster as of 2006, allows for the manufacture of highly aspherical, wide diameter optics (up to 2.5 m) while saving much time in the manufacturing process.

Description : robotised polishing and active optics
Target market or sectors : astronomy, space
Leading organisation : LAM - SESO

Contact : Marc FERRARI - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Micro- and nano-optical component platform

This platform is run by the Provence Institute of Nanoscience Microelectronics Materials (IM2NP) to carry out research projects in photovoltaics and optoelectronics, in association with industrial and university partners.

Description : micro- and nano-optical components
Target market or sectors : : Communication, biotechnology, optoelectronics, photovoltaics.
Leading Organisation : IM2NP (Institut Matériaux Microélectronique et Nanosciences de Provence)

Contacts : Ludovic ESCOUBAS - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and François FLORY - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

INOVSYS Platform

The INOVSYS Partnership Platform is led by the PEGASE competitive cluster and jointly labelled by the CapEnergies cluster. It focuses on the region’s identified industrial needs and on the university partners’ skills. The field of Engineering and advanced processes for the prototyping of complex systems (INOVSYS) has therefore been adopted to federate four fields of competencies:

• Intelligent dynamic system engineering
• Digital and collaborative product engineering
• Advanced process engineering in functional item prototyping
• Microstructural, mechanical and geometrical multi-scale characterisation

The partnership platform's main mission is to keep the PACA region at the top of the key skills and technologies in the four above mentioned fields. These skills will enable SMEs either to maintain a strong advantage in some scientific and technological niches, or to federate together to improve their subcontracting level, thus meeting the expectations of the major customers in a more comprehensive manner.