Who are we?

SILSEF is a French start-up, founded in 2010, based at Archamps Technopole on the French-Swiss border near Geneva.
We share a 2 000 m²  plant with wafer manufacturer Sil’tronix Silicon Technologies.

The facilities include clean rooms to provide the quality required for micro/opto-electronics and bio-medical applications.

The team includes 10 highly skilled staff, mostly qualified engineers and PhDs.

It is supported by the NILAB (Nano Imprint Laboratory), a technology platform that brings together first class academic and industrial partners. Thus, in addition to its internal resources, SILSEF can call upon wide scientific and technological resources to assess your requirements and best respond to your specifications.

Our model

1.Tailored development to technical transfer

2.Tools supply (stamps, master molds), consumables, equipment

3.Fabrication​

→ Small production runs as a subcontracter

→ Large volumes: dedicated technology transfert

Selected publications

Iltis A, Zanettini S, de Magalhaes LR, et al. Impact on timing and light extraction of a photonic crystal as measured on a half patterned LYSO crystal: Implications for time of flight PET imaging. J Instrum. 2019;14(06):P06036-P06036

Pots R, Salomoni M, Gundacker S, et al. Improving light output and coincidence time resolution of scintillating crystals using nanoimprinted photonic crystal slabs. Nucl Instrum Methods Phys Res Sect Accel Spectrometers Detect Assoc Equip. June 2019.

A. Gonzalez-Montoro, F. Sanchez, S. Majewski, S. Zanettini, J.M. Benlloch, A.J. Gonzalez, “Highly improved operation of monolithic BGP-PET blocks”, 19th International Workshop on Radiation Imaging Detectors, juillet 2017 

A. Gonzalez-Montoro, S. Majewski, S. Zanettini, F. Sanchez, A. Aguilar, J.M. Benlloch, A.J. Gonzalez, “PET detector block with DOI capabilities based on a large monolithic BGO crystal”, Conférence IEEE, Atlanta, octobre 2017 

S. Zanettini, V. Gâté, E. Usureau, J. Ruscica, F. Hamouda, K. Nomenyo, L. Le Cunff, H. Kadiri, G. Lerondel, Matteo Salomini, Rosalinde Plots, E. Auffray, P. Lecoq, J. Alamo, J. Prior, A. Iltis, D. Turover, “Improved Light Extraction Efficiency on 2 inches LYSO with Nanopatterned TiO2 Photonic Crystals”

H. Kadiri, S. Kostcheev, D. Turover, R. Salas-Montiel, K. Nomenyo, A. Gokama, G. Lerondel, “Topology assisted self-organization of colloïdal nanoparticles : application to 2D large-scale nanomastering”, Beilstein journal of nanotechnology 2014

H. Kadiri, A. Gokarna, R. Parize, K. Nomenyo, G. Patriarche, P. Miska, G. Lerondel, “Highly crystalline urchin-like structures made of ultra-thin zinc oxide nanowires”, The Royal Society of Chemistry 2014

H. Kadiri, A. Gokarna, A. Gwiazda, A. Rumyantseva; K. Nomenyo, R. Aad, G. Lerondel, “Towards multifunctional heterostructured materials : ZnO nanowires growth on mesoscale periodically patterned Si”, Physica Status Solidi (c)

H. Teyssedre, P. Gilormini, G. Regnier, “Limitations of Simple Flow Models for the Smulation of Nanoimprint”, International Polymer Processing, 28, 72-78, 2013

H. Teyssedre, P. Gilormini, “Extension of the natural element method to surface tension and wettability for the simulation of polymer flows at the micro and nano scales”, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

MIT, “Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World” 

Richard P. Feynman, “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”

A. Knapitsch, P. Lecoq, “Review on photonic crystal coatings for scintillators”, International Journal of Modern Physics. A, volume 29, n° 30, p 1430070, novembre 2014

Ibrahim et al., « Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Temperature Sensors in Liquid Environment », Sensors, vol. 19, no 15, p. 3354, juill. 2019.

Gramuglia, F., Frasca, S., Ripiccini, E., Venialgo, E., Gâté, V., Hind, K., Descharmes, N., Turover, D., Charbon, E., Bruschini, C., 2021. Light Extraction Enhancement Techniques for Inorganic Scintillators. Crystals 11, 362.