Caltech-CEA-Leti Alliance Launches First Start-up, Analytical Pixels

Begun in June 2006, this experiment between CEA-Leti, based in Grenoble, France, and the Kavli Nanoscience Institute at the California Institute of Technolgy (the famous Caltech) in Pasadena, California, made concrete progress in January of the following year by launching the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (Very-Large-Scale-Integration). Their objective is to accelerate the speed at which they bring nanometric-based measuring systems to the commercial market .

On December 6, 2011, nearly five years later, Analytical Pixels Technology (APIX), the first start-up to come from the Alliance’s work, was officially created. Based on the concept of miniaturized chromatography, the current, first systems that APIX is working on should be on the market by 2013.

To learn more, please consult the Caltech press release and CEA press release. Additional resources available in French include articles from the Office of Science and Technology’s Bulletin Electronique newsletter ("Première start-up née de l’alliance entre le CEA-Leti et Caltech" and "Des nano-détecteurs pour des mesures à la molécule près !").