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CERN’s technical expertise and most innovative technologies are available for scientific and commercial purposes through a variety of technology transfer opportunities: R&D collaborations, CERN technology in your start-up, service and consultancy and licensing.
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Ventilators provide oxygen enriched air to patients who have difficulties in breathing, or cannot breathe autonomously.
High-quality, Low-cost Medical Vent...
The PicoTDC is a specially developed 64 channel Time to Digital Converter (TDC) ASIC in 65nm CMOS for use in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and similar scientific applications.
PicoTDC
A novel seismic monitoring technology capable of high precision sensing of ground inclination and vibration, which allows for faster seismic event identification and alerts.
Precision Laser Inclinometer
White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems.
White Rabbit
The 3D Magnetic Sensor Calibrator is an innovative device for calibrating magnetic field with high resolution.
3D Magnetic sensor calibrator
The ActiWiz software aims to hide the complexity of chemical composition of materials (activation of material) by reducing the problem to the definition of a few input parameters via a graphical user interface.
ActiWiz
An open-source software platform to easily create, run, and visualise 3D agent-based simulations
BioDynaMo
A user-friendly web tool for chemical safety that the Organization developed and launched in 2020.
CERN Chemical Register for Environm...
C2MON is a modular Java framework for fast building, highly available, large-scale industrial monitoring and control solutions.
CERN Control and Monitoring Framewo...
CernVM-FS is a web-based, global, and versioning file system optimized for software distribution.
CERN VM-FS
CHARM is the CERN High energy AcceleRator Mixed field/facility.
CHARM - Mixed fields
The Coaxial Pulse Conditioner can improve the pulse stability and repeatability of pulsed power systems down to +/-0.02 % or better.
Coaxial Pulse Conditioner
CERN developed the orbital cutting machine for repair of awkwardly located pipes in tight spaces. It is relevant for the industrial piping needs of accelerator facilities, as well as in sectors with environmental hazards, such as oil and gas piping, heat exchangers, and piping in nuclear plants.
Compact Universal Orbital Cutter ...
The cryolab is a facility for testing complex systems in cryogenic conditions
Cryolab
A radiation and magnetic field tolerant DC-DC Point-Of-Load (POL), which enables distribution at higher voltage, with local on-detector conversion to the voltage required by the electronics, considerably decreasing the current in the cables.
DC-DC converter
A simple radiation hard topology for low power emergency escape lighting in radioactive environments.
Emergency Lighting Power Converter ...
Extremely fast and low noise photon and electron counting possibilities, providing significant advances in photon sciences and electron spectroscopy.
Fast front-end readout electronics ...
A fully integrated particle physics MonteCarlo simulation package
FLUKA
An amplification technique for position detection of ionising radiation.
Gas electron multiplier
A toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter.
Geant4
The GEMPix detector is a device able to detect all types of radiation with a high spatial resolution.
GEMPix
A novel very compact radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) linear accelerator.
High Frequency Compact Linear Proto...
Indico (Integrated Digital Conference: http://indico.cern.ch) is a web-based, multi-platform, conference lifecycle and agenda management system.
Indico
The Integrated 2-Phase Accumulator Controlled Loop (2PACL) is a modification of the existing 2PACL system developed for the AMS-Tracker and LHCb-VELO CO2 cooling systems.
Integrated CO2 cooling system
Invenio, the integrated digital library and repository system, is a suite of applications which provides the framework and tools for building and managing an autonomous digital library server.
Invenio
KiCad is an EDA (Electronic Design Automation) software suite for the creation of professional schematics and printed circuit boards.
KiCad EDA Software Suite
Kryolize is a software tool for sizing the minimum discharge area of a safety protection device, against overpressure.
Kryolize
A stepping motor driver with unique abilities
Long-distance motor driver
Short pulse and 4-quadrant power supplies for conventional and superconducting magnets
Magnet Power Supplies
MEDICIS is a facility for the production of medical radioisotopes
MEDICIS
The Medipix2 ASIC is a high spatial, high contrast resolving CMOS pixel read-out chip working in single photon counting mode.
Medipix2
Medipix3 is a CMOS pixel detector readout chip designed to be connected to a segmented semiconductor sensor. In addition to counting every particle hitting the pixels, it permits colour imaging and dead time free operation.
Medipix3
Chemical Via is a new chemical method to make microvias for high density printed multilayer circuits.
Micro Chemical Vias
The new invention solves the problem of precisely mounting a cantilever to a structure in a vaccum tight, radiation hard way, where no further alignments are needed.
Mounting mechanism for cantilever w...
Quantitative Finance Library for Python
QF-Lib
The quasar framework helps reduce the cost of developing and maintaining OPC-UA integration components (servers) through model driven code generation and re-use of common, OPC-UA related, code.
Quasar framework - OPC-UA server ge...
A dose monitoring device for the radon radioactive gas.
RaDoM (Radon Dose Monitor)
The “wall-less” GEM-type structure is capable of stable operation and high gas gain in humid ambient air and in photosensitive vapours including, TMAE.
Radon detector with high gas gain, ...
RADShip is a comprehensive software package that efficiently manages all aspects of shipping radioactive materials.
RADShip
Radiation and Environment Monitoring Unified Supervision
REMUS
ROOT is a general-purpose framework that provides an object oriented set of tools with all the functionality needed to handle and analyze large amounts of data in an extremely efficient way.
ROOT
A diamond-based universal multi-mode to single-mode laser converter
Singular Light: Integrated Single M...
SPS NORTH AREA is facility with energetic heavy ions for high penetration tests
SPS North Area
Silicon Photo-Multipliers with Strip Geometry for Enhanced Timing Resolution
Strip SiPM
The Structured Laser Beam represents a new paradigm in the creation of non-diffractive beams (NDBs) and it has the potential to greatly improve a number of mainstream applications using laser beams or light beams.
Structured Laser Beam
Innovative Graphite Composites for Thermal Management Applications
Thermal Management Materials
Thin film coatings are widely used in industry to improve the quality of a vacuum.
Thin film coatings
Timepix2 is a programmable, general purpose hybrid pixel detector readout ASIC. The Timepix2 ASIC consists of a matrix of 256x256 pixels with pixel pitch of 55μm, and is applicable to a wide range of applications including X-ray imaging, particle tracking and material analysis.
Timepix2
Timepix3 is a general-purpose integrated circuit suitable for readout of both semiconductor detectors and gas-filled detectors.
Timepix3
Timepix4 is a programmable general purpose hybrid pixel detector readout ASIC, with a larger chip area and improved time stamp precision and hit rate capability in comparison to its predecessor, Timepix3. The Timepix4 ASIC consists of a matrix of 448 x 512 pixels with a pixel pitch of 55μm. By utilising Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) technology, the ASIC has been designed to be 4-side buttable, permitting almost seamless tiling on all 4 sides. The detector can be applied to a wide range of applications including X-ray imaging, particle tracking and material analysis.
Timepix4
TIM is a mechatronic product designed for CERN’s specific needs; providing unmanned operations in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Main functionalities: Surveying, monitoring, safety and ad-hoc interventions when necessary
Train Inspection Monorail (TIM) ...
VESPER is a high-energy electron beamline for radiation testing.
VESPER - High energy electrons ...
Our Mission
Places like CERN contribute to the kind of knowledge that not only enriches humanity, but also provides the wellspring of ideas that become the technologies of the future.
— Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN
Our mission
The Knowledge Transfer group at CERN aims to engage with experts in science, technology and industry in order to create opportunities for the transfer of CERN’s technology and know-how. The ultimate goal is to accelerate innovation and maximise the global positive impact of CERN on society. This is done by promoting and transferring the technological and human capital developed at CERN. The CERN KT group promotes CERN as a centre of technological excellence, and promotes the positive impact of fundamental research organisations on society.
From CERN technologies to society
Below, you can see how CERN's various areas of expertise translates into impact across industries beyond CERN. Read more about this at the from CERN technologies to society.
What services do we provide? Find out moreabout the services we provide on the Activities and Services page. https://knowledgetransfer.web.cern.ch/activities
KT Overview
The CERN Knowledge Transfer group provides a service to:
- Industry: whether you work in a large company, an SME or a start-up, we can help you incorporate CERN technology or know-how into your business.
- The CERN Community: we help you make the most of the latest technology that you have developed.
- Academic partners in high-energy physics and other fields: we help you identify solutions from CERN technology for use in your projects.
Our Activities and Services
CERN actively invests in many activities to accelerate the innovation process. The CERN Knowledge Transfer group provides advice, support, training, networks and infrastructure to ease the transfer of CERN's know-how to industry and eventually to society. These activities are all fundamentally based on CERN's Open Innovation strategy, and reach out to CERN personnel, industry, entrepreneurship and research collaborators.
Accelerating your innovation
Supporting technologies that change your life
Engaging with experts at CERN and beyond
From high-energy physics to many applications
