Micro & Nano Event 2024

26 – 30 Sept 2024 | Besançon, France

Milan Calic

CEO

Magnetfab

Grenoble, France

Founder & CEO of MagnetFab, introducing high-performance permanent micromagnets to semiconductor manufacturing.

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Magnetfab

Magnetfab

Small and medium size Enterprise (SME)

Grenoble, France

MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) combine microscopic electrical and mechanical components in everyday devices like smartphone accelerometers, smartwatches, medical sensors, and projectors, offering benefits in miniaturization and cost. While integrating magnets could improve MEMS performance and durability, current methods cannot produce high-performance magnets smaller than 1 mm, limiting their use in MEMS. Magnetfab, a CNRS spin-off, offers an innovative thin-film deposition technique that enables the mass production of thousands of high-performance micromagnets on a single substrate, tailored for MEMS manufacturing needs. Aiming to be the leading micromagnet provider for the microelectronics industry, Magnetfab currently targets applications in sensors for wearables, loudspeakers for earbuds, and quantum processors, unlocking significant innovation potential. But this is just the beginning: the possibilities for innovation with micromagnets are virtually limitless.
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About me

A physicist by training with a PhD in quantum physics from EPFL, Milan spent nearly a decade in Swiss industry, first as a project manager in the R&D lab of a leading Swiss watchmaking company and later at a supplier of micro-optical components for the automotive industry.

While leading a project on the integration of micromagnets into wristwatch applications, he identified a broader industrial need for high-performance micromagnets compatible with semiconductor manufacturing. At the same time, he encountered a wafer-level technology developed at Institut Néel – CNRS Grenoble for manufacturing rare-earth micromagnets, which ultimately led him to found MagnetFab.

Today, he focuses on bringing this technology from the research lab into industrial manufacturing and exploring the new products and applications it can enable, from wearable audio and sensors to quantum technologies.

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