A bit of history… the trade fair and microtechnology<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Micronora was originally created (first event in 1970) to promote watchmaking techniques<\/strong> and micromechanics<\/strong>, but in 1976, with the watchmaking sector in crisis, the trade fair\u2019s focus turned to high precision technology. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Micromechanics<\/strong> and microelectronics<\/strong> then became increasingly present in products. Hence, in 1980, Micronora once again honed its brand image by adopting the term microtechnology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"Micronora](\"https:\/\/dev.micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/logo_micronora_rond.webp\" "\\"Micronora")
<\/span><\/div>The name Micronora<\/span> is composed of two parts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/definition_micronora_en.png\" "\\"definition_micronora_en\\"")
<\/span><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/definition_micronora_mobile_en.png\" "\\"definition_micronora_mobile_en\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Definition of microtechnology<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Microtechnologies are technologies that contribute to the design, creation, manufacture or use of components, systems or devices that are small in size and\/or high precision.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Microtechnologies are on a scale of one micrometre (i.e. 10-6<\/sup> metre) to one millimetre. Nanotechnology is smaller than microtechnology and mechanics larger.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/echelle_micronano_en.png\" "\\"echelle_micronano_en\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>The field encompasses multiple technologies as microtechnology systems can contain:
\nmechanical, electronic, optical and computer components.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>In what market sectors
\ncan microtechnology be used?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>
Microtechnologies<\/strong> meet the needs of all markets seeking to lower costs and offer more efficient, smaller, more accurate and smarter products.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n- Aeronautics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Watchmaking\/Jewellery<\/a><\/li>\n
- Defence<\/a><\/li>\n
- Automotive<\/a><\/li>\n
- Electromechanics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Domotic<\/a><\/li>\n
- Medical<\/a><\/li>\n
- Railways<\/a><\/li>\n
- IT<\/a><\/li>\n
- Microelectronics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Space<\/a><\/li>\n
- Luxury goods<\/a><\/li>\n
- Energy<\/a><\/li>\n
- Telecommunications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/motorola_dynatac.jpg\" "\\"motorola_dynatac\\"")
<\/span><\/div>A common example \u2013 the mobile phone:<\/strong><\/p>\nThe first mobile phone call was made on 3 April 1973 using a Motorola DynaTAC<\/a>, a device weighing over two pounds with a battery life of 20 minutes.<\/p>\nToday, mobile phones are more and more compact, intelligent and efficient. Without microtechnology, smartphones would not exist.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
Microtechnology:
\nhow is it applied and what is it used for?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>
Microtechnology is a wide-reaching concept, covering multiple areas of expertise and industries. We come across products using microtechnology every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Other examples of products and activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n- time measurement (watches, clocks, stopwatches, etc.)<\/li>\n
- sensors and measuring instruments (precision scales, micrometers, electricity meters, callipers, etc.)<\/li>\n
- medical instruments (analysis apparatus, pacemakers, etc.)<\/li>\n
- optical instruments (cameras and video cameras)<\/li>\n
- household appliances (blenders, dishwashers, washing machines, radios, televisions, etc.)<\/li>\n
- IT and office automation (computers, printers, photocopiers, franking machines, etc.)<\/li>\n
- computerised banking (change machines, ATMs, magnetic card readers, public transport ticket machines)<\/li>\n
- small components (microrobots, motors, microswitches, sensors, electrical outlets)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Definition of nanotechnology<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>Nanotechnologies are all technologies that involve objects on a scale of nanometres.<\/p>\n<\/div>
1 nanometre = 0.000000001 = 10-9<\/sup> metre or one billionth of a metre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>This term refers to all fields that work on an atomic or molecular scale (a scale 30,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair) to create new materials or processes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
In what market sectors
\ncan nanotechnology be used?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>
Nanotechnologies (or nanosciences) are relevant to many scientific fields involving objects on a scale of nanometres.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\n- Optics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Biology<\/a><\/li>\n
- Health<\/a><\/li>\n
- Medicine<\/a><\/li>\n
- Electronics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Mechanics<\/a><\/li>\n
- Chemistry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/carbon-nanotube-600x597.jpg\" "\\"carbon-nanotube\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>Nanotechnology:
\nhow is it applied and what is it used for?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>
Nanotechnologies<\/strong> are present in all sectors and have considerable potential for development and uses, particularly in healthcare and biotechnology, materials and information and communication technologies.<\/p>\nNanotechnology applications already impact everyone’s life and should help sustain or boost activity in most manufacturing sectors: we will see ever-faster universal communication tools, effective targeted medicines and money-saving, efficient materials. Nanotechnologies are even expected to provide solutions to major problems such as natural resource management and environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Consult microtechnology experts<\/h2><\/div>A research laboratory and engineering school , a competitiveness cluster at your service.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>The FEMTO-ST Institute<\/h3><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/femto-st-in-figures.png\" "\\"femto-st-in-figures\\"")
<\/span><\/div>With more than 750 members, the FEMTO-ST<\/a> Institute (Franche-Comt\u00e9 Electronics Mechanics Thermics and Optics \u2013 Science & Technology) is one of France\u2019s most prominent public engineering laboratories.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Covering a number of scientific fields such as automation, acoustics, energy, electrical engineering, IT, materials, mechanics, mechatronics, microsystems, nanotechnologies, optics and time-frequency, its research aims to master micro and nanotechnologies, increasingly integrating functions and intelligence to create more efficient components and systems.<\/p>\n<\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HT_Besancon_Temis_14_22_Parvis_nuit-600x282.jpg\" "\\"CONSTRUCTION")
<\/span><\/div>Its work ranges from basic research to numerous applications in sectors such as microtechnology, telecommunications, transport, energy, IT, instrumentation and health.<\/p>\n
Affiliated with the higher education institutions in the Franche-Comt\u00e9 area (Franche-Comt\u00e9 University<\/a>, SUPMICROTECH ENSMM – National School of Mechanics and Microtechnology<\/a>, Belfort-Montb\u00e9liard Technology University<\/a>) and the CNRS<\/a>, the FEMTO-ST Institute has sites in Besan\u00e7on, Belfort and Montb\u00e9liard.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![\"LOGO](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SUPMICROTECH-ST-logo-zone-protection-rvb.jpg\" "\\"deki-logo-zone-protection-rvb\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>SUPMICROTECH ENSMM<\/a>\u00a0 (\u00c9COLE NATIONALE SUP\u00c9RIEUREDE M\u00c9CANIQUE ET DES MICROTECHNIQUES)<\/h3><\/h3><\/div>SUPMICROTECH ENSMM<\/a> is the only engineering school in France with a strong focus on microtechnology.<\/p>\nEach year, it trains over 250 world-renowned engineers in the field of microtechnology and nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
The PMT competitiveness cluster<\/h3><\/div>The PMT<\/a> is a competitiveness cluster first certified by the French government in 2005, and is coordinated by industrial companies. It aims to represent, inspire and federate companies with microtechnology expertise targeting different markets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>Although microtechnology is everywhere, the PMT has created two clusters to meet the needs of its members. The first cluster, INNOV\u2019HEALTH<\/a>, concerns the health sector and the second, AERO\u00b5TECH<\/a>, caters to the aeronautics, space and defence<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/micronora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/pmtadherents2020-1024x269-1.png\" "\\"pmtadherents2020-1024×269\\"")
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Micronora was originally created (first event in 1970) to promote watchmaking techniques<\/strong> and micromechanics<\/strong>, but in 1976, with the watchmaking sector in crisis, the trade fair\u2019s focus turned to high precision technology. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Micromechanics<\/strong> and microelectronics<\/strong> then became increasingly present in products. Hence, in 1980, Micronora once again honed its brand image by adopting the term microtechnology<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The name Micronora<\/span> is composed of two parts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div> Microtechnologies are technologies that contribute to the design, creation, manufacture or use of components, systems or devices that are small in size and\/or high precision.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Microtechnologies are on a scale of one micrometre (i.e. 10-6<\/sup> metre) to one millimetre. Nanotechnology is smaller than microtechnology and mechanics larger.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The field encompasses multiple technologies as microtechnology systems can contain: In what market sectors Microtechnologies<\/strong> meet the needs of all markets seeking to lower costs and offer more efficient, smaller, more accurate and smarter products.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> A common example \u2013 the mobile phone:<\/strong><\/p>\n The first mobile phone call was made on 3 April 1973 using a Motorola DynaTAC<\/a>, a device weighing over two pounds with a battery life of 20 minutes.<\/p>\n Today, mobile phones are more and more compact, intelligent and efficient. Without microtechnology, smartphones would not exist.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Microtechnology: Microtechnology is a wide-reaching concept, covering multiple areas of expertise and industries. We come across products using microtechnology every day.<\/p>\n<\/div> Other examples of products and activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n Nanotechnologies are all technologies that involve objects on a scale of nanometres.<\/p>\n<\/div> 1 nanometre = 0.000000001 = 10-9<\/sup> metre or one billionth of a metre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> This term refers to all fields that work on an atomic or molecular scale (a scale 30,000 times smaller than the diameter of a hair) to create new materials or processes.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> In what market sectors Nanotechnologies (or nanosciences) are relevant to many scientific fields involving objects on a scale of nanometres.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Nanotechnology: Nanotechnologies<\/strong> are present in all sectors and have considerable potential for development and uses, particularly in healthcare and biotechnology, materials and information and communication technologies.<\/p>\n Nanotechnology applications already impact everyone’s life and should help sustain or boost activity in most manufacturing sectors: we will see ever-faster universal communication tools, effective targeted medicines and money-saving, efficient materials. Nanotechnologies are even expected to provide solutions to major problems such as natural resource management and environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div> A research laboratory and engineering school , a competitiveness cluster at your service.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> With more than 750 members, the FEMTO-ST<\/a> Institute (Franche-Comt\u00e9 Electronics Mechanics Thermics and Optics \u2013 Science & Technology) is one of France\u2019s most prominent public engineering laboratories.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Covering a number of scientific fields such as automation, acoustics, energy, electrical engineering, IT, materials, mechanics, mechatronics, microsystems, nanotechnologies, optics and time-frequency, its research aims to master micro and nanotechnologies, increasingly integrating functions and intelligence to create more efficient components and systems.<\/p>\n<\/div> Its work ranges from basic research to numerous applications in sectors such as microtechnology, telecommunications, transport, energy, IT, instrumentation and health.<\/p>\n Affiliated with the higher education institutions in the Franche-Comt\u00e9 area (Franche-Comt\u00e9 University<\/a>, SUPMICROTECH ENSMM – National School of Mechanics and Microtechnology<\/a>, Belfort-Montb\u00e9liard Technology University<\/a>) and the CNRS<\/a>, the FEMTO-ST Institute has sites in Besan\u00e7on, Belfort and Montb\u00e9liard.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> SUPMICROTECH ENSMM<\/a> is the only engineering school in France with a strong focus on microtechnology.<\/p>\n Each year, it trains over 250 world-renowned engineers in the field of microtechnology and nanotechnology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> The PMT<\/a> is a competitiveness cluster first certified by the French government in 2005, and is coordinated by industrial companies. It aims to represent, inspire and federate companies with microtechnology expertise targeting different markets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div> Although microtechnology is everywhere, the PMT has created two clusters to meet the needs of its members. The first cluster, INNOV\u2019HEALTH<\/a>, concerns the health sector and the second, AERO\u00b5TECH<\/a>, caters to the aeronautics, space and defence<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Definition of microtechnology<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\nmechanical, electronic, optical and computer components.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\ncan microtechnology be used?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/div>
\nhow is it applied and what is it used for?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>\n
Definition of nanotechnology<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\ncan nanotechnology be used?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>\n
![](\"http:\/\/img.timeinc.net\/time\/photoessays\/2010\/100_gadgets\/communication\/motorola_dynatac.jpg\" "\\"carbon-nanotube\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>
\nhow is it applied and what is it used for?<\/p><\/h3><\/div>Consult microtechnology experts<\/h2><\/div>
The FEMTO-ST Institute<\/h3><\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>SUPMICROTECH ENSMM<\/a>\u00a0 (\u00c9COLE NATIONALE SUP\u00c9RIEUREDE M\u00c9CANIQUE ET DES MICROTECHNIQUES)<\/h3><\/h3><\/div>
The PMT competitiveness cluster<\/h3><\/div>
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