In order to carry out this mission, the SEM works in close collaboration with the other technical departments and maintains a permanent technology watch, participates in the construction of demonstrators and prototypes, carries out tests and characterizations.
In recent years, the activity of the service has been mainly marked by a strong involvement in the following projects : SuperNEMO, SPIRAL2, FRACAS, Id-LISE, SPES; the growing demand of physicists for RFQs; the progress of R&D in charge preamplifiers; the complexity of new ASICs. This activity has enabled the creation or strengthening of collaborations with other laboratories at IN2P3 (GANIL, LAL, LPSC) or abroad (Manchester University, INFN Legnaro).
On a more ad hoc basis, the SEM provides developments within the framework of industrial contracts (example: CERAP/Atron Metrology).
Agents of the SEM are members of the microelectronics/electronics network and participate in the transversal projects Cherenkov Lab and DiamASIC.