Quantum Technology

Thales Research & Technology-France (TRT-Fr), located in Palaiseau near Paris, is the main multidisciplinary research unit of the Thales group, a company formed by 64000 employees in over 52 countries and one of the major world players in aerospace (avionics, radar, communications), space (designing, developing and deploying orbital infrastructure), defence (radar, radio-communications), and security (electronic transactions, cybersecurity) with a 15 Billion € revenue, whose 750 million € are reinvested in its own R&D activity.
Thales Research & Technology-France has strong scientific links with industries and universities, either in France or internationally. Its specificity is to cover a broad range of research fields such as semiconductors, optics, spintronics, etc, having in mind the possible application of this research to future Thales products. In particular, the Physics Research Group has developed a strong expertise on NV centres in diamond in the framework of several collaborative projects such as the FP7 DIADEMS project, coordinated by TRT-Fr.