History

2025

JUNE '25

APRIL '25

Angel Fernández Álvarez becomes Optical Design
& Test Engineer

Angel Fernández Álvarez, Optical Design & Test Engineer

FEBRURY '25

2024

OCTOBER '24

Alexandre Hämmerli, Chief Quality Officer

SEPTEMBER '24

First Light from a Chip!

Close-up of an LED or laser diode emitting light through a small square opening, mounted on a circuit board.

JULY '24

Patent Application Filed: Intensity stabilization

JUNE '24

MAY '24

Patent Application Filed: Emitter calibration

Base Patent: Granted EP →

Demonstration of CO2 sensing as part of a master's thesis

JANUARY '24

MICSENS logo featuring a stylized circuit board in a circle and the company name in bold black text.
Silicon Valley logo with large black 'Si', 'SILICON' in black beneath, and 'CATALYST' in blue.

2023

DECEMBER '23

Launched of Hyperimage SWIR
lighting project →

Investment pre-seed round finalized

A colorful rectangular chart depicting the energy efficiency of various electrical appliances, with an arrow pointing from left to right through the spectrum of colors from blue to red.

SEPTEMBER '23

AUGUST '23

APRIL '23

Patent Application Filed: Wavelength filtering

FEBRUARY '23

A middle-aged man with glasses, wearing a navy suit and light blue dress shirt, smiling at the camera against a plain gray background.

JANUARY '23

4K-MEMS SA (Inc.) entity conversion

Industrial partnership - Medtech

2022

SEPTEMBER '22

Patent Application Filed: Optimized packaging & optics

Industrial partnership - Embedded spectroscopy

APRIL '22

Close-up of the word 'STOP' in red letters.

MARCH '22

Acquisition of Patent: Enhanced performance

FEBRUARY '22

Patent Application Filed: Enhanced intensity

Positive FTO study by P&TS

JANUARY '22

Packaged emitters working on a PCB

2021

NOVEMBER '21

OCTOBER '21

Logo for MICROCITY Neuchâtel Innovation, featuring a stylized yellow and black graphic design to the left of the text.

SEPTEMBER '21

Industrial partnership - Spectroscopy

MAY '21

4K-MEMS hotplates generate first light in a lab

FEBRUARY '21

Industrial partnership - Spectroscopy

2020

SEPTEMBER '20

Text that reads "4K MEMS" with a design of yellow lines emanating from the bottom right corner.

JANUARY '20

Base Patent: Publication

Patent Application Filed: Device architecture

Patent Application Filed: Metrology applications

2019

DECEMBER '19

2018

JULY '18

Base patent: Patent application filed