To carry out these technical assistance activities, the LNE develops a wide range of multidisciplinary resources and skills to respond, as a reference laboratory, to the diversity of issues submitted to it by industries, laboratories or public authorities. Their challenges relate to consumer protection, public safety and health, environmental protection and energy management.

It produces reference benches, develops new reference means - test and analysis methods - in all fields where the challenges of consumer protection, public health, environmental protection or energy management require work to anticipate new needs. It takes into account regulatory and standardization issues.

Key figures

In 2023, research performed at LNE accounted for:

Research themes

LNE focuses its research activities on the following themes:

• Acoustics and vibrations
• Climate and environmental monitoring, evaluation of water quality measurement tools, innovative environmental biomonitoring devices, ocean pH measurement, antibiotic resistance indicators and hormone analyses in environmental matrices.
• Electricity and magnetism, electrical nanometrology, low and high frequencies, high voltage.
• Energy efficiency and combustion, thermal insulation and construction products, energy transport and storage, the energy cadastre of territories, fire safety engineering.
• The industry of the future, digital twins, complex dimensional metrology, the dematerialization of standards, fundamental mass metrology, artificial intelligence.
• Materials, their thermal and radiative properties, their optical properties, the safety of food packaging, the harmonized characterization of nanomaterials, the performance of Graphene.
• Photonics, radiometry, photovoltaics, lasers
• Data science and artificial intelligence, development of methods for evaluating robotic systems, cybersecurity, uncertainty assessment
• Quantum technologies, quantum electrical metrology

Discover the theses carried out on these subjects (in french).

You can also discover the research projects carried out as part of the French Metrology Network on the French Metrology website:

FRENCH METROLOGY WEBSITE

Our measurement, testing and analysis platforms...

Nanomaterials, the environment, fire, insulation, acoustics, gases and aerosols... To meet its customers' needs for support in measurement, testing, analysis, calibration and research, LNE relies on its technical platforms grouping together its test benches.

Find out more about the fields of application, technical characteristics and associated resources of our platforms.

Video presentation of our platforms (in french)