R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| 1200 Series Centrifugal Pumps | Allis-Chalmers Corp. | R. Barry Erickson |
| Alcoa 826 Process | Aluminum Company of America | |
| Arbitraty Function Generator Model 9100 | LeCroy Corp. | |
| Aryldicyanate Monomer RDX64826 | Interez Inc. | D. A. Shimp |
| Atomsource | Analyte Corp. | Thomas J. Scuitto |
| Ba Dispenser Thermionic Cathode | NASA (Lewis Research Center), Varian Associates | Edwin G. Wintucky, Mike Green, Morrie Feinleib |
| Boron Carbide Cermet Process | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Danny C. Halverson, Richard L. Landingham |
| Ceramic Fiber Insulation ZZX-4200 | Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Cerashield | Advanced Refractory Technologies | Keith A. Blakely, Peter T. B. Shaffer |
| Co/Spinel Catalyst for Carburized Gas | Toyota Inc. (Central R&D Lab.) | Yoshiyasu Fujitani, Hideaki Muraki, Shinichi Matsunaga |
| Cobalt Recovery Process | U.S. Bureau of Mines | William L. Cornell |
| Cobra RPB-2010 | Identechs | Geoff Taylor |
| Compact Microwave Ion Source | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Wulf B. Kunkel, Ka-Ngo Leung, Steve R. Walther |
| Continuous Aqueous Tritium Monitor | Westinghouse Electric Corp. | Gary McManus, Forrest Weesner |
| Crystal Laser Monitor | Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory | C. H. Chen, S. D. Kramer, M. P. McCann |
| DAISY | Southwest Research Institute | George J. Gruber, Dennis R. Hamlin, Harry L. Grothues |
| Die Target for Dynamic Consolidation of Powders | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | John E. Flinn, Gary E. Korth |
| Digital Compositional Mapping Procedure | National Bureau of Standards, National Institute of Health | |
| DS-500 | National Research Council of Canada, Techrad Inc. | Luc Piche |
| DSC/XRD/MS Research Instrument | Dow Chemical Co. | |
| DT-470 Series Temperature Sensors | Lake Shore Cryotronics Inc. | Philip R. Swinehart |
| Electron Beam Ion Trap | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Morton A. Levine, Roscoe E. Marrs |
| Electronic Vibration Isolation System | Newport Corp. | John Sandercock, Tom Kujawa |
| Electrophoresis Mass Spectrometer Interface | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Brian Andresen, Eric Fought |
| Engine Combustion Simulation System | Toyota Inc. (Central R&D Lab.) | Tadakuni Hayashi |
| ERA-1000 Metal CVD System | Ulvac Corp. | Izumi Nakayama |
| External Micro-Ion-Beam Analysis System | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Barney L. Doyle, Norman D. Wing |
| Fermar Dual Phase Steel | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Gareth Thomas |
| Fiber Reinforced Ceramic Composite Fabrication | Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Fiber-Optic Fluoroimmuno Sensor | Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Tennessee, Knoxville | |
| Finapres | BOC Group Inc. | |
| Fluxatron U102 | Innovex Inc. | Vladimir Drits |
| Force Sensing Resistor | Interlink Electronics Inc. | Franklin Eventoff |
| High Speed Data Acquisition/Analysis System | Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. | Strether Smith |
| Highly Dispersive X-Ray Mirror | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | N. Ceglio, A. Hawryluk, D. Stearns |
| HIV p24 ELISA/RIA Immunoassays NEK-041A and NEK-04A | DuPont Co. | |
| HP5965A 'FTIR | Hewlett-Packard Co. | Edward Darland |
| Hydrodynamic Pressure Saturator | Black Clawson Co., MiPly Equipment Inc. | , Howard K. Menser |
| Hydrogen/Oxygen Micro Steam Generator | Fr. Kammerer GmbH | Hermann Kissler |
| Ice Thickness Detector | NASA (Langley Research Center) | Leonard M. Weinstein |
| IMAGESystem | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | John C. Sutherland |
| In-Situ Ceramic Quality Sensor | National Bureau of Standards | M. P. Jones, G. V. Blessing |
| Interfacial Testing System | Dow Chemical Co. | Donald L. Caldwell, Fermin M. Cortez, Ming K. Tse |
| InterSense | Allied Signal Inc., Allied-Signal (Amphenol Corp.) | Michael Corke, Pedram Leilabady |
| Ion-Sensitive Probe with Retractable Ion Collector | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Sao Paulo | Ady Hershcovitch, Ivan Nascimento |
| IR-SurProf | National Bureau of Standards | |
| KAF-1400 CCD Imager | Eastman Kodak Co. | |
| Laser Microinjector | Hitachi Ltd., Institute of Physical & Chemical Research | Kiko Takahashi |
| Laser Scanner for Crystal Axis Orientation | National Bureau of Standards | Sidney Weiser |
| Linac Pulse Compression System | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | George Mavrogenes |
| M5M4C264P Dual Port 256 K-Bit Memory Chip | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | Takao Nakano |
| Mach-Zehnder Traveling Wave Modulators | Allied-Signal (Amphenol Corp.) | |
| Mark III Molecular Beam Inlet | Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus Laboratory) | C. A. Alexander, J. Ogden, R. A. Severance |
| MAST | Picker International Inc. | Pradip N. Pattany |
| Meridian | MacDonald Dettwiler & Associates Ltd. | |
| Micromax | Leeds & Northrup Co. | James W. Zecca |
| Micromembrane-Electrode Sensor | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Laszlo Redey, Ira Bloom |
| Millitron | Varian Associates | Bill G. James, Frank Dinopoli, Lloyd Hayes |
| Model 595 Quasistatic CV Meter | Keithley Instruments Inc. | Thomas J. Mego, Jay Hardway |
| Model 924-0085 VacIon DetecTorr | Varian Associates (Vacuum Products) | Burdell Kietzmann |
| Model CS-223GR Auto Mixed Fron | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. | Naoki Shimokawa |
| Model HA19501 'Ultrahigh Speed D/A Convertor | Hitachi Ltd. | Kenji Maio |
| Model J953 VLSI Test System | Teradyne Inc. | Ed Ostertag |
| Model MDS-81D Microwave Dissolution System | CEM Corp., National Bureau of Standards | , Howard M. Kingston |
| Model O2-760 Oxygen Monitor | Martin Marietta Corp. | Marvin Kroll, Joseph McClintock, Otto Ollinger |
| Model VM-108 Broad Band, Low Noise, High-Gain Microwave Amplifier | Varian Associates | Steve Bandy, George Zdasiuk |
| Norem Hardfacing Alloys | AMAX Materials Research Center, Electric Power Research Institute | Edward P. Whelan, Howard Ocken |
| Opto-Electronic Integrated Circuits | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. | Jun Shibata |
| PDO Type T4F Optical Recording Media | Philips and DuPont Optical | |
| PDS AS-1000L | Pennsylvania State University, Standard Oil Engineered Materials Co. | Richard Tressler, Monika Ten Eyck, Gabriel DeMunda |
| Personal Supercomputer | Culler Scientific Systems Corp. | Glen Culler |
| Planar Triode Pulser | Grant Applied Physics Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | , Rex Booth |
| Platinum-Free Phosphate Laser Glass, LG-750, LHG-8 | Hoya Optics Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Schott Glass Technologies Inc. | |
| Polarized Neutron Reflectometer | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Gian Felcher |
| Prism/DDM | GE Calma | Weiping Wang |
| RAPRENOx | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Robert A. Perry |
| Remote Sensor and Cable Identifier | Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Rotor Crack Detector | Electric Power Research Institute, General Electric Co. | John R. Scheibel, Imdad Imam, Steven H. Azzaro |
| SARISA | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | M. J. Pellin, C. E. Young, W. F. Calaway, D. M. Gruen |
| Series 4000i Quaternary Gradient Pump | Dionex Corp. | Tom Tullsen |
| SF3 1000 | DuPont Co. | J. J. Kirkland, W. W. Yau |
| Soft X-Ray Laser | Princeton University (Plastic Physics Laboratory), Princeton X-Ray Laser Inc. | S. Suckewer |
| SPA-LEED | Leybold-Heracus GmbH | Martin Heuzler |
| Ssam-1 | Failure Analysis Assoc. | David W. Mercaldi, Eric C. Marshall |
| SuperCavity | Newport Corp. | Richard Barger |
| Superflo | Sepragen Corp. | Vinit Saxena |
| SXA Optical Grade Metal Matrix Composites | Advanced Composite Materials Corp. | Walter R. Mohn |
| Tactix 695 | Dow Chemical Co. | James L. Bertram |
| Takeoff Performance Monitoring System | NASA (Langley Research Center), University of Kansas ( Lawrence) | |
| Tetron One | Gemini Research Inc. | C. L. Ramiller, M. L. Hammond |
| Tribex | Pennwalt Corp. | James P. King |
| TRUEX | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Westinghouse Hanford Co. | E. P. Horwitz, Wallace W. Schulz |
| Ultrasound Pipe Porosity Sensor | American Iron & Steel Institute, Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Magnaflux Corp., National Bureau of Standards | , David Kupperman, Lev Spevak, Melvin Linzer, Haydn N. G. Wadley |
| Universal Pulse Processor HD63140 | Hitachi Ltd. | Tatsuaki Ueno, Shigeki Morinaga |
| VXR Wideline Solids Accesory | Varian Associates | Truett Majors |
| Wobbler Beam Delivery System | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| X-RaY Fluorescence in Vivo Lead Monitor | Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | John F. Rosen, Lucian Wielopolski |
| X-Ray Mask | AT&T Bell Laboratories | Roland A. Levy, Douglas J. Resnick, Arnold W. Yanof |
| ZFNMR-BETA Zero Field Spectrometer | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Alexander Pines |
| Zone Plated Coded Microscope | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Natale M. Ceglio |