R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| ADAMS | Atlantic Richfield Co., Exlog Inc. | Amjad Besaisow, Fred Ng, Yih-Min Jan |
| Alwatt Battery SDL 1A | Alupower Inc. | |
| AroCy L-10 | Rhone-Poulenc Inc. | Wallace Craig |
| Autophoresis 1000A | Molecular Dynamics Inc. | |
| Ballistic Electron Emission Microscope | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | William Kaiser |
| BioFix Polymeric Beads with Immobilized Biological Materials | U. S. Bureau of Mines | Thomas Jeffers, Chris Ferguson, Paul Bennett |
| Biosurge Synchronous Autotransfuser | Diemolding Corp. | Kenneth Ouriel |
| Broadband Microwave Absorption Spectrometer | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Irving Bigio, Timothy Gosnell, Pritish Mukherjee |
| CAChe | Tektronix Inc. | |
| Cadenza Automated Immunostainer | Shandon Scientific Ltd. | |
| Compact Ocean Lift System | U. S. Navy (Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory) | Francis Liu |
| Continuously Focusable Microscope | Infinity Photo-Optical Co. | H. Jay Margolis |
| Coolahoop | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | |
| DMMS 3012A | Mechanical Measurement Devices | Steven Garrett, David Brown |
| Ductile Iron Aluminides | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | C. G. McKamey, V. K. Sikka, C. T. Liu |
| Electron Gun Evaporation Systems HM2 Series | Thermionics Laboratory Inc. | Charles Hanks, Nick Tsujimoto, Tosh Yamada |
| Epitaxial Liftoff | Bell Communications Research Inc. | Eli Yablonovich, T. J. Gmitter |
| eXL | Link Analytical | |
| FAGE 100 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Tennessee (Knoxville) | Frederic Fairfield |
| Flex-Sor | Advanced Temperature Devices Inc. | Joseph Beatty |
| GripMaster Measurement Device | Exos Inc. | Beth Marcus |
| Halogen IR 60W PAR-38 Lamps | General Electric Co. | |
| Handwriter Data Entry System | Communication Intelligence Corp. | John Ostrem, Hewitt Crane, David Foyt |
| Haynes Alloy 242/242 Products | Haynes International Inc. | Michael Rothman, Hani Tawancy |
| High Speed Time Resolved Diffractometer | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Elizabeth Larson, Phillip Waide, Joe Wong |
| High-Fluence Laboratory XUV Source | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| HiRider Powered Wheelchair | Falcon Rehabilitation Products Inc., Gaymar Industries Inc. (Retec USA Inc.) | , Thomas Houston |
| Impela 10/50 | Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. | J. McKeown, J. Ungrin |
| In Situ Composite Fabrication PEEK Foam | Sundstrand Aviation | Hossein Saatchi |
| Information Retrieval System for the Public | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Donna Harman, Gerald Candela |
| Iodophenylmaleimide Radioimmunoconjugator | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Prem Srivastava, John Allred |
| KAF-4200 | Eastman Kodak Co. | Georgia Moore, Kwok Wong |
| Laser Telemetering Dosimetry System | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Marlon Walker, William McLaughlin |
| LE-1500 | Ceramatec Inc. | Santosh Limaye |
| Linear Fire Extinguisher | Systron Donner Corp. | Donald Warren |
| M65720S | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | Yasutaka Horiba, Isao Fujimoto |
| Magneto-Optic Eddy Current Imager | Physical Research Inc. | Gerald Fitzpatrick, David Thome |
| MetaMode | Optical Coating Laboratory Inc. | |
| Methanesulfonamide Process | Atochem North America | Stanley Sandler |
| MGFC42V3742 Solid State Microwave Power Amplifier | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | Tadashi Takagi, Yukio Ikeda, Masahide Yamanouchi |
| Model 100 Blood Cadmium Assay Kit | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | David Peterson, Maryka Bhattacharyya, Edmund Huff |
| Model 140 High Speed Fiber Optic Sensor System With Model C109 Current Sensor Probe | MetriCor Inc. | |
| Model 200e MegaRay Compact Microwave Electron Sterilizer | Baxter Healthcare Corp., Varian Associates | |
| Model 271/251 Gas Mass Spectrometer | Finnigan MAT Corp., Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Model 300 Flowtronex Vapor Pressure Analyzer | Atlantic Richfield Co., Flowtronex Intl. | Donald Reed |
| Model 8800 Harshaw Thermoluminescent Dosimetry System | Engelhard Corp., Martin Marietta Energy Systems Inc. | |
| Model CW-5000 High Temperature Flexible Ceramic Wafer Seal | NASA (Lewis Research Center), Sverdrup Technologies Inc. | Bruce Steinetz, Paul Sirocky |
| Model DA7W-I Millimeter Wave Monolithic Amplifier | Varian Associates | Reza Majidi-Ahy, Cliff Nishimoto, Yi-Ching Pao |
| Model FDP 3100 Frequency Domain Processor | Macrodyne Inc., NASA (Langley Research Center) | |
| Model FMI 1700 Fiber Optic Moire Interferometery System | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Vance Deason, Michael Ward |
| Model PRM-100 Foster-Miller In Situ Fiber-Optic Polymer Reaction Monitor | Foster-Miller Inc., NASA (Langley Research Center) | Mark Druy, W.A. Stevenson, Phillip Young |
| Model PSM-17-RGB Flat Panel Video Display Monitor | Photonics Systems Inc. | Peter Friedman, Carol Ann Wedding, Abdul Rahman |
| Model SG3000GXH24 Gate Turn Off Thrysitor | Toshiba Corp. | Hisayoshi Muramatsu |
| Model SXSA-447 Soft X-ray Small-Angle Scattering Apparatus | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | James Underwood, Rupert Perera, Dana Berkeland |
| Model VRC PR-6C Optical Power Fiber Receiver | Varian Associates | Gary Virshup |
| Model VSC30K Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit | Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. | Ira Deyhimy |
| Model XUV100C Windowless Silicon Photodiode | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce), United Detector Technology | , Raj Korde |
| Models 100, 101 Dynapro Infrared Gas Analyzers | Dynatech Electro-Optics Corp. | Karl Black, Keith Kaste, Ross Johnson |
| Molybdenum Disilicide/Silicon Carbide Composites | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | David Carter, John Petrovic, Richard Honnell |
| MP 1500 | Du Pont Co. | Richard Morgan, Charles Stewart |
| Ncube 2 | Ncube | Stephen Colley |
| NSLS-U4IR | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| odel VSC30K Gallium Arsenide Integrated Circuit | Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. | Gary Lee, Aubrey Grey |
| ORNL HT-UPS | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | P. J. Maziasz, R. W. Swindeman |
| Pennzane X2000 | Pennzoil Co. | Clifford Venier, Edward Casserly |
| Permalyzer 2000 | Holometrix Inc. | Timothy Brehm, Karl Coumou |
| Phase Gradient Autofocus for Aperture Radar | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | P. H. Eichel, D. C. Ghiglia, C. V. Jakowatz |
| Phenol Replacements from Biomass Process | Solar Energy Research Institute (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Helena Chum |
| PowerTrack Stabilization and Alignment System | Coherent Inc. | |
| Primax UH1000 | Air Products & Chemicals Inc. | Bernard Bauman |
| Process for Developing Ceraform Mirrors | United Technologies Corp. | Alexander Vivaldi, William Brohawn, Pinke Halpert |
| PVM100 | Gerber Scientific Inc. | Hermann Gerber |
| Pyroflux Glass Melting Process | Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Alex Fassbender, Lyle Mudge, Paul Walkup |
| Q-Endoscreen | Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Washington State University | Marvin Frazier |
| QBC Malaria Test | Becton Dickinson & Co. | |
| Sarcos Humaoid Robot | Sarcos Group (Animate Systems Inc.), University of Utah | , Stephen Jacobsen, Barry Hanover, Edwin Iversen |
| Scanning Scattering Microscope | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Joseph Fine, Debes Marton |
| Series 500 Focused Ion Beam Milling System | FEI Co. | Lynwood Swanson, David Tuggle, Gary Cabe |
| Series 500 Human Skin Model Testskin System | Organogenesis Inc. | Roger Gay, Paul Kemp, Nancy Parenteau |
| Silicon Carbide Fiber Tow | Materials & Electrochemical Research Corp. | James Withers, R. Loutfy, P. Arya |
| Single Crystal Growth by Osmotic Dewatering | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Paul Todd, Subhas Sikdar |
| SMU Models 236, 237 | Keithley Instruments Inc. | |
| Solid State Nitrogen Dioxide Sensor | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Dipen Sinha, Stephen Agnew, William Christensen |
| Sound Retrieval System | Hughes Aircraft Co. | Arnold Klayman |
| Stochastic Analyzer for Pulsating Phenomena | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Richard Van Brunt, Sanjay Kulkarni |
| Sulfur-Poisoning-Resistant and Regenerable Hydrogenation Catalysts | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Randy Wright |
| Super NiCd Battery Cell | Hughes Aircraft Co. | |
| TG151 | Cahn Instruments Inc. | David Thumin, F. H. Rogan |
| Thermaflash 2200 | Holometrix Inc. | Andrzej Brzezinski |
| Thermite Reduction Process | Ames Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Iowa State University | Rick Schmidt, David Peterson, John Wheelock |
| Time Warp Operating System-TWOS | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Brian Beckman, Peter Reiher |
| Tinuvin 123 | Ciba-Geigy Corp. | |
| Ultralow Density Silica Aerogel | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Thomas Tillotson, Lawrence Hrubesh, Ian Thomas |
| Ultrathin Diffractive Lens | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Andrew Hawryluk, Natale Ceglio, John Stanley |
| Universal Process for Figerprint Detection | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), U. S. Secret Service | George Saunders |
| Upconversion Solid State Laser | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Dinh Cong Nguyen |
| VaporSep Membrane-Based Separation Systems | Membrane Technology & Research Inc. | |
| VG Microscopes HB501 UX STEM | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), VG Microscopes Ltd. | S.J. Pennycook |
| Video Prove 2000 VS208 Shadow Measurement System | Welch Allyn Inc. | Jon Salvati, Raymond Lia |
| Visioneer 4050 | Picker International (Sierra Scientific ) | David Gilblom, Robert Hunt |
| ZQTS | Hydro Quebec, Joslyn Canada Inc. | Michel Bourdages, Guy St. Jean, Robert Giraldeau |