R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| 20 X 60 S Binocular | Carl Zeiss Co. | Adolf Weyrauch |
| Advantage Magnetic Contactor and Starter | Westinghouse Electric Corp. (Electrical Comp.) | |
| ADXL50 | Analog Devices | Richard Payne, Steve Sherman, Bob Tsang |
| Alcatel PX | Alcatel N. V. | |
| Alkaline-Fluoride-Carbonate Electrolyte for Zinc/Nickel Oxide Batteries | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Thomas Adler, Frank McLarnon, Elton Cairns |
| Aluminum Product 7055-T77 | Aluminum Company of America | |
| Animated Display of Inferred Tongue, Lip, and Jaw Movements During Speech | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | George Papcun, Timothy Thomas, Judith Hochberg |
| APU-1 | Stanford University | Roger Carr |
| Atomic Processing Microscope | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Lawrence Kazmerski |
| Base-Catalyzed Destruction Process | Battelle Memorial Institute, EPA, Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory, Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Cablecure Restoration | Dow Corning Corp. | Gary Vincent, Daniel Meyer, Glen Bertini |
| CADEYES Model 2001 | Air Gage, Industrial Technology Institute | Leonard Bieman, Kevin Harding |
| CAMP Deep-UV Photoresist | AT&T Bell Laboratories, OCG Microelectronic Materials | Elsa Reichmanis, Omkaram Nalamasu, Andrew Blakeney |
| CEPRATE SC Stem Cell Concentrator | CellPro Inc. | Randal Goffe |
| CFC/HFC Ratiometer | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Fang Chen, S. L. Allman, C. H. Chen |
| Cooled Optically Stimulated Luminescence | Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Steven Miller, Joseph McDonald, Fred Eichner |
| Cryogenic Diamond Tuning | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), National Institute of Standards & Technology | Ralph Lundin, Delbert Stewart, Christopher Evans |
| Cupra Select | Schumacher | John Norman, Beth Muratore, Paul Dyer |
| DBL3 Device | Durell Laboratories Inc. | William Durell |
| DC Broad-Beam High-Current Metal Ion Source | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Diesel Particulate Trap Oxidizer | Donaldson Company Inc. | Wayne Wagner, Chuck Hoyer |
| DR-2000H Real-Time Digital Radiography System | Hamamatsu Photonics K. K., Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Medical Corp. | Takeo Tsunoda, Hisatake Yokouchi, Masayuki Tsuneoka |
| DynaForce | Force Imaging Technologies, Tekscan Inc. | Rob Podoloff, Mike Benjamin |
| EM 912 Omega | Carl Zeiss Co. | E. Weimer, D. Krahl, E. Rose |
| Ensemble Particle Concentration and Sizing | Insitec Inc. | Donald Holve, Tom Harvill, Jared Hoog |
| Filtron | Gentex Optics Inc. | Robert Sallavanti |
| Flame Quality Indicator | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Thomas Butcher, Philip Cerniglia, Roger McDonald |
| Flat Fluorescent Lamp | Thomas Electronics Inc. | Munisamy Anandan, Douglas Ketchum |
| Flectron Metallized Materials | Monsanto Chemical Co. | Albert Morgan, James Capistran, Reed Niederkorn |
| Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry System | Baxter Healthcare, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Pittsburgh | Mahendra Mathur, Frank Shaffer, John Woodard |
| FTA 100 Digital Surface Energy Meter | First Ten Angstroms | Charles Seiter, Roger Woodward |
| General Area Detector Diffraction System | Siemens Analytical X-Ray Instruments, Siemens Industrial Automation Inc. | Kingsley Smith, Richard Ortega |
| Glarestopper | Donnelly Corp. | |
| Glycine-Nitrate Process for Synthesizing Ceramic Powders | Pacific Northwest Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| GRAIL | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Edward Uberbacher, Reinhold Mann, Richard Mural |
| Graphite-From-Kish Process | U. S. Bureau of Mines (Dept. of the Interior ) | Larry Nicks, Paul Laverty, Lawrence Walters |
| Hard-Surfaced Polymers | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Eal Lee, Monty Lewis, Louis Mansur |
| Helium Self-Pumping Module for Fusion | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Jeffrey Brooks, Alan Krauss, Richard Nygren |
| High- Level Integration MBE Epitaxial Wafers | Litton Systems Inc. | Yi-Ching Pao |
| High-Resolution Scanning Magnetometer | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T), Quantum Magnetics Inc. | Ronald Sager, David Cox, Andrew Hibbs |
| HP 8504A Precision Reflectometer | Hewlett-Packard Co. | Harry Chou, Wayne Sorin |
| HP5071A Primary Frequency Standard | Hewlett-Packard Co., Hewlett-Packard Laboratory | |
| HV-100 Videophone | Hitachi Ltd. | Yoji Shibata, Masaaki Takizawa |
| Hydrogen Chloride Gas Sensor | Bell Communications Research | Glen Neuburger |
| In-Focus Monochromator | Hettrick Scientific Inc. | Michael Hettrick |
| InSight Thoracic Imaging System | Eastman Kodak Co. | Phillip Bunch, Robert Dickerson |
| INTAC Atmosphere Control System | BOC Group Inc. | Michael Garrett, Piotr Sadkowski, Alberto LaCava |
| Integrated Acousto-Optic Filter | Bell Communications Research | David Smith, Jane Baran, John Johnson |
| Ionization-Probe Printerd-Circuit Board Head Gasket | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Peter Witze |
| LaRC RP46 Polyimides | NASA (Langley Research Center) | Ruth Pater |
| Lasermat | Thermo Instrument Systems | |
| LAST and BLAST | Du Pont Co. | Mark Bobrow, Gerald Litt, Krista Shaughnessy |
| Lightweight Metal-Matrix Composite Microelectronic Package | Ceramics Process Systems Corp., Texas Instruments Corp. | |
| LiquiTrak Liquidborne Particle Detector System | IBM Corp. (T.J. Watson Research Center), TSI Inc. | Stanley Kaufman, Peter Hairston, David Blackford |
| Microtubes and Microtube Composites | U. S. Air Force (Phillips Laboratory) | |
| Model LCL-7-2 Laser Centerline Localizer | Humbug Mountain Research Laboratories | David Shemwell, Alan Vetter |
| Model RCTS-1 Radar Coal Thickness Sensor | Boeing Aerospace and Electronics Co., U. S. Bureau of Mines (Dept. of the Interior ) | Robert Chufo, Raymound Helinski, Walter Johnson |
| Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope | AT&T Bell Laboratories | Jay Trautman, Eric Betzig |
| Nicoderm | Marion Merrell Dow Inc. | Clyde Rolf, Sidney Goldstein, David Enscore |
| Nontoxic Free-Machining, Wrought Copper Alloy | AT&T Bell Laboratories | John Plewes, Dominic Loiacono |
| NoToX Biological Preservative | Earth Safe Industries Inc. | Arthur Schwartz |
| NUVOM 1a | Jasco Corp., Nippondenso Co. Ltd., Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc. | A. Wada, K. Kutsuna, E. Sudo |
| Oblique Fiber Endface Cleaving Tool | Bell Communications Research | |
| OnGuard 1000 Electronic Corrosion Sensor | Purafil Inc. | William England, Michael Osborne, Xiuyi Zhang |
| Optical Precipitate Profiler | High Yield Technology, IBM Corp. (T.J. Watson Research Center) | |
| PA300XI | Phase Dynamics Inc. | Bentley Scott, Samuel Shortes |
| Paradigm Motor Polygon Assemblies | Lincoln Laser Co. | Dwight Smith, Derald Hanson, August Weilbach |
| Pegasus 1010 Photon Tunneling Microscope | Dyer Energy Systems Inc., Polaroid Corp. | |
| PINS Chemical Assay System | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| PIONIR 1024 | Perkin-Elmer Corp. | Robert Hannah |
| Piston-Pumped Rocket Propulsion for Small High-Performance Spacecraft | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Moog Space (Products), Rocket Research Co. | John Whitehead, Hans Toews, Don Swink |
| Plastic Dye-Laser Rods | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Polarizing Single-Mode Optical Fiber | 3M Co. | Michael Messerly, James Onstott, Raymond Mikkelson |
| Portable Laser Spark Surface Mass Analyzer | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | David Cremers, Karen Kane, Monty Ferris |
| PRISM | BIOSYM Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Illinois (Urbana) | J.Dana Honeycutt, John Curro, Kenneth Schweizer |
| PRS-1000 Photoreflectance Spectrometer | Olympus Corp. | Keith Mortensen, Fred Pollack, Ken Tracht |
| Pulsed Extraction Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer | Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Anthony Appelhans, David Dahl, James Delmore |
| QRMS II Remote Measurement System | Questar Corp. | John Ridge, Craig Ramsey, Stephen Knight |
| Raster Scanner Beam Delivery System | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Tim Renner, William Chu, Bernhard Ludewigt |
| RULER Family of Instruments | U. S. Air Force (Wright Laboratory), University of Dayton | Douglas Wolf, Robert Kauffman |
| S-17 Gradient Enhanced Spectroscopy Accessory | General Electric Co. (NMR Instruments) | Paul Calderon, Frank Huang, Boban John |
| SATFIND 406 EPIRB | MPR Teltech Ltd. | Larry Onotera, Brian Murray, William Street |
| Sendust Head | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. | Tatsuo Ozeki, Youichi Masubuchi, Yoshimasa Akashi |
| SIM System II | Meyer Sound Laboratories Inc. | John Meyer |
| Solar Detoxification of Hazardous Organic Materials in Groundwater | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| SPACE Service Creation System | Bell Communications Research | Thomas Ely, David Babson |
| StatPal Blood Gas Analysis System | PPG Industries Inc. | |
| Strake | NASA (Langley Research Center) | John Wilson, Henry Kelley |
| Superconducting Storage Device | Superconductivity Inc. | |
| Surface-Enhanced Raman Optical Data Storage System | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Tuan Vo-Dinh, David Stokes |
| Tactile Sensor System | Bonneville Scientific Inc. | Allen Grahn |
| Terrasight | Battelle Memorial Institute, Electric Power Research Institute, Photographic Analysis Co. | |
| Thermal Neutron Multiplicity Counter | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Transient Infrared Spectroscopy On-Line Analyzer | Ames Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Iowa State University | Roger Jones, John McClelland |
| Vacuum Plasma Structural Deposition Dual Alloy Turbine Rotors | Howmet Corp. | Kim Bowen, Steven Salter, Anthony Huiber |
| Vapor Chloride-Liquid Ammonia Process | Ford Motor Co. | Gary Crosbie, Ronald Predmesky, John Nicholson |
| Varispec Filter | Cambridge Research and Instrumentation Inc. | Cliff Hoyt, Peter Miller, Tracey Golini |
| VHP 1000 Biodecontamination System | AMSCO International | |
| WiseCap Packaging | Yellowstone Enviornemental Science Inc. | |
| Zeeman Refractive Index Detector | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Roger Johnston, W. Kevin Grace |