R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| 180-Degree Miniature Fiber-Optic Bend | Thomas & Betts Corp. | David Stowe, Frederick Gillham, Thomas Ouellette |
| 3D Surface Profiling with Focused Air Pulses | Cleveland State University, NASA (Glenn Research Center), Sonix Inc. | |
| Acoustic Stirling Heat Engine | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Scott Backhaus, Greg Swift, Chris Espinoza |
| Advanced Direct Contact Condensers | Alstom Energy Systems Inc., National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Allegro Screening System | Zymark Corp. | Burleigh Hutchins |
| Aqua-Port | Advanced Ceramics Research Inc. | John Lombardi, Gregory Artz |
| Argonne Clean-Diesel Technology | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Ramesh Poola, Raj Sekar |
| ATLAS | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Tennessee (Knoxville) | , Jack Dongarra, R. Clint Whaley |
| Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet | Beta-Squared Inc., Du Pont Co. (Nylon), Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of California (Los Angeles) | |
| Atomic Precision Multilayer Deposition System | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| AutoAuditorium System | Telcordia Technologies | Michael Bianchi, Thomas Judd |
| Automatic Solid Phase Injector | I. D. Analytical Services, Mass Evolution Inc. | Philippe Parsy |
| Centrate Ammonia Recover Process | Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), ThermoEnergy Environmental Corp. | |
| CHEMIN | Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), NASA (Ames Research Center) | |
| CHUF | Water Refining Inc. | Karl Huff, Allan Chace |
| Compact Microchannel Fuel Vaporizer | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Corning LEAF Optical Fiber | Corning Inc. | |
| Cryo Scanning Transmission Xray Microscope | Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories, State University of New York, Stony Brook | |
| Cryogenic ZAWCAD | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab (U.S. Dept. of Energy), ZawTech International Inc. | |
| Defthane ELT | Deft Inc. | Juliette Lim |
| Direct Injection High Efficiency Nebulizer | George Washington University, J. E. Meinhard Associates Inc. | |
| DMA | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), W. R. Grace & Co. | |
| DSL-Lite | Aware Inc. | |
| Electrodynamic Ion Funnel | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Richard Smith, Harold Udseth |
| ELITE Enhanced Polyethylene Resins | Dow Chemical Co. | |
| ESR Gene Test for Improved Pig Litter Size | Biotechnology R&D Corp., Iowa State University | , Max Rothschild |
| EXL Technology HPLC Injector | Valco Instruments Co. Inc. | Stanley Stearns |
| FillersFlow | Toyota Inc. (Central R&D Lab.) | Satoru Yamamoto, Takaaki Matsuoka |
| FOXY Fiber Optic Oxygen Sensors | Ocean Optics Inc. | Mahmoud Shahriari, Mike Morris |
| Frostless Heat Pump | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Galvanneal Temperature Measurement System | American Iron and Steel Institute, Bailey Engineers Inc., National Steel, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Gamma Watermark | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Gregar Extractor | Argonne National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Joseph Gregar, Ken Anderson |
| High Cycle Fatigue Machine | Southwest Research Institute | |
| High Power Diode Pumped Solid State Green Laser | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), United States Enrichment Corp. | |
| High Void-Fraction Multiphase Flowmeter | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Perry Equipment Corp. | |
| HR Heating Elements | Micropyretics Heaters International Inc., University of Cincinnati | |
| INSTALARM Real Time Self Healing Materials | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), North Hand Protection | |
| Integrated NMR Chemical Analyzer | Bruker Instruments Inc. | Werner Maas |
| Isofrax Thermal Insulation | Unifrax Corp. | |
| Kinni-Mate Coupling | AESOP Inc., Ford Motor Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) | , Martin Culpepper, Alexander Slocum |
| LaRC-CP1 and LaRC-CP2 Polyimides | NASA (Langley Research Center), SRS Technologies | Anne St. Clair, Terry St. Clair, Paul Gierow |
| Lasagna Process | DuPont, General Electric Co. (R&D Center), Monsanto Co. | , Philip Brodsky, B. Mason Hughes, Sa Ho |
| Laservec Diode Velocimeter System | TSI Inc. | Larry Berkner |
| Lasette | Big Sky Laser Technologies Inc., Cell Robotics Interanational Inc. | |
| Maverick | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab, Solex Robotics Systems Inc. | |
| Mechanically Fluidized Vacuum Reactor for Bulk Powders | ACTON Materials Inc., Kemp Development Corp. | , W. E. Kemp |
| Microdrive | IBM Corp. (Almaden Research Center) | Timothy Reiley |
| MicroHeater | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Micromechanical Quantum Detector | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| minispec | Bruker Analytik GmbH | |
| Model 2002 Vacuum Gauge | Teledyne Hastings Instruments | Doug Baker, Ron Outlaw, Bill Alvesteffer |
| Model 2182 Nanovoltmeter | Keithley Instruments Inc. | Chris Miller |
| Molecular Science Software Suite | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Montage Explorer | Synoptics Ltd. | Phil Atkin |
| Motor Winding Method for Low Proximity Losses | AESOP Inc., Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co., Giddings & Lewis, National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce), PCC Olofsson, Setco-Whitnon, Torrington Co. | , Rodolfo Palma, John Cooper |
| Multifunctional Biochip | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Nalco Ultimer 1460 | Nalco Chemical Co. | Patrick Murray, Daniel Coy, John Hurlock |
| NetSolve 1.2 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of California (San Diego), University of Tennessee (Knoxville) | Jack Dongarra, Henri Casanova |
| Oasis HLB 96 Well Extraction Plate | Waters Corp. | |
| Optical Modulator/Switch OMS | AlliedSIgnal (Federal Manufacturing & Technology), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), University of Maryland (College Park) | |
| Optical Wavelength 3D Silicon Photonic Lattice | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | James Fleming, Shawn-Yu Lin |
| OSDA-2000 | Hitachi Ltd. | |
| OxSilan | Brent International PLC, University of Cincinnati | , Win van Ooij |
| P2C Plasma Pressure Compaction | Materials Modification Inc., U. S. Army (Research Laboratory) | |
| Parmod Inks and Pastes for Printed Circuits | Paralec LLC | Paul Kydd |
| Peregrine | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| PhaseAble Enabler | Smith and Sun | Otto Smith |
| Power-Prime | PPG Industries Inc. | |
| PowerMod Solid State Switch Module | Diversified Technologies Inc. | Marcel Gaudreau |
| PREDICT Technique | Delphi Automotive Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | , Mary Meyer, Jane Booker, Tom Bement |
| PUMA Fiber Optic Neutron & Gamma Ray Sensor | Canberra Industries, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Radiometrics Microwave Profiler | Radiometrics Corp. | Fredrick Solheim |
| Rapid Identification System for Plastics Recycling | Toyota Inc. (Central R&D Lab.) | Atsushi Murase, Masayuki Matsui, Norio Sato |
| Rapidpoint 400 | Bayer Diagnostics | |
| REED-MD | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Niels Gronbech-Jensen, Keith Beardmore |
| Remote Clean RC | Applied Komatsu Technology, Applied Materials | |
| Renagel Capsules | GelTex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Harvard University | W. Harry Mandeville, Randy Holmes-Farley, George Whitesides |
| Robust Ceramic Joining Technology | Dynacs Engineering Co., NASA (Glenn Research Center) | , M. Singh |
| Rolling Assisted Biaxially Textured Substrates | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Salvo | Amerada Hess, Conoco Inc., Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Self Cleaning Carbon Air Filter | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Kirk Wilson, Timothy Burchell, Roddie Judkins |
| SH-4 Series Microprocessor | Hitachi Ltd. | |
| Solid State Power Source for Advanced Accelerators and Industrial Applications | Bechtel Nevada Corp., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| SpectrumPlus Cadmium Zinc Telluride Sensors | Digirad Corp., Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| ST Family of Solar Modules | Siemens Corp. (Solar Industries) | |
| STA 449 Jupiter Thermal Analyzer | Netzsch Instruments Inc., Netzsch-Geraetebau GmbH | , Martin Schmidt |
| Sulfur Resistant Oxymitter 4000 | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Rosemount Analytical Inc. | |
| Supercritical Fluid Slashing System | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Mark Argyle, Alan Propp |
| SWIFT | MTS Systems Corp. | Rick Meyer |
| TC Probe | Mathis Instruments Ltd. | Nancy Mathis |
| Temperature Phased Anaerobic Digestion | Iowa State University | Richard Dague, William Harris, Sandra Kaiser |
| Tempest | NASA (Glenn Research Center) | |
| Tracker | NASA (Glenn Research Center) | Ted Wright, Robert Klimek |
| Tractrix Valve | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | John Wordin |
| Ultrafocus 2000 | Ultratech Stepper | Boris Grek |
| VIP-9 Amorphous Silicon Imager | Varian Associates (Imaging Products) | |
| Visual Enterprise Process Management | Engineering Animation Inc. | |
| Waste Fume Analyzer | British Steel Teesside Technology Centre, EDAX Inc., Schutz Engineering Corp. | Steven Carss, Peter Schutz |
| Wave Bioreactor | Panacea Solutions Inc. | Vijay Singh |