R&D 100 Archive of Winners
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| Product | Organization | Co-Developers |
|---|---|---|
| 900-MHz Superconducting NMR Magnet System | Oxford Instruments | |
| A-SPECT | Photon Imaging Inc. | Lawrence MacDonald, Bradley Patt, Jan Iwanczyk |
| Adiabatic Metal Forming Process and Press System | LMC Inc. | Lennart Lindell |
| Aluminum-Lithium Alloy 2098 | Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., McCook Metals LLC, NASA (Langley Research Center) | |
| Antaris Near-IR Analyzer | ThermoNicolet (Industial Solutions) | |
| Aquacore | Advanced Ceramics Research | Greg Artz, John Lombardi, Ranji Vaidyanathan, Matt Milsovic |
| Argonne Autothermal Reforming Catalyst for Fuel Processors | Argonne National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Michael Krumpelt |
| Arsenic Treatment Units Using the Aqua-Bind Arsenic Removal Media | Apyron Technologies Inc. | Bryan Kepner, Greg Gilles, John Spotts |
| Automated Imaging System for Concrete Analysis | Honeywell FM&T, Missouri Dept. of Transportation, U. S. Dept. of Energy (Kansas City Plant) | Chris Baumgart, Kim Linder, Steve Cave |
| AX/MX/UMX High-Resolution Lab Balances | Mettler Toledo GmbH | |
| Catalyst Material for Plasma-Catalysis Engine Exhaust Treatment | Delphi Automotive Systems, Ford Research Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Chem-Reo Software | Netzsch Geratebau GmbH, Netzsch Thermal Analysis | |
| Chromolith Speed ROD RP-18e and Chromolith Performance RP-18e | Merck KGaA | Dieter Lubda |
| CombiSep MCE 2000 | CombiSep Inc., Iowa State University (Ames Laboratory) | Xiaoyi Gong, Edward Yeung |
| Continuous Laser Glass Melting Process | Hoya Corp., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Schott Glass Technologies Inc. | |
| Cryo-Tracker | Sierra Lobo Inc. | Mark Haberbusch |
| Cryoprobe TXI 600 MHz System | Bruker AG | |
| Cure on Demand Bonding System | Ameritherm Inc., Battelle Memorial Institute | |
| Current Interrupt Charging Algorithm for Lead-Acid Batteries | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Optima Batteries Inc., Recombination Technologies | |
| D8 DISCOVER with GADDS for Combinatorial Screening | Bruker AXS Inc. | Bob He |
| Decision Support for Operations & Maintenance (DSOM) | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Diesel Fuel Ignition Quality Tester (IQT) | Advanced Engine Technology Ltd., Southwest Research Institute | |
| Dioxin Precursor Monitor CP-2000 | Hitachi Ltd. | |
| Drop-In Residential Heat Pump Water Heater | Athur D. Little Inc., ECR International, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| DRWIN Electronically Scanning Antenna | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Paratek Microwave Inc., St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University | , Louise Sengupta |
| Dynamic Sag Corrector - DySC | SoftSwitching Technologies | Deepakraj Divan |
| DZ-MV100 Portable Camcorder | Hitachi Ltd. | |
| Environment Conscious Ceramics (ECOCERAMICS) | Dynacs Engineering Co. Inc., NASA (Glenn Research Center) | M. Singh |
| Evapo-Rust | Harris International Laboratories Inc. | David Harris |
| Exicor Low-Level Birefringence Measurement System | Hinds Instruments Inc. | Theodore Oakberg, Baoliang (Bob) Wang |
| FALCON Raman Chemical Imaging Microscope | ChemIcon Inc. | |
| Free-Space Quantum Cryptography | Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| FWA Base Station Antenna | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Information Technology R&D Center) | Izuru Naito |
| Gas-Filled Panels/Air Liners | Cargo Technologies Inc., Lawerence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | |
| Gene Recovery Microdissection (GRM) | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Allen Christian, Matthew Coleman, James Tucker |
| GeoMelt ADF | METSS Corp. | Richard Sapienza, William Ricks, Joseph Sanders |
| Geothermal Silica | Brookhaven National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Caithness Operating Co. LLC | Mow Lin, Eugene Premuzic, Stuart Johnson |
| GMR Revolution Sensor | Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Advanced Technology R&D Center) | M. Ikeuchi, K. Tsutsumi, T. Fukami |
| Hilbert-Huang Transform (HHT) | NASA (Goddard Space Flight Center), Princeton Satellite Systems Inc. | Norden Huang |
| HS-C430 Abrasive-Free Chemical-Mechanical Polishing Slurry | Hitachi Ltd. | |
| HuViS | Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc. | Kazunori Higuchi |
| HydroTrac | Electric Power Research Institute, Iris Power Engineering, New York Power Authority | |
| ICS 4000 | XRF Corp. | |
| INSPiRE Performance Polymers | Dow Chemical Co. | |
| Intelligent Lambda Switch (ILS) | Trellis Electronics | Aharon Agranat |
| Ion-Induced Electron Emission Microscope (IEEM) | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy), STAIB Instruments Inc. | Barney Doyle |
| Kodak X-Sight L/RA Film System | Eastman Kodak Co. | |
| Lasershot Marking System | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Metal Improvement Co. Inc. | C. Brent Dane, James Daley |
| LAWave | Fraunhofer IWS | Dieter Schneider, Thomas Schwarz |
| LifeLite System | ThauMDx | Art Boren, Jan Pawlak, Tim Stultz |
| LinkStick | Hitachi Ltd. | Toshifumi Arai |
| Long-Range Semi-Passive Radio Frequency Identification System | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Wave ID | Ron Gilbert |
| MAP-CA | Equator Technologies Inc., Hitachi Ltd. | , Kojima Keiji |
| MetroCor Fiber | Corning Inc. | Shiva Kumar, Jan Conradi, Steve Rosenbaum |
| MIDAD | Toyota Central R&D Laboratories Inc. | Yutaka Nonomura |
| MilliWave Viscometer | Battelle Memorial Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Westinghous Savannah River Company | |
| MOLYCAST Aluminum Melt Furnace | Amcast Industrial Corp., Edison Materials Technology Center, Micropyretics Heaters International Inc., U. S. Dept. of Energy | |
| MOST and WOW Wafer Level Semiconductor Test | FormFactor | |
| NanoManipulator DP-100 | 3rdTech Inc., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill) | Aron Helser |
| NanoScope IV Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM) System | Digital Instruments, NanoDevices Inc., Veeco Metrology Group | |
| Nanox 2613 Thermal Spray Feedstock | Inframat Corp. | Peter Strutt |
| Newport iSeries | Newport Electronics Inc. | |
| NIST Rotating-wheel Braille display | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | John Roberts |
| Optimum Substrate Mapper | Veeco Metrology Group | |
| PacketHound Protocol Management Appliance | Palisade Systems Inc. | Doug Jacobson, Stephanie Bridges, Guy Helmer |
| PENNSYN | Amherst Polymer Technology, Pennzoil-Quaker State Co. | James Chien, W. J. Heilman, I-Ching Chiu, Wei Song |
| Performance Application Programming Inerface (PAPI) | University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville) | |
| Pilkington Solar E Solar Control Low-E Glass | Pilkington North America (Building Products Group) | Michel Soubeyrand |
| Plastic Circuit Technology | Bell Laboratories, E Ink Corp., Lucent Technologies | John Rogers |
| Plastic MiniDIL Transmitter: HL1328DJS | Hitachi Ltd., Nortel Networks | |
| Polymer Hydrogen Getters | Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Timothy Shepodd, Leroy Whinnery Jr. |
| Process for the Determination of Mercury in Fossil Fuels | National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) | Stephen Long, W. Robert Kelly |
| ProFlux Polarizer | MOXTEK Inc. | None |
| PROSPECT | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Ying Xu, Dong Xu |
| Proteum 300 CCD | Bruker AXS Inc. | Roger Durst |
| PuriNOx Performance System | Lubrizol Corp. | |
| Q22-Y Magnetorheological Finishing System | QED Technologies Inc., U. S. Army (Research Laboratory), University of Rochester (Center for Optics Manufacturing) | Donald Golini |
| Ring Cusp Ion Engine | NASA (Glenn Research Center) | James Sovey, Vincent Rawlin, Robert Roman |
| SeaViz System | Battelle Memorial Institute, Desert Star Systems | Bradley DeRoos |
| Silicon/Mullite/BSAS and Silicon/Mullite+BSAS/BSAS EBCs (Environmental Barrier Coatings) | General Electric Co., NASA (Glenn Research Center), Pratt & Whitney, Solar Turbines Inc. | |
| Simple SERS Sample Vials | Advanced Fuel Research, Real-Time Analyzers | Yuan-Hsiang Lee, Stuart Farquharson |
| SMART Trac System | CEM Corp. | |
| Solid-State Radiation Materials and Detectors Based on II-VI Semiconductors | Fisk University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Sandia National Laboratories (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Yinnel-Tech Inc. | |
| STRANDFOAM EA Polypropylene Foam | Dow Chemical Co. | Martin Tusim |
| Super Hard Steel | Idaho National Engineering and Env. Lab (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | Daniel James Branagan |
| Supercritical CO2 Resist Remover (SCORR) | Agilent Technologies Inc., GT Equipment/SC Fluids, Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy) | , Craig Taylor |
| Sylramic-iBN Silicon-Carbide (SiC) Fiber | NASA (Glenn Research Center) | James DiCarlo, Hee Mann Yun, John Brennan |
| Tandem-Configured Solid-State Optical Limiter | Geltech Inc., Los Alamos National Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), U. S. Army (Research Office), University of Central Florida (Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL)) | |
| Tantalum/Titanium-Based Films for Giga-scale Interconnects | Gelest Inc., State University at Albany (Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology) | Barry Arkles, Alain Kaloyeros |
| TEEK and SOLREX | NASA (Langley Research Center) | Erik Weiser |
| THUMS Total Human Model for Safety | Toyota Motor Corp. | |
| Touch-N-Mow Engine Starting System | Briggs & Stratton Corp. (Applied Research) | Gary Gracyalny |
| TravelIR | SensIR Technologies | John Reffner, Donald Wilks, Robert Burch, Kenneth Schreiber |
| Triple-Junction Terrestrial Solar Cell Concentrator | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S. Dept. of Energy), Spectrolab Inc. | |
| Tritec 2000 Dynamic Mechanical Analyzer | Mettler-Toledo Inc., Triton Technology Ltd. | |
| Ultimer OOLTO53 | ONDEO Nalco Co. | |
| Vapor Reduction Fuel Tank System Bladder Tank | Asian Industry Co., Horie Metal Co., Tokai Rubber Industries, Toyota Motor Corp., Yazaki Corp. | |
| VersaLight Polarizer | MOXTEK Inc. | Doug Hansen |
| VersaMark Business Color Press | Scitex Digital Printing | |
| X-Celerator | Philips Analytical | Raymond Verbruggen |
| Z3:2d-gel Image Analysis System | Compugen Ltd. | Zeev Smilansky |