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Alfalight, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of innovative, high-quality, high-power diode laser products supplying industrial, telecommunications, consumer, and defense markets worldwide. The company's advanced Aluminum-Free Active region (ALFA) diode lasers deliver industry-leading efficiency, reliability, power, and brightness. Alfalight's laser diode patent portfolio covers high power, spectral control, high brightness, single-mode, and short-wavelength laser technologies."
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AquaMost, LLC was founded in 2006 by four UW-Madison scientists to use an advanced, proprietary, light-activated catalyst to create an innovative water purification device that can convert aqueous ammonia directly into nitrogen gas. The device also eliminates other contaminants from water, including soluble proteins and toxins, as well as harmful microorganisms such as algae, disease-causing bacteria, and protozoans. There are multiple markets for the device including home aquariums, recirculation aquaculture systems, environmental remediation, backyard ponds and water gardens, public aquariums and zoos, swimming pools and spas, wastewater treatment and water desalination plants, and home drinking water purification.
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Imago Scientific Instruments Corporation was founded by Tom Kelly, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Director of the Materials Science Center in 1998. Since then Imago has become the world leader in 3-D structure and composition analysis at the nanoscale by developing our award-winning Local Electrode Atom Probe (LEAP™) microscope. Our first shipment was made to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in June 2003. We currently have 40 employees in Madison, a world-wide customer base with over 25 instruments around the world and global technology affiliations. Imago's LEAP revolutionized the field of atom-probe tomography (R&D 100 Award 2004), and we were the first to commercialize a laser atom probe (R&D 100 Award 2006) and a large-angle reflectron LEAP (R&D 100 Award 2008). In April 2008, Imago and FEI Company, the world's leading manufacturer of electron microscopes and focused-ion-beam instruments, announced a strategic partnership for sales and marketing of Imago's LEAP.
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Microfabrica is the industry leader in manufacturing of micrometer- and millimeter-scale metal components, subsystems, and devices with features measured in microns. The company's breakthrough proprietary EFAB technology brings a new paradigm to manufacturing highly-miniaturized products, offering low cost, unprecedented flexibility, and quick time-to-market in a wide range of applications that require miniaturization, including medical devices, semiconductor testing, micro- and mm-wave electronics, inertial sensing, and many more. EFAB is the first micrometer- and millimeter-scale fabrication technology allowing, successive deposition of tens of precision metal layers to create three-dimensional micro-machines which are robust and often require no assembly.
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Nemean Networks was started in 2007 based on patented technology developed by Dr. Paul Barford of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and managed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. Nemean is developing the next generation of computer network intrusion detection. Nemean's products identify network intrusions in near-real time, with great accuracy and very few false alarms. Nemean will provide these products to universities, corporations, and state and federal agencies. Nemean's A1000 situational awareness system will be generally available in late fourth-quarter 2008.
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NovaShield Inc., founded by leading scientists at the University of Wisconsin, develops technology to detect and eliminate the next generation of malware threats on personal computers. Their breakthrough approach rapidly identifies previously unseen malware by using specification-based monitoring, a real time and uniquely effective approach for detecting looming threats.
The NovaShield team has developed the most advanced and accurate anti-malware product available to consumers and businesses with the best-in-class ability to find new threats such as drive-by-downloads, trojans, botnets, keyloggers, and rootkits. Funded by two competitive grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and private investors, NovaShield is based in Madison, Wisconsin.
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nPoint, Inc. manufactures ultra-precision motion and control devices for nano-scale research and manufacturing. Our products include a series of nanopositioning systems that consist of stages and control electronics. The positioning products enable rapid, precise, and repeatable motion and are used in applications ranging from life science to semiconductor industry.
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PicoCal's objective is to provide novel measurement solutions at the nanoscale to its customers. The company's products enable users to quickly and clearly view and measure properties at the nanoscale. PicoCal's products are designed to help researchers and manufacturers view critical characteristics. In almost every technology there is a need for enabling instrumentation at the nanoscale. The fields that gain from PicoCal's technology are: semiconductor, nanotechnology, biomedical, and advanced materials.
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About SonoPlot SonoPlot manufactures and sells precision picoliter fluid spotting and plotting instruments, called MicroplottersTM for use in life sciences research and microelectronics applications. SonoPlot's GIX Microplotter instruments use innovative controlled ultrasonics to print microcircuitry or deposit high-density grids of biomolecules such as DNA or proteins for the fabrication of microarrays. The company's products are designed to print a wide range of biomolecules and polymers. They push beyond the limits of existing technologies to form smaller, more consistent and well-shaped spots, lines and arcs. This provides researchers a number of benefits including smaller feature sizes, improved precision of placement and savings in material costs. The company has also developed a series of patented surface treatment processes for attaching biomolecules to a wide range of materials, providing life science researchers with improved materials and even greater flexibility. SonoPlot is a privately-funded company headquartered in Middleton, WI.
