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2011 R & D 100 Award Winners
Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:10am
R&D Magazine
2011
R&D 100 Winners
Press release: R&D Editors Announce 2011 R&D 100 Awards
The 2011 R&D 100 Award Winners are listed below in alphabetical order by the name of the primary developer company.
Primary Developer |
2011 R&D 100 Winning Technology (Category) |
Co-developers/Contributors |
| A123 Systems Inc., USA | A123 Systems Nanophosphate Engine Start Battery (Energy Devices) | |
| Agilent Technologies, USA | Infiniium 90000 X-Series Oscilloscope (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | Advanced Ceramic Film Capacitors for Power Electronics in Electric Drive Vehicles (Electrical Devices) | |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | Enhanced Renewable Methane Production System (Energy Devices) | Eurisko Scientific LLC |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | Integrated RF MEMS Switch/CMOS Device (Communication Technologies) | MEMtronics Corporation Innovative Micro Technologies Peregrine Semiconductor Advanced Diamond Technologies |
| Argonne National Laboratory, USA | Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (PAS) System for Remote Detection of Explosives and Chemicals (Safety and Security) | |
| Battelle Memorial Institute, USA | Resource Effective Bioidentification System (REBS) (Environmental Technologies) | |
| Black Box Network Services, USA | VirtuaCore Desktop Virtualization Computer Sharing (Information Technologies) | Fiddlehead Inc. |
| Brookfield Engineering Labs Inc., USA | Powder Flow Tester (Laboratory Equipment) | The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA | Maia X-ray Microprobe Detector System (Analytical Instruments) | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) |
| Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA | Multimodal Optical Nanoprobe for Advanced Electron Microscopy (Imaging Technologies) | Nanofactory Instruments AB |
| Brooks Automation Inc. USA | 830 Vacuum Quality Monitor (VQM) (Analytical Instruments) | Rutgers University |
| Bruker Nano Surfaces Division, USA | Acuity XR: Enhanced-Resolution Microscopy (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Calabazas Creek Research Inc., USA | Controlled Porosity Reservoir Cathodes (Beam Instruments) | Ron Witherspoon Inc. |
| Carl Zeiss MicroImaging LLC, USA | LSM 780 (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Dell Inc., USA | Dell PowerEdge R810 (Information Technologies) | |
| Duraloy Technologies Inc., USA | New Stainless Steel Alloy Tooling For High Temperature Presses that Form Aircraft Components (Process Technologies) | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Energetiq Technology Inc., USA | EQ-99 LDLS Laser-Driven Light Source (Lasers and Photonics) | |
| Excillum AB, Sweden | JXS-D1 Metal Jet X-Ray Source (Beam Instruments) | |
| FibeRio Technology Corp. |
Cyclone L-1000S and the Cyclone L-1000M Forcespinning Systems (Process Technologies) | University of Texas-Pan American |
| GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc., USA | Ultra High Voltage Silicon Carbide (SiC) Thyristor (Electrical Devices) | Sandia National Laboratories U.S. Department of Energy Energy Storage Program U.S. Army/ARDEC |
| GrafTech International Ltd., USA | eGRAF SS1500 (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Hecus X-Ray Systems, Austria | S3-MICROcaliX (Analytical Instruments) | Laboratory Physico-Chimie des Systemes Polyphases, University of Paris Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| Hitachi, Yokohama Research Laboratory, Japan | Picometer-Resolution Quantitative Metrology Atomic Force Microscope (QM-AFM) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Idaho National Laboratory, USA | Impedance Measurement Box (Energy Devices) |
Montana Tech of the University of Montana Qualtech Systems Inc. Motloch Consulting Inc. |
| Idaho National Laboratory, USA | Rad-Release Chemical Decontamination Technology (Rad-Release) (Chemicals) | Environmental Alternatives Inc. |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan | HyTAC (Thin-Film and Vacuum Technologies) | |
| Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan | i2R e-Paper, ITRI re-writable and re-usable electronic paper technology (Materials Sciences) | |
| Institute for Information Industry (III), Taiwan | In-Snergy: Cloud-based Intelligent Energy Management Technology (Energy Devices) | |
| Intel, USA | 2010 Intel Core Processor Family (Information Technologies) | |
| JEOL USA Inc., USA | JEOL InTouchScope (Imaging Technologies) | JEOL Technics Ltd. JEOL Ltd. |
| Keithley Instruments Inc., USA | Model 4225 PMU Ultra Fast IV Module (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging (MRMI) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA | Nanostructured Antifogging Coatings (Materials Sciences) | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | Serrated Light Illumination for Deflection-Encoded Recording (SLIDER) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA | Stack Trace Analysis Tool (STAT) (Software) | University of Wisconsin University of New Mexico |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | NanoCluster Beacons: Shedding light on specific nucleic-acid targets (Life Sciences) | |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | TAPSS: Trapped Annular Pressure Shrinking Spacer (Energy Devices) | Chevron Energy Technology Company Baker Hughes Incorporated (Drilling Fluids Unit) Lucite International Ltd. |
| Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA | Th-ING: Thorium Is Now Green (Energy Devices) | |
| Materials & Electrochemical Research Corp., USA | Rare Earths Supermagnets (Process Technologies) | |
| Medtronic, USA | Arctic Front Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter System (Life Sciences) | |
| MesoCoat Inc., USA | CermaClad (Process Technologies) | EMTEC Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Mettler-Toledo Inc., USA | Flash DSC1 (Analytical Instruments) | Anatech BV Xensor Integration BV SciTe BV |
| MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Airborne Ladar Imaging Research Testbed (ALIRT) (Imaging Technologies) | |
| MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Multifunction Phased Array Radar Panel (Imaging Technologies) | M/A-COM Technology Solutions |
| MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA | Parallel Vector Tile Optimizing Library (Software) | |
| MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA | PANTHER Bioaerosol Identification System (Environmental Technologies) | |
| Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan | Compact Injection Accelerator for Proton Therapy System (Beam Instruments) | |
| Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Japan | Diamond Vision OLED (Electrical Devices) | Tohoku Pioneer Corporation |
| NanoSonic Inc, USA | HybridSil Fire/Blast (Materials Sciences) | U.S. Navy |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Laser Pulse Stretcher (Lasers and Photonics) | Ohio Aerospace Institute |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Multi-Parameter Aerosol Scattering Sensor (MPASS) (Safety and Security) | National Center for Space Exploration Research Cleveland State University |
| NASA Glenn Research Center, USA | Non-Flow-Through Fuel Cell Power System (Energy Devices) | Infinity Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Inc. Qinetiq North America McElroy PEM Technologies LLC Callahan Engineering PLLC |
| NASA Goddard Space, USA | MED-SEG (Imaging Technologies) | Bartron Medical Imaging Inc. |
| NASA Langley Research Center, USA | SansEC Temperature Sensor (Electrical Devices) | National Institute of Aerospace ATK Spacecraft Systems & Services |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA | APECS v2.0 with ANSYS DesignXplorer and ROM Builder (Software) | ANSYS Inc. |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA | Electroplated Mn-Co Coating for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnects (Energy Devices) | West Virginia University Faraday Technology Inc. |
| National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA | Novel platinum/chromium alloy for the manufacture of improved coronary stents (Life Sciences) | Boston Scientific Corporation Inc. Carpenter Specialty Alloys Minitubes ZAC TechnisudAccellent Inc. |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA | Flash Quantum Efficiency System for Solar Cells (Energy Devices) | Tau Science Corporation |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA | Innovalight Silicon Ink for High-Efficiency Solar Cells (Energy Devices) | Innovalight Inc. |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA | Optical Cavity Furnace (Energy Devices) | AOS Solar Inc. |
| NT-MDT, Russia | NanoEducator II (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Hydrogen safety sensor based on nanostructured palladium cantilevers (Safety and Security) | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | MADNESS software tool (Software) | |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Mesoporous Carbon Electrode for Desalination (Materials Sciences) | Campbell Applied Physics |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | NextAire Packaged Gas Heat Pump (Energy Devices) | Southwest Gas Corporation IntelliChoice Energy |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA | Ultra-high Storage Density, Self-assembled, Magnetic Media (Materials Sciences) | |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | Array Detection Technology for Mass Spectrometry (ADT-MS) (Analytical Instruments) | University of Arizona Indiana University iMAGERLABS SPECTRO Analytical Instruments/Ametek |
| Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA | Dynaforge – A Solid-State Dynamic Powder Compaction Process for Production of High-Performance Tools and Dies (Process Technologies) | Carpenter Powder Products |
| PANalytical BV, The Netherlands | Empyrean X-ray diffractometer (Analytical Instruments) |
Medipix2 Collaboration (CERN-based) |
| Panasonic Corp., USA | Integrated Twin-Lens 3D Camera-Recorder - AG-3DA1 (Consumer Products) | |
| Perfinity Biosciences Inc., USA | Perfinity Workstation (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Pivotal Systems, USA | Gas Flow Monitor (GFM) (Mechanical Systems) | |
| Plasticell Limited, UK | CombiCult 2.0 (Life Sciences) | |
| Princeton Power Systems Inc., USA | Demand Response Inverter (DRI) (Energy Devices) | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Reinnervate Ltd., UK | alvetex (Life Sciences) | |
| Rigol Technologies Inc., USA | Rigol DS6104 Digital Oscilloscope (Electronic Instrumentation) | |
| RTI International, USA | NLITe – Nanofiber Lighting Improvement Technology (Materials Sciences) | |
| RTI International Metals Inc., USA | Continuously Cast Titanium Near Net Ingots (Process Technologies) | U.S. Army ARDEC RDAR-MEE American Engineering & Manufacturing Advanced Design Industries Inc. |
| SAES Getters SpA, Italy | NEXTorr D 100-5 Pump (Thin-Film and Vacuum Technologies) | SAES Advanced Technologies SpA |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | Biomimetic Membranes for Water Purification (Environmental Technologies) | University of New Mexico |
| Sandia National Laboratories, USA | Microresonator Filters and Frequency References (Electrical Devices) | |
| Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, USA | Porous Walled, Hollow Glass Microspheres (Materials Sciences) | Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NA Inc. Georgia Health Sciences University Mo-Sci Corporation |
| Sierra Lobo Inc., USA | Cryo-Force Power-Cell (Energy Devices) | Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR) Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) |
| Southwest Research Institute, USA | Dual Coil Offset (DCO) Ignition System (Mechanical Systems) | |
| State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA | Electricity-generating shock absorbers (Mechanical Systems) | |
| Stryker, USA | ADM X3 Mobile Bearing Hip Acetabular System (Life Sciences) | |
| Sun Innovations Inc., USA | Media Glass Superimaging (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Taiwan Textile Research Institute, Taiwan | All-Foldable Fabric Ultra-Capacitor (Electrical Devices) | Litnertex Co. Ltd. |
| Tennant Company, UK | 500ZE Electric Suction Sweeper (Mechanical Systems) | |
| Tesla NanoCoatings Ltd., USA | Teslan Carbon Nanocoating (Materials Sciences) | U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA | Thermo Scientific Evolution 201/220/260 UV-Visible Spectrophotometers Featuring INSIGHT and CUE Software (Analytical Instruments) | |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA | ICS-5000 Capillary Reagent-Free Ion Chromatography System (Analytical Instruments) | |
| 3M Company, USA | 3M Twin Axial Cable (Electrical Devices) | |
| U.S. Army Engineer Research & Development Center, USA | All Thermoplastic Composite, I-Beam Design, High-Capacity Bridge System (Mechanical Systems) | Rutgers University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering Axion International McLaren Engineering Group Department of Defense Corrosion Prevention and Control Program Army Facilities Installation Technology Transition Program |
| University of Colorado, USA | Compact, high-energy density, high-temperature superconducting cable (Electrical Devices) | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Varian Medical Systems, USA | TrueBeam and TrueBeam STx (Life Sciences) | |
| WITec GmbH, Germany | True Surface Microscopy (Imaging Technologies) | |
| Xeridiem Medical Devices, USA | PleuraFlow Active Tube Clearance System (Life Sciences) | Carbon Design Group Clear Catheter Systems |
| Y-12 National Security Complex, USA | RonJohn Blend (Chemicals) | RockinBoat LLC |
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