tal IS, Inc. (Latham, N.Y.)
Processes for Growing Large, Single-Crystal Aluminum Nitride Develop cost-effective, high-quality, and commercially important, single-crystal aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, which are needed for diverse and important power electronics and optoelectronics applications, by using an approach that incorporates new techniques of crystal seed growth, coupled with advanced thermal gradient control, and new crucible designs, to grow large high-quality, AlN crystal boules.

• CytImmune Sciences, Inc. (Rockville, Md.)
  The In Vitro Production of Human Monoclonal Antibodies Develop a semi-synthetic human immune system on colloidal gold nanoparticles, to make wholly human monoclonal antibodies in vitro for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.

• DAFCA, Inc. (Framingham, Mass.)
  Reconfigurable Infrastructure Platform for Systems-on-Chips Develop an infrastructure platform for system-on-a-chip (SoC) electronics that implements a new kind of reconfigurable embedded debug logic to detect and fix design errors after fabrication, enabling reduced design cycle time, bypassing manufacturing defects, and improving yields.

• Gemini Life Sciences, Inc. (Sugar City, Idaho)
  Biotechnology for Conferring Apomixis (Clonal Seed Production) to Crops Develop technologies to stabilize superior crop hybrids by asexual seed production ("self-cloning") thereby improving yields of major food, feed, fiber and biomass crops and reducing hybrid seed production costs.

• Glennan Microsystems, Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio)
  Advanced Fuel and Emission Control (AFEC) System Technology Demonstrator Develop an active combustion control system for gas turbine engines based on MEMS technology and SiC sensors that will greatly reduce polluting emissions while extending engine life and preservin
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Contact: Michael Baum
michael.baum@nist.gov
301-975-2763
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
1-Oct-2004


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