Bandgap CTO wins prestigious R&D 100 Award as part of Los Alamos National Laboratory team
WALTHAM, MA – November 15, 2009 – Bandgap Engineering’s Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Marcie Black, was a key member of a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory that was selected for a prestigious R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine presents the awards annually to researchers who have developed the year’s 100 most outstanding advances in applied technologies.
Also referred to as “the Nobel Prizes of technology” and “the Oscars of invention,” the R&D 100 awards have been presented for 47 years. Many of the winners have become prominent products used by billions of people. Examples of past winners include the flashcube (1965), the automated teller machine (1973), the halogen lamp (1974), the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980), the printer (1986), the Kodak Photo CD (1991), the Nicoderm antismoking patch (1992), Taxol anticancer drug (1993), lab on a chip (1996) and HDTV (1998).
The team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, lead by Dr. James Maxwell, developed a technology called Lasonix™ that can be used to grow and fabricate semiconductor, metallic, and insulating structures in three dimensions while controlling their composition, doping levels, and crystal structure. The technology will help enable the creation of high-density electronic packages and other complex 3-D structures.
“I am honored to have worked with James and the Los Alamos team on the development of Lasonix,” said Black, Bandgap’s co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. “Winning the R&D 100 Award is a huge honor that reflects the innovative work being done by a great group of people.”
About Bandgap Engineering, Inc.
Bandgap has pioneered the development of highly tunable and inexpensive methods for nanostructuring silicon and is applying this technology to high efficiency silicon-based photovoltaic cells and high capacity Li-ion batteries. Founded in 2007, the company is venture-backed by New Enterprise Associates, Sumitomo Corporation and the Massachusetts Green Energy Fund and based in Woburn, MA. For more information, visit the Bandgap web site at www.bandgap.com.
About Los Alamos National Laboratory (www.lanl.gov)
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, and URS for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.
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