Accelerating Nanoscience out of the Laboratory and into the Marketplace

The Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI (very-large-scale-integration)—a collaboration between the Kavli Nanoscience Institute and Leti-Minatec in France—has launched its first start-up company. The Alliance, which began informally in 2005, was officially created in 2007 to transform academic, nanotechnology-based prototypes into robust, complex sensing systems and thus accelerate nanoscience out of the laboratory and into the marketplace. The start-up company, Analytical Pixels, will focus on the design, manufacture, and commercialization of multi-gas sensing systems created over the past five years in the field of nanoelectromechanical devices, read-out electronics, and system integration, and built on two decades of prior research carried out at Caltech. [Caltech Feature]

The co-directors of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute are Michael L. Roukes, Robert M. Abbey Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Bioengineering, and Oskar J. Painter, Professor of Applied Physics and Executive Officer for Applied Physics and Materials Science.