The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Xallent a Phase I small business technology transfer (STTR) grant to explore the technical feasibility of developing advanced nanofabrication and nanoprobing instrumentation to fabricate atomically precise strongly correlated materials for applications in high efficiency computing.
Xallent installs the alpha model of its nanoprobing platform at the Cornell NanoScale Facility for user trials and pre-purchase evaluation.
Xallent partners with Cornell University under a New York State manufacturing innovation grant administered by FuzeHub to develop diagnostic nanoprobing solutions to rapidly and economically test semiconductors and thin film materials during manufacturing.
Xallent partners with two top Department of Energy national laboratories, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory, to develop innovative nanoprobes to characterize thin film materials.
Xallent signs an NDA with a major semiconductor foundry and begins to work with its engineers to develop custom probes geared toward testing their memory devices. The work with the foundry resulted in the development of a portfolio of probes that are currently being marketed by Xallent.
Xallent participates in the NEXUS-NY program to refine its value proposition as well as embark on a customer discovery process. Through this program, Xallent interviewed over 55 potential customers, and feedback received on its technology was unilaterally positive.
Building on the work carried out for DARPA, Xallent competes for and is awarded a National Science Foundation SBIR grant to develop nanomachines to rapidly perform failure analysis of advanced node semiconductor devices.
Xallent proposes to use its nanomachine to identify the origin of fabrication of integrated circuits and was awarded a Phase I small business innovation grant to tackle a complex national security problem for the United States government. This grant was very instrumental to the survival of Xallent!
Right after graduating from Cornell University with a doctoral degree in electrical and computer engineering, Dr. Kwame Amponsah founded Xallent, LLC with guidance from his academic advisor Dr. Amit Lal and high tech executive Dr. Ashish Kumar to commercialize a nanomachine probing technology that he co-invented as part of his doctoral work. Thanks to the American tax payers, National Science Foundation and Army Research Laboratory for supporting his doctoral work.
