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ITHACA, NY – The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Xallent a Phase I small business and technology transfer (STTR) grant to develop the next generation of advanced nanofabrication and nanoprobing instrumentation to fabricate atomically precise, strongly correlated materials for applications in high efficiency computing. Xallent has teamed up with a world renowned expert in the growth of two dimensional and strongly correlated thin films at Cornell University to validate its technology.

ITHACA, NY – Xallent has installed its alpha unit of the nanoprober for user trials and pre-purchase evaluation at the Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF).  CNF is a national user facility that supports a broad range of nanoscale science and technology projects by providing state-of-the-art resources coupled with expert staff support. Research at CNF encompasses physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences, and has a strong inter-disciplinary emphasis. Over 800 users per year (50% of whom come from outside Cornell) use the fabrication, synthesis, computation, characterization, and integration resources of CNF to build structures, devices, and systems from atomic to complex length-scales.

ITHACA, NY – Grants for Growth is a unique CenterState CEO seed program that supports innovative applied research projects between universities and industry to improve business competitiveness and create jobs. Xallent has partnered with Cornell NanoScale Facility under the Grants for Growth program to develop high speed nanoprobing platforms to rapidly test semiconductors and thin film materials.

ALBANY, NY – FuzeHub, a not-for-profit organization responsible for assisting small to medium-sized manufacturing companies (SMEs) in New York State by matching them with technical and business resources, recently launched the Jeff Lawrence Manufacturing Innovation Fund. The Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) at Cornell University has partnered with Xallent LLC  through the Manufacturing Innovation Fund to develop a next generation diagnostic tool to more rapidly and economically test and characterize semiconductor devices and thin film materials during manufacturing. This tool is built on Xallent’s innovative nanoscale imaging and probing technology. The ability to rapidly probe and measure electrical components at the nanoscale for diagnostics and failure analysis non-destructively is expected to tap a broad range of industry applications. The Manufacturing Innovation Grant will be used to adapt Xallent’s nanomachine platforms to analytical instruments at the Cornell NanoScale Facility for validation, user interface focus, and reliability studies.

ITHACA, NY – Sandia National Laboratory has granted Xallent access to their Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) facility. Xallent will be working with engineers at Sandia to further develop its nanomachine technology. For more than 60 years, Sandia has delivered essential science and technology to resolve the nation’s most challenging security issues. A strong foundation of science, technology, and engineering enables Sandia’s mission through a capable research staff. Working at the forefront of innovation and collaborative research with universities and companies, Sandia has a long history taking on discretionary research projects with significant potential impact. In keeping with Sandia’s vision to be the nation’s premier science and engineering laboratory for national security and technology innovation, Sandia recruits the best and the brightest, equips them with world-class research tools and facilities, and provides opportunities to collaborate with technical experts from many different scientific disciplines.

ITHACA, NY – Xallent receives approval to conduct research activities at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). BNL is a multipurpose research institution funded primarily by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Located on the center of Long Island, New York, Brookhaven Lab brings world-class facilities and expertise to the most exciting and important questions in basic and applied science—from the birth of our universe to the sustainable energy technology of tomorrow. BNL operates cutting-edge large-scale facilities for studies in physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, applied science, and a wide range of advanced technologies. The Laboratory’s almost 3,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff are joined each year by more than 4,000 visiting researchers from around the world.

October 5, 2016 | ITHACA, NY  –  Xallent  announced today that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the company a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant of $750K to support the commercialization of their breakthrough nanomachine probing technology. The two year grant will fund product development and recruitment of top talent. Conventional characterization and test methods are increasingly ineffective when applied to structures less than 100 nanometers, causing challenges across R&D, process control, and failure analysis. Given slow, complex detection processes, identification of subtle defects typically takes weeks or months following fabrication.  This translates to significant waste as systemic issues can persist untreated across multiple batches. Xallent’s nanomachine probing technology directly addresses these challenges with simple, cost effective, and high speed testing solutions. “This Phase II grant reaffirms the powerful potential impact of our nanomachine probing technology to address critical testing challenges in the thin film and semiconductor industries. The simple micro- to nanoscale testing paradigm enabled by our technologies will have far reaching commercial and societal impact, magnified by the powerful trends driving science and engineering at the nanoscale across devices, materials, and biological systems. Our technology enables researchers, scientists, and engineers to dramatically cut the time, cost, and complexity of research, development, and production of advanced thin films and semiconductor devices.” said Dr. Kwame Amponsah, Founder and CEO of Xallent.

June 18, 2015 | ITHACA, NY – National Science Foundation (NSF) awards Xallent with a Phase IB grant to further the development of Xallent’s proprietary scanning probes.

April 15, 2015 | ITHACA, NY – The NEXUS-NY program has awarded Xallent with Phase II grant to further develop its probing technology for characterization of thin film energy materials.

January 24, 2015 | ITHACA, NY – Xallent has been awarded a Phase I SBIR grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop nanomachines for semiconductor device characterization.