Imago in Biological Technology

IBM and Imago find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling

In 1959, Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman presented a talk entitled There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom. Feynman concluded that there was no physical reason why humans couldn't manipulate atoms. However, if atomic manipulation is achieved the question of observing the new atom positions remai...

Japanese institute installs Imago system

Madison, Wis. -- A microscope developed by a Madison company to pinpoint individual atoms and to produce an electron image has been put to use by a Japanese organization and will be showcased at an upcoming symposium in California. The device, the LEAP 3000 Metrology System, is made by Imago ...

UW-Madison helps Imago carry out its big vision for seeing small

The Imago LEAP Microscope Source: Imago Madison, Wis. -- Up close, Imago Scientific Instrument's atom probe is a veritable jungle of glinting steel, glowing ports and snaking hoses and wires. This microscope that lets scientists peer at the very atoms that compose matter does so by an intric...

Northwestern adds to its Imago microscope

The Imago LEAP Microscope Source: Imago Madison, Wis. - Imago Scientific Instruments , a Madison-based provider of atom probe tomographic microscopes and nanotechnology solutions, has added another piece, the Laser Pulse module, to its LEAP 3000X microscope at Northwestern University . ...

Investors commit $3.4 million to Imago

Madison, Wis. - Two weeks after solidifying its global market position with a key acquisition, Imago Scientific Instruments Thursday boosted its line of working capital as well. The company announced that it will receive $3.4 million in equity funding from three venture capital sources. Imag...

Seagate adopts Imago's nanotech microscope

... The imago LEAP Microscope Source: imago MADISON, Wis. Mass storage vendor Seagate Techn...ology is using nanotechnology from Madison-based imago Scientific Instruments to meet the manufacturing ...

Imago provides atomic probe to Australian lab

...le of visualized data at the atomic scale. Source: imago The Nanostructural Analysis Network Organisation...commissioned an instrument built by Madison-based imago Scientific Instruments Corp. NANO officials sa...tom by atom to collect data about the composition. imago says its technology can deliver results in hours. ...

Five remaining firms vie for Tech Transfer award

...cow bedding and non-odorous liquid fertilizer imago Scientific Instruments , Madison, a manufacturer o... are as a company," said Stultz, who has been with imago for about two years. The company started in 1998 a...ago's flagship product, the LEAP microscope, which imago has been shipping since June 2003 to customers suc...

Alzheimer's drug firm and more winners named in Wisconsin business-plan contest

...ard was not principally for technology innovation, but for leadership. imago : tech transfer in nanotechnology . This Madison firm that sells an atom pr...pplicants were required to be small businesses with 100 employees or fewer; imago has 40. Behind the judging The contest's 46 judges were investors and e...

Engineers chart semiconductors on the scale of atoms

...Larson and Tom Kelly of the Madison-based company imago Scientific Instruments , used Imago's local electr...e and engineering, he left the university to start imago with Larson, then a graduate student. To create im...uld be Imago's LEAP instrument," says Booske. "So, imago provided the instrument facility and Keith and I w...

UW-Madison gets $14.8 to advance nanoscale research

...nce and engineering professor Max Lagally), Platypus Technologies (whose co-founder is chemical and biological engineering professor Nicholas Abbott), imago (whose founder is former materials science and engineering professor Tom Kelly), and Virent Energy Systems (whose co-founder is chemical and biologica...

Tech Digest: Imago; RedPrairie

...purchased a LEAP 3000 metrology system made by imago Scientific Instruments of Madison, Wis. The Tohoku University system is the third system imago has installed in Japan in the last six months. imago delivered the system in conjunction with its repre...

Fitchburg Technology Campus attracts nanotechnology firms

...g. Its anchor tenant is another nanotech company, imago Scientific . When it opens, imago will occupy 17,000 square-feet and have 46 employe...allows us to expand and grow, said Timothy Stultz, imago Scientific President and CEO. We dont want to relo...

Imago microscope leads to Northwestern research advance

...versity have announced that a type of atom probe developed by Madison-based imago Scientific allowed them to produce data on the arrangement of individual go...LEAP, microscope was used to map the position of atoms in three dimensions. imago developed the system based on University of Wisconsin-Madison technology an...

Imago acquires synergistic British firm

...rriage of complementary nanotechnology companies, imago Scientific Instruments Corp. has joined forces wi...price was not disclosed, but the transaction makes imago the world's largest atom probe supplier, according... that both were spun out of research universities. imago was founded in 1998 by then University of Wisconsi...

Imago earns more acclaim for microscope

... Madison, Wis. - imago Scientific Instruments Corp. , a provider of technologies for sub-nanometer...hich enables analysis of next-generation semiconductor devices. In 2004, imago was cited for the microscope's capacity to study metallic alloys and measur...

Imago upgrades atom-probe microscope

... Madison, Wis. - imago Scientific Instrument Corp. , an advanced microscope producer headquartered...deployed the laser pulse module to upgrade the microscope it purchased from imago in 2005. Dr. Brian Gorman, director of the UNT Electron and Ion Microsc...

How a healthy tech-based economy helps others in Wisconsin

...ants? For an answer, let's take a virtual tour of imago Scientific Instruments in suburban Madison. Im... Wisconsin? For starters, it means some good jobs. imago has 51 employees and the average wage is $76,500 p... - but we sell and compete globally. While many imago suppliers and vendors are in the Madison area, oth...