Three Bay Area companies have been awarded Phase I small business grants through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business and Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs to collaborate with ALS scientists to conduct R&D.
|   | HighRi Optics, Inc / Valeriy Yashchuk SBIR award Project: Automatic characterization of sub-nm surface height errors of aspherical mirrors by 2D data reconstruction 
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|   | Rochester Scientific LLC / Valeriy Yashchuk STTR award Project: Advanced metrology for integration into manufacture of high-resolution x-ray gratings | 
|   | MLtwist, Inc / Alex Hexemer SBIR award Project: PRIMED: Preparation and requisition of integrated microscopy and energy data |