Oct. 3, 2006 — NanoInk Inc., an emerging growth technology company specializing in nanometer-scale manufacturing and applications development for the life science and semiconductor industries, announced it has entered into an exclusive license from Georgia Tech Research Corporation for the thermal control of deposition of ink in NanoInk’s NSCRIPTOR Dip Pen Nanolithography (DPN) system.
The NSCRIPTOR DPN system is a fully integrated hardware and software system optimized for the DPN process of writing stable nanoscale patterns of molecular “ink” onto a sample substrate via a coated stylus tip. The technology and covered by the exclusive agreement involves a heating process which strengthens the core DPN technology.
“The license will make Thermal DPN available world-wide in a highly regarded commercial platform, giving the country an immediate benefit from the Navy’s investment in our nanoscience research,” added Paul E. Sheehan and Lloyd J. Whitman, the inventors of the thermal DPN technology at the Naval Research Laboratory, in a prepared statement.