Key players in South West England
Here are just a few of the companies that excel in the application of Nano and Micro Technologies within South West England:
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
A supplier of plasma and ion beam processing equipment to the photonics, MEMS and semiconductor industries.
www.oxinst.com
Nanosight
A technology company formed to exploit a patented low-cost laser illumination technique for detecting particles in the deeply sub-500nm range by optical methods alone, without the need of a traditional and expensive electron microscopy technique.
www.nanosight.co.uk
ClearSpeed Technology
A fables semiconductor company focused on the design and development of microprocessors and related products that offer significant increases in the performance of computing systems.
www.clearspeed.com
Vectura
A pharmaceutical company, exploiting a range of technologies and patents on inhaled drug delivery. Their 'Maxsol' technology platform aims at maximising the dissolution characteristics of poorly-soluble drugs.
www.vectura.com
Tecan
Specialise in precision photo electroforming and photo-chemical machining. They offer products such as high resolution masks and screens for printing and photolithography and electroformed stencils for packaging and interconnection. They also offer services in the development of micro-scale components including embossing tools, moulding inserts, meshes, stencils and metal microparts.
www.tecan.com
Renishaw
An ultra-precision metrology specialist. They make metrology instruments for the machine tool industry, interferometer systems for the semiconductor industry, and Raman spectrometers.
www.renishaw.com
Qioptiq
Offer contract R&D services in the field of advanced thin-film coatings for a variety of applications such as anti-reflective coating, wavelength filters, conductive coatings, using PVD and CVD.
www.thalesgroup-optronics.com
Hewlett Packard labs
The strategic research arm of IT company Hewlett Packard. Their research includes software for internet security and cryptography, digital media management, grid computing and mobile telecommunications. In the field of MNT, their research focuses mainly on emerging technologies for flexible displays and nanoelectronics.
www.hpl.hp.com
Tripos Discovery Research
Innovative integration of chemistry, discovery software and enterprise informatics to accelerate drug discovery.
www.tripos.com
