Nanotechnology Companies in the USA

KLA is a process control company providing advanced inspection tools, metrology systems and computational analytics for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing.

KLA-Tencor Corporation is a leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related microelectronics industries. The company's comprehensive portfolio of products, software, analysis, services and expertise is designed to help IC manufacturers manage yield throughout the entire wafer fabrication process-from R&D to final yield analysis.

Manufactures and distributes vacuum components and systems including for research and applications in nanotechnology.

Labsphere is world leader in light testing and measurement, and optical coatings. The company?s products include LED, laser and traditional light source light measurement systems; uniform light sources for imaging device calibration; spectroscopy accessories; and high diffuse reflectance materials and coatings for applications in backlit panel displays, computed radiography, and system calibration.

The company develops innovative measurement and control technologies for researchers studying the physical properties of metals and ceramics at very low temperatures. Typical materials that can be measured include nanoscale electronics, quantum wires and dots, organic and dilute magnetic semiconductors, superconductors, and spintronics devices.

LamdaGen manufactures a variety of functional nano-materials in the form of independent chips in common sizes and shapes for researchers who wish to work with a highly reproducible nano-structured metallic thin-film.

The open-source LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator from Sandia Labs has potentials for soft materials (biomolecules, polymers) and solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and coarse-grain systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the mesoscale or continuum levels.

Manufacturer of spin processing equipment.

LDB Corp provides metrology instruments to industrial component and semiconductor companies.

LightForm develops and sells hyperspectral imaging instrumentation to life science researchers.

LightSmyth develops innovative nanophotonic products. Target areas include integrated photonics, free-space diffractives, and consumer products. LightSmyth products and innovations are centered around application of holographic and diffractive principles combined with manufacturing via state-of-the-art semiconductor patterning tools such as Deep UltraViolet (DUV) steppers/scanners.

The company is developing a new generation of advanced nonlinear electro-optic and all-optical organic polymers that can convert high-speed electronic signals into optical signals or allow light waves to switch other light waves.

Develops a template manufacturing proces that utilizes technologies adopted from the microelectronics industry for the fabrication of engineered shape and size-specific nanomaterials.

Provider of liquid-repellent nanocoating and screen protection technologies for mobile phones, headphones, speakers and other consumer electronic devices.

Develops zone-plate-array lithography (ZPAL) which replaces the 'printing press' of traditional lithography with a technology more akin to that of a 'laser printer.'

Developer and manufacturer of advanced light shaping, holographic optical and nano-based thin-film materials and components for automotive, lighting, display, defense and industrial applications.

Develops and markets biological detection systems based on luminescent lanthanide complexes, which provide a unique combination of sensitivity, reliability, flexibility and high throughput.

The company develops silicon-based nanoparticles that improve the lighting-quality of white light LED lamps

Luna nanoWorks, the nanomaterials division of Luna Innovations, produces carbon nanomaterials including single wall carbon nanotubes and proprietary Trimetasphere fullerenes for medical imaging and industrial applications.

A technology development company that develops scientific and engineering concepts and takes the resulting innovations to the marketplace. Innovation areas include nanomaterials.