ERC Innovations & Impacts
- STARTUP COMPANY ERC on Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and
the Environment (Class of 2006) – Daylight
Solutions, Inc., is commercializing advanced
quantum-cascade laser systems developed in
partnership with MIRTHE
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF COMPANY Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems –
Mobius Microsystems, founded by a grad student,
became a world leader in all-silicon clock generation
technology used in cell phones, USB ports, and
other small computer devices and peripherals for
timing computer operations
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF COMPANY SynBERC (based at U. California-Berkeley) – A
microbial process for inexpensively producing
the anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, passed
through SynBERC spinoff Amyris Biotechnologies
to a major pharmaceutical company
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF COMPANY Founded by two former undergraduate students in Caltech’s
Center for Neuromorphic Systems Engineering in 1996,
DigitalPersona has become a leader in biometric password
management for PCs and corporate information systems. The
company’s technology and design are used in Microsoft’s
Fingerprint Reader devices and many other products. DP
markets its own fingerprint readers directly to consumers.
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF TECHNOLOGY Colorado State’s Extreme Ultraviolet ERC –The EUV ERC
transferred its state-of-the-art high harmonic generation
(HHG) source technology to KMLabs, Inc. in Boulder. KMLabs
used the technology to produce the first turnkey 30 nm EUV
commercial laser system with their XUUS™ (eXtreme
Ultraviolet Ultrafast Source) product.
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF COMPANY –
University of Washington UWEB Healionics, Inc. startup’s STAR 3-D
biomaterial scaffold is designed to heal around a medical implant and
promote acceptance in the body. Healionics has itself spun off two
independent operating companies, iSTAR Medical and qSTAR Medical,
both based on STAR 3-D. The company’s flagship medical device, a
glaucoma drain, has received CE Mark approval so it can be sold in
Europe.
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF TECHNOLOGY USC’s Biomimetic MicroElectronic Systems ERC – BMES has
entered clinical testing of a second-generation implantable
prosthetic retina, the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System,
developed in conjunction with a device manufacturer,
Second Sight Medical Products. The device enables
previously blind people to perceive light and patterns
ERC Innovations & Impacts
- SPINOFF COMPANY Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center (19871998) – Spinoff ColorLink (now RealD Cinema)
introduced a new generation of 3D film technology
that won an Academy Award for Special Effects, in
the 2009 movie Avatar