Goleta's Asylum Research, Agilent to Team Up
Posted on: Wednesday, 20 July 2005, 09:00 CDT
Jul. 20--Goleta-based Asylum Research, specialists in the development of atomic force microscopes (AFMs), has signed an agreement with publicly traded Agilent Technologies Inc. to collaborate on technologies and applications in nanotechnology measurements.
As part of the deal announced Monday, Agilent is making an equity investment in the Hollister Avenue company. Neither party will comment on the specific terms of their arrangement.
Agilent, headquartered in Palo Alto, is a global technology company in the fields of communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis.
It operates in more than 100 countries, has 28,000 employees and last year annual revenue topped $7 billion.
Asylum, an employee-owned company founded in 1999 by former scientists and engineers from Digital Instruments (now Veeco), is regarded as a leader in the development of AFMs, the principal measurement tools used by researchers working in nanotechnology.
The company says AFMs are used to measure the shape and properties of materials at the atomic scale and can also move particles and molecules from one position to another. These scanning probe microscopes are 50,000 times smaller than the diameter of a strand of hair.
Asylum's expertise is a close fit with Agilent's Nanotechnology Measurements Division, part of the company's test and measurement business that is focused on development of tools for the growing nanotechnology market.
"We expect this collaboration to result in applications development and new measurements for atomic force microscopy," said Dr. Roger Proksch, president of Asylum. "The partnership will allow each company to leverage its strengths, which include measurement science, optics, biotechnology and micromechanics."
Bob Burns, vice president and general manager of Agilent's measurement division, says the AFM market is a significant portion of the $1 billion market for nanotechnology measurement tools, with the segment growing at close to 20 percent a year.
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