Honors and Awards
R & D Magazine's R&D 100 Awards are presented to the 100 most technologically significant new technologies each year.
Below is a list of Berkeley Lab award winners over the past 27 years. Go here for an overview of Berkeley Lab's approach to preparing R&D 100 Awards nominations.
Technology Title |
R&D 100 |
Principal Investigators |
| Multinozzle Emitter Array | 2012 | Daojing Wang, Pan Mao, Peidong Yang |
Compact Variable Collimator |
2012 | Simon Morton, Jeff Dickert (co-entry with Genomics Institute of Novartis Research Foundation and Takeda Pharmaceutical) |
| Laser Ablation Molecular Isotopic Spectrometry (LAMIS) | 2012 | Rick Russo, Xianglei Mao (co-entry with Applied Spectra) |
| High Output Neutron Generator | 2012 | Qing Ji, Bernhard Ludewigt (co-entry with Adelphi Technology) |
| MRMI: Magnetic Resonance Microarray Imaging | 2011 | Alex Pines, Vikram Bajaj, David Wemmer, Matthew Francis |
| Nanostructured Antifogging Coatings | 2011 | Samuel Mao, Vasileia Zormpa, Xiaobo Chen |
| Home Energy Saver | 2010 | Evan Mills, Rich Brown (co-entry with Microsoft) |
| Rough Silicon Nanowires for Waste Heat Utilization | 2010 | Peidong Yang, Allon Hochbaum, Renkun Chen, Raul Diaz Delgado, Arun Majumdar |
| Chemicals on Demand | 2010 | Alex Zettl, Jean Frechet, David Okawa, Stefan Pastine |
| APPELS: Differentially Pumped Ambient Pressure PhotoElectron Lens System for Photoemission Studies | 2010 | Frank Ogletree, Hendrick Bluhm, Kahid Hussain, Miquel Salmeron (co-entry with Franz Haber Institute of the Mas Planck Society and SPECS GmbH) |
| EMGeo: ElectroMagnetic Geological Mapper |
2009 | Greg Newman, Michael Commer |
| Nanocrystal Solar Cells | 2009 | Paul Alivisatos, Delia Milliron, Ilan Gur, Liberato Manna, Erik Scher, Haitao Liu, Steven Hughes, Neil Fromer, Richard Robinson, Bryce Sadtler (co-entry with Solexant) |
| NEXUS DLC-X Coating System with Pulsed Filtered Cathodic Arc Technology | 2009 | Andre Anders (co-entry with Veeco Instruments Inc.) |
TEAM Electron Microscope Stage |
2009 | Thomas Duden, Nord Andresen, Rich Weidenbach, Andreas Schmid |
| Nanostructured Polymer Electrolyte For Recharge Lithium Batteries | 2008 | Nitash Balsara |
| Biomimetic Search Engine | 2008 | Kasian Franks, Connie Myers, Raf Podowski |
| Berkeley Lab PhyloChip | 2008 | Gary Andersen, Todd DeSantis, Eoin Brodie,Yvette Piceno |
| FastBit Bitmap Index | 2008 | Kesheng "John" Wu, Arie Shoshani, Ekow Otoo, Kurt Stockinger |
| Laser Detected MRI | 2007 | Alex Pines, Dmitry Budker, Shoujun Xu, Valeriy Yashchuk, Marcus Donaldson, Simon Rochester |
| Low Swirl Injector for Fuel Flexible Near Zero Emissions Gas Turbines | 2007 | Robert Cheng, David Littlejohn |
| Berkeley Unexploded Ordnance Discriminator | 2007 | Frank Morrison, Erika Gasperikova, Alessandro Ratti, Alex Becker, Jean-Francois Beche, Larry Doolittle, Jim Greer, Robin Lafever, J. Torquil Smith, Harold Yaver |
| High-Output Coaxial-Target Neutron Generator | 2006 | Ka-Ngo Leung, Jani Reijonen, Frederic Gicquel, Stephen Wilde |
| Laser Ultrasonic Sensor | 2006 | Rick Russo, Paul Ridgway |
| High Efficiency Multiband Semiconductor Material for Solar Cells (Editor's Choice) | 2006 | Wladyslaw Walukiewicz, Kin Man Yu |
| The Carbon Explorer | 2006 | James Bishop |
| Berkeley Lab Optical Sound Restoration System (Editor's Choice ) | 2005 | Carl Haber, Vitaliy Fadeyev |
| Neural Matrix CCD | 2005 | E.A. Blakely, I.G. Brown, K.A. Bjornstad, J.E. Galvin, O.R. Monteiro, and C.J. Rosen; and Cellular Bioengineering Inc. (H. Wuh, K.s. Chinn, K.T.C. Jim, and G.M. Lui) |
| Ion Mobility Analysis for Rapid Identification of Cardiovascular Disease Indicators | 2005 | W. Henry Benner, Ronald Krauss, Patricia Blanche |
| Synthetic Rotational Nanomotor | 2004 | Alex Zettl |
| Transition Metal Switchable Mirrors | 2004 | Thomas Richardson, Jonathan Slack |
| Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography Tool for Chip Manufacturing | 2003 | David Attwoood and other 205 researchers from Berkeley Lab, Livermore Lab, and Sandia Laboratory |
| EnergyPlus Software for Energy Efficient Design of Buildings | 2003 | Fred
Winkelmann, Fred Buhl, Ender Erdem, Joe Huang, Kathy Ellington |
| Crystal Robot for Nanovolume Crystallization of Proteins for Drug Discovery | 2002 | Joseph Jaklevic, Derek Yegian, Jian Jin, William F. Kolbe, Earl W. Cornell, Robert A. Nordmayer |
| Remote Acess Grid Explorer (RAGE) for Web Conferencing | 2002 | Deborah Agarwal, Clayton Bagwell, Joshua Boverhof, Eve Edelson, Dan Gunter, Keith Jackson, Marcia Perry, Zach Radding, John Shalf, Martin Stoufer |
| Gas-Filled Panels for Energy Efficient Insulation | 2001 | Dariush Arasteh, Steve Selkowitz, Howdey Goudy, Daniel Turler, Brent Griffith |
| Fine XAD Sorbent Coating for Air Quality Monitoring | 2000 | Lara Gundel |
| Combinatorial Synthesis of Novel Materials | 2000 | Xiao-dong Xiang,Peter Schultz |
| Constricted-Plasma Source (CPS) | 1997 | Mike Dickinson, Andre Anders, Mike Rubin |
| White Board, Session Directory, Video Conferencing, and Video Audio Tool Software | 1995 | Van Jacobson |
| Solar 1000 Microwave Sulfur Lamp | 1995 | Sam Berman |
| Carbohydrate Protein Conjugates (CPCs) | 1993 | Marc Bednardski |
| Long Trace Profiler II (LTP II) | 1993 | Steve Irick |
| DC Broad-Beam High-Current Metal Ion Source | 1992 | Ian Brown,Michael Dickinson, James Galvin, Robert MacGill |
| Raster Scanner Beam Delivery System | 1992 | Tim
Renner, Bill Chu, Bernhard Ludewigt |
| Alkaline-Fluoride-Carbonate Electrolyte for Zinc,Nickel Oxide Batteries | 1992 | Elton Cairns, Frank McLarnon |
| High-Resolution Scanning Photoelectron Microscope | 1991 | |
| Soft X-Ray Small-Angle Scattering Apparatus | 1990 | James Underwood, Rupert Perera, Dana Berkeland |
| High-Fluence Laboratory XUV Source | 1990 | |
| High-Resolution Mirror Assembly | 1989 | Steve Irick |
| Double-Rotation NMR | 1989 | Alex Pines |
| High-Resolution
Erect-Field Spectrometer,Monochromator |
1988 | James Underwood, Al Thompson, Phillip Batson |
| Compact
Microwave Ion Source |
1987 | |
| Wobbler Beam Delivery System | 1987 | Bill Chu |
| Dual-Phase Low Carbon Steels 'FERMAR' | 1987 | Bill Morris |
| Zero-Field
NMR |
1987 | Alex Pines |
| Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) | 1987 | Mike Vella |
| Long-Pulse Plasma Density Probe | 1986 | Kenneth Ehlers |
| X-Ray Gamma Ray Detector | 1985 | |
| Fusion
Common Long Pulse Source (Neutral Beam Source) |
1985 | Wulf
Kunkel, Klaus Berkner |
| High-Current Ion Source (MEVVA) | 1985 | Ian Brown |
| 6-Channel Silicon X-Ray Detector for Plasma Diagnostics | 1984 | |
| Automated Seismic Processor | 1984 | Tom McEvilly, Ernest Majer |
| Total R&D 100 Awards: | 62 |
