Firm’s Technology Useful in Nanotech Applications
Published Apr 15, 2007
According to David Gibson, president and CEO of X-Ray Optical Systems Inc. (XOS) in East Greenbush, there were no practical advanced x-ray optics commercially available prior to 1990.
Since finding a need and filling it has always been a sound business principle, Gibson set out to create a company to handle sophisticated material analysis and was drawn to New York’s Tech Valley.
“The best academic center for the study of advanced practical x-ray optics was at the University of Albany,” he says.
Creating something new, however, required a long technology ramp-up. Initially, the company survived on research and development funding from state and federal agencies that could see the promise of widespread application.
Today, XOS technology allows companies manufacturing everything from semiconductors to biotech products to measure the presence of a specific element all the way from 100 percent down to parts-per-trillion.
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t make it,” Gibson says, explaining why x-ray optics is valuable to such a broad array of industries.
After graduating from the incubator setting, Gibson says XOS stayed because of the area’s great quality of life and technology resources.
“We came because of the universities. We wanted to stay because of the quality of life, and we were able to stay because the infrastructure existed to provide the support necessary. And you know, it’s been a great success for us – it’s a great place to be.”
Story by Cindy Sanders
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