This is the sixth annual Small Times awards programme, which honours significant achievements in leadership and product development in nanotechnology, Mems and microsystems during the past year
Parallel Synthesis Technologies's Silicon Microarray technology has received the Small Times 2007 Best of Small Tech Award for application product of the year.
Small Times presented its highly respected Best of Small Tech awards at its NanoCon International conference and exhibition on 15 November 2007 in Santa Clara CA.
Robert Haushalter, president of Parallel, said: "We are very proud to have received this recognition from our colleagues in the microfabrication field and are grateful to our customers for embracing our new technology so quickly".
Silicon Microarray technology is a set of micromachined silicon pin tools for printing DNA or protein microarrays.
The identically micromachined printing tools, which can produce microarrays containing up to 50,000 highly uniform spots (about 250 picolitres each) of DNA on a 25x75mm substrate, are substantially less expensive than traditional technologies.
Additional applications such as printing arrays of whole cells, antibodies, micro-RNA, carbohydrates, tissues, chemicals or adhesives are also possible.
In addition to the Silicon Microarray technology, Parallel also provides micromachined silicon tools for many other picolitre to microlitre fluid handling applications.
"Each year it gets more and more difficult to judge the best and brightest as the micro and nanotechnology market continues to mature and new products come to market," said Christine Shaw, senior vice president and group publisher of Small Times.
"It is an honour to recognise the leading companies, and business and research executives who are driving integration of nanotechnology into the commercial pipeline."
