Sydor Instruments gets $1 million grant
Sydor Instruments has been awarded a $1 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a special camera to be used for basic scientific research.
The camera "allows one to examine things at the atomic level," said Mark Katafiaz, general manager of Sydor, located at 31 Jet View Drive, Chili.
The camera will be used to study the characteristics of various substances. One of the cameras will be located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Suffolk County, within two years, Katafiaz said.
"It's an open user facility so it's open to researchers all over the world," he said.
Sydor is collaborating with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on development of the camera.
"They've developed a prototype of this and what we do is bring an engineering discipline to that and take their proof of concept prototype and develop it and engineer it into a more robust prototype that can be sold and maintained by us," Katafiaz said.
"It will be a camera product that will be sold for the research market," he said.
Sydor provides science and industry customers with diagnostic solutions, imaging systems and ballistic imaging and test systems.
The SBIR program is a competitive grant program created to encourage small businesses to conduct research and development that will hopefully lead to commercial products.