Inprentus

Inprentus, Inc., manufactures ultrahigh precision, radiation-hard, diffractive optics by mechanical nanodeformation of metallic surfaces.

was founded in June 2013 to commercialize an innovative, dual-atomic microscope scribing technology, which is a technique for carrying our nanoscale lithography via plastic deformation of metallic surfaces. This technology is a general purpose approach to high-precision patterning of surfaces, and is particularly suited to diffractive optics in which features must be shaped with 0.1 degree angular precision and positioned with nanometer precision over distances of tens of centimeters. Inprentus’ current focus is on fabricating soft x-ray diffraction gratings for synchrotron and free electron laser facilities.