Facilities

• Electronics prototyping lab
• Machine shop
• Microscopy lab
• Holographic forensics lab
• Wet lab for chemical processing and tests
• Fully equipped optical lab
• UV blocked lighting for work with UV sensitive materials
• HI-2400 hologram origination system
• Electroforming system
• Vacuum evaporation coating system
• Short run hard embosser
• Spectroradiometer
• Parker/OMS motion control systems with several sizes and types of stages
• Galil servo control system
• UV photolithography system
• HeCd, HeNe, UV diode, and YAG lasers
• Avtech nanosecond waveform generator
• Data acquisition systems and software
• Machine Vision cameras, software and hardware
• UV recombing systems lab
• Scanning Electron Beam clean lab

Software Development

• Delphi
• C#
• C/C++
• Embedded systems

NLI has done or is doing collaborative research with:

• Eastern Washington University
• Battelle/PNNL
• University of Victoria
• GenPrime
• Spokane Intercollegiate Research & Technology Institute (SIRTI)

SBIR projects completed:

• NSF Phase IIb, DMI-9502815, "A Three-Dimensional Holographic Hardcopy Printer"
• BMDO Phase I, DASG60-98-M-0085, "A New Reconfigurable, Compact, Fault-Tolerant, Very High-Speed, FPGA-Based Image Processing Architecture"
• SDIO Phase I, SDIO92-016, "Efficient, Low-mass Spectrum Separating Concentrator for Photovoltaic Power in Space"
• NASA Phase I, "Improved Genetic Algorithm for Planning, Scheduling an Optimization"

Commercial development contracts

• GenPrime