Performing research and development (R&D) on new materials and architectures is the speciality of Intermolecular Inc. (IMI) whose High Productivity Combinatorial (HPC) platform just shaved two-years off LED-maker Epistar's production schedule, in return for paying IMI royalties on future products using its newly developed LED process technology: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog
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IMI's High Productivity Combinatorial (HPC) platform speed R&D experimentation up to 100 times using a proprietary technology that reduces trial-and-error to a minimum.Further Reading