2024 IOP Business Awards winners
We are delighted to introduce the winners of the 2024 IOP Business Awards.
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Business Innovation Award winners
Covesion
Covesion receives a Business Innovation Award for the research, development and manufacture of PPLN technologies, facilitating highly efficient frequency conversion, providing access to wavelengths that are presently unavailable from commercial laser sources.
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FeTu
FeTu receives a Business Innovation Award for the development of a revolutionary heat engine, generating electrical power from waste heat and geothermal sources as low as 40 °C.
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Geoptic
Geoptic receives a Business Innovation Award for establishing cosmic ray muon imaging as a primary technique in assuring the safety of the UK’s railway tunnels from concealed shafts, effectively solving Network Rail’s hidden shaft location challenges.
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Oxford Ionics
Oxford Ionics receives a Business Innovation Award for the development of quantum computers with electronic qubit control and scalable architecture that enables world-leading performance with chips that can be manufactured at scale on standard semiconductor production lines.
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Business Start-Up Award winners
Metasonixx
Metasonixx receives a Business Start-Up Award for the development of mass-produced acoustic metamaterial panels that allow airflow, enabling improvements to noise management and ventilation, and facilitating net-zero industrial ventilators and heat pumps.
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Phlux Technology
Phlux Technology receives a Business Start-Up Award for the development of patented semiconductor technology for infrared light sensors with 12X higher sensitivity than existing state-of-the-art devices, delivering unprecedented levels of speed and sensitivity for 3D imaging.
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Silveray
Silveray receives a Business Start-Up Award for the development of the first generation of flexible colour X-ray cameras based on proprietary semiconductor materials, bringing new analytical capabilities in industrial markets, and transforming the future of medical diagnostics.
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Lee Lucas Award winner
Crainio
Crainio receives the Lee Lucas Award for the development of a novel technology that allows the simple, affordable, risk-free and non-invasive measurement of intracranial pressure, a vital indicator of brain health after a head injury.