Multiwire Laboratories, Ltd.

About Multiwire Laboratories, Ltd.

Founded: 1981

Chief Operating Officer : Donald H. Bilderback, Ph.D.

Business Manager : Becky Bilderback

Products:
 

• MWL 110 Real-Time Back-Reflection Laue camera system
• Motorized orientation stages

Multiwire Laboratories Ltd. develops and manufactures products for rapid x-ray orientation of single crystals by the Laue back-reflection method. Industrial and academic laboratories utilize the real-time detector, motorized orientation stages, and computer analysis of back-reflection images to characterize or determine the orientation of the lattice planes in a variety of crystal materials such as silicon, gallium arsenide, sapphire, geological minerals, etc.  The NorthStar v6.0 software includes software to automate the collection and analysis of back-reflection Laue images.

The company's executive is a Cornell University researcher and Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics. The original real-time technology was developed at Cornell under his direction under funding from the National Science Foundation but has been expanded with the motorized orientation stages and computer analysis of back-reflection Laue patterns.