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PSI’s Journey: From Research to Production
The founder and president of Phase Sensitive Innovations, a university-incubated startup, offers a personal recollection of how the company pivoted its business to succeed.
PSI’s new facility includes a Class 100 cleanroom. [Courtesy of Phase Sensitive Innovations]
Phase Sensitive Innovations (PSI) began in 2007 like many other faculty-startups—as a small incubator leveraging funding opportunities from the federal government, to transition technology that had been developed in a university lab into a commercial operation. A five-person company at the start, PSI thus heavily leveraged the facilities and laboratories of the University of Delaware, USA. Initially, the technology objective—centered around a single funding opportunity—was to develop a new imaging modality based on a real-time millimeter-wave video-rate imager.
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