Woburn, MA, October 18, 2005 - Boston Applied Technologies Incorporated (BATi) announced today that it has been recently awarded four Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)/Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants/contracts, totaling $2.5 million for the period of 2005-2007, from National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DOE). To further speed up the progress of the contracts, BATi also obtained about $400,000 matching fund from an industry source. Under these grants BATi will carry out advanced materials research and exciting products development on several fronts, including photonic bandgap materials, bright ceramic scintillators, and new types of ceramic lasers.

Up to date, BATi has been awarded seven SBIR/STTR Phase II contracts from NSF, DOE, DOD and NASA. Dr. Kevin Zou, CTO of BATi, commented, “BATi has gained significant recognition from both Federal agencies and industrial customers because of its strong technology platform and the persistent market participation. We will continue aggressively follow through our commercialization strategy and strengthen our core business.”


About BATi
Boston Applied Technologies Incorporated (BATi) was formed in 2002 by the key management and technical team formerly with Corning Applied Technologies, a subsidiary of Corning Incorporated. With many years' development effort and a group of industry pioneers, BATi has established a unique leading position in designing, manufacturing and marketing a variety of light and polarization management components for the telecommunications and instrumentation markets.