About Us

Canadian company with a global presence

Applied Nanotools is a leading supplier of Fresnel zone plates, transmission gratings and calibration standards for microscopy and spectroscopy applications. Our products cover a wide range of energies from the visible and ultraviolet to soft and hard X-rays. Applied Nanotools currently offers the world’s highest-resolution soft X-ray zone plates with an outer zone width resolution of 18 nm and calibration samples with critical dimensions down to 15 nm. More recently, we have introduced a new line of zone plate products with a resolution of 30 nm for hard X-ray applications including nano-tomography and coherent diffraction imaging.

We are also an integrated photonics foundry, offering our NanoSOI Fabrication service to customers worldwide. Our low-loss, high resolution silicon photonic devices have been featured in many publications. We offer multi-project wafer runs and dedicated runs.