About LabForInvention
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Mission: To drive and support innovations that benefit humanity and society
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Facility: Our world-class hardware and software facility for nano thin film research features top-tier experts in energy-efficient coatings and sustainable innovation and welcomes young innovators.
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Award: LabForInvention is proud to be an NSF awardee, and the pioneering innovation in 5G/6G penetrating Low-E coating technology.
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Intellectual Property: We own 100% of our IP, including 3 granted patents, 8 provisional patents, and additional pending international patents.
Dr. Guowen Ding
Founder and Chief Scientist
With a mission to innovate for the benefit of humanity, Dr. Ding founded LabforInvention, providing cutting-edge laboratory services in thin-film coatings, characterization, modeling, advanced materials research, and rapid prototyping.
Dr. Ding was the former principal scientist who led a group on energy-saving window coating to develop future products for the world's leading company in this field. Here are some highlights of Dr. Ding's achievements:
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Article ranked at the top in googling “low-E” “glass” “pdf,”
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Awardee of NSF Seed Fund, 2023
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Author of 1/9 US granted patents in 2014 & 2015 in the field of building Low-E Glass Coating.
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Submitted an average of 27 patent alerts per year in 2013~2016.
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Hundreds of publications
News
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2024 Jun: The third patent for signal-penetrating low-E technology was granted.
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2023 Oct: a research paper was published in a high-impact journal: Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 40, Issue 10, pp. 2696-2705, (2023)
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2023 April: LFI successfully secured NSF seed funding.
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2022 May: Dr. Ding and Mr. He “Mobile Signal Enabled Energy Efficient Window Technology” at the 65th Annual SVC Technical Conference, Long Beach, CA.
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2020 Jun: LFI relocated to our new facility in Fremont.
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2018 July, Dr. Ding presented at the International Conference On Lasers, Optics, and Photonics, Osaka, Japan July 25-26, 2018
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2018 June: LFI completed the first materials study service, multiple new materials developments for Roche, one of the largest biotech companies.
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2018 April: LFI moved to a new facility in Sunnyvale.
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2018 March: LFI achieved significant milestones by servicing ten industry customers.
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2018 Feb: At NCCAVS 39th annual Symposia & Exhibitions, Dr. Ding presented "Can a new materials innovation in thin film optical applications be faster and cheaper?"
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2017 Nov: A new energy-efficient window prototype with 86% transmission was successfully developed.
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2017 Nov: New materials Ti-Ag alloys were created, characterized, and presented at the 8th International Conference and Exhibition on Lasers, Optics & Photonics，
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2017 Nov: LFI's World-Class Metrology tools generated first service revenue.