About Us

Inprentus is the world leader in the advanced manufacturing of precision optics using proprietary nano-scale contact-mode lithography techniques.

Inprentus designs, manufactures, and sells diffraction gratings for use in synchrotron radiation facilities, semi-conductor manufacturing, augmented reality (AR) waveguides, and more. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and government laboratories around the world use Inprentus’ diffraction gratings for a variety of scientific and commercial applications.

Inprentus was founded in June 2012 by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign physics professor Peter Abbamonte to commercialize an innovative, dual-atomic microscope scribing technology, which is a technique for carrying out nano-scale lithography via mechanical deformation of metallic surfaces.

This technology is a general purpose approach to high-precision patterning of surfaces, and is particularly suited to x-ray, EUV, and visible light diffractive optics in which features must be shaped with 0.1-degree angular precision and positioned with nanometer precision over distances of tens of centimeters.

Our mission is to design, manufacture and characterize high-performing blazed diffraction gratings solutions. Inprentus gratings achieve high levels of customization, efficiency, resolving power, stray light, radiation-hardness, ease of replication, and are engineered to surpass optical performance goals. We accomplish this by integrating our innovative ruling technique with complex engineering to provide a manufacturing process with unsurpassed flexibility, precision, accuracy, and yield. We apply our technology and expertise to solve current challenges in advanced materials research for synchrotrons and free-electron lasers, defense, spectroscopy masters, EUV and DUV semiconductor manufacturing, space research, and augmented reality waveguide applications.

Inprentus aims to apply 21st century mechanical ruling to solve critical current and future grating-centered challenges. Inprentus is a disruptive technology company that will lead the manufacturing of next-generation diffraction gratings. We are committed to excellence, risk, and pushing boundaries by providing state of the art blazed gratings that perform to unprecedented specifications and that enable novel applications. Outcomes include next-generation monochromators, spectrometers, laser systems, and analytical instrumentation in defense applications, as well as ground-breaking consumer experiences enabled by improvements in chip manufacturing and see-through AR waveguides. We are dedicated to facilitating next-level science and technology by continually enhancing our capabilities with cutting-edge developments, collaborations, and partnerships.