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Crystal Systems Inc
Profile last edited on: 7/10/2018      CAGE: 1N605      UEI:

Business Identifier: Optical components, sapphire production, and photovoltaic materials
Year Founded
1971
First Award
1983
Latest Award
2010
Program Status
Inactive (Acquired)
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Location Information

35 Congress Street
Salem, MA 01970
   (978) 745-0088
   SapphireSales@gtat.com
   www.gtat.com
Location: Single
Congr. District: 06
County: Essex

Public Profile

A very early SBIR involved firm, Crystal Systems manufactures and supplies crystals for industrial, semiconductor, defense, and medical applications. The firm offers sapphire rods, blanks, windows, and tubes; sapphire grading systems; sapphire for laser optics, acoustic wave devices, and low absorption windows applications; and sapphire crystals. Its products for use in aerospace, compound semiconductor, and mechanical applications. In July 2010 Crystal Systems, Inc. was acquired by GT Solar International, Inc and now operates as a subsidiary of GT Advanced Technologies (previously known as GT Solar International) previously itself an active SBIR firm.

Extent of SBIR involvement

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Phase I Awards
31
Phase II Awards
11
Conversion Rate
35.48%
Phase I Dollars
$1,773,043
Phase II Dollars
$4,713,641
Total Awarded
$6,486,684

Synopsis: Awardee Business Condition

Employee Range
50-74
Revenue Range
5M-7.5M
VC funded?
Yes
Public/Private
Privately Held
Stock Info
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IP Holdings
20-24

Awards Distribution by Agency

Most Recent SBIR Projects
Year Phase Agency Total Amount
2010 1 AF $99,436
Project Title: Scale-up of the Heat Exchanger Method (HEM) Sapphire Crystal Growth Process for IR Window Applications
2009 2 DOE $843,976
Project Title: Material Utilization and Waste Reduction through Kerf Recycling
2008 2 DOE $848,381
Project Title: Reduced Parasitic Lasing in Ti: Sapphire Lasers: Removing a Bottleneck to New Ways of Acceleration
2004 1 DOE $99,928
Project Title: Development of Solar Grade (SoG) Silicon
2002 1 NASA $70,000
Project Title: Growth of Nd-Doped Y2O3 Crystals for Space Based Ozone Laser Transmitters

Key People / Management

  Tom Gutierrez -- President & CEO

  Henry Doucette

  Rick Gaynor -- Vice President and CFO

  David B Joyce

  Chandra P Khattak -- Executive Vice President and Director of R&D

  Hoil Kim -- Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary

  Kurt Schmid Kurt Schmid

  P S Raghavan -- CTO

  Maynard B Smith

Company News

Nov 04 2013
GT Advanced Technologies Inc. Announces Results for Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2013; Signs Multi-Year Sapphire Materials Agreement with Apple®
Aug 08 2011
GT Solar Completes Name Change to GT Advanced Technologies
Jul 30 2010
GT Solar Acquires Sapphire Producer Crystal Systems